#your skills omg

[giuokx]

finally finished!

i think it looks too saturated tho😭

#attack on titan #aot #aot fanart #aot jean #jean kirstein #jean krischtein #snk #snk fanart #snk art #jean fanart #procreate art #he’s defo making fun of your hair here #or he’s teasing your odm skills #he secretly likes you tho #omg hire me for aot headcannons wow

[erabu-san]

I just start a new account, doing the archon quest again, And I FINALLY See it.

Xiao x Traveler?

Yes.

I SAW THE WAY XIAO LOOK AT THE TRAVELER.

I'M ON THE BOAT NOW, I'M ON THE TRAVELER X XIAO SHIP!

YES !!!! 😭😭😭 there are so wholesome i love them sm

#reply #xiaotraveler #i kind of enjoy the trope when Traveler is just being themself during the whole game and doesn't live any romance #and there is some character like Xiao who discover the feeling of “romantic love” but it is one sided and he is okay w that #the game is not abt romance after all but that's why I do not mind seeing traveler ship !! i enjoy them a lot #and xiao interaction are the SWEETEST..... #it is definitively a slow burn #we can see how he was just “intriguate by traveler” at first and now traveler becomes his sweet dreams #and every events when he appears !!! bro is always here for traveler OMG. #his love language in the end of one of lantern rite “plz talk me abt your journey I'll gladly listen” #dUDE ?!?!? 😔😔😔😔 U R SO SWEET #when introvert w social akward life and no skill in social thing SAY : “plz talk i want to hear you”

[imfromthemiddlekingdom]

When I engage with the Silmarilion fandom it’s always very educational and enlightening no matter what side they’re on regarding Finwe and his sons. But whenever I interact with the HoTD fandom it’s always “you’re condoning XYZ and therefore you’re a horrible person!!!” Or doing mental gymnastics to try to justify whichever atrocities their side committed.

Thematically both stories are quite similar. We can find parallels with Rhaenyra and Feanor but even at his worst (Pulling a sword on Fingolfin, First kinslaying, burning of the ships etc.) Feanor had never put a bounty on a toddler (Rhaenyra stating that Maelor should be bought to her dead or alive causing him to be ripped apart. Like hello??!??? How is that ever a justifiable thing to do???). I can find parallels between Feanor and Rhaenyra, sure. But if I’m honest the parallels stop with them being the only child of a kings first wife who’s father then went on to face four more kids with another women. Finwe is ten times the father Viserys was. And literally none of the kids (Feanor included) would ever take their anger out on their siblings child like we see the so called Maegor come again do.

But I digress, I was talking of the fandom. I may get heated talking about whether Feanor was right in his anger at Indis or whether Fingolfin should’ve absolutely demanded more reparations from the sons of Feanor when he crossed the ice. But I’ve never seen anyone in the Silm fandom saying that someone should die because they had an opinion.

But I’ve seen many instances of HoTD fans threatening rape and death on people who think Alicent is not the monster they portray her as, or that Rhaenyra isn’t as ‘girl boss queen slay!!!’ As people say she is. Maybe it’s because HoTD is a TV show and many of the fans haven’t read the books and therefore don’t understand nuance since the TV show focuses so much on Rhaenyra’s manifest destiny arc that team green gets painted as the ‘ultimate’ villain for our girl boss queen Rhaenyra to ascend to the throne since it’s her ‘birth right’.

Not to mention how the whole made up show canon prophecy to justify colonialism means that team black stans are really showing their true colors on what they think is right. Because guess what? The Silm also has what could be said to be as a colonizing story line with the Noldor coming to Beleriand and settling but most fans agree that the cutting up of Beleriand was very much a colonizing behavior no matter what they think of Thingol.

Point is, most HoTD fans can’t hold and intellectually simulating debate over their characters without feeling like said debater is personally attacking them since their entire personality is so deeply entwined with their fav that a critique on them would automatically equate to a critique on themselves. Therefore making it entirely impossible to have a decent conversation on the thematically very important foils that Rhaenyra and Alicent pose to each other (since they still think a good story must have a black and white view of the protagonist and the antagonist lmao).

Media illiteracy in these fandoms truly is a cancer that spreads to even the most level headed and literate individuals. Pick up a book! Understand themes and how foils are supposed to be written without internalizing criticism of your fav as a criticism of yourself! I don’t get mad when people criticize Feanor, nor do I get mad when people say I’m wrong when it comes to my own interpretation of the statue of Finwe and Miriel. It’s called having a discussion and you can only do that when you’re not on the front lines dying for a fictional character who wouldn’t spit on you if you were on fire in front of them!!!

#media literacy #hotd #the silmarillion #feanor #pro alicent hightower #alicent hightower #anti team black stans #anti team black #pro team green #please I’m begging for people in this god forsaken fandom to stop defending a fictional character with your life #cw rape #anti rhaenyra targaryen #anti Rhaenyra Targaryen fans #rhaenyra targaryen #as you can see I despair at the lack of reading comprehension skills and media literacy skills most team black stans have #literally head empty only girl boss slay queen omg she’s such a boss bitch!!!! #if you can’t recognize the flaws in your fav character maybe don’t debate their actions online? #like #a character having irredeemable flaws is like half the reason you like them

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

中国奇谭Yao-Chinese Folktales EP 02 Goose Mountain (鹅鹅鹅) eng sub

#china #video #beautiful #donghua #omg omg #the charm of yao is expressed so well in this episode #yaohu gongzi妖狐公子 #he is polite #has excellent and powerful daoism skills #sees through everything including your mind #he plays with people's hearts yet doesn't really hurt them #from audiences' reaction yaohu gongzi has hypnotized everyone lol #also the music so good #the title of the youtube one is wrong it says 小妖怪的夏天 but that's the title of EP01 #but doesn't matter the content is EP 02

[arachnicas]

Something about fanfics where Miles' parents die and Miguel adopts Miles to make up for all the harm he's caused him hits differently.

Raising Miles is different from raising his daughter. Miguel has to care for a traumatized, grieving teenager who resents and distrusts him but, for some reason, agrees to be taken in by Miguel, the same man who caused him so much emotional and mental distress.

They are a broken family, two spiders wearing the same trauma and drinking from the same bitter cup. They are locked together in grief, rage, and past resentments but trying to heal and grow because it's now just the two of them against the multiverse, and the only way they can honor their dead is by living...

#atsv #spider man across the spider verse #miguel o'hara #miles morales #parental miguel o'hara #omg just imagine tho #miles is grieving and angry and depressed and learning to live with miguel under the same roof #miguel is just trying to use what little parenting skills he remembers to raise miles and it's hard but he tries #he owes the kid that much #miguel trying and sometimes failing to be patient #but also learning #miguel's fancy apartment isn't fit to raise a teenager but it's enough #they are trying your honor

[basterdly]

how do boyboy/idat fans keep finding so much obscure content? are you all private investigators irl??

theres also some screenshotting and clipping skill going on like how do you screenshot something before its posted, how are you so fast

#before i followed you guys i hadnt seen any of it i swear #youre all so tallented omg #idk how you do it #im glad youre all using your skills for good or at least mostly good ily #boyboy #idat

[sickmachete]

you hold a pups face in your hands and you give them a little smooch on their forehead and you realize that actually maybe everything will be okay just so long as there are still pups to give litle smooches to

#if uou even care #not even kidding was just brought to actual tears giving my dog a kiss even tho he was just begging for my mac and cheese sgfdgshaj #hes just so cyte 😭 #babyboy do you have any idea how cute you are!!!!!!!!! #doyou have any idea how loved and cherished you are!!!!!!!!!! do you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #and Yes i would kill for you but im very sorry i dont think its a good idea for me to give you all this cheese baby JSDHFGDF #i dont think you can handle all that. skill issue #sorry dont listen to me its not even that late idk why im so delirious KJSDHFG #txt #omg shut up hes SO cute its actually criminal. will i ever love anything or anyone as much as i love this stinkin idiot #god i hate you denvr. youre my favorite thing in the world

[mishkakagehishka]

Idc anymore i think i'm a good enough writer that i can say that when i noticed the pattern in what exactly makes a book "good" on booktok (and, bc of that, what makes it popular and top bestseller lists), it feels almost demeaning and denigrating to the entire craft. Idk if i should blame the way tiktok-esque social media has utterly rotted everyone's ability to concentrate and read more than three sentences, but literally none of those books are objectively good.

(Yes, yes, art is subjective. HOWEVER. Art is subjective when you look at style, at themes, at motifs, at plots and characters. Art is still a craft, it still requires skill. I've seen beyond the tiktok quotes of these books. Not even their editors are good given the amount of typos/spelling mistakes. That is not something that you should find in a traditionally published book.)

You look at these books, and you know the only reason for their existence is to make money. I cannot and will not accept that as art.

(I'm on Tumblr, of course I have to explain every point. Artists who make money off their art =/= people who only create art meant to be profitable. There is a difference between an artist who hopes to monetise doing what they love, who creates what they wish to see more of and who happens to then create something that other people wish to see more of, and a person who looks at what's trending and decides that making an unholy frankenstein's monster of a book that mashes all those trending tropes and motifs together would get them rich quick. The fact that a lot of these booktok books become popular because of nepotism is just the cherry on top. It's soulless.)

And to finally say what I wanted to say, it's because none of these books have any deeper message or even artistic value to them. You will find a few out of context quotes or paragraphs, ones written specifically so they'd look deep and beautiful when taken out of context, so that people would post them, so that people would buy the books. Entire books written just so those few lines could become viral and make cash. It cannot even be compared to a hook line writers would post to get people interested in their works, because in booktok's case, those are the only lines of quality and in the context itself, they are often out of place and forced.

I just hate booktok, i hate what modern social media has done to art. It's all created to be quickly consumed, for the few ☆aesthetic☆ glances, and then discarded. Just to make more money for those who are already nepo babies. As if artists needed more obstacles to jump over.

#of course historically it's always been the same #people with free time to create (rich powerful) created #very rarely did you see someone from a humble bg make it as an artist #which is why killing maiming everyone saying Shakespeare was actually a rich guy btw #but like it makes me angry personally #before you call me just jealous - i don't have any wish to monetise my art #my career ambitions lie in a different field (tho adjacent i suppose since i'm a linguist) #i'm saying it makes me angry for other writers who want to make money doing what they love most #it's always been hard. you've always had to have connections or fight tooth and nail for a chance at being published #why? because of how SUBJECTIVE it is #but at least if your skills distinct you and if you bring a truly unique concept you'd have better chances #then modern social media rolled around and no longer can we just publish and disappear no no #WE have to market our works. on twitter on instagram on podcasts on the radio and tv it's up to the authors #i already found that demeaning enough as an introvert #but now it's not even that. publishers no longer look for unique and distinct #they found out booktok is the real cash cow. they look for colleen hoovers who publish fifty books a year #all of poor quality but with enough aesthetic lines that they can easily be marketed thru #the youth who uses AO3 tags and ''omg it's so girlboss!'' and ''it has representation! (not really it's always piss poor rep)'' to market #it to others. who take the same line over and over and go ''omg... this is so deep'' but the lines never look good in context

[boomerang109]

i came home, panicked about one thing, and my toilet was leaking. bathroom floor is covered in water and brown particles. oddly, this has not improved my mood

#i just want to be a child again. i understand being a child was also miserable I am not glorifying my childhood #i was in pain and sad and lonely #BUT I WAS SAFE AND CARED FOR AND I NEVER QUESTIONED THAT no matter how much pain I was in #what I wouldn’t give for everything to hurt because I was so overstimulated by school and being bullied #being a kid had such clear cause and effect. being an adult is just…I am guilty and I want to cry everytime I think about the fact that I’m #here. i miss something that never existed and I’m the only one who is trying to remember a person who never existed but is important to me #(cause it’s me—I’m the only one who cares about preserving my childhood. my parents don’t give a damn. they were so busy surviving they #don’t remember it or care either) #why the fuck am I getting emails about a pizza party we didn’t ask for were an actual club now we don’t need your planned events fuck off #the way I was about to brag about our club name by just name dropping my school which would then make it so easy to find me holy shit my #internet safety is getting lax 🙈 #boom’s bad days #omg I just got reccommended ‘boom blogs high’ what if I got high I would feel so much better #i keep just coping sober cause like. not relying on substances. but I don’t actually have skills rn to improve my issues so like. substances #are more helpful tbh 🙈

[suddenly-stickmin]

I LOVED that you went HAM in the tags for my writing, I’ve screenshotted and saved it because I AM VERY HAPPY YOU LOVED IT!!! I LIVE TO WRITE! (when I’m not busy or working LOL) Ahhh, knowing you reread it multiple times and the way you pointed out some of the details, it makes me really happy!! I hope to write more in the future to share with you and everyone!

OF COURSEEEEEE You have an awesome writing style and I absolutely enjoyed reading bout Accordion and Violin. Seriously such a heart warming story.

And I'm looking forward to what you write next in the future! My eyes are peeled....

#KEEP ON WRITIN' BOSS. YOU GOT SOME GREAT SKILL o7 #also omg screenshotting my tags..... .blushing.... #HAD to go crazy and point out some of charming moments in your story that stuck with me. would be a crime if i didnt #ask!

[tired-fandom-ndn]

Modern Hades AU where everything is the exact same except Zag has a phone and a blog and everyone on tumblr thinks he's just a hot himbo who is very dedicated to his oddly detailed RP.

#hades supergiant #zagreus: here's a picture of my dog!! #his followers: omg your photoshop skills are incredible this looks so realistic #zagreus who has no idea what photoshop is: thanks he's my dog :)

[evilvarric666-archive]

A tip for people who have trouble initiating conversations with strangers, entering unfamiliar buildings, and would like to practice dealing with rejection in a very low-stakes way: try to get involved in poster distribution for a local theatre or show venue! Community and non-profit theatres that use volunteers often need help with these sorts of things, they'd probably love to have you! (I mean it's kind of a trial-by-fire technique for dealing with these issues, but if you can handle it then trust me, you will get over that shit so, so fast)

And now a tip for people who do not have those issues and already work or are involved with a local theatre or show venue: whatever you do, do not let them fucking stick you with poster distribution. Fight, scream, blow your whistle, bite if you must. Don't let them take you alive.

#constantly alternating between ''this is so good for me in a social skills and anxiety way omg'' and #''i cannot fucking believe i let kelly talk me into this shit again the next time i see her i am KILLING her with my BARE HANDS'' #anyways also though if you're a paid employee make sure they're reimbursing you for the miles you put on your car #insist on that. get compensated.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

ppl will be explaining how a difference is a difference & not a Deviation from a Superior state, & people who are the ones considered Default Normal (superior) will be like "okay....to be polite....i Might say i consider Some aspects of Some people's existence mere 'difference' & not being less than me...." as like hey i'm a Benevolent god. i still actually get to consider you worse & don't have to "humor" anything that challenges my superiority. if you only want everything to fit into the norm then it will all come back to upholding the norm. thinking of people's analysis of their own realities as equally legimate as being like Obscure, Irrelevant, Superficial & then using that reasoning to justify dismissing them. same as worrying that the [Different Lessers (Others(tm))] as Everywhere = a manifestation of the awareness that, yeah, respecting them as equals Does threaten your norm which is smothering everything everywhere. ppl who need to lock in the idea of Borders around personhood like um Yes they're all delineated separate Identities outside any hierarchy & so i think it's relevant to for some reason push back against "ohh so now Everyone's queer" like why not. why couldn't they be. what if they were. what if queerness was everywhere b/c it's ideological not a cordoned off Alternative Identity that is accommodated by focusing on Love(tm) as the new border around whose existence we might begrudgingly accept at arm's length (i.e. being otherwise "normal"! just imagine swapping out the binary gender (or, deep breath, presumed Private Parts) of one partner in an exclusive romantic lifelong nuclear family marriage, & that is Gay / Trans Rights. still gross but maybe we can do it, as long as they don't talk about it or shove it in our faces or even exist for more than one encounter w/us in our lives b/c what are the odds). evergreen laughing at someone suggesting ableist logic might be embedded in language of past & present b/c it's just So little to ask for that it's irrelevant but it's also So much to ask for that of course i'm not gonna do anything more than pass it along like "this is why i don't take ableism seriously" like yeah it's the disabled randos like it's the individual cringe teens(tm) ruining [the cishets would take Gender seriously otherwise!!!] & that's why you won't think about it or do anything about it & continue being comfortable with the norm & resent that actually their Difference is Less & disability is something worse that ppl "excuse" & all these ways that people are & all these things that they do are funny & weird & inexplicable & etc & one can't possibly be cruising along perpetuating a hierarchy with a sense that you're reasonable, well meaning, kind, etc etc & thus Justified, systemic oppression definitely wants to maximize how uncomfortable & arduous it feels to everyone rather than push to make it more streamlined & rewarding to embrace, or at least accept, whatever superiority over others you're afforded

#circled around to lovelessness as a lens there. so long as one was loving. so long as one wasn't consciously malicious #really just mask off about keeping the same perspective of Superiority when conflating disability & ppl ''making excuses'' #same as like e.g. that ppl consider everything an autistic person does as being Bad / Wrong / Worse. (this includes ''unskilled''!!!) #(crushing the Social Skills(tm) framework in talking abt allistic difference in my fist) #such that they think sm1 saying Autistic!! is then something they might be unfairly Beholden to to Put Up With their Wrongness #at special times in special scenarios....rather than like in some contexts you are no more ''right'' than the other party #different groups & cultures whose Norms Standards & Expectations could render You presumed rude thoughtless pushy etc #obvious overlaps to consider re: the Norms of like english speaking as ''universal'' someone noticeably speaking it as nth language? #time to Presume their ideas & contributions are Less. if they had the good brain like you their fluency would render their linguistic #Wrongness in having a diff 1st language invisible thus irrelevant. like the ''ideal'' for disability! as the ''ideal'' for anyone Passing #in any way! queer ppl surely all want to be as proximate to cishet ideals (just as cishet ppl should!) nonwhite ppl to Ideal White #women's rights = Proving they're As Good As men. ladies you're using too many exclamation points!! be Confident be Pushier!! #but ofc nobody actually wants the Others(tm) to be Equal. they're just saying ''it's your innate Wrongness that means you Aren't'' #the ableism logic in everything. men just Are better at xyz. oh we Can abuse autists...into being as proximate to allistic as possible!! #just actually means ''oh we Can abuse autists.'' the ''correctness'' is your Difference ''intruding'' less into allistic existence #force you to be harmed & diminished all day then save your meltdowns for when you're alone & out of the way #ppl's tweets like ''when ppl say 'omg too sensitive ofc i wasn't talking abt disabled ppl!' like yeah no shit b/c you never think of #disabled ppl'' like yeah most people idk aren't making their life's agenda to stop everyone from saying Stupid #but like believe me people organically sense the Vintage R words when you get called Idiot in exactly the same spirit & purpose #i mean that's so rworded as in that's so gay!! cmon!! & it's fine if you don't say either to gay ppl or. or. [insert the office quote] #oh i don't call um 20th c disabled ppl morons it's bad taste!! but b/c i use it Figuratively in the present it's fine it's so Different #fr i can't remember like. an article w/1 matter of fact sentence from a doctor using a [now Just a childish insult!!] as Diagnostic Label #for someone's disability & it still registered like ice water in the face. presumably no ''especial'' Malice just matter of fact! #it wasn't ''idiot'' it may have been ''moron'' fr. the vintage ''factual'' r word is There plain as day #like yeah ofc the ableism gets channeled into alternate language. & then complaints abt that is like UGH CMON!!! #like idk shouldn't you be fine using the R word then too? not really sweating this issue thee most all thee time either but like #it's not sooo funny even if someone seems pressed extensively abt it. not that hard to in fact just not use all these words all the time #ppl will be throwing out their ableism w/o Any labels talking about how Weird Offputting Etc someone acts so you can Tell they're bad.... #and yeah you should think abt that. anytime. the [difference used to categorize ''other'' is Just difference] Is Everywhere All The Time #the idea it can & should be ''contained'' for especial limited specific occasions (when you're feeling Nice!) = upholding the status quo

[merakiui]

the fact that I never thought of bodyguard rook sent there on vil's orders that you fuck before is just ??? An abyssally criminal offence on my part. Like Rook would enjoy baiting his pray to see how far they go. Like I already know your ovulation schedule why don't I expose my forearms more? Why shouldn't I showcase my bow skills in front of you? Why shouldn't I come up behind you completely pressing you against the counter? I think rook would find a twisted sense of enjoyment of bringing up vil during those moments too so he can get off better kekek. Thank u for putting this in my brain

Yes!! Bodyguard Rook gives you all of these little teases every day and he’s clearly watching to see how long it’ll take before you give into temptation, clearly entertained when he catches your wandering gaze. His arms are always open for you, darling, as is that queen-sized bed you always sleep in. It’s perfect for two! <3

#twisted chit chat #meraki thirsts #yandere twst #n/sfw #he definitely brings vil up at the worst times omg #asks how exactly vil pleasures you so that he may try his own methods #maybe this entire time you were faking your orgasms #and rook’s the first to actually wring a real climax out of you #>:) he’s awfully skilled with his fingers and mouth

[imaginepostingonsideblogs]

i love the fact cas keeps getting depicted as a master manipulator bc like.

LADIES. IS THIS YOUR MAN.

#fun fact this text absolutely ruined me bc every time i have a cheeseburger now im like omg. just like castiel townsend #anyway. yeah. im so sorry to say this but theres an additional layer to cascarab that is the fact that. well. #this man is hanging on by the seat of his pants abt all this. like. theres no planning theres no preparation #hes acting like hes got it all under control but hes never had a thing under his control in his LIFE #this is actively written after the point hes met scarab too HE DOES NOT LEARN ANY SKILLS... #everyone say thank you heshemikey for letting this man go on about cheeseburgers in the middle of your very serious roleplay #(softly) Our. very serious roleplay. sometimes.

[doubledutchratfucker]

I don't care how good Circe was I'm never forgiving madeline miller for the feeling I get when I see someone mention patroclus online and it turns out they're talking about the song of achilles.

#omg this is so achilles and patroclus #and it's the scrawniest twinks you've ever seen in your life #like no they were a veritable battle couple. both incredibly skilled warriors. #thank you supergiant games for getting g this right #hades #the iliad #achilles #patroclus