#A rant

[awfullybigwardrobe44]

What is going ON with the music industry, and specifically the Christian music industry

I admittedly don’t branch out enough and I hardly listen to new music. But I help out with music at my church, and almost every new song we’ve done in the past year is extremely bland. The lyrics are TRUE lyrics and they’re good truths about God to remember, but they’re ALL saying the same thing. The same phrases. They all are essentially the same few songs shuffled together.

I’m honestly so sick of it. My favorite Christian artist is Phil Wickham, and honestly, Phil peaked in like, 2013-2018. Even more narrowly, 2013–2016. He’s had some good outliers since then, but his albums are getting more and more bland, and the reason I was drawn to him in the first place WAS his rich lyrics. Like his Children of God album is probably my favorite album out there, with The Ascension as a close second.

But now I don’t even want to listen to his new stuff! And yeah, there are people writing better lyrics out there—but I guess what I’m annoyed by is that the POPULAR Christian songs these days don't have rich lyrics. Everything that’s popular is bland, in my current experience.

[vizthedatum]

An apparently unpopular opinion: disabled people can have and do their hobbies. They deserve to have fun. They deserve to live their lives.

Their inability to do some things (like work, for example) does not mean they should be judged for… idk hanging out with their friends or to going outside. After all, having interests outside of work is often essential to our mental and physical health OUTSIDE of our disability.

And also *you might want to sit down for this* disabled people know what’s disabling for them (unless they people-please or push through due to necessity or survival of some sort). Disabilities don’t have to be visible or persistent to be disabling.

So yeah - my declaration: if an activity you want to do feels good and you’re able to do it, then do it. REGARDLESS OF YOUR DISABILITY WITH OTHER THINGS.

[mrscolinbridgerton96]

Both Colin and Edwina- in their situations- felt betrayed by someone they love.

Kate lied to Edwina TWICE; once about the Sheffield inheritance and the second time and the second time about having feelings for Anthony. When she called Kate her “half sister”, she felt in that moment.. that not only could she no longer count on Kate to be honest with her but that everything she ever told her was a lie.

Penelope lied to Colin about her being Lady Whistledown. When he accused Penelope of entrapping him, not only did he felt like everything she ever told him was a lie, but more important than that.. he felt as if history was repeating itself (which makes what he said a trauma response)- given what happened with Marina and her planning to trick him into a loveless marriage and to seduce him.. thereby making him believe that he got her pregnant.

Also, the reason why I say that Colin has been villainized for something he said out of anger is because it took some fans TWO YEARS to forgive him for his “I would never dream of courting Penelope Featherington” comment at the end of season 2 (some of those people went so far as to verbally harass Luke over it)!!

Conclusion: Despite them being in very different situations and at different points in their lives, Colin and Edwina had every right to feel as angry as they were even though they were never known to put their anger out on display- which is why them saying what they said out of anger seemed so “out of character”. But when those people make Colin and Edwina out to be the bad guys, they were saying that as if they themselves have never said anything out of anger to someone they love- which is a part of being human.

[a-sad-mage]

It will never not be upsetting yet hilarious to me that Eli Shane is 15.

I mean, seriously, this kid spends an entire year, just fighting in Slugterra, he's been betrayed on several occasions, like he straight up let's Twist and Tad in his home, calls them his friends and they stab him in the back.

Is either being compared to his dad, or blamed for things his dad did.

Is probably dealing with the dilemma that his father is a murderer, as we still don't know what exactly happened to Tom Por or if Will Shane actually killed him.

Saw his dad tackle Blakk and the Goon into that Terra portal thing, after having him back for probably less than an hour.

Burpy, his best friend, almost died.

Was under the Goons influence and hurt in friends, probably causing some self-loathing.

Eli Shane is a kid, barley a teenager. He is put into an adults world, to be the symbol of hope, and the figure to rally behind.

Eli Shane is a kid, barley a teenager. He should not have to run head first into danger just to inspire others to fight for what's right.

I get having a figure that can be seen as pillar of strength can rally people to do the impossible, but why does that figure have to be Eli?

Why must it be a Shane?

But of the other foot,

This 15 year old kid is doing what should have been done since his father's absence was noticed.

He makes bad puns, intentionally antagonizes people he knows could crush him, and once tricked Nacho into taking a fake map that had a crude picture of Nacho himself on it.

Eli is such a good boi, it's not funny.

He reprimanded a group of slug hunters then they were looking for the Enigmo Slug.

To Sargeant Slugs face, tells him that his(Eli's) Slugs won't be partaking in the 'training' and he's just there for the pool. To freaking freeload. And yeah, Pronto paid the Club Slug fees already, but it has to sting knowing you have a Shane in your establishment, but there only there because they kinda had no choice and for your waterslide. Like imagine the profits that would bring in having a local celebrity using what you advertised.

Pranks is team in Deadweed in the most hilarious way. Before getting them inadvertently trapped like an idiot.

Being a smug little flopper as his Slugs come crashing in on a humongous elephant mecha, effectively convincing everyone his Slugs know how to drive.

Just the last few minutes of Roboslugs

"You thought we were building a robot to beat yours, in forty-five minutes?!"

[Sounds of Breaking Glass]

"How dumb do you think we are? We were just building a can opener!"

[Hops into Quentins mech, hopefully not getting his hands cut on broken glass]

"And you were cocky enough to let me get close enough to do this!"

[Drops a metric crap load of slugs on the guy with molluscophobia]

Eli Shane is many things, but most importantly, he is a 15 year old boy just trying his best. And when his best isn't enough, his friends are there to back him every step of the way.

I also like to think Eli would like Pikmin.

[silviastoll]

Just rewatched Captain America: Winter Soldier.

God, they don't make marvel movies like this anymore.

I could actually see what people were doing during the night scenes.

The fight scenes were so well choreographed. The music was made specifically for the movies instead of just endless themes meant to induce nostalgia for when Marvel seemed to actually care about its craft.

[on-a-lucky-tide]

Hmmmm.

I have greying hair. I'm 33. My partner is 38 and also has some in his beard and chest hair. Yes, men in their thirties have grey hair. I'm so sorry. But John Price? He's greying, thinning and receding. And you know what? Our aging bodies are still hot as fuck. Get bent.

Yes. This is a subtweet on Tumblr dot com.

[cosmichate]

i feel like it’s important within the yellowjackets fandom that has pretty much every ship possible, that we recognize the representation we were given — taivan have been extremely important to me as an individual considering this isn’t something we get very often, a black empowered lesbian who is in a relationship with a butch lesbian who are both characterized very well and played by two queer actors.

i’ve seen far too much taivan discourse on my TL recently and it breaks my heart, people are entitled to their own opinions but hating on a canon ship and then continuing to push an agenda about two characters that aren’t canonically interested in each other romantically (maybe even platonically) doesn’t sit very well with me and the other people i have curated this post with. it’s a very rare circumstance that this representation is brought to the light with a mainstream show and we should as a fandom collectively respect and view these two characters differently. i hope with season 3 they touch on their relationship more because representation goes such a long way even if it is only two characters.

[respectthepetty]

I've written it plenty, but let me say it with my full chest after episode 10.

I DON'T LIKE MEW AND CHUEM.

They ain't shit. They suck. They are the worst. They are annoying.

Even the camera kept cutting Ray out probably to emphasize these two are basically the twins from The Shining.

This is not about the actors. This is fully about these horrible ass characters.

Mew refused to define his relationship with Top regulating Top back to the talking-phase, so when Top slept with Boston, they weren't actually dating. It's splitting hairs, I know. But I don't like Mew, so I'm being petty.

Then he acted like sex was some grand prize that Top had to prove worthy of.

Mew punched Ray in the club just so he could take his revenge on Top later.

He lit the papers on fire knowing that is Top's trauma.

Chuem and Mew are always such jerks to Ray then blamed Ray for Mew being a piece of shit after his breakup with Top.

He got Nick involved in his payback to Boston (like Boeing is doing to him, and I hope Boeing fucks everyone up!), only to get the sex tape and threaten Boston with it.

He told Top he'd give him another chance only to play games the same damn way he did before.

Oh, then Chuem!

She didn't care about Mew's boundaries regarding Top, and is super creepy about Top too.

She slut shames Boston all the time.

She is the only one keeping this project going, honestly, but she is quick to push her group members out the second she is unhappy.

She is the first to throw out that "friends don't treat friends this way" yet is the first one to throw verbal stones.

She lectured Ray as he was being arrested.

Chuem and Mew think they are superior to everyone else.

These might be 20-year old mistakes, but these characters still fucking suck.

I cannot stand them!

Let the sluts be sluts without all the damn judgement.

[fixated-addict13]

No thoughts just how much Charles loves Edwin whether or not it’s romantic (though it’s likely both) and how much he has dedicated his afterlife to him as his protector and the way he has pushed down his anger and hurt because Edwin just got out of hell and Charles knows he needs someone there for him just as Edwin was there for him in the attic so he protects him, always taking the hits, doing his best to keep him safe because taking hits is what he knows best and has cultivated his afterlife thriving off that notion; so the thought of Edwin finding out about his home life, the belief that if he finds out Charles couldn’t even protect himself against his own father’s anger that it will make him appear weak and unable to do what he’s supposed to be doing and perhaps he isn’t good enough to protect Edwin and what if his anger is just as volatile as his fathers and if he loves Edwin like he thinks he might maybe he’ll hurt him too because Rowland men show love through pain because his mom said that Charles’ father loved her and loved him but it didn’t feel like it but what is Rowland love without bruises and tears and he can’t do that to Edwin, he can’t so he pushes it down and down and down, hiding behind smiles and jokes and his cricket bat because as long as he protects Edwin he knows he’s good enough he knows he could be good; but when Edwin says he’s in love with him he thinks he can’t be, he can’t because Edwin deserves better but he can’t help but be a little giddy because he’s a teenager, an immortal ghost trapped in the body and mind of a 16-year-old so of course he’s happy but he’s also terrified because he can’t just jump into this, he can’t risk hurting Edwin because it will happen eventually he knows it so he pushes the feeling away for the time being, even if it may show up in bits without him realizing because of course he doesn’t because he has always loved Edwin he just didn’t realize it until Edwin put it into words and now he’s going to protect Edwin like he always had and he’s still slightly scared that he’ll fail eventually but for the time being he’s content not have to run away from death any longer and Edwin’s realization and smile at it is the best he’s ever seen. Or something like that.

[georgiesblurredbones]

Hi, As a Blurr FictionKin, I’d Like 2 State My(Very Long) Case(Rant) On Why

Is (By Cybertronian/Velocitronian Means) a Scared Teenager (And NOT a Self Serving Narcissist) And Shouldn’t Have Been Put On a RESCUE TEAM By Optimus.

And Why The Rescue Bots Shouldn’t Have Put So Much Pressure On Him (Looking At U Heatwave..) And Why Blurr Would Be Happier Not Being On a Rescue Team.

So When The Bots And Some of The Humans Find Blurr And Salvage In Stasis Pods On Their Ship, Blurr Is The First One Awake, The First Thing He Does Is Hug The Bots Because He Believes He’s Back On Cybertron, But The Second Thing He Does Is Ask “Where’s Salvage? Is He Okay?”. Salvage Was The Loader of Their Ship While Blurr Was The Pilot, When Earth Had Meteors Raining Down On It, Salvage Saved The Cave People While Blurr Panicked And Ran Back To The Ship, Like Most TEENAGERS Would In a Type of Situation Like That(I Sure Asf Would Tbh). Sure, Blurr Was Selfish And Stupid To Run off Without Telling Salvage, But Salvage Also Had No Reason To Physically FIGHT Blurr Over It (Which He Canonically Did, Source; SALVAGE SAYING ‘We Fought’, And Salvage Marching Over To Blurr With Clenched Fists, Plus Ira[Cave Man] Running Out of The Ship In Fear). People May Claim Blurr Never Cared For Salvage, But He Very Obviously Did, When Salvage Was Taken Out of His Stasis Pod, Blurr Immediately Ran Up To Hug Him, Visibly Happy That He Was Alright. Blurr Wanted To Leave Earth In The Spur of The Moment Out of FEAR, If Blurr Truly Didn’t Care For Salvage, Then He Wouldn’t Be So Happy To See Him.

Now With Blurr Taking Credit For The Things He Didn’t Do (Saving The Cave People, Saving Salvage, Etc), That’s a Sign of Blurr Having Low Self Confidence And Even An Inferiority Complex, And Maybe Being Desperate For Attention, As a Lot of Young Teenagers Are Like, He Craves Attention Because of His Life of Being a Racer, Blurr Isn’t Used To Being Treated Like a Regular Bot. Blaming Blurr For Wanting Attention And Wanting To Seem Important Is Horrible To Do, He Behaves Young, Similarly Young To Cody And Francine From RB or Maybe Even Miko From TFP. He Lies Because He Wants To Be Seen As More Than Just That One Racer Bot.

‘But Blurr Is a Horrible Rescue Bot, I Don’t Blame Heatwave For Shouting At Him!’

Blurr Never WANTED To Be a Rescue Bot, He Wanted To Stay As a Racer, But Optimus Denied Him To Have Comfort In Familiarity, Saying Blurr Needed ‘To Give Earth a Chance’, Blurr Doesn’t Like Earth, He’s Obviously Not Happy, Keeping Blurr (Who Likely Has The Cybertronian Equivalent of ADHD And An Adjustment Disorder) On An Unfamiliar Planet Where He’s Uncomfortable And Sad, ISN’T How You Make Him Into a Rescue Bot, Blurr Should’ve NEVER Been Forced Into Being a Rescue Bot, All He Knows Is Racing, He Doesn’t Know ANYTHING About Rescuing, So For Heatwave To Shout At And Scold Him For Not Knowing How To Rescue(Even After Finding Out That Blurr Was Lying) Is Not a Healthy Training Tactic, It Made Blurr Hate The Idea of Rescuing And Earth More And More, Heatwave May Have Had Good Intentions But His ‘Good Intentions’ Caused Blurr Severe Distress. When Blurr Got Onto Their Space Ship And Tried To Escape Earth, That Was Because Heatwave Had Told The Chief That Blurr Had To Go, Which Was Blurr’s Last Straw, His Reason To Leave Earth. The Worst Part of All of This Was When He Arrived Back On Earth (After SAVING Griffin Rock From a Rogue Crashing Satellite That Could’ve Blown Up Both The Space Ship AND Blurr With It) The First Thing Heatwave Said To Him When He Got Back Was ‘I Don’t Know Whether To Hug You or To Yell At You’ DUDE HE ALMOST JUST DIED SAVING YOU GUYS WHEN HE REALLY DIDN’T HAVE TO ??????

The Point That I’m Making Is That Blurr Was Not All That Happy On Heatwave’s Team. When Blurr Showed Up On RiD2015, He Took The Blame For Sideswipe’s Poor Performance, Thinking That He Himself Was For The Blame of Sideswipe Knocking The Decepticon Into The Water And Letting Them Escape. Blurr Told Bumblebee On Screen ‘The Accident Was Totally My Fault, Bee, I Broke Formation To Drive Next To You’, Blurr Was Conditioned By Heatwave And The Rescue Team Into Believing Everything That Goes Wrong Is His Fault, Whether It Be Just a Malfunction of Technology or a Crash, Blurr Believes That He’s To Blame Because of How The Rescue Team Treated Him. Blurr Also Almost Dies In That Episode As Well, While Blurr Was Driving a Bomb Away From Bee’s Team, The Bomb Easily Could’ve Detonated And Killed Blurr On The Spot, But It Didn’t. Blurr Almost Dies Constantly But It’s Almost Never Taken Seriously, Always Used As a Joke Afterwards With The Rescue Bots And Brushed off With Bee’s Team.

Why Do I Believe Blurr Is a Teenager? Simple, He Behaves Very Similarly To Sideswipe, Who’s Described As a Teenager/Young Bot In Many Episodes of RiD2015 And Was Described In Season 4 As ‘Being Moved Around From Home To Home’, Like a Foster Child. Both Blurr And Sideswipe Are Careless At Times, Immature, Dislike Authority, Like Going Fast, And Are Implied To Be Teenagers Who Never Asked To Be On Earth In The First Place.

It Isn’t Blurr’s Fault That He Doesn’t Know How To Rescue, It’s Heatwave’s Fault For Not Teaching Him Properly or Trying To Understand Blurr’s Situation, It’s Optimus’ Fault For Not Listening To Blurr’s Complaints, It’s The Rescue Teams Fault For Treating Blurr Like He’s a Bad Person For Not Knowing How To Rescue. The Only Living Beings To Treat Blurr With Respect And Listen To Him Is Cody, Sideswipe And Bumblebee’s Team.

In Conclusion, Blurr Never Wanted To Be a Rescue Bot, It Was Just The Circumstance He Was In, And The Conditioning He Was Put Through To Make Him Think He Always Wanted To Be a Rescuer, When All Blurr Really Wanted To Do Was Race And Have Fun.

Thanks For Coming 2 My Ted Talk ;3

[flightlesskaz]

Martin's headcanon about SL Scar's decent into madness after not dying, stuck in a loop of pressing the success button and getting the task to win...

I want 3L Grian who has a quiet success before killing himself to meet SL Scar who's been stuck in this isolated loop all by himself.

I like the comfort in hurt/comfort, thanks.

[mrscolinbridgerton96]

I am sick and tired of seeing people push this narrative that Luke and Nicola are secretly dating when they’ve both been seen in public WITH OTHER PEOPLE. It is a known fact that for over a year, Luke has been dating Antonia and it’s no secret that Nicola is with Jake.

By constantly pushing the “Luke and Nicola are secretly in a relationship” narrative and by repeatedly spreading rumors about two people you really DON’T know, you are creating another false narrative (whether that’s your intention or not)- one that suggests that Luke and Nicola are each taking advantage of someone just to keep their “relationship” private. Regardless of how you feel about both Antonia and Jake, that’s a fucked up thing to do to someone.. and Luke and Nicola don’t seem like the type of people to go out of their way to do that to somebody.

It’s one thing to ship Luke and Nicola, but it’s something completely different when you obliterate any and all boundaries by spreading rumors about two people who you’ll never truly know on a personal level. I know this is something that I’ve said before (most likely more than once), but I don’t really care. I don’t care how many times I have to say how wrong it is to spread rumors and claiming them to be facts- I will shout it from the top of the Empire State Building if I must.

All of this behavior is not only childish and disrespectful but it’s just flat out dumb.

[a-sad-mage]

I JUST HAD A HORRIFYING THOUGHT

(Tw for like, morbid stuff)

im doing a thing and-

Do-

Do the people of Slugterra,

eat Slug's?

Obviously not, right? Slugs are friends, not food,

But like, what if someone was desperate?

Or, idk was just a freak like that?

I don't know, man, I was thinking about Cannibalism and the French (as one dose), and this just sorta popped in my mind-

Wait do slug's eat other slugs?

They are omnivores, right? Like, they have teeth and fangs and can eat regular people food.

It's stated as much.

Slugs can eat regular food, but slug food is recommended simply because it contains all the nourishment they need while they are with a Slinger.

But when in the wild, they hunt and forage.

Dose than mean slugs also get territorial?

Like they form packs/colonies and stick to one major area, migrating when needed?

I-

what the actual fuck is my thought prosess rn?

WHOLE UP-

if slugs lay eggs, and that's a big if because idk how slug reproduction works -

But IF they do, are slug eggs like caviar?

This is a morbid rabbit whole I've fallen into, it's what I get for thinking about the French.

And because I can't be trusted with my own thoughts I needed to curse everyone else with it

Im sorry

Slugs are friends, not food [I repeat violently]

[silviastoll]

Okay, but militaristic dictatorships and child soldiers are besties, right?

Like let's be real, any successful militaristic dictatorship gets them young and then sends them off to war. Case and point, the systematic isolation and abuse of so-called "weapons" as seen in the majority of "chosen one" stories. Harry Potter and Naruto.

I'm going to talk about Naruto though because it's almost perfect how they took a nuke, put it in a child, starved the child of love and affection and then told him that if he was good and did what the government said was the right thing, he would be loved. I'm not sure if that was what Kishimoto was going for when he wrote Naruto's storyline, but its actually impressive how well he managed to capture the essence of how a weapon can be successfully programmed to behave a certain way.

Naruto was never given any support in the village and anyone who would have given it to him was blocked because he was a nuke and thus an investment and government property. By telling him the only way for him to be acknowledged and loved was to become Hokage they basically guaranteed his cooperation, can't be Hokage and thus loved if you don't become a ninja, and you can't be a ninja if you leave Konoha.

Does anyone think it's weird how Naruto had an entire other side of his heritage from his mother, an entire village for which he was named for by his mother (Naruto mean Whirlpool) that is never mentioned, never addressed? Despite it being Konoha's sister village that was somehow allowed to be toppled by a combined assault by Kiri and Kumo? How was it never mentioned in school, the chunin vest has Uzushio's symbol on its back! Simple, to make sure Konoha was all Naruto ever knew. To make sure their nuke was loyal and well trained and fully indoctrinated into the propaganda Konoha pushed. bc, personally? I think if Naruto knew he had connections, REAL CONNECTIONS to a fallen village of seals masters who might be related to his mom, he would have started asking some inconvenient questions. And you can't have your nuke asking questions when you point and aim him.

I'll tell you what, it worked, Naruto would do anything for just the sliver of a chance that the people of Konoha would love him, he took the abuse, fought their battles, won them wars all for them to move on like it was always his duty to them to win them wars. And it was, it was always his duty to win them wars, because he was nothing but a weapon to them the second Minato put that fox in him.

[noxnightingales]

why is it assumed that Crowley has been with others. Do you think it is because of how he looks, dresses, or that it is because he has fallen? Crowley has a better moral code than god.

being thought of as "easy" is terrible. I had that problem in highschool even though I had few dates. I was told that being blonde made me "easy" Also, please don't use the outdated term, "virgin" that is very patriarchal. instead say, "someone who hasn't had sex"

if Crowley and Aziraphale have been meeting up and rescuing or whatever, why would either of them have some kind of other "thing"

Also remember, Crowley doesn't seem fond of touch