#FEEL FREE TO RANT BACK AT ME

[oflgtfol]

hope you had an awesome time at the show! I’ve pissed off everyone who knows me irl bc I won’t shut up about it lmao but if you want to talk about it 👀 also congrats on escaping michael!

thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to scream into my pillow about this

IT WAS SO FUCKING AMAZINGGGGGG i'm so in awe. SO in awe i'm kinda upset i haven't seen them live before. towards the end dustin did the whole 'raise your hand if this is your first demonstration or if you've seen us before' thing, and straight up 60% of the audience were part of the latter group, and then also 'raise your hand if you've been with us since transmissions' and it was so painful to say i've been here since transmissions but this is my first demonstration AGH. TEN years!!! but in my defense i was a kid for most of those ten years and then covid happened so like. here i am finally. definitely planning on seeing them again whenever they next visit long island

literally my neck hurts so much today i was headbanging so hard i pulled muscles in my NECK over it and there was a mosh pit that lasted for the entire show even for the slower songs. it was lowkey fucking hilarious seeing the moshers go crazy over echo when the lyrics to echo are so flowery and the set visuals were focusing on the little guy from the music video

the music was so loud i could feel the vibrations not only in my own body but also in the clothes around my skin, i ltierally could not hear my own voice as i sang along (which is insane because my only two other concerts i've been to as an independent adult were twrp, and both times we were standing in the first/second rows and yet i still felt so obnoxiously loud when singing along because i'm all that you can hear in any videos. meanwhile even in my videos of starset, even with me recording right next to my face, you still can't hear my voice)

i will admit toksik was kinda meh to me when it first released, like it was a good meh but not in the "holy fuck im gonna listen to this on repeat" kind of song yknow. but then they played it as an encore at the show and they had GAS MASKS ON and i went to the concert with my boyfriend who only barely knows starset (and mostly as preparation because i was bringing him to this concert with me) but he loves toksik so he was having a fucking blast with that song unlike the others that i could tell he wasnt as familiar with and so it just really heightened the experience to hear him singing along with it and he was dancing with me and the music was even more of a banger live than the studio version so just AHHHH i love toksik now so much

AND THE LAST SONG BEFORE THE ENCORE WAS MY DEMONS and i swear yknow as much as we all joke around about my demons being the stereotypical edgy song etc it was a BANGERRRRRRRRR live and the way the entire audience went fucking NUTS (MYSELF INCLUDED!!!) was such a high

only thing i have to say is that i do wish they played more horizons songs, off the top of my head i think they only played devolution (FUCKING BANGER LIVE) and infected? so sad i love horizons so much. they seemed to focus mostly on vessels and divisions. and the way that they said this tour is wrapping up this arc of the storyline that has spanned across two albums - presumably divisions and horizons?? - it feels kinda weird that there was barely any horizons features if that's the case. anyway. i'm not upset about it because of course every single song was a banger just wah they have too large a discography now to have every single song play. too much of a good thing....

[shalom-iamcominghome]

The most liminal feeling in judaism is knowing history that's deeply shaped jewish communities and yet... nobody but jews talk about it. Obviously, this isn't unique to judaism, but it's a very specific reminder that jewish history matters more to you than it does anyone else

[dezmolad]

EARTHSPARK S3: review??? (SPOILERS!)

this weekend I watched earthspark and I have to say something or I'll explode. This won't be a review as much as just some loose thoughts trying to summarise what this series had became.

STARSCREAM I hate what happened with starscream. I wrote an analysis of how this character got absolutely massacred in S2 (you can check it out here). To summarise: In S1 he was such a great character, shown so intriguing with both his not perfect character and his history of being abused. In S2 they made him the villain in an absolutely shallow way, in the final episode writing him in a way that makes him irredeemable. And I thought thats the worst u can do. And then S3 happened, when he appears for one scene to be shown as funny for "being crazy" (WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING WHEN U REMEMBER S1 WHEN HE WAS A VICTIM OF ABUSE THAT NOONE BELIEVED. IS THIS REALLY A GOOD IDEA TO PORTRAY HIM AS HAHA CRAZY GUY). It's absolutely heartbreaking to watch that scene. Starscream gets electrocuted by the very person he opened up to in S1, he was in isolation for all of the S3, he went insane bc of that, and still at the end we drag him to autobot jail. what is this.

PROWL I have no idea how such an intriguing and complicated character from idw that was clearly an inspiration inspired such a dull and shallow character. His process of learning about respect for human allies and terrans is shown so poorely and never feels like being actually resolved, I won't even talk about this. I admire how they did two things I thought were impossible. I thought it's impossible to make IDW inspired Prowl in this show a good guy (I genuinely thought he's going to be the bad antagonist). I thought it's impossible to ignore his weird and complicated relationship with Tarantulas, in a show that had Tarantulas in S1, was created with Nick Roche as character designed and was inspired by The Sins Of The Wreckers specifically in specific places. They did both of those things and it worked out horribly, congrats.

CONCLUSION I can't understand what happened with this season. it's visible there was some cuts, it looks rushed, it lacks any substance, and Quintessons at the end... didn't help the case let's just say. But that isn't my bigest problem. I feel devastated by what happened to the ideals of the show. in S1 we had decepticons in cages, and figuring out it's not actually a good solution. In S2 we saw decepticon as boring usual villains. But in S3 we have decepticons in one big cage again. But this time there is no consideration, there is no doubt. Even if under Shockwave they just want to go home. They should all be kept imprisoned. No matter if they mean no harm, no matter if, like Starscream, they suffered enough. And there is nothing to figure out, that's just how the world works. After all, they are decepticons, right. yes I'm bitter, S1 was just very important to me and seeing what happened to ES is just sad.

[dulcealuf]

A while ago, I finished my mandatory She-are and the Princesses of Power rewatch.

So, I decided to redraw one of my old Catradora pieces. These two mean the entire world to me 💕

[jemmo]

i don’t want to jump the gun, but i think hwang daseul might have just done it again. two episodes in to let free the curse of taekwondo and i am obsessed. more than obsessed. transfixed. this show feels special in a way hwang daseul’s touch only can give, and just using these two episodes to compare to her previous works, i love that i can already spot the continuity in the kinds of stories she tells, the messages she portrays and how she portrays them. she just knows how to let her characters exist in harmful and difficult places and show how their experiences affect them while also just showing them as normal human beings. it is so so easy to overdramatise these kinds of stories that have these difficult topics and have it be so surface level, but she has never done that. instead, she shows how those experiences shape a person and how they go about living in spite of them. all the way from where your eyes linger to now, she gives us characters that are wholly themselves and not just the traumas they have gone through and i just adore that. i can’t remember what i was talking about specifically, but i remember talking about this sentiment and how it actually helps to build empathy in an audience as opposed to just showing a difficult topic at the most surface level bc you think that makes it accessible and easier to understand and hence empathise with. i don’t think that ever works. it’s only when you do what hwang daseul does, when you give us characters we can get to know and fall in love with and care for that you help us to empathise with their experiences. it’s hard to understand the weight and the hardship of experiencing something traumatic, but when something bad happens to someone close to you, a family member or a friend, you understand and feel that pain astronomically more. that’s what hwang daseul manages to do. and more so, she makes you feel that while also seeing these people as people. you get to see them away from the hurt, you see them smile in moments of happiness and you see that too with people you’re close to, and you feel even more how special and important those moments of happiness are.

and that’s why, whenever hwang daseul is at the helm of something, i will be seated from start to end with endless boxes of tissues ready. i can’t wait to see what else this show has in store.

[huldrabitch]

Iron Man has a big ego, but not in the way people keep complaining about or in the way certain comic writers choose to represent him. It's not in a way where he thinks himself superior in regards to other people, but in the way he keeps doing dangerous stuff. This could also be because that man seems to be written stongly passively suicidal. But moreso because he has surived and come back from most things. Think Extremis and how he was willing to experiment on himself in favour of calling in people, because he felt personally resposible. He could have become disabled, literally he could have lost mobility in most of his body. He could have become braindead and died. He actually does in a certain "What If". He often gambles with his body, and sure its the lack of care for his own self, but it feels like theres a built up ego there, or rather a misplaced confidence. He's a person that has survived the impossible one too many times and now has an expectation that its how things go.

[stellewriites]

how do you get a guy to realise you’re just not interested? like i can’t make it much clearer without it making my mornings at work awkward :/

[triglycercule]

hes right behind me isnt he

sorry for being so dead guys can you believe it triglycercule not posting?! more common than you'd think,,,,,, anyways have some horror n dust in roblox as an apology X,,3 sowwyyyy

[that1notetaker]

HELLO.

[chrollohearttags]

woke up with the intention to be productive and have a good week. unfortunately I just have the saddies now and I lack motivation to do anything

[hibernating-stag]

Thinking about. Eddie again. I miss you Eddie, I wish you got more than like 3 lines when GG made the transition to 3D... You were so interesting...

[ghonorrhead]

ughhhh fucking long ass rant below because I need to get something off my chest but I HATEEE clogging up my stories on insta with drama… I hate drama period… but yeah, gonna talk about icky things below so don’t read if you don’t wanna :T

if you *genuinely* believe I am any sort of p-word (don’t wanna say it because it makes me wanna throw up), you need to get ahold of yourself because you’re fucking stupid and an awful character assessor. if you *genuinely* believe that I draw cp or enjoy any of that sick bullshit, you need to have your head caved in with a heavy ass hammer fr idgaf anymore you’re genuinely a shit person if you’re spreading baseless gossip about me over something as trivial as a fucking art style man

do these people have any fucking idea of the weight that their words hold? I haven’t even been on insta for a week and im already being cancelled. for what you may ask? Because of how I fucking draw apparently??? You’d think that I was drawing heinous and graphic cp by the way people are shitting themselves but no. what started all of this was a doodle of mine I did of gy//jo kissing.

it’s this one ^

to make a long story short, some dickhead reposted my doodle on their story and got their friends to go along with them, saying that J//ohnny looks 14 and that he looks like a child, g//yro looks like a creep, “this is why I left the fandom”, etc etc. They then called me a p-phile and insisted that I was drawing graphic depictions of cp???

I only made a response to that because I don’t tolerate any unwarranted slander to my name, because how tf are you going to be accusing me of drawing that sick bullshit??? where tf is the supposed cp??? you’re a dumb fuck, genuinely. rot in hell and boil alive in liquid shit idfc, I’d normally ignore these haters but this isnt even hate. there are serious ass accusations that hold so much weight behind them??? are you serious right now??? trying to paint me as something im not just because you’re a bit uncomfy with how I draw???? get over yourself holy shit hop off my dick you sensitive prick

I seem to have altered some of the gy//jo fandom fandom on insta, because now im even having some mutuals turn on me. okay great. I didn’t care for you anyways but now you’re spreading that baseless and incredibly harmful bs too? I had never bore witness to such chronically online behavior holy shit… literally a bunch of sheep following their leader, slandering me to no end if it means that they won’t look bad to their audience…

had an ex mutual on insta make their own story post about me. talked about how they like my art but it made them “uncomfy”. okay, perfect. you shouldn’t have followed me first then?? sorry to hear that???

then they talked about how my Johnny looks like he’s 10????? that’s a new one :I

^ funny how nobody bats an eye at these character for example though… even though I’ve heavily based my chibi art off of them… but whatever… (they’re both well over 18, mind you)

then they start legit saying shit like “UwU this makes me uncomfy because g//yro is so much more big than small feminine twink J//ohnny ;-; uguuuu they can do whatever they want though!! 🙈🙈 hope they find the right audience for them…” (whatever the fuck that means. fuck you, actually.)

you see ra//mona and lu//cas here??? see how he looks so much bigger and “mature” than ra//mona? see how she looks small and “feminine”?? great, now have you read the comics? do you see how both of them are adults, despite their appearance??? perfect, now you can see where I get yet ANOTHER big inspo for my gyjos :)

an example of my HEAVILY STYLIZED and CARTOONY-CHIBI gy//jos for reference ^u^

anywayssss…

not to mention that young looking people exist… fuck, im a young adult rn (20-25 age range, no im not going to tell you my age) and i get told EVERY DAY at work by complete strangers, mind you, that i look 14-16. I know, insane. lock up any potential romantic interests of mine because i look young and they’re definitely predators :)

am I so wrong for wanting to project a bit of myself onto Jo//hnny? Is it really so different from doing poc or lgbtq headcanon with a character? God forbid I give Johnny some of my own features… I thought we were in a more progressive mindset now as a community =_=

please, do tell me if you think im wrong here. you’re free to unfollow/block/whatever-the-fuck, but keep my name out of your smelly mouth and, respectfully, rot in hell !!!

[sapphicmuppet]

okay I’ve been absolutely spiraling since the last adventuring party where they were talking about mazey being evil because she’s not and I don’t think she is and I think if she was they would’ve gone over it BUT it scratches such an itch in my brain if she was. Like I have nothing against her character and she’s just generally delightful and helpful but like she’s such a NORMAL character it’s boggling to me. Like let’s be clear she’s AWESOME and a cool girl but just compared to how batshit feral everyone else in this cast is she bamboozles me so hard. like girl you are so well adjusted and talented and you’re graduating and going to college in a month why are you getting invested in this whole campaign like YES I KNOW SHES THE PRESIDENT AND SHES FRIENDS WITH FABIAN AND HAS A CRUSH ON HIM but girl ur so cool!! and normal!!! you don’t need to get roped into this. also this is just me rambling I’m not trying to complain abt her character or anything I just like to spiral and I wrote a huge rant in the tags UPDATE IGNORE THE TAGS IT GOT RESOLVED THIS EP

[aeolianblues]

good god girl, maybe some of us are not vegan because we eat chicken like once in three months?? Would reduction not be a more productive goal of vegan activism than outright banning? Like if your arguments are that animals are being eaten, then you’re being unrealistic about the entire actual concept of the food chain. Humans are omnivores, you do not need to change that to achieve your goals.

A vegan lifestyle is also entirely the product of your geographical location. If you live somewhere that shit does not grow, what are you going to do?? I just think about the difference between food options in India and Canada, for example. India: between the tropics (tropics and equator even, in fact). All-year-round sun, there’s pretty much always stuff growing. Different kinds of land will mean you can grow everything from staples like rice and wheat to vegetables, fruits and plantation crops. It’s reflected in the cuisines: Indian food has a much, much wider offering of vegetarian food, and many more Indians have restricted diets that more or less overlap with vegetarianism. Because crops grows. Locally.

Canada. Harvest in the fall, from November to March, your fields are practically unusable. Compare the prices of fresh produce in (and now I’m being generous to give you a highly populated, non-remote province here for an example) Ontario. Ontario has farms where in the fall you get fresh autumn vegetables and fruits. You’ll also get them in larger quantities. It is way cheaper, fresher and also uses less energy and fuel to transport the vegetables like 50 km from farm to market.

Come the winter and nothing grows. If you look at most vegetables you’ll find on store shelves in December or February, and most of it is either imported from warmer regions of the US (often the case for chains that are in both countries) or from South American countries (sometimes SA -> USA -> Canada). The importing has to go through cross-country customs, had to be driven for days, is less fresh or rich in nutrients by the time you get it, and is more expensive. Of course. And we all come out of it poorer. Is it any wonder why people will eat meat? We’re even talking here about a place like Ontario, very well connected on North American trade routes. Can you justify someone in Yukon deciding to eat meat over a $17/lb. green veg? Be for fucking real…

There simply cannot be a blanket-global solution to animal products. You’ve got to work with what your geography has to offer. It’s the same thing we say when we say that avocados have an environmental cost when you expect them to be available year-round in places they don’t grow. We encourage people to go for more local produce there, and I think the same should go for all parts of your diet too. If your animals are local, then their footprint is lower than importing kiwis from New Zealand to the US. I don’t see how that’s hard to understand.

[socially-awkward-chocobo]

Just a passing thought - but you know how Ayano has bad grades? And how it was so bad she was in summer school even though it was the start of her high school year?

How much of that was because she was genuinely having trouble with school and how much of it was because of Kano replacing her so nobody would notice? Kano - who to my knowledge, didn't go to school.

I could be wrong, but I don't remember Shintaro saying anything about her grades becoming bad in high school, it's safe to assume she was already struggling beforehand, but would she have been getting grades as low as 56 (a grade seen in Toumei Answer) if she were attending school regularly? Or would they at least be passing?

Just a stray thought that keeps bugging me.

[teaandinanity]

... what kind of ignoramus designed the EA app. Was this designed by a committee of corporate twits with too many business degrees and a complete dearth of common sense? Having to GO ONLINE to enable OFFLINE MODE is the stupidest fucking thing I have ever heard of in my life. Do you know when I need offline mode? Do you, incomprehensible moron from planet idiot who designed this feature? WHEN I DO NOT HAVE GODDAMN INTERNET ACCESS.

In conclusion I hope the fuckwit(s) responsible for this step on a lego and fall down a (short) flight of stairs in front of three people they respect and acquire a RAFT of bruises to both their bodies and egos both, amen.