#I ain't gonna argue

[littlemissskuld]

Rewatching the Mandalorian because comfort.

[ceo-mochee]

Some of those confessions on the mcsm confessions acc on here (specifically the ones about rarepairs and stuff) are scaring me like is that only just me?? 😭😭

Look don't get me wrong I love me a good rarepair (Axel x Lukas content creator here 🤞🏻) but... Jesse x Ellagaurd????? That kinda feels illegal to me I'm sorry- 😬😔

No hate to anyone btw I'm just expressing how I feel about a fictional pairing.

[genericpuff]

you really think you’re gaining something by being so obsessed with RS work that you take effort to create a twisted story in spite of her??My dude my guy: at this point, seek help. Because you are a vile, obsessive human being. God forbid you find true love bc it honestly looks like you’ll twist that up in spite with your backwards logic, too. 

[acebender]

"God loves you but not enough to save you" everyone repeating that but idk guys, I'd save my brother over a bunch of strangers

[maudiemoods]

There's a kitty I want to adopt at a local cat cafe and I'm going crazy thinking about her

[rubberduckyrye]

I’m sorry, genuinely a little confused… how is not liking Kokichi ableist to Gonta? I don’t see the connection but again I’m just genuinely not understanding.

It's not that hating Kokichi is ableist to Gonta on its own. Like if you hate him because he's a jerk, annoying, whatever, then that's fine. You can hate him. That's not the problem.

The problem is when people hate Kokichi and blame him for Chapter 4.

Kokichi is no innocent baby in Chapter 4. I get that. He's got his own sins to carry. That's fine.

However, he did not trick Gonta. THAT is the ableist part. He did not mislead Gonta into believing that killing Miu would untrap everyone from the Virtual World, he did not trick him into believing that people dying in the virtual world would just log out and be fine like in any old video game. He did not trick Gonta into believing in any way shape or form that killing Miu was something other than Killing Her. Gonta was in full awareness of what his actions would do to Miu and chose to do them anyway. Gonta killed Miu. He knew what he was doing. Kokichi did not trick Gonta into Killing Miu.

You can say that maybe he manipulated Gonta into seeing the Flashback Light, you can say that Kokichi convinced Gonta that Mass Mercy Killing the class was their only salvation, whatever. However, the crutch of most Kokichi haters arguments is that Kokichi tricked Gonta into Killing Miu, which is the ableist part. Because it takes away Gonta's agency, it reduces him to a naive little monkey who can't think for himself, it says that Autistic Coded characters like Gonta Cannot Think For Themselves and maybe Make Decisions that aren't Savory.

THAT is why most Kokichi hate is ableist in nature--because a lot of it comes from people who call themselves Gonta Fans who insist Gonta is a poor innocent baby boy who Did Nothing Wrong and it's Kokichi who is the big bad evil man who TRICKED poor innocent baby Gonta into killing Miu because if The Evil Bastard(tm) didn't TRICK him then Gonta would have NEVER thought to kill Miu on his OWN. He's too stupid and dumb to come up with such a COMPLICATED murder plot so CLEARLY he's just too baby and sweet. Also if u ship Gonta with any of his classmates it gives me the Ick he doesn't know what sex is. (That last one is just another flavor of ableism towards Gonta that I often see paired with the Kokichi hate and it makes me so salty.)

So that's the connection.

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

okay so like two things about this particular line.

one: i like the irony in claude telling someone to trust more.

two: HOWEVER, dimitri has literally absolutely no reason whatsoever in the name of yeehaw fuckity to not trust claude. i hate the way the game tries to absolutely force the things gw/sb claude does into ag when it doesn't even exist at all in ag. he never made a single hint of planning to just betray/harm the kingdom and this is literally at their first war meeting. not just that, but claude chose to go to faerghus himself and didn't ask them to go to leicester (which he specifically states being the one to choose to go to faerghus), so there wasn't anything indicating he might be up to something at all.

then we've got this stupid nugget:

each side lacks trust and is expecting foul play? the church expects foul play from the kingdom? from the alliance which has done nothing to them in this route, and that's bad enough... but the fucking kingdom too?

the kingdom and alliance watching for foul play even though they're allies and never had a history of being aggressive toward each other?

i know i've talked about it before but... i just hate how they tried to force this "claude is always scheming something terrible" plotline, even where it doesn't belong. then they also added in the dumb bit here about even the church not trusting the other armies, even though they've... literally been helping them, gratefully, this whole war. they also didn't have to fight but chose to out of gratitude for being sheltered.

suddenly after the timeskip they just... don't trust each other?

like i totally get just being in it to reclaim gm and go home and not really in it for someone else or anyone else, but the distrust is just an asspull to make the church seem BaD as usual.

claude just walked in and wasn't trusted. they also keep hammering it in right through the whole second half of the route with lots of kingdom allies (including playable ones) not trusting him. even if they relatively trust the alliance and the soldiers helping them that were integrated into their army, they specifically do not trust claude at all and are apprehensive about him.

dimitri agrees here if they can't be trusted, but he doesn't mention just personally distrusting them a whole lot. he agrees that they should be cautious if what the others say is true, but he also just shrugs it off as "they'll be enough to deal with the alliance if so". he seems unsure at first and kinda goes back and forth, but by the end he's the only character who faithfully believes that claude isn't just fucking around and leading them on (which literally, right to the very very very end, every single character except him is still very vocally doubting claude).

but like... why? there's... just... nothing to distrust him because of in this route. man literally exists and the game wants us to believe he's untrustworthy.

yeehaw wtf??? why would anything happen between the kingdom and alliance after the war? why would anything need to happen? even if you try to argue that claude is gonna try to uwu depose of the top church officials, if the church is watching the kingdom like hawks like dimitri is apparently aware of, why would the kingdom get involved? why would they care? clearly the church doesn't trust them all that much after all, or at least anymore since the timeskip for some unknown reason, and the kingdom has now, after this war, paid back any debt it owed the church.

so like, why would they suddenly rush to the church's aid and help them if the church doesn't trust them? if they were friendly/allied it would make sense if they still wanted to help, but if the church is expecting foul play from the kingdom, why would the kingdom even care what happens to the church? they could turn a blind eye and pretend they don't have the resources to aid them anymore and that their own territory is still busy recovering.

even if you argue what they discussed at the very beginning of the war, the church either A: didn't ask for aid in this second conflict, or B: even if they did, the above stands. i don't think there would be any riots or anything like that in those cases if the kingdom didn't help the church. it's one thing to help, but it's another to just fight at the back and call of another territory, which dimitri clearly expresses he won't do in gw because he puts the safety of his people first. no matter what his feelings are on the matter, he knows he's a king and that he has a responsibility to his people first and foremost, as would be expected of a king (to protect his own people first and foremost).

while i could see claude wanting to talk after the war and get things straight, and while i could see dimitri there as a mediator, there's just... literally no reason for bad blood after all this. even if they don't trust each other, there's just no reason - and that's aside from the fact that it's total bs that they all just don't trust each other.

lorenz just asks if shez has confidence in them. doesn't mention claude. shez though just... randomly is like oh yeah btw just not claude. totally unprompted.

lorenz distrusting claude has been part of his character since houses so his part of it is reasonable. normally i'd say it's really pushing things with claude not being trustworthy for someone to say they feel bad for shez/the kingdom army for the implication of having to deal with claude even as an ally, but the only reason i give this a pass is because it's an understandable and reasonable character who says it.

still though, it's like the game throws it in at every single possible opportunity for no reason at all. they don't give us any indication that claude is this big bad evil guy. he doesn't trust the church. like... that's it. he made that clear even in ag (even without the zaharas chapter), and that's just... it. the rest of this makes it seem like claude is going to just up and invade the kingdom after this war and try to unify fodlan (i.e. just go what edelgard's been doing this whole time).

it's just like... here, nobody trusts claude at all in this game just for simply existing. you don't even have to bring him up, because someone else will do it for you and shit talk him to remind you he's the biggest piece of shit the game can offer! meanwhile, we've got marianne who is concerned about edelgard (implication is her well being no less!) because the empire's army ain't doing so hot. poor indading aggressor! sure hope she's doing okay! fuck our leader though, he's the biggest steaming pile of bullshit garbage to ever exist (marianne didn't say that, but that's what the narrative is going for: poor edelgard, it's so sad that the invader is having it rough right now. anyway fuck claude he's literally as evil as tws).

i love ag but i'd say this is one of if not the worst hiccup in the writing. when it comes to faerghus itself and its characters, it's mostly fine and even great, but when it starts going into other territories/characters it ends up taking a nosedive in quality.

siiigh

[giantkillerjack]

Your stance on the Dunmeshi queerbait stuff is a bit selfish. Wanting this one manga to go exactly the way you want is a dangerous path - the way you phrase it is so entitled, making it clear it's not about consuming media about lesbians, but making one specific work suit exactly what you want. So many yuri mangas are written by sapphic women. It's a shame your stance is how it is.

And bastardizing the term queerbaiting does no good, either. Neither does the japanese manga market. You should research more before making such hurtful posts.

Hope you have a great day anyway.

[Anon is referring to this post, I believe.]

I mean, one of us certainly IS acting very entitled and weird about the media they like, and it ain't me. Like, I think you just have associated this piece of media with your own identity in an unhealthy way that makes you react to criticism of it with intense defensiveness. You don't own Dungeon Meshi. You aren't Marcille. Dungeon Meshi is NOT a yuri manga; it's a beautiful manga with either sapphic queerbait or a woefully underdeveloped queer relationship at its center.

Maybe if you had an argument besides "it does no good" to criticize it, but you don't. So.

Smh, it's a "dangerous path" - I'm screenshotting that bc I know it'll make my wife laugh. Like, friendo, wanting a piece of media to be better isn't dangerous. But calling someone selfish and hurtful for criticizing media while offering no clarifications as to who I've hurt or how (any fellow sapphics bleeding out in here? Or is it just me with my bonkers-heavy period??)... it's overstepping a social boundary in a bizarre way.

Like, I'm sorry that I'm better at media analysis than you (not actually sorry - I am being petty! :D), but I actually have studied queerbaiting!! I am willing to bet I have done more research than you! (Are you from twitter? You have that vibe. - Again, pettiness.)

... and I spend every day with my wife (the best writer I know; I'm so honored to share stories with her), talking of nothing but our shared special interest all day - i.e. media analysis. (I honestly don't know what neurotypical couples talk about lol)

And I've done enough research to know that one of the side effects of queerbaiting is that fans are often in denial about it and then get REAL MAD when someone points it out. I was there for the Sherlock/Supernatural fandom. Shit was crazy. (Not saying Super-who-lock bc my man Russell Davies was like MAKE THOSE BOYS SMOOCH! 😎)

Also like, my apologies to Ryoko Kui - I really do love Dungeon Meshi - but like, I'm just better at writing and illustrating queer rep than she is. I make real gay protagonists who do gay shit and are gay, and I will never queerbait my audience. Womp womp.

Also, honestly, even if I turn out to be wrong about the queerbaiting by the end of the series, this message was still rude and entitled and weird. We have a lot of issues facing our queer community that endanger real people; someone calling a story queerbaiting mistakenly is not one of them.

[cyberpunkboytoy]

How do I mute notifications on a viral post? I've decided I don't want to be exposed to bad opinions anymore

[corvidquartz]

E-Offering For Apollo (12/3/23)

Today is Apollo's designated day of the week, so here is an e-offering dedicated to him. Going to be watching a movie in a bit that I know he enjoys and hopefully go on a walk in the sun tomorrow after I've gotten some sleep after work.

Lord Apollo, I thank you for all that you do for me from the bottom of my heart. I have felt your presence through many long projects and random spouts of creativity and I know that your influence has made my life just a little bit brighter.

May our relationship continue to flourish as we continue working together.

[lovinglin]

shaking hands real hard with mr 🍏 I'm glad to meet your nerd ass 🤝

also how's the lara thing going huuuh it's been a while since you started being a couple 👀 you have any ideas for an anniversary?

🍏: Oh hey, I think I've heard 'bout you from Lara. Nice... meetin' ya as well. Gonna disregard that last part for now.

Me and Lara has been doing well lately if that's what you're asking about. And- yeah, it has been a while since we've been a couple. 2 years and still going strong, woo.

Talkin' about anniversaries though... ours is next year still since it's on May 13th. But gonna be real honest, I have no fucking clue what to do for it.

I mean, I do have some kind of idea, but it's nothin' real fancy, y'know? Lara's not the type to have some kind of big celebration, and neither have I honestly.

But I do sometimes wanna do something a little more special for her. Maybe get a ring or something but ehh- I-... I'm still debating about that.

Overall still thinking about it.

[tarkatan]

Like I'm not a "shipper" or anything cause I have better things to do than obsess over fictional people's sex lives but these "anti-anti" people always manage to like kid/adult shit...yeah don't come near me, actually

[mas-que-loucura-menina]

((your tags about tim-centric fics were so valid lmfao))

Sweetheart, I didn't even tag half of what I think about poor little tim drake so privileged white rich boy that he has abandonment issues

Thank you for the validation lol ♡

[mxldito]

Which tragic death will you suffer? 

the betrayal

  you die at the hands of the person you love most. maybe there are tears in their eyes as they drive the sword into your chest, maybe there is none. there are certainly tears in yours. your mouth will open to ask 'why' only to spit blood instead. you will die never knowing if they loved you at all, wondering if you could've done something to prevent this, or if it was always going to end this way.

Tagged by @itokunii​ (Thanks :D) Tagging: Anybody who sees this! 

[medicinemane]

"This study says...", sorry mate but your bias is so on your sleeve that I'm not gonna be trusting any studies you cite because the thing is it's very easy to do a "study" that says anything you want, and it's just not worth my time to read tripe that just coincidentally supports exactly your position

(This is about "articles" that have "evidence" that just so happens to align with what the writer would want, and it's for some site that's gonna have massive bias. To make something up as an example, if Atheism.com has an article talking about how this study proves god doesn't exist... maybe you can see why I think they probably have their finger on the scale a bit and it's not really worth my time reading either the article or the study)

(Bonus summary of thoughts in the tags, realized why this most bothers me is it kinda stops being able to have an earnest conversation about important topics cause... yeah; this stuff is worth discussing but we can't when you're presenting evidence that's from one of the most biased sources on the subject you could possible have managed)

[spring-salad]

listen, like, in general i don't mind if people have really deep opinions about antagonistic characters w/e it ain't my take so have fun with your fiction blorbo or whatever

but god damn do i have a problem when those takes willfully ignore the extremely problematic parts of those characters to the point of acting like they don't exist at all

example: like, sure, anakin skywalker definitely needed therapy and emotional support that he wasn't getting and was being fed problematic and regimented rhetoric by the other jedi that was very unhelpful for his state of mind, but he still killed a bunch of children to satisfy his need for power (no matter his reason for getting that power). finding a character sympathetic doesn't absolve them of responsibility for the shitty things they do