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[yazzdonut]

me (user since 2010) everytime this site is in a 50/50 situation of being nuked every 3 years

[idolomantises]

I replied to a friend on twitter and woke up to a bunch of caitvi fans angrily yelling at me lmao.

[3000s]

my yonic penis

[werepires]

I’d love the tapes to be bad actually if we ever get to see them. Years of hysteria and in the end we’re no wiser than we were before. Kinda like supernatural itself

[girlypopinspos]

My issue with this in fiction is:

I've seen it ruin great villains and turn them boring as can be.

It's often done in a completely unnatural and unrealistic way.

When it happens, it's usually babying the character even if they're just a horrible person.

Example: Harley Quinn from DC Comics. She has been warpped into a completely different character, into Female Deadpool, just to appease people who didn't even like her in the first place. Suddenly, she's an anti-hero, or an outright here, when she always been a selfish and sadistic person. Suddenly, she was never evil, just a Poor Woman Ruined by an Evil Man, uwu. And all of this is just purely Benevolent Misogyny.

However, a Good Example: Emma Frost from Marvel comics. She was a villain, but not a complete sadist like Harley was. Her change into a better person felt natural. And her change was done sooner into her existence than Harley's was, so it didn't feel ridiculous. It also wasn't done to appease certain people, it was just her character progression.

Also, Villain Redemption is often done when that character becomes popular, which just shows how Puritan and weak TPTB are.

So yes, a character "becoming a better person" IS a bad thing if it's done poorly and/or done for the worng reasons.

the concept and idea of “you can always start trying to be a better person” is extremely important to me both in media and irl and i continue to be deeply deeply disturbed by the trend on this site pushing that these ideas in media are bad writing or even morally reprehensible

because theyd rather someone stay terrible or just straight up die than become a better person 

from a compassionate point of view it’s deeply distressing and from a pragmatic point of view it’s outright frustrating

it’s fucked up. 

[yeonjune]

beomgyu with cute little puppies 🐶❤️🐶

[mikkaeus]

[energysynergymatrix]

Sneef sneef

i made a character sheet. free to use as you wish, feel free to change whatever you want XD open source ass thing. spent all of ~maybe an hour on it.

Credit: the text in the insert-image box comes from this video, and the text for the top three lines (intense, complex, fruity) comes from this post. The actual image was made with the free NBOS character sheet creator, which is a sort of dated but free and solid text-layout sheet maker intended for ttrpg style character sheet creation.

[werewolfmack]

A story to boost the morale of a broken country.

[sqrkyclean]

Did I ever talk abt the time i was at a bdsm club and one of the pups was on all fours and barking and being cute and the dom on scene was like “hi puppy! Do you do any tricks?” And he said “I can beatbox!”

[matineaux]

kind of weird how parts of your soul are left in various locations without any warning… like yes i’m always at the top of that hill, sitting at the bus stop, in the cool light of the Japanese restaurant, standing at the pier etc etc

[preheville]

debbie downer and negative nancy should lez out

[worfsbarmitzvah]

do you ever start writing a comment on the internet and then think “oh what the fuck am i going on about” and delete it

[3000s]

learning that people want you in their lives is a skill you can develop if it does not come naturally

[lumsel]

There's an open pit in the middle of our office plan that drops down into a bunch of very sharp spikes that kill you instantly. This is bad. People keep falling in there and dying. Someone put a sign up, the other day, all bright yellow so you can't miss it, that says "Beware!!! Spikes!!!"

The office immediately split into two factions over it. One says that if anyone falls in the spike pit it's their own fault for being so stupid and not watching where they're walking, so we should remove the sign. The other says that the sign is an insult, there shouldn't be a spike pit in our office at all, and having the sign up like that is just normalising the existence of the spike pit, so we should remove the sign.

We ended up removing the sign. Probably for the better. Still... for a while there it looked like it might have worked...