#you're supposed to care about.

[lloydfrontera]

the webcomic can have one (1) funny "earnest moment interrupted by comedy" joke. as a treat. but also because it is so in character for them ajkshdjkas

yes they will say the most earnest shit to each other and then immediately try to cringe out of their own bodies. they are best friends but they would rather jump out of a window before admitting it. they are incredibly devoted and grateful to one another but you could not water board that out of either of them.

the only thing that can get either of them to admit how much they care for each other is if the other is in life threatening danger and not a second before aakjshdks

#i talk a lot <3 #tged #the greatest estate developer #lloyd frontera #javier asrahan #llojavi #i'm sorry i do think this is incredibly funny i'm still laughing ajksdhsjkfsd #they're assholes! they're best friends! they will risk life and limb for one another but you won't get them to say one nice thing #about the other unless it's a matter of life and death! and even then they might risk it if they're the ones in danger and not the other lo #like!! this is in character! this is a joke made by the characters and not at them!! this is them acknowledging how much they care #for the other and then cringing when they realize they let themselves be earnest out loud. #not the narrative itself cringing and not allowing the characters to be earnest at all. not the author pointing and laughing at the story #you're supposed to care about. #i'm getting serious again so i'm gonna stop!! just!! i do love them <3333 #ep 122

[thevioletcaptain]

i genuinely don't care how good a piece of ai generated art or writing looks on the surface. i don't care if it emulates brush strokes and metaphor in a way indistinguishable from those created by a person.

it is not the product of thoughtful creation. it offers no insights into the creator's life or viewpoint. it has no connection to a moment in time or a place or an attitude. it has no perspective. it has no value.

it's empty, it's hollow, and it exists only to generate clicks (and by extension, ad revenue.)

it's just another revolting symptom of the disease that is late stage capitalism, and it fucking sucks.

#''but i just want to use it to--'' don't care! it's shit! stop fucking feeding it! #if you need help generating ideas or jumping off points then join an artist or writer group online #talk to people #make connections #that's what art and writing is supposed to be about in the first place #i'm mad as hell etc. #so goddamn sick and tired of seeing ai shit get passed around on here #it's bad enough in general but every time i see more of it showing up #tagged as fan art or as fic #the angrier i get #heartfelt imperfection in art and writing will always ALWAYS be worth more than the most technically ''perfect'' ai generated image or text #fandom problems #ai generation algorithms die in a fire challenge 2k23 #just a heads up that i'm muting this post and will no longer see responses to it #because i'm tired of seeing dogshit takes from jackasses who want to ''debate'' me #there's no debate you're in the wrong on literally every level and you can die mad about it

[convolutedblasphemy]

Things I had to see since joining this fandom:

"Alastor is so hot, too bad he's ace. It kinda sucks tbh, I wish he wasn't asexual."

"Alastor is asexual but not aromantic, this has never been confirmed" ignores the mountain of evidence

"I know Alastor is aroace but he deserves a relationship and I really just want to see him happy with someone..."

"Maybe he has had bad experiences with relationships when he was alive"

"I'm gonna make him question his sexuality"

"If he's ace why does he do [xyz thing that has nothing to do with sexuality]?"

"Aces can still have sex! Aros can still date!" proceeds to never mention his identity again and portray him exactly like an allo person

"Sex-averse aces can still have sex regularly!" (be fucking fr)

"Vivziepop said in a stream that Alastor is sex-favorable and has a preference for women" (no she did not why u lyin'???)

"Rosie said the 'ace in the hole' thing because Alastor is an advantage for Charlie and the hotel, not because he's asexual"

"I know Alastor is canonically aroace but for the sake of this fic let's just pretend he isn't"

Things I have yet to see (do better):

Someone who isn't on the ace or aro spectrum actually portraying a sex-favorable or romance-favorable Alastor instead of an allo version of the character

Allos in the "aces can still have sex! aros can still date!" crowd giving literally any support to the aspec community aside from trying to scoot around Alastor's asexuality

Just one allosexual writer who's like "I know Alastor is aroace so I'm going to try to include that in my writing! Feel free to give me feedback if I get anything wrong!" (if you guys are out there, hit me up, I'll follow you if you're not on my DNI)

#am i supposed to believe you care about us when you're constantly regurgitating sentences that aphobes say to aces and aros all the time? #hazbin hotel #hazbin #alastor #hazbin hotel alastor #the radio demon #aroace alastor #tw: aphobia

[cryptidjeepers]

Actually so fucked up that the x files continues to be one of the few shows ive watched where the relationship between the male and female protagonists feel real to me. Like they arent just love interests from the get go. The romantic subtext isnt as important as their platonic relationship most of the time. Mulder is protective of scully because shes his friend. He checks in on her but it never feels like shes being belittled. She feels comfortable speaking her opinion without fearing that mulder will be condescending to her. Idk it just makes me feel safe to watch as a female viewer, knowing there is this respect between the main characters. That these characters actually care about each other. Very refreshing for a 30 year old tv show

#i hope i explained this right? i just feels like a lot of male protagonists have this vibe of wanting or needing something from the female #or the female character is straight up just a love interest or this poor baby that needs to be protected #or the opposite where the female character just wants something from the guy and diesnt actually care #and you're supposed to root for them but they clearly dont care about each other #im tired im sorry #x files #the x files #tv show writers please make your characters actually like each other

[keepthetension]

this was made especially for those of us who cut ties with our shitty families, huh

i cried so much this whole episode. i know that i can't be in that house and be who i am at the same time, but the guilt and shame never really go away. i love that this episode said, wholeheartedly: fuck what society says, you should be wherever allows you to be happiest

anyway! you always hear that family estrangement is rare in asian communities, but i did it! and you can do it, too! dump your shitty family! i believe in you~

#tsukuritai onna to tabetai onna #it's incredible like i don't think i fully realized how ashamed i feel until this episode had me ugly crying into my blankie #especially because the abuse was invisible and people say: oh everyone's family says harsh things! it's because they care! they love you! #and no matter how hard you try to explain the magnitude of what was done to you people still shrug and say but they're *family* #not that there was ZERO physical abuse but like. that's just How It Is in the community i grew up in so it's not a Reason reason #and that's all aside from all that's expected of me as the child of an asian family (that i am simply doing none of) #FUCK i guess i just compartmentalized all of this so securely i didn't think it could bleed out anymore #thanks tsukutabe. i guess? #this show is RELENTLESSLY coming for me this season too like explicitly stated asexual rep? a treat for me personally! #idk i never expected an asian drama to be so clear about this especially because kasuga's abuse was invisible too #and the idea of not sacrificing yourself for your parents is COUNTER to what you're supposed to do #i am just VERY EMOTIONAL right now #i love kasuga so much and it was rough to see her going through it but i am SO HAPPY that she's accepted and loved

[arohuacheng]

imagining the story from pei ming's perspective is rlly funny i think. this god from all that time ago ascends again (you were there for the first two times) and immediately waltzes into a situation that fucks something up for your descendant (putting both of your reputations on the line, messing up how hard your descendant worked to become a god and how hard you worked to ensure that he would have that chance) and then refuses to let you smooth the situation out and on TOP of that your friend's little sister (who hates you and who you are trying to look out for by request of your friend) is on your case about it too. so you've gotta work all that out and then like. you chill for a little bit (still kind of upset about your descendant) until your friend undergoes a heavenly calamity. and then in the space of like A Day the god from earlier shows up again with a fucking ghost king, your friend dies, the little sister you're supposed to be looking out for disappears, and everything just kinda goes to shit. so you're like. grieving. trying to process everything. until your OTHER close friend goes off the fucking rails with the spirit of that guy she murdered, and then you get called out to the spooky ghost mountain where you're confronted with the girl whose death YOU were essentially responsible for and have never really come to terms with, and then like. you just kind of hang out with these gay people until everything resolves itself. fight some ghosts. fight the heavenly emperor. get your friend to stop being evil for a little while so she can fix the filing systems. and then you just have to keep being the god of love i guess

#characters who are so related and yet so unrelated to the story my beloveds #is he really necessary to the story. no! he's so essential to me though #nobody talks about the tragedy of the three tumors... i know it's cause they're awful but c'mon guys... #these three people who only have each other... pei ming losing both of them one after another in their own way... #i think he's probably pretty chill about ling wen being evil. i don't remember how he responds but i don't think he's that worried. #but still. that's two for two on the 'people i care about getting fucked up somehow' list #and then the kid that you're supposed to be emergency older brother to fucking DISAPPEARS. #so you can't even follow through on your promise to your dead friend... #shaking my computer. do you all understand how i feel #pei ming posting tonight. so many thoughts but so little expressed in the pei ming posting #too sleempy... will return to thoughts later #i am going to become the pei ming poster of all time. just watch me #talking #tgcf #pei ming #tian guan ci fu

[stumpyjoepete]

On the topic du jour:

That ~value~ you can get from reading the original weird prose of a philosopher rather than a cleaned up summary of their ideas? You can actually get some similar value by just reading weird, obscure, or old things in general. Open up Project Gutenberg and pick something random. Read a dusty ass monograph on a topic you know little about. Be the first non-committee-member to read some person's PhD thesis. Read the least read book by an otherwise famous author. Read the journal of someone who died over a century ago.

Underrated thing to do.

#philosophy #there's merit in having unusual intellectual or aesthetic points of reference #and to engage with things with basically no possibility of caring what other people think about it or what you're supposed to think #it feels pleasantly quiet; just the writer and you

[arctic-hands]

For real tho health freaks who scream about how sugar and salt will kill us all and try to push for restrictions on things like candy and chips for SNAP recipients or politicians who try from time to time to replace food stamps all together and give out Government Approved Staples like bread and peanut butter and Government Cheese are gonna kill a whole lotta sick and disabled people like

Diabetics

POTS sufferers

Hypotensives

People with peanut allergies

People with celiac disease or wheat allergies

The lactose intolerant

People who can't eat solid food

People who are undernourished for any reason and need all the calories they can pack on

So-called "picky eaters" who can't tolerate certain tastes and textures without getting violently ill

A myriad of other human conditions that cannot be neatly tallied into categories because the human body and human experience is vast and infinitely variable

But I don't think ableds really care about us and our health like they like to claim so they can harass us about it, do you?

#tag yourself I'm five out of ten #health food is gonna kill me one day i swear to God #vasovagal syncope/POTS was actually a fun disease to have since the treatment is honestly junk food #to get my sugar and sodium levels up quickly so i don't pass out #but then the United States government in their infinite compassion slashed my food stamps in half #and now i can't afford 'luxeries' like enough chips and candy i need to not faint and concuss myself. again #add the celiac and to a lesser extent the lactose intolerancy and now two fruit allergies... #and I'm paying three times the amount for like fifteen food items and that is accounting for the food inflation even ableds are facing #whatever food shortages ableds are going thru right now i swear to you it's much much worse if you're sick/disabled #stop policing what food people buy with the money their given i don't care if it's a paycheck or welfare #SOMETIMES I'll get a pitiful and defensive 'well how was i supposed to know?!' when i confront people bugging me about this #you don't know so shut your trap about it in the first place #most people just ignore the reason and accuse me of making up excuses to eat 'unhealthy' foods tho #health nut #ableism #systemic ableism #food #Salt blessed Salt

[reluctanttrabbit]

who up crying over vanessa fnaf

#vanny shenanigans #“i was supposed to be a good girl.” YOU'RE KIDDING YOUR EKIDDING YOUR EKIDDING #LIKE I DONT EVEN CARE IM NOT EVE NCREYING LIKE TIS WHATVER #“i can't talk about this. he said he would always be watching.... he could be here. or there or anywhere in between..” #YOU KICKED AND CRIEDDDDDD LIKE A BULLIED CHILDDDDDDD #A GROWN MAN OF TWENTY FIVEEEEEEEEE #HE REALLY MESSED YOU UP DIDNT HE?????????????

[dayvan]

actually ridiculous the amount of 'self care' posts i've seen during this most recent news cycle about palestine. people on social media literally cannot go through ANYTHING without vocalizing their right to not give a shit

#genocide is the worst crime against humanity. you're SUPPOSED to look at it and feel horrible. #you are supposed to feel depressed and angry and radicalized!!! again this is genocide we're talking about!! #if its truly destroying you to look at the news just log off and go play video games or something. #stop making posts whinging about being expected to care

[sunnybearvampire]

You've been filled with anger ever since you can remember. The world is unfair and everyone has an advantage over you. You have to succeed, have to come out on top. Whatever it takes.

You have a party, one you've named yourself, but you're not really friends. Except for one person, your only true friend, none of them would stand by you through thick and thin. But it doesn't matter, they're just means to an end.

You are presented with an opportunity. A way to channel your rage and to make everyone who's ever wronged you regret it. You take it eagerly.

Your party will come with you. They'll have to, anyway. They're presented with a choice. They all choose correctly, like you knew they would.

Now is the time for your one true friend. You've even prepared all the paperwork for her already, to make it easier. It's just the one last step to take before you come out on top, glorious. You can't wait.

You kill your only true friend.

She is presented with a choice.

She doesn't come back.

#kipperlilly copperkettle #lucy frostblade #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #dimension 20 #this is probably wildly inaccurate to canon but i can't stop thinking about it #you kill your friend thinking she'll come back but instead she makes the choice that means she cannot be brought back even if you try #you commit the greatest transgression you can because you're so sure it will work just the way it should and now the only person who cared- #for you is gone forever #it was a choice you made. you didn't mean to kill her permanently. she was supposed to come back. but you're the one to blame all the same #and you're still filled with so much rage. #the rat grinders

[poisonousquinzel]

"I'm nobody. I haven't done anything with my life like you have."

Todd Phillips, Scott Silver, Lady Gaga genuinely, lovingly, fuck you.

I will never forgive you. I hope every day your bones get softer and softer and then one day when you're not expecting it, I shall be there, and I will gnaw through your Achilles heel<3

#LIKE WHAT THE FUCK???? IVE NOT DONE ANYTHING WITH MY LIFE #SHES SUPPOSED TO BE A DOCTOR SHE SPENT OVER A DECADE IN FUCKING SCHOOL IM GONNA FIGHT #IM THROWING HANDS WITH EVERYONE INVOLVED THATS SO NASTY #idc i will not be acknowledging this as an actual Harley cause shes not. i dont fucking care. #the Only thing making her Harley is that they called her that. change her hair color and color scheme and bam PUNCHLINE #but no they decided to be stupid and insulting and ignorant. #this genuinely makes me so mad. #i watched the trailer and every time im like jfc okay its gonna suck they just release something absolutely worse #i will be spending my entire therapy session tomorrow ranting passionately about my hatred for todd phillips #i would fight him for a corn chip #harley quinn #harleen quinzel #baby im so sorry to be tagging you i know this aint you baby!!! you're better than this!! you deserve better #dc comics

[bookshelfdreams]

.

#just saw that tweet abt pink days on the set of the barbie movie & i think it made me realize why it - the marketing etc - annoys me so #'margot robbie went around collecting fines and donated them to charity haha' okay. look. #that's just the perfect metaphor for how it worked for us - me - anyone who wants to align themselves with me - when we were girls #isn't it #because you grow up and you desperately want to fit in with the other girls but you don't & you don't know why #but you're surrounded by things and people telling you what a normal girl is like & little-to-none of it is things you find appealing or #interesting. makeup and fashion and skin care. gymnastics and romance. you're told that you are obligated to be pretty #but prettiness has never been part of your perception of yourself. femininity is an arcane concept #an exclusive club that will never grant you entrance #& the only comfort you can give yourself is deciding that it's dumb anyway. shallow. vain. who cares about looks and boys and all of that #idiots that's who #but this is Doing It Wrong too isn't it? because now everyone who has taught you that you will forever fail at femininity turns around #& tells you that's patriarchal oppression and YOU'RE the bad one by distancing yourself from something that always made you feel defective #'YOU may have never lived up to this impossible standard of perfection but some ppl do and actually it's fine to be like that! #hyperfeminine traditionally beautiful women are the most oppressed group of all & finally we will stand up for our rights!' #'girls can be pretty AND conpetent' but that's not what they're actually saying. isn't it. #because performing femininity correctly is the prerequisite. a threshold you can never cross and you know that. & that's fine #but somehow that's wrong too because you're not supposed to make peace w that are you. you're SUPPOSED to want to do it right #even if you don't and never have and never will #and once again everyone is yelling at you that this club isn't meant for you. if you criticize the barbie movie you're antifeminist #if you refuse to wear pink I'll make you pay a fine #hashtag girlpower #(well im not a girl. not a guy either. and not a secret third thing. just bad at femininity. #bad at being a person. and y'all don't need to tell me you don't want me in your club #I've always known that. i just wish you'd stop expecting me to beg for entrance.)

[willowser]

"oh! hey, c'mere, i gotta show you something funny!"

whatever nonsense satoru had been planning on spouting is tucked away the instant he sees your coy little grin, and one of his own grows on his face, made brighter and wider by the ease of your invitation.

yes, he's just spent the last seven minutes in your doorway, silent and scheming, thinking on what to say to attract your attention — but it doesn't matter if that's now been disrupted, because he'd take your attention any way it can be served, cold or hot. it's warm today; that much he can tell by the way you beam at him, as he comes to stand beside you.

you dig through the top drawer of your desk for a minute or two, and satoru is bubbling with things to say, now, about the little mess you keep there, but he gets distracted by the hurried, chalky handprints staining the material covering your ass. the sight makes him grin so hard that his cheeks swell, nudging his blindfold up the littlest bit; satoru finds it invigorating, this innate ability you have to fluster him. the heat in his face is surely visible, even to someone like you.

"aha!" you dance back and forth on your feet for a second, stopping only when he starts to join you, excited, and then you hold up two dangly, jingling little things right in front of his face. "a student's sister is selling these for school, and they made me think of you! so i bought us some to match!"

keychains, he realizes, suddenly sober. cute and colorful miniature ice bars.

"adorable, huh?" you pull them back to assess in your palm, touching gently at the plastic as if they were real, as if they could melt in the warmth of your hand. "which one do you want? the watermelon is the cutest, so i was gonna give you that one."

everything satoru had thought to say dissolves, leaks between his fingers, sugary and sweet. he's left with nothing, cold, then, smile frozen, as you fiddle with something so meaningless—

you look up, waiting for his response, and he watches you clock the change in his demeanor, instantly; you can't see cursed energy, but you can see — something, within him. always have been able to, though he's yet to figure out how.

"unless you want strawberry," you shrug, a little awkward now, but sunny as usual. "do you even have keys, actually, or do you—"

"no take-backs!" he snatches the dainty thing from your hand, sticking his tongue out at the flat look you send him. "i get watermelon!"

"fine," you pout for just a second before sticking your tongue out at him, too, and then you laugh quietly to yourself. amused, like a child.

once you start to dig around in your messy drawer for your car keys, satoru turns his attention to the tiny treat, focusing on it. trying to ignore the blood rushing in his ears.

it's so simple. so silly. you are, selfless and honest to a fault, all the traits that make you a liability in this world. if anything were to happen to your students, then you wouldn't make it. and if anything were to happen to you, satoru thinks—

right there in your presence, so close that he can hear your heartbeat peacefully thundering over his own — he can feel the cracks in his composure. how close he is to splintering off, how quickly everything would collapse if he dared to blink wrong.

if anything were to happen to you, satoru thinks, he'd go insane. he already has.

a small laugh leaves him, at the thought, but he closes his fist around the small keychain when you look up at him again. still grinning, leaning in so close that you're about to be stopped.

"do you like it?" you ask, open and hopeful and silly.

it makes him laugh again, because you really have no idea.

#i think you treat him like a normal human being and he goes absolutely insane #he's DERANGED #you smile at him and he smiles back but you can't see that his eyes are WIDE AND HUGE BECAUSE HE'S UNHINGED #i think gojo caring about anybody is so incredibly dangerous #look at all that happened because he couldnt stop getou from the start #he's BONKERS HE'S NUTS HE'S HOLDING THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD UP BY A SINGLE EYELASH #i think genuine unprompted acts of kindness are a shot straight through his heart #'this silly inane thing made me think of you' he's crazy he's insane he's actually obsessed #ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE NOT AS STRONG AS GEOTU WAS ????? #HOW IS HE SUPPOSED TO LOVE YOU NORMALLY ????????? IT'S NOT POSSIBLE #he goes OFF THE RAILS #GOD he stresses me out #stupid PRETTY IDIOT #✿ willow writes #✿ thoughts: gojo

[crimeronan]

just burst into tears in a post office and immediately the entire world opened up to me. easy criers must have the best lives what the fuck. i should stop taking my prozac Immediately.

#remembered that post advice like 'if youre dealing with a difficult person the best thing you can do is cry' and let it rip #trying to get my passport application filed. she was like you're supposed to do this in your home state #maam i cant file this in new hampshire #okay i need your social security card #maam they told me at the other post office my medical insurance counted as a 2nd form of id so i have all the cards and photocopies- #nope that's not right. the state department doesn't care about that #oh i guess i can't do it today then #she looked at me like i was an idiot. you dont have your social security card with you?? #'n... no?? i keep it safe??' 'Really.' and then i burst into tears. #and then she was immediately like oh no baby just go home and get it here you have all your other docs and your application perfect #no honey you're Fine just come back before three and i'll process it. okay?? #lord i am having a Day. #home i go. war is hell.

[unopenablebox]

just discovered that all the wikipedia pages for the protein im studying absolutely suck ass. going on an editing crusade about it

#im going to add REVIEW ARTICLE citations. you're not supposed to use the primary literature for this! you animals! people could say anything #the main article for my protein was clearly written by a neuroscientist who was also an idiot #and apparently just did not bother to check if like any of the ideas they're describing flow together or are related #or if they're ignoring the broadly acknowledged PRIMARY FUNCTION of the protein in favor of poorly studied minutiae about axons #the article about the specific form im studying-- which is in fact extremely well-studied because it's developmentally vital in most #bilaterians and causes serious developmental diseases people actually care about in humans-- #contains a SINGLE PLAGIARIZED PARAGRAPH citing only a DEBUNKED CLAIM FROM 1997 #but that one has to be completely overhauled so im waiting to do it until tomorrow & just left a bitchy comment in the talk page for now #box opener