#And I just can't

[lastoneout]

Everyone always critiques country for all the songs being misogynistic and about trucks and beer but lemme fucking tell you, that's not nearly as prevalent as you would think. No the real plague in country music is songs about relationship trouble. And I don't mean "I hate my wife" stuff I mean a solid 50% of this genre, no matter the gender, sexuality, or race of the person writing/singing the songs, is about heartbreak or messy relationships or getting back together after shit's gone south and one night stands and yes also abusive relationships ending in fire and explosions and murder and like. Yes, this is good, I am a messy bitch who loves drama, but please can some of y'all write about literally anything else??

Like I keep finding artists I really like because they can sing super well and I like the general vibe of their music but then it turns out 99.9% of their entire discography is about their shitty exes and I'm just sdlkfjlkdsjf PLEASE sing about ANYTHING else ffs.

[DNI Banner: THIS POST WAS MADE BY SOMEONE WHO LOVES COUNTRY MUSIC. COUNTRY HATERS WHO CLOWN ON THIS POST WILL BE SENT TO THE FUCKING SHADOW REALM!!]

[lady-murderess]

I hate being in fandoms where both of my ships aren't together anymore

it hurts, my guy

[bbeeew]

only liking tcoaal only for the dark themes and how it shows codependency and manipulation and not shipping the grave siblings is like walking into an emo club in old western attire.

[bookofmirth]

I still don't get why people think Azriel and Bryce would make sense cuz they don't. How would that work?

One of them would have to leave everything behind and I don't think Bryce nor Azriel would leave their homes just to be together. Neither of them would like to change and lern everything about the new world just to be with one person. Honestly, we'd need more books for that storyline.

I don't know Sjm, but this is something Sjm would most likely not do. It would be so weird to imagine Azriel doing tik tok dances and Bryce not being able to use toilet paper 😂😂😂😂

I was talking with the group chat about this the other day, and I am meh on Az and really dislike Bryce, so take this with a grain of salt, but they would be the WORST couple lmao

It's not even the logistics stuff you mentioned, but their personalities would clash so badly?? Bryce is a fun-loving, brash party girl and Az is intense, standoffish and serious. Bryce wouldn't have the patience for him and vice versa. I could see them hooking up and then being annoyed with one another the next morning and never calling each other. I just don't think they'd have the patience or fucks enough to even get to know each other. I just don't get it 💀

[inastarlesssky]

*Me with all the ideas I have in my head for fics that need to be written* Also Me: Please finish your current wips.At least the ones with deadlines.

[obxfiles]

i'm so livid on joon's behalf

[ekko-idk]

Combining my two biggest fixations atm <3

Edit: bonus comic!!

[paprus-teutonic-knight]

ALSO THERE'S A TECHNOLOGY YOU CAN RESREARCH WHICH MAKES INSULTS BETTER

LIKE LITTERALLY YOU JUST RESEARCH BETTER INSULTS AND YOU GET BUFFS FOR SENDING THEM REGULARLY

Stellaris is a fascinating mess of systems that I could talk forever about. For those unaware, it’s a grand strategy game that takes place in a galaxy filled with different alien nations. If you don’t know what a grand strategy game is then google it or something I’m not your mother.

Anyway one of my favorite little tidbits is one of the fundamental underpinnings of how diplomacy works, which is the relationship score. Your relationship with another empire is the sum of two numbers, your opinion of them (on a scale from something like -1500 to 1500 or something like that), and their opinion of you. These two numbers are themselves sums of several different factors such as diplomatic arrangements you’ve made, compatibility of political ideology, frequency with which you bathe, etcetera.

Now the part I want to talk about *specifically* is the basic diplomatic action you almost always have available to you: “Improve Relations”. It’s the most basic idea: you ship over a diplomatic envoy to shake their least slimy tendrils and say nice things about the way they’ve decorated the place. This improves their opinion of you, which as you may remember, makes your relationship as a whole go in the positive direction. Pretty simple.

Now the funny part is that. Well. The developers decided that obviously you need the opposite option. You need a way to say “I DON’T want to be friends with that alien empire, they bathe far too frequently for my tastes”. And what’s the opposite of Improving Relations, of course? Why, Harming Relations! So you. You send them an envoy. Whose entire job is to just… piss these people off. To shake the incorrect tendril and insult their aesthetic senses just because they happen to be a race of sentient cubes. You make them hate you, because you already don’t like them, and I guess you feel awkward about it not being mutual? And the funniest thing is that AI-controlled nations will, of course, use this option! If you’re trying to butter up the powerful, belligerent warmongering star empire next to you because you’re a race of peace-loving snails and you’ve spent this entire time building megamalls in fucking space instead of, like, military installations, that empire will go “oh no you don’t” and send one of their envoys over to start calling you a poopy stinky slimeball, resulting in a net zero change in your relationship score with them. Of course, this means that, technically, they have an extremely high opinion of you after a while, because the envoy you’ve sent over is affecting their opinion, and the one they’ve sent over is affecting yours, but you know, let’s not think too hard about that.

Oh, and there’s uh, already another mechanic for lowering their opinion of you. It’s the “insult” diplomacy option. So you can like, ring up the Borg or whoever, ask them if you can speak to Hugh Jass, and then hang up on them when they yell at you. So the whole system is redundant but nevermind.

Stellaris, everybody!

[ladychlo]

Motaz Azaiza interviewed by Ajstream after fleeing Gaza, please do watch the whole interview...

[blackwoolncrown]

I get it, I really do, but I feel like ppl w decision paralysis related to Gazans are also suffering from a kind of non-malignant egotism

"who do I decide to give it to? everyone needs help! I can't help them all!"

You're not the only person they're asking!!!!!

If you choose one person to help that day, a bunch of other ppl choose others

stopping to overthink your inflated importance as an individual versus one in many is what's giving you paralysis

the more you burden yourself as an incapable hero the less you all act as a group-- which is the exact answer you're looking for

fkn close your eyes, scroll on OOB and donate to whoever you click on first

you're not god, it's not your job to save everyone

JUST DO SOMETHING

[canisalbus]

✦ Pebble ✦

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

[inkedberries]

after patrolling, unwinding in a diner somewhere ...

throw the man a bone batman geez

[sanhatis-abyss]

This...this makes me so angry,the audacity of these AI "artists" I cannot express the extent of repulsion I feel-

Tomm Moore's films are extremely dear to me. Aside from the beautiful meanings and execution of the film, there's also....Celtic folklore has been my passion since I was 13. I am a traditional watercolor artist,my dream was to illustrate books on folklore . As I kept drawing,I got more obsessed with details,and trying harder and harder to emulate near-realistic styles like Mappa,and failing to achieve it, and feeling horrible about myself. Then around this time Wolfwalkers came out. And watching it,I remembered what I wanted to achieve in my art all along,and reminded me of the beauty of it all. No shade on Mappa,or any realistic style ,they have their own charm,but Tom Moore's style is what inspired me to remember what I wanted all along,and reminded me that stylizing was valid,that I didn't need to meke every detail Perfect™

In short the films have been a big inspiration for me that helped me regain confidence in the things I do, and to keep creating what I want to regardless of whether it's realistic or not (which is honestly very impactful, because my family and irl acquaintances seem to be drunk on realism,and as much as I try not to be disheartened,at that time,I was)

And I just...I can't put it in words, I'm just shattered

These picture generating prompters have no shame…..

[tigerjpg]

nothing makes me go "ooooh we are NOT the same" quite like reading some post about how people talk with their parents about their interests. what do you mean you told your father about stevebucky. what do you mean he asked further questions

[kensatou]

(✿◕‿◕) die (ꈍ ꒳ ꈍ✿)