#/rant

[capn-james-t-spirk]

I swear to god if I see one more tiktok complaining about how rushed and underwhelming part 1 was I may actually loose it. It’s like I watched a completely different version of the show than these people.

While I will always want more Colin and Penelope moments together as a Polin shipper, I do not think they had too little time together on screen, nor did do find the subplots distracting from their story. We’ve had two other seasons worth of build up with amazing moments from each season between the two already. So it wasn’t upsetting to see the ensemble get some plot points as well.

I feel like so many people misunderstand Colin and his feelings for Penelope. I’ve seen so many people say that Polin was completely one sided up until the kiss and then suddenly he was obsessed. Like they didn’t notice how he always finds her in the room even when he’s not thinking, even as far back as season 1. How they joke and laugh together so easily and how he genuinely cares about her and her feelings and seeks out her company.

Yes he made a few miss-steps with Maria and later with the infamous “Never dream of Courting Penelope Featherington” line and ended up hurting Pen. But I feel like nobody takes the time to see it from his perspective.

Maybe I’m too biased as a Colin defender but i don’t think he would’ve said what he did at the Featherington’s ball if he wasn’t trying to impress those men in a way to help out Mondrich. While no that doesn’t absolve the fact that what he said was still wrong, I don’t think it warrants Colin needing to grovel non stop to earn Pen’s forgiveness, and honestly the fandoms insistence on it always confused me. I thought his apology in the show was beautiful and well done.

I know people are entitled to their opinions, but it’s so disheartening to see so much criticism and disappointment for a season that 1. I’ve been looking forward to for so long and 2. isn’t even finished yet.

[sistercara]

staff cant be fucked to let through a single blaze post that has anything that even mentions lgbt, speaks out against tumblr themselves, or gets political

but some fucking nutjob prepper wants to fear monger? tell everyone their lives, homes, and belongings are forfeit?

well.. everyone needs to see that right ?

absolutely fuck off and blaze my fucking girl cock

[dithorba]

Cigyun & Deirdre: I want to experience the world and love freely. The Jugdral Fandom: You are so fucking selfish Cigyun & Deirdre: I'm told where to live and what I'm allowed to experience. I will live my whole life underneath treetops with no expectation my life will ever meaningfully improve or change.

[darcylightninglewis]

I know there are bound to be differences from book to screen. I know no one will ever be happy as a book lover to watch an adaptation fall short in someway. It just feels so very avoidable if they went in chronological order. Give them 1.5-2 more years. Let Penelope become her own person a tiny bit beyond Whistledown. Be pleased with where she gets LD to.

Let Colin gain more of a personality than eating and leaving. Make him the lovable scamp you show Benedict to be. Let him grow restless.

Let them be awkward after Colin, a friend (and crush) offends her in her own home in front of potential suitors. What’s more British than not actually talking about it???? Let Benedict find his Cinderella. Maybe LW is kinder than everyone expects, even goes after Sophie’s “family” and while Eloise won’t forgive her outright, maybe she’s less vindictive.

Let them build something from that as he travels. And when he gets back, all bronze and hunky, suddenly smooth to every female (as they seem to imply he suddenly is) but he’s there for his family. He’s there for his truly good friend Penelope, who has taken control of her wardrobe if nothing else and avoids yellows. She looks lovely, is friendly with Lady Danbury, has a begrudging standoffish relationship with Eloise that no one really knows what happened. She is warm to Kate the few times they interact as to not piss off Eloise and Violet still has a fondness for.

She can still want out of the Featherington household, by way of marriage. She can find her voice without LW as a mask, making Colin sit up a bit more. She’s always looked lovely, but does she sparkle when she laughs? Is that new?

And then finding out she’s LW, perhaps concern warring with the fact that she’s found something her own. The same thing we wants too, and is jealous of that. Jealous that she is indeed braver for risking it all and leaving behind more than her name and status. That while yes, he has been running away he’s found something, created something that he can’t find the courage to take further like she has. That both his older brothers are happily settled with their own things to look after but he feels at sea even when he is home.

Still can have Francesca meet John, still have Eloise & Pen not talking. But there’s more emotion behind it. Instead of 2 late bloomers discovering they’re suddenly hot, thank goodness they’re friends. Someone start playing Linger by the Cranberries.

Sorry, just needed to get this out.

[oydis]

I was today years old when I found out that normal maps for tucked tops will show through high-waisted bottoms (for the part that the game still reads as being “top”) 😫

EA pls why no normal map sort layer? 😭

[hoperambling]

The Imane Khellif sssituation really to me jusssst sssshowssss how whitecentric all the TMA/TME argumentssss are.

black cissssgender women will routinely have the validity of their exisssstence attacked ussssing VERBATIM the ssssame damn linesss that people will ussssse to attack transsss women, and yet, you'd ssssay Khellif and other black women in ssssimilar ssssituationssss are exempt from transssmisssogyny, that it cannot effect them. fuck off.

[fadeawaywithyou]

im refusing to listen to the new taylor swift album. i gave midnights a chance, and was HEAVILY disappointed. everything I've heard in tiktok snippets and everyone's reactions have put me off, and i want to say that both adoration and annoyance, critics and applause, have put me off on both sides. so don't come at me with "oh don't listen to the HATERS" idgaf. i don't give a single fuck! I'm getting fucking TIRED of her brand being more and more obviously not who she really is, despite her being more and more insistent that it is. she's not a "tortured poet" she's a fucking billionaire pop artist. it's so weird seeing her try and capitalize on two very different personas: one where she's the queen of everything, a girlboss, god of pop, maker of the industry nobody can beat, haters can kiss her ass...but also so misunderstood and deep and introverted and please feel bad for her. Like, I'm sure she has problems, but i don't wanna listen about them after being subjected to her goddamn eras tour online and seeing her carbon footprint. go to a therapist, girl, I'm SURE you can afford it. what's her brand is now with the grey photography and shower thoughts feels so disingenuous when the first lyric i see (that's not a copypasta) from her long awaited "deep, tortured, you'll never understand how i grew up" album is about how your football boyfriend fingers you while on call with his video game buddies. i thought the line about wanting to live in slave times was a copypasta but it's real! girl shut the fuck up. the creek near by grandparent's house is deeper than you're entire 31 song album. the asylum that raised you gave you more power than GOD and you can make your fanbase sob with a london reference to a 4-month relationship TEN YEARS AGO. she has good music, but I'm hesitant to say she's still making good music. and even if she did every day i see her fans sob piss and shit themselves over a "thesaurus entry + middle school level philosophy" lyric i hate her more and more.

[thedreadblog]

Tumblr is way better at filtering tags than tiktok. The latter seems intent on spoiling EVERYTHING.

[memeclassheroes]

I know that I'm terminally online, but I swear I work with the most Boomer 20 year olds.

I was talking about memes to a 29 year old and he says "I've been meaning to get into memes. Every once in a while I see a really funny one." And I'm just agape at that statement. Like what do you mean "get into" memes??? They're just, like, a part of life, right?

Another time I was talking to a 23 year old at work when he mentioned he isn't really into social media. I jokingly asked him "well then where do you shitpost?" He looks me dead in the eyes and says "what's shitpost?"

Is this normal? Am I the weird one? Like I'm not online 24/7. I go outside, touch grass, hang out with people. But this just seems so bizarre to me.

[oca-rinn-a]

Does anyone else hear "well I have to eat meat for health reasons" so often that it starts to feel like "I can't do that assignment because I have to go to my grandma's funeral"

I always take people at their word, because I have to. I don't argue with them about their own health. Just because I've never met a person with a condition like that in real life doesn't mean that that kind of person doesn't exist. I also can't help but feel skeptical, though. Because there seems to be so many people with conditions that require them to eat meat or else suffer health issues.

[peletiersdixon]

I’m about to go off on a rant so full warning, don’t read if you want to be blissfully unaware of fandom related drama and discourse:

This assumption that Melissa is not on board with whatever is going on or that she is not being heard infuriates me. Melissa does not go on record for every single thing. She’s notoriously quiet about stuff in the media. But that doesn’t mean she’s not sticking up for herself bts. She fucking left the spinoff once, so like? She has no problem asserting herself when she wants to do so.

Fuck off with assumptions about her voice not being heard. FFS stop assuming you have ANY idea what she wants, what she’s doing, or what is happening behind the scenes. Again, she is a grown fucking woman, capable of making her own choices and decisions, and she has no issue doing so. The assumptions happening right now and the drama ensuing from those assumptions are mind numbingly asinine.

Certain people just aren’t happy unless they are causing upset, discourse, & drama in order to flood their inboxes and inflate their ego. No wonder the caryl fandom is a fucking cesspool these days.

[littleragondin]

Oooooh I forgot how helpless you feel when you get to a new lab and you are unfamiliar with the layout, how things are stored/organized, and the little tricks to use the machines.

I am. So lost. 😭😭

[awkwardlii]

god damn it. i was really ready to stick with Biden. like i was willing to forsake heritage and hold out on the hope that the scales would fall from his eyes, even if I knew that meant the blood of tens of thousands of innocents on my hands. but at this point

i couldn’t tell you why this of all things turned out to be the straw that broke the camel’s back. i’ve got some good guesses though. the UN, global agencies, students, experts, country leaders, all screaming at you in tandem, “THIS IS A MISTAKE. THIS ISN’T RIGHT. DONT LET THEM DO THIS.” all this after 6 months of one of the bloodiest retaliation campaigns in modern history, 80% of infrastructure decimated, 30,000+ civilians, plus doctors and journalists and international aid workers all targeted… the list stretches on.

yet here you sit. in your cozy office. with 24/7 access to amenities and nukes at your fingertips and the luxury of choosing your dinner that night. Palestinians in Rafah are balancing on a knife’s edge. everything is on the line. and you go ‘hmm okay i know what i said but technically they’re not targeting the civilians yet. so. yknow let’s just watch and wait and see where this goes’.

…….……bitch? they’re starving. they’ve BEEN starving and now the crossing is completely blocked off. no food. no aid. no idea where the fuck to go. like tell me Biden, which would you pick? the overpopulated scrublands, or the fucking. rubble??

anyway, idk who i’m voting for in the fall, but it sure as hell isn’t gonna be some brain dead dipshit who swallows whatever garbage the Zionists happen to be serving up that day 🙂

[zarvasace]

Mini fic: "warm" or any variation of that word. Vidow and it doesn't really matter the AU

Fluff! Fluff! Fluff! 💜🖤

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Vio heard the front door open and close, then the jingling of a sparse key chain and the thunk of shoes. The light in the apartment kitchen stayed off, so Vio slid into the corner of the couch. Though his poetry book remained a comfortable weight in his hands, he lifted it to give Shadow room to slide in. 

Like so many nights, Shadow curled up like a cat on the couch, but tonight, he pressed a little closer. His arms wrapped around Vio's waist, and his face squished into Vio's stomach. 

"Warm," he muttered, muffled by the couch pillows that were more comfortable than decorative. 

Frowning just slightly, Vio shifted his book to one hand, index finger trapped between pages. His other hand settled in Shadow's hair. They should do another dye party in the coming week. "Long day?" 

Shadow nodded as best he could. "Was I that big of a brat in middle school? Don't answer that. I just need a hug." He peeked up at Vio, a slight smile tugging at his lips. "Read?" 

Vio's frown vanished, and he settled back more comfortably to rest the book on the couch arm. "Of course. This one is Longfellow, Divina Commedia, I'll start it over. 'Oft have I seen at some cathedral door A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, Lay down his burden, and with reverent feet Enter, and cross himself, and on the floor…'"