#(also that building looks so fucking cool irl)

[daandyli0n]

y'know. becoming a fan of IRL animatronic pizza places that were popular during the 80s-90s while also having Fnaf as a Special Interest.

well, depending on how you look at it. it's got it's pros and cons

[sockenpuppe]

[xanderisbraindead]

How to get the confidence to dress alternative in public: LONG POST {from a scene king!!}

I hear a lot of young teens online saying things along the lines of, “I would love to dress like that but I’m scared”. We’ve all been there, it takes bravery to step outside the box. Since 2020, there has been an uptick in alternative fashion, which makes things a little better, but it doesn’t mitigate the fear some people feel.

As someone who has been dressing alternative all throughout highschool and who I’d like to think has some 17 year old wisdom, this is how you can get the confidence to dress how you want. This can apply to other alternative fashion types like decora, punk, goth ect ect.

This post goes with a youtube video!! You can just watch it if you dont wanna read

Realize why you’re scared: Is it because you’re afraid of being different or picked on? Are you afraid of change? Do you think your friends/peers won’t care about you anymore? These are all valid reasons, and once you know why, you can start to tackle it. Change isn’t bad, everyone changes, change is natural. Look around at nature, seasons change, we grow and age, animals migrate and go through metamorphosis. You don’t have to be confined to one thing forever just because you weren’t born that way. As for the fear of being picked on, fuck those people. Do you know why people tease others? It’s because they’re insecure. Hurt people hurt people. When people see you being yourself and they wish they could do that, they take it out on you because in their heart, they’re jealous. You’re not the problem, they are. (If you’re afraid of being physically hurt, that is completely different and I would not advise putting your safety in jeopardy)

Start slow. While you’re still building your wardrobe, you can start slowly stepping out with small accessories and such. Add some kandi to your outfit or a tattoo choker. This is mainly to ease yourself into it. Big changes can be pretty scary and jarring, so easing into it can help you.

Have some role models. By this I mean, have people you look up to, people that are inspiration to you. Me? Some of mine here on tumblr are @xx-may4-malic3-xx , @xx-k1tsun3-k1d-xx , @xxdespairfactionashtonxx , @cigsnvalentines to name a few. Theres also some old scene queens, musicians, ect. Find whoever you want. I’m reccomending this, because when you see other people doing the same as you, it makes you go “if they can do it, so can I”. Most people probably wont even mind if you send them an ask about specific things (ik i dont, i love them).

Kinda the same point, but build a community. We have a pretty good community here on tumblr. Community is the backbone to everything. Ideally it would be someone irl, but not everyone is lucky enough to have cool irl friendz.

Fake it till you make it. Nobody has to know you’re scared but you. I’m not saying get super extroverted if you’re introverted and go around exuding confidence like a lazar beam. Dance in your mirror, hype yourself up. Take cool pictures and edit them, even if you don’t post them online. Learn to walk with your head up, again SLOWLY. As you start introducing more alternative elements into your wardrobe, wear them with pride.

Be the change you want to see. What I mean is if you want people to be kinder, you be kinder. Try to compliment someone every day. People actually aren’t as rude as you think, maybe I’m an optimist, but I think the average person isn’t terrible. Complimenting other people also makes you feel good, try it. Piggybacking off this point, don’t take things so personally. I know if can be easier to harp on the negative looks and comments you got versus the good ones, but you have to look past this. There are gonna be bad apples always, but their misdeeds can blind you from the people who think you’re pretty cool. Don’t let one bad apple ruin the bunch.

Lastly, realize being cringe is okay. Not just realize it, but internalize it. What even is cringe? Define cringe… Weird? Different? Everyone is different, everyone is weird about something. As I said earlier, some people are just too scared to be themselves. In 80 years when you’re old and looking back on your life, would you rather regret not being your authentic self, or think of all the fond memories of your life? Regret is one of the worse things in life, it’s terrible. There is nobody you can be but yourself. You’re you, so be you.

Remember that this is something that can take months or years. I feel like this past year and a half I have become fully confident in my fashion. I have been dressing alternative for 5 years for reference. I hope this could help someone.

If I wasnt clear on anything, feel free to send me an ask! Im more than happy to help!!

[olderthannetfic]

Two points re the eternal fixed top/bottom vs. verse discourse, coming from a submissive femme bisexual in a butchfemme relationship who doesn't mind either fixed t/b or verses in fiction.

The first one is that I think people are protesting a bit too much about the possibility of queer relationships being influenced by cishet gender norms. Most of us grew up in contexts where cishet relationships and the roles associated with them are THE default and more or less the only examples of romantic relationships, so it only makes sense that we'd carry that over onto our queer relationships or identify to some extent with the roles society gives us. This does NOT make those sorts of relationships worse or less queer or less progressive, but I feel like we've gotten to a point where people get so defensive as soon as you even hint at being somehow influenced by traditional notions of gender or relationship roles that it's sort of counterproductive. We've had notions of bottoming being feminine for 2000+ years, I pinky swear you didn't unpack all your baggage around that by the time you're 22. And you could unpack it and still decide that you like being an effeminate person who bottoms and leaning into those roles and stereotypes as a form of self-expression and signaling what you expect from a relationship and that's okay too (that's what I do)!

The second point is that, especially in fandom, there are stereotypes and constellations of traits that people associate with tops and bottoms that can feel frustrating because they warp everything around them. It's easier with original fiction because if I don't want to read tall top/twink bottom I can look for something else, and in any case the characters are constructed from scratch to fit those stereotypes. In fanfiction it's annoying when characterization and even appearance are warped to fit the stereotypes: two guys of the same height and build suddenly having a huge size difference that was never there in canon is the ur-example. In one of my fandoms there's a pretty, effeminate twink who bottoms canonically and I'm cool with that, but he's also the most utilitarian dresser in the setting and 95% of the fic makes him fashionable and vain and appearance oriented. That man does NOT have a skincare routine. He washes his face with plain water only and has ten pairs of identical black/grey/navy T-shirt and pants combos. And I don't really care if this is a stereotype that comes from bottoms=women or a stereotype within the queer community (I suspect it's actually because he's blonde and rich in addition to being a twink who bottoms), it's just annoying with how much it warps characterization. You do also sometimes see the opposite, in the sense of people trying to force feminine traits or some reversal on gender roles onto, say, a completely generic masc man to be "progressive", and any criticism of how much his character is warped in the process is labeled as "let men be masculine".

Tl;dr even IRL most people don't fit ALL the stereotypes for their type of queer person, and a lot of complaints come down to how fucking boring it is when you warp all fictional characters into the same basic mold. Fixed T/B is cool just for fuck's sake let them have some personality that doesn't tie into T/B common places.

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[safination]

If You Know, You Know.

Big Four Edition (❤️💙💚💛/ ❤️🦅🏹🐯) + One Extra

|Masterlist| Characters: Adam, Vox, Alastor, Lucifer, Charlie, Vaggie. x Reader (Separate) TLDR: Dates around the area with them A/N: Welcome to my dumpster of a mind, where I try to place our beloved Hazbin characters into four to five categories. Will I be explaining any of them? Probably not. Listen, if you know, then you already know. Also, I can't believe I'm falling into this stage as a creator in a fandom. You can take me out of my roots, but you cannot take my roots out of me. Fuck me, honestly. This is the most self-indulgent shit, ever. If anyone irl found out who I am, I would die. Like literally die. Please don't come for me. Yes, this is 100% playing into stereotypes, but it's all in good fun. Nothing I write here says anything about you as a person or a large body of people. Plss lang. Sige an po This is all in good fun, I promise T_T

Adam — 🏹

Come on, this is an easy one. This thing is practically writing himself. Adam would 100% be here. Hatid-Sundo si baby boy by kuya Drivers niya. I can imagine Adam doing such an obnoxious laugh and then going, "Ay, gagi!" ( plus points for the elitism and the momol in hidden spots. I've seen yourFreedomWall)

Adam would walk you around the buildings, especially if you can't go inside. Why is it so hard to sneak inside? He would constantly take you to that one really good burrito and taco place (If you know it, then you know.), and would go to the Power Mac to buy stuff for you because why not.

Vox — ❤️

Hear me out a little. This is Vox we're talking about. So, despite being the type who belongs in the 🦅, at the end of the day, this is still Vox. This holds true considering that . . . uh . . . debate (?) surrounding those who should be accepted into ❤️. While Vox could go with the 🦅, he would snatch up a spot in ❤️. (But like, this is isn't his fault. It really is the fault of the system in place, and we're all proud of Vox because it is a big honor to be here.) Like Adam, Vox would be Hatid-Sundo, and would hang out in UP Town most of the time.

Dates would Vox would include going to Gino's or Nono's or cracking open the books at Tyler's. It would take forever to get anywhere with him because he refuses to walk anywhere, and would either always be driven there or would book a Grab. Plus point for traffic, but you get to bond and talk with him during the traffic.

Alastor — 🏹

He doesn't like being an 🏹 despite majority of the people being really chill and cool. But it's most likely because he bumps into Adam. He's practically crawling up the wall. He sees the life of those in 🏹 and gets really confused at how they act. He rants to Rosie (who would be in the all girl's club) about it all the time. Unlike Adam, Alastor will hop off at Vito Cruz.

Dates around the bay area and MOA, honestly. He would make you listen to his radio broadcast that I do know they have. All four have their own organization. Alastor would take you to Star City, and would insist on walking there because it's walking distance daw, and tricycles are low key a scam there.

(Again, please, don't come for me. 🏹's are mostly chill but come on. You can't deny it. I've seen what the streets look like. I've seen the Power Mac. The aircons.True 🏹 would find it funny.)

Lucifer — ❤️

I don't need to explain why Lucifer would be here. Let's be fr. I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

But unlike Vox, Lucifer would take long walks with you around the oval and the Sunken Garden. Fuck it, I'm even bold enough to say that he would join the run club there if you were into that type of thing. You would eat fishballs and kikiam. There would be no kwek-kwek or balut tho. When you get tired, you and Lucifer would sit by the fountain with the Statue™. Lucifer would take jeepnys with you to get around. If you don't go there, majority of date time would be spent trying to find you a restroom to use.

Charlie — 🐯

I debated placing Charlier either with the maroons or the tigers, but ultimately decided that it would be nice for Charlie to be with the tigers. I don't know how to explain it. It just makes sense to me. Charlie would always have an umbrella with her because rain or shine or terrible rain, she would go.

Charlie will take you to paskuhan at the soccer field to see all the lights and the concert. The food dates around that area would go hard. Like seriously, damn. Charlie would constantly take you to Lover's Lane, and explain all the history of the buildings.

Vaggie — 💙💛/ All Girls

This post is supposed to feature, "the big four" but I don't care. I can do what I want. It's fitting that Vaggie would be somewhere where it's all girl. (That recently started accepting boys too. So that's nice.)

Dates with Vaggie would involve CBTL, but in Regis Center instead of UP Town. Sometimes, you would cross over to ❤️to find something to eat. Tricycle rides to get around, and Siomai would be such a constant in your dates.

[s4ggygr4ndma]

How do the nerds react to you spilling brainrot to annoy them?

(Not requested!) This doesn’t fit their timeline but I just did this for the funnies

Earnest Jones

- Earnest would think it’s funny for the first time, letting out a chuckle or two.

- Wouldn’t even know that you’re annoying him for the first few minutes. He basically thinks you’re just informing him about a new slang that was made by another internet user.

- He would be the type of person to use them without even knowing the meaning, just because it’s funny.

- He got beaten up by one of the jocks for telling them they had a level 0 gyatt

- But if you do it more, such as using them in serious conversations or OFTEN, it will piss him off little by little. He might even tell you off a bit for using it a lot.

- It’s annoying for him to the point he wanted to bang his head on the wall until it’s over, at this point he’d jump off a building if it makes you stop all this nonsense. He basically feels like he’s stuck in an asylum with a broken record repeating the bad parts of a song.

- “Skibidi-“ “Shut up PLEASE.”

- Begged to the Gods to just end it for him if you keep going with the brainrot. Expect getting beat up with a yard stick.

Melvin O’Connor(MY SHAYLAAAAAA)

- Honestly he does NOT know what to think of it. Like Earnest, he thinks it sounds funny. But poor guy is just confused.

- He would ask you what they meant because he thought you were casting a spell on him. If you ever did tell him the meaning he’d stand there clueless.

- “Fair maiden/lad , what does this.. Sigma mean?

- He is still confused. But if you keep it up by putting it in your conversations with Melvin, he’s gonna get a bit annoyed but he will not point it out because he thinks you’re just making some funny jokes to make him laugh.

- But what REALLY draws the line if you annoy him too much with the brainrot slang is when you put it in his beloved Grottos and Gremlins. He does not play when it comes to his beloved GNG. He will tell you that it’s not funny but obnoxious and wants you to stop.

- “Shut up before I shove my D20 up your NOSE!”

- If you’re good friends with him, expect silent treatment for maybe an hour or a few days. What’s better though if you apologize to him or give him some G&G cards(maybe some cool looking dices)

Algernon Papadopoulos

- You think you can annoy this guy? Fuck no, he annoys YOU. He is already annoying asf in the game but if you met this guy irl he’d be more annoying than he is in general.

- You two would fight over who could spill out more brainrot than the other person. Algie might win because his whole mindset is basically what the definition of an ipad kid is. But in the end you’d both get yelled at by Earnest to shut up and stop with the brainrot.

- But in all seriousness, he’d call you stupid or a poo poo head for spilling out brainrot for hours on end to annoy him which would cause a whole fight between you two.

- He also knew about the slang. I feel like he’d watch youtube shorts daily without getting bored of it while laughing to the most dumbest jokes ever that are in the videos, basically cartman 2.0. He also thinks the word sigma is cool and uses it to describe himself.

- He would join you to annoy others with the brainrot which you both definitely did not get beat up for, but otherwise you two might be the most annoying duo ever.

Fatty Johnson

- He’d find it annoying and stupid at the same time.

- Honestly, he would join in with you and Algie spewing out brainrot to annoy others and maybe because he thinks it’s funny. He has the most random humor out of the group.

- But if you ever annoy him with the brainrot, expect getting hit by him so you could shut up, either that or he walks off. Hopefully you get the second option because otherwise you’d be in the ground seeing the heavens and you would wake up in the nurses office with an icepack against your eye.

- He would tell you to knock it off if it did annoy him.

- in all honesty he looks like the type of guy to spit out brainrot because he thinks it’s funny to annoy others and the way they sound. He also thinks he’s a sigma.

Bucky Pasteur

- He’s just as confused as Melvin is, he doesn’t really know what to think of it. I don’t even think he gives a damn about the new “slang”

- He just finds it annoying and a bit childish if he could think himself but of course the nerds are also annoying asf so he just accepts it

- Honestly he will just ignore you or tell you to stop with the obnoxious and confusing words. He would also bribe you that he could do your math homework for free if you stop.

- “Hey Bucky, you know how sigma-“

- “Please stop.”

- Expect to be beaten with a yard stick if you don’t stop.

- Butttt he might join in annoying people.

Thad Carlson

- Is confused too, but finds it stupid.

- Two words: Yard. Stick.

- I honestly don’t even know what to say for this poor guy he just thinks it’s annoying and finds it stupid that it makes him want to hit you.

- Will either ask you what it meant but honestly I feel like he knows a few of them.

- Keep it up and expect to be beaten up with his beloved yard stick, but the other thing is that he’ll walk away without giving a single shit.

- He’d give you odd looks too.

Beatrice Trudeau

- The first time she heard it, she felt so bad that she just had to keep listening and nodding her head while trying to study. It’s like talking about something you’re interested in to your mom, just nodding with small responses or hums without even knowing what you were saying.

- She feels sorry for your brain but doesn’t have the heart to tell you that

- Poor girl is confused like Melvin and Bucky, but she doesn’t wanna start stuff. She just wants to go on with her life and just chill.

- “oh.. That’s nice.” (She says while reading a whole book without even focusing on the reader)

- If you do annoy her, she’ll ask you to stop or leave the room whenever she has the chance. She also gives you an odd look

Donald Anderson

- Honestly he doesn’t know what to think of it and is confused, he just giggles because he doesn’t know what to say or to do.

- He also might ask what the words mean because he’s curious and could maybe join in.

- Let’s just say, it does annoy him but he will do nothing but shoot you with a spud gun until you shut up.

- He’s just living his life and letting it go I guess

- “Skibidi”

- “Skibidi” if you manage to brainrot him with Algie and Fatty on your side

Cornelius Johnson

- Honestly Cornelius would know A LOT and won’t use them in general because he just founds it odd.

- Use it on him and he MIGHT, well, a slim chance of joining you, Fatty, and Algie. This could basically kill Earnest at this point or make him go insane to the point he’s sent to the asylum.

- But Cornelius would just nod in response but if he was ever annoyed with the brainrot he just awkwardly walks away in silence before running off.

- He just thinks you’re a bit weird.

- He does not wanna deal with your bullshit at all and so do the others.

(Finished this at 2 AM (swag))

[drdemonprince]

Hi, I am a person with a bit of a reputation in my irl community of pervert transsexuals, and like, I often feel like I absolutely fail to live up to that reputation. I'm very physically identifiable and have thrown events and had my porn screened places (among other things I'll exclude as to not make myself any more identifiable) so like there's this mismatch where it feels like I'm widely (among this community) known by people, a lot of them who I don't really know. And so, frequently I'll get into conversations with ppl who know me from various things and they seem to be surprised if I'm not this very wild and crazy and experienced and kinky person. I'm just very public with those parts of myself when they do show up. I almost feel like I'm disappointing ppl when I'm lower energy or less wild or don't have any escapades to divulge. Sometimes I feel like I have to watch ppl in real time reconcile their imagined me with the awkward, quiet, and boring person in front of them. I just feel trapped in a lot of ways! Do you have any relevant experience or thoughts that might help my perspective or attitude shift?

I have a lot of thoughts about this as a person who also has a reputation.

It sounds to me like other people are objectifying you, and projecting their desires onto you in ways that are uncomfortable and exhausting. They are crafting an unrealistic fantasy of who you must be all of the time, and what being a sexually adventurous person must look like, and so it is GOOD FOR YOU TO DISAPPOINT THEM. You shouldn't try to live up to their fantasies. You should be yourself and disabuse them of the notion that only effortlessly cool, outgoing, wild, unrestrained people ever get to have fulfilling sex, or that having fun sex carries over into how someone acts and lives all of the time.

The folks approaching you in this way also need to learn that other people (including other sexually active people) do not exist to titillate them or entertain them. Your sexually adventurous side is a GIFT that you choose to give to people when they have earned it and made you feel comfortable enough to unleash it. You do not owe that side to anyone.

Having great kinky sex is a TON of fucking WORK -- vetting, rapport building, self-exploration, communication, gear collecting, location scouting, and more. It makes sense you can't be the person in your porn videos all the time. Nobody is. I'm certainly not the guy who wrote Unmasking Autism every day. I was that guy for a period of a few months in the winter-spring of 2021, for about five hours per day, in a locked brick room filled with coffee cups and egg sandwiches. The rest of the time I'm just some idiot trying to pick up some LaCroix at the store or whatever. It's weird for people to expect me to be some sage, patient, insightful person all the time just because I wrote a book that has some of those qualities, and it's weird for people to expect you to be an entertaining sexpot all the time just because you made a porn.

Be fucking boring. Let a conversation trail off. Be shy. If anything, you can take pride in being a complete, complex human being, not someone else's overly heightened jerk-off material. Let them be disappointed, it's a lesson they need to internalize.

[pouzzzy]

gay shadowheart things (aka things i feel gay about re: shart)

((i know this discourse has mostly passed but to add to the recent stats saying she's the most romanced companion, and people mostly attributing that to straight dudes instead of horrendously down bad bi babes like me, i wanted to write this out))

her cheeks are ever-so-slightly chubby. like she has very soft cheeks. very good for kisses.

the religious trauma.....yeah me too girl, me too

fellow mixed-race girlypop. let's commiserate. you're so right babe nobody else gets it. even if this is just the fantasy mixed-race and you're still technically a white girl.

on that note...the fact that in act 3, she sleeps next to jaheira. older half-elf woman, mother wound healing, i can imagine their late night talks and it makes me want to join in.

obviously the similarities b/w her and her voice actress 👌

she is so clever. like god she is so clever. she needs someone who can riff with her 24/7.

granted she's also a lil stoopid and naive but aren't we all, at the tender age of 40

the build up in her romance...ugh it feels so cozy to me. it feels like home. i love that it doesn't happen right away, you need to slowly open up to each other before anything happens. the immense amount of trust that's needed to make anything happen is incredibly relatable

her fucking hair change regardless of what path she takes, like that's the gayest shit??? takes me back to getting bathroom haircuts from my crusty friends in college

her butt.

she's lowkey incredibly awkward, she'll try to be so cool about things but more often than not it'll have me looking at her like "girl who raised you"

her name is so pretty. jenevelle! wow. wow <3

will end by saying i am still so awkward about dating women and am working on being more confident about it, and there was something so affirming in that regard about shart's romance. unlike other games, it didn't require me to be uber sexed-up and raring to go for prettie ladie, it let me do things at my own pace for someone who'd be my type irl too.

so yeah i love shart, god's favorite bi princess, in a very bi way, and i represent the part of that statistic who isn't just an annoyingly online gamer dude who's always going on and on about goth women 🤙

[katsaidso]

I STILL NEED TO FINISH SEASON 8 luckily I found a google drive with all the episodes so I can finish the show BUT

VOLTRON THOUGHTS!!!!

-I don’t think I actually watched the show the first time I watched it cause everything was new to me except for the stuff that was in the AvoRabo reaction videos+I didn’t even finish the show the first time around

-I yearned for more of the characters themselves the entire show. There were so many times where I just felt like I didn’t care about the plot and wanted to see the characters actually interact.

-I wish we got more Hunk dialogue that wasn’t fat jokes. I really would’ve cared about him more in the show itself if it wasn’t for that

-I miss my wife tails (Pidge)

-Ngl I did not care for most of what we saw of Keith and Shiros backstories and arcs and stuff because I didn’t care about them as characters. They were all plot and no personality most of the show. I couldn’t even name a hobby they have even if I tried really hard

-I have a headcanon that Lance got a buzz cut before he went to the garrison and he had been trying to grow his hair back out since which is why it looks like that.

-Honestly I think the Klance art is cute and I see the vision. But it’s not my thing. Honestly, I dig Plance (this may be biased because I initially got into VLD because of a friend who shipped Plance and Ngl I’d rather ship Pidge with myself I love Pidge) and Heith more

-Pidge is hot I love Pidge

-I see Pidge as nonbinary but I respect the people who hc them as a trans guy or even a trans girl I think that’s cool as hell. I’m just nonbinary so I’m somewhat projecting.

-Lance is so bisexual I like to think Pidge was like how he realized he was bi. But also because I’m not totally against Klance, I like to think he didn’t think he could possibly like guys and so his crushes on guys kind of like manifested as insecurity and jealousy and that’s what was going on with him and Keith.

-I wish Hunk and Keith would’ve interacted more

-I like Punk as besties they’re so best friends

-hc that Punk is actually punk

-I’ve only watched the first episode of season 8 but I feel like Pidge is getting done so dirty

-the callback to the old Voltron is cool but I kind of hated the way they did it

-Why did I care more about Sven getting hurt in the alternate reality episode than I did for most of Keith’s backstory stuff

-I heart Allura so much omg there was one episode where she fucking threw Shiro through that door and I was like WOAAAAHHHH

-They did her so dirty towards the end of the show and Allurances development had nearly no build up. I don’t hate Allurance but it’s just :|

-I like how Pidge is thought of as a voice of reason but they’re not. Girl snuck into a government facility with a new identity and had got into their systems multiple times before. They are insane in the best way I love them

-I cut my hair because of Pidge I’m ngl with you guys they’re so gender

-Pidge Holtttt

-I wish we got to know why Matt nicknamed Pidge that. Like where did that come from. Like I know the real reason is because the original shows but like I mean in universe.

-guys I’m literally Pidge Holt I’m also Italian

-I wish Romelle was an actual character

-Veronica is hot

-Pidge Holt looks somewhat similar to my irl partner fun fact

-I love Pidge and Matt’s dynamic they’re so cutie patootie :(((

-this might just devolve into me obsessing over Pidge

-GARFLE WARFLE SNICK 🔥🔥🔥🔥

-I loved how silly the Galran team was in that episode

-I loved seeing Zarkon and Honerva in their backstory they were kind of cutie patootie

-I also loved Monsters and Mana

-I also loved Lotors generals but I wish Zethrid had more dialogue other than “punch stuff >:(“

-I can’t believe I didn’t appreciate Coran before. I love him, he’s so silly.

-I think too many people simplify Pidge to smol gremlin and I hate it.

-Some of the outfits I see people put Keith and Lance in are so not them. Keith is NOT going to wear an eboy outfit

-I hate the way they did Keith becoming the black paladin I’m sorry

-some of the battles were such bullshit I’m sorry like I know it’d be boring if Voltron was literally invincible to everything but it’s supposed to be the most powerful weapon??? A lot of battles were really boring too.

-also why is there ALWAYS something like we couldn’t even have a nice Pidge and Matt reunion they got interrupted by that one guy.

-Honestly I was never fully convinced on the bond they told us the paladins had. I feel like I didn’t see enough to fully believe they were like a team and friends like that

-Tbh I never cared about Keith and Shiro as much as I think I was supposed to.

-I hated how 90% of Lances interaction with Pidge was just them saying something sciency and him going “wtf r u saying” THEY WENT TO THE SAME SCHOOL HE SHOULD KNOW SOMETHINGGG IDC IF THEY WERE FOCUSING ON DIFFERENT THINGS LET HIM BE SMART MORE

-I love how the Paladins gradually started using Altean/Space time measurements I think that’s a cool immersive detail to bring home the point that they’re not on Earth and they’re dealing with Alien civilizations and stuff

-what was the deal with the pure yellow eyes, the Balmerans have them, the lions have them, the Galra has them, is there any significance to them???

-I’m not normal about Pidge guys

[ultrakill-confessions]

rubs hands evilly. well hello there I Dont Kmow Jow To Make A Robot Anon. i imagine vseriesgroup har to be a project funded by the goverment, since. there had to be a LOT of fundingfor something like this, and well everyone needs to have new fucked up weapons when theres war out there, right.

step 1: BRIANSTORM VIOLENTLY. BOTH HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE. the hardware is nothing like ever existed before, but the software could jave been based off an already existing machine. NOTE THAT V1S PLATING IS EXPERIMENTAL, that had to be a HUGE risk, a huge step. NOTE STYLE POINTS - ARE THEY IN-BUILT, OR DID V1 ADOPT THEM LATER?

step 2: building. you can do wahtever here, but generally building things like this you have to reimahine and rebrainstorm things jn the middle of development, because you simply DONT catch all the vulnerable parts in the og design. irl you would build software and hardware seperately, but i assume that with machines this complicared and selfaware, THAT would be like trying to sculpt a human body and its nervous system independently to each other. i personally imagine that v1s software isnt just its "personality", but also things like firmware (through which it can control its body lmao) and an assesment of analysis and testing utils, as well as memory and reward centers. also, mind that v1 isnt purely mechanical - it BLEEDS, there has to be viscera and gore inside of its cute little chassis, and you cannot just... turn biological components off, can you........ so uh yeahlmao idk i think it was prolly conscious a lot of time it was worked on

step 3: learning and testing!!! listen you cannot have a personality without softcomputing. and you cannot have softcomputing without machine learning. look into irl machine learning its SO FUCKING COOL I PROMISE. anyways yeah theres no way a mqchine as complex as v1 can be hardcoded all the way to use all those weapons. load 826 hours of people fighting into its memory slot. let it lay catatonic plugged in for a day or two sorting through the data. put it into an arena. see it put the kmowledge to use, test for itself what its body can do, calibrate and better itselt in real time, right in front of you, going from clumsy to terrifyingly effective in less than a hour. im going to SOB i am SO jealous of the vseries creators. PUNVHES THE WALL. amyways yeah think about all the things a war machine is made for, and test them, and fix them if theres anything wrong. agaim, look into irl machine learning, into the way they use purely virtual "rewards" and "punishments" to make machines figure shit in their own. MIND THAT THIS IS A VERY EXPENSIVE PROCESS AND WHORVER FUNDS IT WILL NEED TO BE SHOWN THE RESULTS OCASSIONALLY, which wwill be extremely stressful for the team lmaooo. your sponsors barely fimd intersting the same things as you, the actual maker, does, you gotta throw a bit of a show arond it.

......... m .. might have gone overboard with this ask slightly. oh well! ..,, mind that im a compsci bachelor, not a robotics one, so the hardware part might be fucked slightly. tips hat.goodmight ily AND good luck writing that thang i hope i Was Uswful. 🦚

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[transfemme-shelterdog]

being called a transmisogynist for saying “hey this person is intersexist and kind of a dickhead to transmascs” because the person I’m saying hey that isn’t cool about just so happens to be a trans woman and people insists there’s some ulterior motive. But then if a trans woman suggests that someone is transmisogynistic even on accident it’s all “oh it’s them TMEs at it again, TMRA, truly the men of the trans community,” like immediately.

It’s a very strange comparison but it reminds me a lot of how when a (cis) woman is outed as abusive everyone questions it until they’re blue in the face (even when there’s concrete evidence that should dispel this nuance on the table) but then when it’s a man who does it there’s no questions asked, people going “oh it’s in his nature as a man.”

Idk I wish there was more unity among trans people. I wish I didn’t have to feel like I was walking on eggshells on a 24/7 basis. I wish I didn’t have to feel like I was Betraying The Sisterhood for “choosing” the wrong type of trans. I almost cannot avoid these attitudes or these rhetorics when I’m online and I feel like I’m doomscrolling constantly when I just want to see trans joy.

I know that realistically there’s people who don’t know about this discourse and it’s an insular circle and there are good honest people that would have no questions or debates if you mention transmascs facing transphobia, they’d just nod and agree. There’s transfemmes who would rightfully take you sharing your own experiences as a moment of building connection and solidarity in shared situations rather than how insular discourse people would take it as “speaking over”.

But the loudest, the cruelest, the meanest, dominate this platform and make the discourse (especially in its most extreme forms) look like it’s far more widespread and harmful ideas like transandrophobia/transmisogyny are more commonplace. It’s the phenomenon of focussing on the bad so all you see is the bad, so all people post about is the bad. That is not to say there aren’t dickheads and jerks out there — but it’s so hard to remind yourself of what good is in a community when everyone is so focussed on the discourse.

These discussions are important but I genuinely don’t think Tumblr is a good or smart place to do it especially after the marekane incident which was fucking insane to witness. People genuinely lack literacy and 90% of their vocabulary is buzzwords and they’d rather immediately play mental gymnastics and move goalposts than engage in an actual discussion and build solidarity. I genuinely think everyone would agree much more with each other’s points if they weren’t too busy waiting for who’s gonna fire the allegorical buzzword and accusation bullet first. If you isolate these discussions outside of the internet and the internet’s tendency to fall into echo chambers and/or if you even practice good ol’ code switching you’ll find so many more people would agree with the core point of your intent and ideas even if the terms you personally use to describe it make them balk.

Anyways. “Transandrophobia as a word doesn’t deserve to exist,” with that logic transmisogyny as a word shouldn’t exist and we should all go back to the tried and true just-calling-it-transphobia because then this arbitrary discourse about who is/isn’t oppressed and who deserves/doesn’t deserve it more or whatever the fuck wouldn’t be happening.

hope I. articulated this right I am so tired.

Yeah Tingler is an absolute dogshit platform for actual discussion, as is most online platforms. It's partially why I prefer talking to people, face to face, as it's a lot easier to have actual discussions.

I also feel like most trans people IRL don't act like this, and do acknowledge that transmascs are faced with unique oppression, unlike a lot of transfems here who are determined to bury their heads in the sand and claim that trans men/mascs have it so easy

[half-a-brain-cell]

Obx season 4 thoughts 🫰🏻

Let me talk about JJPOPE first

- Jjpope building shit together and jj saying i love u pope will always get me

- Pope saying they need to get more for the amulet and john b saying youve been hanging out with jj too much where IS that post saying they bring out the worst in each other

- Jj saying "i love you pope just say it back" istg jjpope everywhere for those with the eyes to see

- Pope tackling the cop bc he is afraid he is going to shoot jj I AM LITERALLY CRYING they are going to jail for each other

- "what about pope huh he just threw his whole life away for you" ugh ugh ugh and jj saying "my life is already over in the first place"

- Jj punching rafe and everyone going what the fuck and then pope saying "if he wasn't gonna do it i was gonna do it".... Chaos boyfriends forever

- Jj telling pope he shouldve let the cops shoot him bye

- Someone on twitter said jj dies in popes shirt i haven't known peace since

- Pope telling jj "let me protect you for once" i am crying actual tears AND THAT LOOK THEY EXCHANGE BEFORE THEY SEPARATE I FELL TO MY KNEES AND THAT IS THE LAST TIME THEY EVER SEE EACH OTHER ARE YOU KIDDING ME

Speaking of that terrible storyline

- I never cared about the alleged cast drama bc those are real people and their personal lives are none of my business but it is so sad that (apparently) jiara is such a sad ship (like jjpope is NAWT canon and they get much cuter moments) and jj is dead bc of it

Speaking of JJ

- it absolutely breaks my fucking heart to see him even more reckless, to see him drinking, to see him slipping away from everyone, to see him telling john b he will be a shit dad???? And then he saves sarah and he gets better and then HE DIES after saying "I already have everything i ever wanted" even though Groff already has the crown????

Speaking of Groff

- most unlikeable character to date (and there are so many lol, I am looking at u Ruthie), can't believe they gave JJ two shitty dads

- Luke can also rot in hell and his brief "redemption arc" was utter bullshit, so he loved Larissa and her baby but he went on to abuse that child???

Speaking of redemption arcs

- they should've cast someone less hot and less talented as rafe bc why the hell is his evil ass getting a redemption arc? Get him therapy instead!! The only good thing he ever did was throw groff into that well

- the milf hitting on him was funny tho

- i am also screaming at the scene where sofia overhears rafe saying shit like i am not living with a pogue i have standards that is like every fanfiction everrrrr

- last but not least why is he so ORANGE

My favorite quotes bc sometimes obx is still the silly little boat show it was supposed to be

- "AI has come a long way" JJ i am cryinggg

- barry saying "idk why i need that cool shit when i'm in the middle of tuna season" KING

- "i got a phd in thiefology" LMAO

- not a quote but Shoupe interrogating them is so silly that is peak pogue behaviour

Speaking of our silly little boat show

- Once again i love jj and john b they are BROTHERS

- I get so emotional watching this idek but john b really is their stupid dad which makes Sarah their mum that being said i HATE the pregnancy trope esp when she said she didn't want kids

- i do love Jarah tho, you wouldn't believe they are exes irl, like Kiara's being beaten uncounscious by groff, jj is locked in his familys mausoleum, pope is on the run and John b and Sarah are like 🩷let's get married🩷 REAL LOVERS

- Sorry but the boss of the bad guys having such an intense english accent is so fucking funny to me what do you mean INNIT you're in north carolina

- gentrification is a huge and REAL topic and ngl i was actually crying when these greedy kooks took poguelandia away from them

Idk man, in conclusion, they had poguelandia and they could've all been happy and i will never get over this 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

[insufferableprotagonistpoll]

Round 1

Propaganda why Robin is insufferable:

"Annoying control freak"

"his mere existence is a vile mockery of the real Robin. Why do they always have to ruin everything by reducing the characters by the jokes they can make against them?"

"Not even because it’s a far cry from how Robin is actually characterized in the comics or the OG cartoon, but his exaggerated impulsive and controlling personality is really hard to watch most of the time.

If you do compare it to his original iteration, it’s just insulting, but not even taking that into account, I don’t understand why anyone can stand to watch a show for fun with a main character like that? Lol"

Propaganda why Stuart Little is insufferable:

"Bad vibes"

"Even from his first ever appearance he was insufferable. I remember when I was a child my mum took me to a carboot sale, trinkets, clothes, games, dvds galore. It was a lovely day. On one stall we stopped and decided to take a closer look at their goods.. My mum decided to buy the stuart little box set containing the entire trilogy inside. this would change my life forever. Now, you may thinking ‘what is so bad about Stuart little?’ Well I’m just about to tell you. First of all his appearance. He’s got that little submissive twinky build with a stupid smug little smirk on his stupid little mouse face (ALSO WHY IS HE A MOUSE AND NOT A RAT? RATS ARE SO MUCH BETTER) I can’t even sexualise him or call him a tumblr sexy man bc he’s a minor and an orphan minor at that (embarrassing) which brings me into my next point. The whole adoption scene??? Just screams??? Entitled??? Like imagine you are an orphan and you are super excited to get adopted you put on your best orphan outfit and orphan smile and then the family come in (eccentric but also very nice) and they take a look at you and you smile and think ‘wow this is my moment to be adopted!’. Then they say to the head of the orphanage ‘yeah I’ll take the rat.’ I DONT KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT THAT WOULD PISS ME THE HELL OFF AND GIVE ME TRUST ISSUES AND RELATIONSHIP ISSUES AND SELF ESTEEM USSUES AND ISSUES WITH ISSUES. Then this smug little twink rat just walks out with a family??? My mind would say??? This bitch??? Anyways now that that is outta the way can we talk abt the gay little saying the family has. ‘Little high little hey little low’ so so gay like I’ve had lesbian sex and that is probably gayer than that. Infect you know what?? Maybe the littles adopting stuart did the poor orphans a favour. Like it’s kinda like if two sexual deviants dated bc at least it keeps them off the streets. You know what this now a little family hate account. They also have another saying that ‘anyone can find the little house if they are a little from anywhere’ I think they should find a gun and let it go off but ig uts not as cool. I wanna go on for longer bc idk id this is too cringe"

"he got stuck in a washing machine once and also i imagine they would smell pretty badly irl and also im racist towards white mice and also i dont like him. He should have died and drowned in the washing machine."

"stupid fucking rodent he can actually go die i hate his stupid voice i just wanna step on him"

"hate this stupid mouse want to put him in a mouse trap"

[sneezypeasy]

*sigh*

Y'know, this really doesn't/shouldn't matter, but as this particular accusation keeps getting thrown at me over and over again - oh fuck it, I'm gonna take the bait this one time and set the record straight once and for all. Honestly my "appetite" in this context is truly not anyone's business (and if you don't care to hear about it this is the one warning you'll get to click away lmao) but I've reached the point where if you really wanna attack my credibility based on who you think I enjoy fantasizing about, I'm gonna throw you a bone and tell you exactly what type that is - cuz as much as I'm sick of the ad hominem attacks the Aussie in me is even more sick of watching them miss so fucking hard. If you're gonna roast me, the least you can do is hit me where it hurts, goddamn it. Get it right or go home you uncooked noodles. Capiche?

When it comes to my taste in men, my "type" is: big, strong, hairy brutes. There, I said it. Give me lumberjacks, give me cavemen, I want my Jason Momoas, I want my Ma Dong-Seoks, I want them broad shoulders and tree-trunk calves and I wanna see those muscles bulge. If a fictional character ever gets me biting my lip at the screen, it's never gonna be a fine-featured pretty boy, it's gonna be a good thick daddy who can take my wrists, pin me against a wall and [--------------------------------‐---sustained bleep sound effect---------------------------------]

1:38-1:51 🤣

Personality wise, I'm a basic bitch who has approximately zero defenses for the "jerk with a heart of gold" stereotype. Gets me every time, without fail. The smooth-talking playboy who flirts with everyone and who could bed anyone he wanted, but who only lets you see him at his deepest, dearest, most vulnerable moments? Sorry, am I supposed to not fall for that shit or something? Well frankly I don't understand how and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If he happens to be built like a fortress on top of that? Yeah, I'm done. Have me bathed and brought to your tent, sir, please and thank you.

I admit, it's rare that a character with the physique I like also has that heartbreaker personality I'm a sucker for. Guys in fiction are usually strong and mean or they make up for their lighter frames with silver tongues and barbed promises - rarely do writers create a character who's stacked with both brains and brawn, so to speak. Makes sense though, as while irl people can max out any combination of stats that they put effort towards - in fiction a character who's too good at too many different attributes can come across unbalanced or Gary Stu-ish and will fail to resonate with audiences unless the writer really knows what they're doing.

That being said, there really isn't any character in ATLA who fits my type - either of them, actually. There are some bit characters like Chit Sang who get close in terms of physical build - but Chit Sang has very gaunt, angular facial features that I'm really not a fan of and tbh, while I get that I can't expect all my big buff boys to also be masters of wit and cunning and charm, being dumber than a box of rocks does seal it for me, sorry. In terms of personality, I guess the closest character would be Jet, and he's cool and all but yeah, the whole "would go as far as killing kids" thing makes him a bit of a hard sell for me too. (And yes, it's worth questioning the writers' choices to create him with those flaws to begin with but look, that's a discussion for another day 😂)

All this to say, if you wanna tease me about coveting fictional characters and allowing thirst to cloud my judgment - COME AT ME BOYS. But not with Zuko, for fuck's sake. The character that makes sneezy.exe blue-screen ain't him. It's actually the late great Carthaginian General Hannibal Barca, the man the myth the legend may he Rest in Peace if anyone's seriously wondering. Look, I do like the scar, and the awkwardness is endearing - he's definitely not ugly or unappealing by any means so please don't misunderstand, I'm not trying to bash him or nothin' - but if I'm being brutally honest, he's not my type! Not physically, not even emotionally. If I ship Zutara, it's because aspects of the ship appeal to me that are unrelated to my personal opinion of Zuko as an object of fantasy, which if you must know (and now you do, congratulations, you're welcome), the kind of boy I do fantasise about when I'm in the mood for that sort of thing could literally and figuratively sweep Zuko off his feet - and then sit on him. In either order.

P.S. While we're on this topic, the character I personally relate to most heavily is not Katara either btw. It's Toph. If you're going to accuse me of bias, questioning my views on Toph would make the most sense for that reason. But really, it's hardly my fault that she's basically the most perfect flawless irreproachable badass in ATLA or practically all of animation as a whole. Come on now. *whistles innocently*

[puuuders]

OC time cuz I'm thinking about them. I don't have any up to date art of them but I shall soon..... Maybe. Euhhh yeah :3

So a big theme in my little story here is misunderstanding and miscommunication. the characters have a way out of things if they really wanted, but they kind of anchor themselves to each other through paranoia and care they have for one another deep down. It's a situation where someone tells you to block someone who is bad for you, and you know you should, but something just won't let you cut them off if that makes sense

Dallas:

- HE WAS CREATED BEFORE JIM DEFROQUE, THEY WERE ALL MADE IN 2021. I know he sounds similar

- Male, he/him

- About 35 years old

- 5'8

- From Illinois but stayed in Italy a lot

- Closeted bisexual (very strong internalized homophobia)

- Kind of an asshole, thinks of himself as out of everyone's league

- Pretends to not care about attention but gives side eyes when his friends aren't talking to or looking at him

- Got looped in a whole scheme with an alien named Gareth (he's next heheh) because Gareth threatened to out Dallas as a scam artist if he didn't work with him

- Loves birds, takes care of two golden eagles named Bennie and Jet (yes based off of the Elton John song AND KINGSMAN THE GOLDEN CIRCLE cuz me likey Elton John and kingsman very much)

friends with Haiti and Nick

has a sort of situationship going on with Gareth

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Gareth (my favorite):

- male, he/him

- shape shifting alien from a planet called Oceony (pronounced O-see-un-ee) whose population is rapidly declining

- About 30 in human years but for his species that is old

- 6'0

- Has a Scottish accent, idk why he just does

- Scientist trying to figure out why the population is dying and how to fix it

- As much as he does not want to, he resorts to going to the only other known planet with thriving life (earth). His plan wasn't to abduct anyone or anything

- His lil spaceship crashes into an airplane, and he falls into the Bermuda Triangle. A 13 year old kid survived the fall as well, and he adopts the kid (nick)

- He creates an entire alias in Bermuda, pretending to be the owner of an art gallery to keep himself safe while he struggled to find a way back home

- meets Dallas at the art gallery, takes a liking to him. Dallas eventually finds out he's an alien and Gareth threatens his career if he says anything, also making Dallas do his running around to get things to try and build a new spaceship

- Another girl named Nica finds out too and Gareth makes Nica tag along with Dallas everywhere to ensure he doesn't try to do anything against him

- Discovers there is ANOTHER alien on this planet, sends Dallas and Nica after her

- meanwhile with Nick, Gareth is experimenting with him, injecting his own DNA into Nicks bloodstream (not THAT kind of DNA, just like his own blood and stuff). Fucks Nick up and Nick loses part of his humanity but isn't necessarily half human half alien, just a creature

not really friends with anyone but he wants to be

Infatuated with Dallas but Dallas rejects him... So far

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Nica:

- Female, she/her

- 26ish

- From Argentina

- 5'3

- Goth baddie, wears red eye contacts to look cool and it's working

- she is fucking BUILT. Muscle mommy

- her hair is like that cuz she got struck by lightning once, idk if that color change happens irl but it happens here. Also brain damage, hence the crimes she's committed toland herself in prison

- Found Gareth while fleeing from prison. Gareth promised her safety if she would work with him

- Basically only created to bully Dallas cuz I hate him (affectionately). She beats his ass so much

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Haiti:

- Female, she/her

- 21, the youngest

- Also an alien but doesn't know that entirely. Don't have an explanation for it yet

- just a socially awkward librarian trying to live her life until Dallas starts harassing her

- Lowkey gets kidnapped by them

- Convinces Dallas he doesn't have to do this, they try to work against Gareth

- Nica gets mad and starts trying to whoop some ass

- They flee back to Illinois while Nica goes and rats them out. Begins a wild goose chase

- Dallas spills the beans about Nick and Haiti is the "omg we have to help him" type. Dallas is the "fuck that shit" type

- Basically they pretend to surrender, get Nick (who is like 22 now) and try to escape

- Gareth has a total breakdown, sobs about his planet and shit

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Nick

- Male, he/him

- was 13 when Gareth found him, 22 when rescued

- about 5'10

- Poor kid who lost his dad in the plane crash. Grew up being kind of abused by Gareth

- Has a lot of health issues and an animalistic mentality. Can't talk

- Despite that he is very sweet around people he is familiar with. Becomes besties with Haiti

- Kind of mauled Nica once

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I have a few more but they're minor and not important enough to me to list them lolol. This took so long omfg

[olderthannetfic]

Something I find really exhausting is the ongoing insistence in fandom that you give up on something if it's problematic. Yes, canon is problematic. A lot of good fanwork can come out of asking, "what if we change X, Y and Z?" or "what if we actually really explored how fucked up X, Y and Z are?" or "what if we write about what comeuppance in retaliation to X, Y or Z would look like?" Saying that if something is problematic, we should just give up on it as a piece of media and not engage doesn't do anything in terms of activism, but it also doesn't let me as a person sit back and really think, brainstorm ideas, look into how similar shit impacts people IRL, etc. I learned a lot from my problematic faves because it made me research shit in order to write fic accurately or fic written to fix the worst and most egregious aspects of something taught me something.

Consumption as moral action and refusal to engage in something as the only option are really pointless, but also they don't let people get the catharsis of screaming about the problem in question for a while. I like that catharsis. That catharsis is useful for me as a trans biracial person. "Think critically!!!" I did, that's why the fic is fun, because I'm slinging mud back at canon. "Think about your faves!!!" I did, I just also think that writing people struggling with shit is cathartic because I too am dealing with shit. "Why don't pro-shippers/anti-antis/other fanfic term about shipping that I'm applying to you despite you not shipping anything be critical of their shows' canons?" I do. My thesis statement is that this canon is a dumpster, it's just a dumpster I'd like to dive in for a bit to see hat I can build out of the trash piles.

I hate that so much of fandom has become "cast everything impure aside". That's my emotional support impure thing. I use it to get into and work through shit. But also, casting aside every impure thing doesn't challenge anyone intellectually. "Your fave is problematic" cool but like, saying that and setting something aside doesn't do anything for my mind. It doesn't get gears turning. I don't think or feel in response to refusing to engage with things. So what's the point to giving up a problematic thing instead of delving into it and really looking at the nuts and bolts? What's the benefit? What am I gaining from abandoning everything that has issues?

And the response is always just a repetition of, "your fave is problematic", as if that's the answer to the question. Having one less problematic thing in your life is both an act of activism and a reward for your activism, I guess? It's an accomplishment of some kind, hence why you should do it, and failure to do so must mean you don't think at all.

I wish "think critically" wasn't used to mean "never engage with". I like critical thinking. I just don't find any critical thinking, or really any thinking at all, to be present in "thing bad, discard, the end".

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