#'i hate it when people just think I'm a fucking moron' have you considered not acting like a fucking moron

[snobgoblin]

my curse is both genuinely being a dumbass, and at the same time, having a sense of humor where I pretend to be a dumbass, so nobody ever knows if I'm doing a bit or if I'm genuinely confused and it results in me being frustrated when people assume I'm dumber than I am despite it being my own fault

[resident-idiot-simp]

Honda Odyssey rant aftermath

Thinking about the Honda Odyssey rant again as per usual. I have talked before about the consequences of it and I want to talk more about it.

Logan was having a good day all things considered except for the fact Wade had been off all day. Logan had done his best to figure out what was wrong but some days Wade was just...well slightly off.

Althea had told him the first time it happened when he was living there that it happens every once in awhile. Logan could understand he too had those days. It was a toss up what the issue was today however. Sometimes he knew or was told or could possibly even figure it out. Today he wasn't as lucky.

Wade had been distressingly silent today and it was putting Logan on edge. He had done his best to prompt conversation and It had failed. Althea had tried to give him a understanding look and it kinda helped. He had become so accustomed to the incessant background chatter that the silence made him extremely uneasy.

Logan wishes Wade would talk he wanted it so badly and he did eventually get the courage to ask, "Wade you know I like hearing you talk right?" It was damn near the equivalent of opening his rib cage and tearing out his heart and offering it on a silver platter to Wade.

Wade had just tensed at the insinuation. No innuendo, no sarcastic quip, no nothing. Logan had to fight off the urged to make a wounded noise because fuck that hurt more than he thought it was going to.

Wade took a deep breath and Logan felt hope bloom inside him.

"I thought you hated my chatter."

Logan blinked taken aback sure he always jokingly told Wade to shut up but he never meant that Wade knew he never meant that. So what the hell is this about.

"you know I don't." Logan responded measuredly, unsure of what was going on.

"Do I?" Wade shot back and that only pissed Logan off.

Logan knew damn good and well Wade knew he was joking. He growled at the insinuation.

"YES YOU DO BECAUSE WE ALL LAUGH YOU KNOW I DON'T MEAN IT SERIOUSLY BECAUSE IF I DID I COULD MAKE YOU SHUT UP!"

Wade matched his volume as he shot back, "DO I ALWAYS LAUGH OR DO I JUST AVOID EYE CONTACT AND BREATH DEEPLY?!"

Logan could think of a few occasions of that...yes, but it was always a joke...well ok almost always a joke, but he just couldn't handle the chatter sometimes. But that wasn't the point no the point was-

Wade locked eyes with him and Logan felt his heart drop at the cold look that meet him. Wade who he had gotten so accustomed to looking at so warmly. Warmer than anyone else had ever looked at him without a doubt.

"I thought I was a joke? I thought that was why no one wanted me. I remember vividly you telling me I was a ridiculous, immature, half-wit moron. That you had never met a sadder, more attention-starved jabbering little prick in your entire life. That Cassandra was right I could never save the world. That I couldn't even managed to save a relationship with a stripper. That you wished I would die alone, but it was one of god's best jokes that I can't die, except that's on everyone else."

Logan frozen Althea froze even the damn dog froze.

"...Wade you know I didn't mean that." Logan said softly. It was a lie... He had ment it he had meant every word at the time. He had been pissed, sober, and mad at the world. It didn't stand however of course it didn't Wade was one of the best people he had ever met.

"Don't lie to me."

"Wade you know that was directed at myself." Logan tried because it had been. He had been projecting but also he knew full well that it would wiggle into all the cracks he saw in Wade and fester. He had been able to spot the same issues he had and use them because he knew violence best.

"Maybe, but don't act like I'm stupid. I know full well that was directed at me as much as it was directed at you. You meant every word."

Logan didn't know how to fix this God help him he didn't. Althea was dead silent and it just made it worse.

"You know." Wade started conversationally and Logan just knew this was going to hurt.

"The talking is just a part of me It's my personality. I can't turn it off trust me I've tried others have tried too. But no matter who beat me or how much I tried to kill myself it never works."

Logan felt his heart drop once more and he couldn't breathe.

"I however can't. And you know it gets to a point where it starts really hurting I mean you would assume you would get used to it right? That you would get used to the comments and the complaints and the whispers, but it's just not possible."

Wade took a shaky breath eyes tearing up.

"And I've had a lot of time to think about it and I've come to the conclusion on why it hurts so much. It's because it's intrinsically me. The talking it's just what makes me...me. So when people keep telling me to shut up It's not just the talking they hate it's me they hate."

Logan feels as his world tilts slightly left as pieces click into place and past experiences come to the forefront.

"Why is it so bad that I'm being myself? Why do people hate it?" Tears slip from his eyes and Logan hates himself with a sudden fervent passion.

"Wade fuck I could never hate any part of you it's not possible. I'm sorry I said those things I really fucking am I wish I could take them back. I was pissed and detoxing in that damn car and was lashing out." Logan croaked.

Wade just blinked letting more tears fall and Logan wanted to prove himself like a damn dog because he never wanted this. He had never wanted to hurt anyone especially not the man he had come to love.

"...I know what you mean Wade I do. The amount of times people have just labeled me as a weapon like that was my only designation. Like I wasn't human wasn't worth even the dignity of being half referred to as one. At the mansion they would call me that sometimes and fuck it hurt."

Logan took a shaky breath.

"They didn't mean it to demean me but that's what it felt like every time. Even if it was a joke it very rarely hit like it was meant. It just brought back flashes of..... before....of the mindless killing the programming....of everything."

Another breath

"I hadn't even considered it and that's on me. Out of everyone I should have realized."

Logan met Wade's eyes once more and saw understanding.

~

Anytime after this when anyone would ever make a pass in comment about Wade's inability to shut up. Logan was there calling them out telling them to mind their business that they had no right to say that.

And every time Wade looked just that little bit happier.

I have realized this qualifies as a drabble and will be posting this tomorrow on ao3

[masterrainbowcat]

you keep calling me stupid but on several occassions you have misunderstood what was being written, like most semi-literate weebs you reading comprehension is below par. this isn't about him 'insulting books', you moron. dora was calling other people stupid and uninformed saying that there are ENTIRE BOOKS that proved him right. when asked in a friendly manner by me and someone else which books he was referring to he just ignored us. when i pressed him he came out w/ ad hominem attacks instead of titles and authors. he "couldn't remember" as it had been 5 years already since he'd read them. THERE ARE NO SERIOUS BOOKS THAT CLAIM FASCISM IS A LEFTWING IDEOLOGY. look it up, fool. this is a guy who made several hours worth of videos on youtube whining about how people on tumblr should learn to think critically and that their opinions lack nuance while continually posting lies and reactionary shit takes. when called out on other things by other people the pattern repeats. "i'm more literate than you" he told the chatbot account, and "i've read marx". fucking lying poser. so, maybe now you can understand why i don't have any qualms about making him my lolcow. hope this wasn't too much text for you to process otaku, have fun jerking off to cartoon girls.

So for context, this gent has been harassing @yourtoradorasextendedwarranty for months now, and this is his explanation for why. I assumed it was something to do with Tora insulting books Babi liked, since Babi has thimble-dick opinions on other mediums, but somehow Babi wrote this whole thing and didn’t think for a second that it was more embarrassing than what I assumed. “An argument didn’t go well so I’m gonna be a schoolyard bully.” That’s how you know he’s a man of character.

The reason you wouldn’t have seen these exchanges is because Babi spends most of his time spamming replies so that people can’t make fun of him as easily. Of course, considering one of the few times Babi did reblog, he admitted he didn’t graduate high school and uses AI in arguments, I can see why he’d want to avoid embarrassing himself to whatever followers he has. I suspect he also has a side blog where he LARPs as a fact checker that uses AI to write posts, but I can’t verify that beyond Tora being a target of that blog as well.

Babi also has a hate boner for anime, which with previous evidence suggests he is perpetually stuck in high school. Though I did get a chuckle out of his ad hominem about me “jacking it to cartoon girls”. Yeah, THAT’S the vibe my blog gives off.

But anyway, this is a man who:

* happily admits to harassing people like a bully

* has a weird reverence for AI and is proud to use it

* hides in the replies and potentially side blogs because he lacks the confidence to have his material show on his blog most of the time

and yet:

* is desperate to convince people his ideology is the right, good, and smart one

It’s the epitome of a comedy of errors.

[reel-fear]

Genuinely so curious who Mike thinks is gonna be buying The Cage or the new DCTL GN bc with the way he tweets as far as he's concerned, it's not gonna be:

The queer people he has actively admitted he will never show any representation of in the games.

2. The POC he has actively fought against representing in his franchise. [Who he also mocked for thinking they would be represented in his franchise]

3. The Bendy fandom which has always been concerned with topics of diversity esp in the sense of queer people since its creation. Who he has responded to really poorly esp in regards to the GN.

4. The fans who critique him. [He blocked me for doing so lol]

5. His fans in general who he tweets about like this currently. [He's being vague about why people were mad at him or sent him 'nasty messages' because if you actually looked into why you'd see he was in the wrong. Either way, a very hateful way to speak abt ur own fanbase.]

Reminder while Mike is trash talking his fans he has always treated them rather poorly. The fans who won the fanart contest for Chapter 5 never got their posters actually in game due to it being rushed. Not only was chapter 5 a big slap to the face story wise, but it was literally so rushed he couldn't be bothered to add in the art his fans gave him for his game FOR FREE. [Meatly blames this on a crazy timeline, reminder him and Mike are the literal ceos of this company. The proposal of future updates here is also pretty cruel considering Mike nowadays happily admits he corrupted Chapter 5's source code and therefore literally can't update it At All currently. Because he is a moron]

At least they got to be in Boris and the dark survival, and by that I mean that was the Only game they got to be in so far, isn't that just treating your fans like you love them? Shoving their hard work into a spin off game almost nobody has played or addresses much. [Hell, who knows if with the Lone Wolf rebrand they'll even stay there. In which case they'll be in None of the games, only in the credits of BATIM]

6. The Bendy fans who just generally disagree with him on stuff. Like the new ink demon design where there is literally a public poll showing people generally prefer the old one.

7. The Bendy fans who can see he is actively lying to them. To their fucking faces.

He says this has always been the case, but screenshots and links to tweets regarding the books being canon prove it was not. Does he really think bendy fans are stupid or something? [Unless he's admitting here he lied to Kress when he told her the books were canon which sounds worse!]

8. Anyone who doesn't like the idea of giving money to a guy who laid off tons of employees then afterwards thought it was a great idea to express his anti-union views! Also brag about how good of an employer he was, according to his employees, he was not!

So in summary; Mike is an awful person who has not learned anything from the awful things he did. I will not be purchasing The Cage because, combined with this and his absolute refusal to take any kind of critique or see any differing interpretation of his franchise, I have no reason to think my problems with the franchise will ever be addressed or fixed. I probably will pirate The Cage along with any future Bendy Products [Including the movie] and will do my best to avoid giving it any kind of monetary support. Unless this changes any time soon, I can't see myself making anymore positive Bendy posts soon.

Mike has just managed to make it so hard to speak positively or optimistically of this franchise when he's so willing to broadcast how little he cares about it or its fans. I'm at the point where I refuse to pull any of my punches with my problems with it. What's the point of trying to play nice with my critique when either way the people creating it don't care?

So with this post, I want to invite anyone who feels similarly about the franchise to tell me, make a post or send an ask talking about how all of this makes you feel. It may not change how things are, but genuinely seeing other people share my feelings of anger makes me feel better. It feels nice to see when other people share our same concerns and worries. I'd also love to know if anyone else thinks they'll be avoiding purchasing Bendy products over this.

I'm not forcing anyone to participate in it nor trying to say anyone who doesn't supports mike but genuinely maybe if we can collectively decide to boycott things like the movie, graphic novel and The Cage... It might at least make the bendy devs acknowledge how much they have destroyed their own fandom's faith and trust in them.

The way Mike tweets about his actions like he had no control over why people were mad at him at least proves to me he takes NONE of it back nor regrets it. If you didn't know about his actions and only went off his tweets, you would be led to believe Mike has been needlessly picked apart by fans over things he couldn't control [or in his own words, had his words twisted and taken out of context]. That is not how you speak about your actions if you have actually learned better from them.

anyway, that has been my bendy dev callout post. This is an open invitation to anyone feeling similarly upset about the way the franchise is going to talk about it. It's genuinely nice to see how people feel about this and the more we talk about the more it's likely the bendy devs are forced to address our concerns. I don't think they will but hey, that's why I'm not gonna support them with my money anymore nor am I gonna be nice to them in any content I make critiquing Bendy. I mean I'm also basically making this post just in case anyone asks me Why I feel this way towards to bendy devs/as a way to respond to anyone who thinks I am too harsh in my critique in the future.

As always, it seems the best part of Bendy isn't actually anything about canon but about what the fan's are creating with the ideas Bendy failed to do anything interesting with.

Also the books, the books slap.

[bitchy-peachy]

Watch me get reported again for this comment but I'm laughing through clenched teeth right now cos I frankly want to tear my own eyeballs off.

Said under a clip of Arab Americans that voted for Trump celebrating his win thinking he's gonna help Gaza when he's actually talking with Netanyahu about building his businesses over a destroyed Gaza.

You killed your own people, you stupid fucks. This man lied a bunch of times his first term and y'all thought kissing his ass was gonna help y'all?

He's so pro Israel he might as well crawl under Netanyahu like a submissive wife with his butt up.

You screwed your own people and while I may laugh, I'm laughing angrily and if I saw one of you dumb fucks irl I'd slap you so hard you'd shit yourselves.

I want you fucks deported and I want Gazans that have suffered enough to be evacuated to safety while YOU morons take their place in the fall for your stupid ass votes.

In a just world, you'd be taking ALL their suffering but no, you signed their death sentence and I hope it eats at your asses and every time I see your videos or posts of you talking STUPID, I'm gonna be so spiteful and treat you like the dumbfucks you are.

I ain't even Palestinian or Muslim or whatever and I feel so personally pissed off for them for having pieces of shit like you that screwed them over.

You didn't abstain from voting or voted 3rd party. YOU ACTIVELY ENCOURAGED DIRECT PRO TRUMP VOTES COS HE WROTE YOU A DUMB LETTER ONCE SAYING HE'D STOP EVERYTHING.

Well enjoy a complete wipe out. Oh "It couldn't get worse 🙄."

Well, bitch, you made it worse.

These poor people oh my god I'm flaming pissed. Just got on tiktok and saw that stupid shit and am using dark humor cos I was seriously considering telling these dumbfucking backstabbers to kill themselves for being MORONS.

I've had 2 accounts yeeted on tiktok just for using emoji convos and I ain't about to loose another one again cos I have a lot of friends there, but I will be mean as shit towards you Arabs for Trump fucks. Idgaf who I offend, plus you bitches were extremely fucking racist towards Kamala Harris, saying she was a DEI hire and that we were only voting for her cos she was a Black/Asian American woman.

Y'all also said she had no policies when she had a bunch, you morons were just too busy sucking Trump's dick and selling your people out.

Fuck you. You're worse than the tankies now cos far as I know I haven't seen a single one doing this shit. If anything they cared more for them despite them voting like ass themselves but I didn't see a single one partying over Trump winning like you stupid shits are.

And I'm saying this as someone that hates tankies for usually talking over poc and being anti Semitic cos they think all Jews are evil (when I've met more Jews that want Palestinians saved than destroyed at least here in the US. Not everyone in every country is a flaming fucking asshole)

Unbelievable... Still seething at this.

I ain't a religious person. In fact I'm into witchcraft, lol. But I'm really feeling for these poor people rn and want them blessed and protected.

I hope everyone that voted for Trump gets haunted by their faces every time they close their eyes.

[deviantartdramahub]

Sighhh so I really do hate to talk about the forums at all, because from what I saw, that place is an absolute shitstorm that's a headache to even begin to describe but...I just wanna reinforce a point I've been making for ages and give further proof of it. Someone may say it's dumb I'm repeating myself like that, but it's just the people I call out are very fucking stupid, and need things endlessly explained to them so they can have hopefully a shred of realization, and even then that's being too optimistic for their intelligence.

Sooo Evie, one of the morons attacking some good people I care about, specifically Club, one of my most best internet friends, and Tri, a person I don't know quite as well, but still a kind and calm person I know I can trust.

So the only reason people like her are attacking these two is bigotry. Purely bigotry. Club is autistic, and Tri is asexual, so asses who've never matured past high school like to target minorities like them to be cOoL aNd EdGy lolll.

I've already provided so much proof for this but...why not add some more, because as I've said, it's very unfortunately necessary when the bad people I have to deal with are completely brain-dead. So the forums, I've looked at the posts about them, and internally groaned at the thought of ever having to cover that shit myself. This will hopefully be the only time I do so. In the forums, I've seen Evie use slurs. Examples include...http://web.archive.org/web/20240516215957/https://www.deviantart.com/forum/community/complaints/2736800

https://www.deviantart.com/comments/18/2689626/5031912084 (In EdelgardMoon's thread...also Evie don't think your cringe-ass UWUifying the word gives you a pass lol, we know what you're trying to say.) AND SHE ALSO SAYS THE FUCKING N-SLUR IN EnryoAlpha's THREAD??? (Albeit once again butchered bc I guess this bitch thinks being SOOO QUIRKY AND RANDOM RAWR HEHEHEE XD makes it okay to say horrendous things lmao.)

Anyways Evie, it's clear to me you're a nasty person who doesn't give two shits about other people, you probably vomit at the very thought of giving another human being basic respect. You don't want to call out genuinely horrible people to help and protect others honey, nah, you just want to make up crap excuses for your bigotry, and it shows. I've got you in a corner, and I'm eagerly awaiting your excuses to escape. You're lucky you got that tail between your legs, or that kick in the groin would be real painful!

Anndd also, you may piss and whine about me harassing you or whatever lol, but I'm not gonna hear that shit when you actually do that for real everyday for funsies. Though I know you really are a coward, considering the fact on this very website you contacted me only to block me from saying anything else! XD

Fight the battles you start dear, lmao. You acting the way you do doesn't make you cool or funny, you're just pathetic and it's sad you're a full grown woman spending your life like this.

Anyways bye bye, God these people are getting more and more pathetic and laughable.

Agreed, regardless of her defense she might wish to give. Of note, she flunked school, so the school part may have another meaning.

[beanghostprincess]

Hi, I would like to know what you think of Dragon and Luffy?

We recently learned that Dragon did try to look after Luffy as good as he could.

The thing is I think that Dragon does care for Luffy and that it was better for Luffy to not take him with him. But that doesn´t change that he wasn´t there if you see it from Luffys view. He doesn´t hate his father but I don´t think he really cares either. Growing up he had other people he saw as family like Garp, Makino, Ace, Sabo and Shanks. I don´t think that would change when he meets Dragon, even if he learns that his father did watch over him and protected him as good as he could. It doesn´t change that he is still a stranger to Luffy.

I actually see Dragon more as Sabos father than Luffys.

What do you think about it?

The reason why I have mixed feelings toward Yasopp but I genuinely love Dragon with all of my soul and heart and body (Live Laugh Love Revs. Revolutionaries my beloveds, all my homies love revolution) is that Luffy's relationship and behavior toward his family are wayyyy different than Usopp's (comparing these two bc the stories are similar but my reaction to them isn't).

Luffy doesn't give a single fuck about biological bonds and shit, he just cares about people themselves. If he loves someone, he'll love them no matter where they come from. To him, I think, labels like "father" are just there as a statement of "ah, yeah, this dude helped create me. Cool fact" but he doesn't care at all? Like he genuinely believed he didn't have a dad until Garp told him and his reaction was pretty much "Cool" and he never even asked about his mom. The thing about Dragon and Luffy is that I do think Luffy sees him as his father because he doesn't have any reason to not do so. He doesn't have any resentment toward him and he knows he's helping people out there, living his own adventure. Perhaps people like Shanks or Makino are way more important and influential in Luffy's life, of course, and considers them more of a family than he'll ever do with Dragon, but that doesn't mean he does not see him as his dad, you know? I don't know if I'm explaining this well, but to summarize: If Luffy doesn't have a reason to reject Dragon, he'll still consider him his dad. Not emotionally, I guess, because there are people more influential in Luffy's life, but he's still there and Luffy still sees him as such. Besides, Luffy doesn't seem to have levels of importance and priority when it comes to the people he loves. If he loves you, he'll love you and protect you the same amount he does with everyone else. This guy doesn't play favorites and we know that. So I think his relationship with Dragon (from Luffy's POV) is extremely neutral and just a "Oh, cool! My dad is a rev! That's awesome" but he doesn't feel the need and excitement to see him the way he does with Shanks, for example. He doesn't reject him but he doesn't have deep feelings about him.

On the other hand, Dragon said this thing recently about kids being a parent's weakness and it broke me completely. Because he's been watching over Luffy all of this time and he loves his kid so much he keeps being so dramatic about it (that conversation with Kuma changed my life tbh). And I think he's worried about his kid's well-being, but trusts Luffy on his own adventure too. He left because he had to help the world somehow and it was just too dangerous for Luffy to come with him (for both, because it would be dangerous for a kid to be there and because it would be his only weakness if enemies found out about how much Luffy means to him, etc etc etc). And it's kind of the same way I feel about Shanks with Uta? Like he did what had to be done to protect her (even if what Shanks did is stupid but he's a moron, so nothing new).

I also see Dragon more as Sabo's dad, by the way. They make me go insane. "We can't keep a kid here something something" but dude kept the lil bastard and I love that. Sabo found a home and a family when he was completely lost and I'm so happy about it. I love them so much. Dragon cares deeply about him and Sabo loves the revolutionary army so much,, My beloveds.

Anyway, I made a post about this before but I find it really funny how Sabo would tell people about Dragon being his dad and everyone would go "???' then you are Luffy's bio brother" and he'd just go "No :)" and not explain further.

[forest-faerie-witch]

RIP America

I have been up all night. I've been following the campaign since Harris was at the first DNC. I have hoped and hoped that she would win. But now, as that lunatic is 3 points from winning, my chest is tight and I'm fighting tears.

I've been terrified through this whole thing. Afraid of losing my right to control my own body. Scared of losing my disability income. Worried about my daughter's rights. I'm deeply troubled about our world. What is going to happen to Ukraine now? To our immigrant friends?

There are things I can't wrap my head around. How is it OK for a convicted criminal to not only run for public office, but THE public office? To lead our entire country?! How is this lawful? How did our founding fathers not anticipate this? Did they just think "Well, it's just common sense, right?" They obviously didn't have the foresight to see the state of human beings in this century.

And what happened to separation of church and state? Why are the religious nuts still waving their bibles around at my uterus? How about, it's NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS! You wanna believe in your god? Good for you. But don't tell me how to live just because we don't agree. I don't tell you what to do. I don't care. It's a free country, right? Well, apparently not if we are still being held to christian ideals.

This country was NOT based on religion. It was based on the freedom from religious persecution. (Do your homework people). It is NOT one nation under god. That was added to our money and our pledge in the 50s by... you guessed it, the religious right. Look it up. It's fact.

And now women are going to continue to die because of the abortion bans because of that fucking maniac's overturning of Roe v Wade. And once he's in office his MAGAtards are going to feel it's open season on all "other" people. Gays, trans, some of whom I call friends. It's going to be the wild west. Redneck ideology will only be rivaled by the christian right, comingled in most cases.

Haven't we had enough racism? Isn't there enough hate already? You guys - the HALF of our country who thought it was a great idea to put this fucking piece of shit back in the white house - are going to see. Yeah, you think he's so funny. "Oh he just says it like it is, says what's on his mind, etc." Oh yes, so presidential. If I want to talk shit with people, I don't go to the white house for it. I want my commander in chief to be presidential. Not a fucking convicted rapist, cheater, misogynist, lying waste of air.

He is going to pardon himself. All he's wanted through this whole thing was to win so he wouldn't go to prison. You'll see. He does NOT CARE ABOUT YOU! All he cares about is Donald Trump. He surrounds himself with sycophants who lick his arsehole and do his bidding. He'll let all the lunatics out that attacked our capitol. Insurgents. People, wake the fuck up! Think about this. All you who consider yourself "patriots," how would you feel if a group of people attacked the capitol when it wasn't your idea? You'd be furious!

I'm not saying Kamala was perfect. And she did the best she could in the short time she had to run. But at least she had solid plans for furthering our people. Her vision was one of unity, safety, equal rights and building the economy where everyone has a fair shot. I've never heard a single detailed policy from that... thing. All he does is wave his hands around and say don't worry, it's going to be great.

WHAT'S GOING TO BE GREAT?!!!!! Explain it to me. Tell me how you're going to do these things? Oh right. Tariffs. The idiot doesn't even know how tariffs work. Tariffs will cost the AMERICAN PEOPLE! If an exporter has to pay more to export their goods to us, then the companies that buy those goods have to pay more, and in turn, we pay that difference. The man is a moron. It's no wonder all his businesses fail and he filed bankruptcy 6 times.

He has no idea how to run a country. He let 100s of thousands of people die with his deplorable handling of COVID. Inject bleach... how fucking stupid can someone be. He inherited a good economy from Obama and fucked it up. And then has the nerve to further hypnotize his cult followers saying his presidency was the best ever. His economy the best ever. Everything the best ever. When the rest of the world knows he was the least popular president - ever. Was the worst president. He's so deluded by his own ego he believes his own lies and then so do his followers.

I'm old. I have a small income. I can't afford to pack up and try and find another country to live in. And believe me, I've been looking into it. But the only way you can live in another country is if you have MONEY. If you can't contribute to society in another country, good luck moving there. But the prospect of living in a Trump dystopia is terrifying.

Let's hope that I'm wrong. I'm really hoping I am.

[melonteee]

What's your opinion on Taz Skylar rumored to be supporting Israel?

I'm not sure if I remember correctly, but you said that you absolutely despised the One Piece live action. But when it comes to Taz, many people; who have opinions similar to yours, still have a liking to the man. I'm wondering if that is true with you as well, or false, and you hate Taz?

Anyways, what do you think about him, and all the Twitter and Instagram posts about this?

I was lukewarm on the cast like, I don't mind them. They seemed fine but I was kinda eh either way with them because?? you know, they're actors, it is what it is.

However, Taz was an absolute fucking moron for that - a moron and a coward. I do not say this lightly, because he called a genocide a 'conflict'. His message about it even included a Sanji line at the end?? Which was so insanely tone deaf and insensitive to the literal humanitarian crisis happening in Gaza.

His stance was insanely neutral, and you cannot be neutral on a genocide. We've seen the stories, the images, the insane cruelty that's happening in Gaza - and it should make anyone sick to their stomach. Hence why such a neutral statement? Without even saying the WORD Palestine? It's spineless. Especially considering Koby's actor, Morgan Davies, has been insanely vocal about his support for Gaza.

The fact of the matter is Palestine people were upset at him for it, Palestine people were desperate to explain the actual situation to him, and instead? He turns around and likes a comment calling the people criticising him 'barbarians'. Imagine being someone from Palestine, who is Palestinian, and an actor you like ignores your pleas to educate and decides you're all just 'haters' instead.

It's crucial we listen to Palestinian people for these matters. This is not petty online drama, this is not the tea of the week, these are thousands upon thousands of families and people being eradicated - no matter the age. At this point in time, we know this for a fact, and being neutral on this genocide is disgusting.

The death toll in Gaza alone, at the time of this post, stands at 27,000 people. More than 10,000 of those were kids.

If you'd like to help Gaza, you can find a donation link on this twitter, Care For Gaza.

[qqueenofhades]

I hate to rain on today’s much needed joy parade, but do you think the USA is headed for civil war in the near future? It’s increasingly feeling like 2024 is going to be a make or break year and with division at an all time high it feels like there’s going to be complete chaos in the streets even if we avoid crisis at the polls. Like, even though I’m in a “safe state” (for now) I’m seriously considering strategies of fleeing the country, just in case. Don’t know what I’m asking for, help? Reassurance maybe? Advice?

I think my answer to that is... yes but also no, and no but also yes, and yes but also no. Which I realize is not entirely helpful and not as clear as anyone would like, but let me try to explain:

The far-right has always been militant, violent, and prone to apocalyptic and fascist rhetoric. This isn't a new thing in American history, and it's come to the fore at moments of particular stress and division. Trump's presidency obviously gave much-unwanted oxygen to them, right when people were starting to claim that Obama's election meant that America was in a "post-racial era" (LOL), but they themselves are not new. We had the Civil War itself, we had the lynchings and racial terror and Jim Crow/Ku Klux Klan era, we had the Bund (the American Nazis) holding huge public gatherings in the run-up to WWII and enjoying substantial domestic support, etc etc etc. This is all scary and unsettling, and most of us don't have a personal memory of dealing with it before, because we're not old enough. But that doesn't mean it hasn't happened before, and that we haven't survived it.

Let's take yesterday, for instance. Trump spent all week promising fire and death and vengeance and playing literal videos of January 6th at his campaign rally in Waco, Texas (famed as the site of the Waco Siege of 1994; look it up). He insisted his supporters would rain vengeance on anyone who dared to arrest him and otherwise threatened mass-scale disturbances and the other tools of public violence that fascists use to enforce their will. And what happened? It's 12+ hours since the first indictment went through (30 counts of business/document fraud, which is not a piddling charge) and we've had bupkis. We've had a lot of Republican politicians tweeting their performative hypocritical outrage, yes, but we haven't suddenly had the country explode in fire and flame either. I'm sure there have been localized protests, but I haven't heard about major anything. And one set of indictments has gone through, others will be empowered to follow. In a way, I think it's a good thing that non-political crimes went first? Yes, the Republicans are screaming about a political witch hunt because that's literally the only thing they can do, but starting by nabbing Trump for relatively low-level (but still extensive) business fraud and then moving onto the treason sets a pattern and makes it easier to comprehend.

The thing is: Nazis, at heart, are cowards. They like to paint themselves as bold and valiant soldiers fighting for the Right Way of Life, but it's all fantasy, delusion, and cosplay. They were empowered to do January 6th because Trump was literally the sitting president and told them to do it, but that's no longer the case, and they're shit scared of facing anyone who might enforce real consequences on them. (Once again, if you take nothing else from following me: Nazis are punk-ass fucking pissant cowards who think they're tough and are in fact a bunch of asshole morons, the end.) The mantra of "Make Racists Afraid Again" is working, to an extent. Yes, we have hellholes like Missouri, Florida, Texas, and Tennessee where the state GOP is working as hard as they can to enforce the worst and most regressive laws imaginable, but that's still not universal. As I also say a lot, the reason Republicans attack, discredit, and outlaw voting so much is because they can never win a fair election on the merits. Their ideas suck, and on some level they know that. They just care about being cruel, fascist, and stupid, and while that's certainly a troubling and significant minority in America, it's not as big as anyone thinks.

Almost 60% of Americans think both that "woke" is a good thing and the cases against Trump should permanently disqualify him from holding any office again. Yet again: the GOP is in the minority, and that's why they use so many dirty tricks to establish and enforce their power. Also, I can guarantee you that not one of the keyboard warriors fulminating about how The Democrat Party Is Being So Mean To President Trump is ever going to actually go out and start an actual civil war. They have established interests, money, benefits from the system, and they don't want to overturn that. They want the masses angry and stupid, yes, but they want them angry and stupid in support of keeping discriminatory structures and systems in place. That can't work if there are no systems at all. Yes, we will still have white supremacists and fascists committing ongoing individual acts of violence, i.e. school shootings, and it's hard to argue that this doesn't constitute a civil war of some sort, or at least ongoing stochastic terrorism. But while you have people like Marge Two Names Greene out there blabbing about a National Divorce, I can guarantee you that if it ever came to actually DOING it, Marge and Brave Brave Sir Kevin would be nowhere to be found. Again: they want to derive power and money from the operation of an unfair system, not the end of that system. It sucks, but still.

Honestly, I want the Dominion lawsuit to keep going on, and dragging all of Fox News' hypocrisy, deception, and disinformation into the public eye. Fox is the biggest cancer on this country, as is the case with Rupert Murdoch's global disinformation empire overall (when, WHEN will HE fucking die, if we're talking death lottery wishlists?) But the lawsuit and its subsequent publicity has had an effect: a small but significant number of Fox viewers (26%) realized the network was lying to them, and 13% said that they no longer believed the 2020 election was stolen after reading about the Fox efforts to lie about it and then cover up their lies. So while the right-wing media bubble is huge and terrible, it's also not impenetrable, and taking Fox down/substantially discrediting it would have a major effect on the pay-for-play misinformation media sphere.

This is getting long, so let me try to sum up: the far-right advocating separatist fantasies of violence/war/fascist domination is not new, and has been a thing in American history for as long as there has been America. But at least in the current moment, it is not the majority, it is not widely popular, it will never be embraced by ordinary mainstream Americans and not just the insane cultists, its so-called devoted soldiers yell on Twitter and cable news and will never once be spotted actually fighting for it, and it's the cynical last gasp of a hate movement that is seeing its institutional and generational hold on America (and the world) finally on the brink of permanently shifting. So of course it's trying to make itself look as big and scary as possible, like any wounded animal, but it's on the back foot, and we have a chance to really kill it. Not permanently or forever, since that's the nature of human history, but at least for now and buy us some more time, and despite everything, I remain cautiously optimistic about our likelihood of doing so. I know it's scary, I know it's awful, I know it feels overwhelming, but it is still not winning, and it won't. As long as we do our part.

Hugs. Hang in there.

[curls-cat]

20 questions for fic writers

tagged by @petrifiedforests

How many works do you have on ao3?

77... damn

What’s your total ao3 word count?

238,425 not bad all things considered. averages out to about 5k/fic

What fandoms do you write for?

Oh geez. A lot. Um. A lot of Sisters Grimm, a fair amount of Witcher Netflix, a LOT of unpublished stuff for Jeeves and Wooster, Psych, MASH, and a lot more that I like. dabble in?

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Unsurpsringly, they're all Witcher fics, since it's the biggest fandom I've written for

place you hand in mine, how long can this last--geralt is cursed to be really touchy-feely at jaskier.

the saint of never getting it right--geralt and jaskier are in a relationship. sort of. they have to talk about pda. it goes. uh. well. it goes.

a garden as fragile as glass--my first witcher fic and probably the only one without a tad title, it's a beauty and the beast retelling

you don't have to say it darling, but i wouldn't mind if you did--oh look this one doesn't have a tad title either! morons to lovers--geralt thinks they're in a relationship but jaskier has no idea

however wide and deep and far my dear--selkie!jaskier au

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

yes! not always very quickly but I try my hardest to at least send a thank you or some heart emojis. i want to make friends I'm just so bad at being timely and also am the most awkward man in the world i am so sorry

What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending

Uh, posted on AO3 is probably The Saint of Never Getting it Right. I wrote it in a fit of post-s2 grumpiness. On ff.net there's almost definitely a bunch of major character death stuff that I wrote as an angsty teeennnn oh WAIT NO THE ANGSTIEST FIC I EVER WROTE WAS A FANFIC FOR PEANUTS WHERE SNOOPY FUCKING DIED. PEANUTS THE COMIC STRIP. (in my defense it was a vent fic i wrote when we put my cat down)

Do you get hate on fics?

Not usually these days but I did get some homophobic comments on some femslash I crossposted on ff.net. i don't go there anymore.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I have... tried. I'm not very good at it.

Do you write crossovers?

No, and I probably won't. I don't quite get the appeal, tbh? I like universe-swap AUs, but I don't really want to play with characters from different universes together.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yeah, actually! Back in ye olde days some people put one of my fics up on Wattpad! I made an account there purely to get them taken down. It happened TWICE.

Have you ever had a fic translated? no! I'd love it if that ever happened, but I don't think I'm quite big enough.

Have you ever co-written a fic before? Not one that's ever been finished, though yes-and headcanoning in chats is my favorite game ever

What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Ah geez. I mean Puckabrina is the cradle that raised me but Geraskier is so dang good, and Redbrina is so much softer than anything else.... Dunno, man. It changes.

What’s a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

My Geraskier roommates AU is a lot of fun, but it's. Huge. I don't know if it'll ever be done.

What are your writing strengths?

Oh I LOVE to write a panic attack thought spiral <3333 it's so good to write a run-on sentence that just keeps going and hurting you

What are your writing weaknesses?

Finishing.... Sitting down and plugging it all in. I miss the days when I could bang out a chapter of a longfic a week.

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I probably wouldn't, because I am a big ol' monolingual and I don't want to throw in a ton of stuff in a language I'm not fluent in. What if someone who does speak the language finds it and sees my high school spanish?

First fandom you wrote for?

The Sisters Grimm! Book series for twelve-year-olds that has remained important to me well into adulthood despite being... uh... of dubious quality. They're still very funny!

Favorite fic you’ve written?

hrm. there's a bit of a recency bias here but i'm very proud of how well i nailed the voices on Friends with (Tax) Benefits

no pressure tagging @witcher-and-his-bard @skeletons-mama @a-kind-of-merry-war

Blank copy/pasta version under the cut

How many works do you have on ao3?

How many works do you have on ao3?

What’s your total ao3 word count?

What fandoms do you write for?

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending

What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Do you get hate on fics?

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Do you write crossovers?

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

What’s your all-time favorite ship?

What’s a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

What are your writing strengths?

What are your writing weaknesses?

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

First fandom you wrote for?

Favorite fic you’ve written?

[blackberrybuds]

Literally nobody is telling you to be overly friendly or polite. All you're being asked is to be respectful and you can't even do that. That's why you're being asked to apologize. Because you don't know how to act around people without causing arguments everywhere you go. You refuse to make amends with the people around you because you're so stubborn and disrespectful. "Moron pills"?? Are you kidding me? How do you expect people to stick up for you when you're throwing around insults as embarrassing as that? Listen I'm sorry if I've offended you in any way but you seriously need to take into consideration how your actions affect others. I'm not trying to come across as your #1 hater or someone who thinks you should kys. Please don't if anything. But in the most respectful way possible, please just take this as constructive criticism and actually reflect on yourself.

respect my dick and also my balls anon

im actually even less sorry than ever and it feels awesome

“how do you expect people to stick up for you” because i think that even if you consider me stubborn or disrespectful it is still rude to tell me to kill myself or tell me i should die in surgery or send lies and vitriol about me to the creator of a show i like mostly? pretty much that is the reason i think

also guess what? i tried being nice lmao! for the majority of this blog’s life and my life in the tetro fandom i was perfectly polite. i tried my best to be friendly and helpful. i went into DMs with a guy who was being incredibly offensive towards me just to try and politely explain why he was being offensive. and guess what happened when i was doing my absolute best to be kind and uncontroversial?

I GOT TOLD TO KILL MYSELF EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY. go fuck yourself anon seriously you know literally nothing about me or my life so stop acting like you have ANY right to give me “constructive criticism”. you dont even have the fucking balls to come off of ANON. you could not live a fucking SECOND in the shitstorm of hate i get from this fucking community. if you think otherwise then own up to the stupid shit you’re saying OFF anon. or are you afraid of getting unwarranted, over-the-top vitriolic backlash? fucking moron

[the-cosmos-withinus]

I have a question. If since you got you or your twin sister or both of you fully aware about European history, you guys have to remember that Europeans during the 1600s, not just the Middle Ages, always liked to persecute other religions. Like, a lot. But in the case of Philip from owl house, he's just another good example of a European from the 1600s, especially as a Puritan. He always liked the idea that humans are truly superior civilizations, or Europeans in general, politically, socially, economically, culturally, and so forth. Also, if you and your twin sister or both of you re-watch the show, you notice that Philip always believed that he's the hero of the entire mankind, even when all of humanity doesn't even matter him at all. He's just as delusional as other Europeans around. And yes, the depiction of Philip being a good guy and a collector, aka a Astrophel though, is just terrible. I'm not criticizing you, but you two have to remember that your depiction of Philip being a hero is equally fundamentally wrong, especially in the show's case. And even during the show's end, when Philip is practically stomp to death by eda, Raine, and King, he's never even given a chance to redeem himself after all of the atrocities and horrific things he's done. So yeah, of course this is a use for fun and entertaining, but don't even try to judge. Consider it as a non canonical. This is basically an alternate universe. And yes, I completely understand it. And yes, this message is not procrastination or asking whatsoever. It's just a regular essay, quotely actually

I was really considering ignoring this or deleting it because I haven't touched this blog in a while and have moved on from the fandom but this ask has been in my head all day because I'm so absolutely baffled by why you felt compelled to send it. "I understand this is an Alternate Universe just for fun and consider it non canon so I'm not judging or criticizing but I'm gonna send you a judgmental ask to remind you that these guys are villains and question your knowledge of history religion and then give you a completely unasked for breakdown of how the characters are SUPPOSED to be- but I know it's an au so I'm not criticizing or being judgmental"

If you know it's an alternate universe. then literally none of what you said matters. At all. Not in the slightest. It's an au. If you actually understood that, you wouldn't be trying to explain canon to me. Its an au.

Further more, it's an au of a cartoon show that is, and I cannot emphasize this enough, primarily set in a fantasy world. Just in general I am not, and absolutely no one else is either, required to do a full ass research project into European history to write an AU that's just for fun. But I'm just going to put it out there I am especially not required to do research when Dana and her team apparently couldn't do research into American history.

Lastly, what blog are you looking at that you think Philip and Astrophel are being depicted heroes?

Shadow Puppets is, and has always been the origin story of how two fucked up little guys came to power. The closest they get to being heroes is usurping rule of the Boiling Isles from a previous dictator that everyone hated, which is something Bragi and I decided to do to make the people of the Boiling Isles not look like fucking morons for trusting Belos. Are you confusing them being the protagonists for them being heroes?? To clarify:

Protagonist ≠ Hero Protagonist = Character the story is about

[alternatememory]

The current state of Pinterest: A rant by me

I didn't want to make this post but I'm really bothered by how bad Pinterest has become as of lately so I want to let my thoughts out here.

Pinterest has fallen off so much over the years and now it's just a shell of its former self. It's actually insulting how it went from being a good platform where people could share their ideas with others to a terrible one ruined by corporate greed where nowadays the users are treated like dogshit by the people in charge.

One thing I've noticed is that I keep receiving violation notices for pins I've saved, those pins being memes and shitposts. Yesterday I got a notice for having a saved pin which contained "graphic violence" even though it was just a meme of someone shooting a Dora The Explorer plush with a gun (I think it was an AK-47). It didn't even contain blood or anything. I've already appealed it and I told them to stop taking the piss. Another time I also got a notice for some anime art I'd saved because it contained "adult content" even though it was actually completely SFW. I've seen this happen to other people as well. Pinterest is definitely using a poorly-programmed AI to take down these pins even though there's nothing wrong with them. Apparently anything mentioning the word "penis" is considered sexually explicit content on Pinterest now.

Another thing that really pisses me off is that a lot of pins have comments disabled for absolutely no reason. Whenever I see an interesting pin and click on it but see the message "Comments are turned off for this pin", I get turned off (pun intended). Jokes aside, I don't understand this at all and it's so fucking annoying. This also happened to me a few months ago, and when I tried to re-enable the comments on the affected pins, I got some stupid ass message saying "Comments are not available for this pin". Asshole design at its finest. Luckily, the comments on those pins have been re-enabled. However, I still have no idea why Pinterest keeps disabling the comments on other people's pins then refusing to let them turn them back on. I thought the point of Pinterest was so that you could express yourself and get inspired.

I also want to talk about the shitload of AI art I've been seeing on the platform lately. Whenever I try to search for something I'm interested in, like anime art, the majority of the results are just AI art. I hate AI anime art. It is ugly as shit and doesn't look good at all to me. You can make better art just by putting actual time and effort into it. However, Pinterest clearly doesn't give a fuck. I come to Pinterest to find actually good art made by humans, not AI-generated bullshit.

There's also way too many ads, and I've also heard from others that they've been seeing ads that blatantly violate Pinterest's community guidelines. Yet, for some reason, Pinterest is too busy removing pins that contain the word "penis" and suspending completely innocent users for no reason to give a shit.

It's sad how much Pinterest has fallen off, and how it got ruined by morons who don't care about the users at all. I don't use Pinterest a lot nowadays because of these flaws. It's just become another platform run by greedy idiots.

Thank you for listening.

[shinra-makonoid]

I read those replies about risks of HRT, and it's interesting how one of those studies says "we actually need to study this more", but that person drew a conclusion that "HRT is definitely causing this".

It is annoying. Cofounding factors are a real tricky bit in regards to studies and that person just... Imagine they can know more of them than researchers.

It's in the notes of this post:

Even I kinda go rough when I say "yeah T raises risk for CVD" considering that, as the study says, trans men are smoking more, exercising less, having more anxiety etc than the general population. And despite the rising risks for CVD, mortality stays the same.

I agree there is still a lot we don't know about HRT, I agree we should research it more. Better yet, design specific meds for us to have that are perfectly attuned to our needs. For example, now I'm at almost a full vial of T every four weeks, (0.9ml out of 1ml, it decreased with my weight), so I don't throw away that much. But at one point I was at 0.5ml every two weeks, meaning I was throwing away half a vial every two weeks, aka a complete vial every month. It was crushing me because there are shortage of those meds and I hate throwing away stuff. Had there been a specific med tailored to specific trans needs, that wouldn't have happened.

But to claim that, because the specific med wasn't approved for, specifically, trans people it means it's dangerous and that we shouldn't use it.... Is just false. We have no evidence of that, we have even less evidence that it would outweigh the benefits. That person is just taking a stance that every med used off label should just have a 30 years cohort of test to decide whether it should be used, independently of whether the people who use it really need it or not. Which, even if it were to happen, would probably not even let pharmaceutical companies take the steps to actually make a med for us because we don't bring them enough money for it.

Doctors are also not usually just morons playing with molecules, they engage their responsibility using those meds and therefore make sure it's used well, they are experts in those domains. In my country at least, if you're not an endocrinologist, a gynecologist or a few other specific specialties dealing with hormones, you can't prescribe HRT. It does mean that yes, blood tests every 6 months are important, but like, if something really bad was happening to my body, we'd know. That's also how we realized that I had a fatty liver, which led me to eat better, which led me to have healthier habits in regards to food. So like... I guess T saved my liver in my case, as it has absolutely 0 symptoms before it's too late (the liver is a stealth bastard).

And again, I could go on and on about antidepressants and antipsychotics. I wouldn't advise anyone to stop them or anything, I think sometimes they outweigh the risks, but I personally had disastrous side effects from antipsychotics (taken to treat depression and anxiety, which is not even for that normally so yeah talk about off label I think that's a bigger issue, but i was at a mental hospital and pressured to take them and all) which led to hypothyroidism and prolactin level issues for me. Those side effects are studied and known to belong to antipsychotics, and little do you know when I stopped (after suffering from massive insomnias and bad feelings, it was a real shit med for me) it vanished.

I don't understand why HRT is the main issue when it's about such a tiny number of people, hasn't shown any bad metabolic side effects (except maybe like raising bad cholesterol but it doesn't mean much, it can still very much be in normal range, i still have normal range for ex), and hasn't had any evidence of shortening lives so far. If it ever changes, then I'll change my opinion, but I really don't think we'll find in ten years that T caused people to die, every expert on the issue argues that it's probably safe.

I think it's saner to argue that, even if you have no issue whatsoever, it's important to exercise, eat well, socialize, and avoid drinking and smoking. That advice is for every single person and it will save lives, way more than stopping T will ever do.

[as8bakwthesage]

What I find hilarious about what Gingers none-sense is that they’re now trying to drag Sunny into this too when like..the man has done nothing but spread literal sunshine. How in the world could people view a-fucking-sunny-coffee in a negative light? I’m so sorry that you and him are being harassed like this.

And as a black person, I’m disgusted that Ginger would pretend you were being racist towards us when that Anya character is LITERALLY white. Like, they’re a black swan. Not black as in the race, fucking morons.

I’m sorry, as his friend I’m just baffled by the audacity of these people.

No, no, I totally get it, trust me!

I like to consider myself a friend of Sunny's myself and I was pissed when I saw he was getting hate anons. Adrian is a lovely fellow and doesn't deserve this when all he was doing was politely saying why he thinks Lily was being racist.

But instead what did she do? Double down.

Ginger, as I'm sure you've been made aware, is not a great person. Furthermore, if she wants to call me racist, I can very easily share the racist shit she said on my private server.

But I'm not gonna do that because while I don't like Ginger, the bigger fish to fry is Lily Orchard. Ultimately, Ginger wants to drag me down into a fight where I'll have my attention on her and not on her shitty ex but I'm not going to do that.

But it is extremely funny to me how Ginger tried to get away with calling me racist when all I have to do is show Anya's character design and WHOOPS