#I know why people don't like me. I'm not stupid.

[fat-fuck-hairy-belly]

Again, ask yourself - WHY did 3 million people sit out the election? Did the just randomly decide to do it for fun? Those aren't 3 million principled leftists who decided to sit on their high horse and pet Trump win, those are 3 million previous Democrat voters who DEMOCRATS have alienated to the point they'd rather just abstain. Like, I really don't understand how you people look at Democrats lose all 3 branches of power due to self sabotage and then refuse to actually hold them accountable for it.

Also yeah, I don't know you, which is why I'm judging you based on the contents of your reblog. That's how talking to people on the internet works? Do you want me to spend a week getting to know you before I can say that your stupid liberal stance is a stupid liberal stance?

If nobody you know voted and your state goes blue anyhow, are you responsible for Trump or not?

[stilljuststardust]

I will always dislike the "tough love" type posts but it is no mystery why bloggers become angry people

For the record I don't post most of the disrespectful asks I get, because I know if I respond with anything but a smile people are going to get mad at ME for not being sunshine and lollipops

I love my blog, I love helping people, I love posting about LOA but you guys TEAR apart bloggers and then post about how aggressive they are in response. All of the little disrespect really adds up.

I NEVER want to discourage people from asking me for help. One of the only reasons I didn't deactivate was because I loved doing it. I never want to be the blogger you're afraid to send an ask to but PLEASE treat me with respect.

The amount of people that basically go "that's stupid that can't possibly be true, please help me" in the same breath is exhausting. I genuinely don't know why you'd come to me if you're going to shit on everything I say.

If you don't like loa, why come to an loa blog? If you don't like affirming, why come to an affirmation blog? If you are going to argue with me every step of the way, why waste my time?

I'm tired of people arguing with me. I'm tired of spending an hour on an answer for the same person to skim it and just say "but I don't have it though" in the comments.

I'm tired of words being put in my mouth and I'm TIRED of being asked a question I know you know the answer to because we've talked previously.

I genuinely don't understand why you would come to me for advice if you hate everything I tell you. If you hate affirming if you hate the idea of having it if you're going to get MAD at me for not repeating to you the very same limiting beliefs you're begging me to help you change.

[mythals-whore]

"The worst kind of person is someone who makes you feel bad, dumb, or stupid for feeling excited about something." -Taylor Swift

I've been putting these thoughts together for a while now, but while there's discussion going on today about so-called 'toxic positivity' as well as some of the other Veilguard critical takes, I'm finally going to write it down.

I liked The Veilguard. A lot. And I'm not going to qualify that with some statement about the things that could have been done better or even about the development hell it went through. Because "I liked The Veilguard" is a complete sentence, and in fact maybe I'll start saying it more, just like that. (:

Something about me is that I like Taylor Swift (I'm making a point) and I have liked Taylor Swift since I was eleven. And for 90% of that time, people have laughed at me for it, or told me that she isn't even a good singer or that she dates too much or that her music is immature. My own sister brings up how much she hates Taylor Swift constantly without prompt. And guess what?

I don't care.

I Do Not Care.

That may be your opinion. And believe it or not, that's fine!

It is, however, very weird when I am asked my favorite artist and I say Taylor Swift and people feel compelled to tell me how much they hate her/her music/that she's not talented. And then I am expected to argue and somehow try to justify why I like her/what her music means to me/why i connect with it.

Spoiler Alert: it never ever matters what I say.

And it's actually fine if you don't like the same things I like!! What's weird is to come into a space where people are talking about how much they like The Thing and you feel compelled to tell them they're wrong!

And admittedly, it's a little funny to me that the same Veilguard critics who say that DATV is "too black & white" also can't seem to see that they're doing the very thing they're critiquing!! "I am good and smart for disliking this game and you are bad and stupid for liking it" is just a silly opinion to have on a video game and some of them say it with their whole chest.

So if you're a Veilguard critic and you're coming into the replies/reblogs of VG Positive posts just to talk about how we're stupid and wrong that's really odd!! And then, when we participate in the discourse you created, you call it 'toxic positivity'! It's almost like you're starting a fight you know we can't win because you're unwilling to change your opinion and you just want us to feel bad about ours!!! Which is, in my opinion, a strange way to spend your time.

In conclusion: You're weird for that, knock it off.

[oxymoronictransfem]

This is why I've started just blatantly tearing into people who say stupid shit in my asks or comments. And it feels fucking good. Generally I'm very understanding, especially when someone wants to engage with me but I'm tired of taking disrespect.

I'm tired of people assuming that because I'm someone they disagree with, I no longer have humanity. That I no longer feel. I become a talking point, a caricature, for the utterly mundane transgression of being who I am everyday.

All trans people understand this but most have a community. Or know that many are out there. I don't have that, I don't have any support and yet many still assume it's people like me wielding power over others.

It's perfectly acceptable to hate someone like me for nothing more than being open about who I am and where I'm coming from. Not things I can change.

Social positions matter until it's someone you disagree with. Listen to minorities unless you don't think they are one. Lived experiences are valid but mine don't exist.

It's uniquely isolating and at this point — while still working through all of my own internalized guilt — I'm done cowing to people who don't have my best interests at heart. People who will never respect me like their peers, I don't care about people like that.

Nobody will bully me out of who I am, not now and not ever. Especially not when the entire world is trying to do the same thing to all of us.

as a queer person and especially a trans person with a platform, it's sad but necessary that you need to have a "take no shit" intense attitude to survive this climate, especially with how America's transphobia is influencing other countries.

you need to have fangs. it's for our survival atp.

[batboyblog]

So…..Trump wants the US to make the rules in Gaza apparently. What are your thoughts about that at least from what we do know about it?

its really a little hard to know what the fuck is going on,

based on Trump's public comments and his fucked up repost of an AI video of Trump Gaza, it sounds like what Trump wants is the the US to... basically take over Gaza not as some kind of peace keeping mission or UN Mandate but as.... a colony effectively? and to largely if not totally depopulate it of its Arab Palestinian population to be replaced by ???? Americas maybe? Gulf Arabs? tourists for sure but who will in fact live and work in this beach front tourist hot spot with Trump branded properties? unclear.

there's a lot of debate about how real or serious this idea is. My default is not to think that Trump is playing 5D chess, so much as eating the pieces. Trump clearly has a hang on on the 19th century and wanting to be William McKinney and get his own American Empire he's made a lot of comments about different things, like all the shit with Greenland or Canada, or about McKinney himself etc. So I tend to think at least Trump himself is serious.

That said it came out the other day that the Trump Team went behind Israel's back to talk directly with Hamas, something no past US government has done. The Israelis told them not to, particularly without any preconditions, Trump's team ignored them and didn't even tell the Israelis they were doing it.

Now normally I'd say this is a play, Trump is wacky in public to pressure Hamas in private "look we're reasonable but the boss is crazy, work with us to get a deal before..." and maybe that's the line these people are using on Hamas, but I'd be shocked if Trump was in on the play, because he's stupid, lazy, and crazy. Someone told him Gaza would be nice beach front if not for all the war and his rotting haunted house of a brain ran with that to his happy place "making money from my scams"

any ways. It's really bad when the leader of your country is floating ethnic cleansing as a policy idea, and while the why is not important there's something super insulting and depressing that the reason is "so I can built a casino" Trump really wants to be King Leopold (look it up) in Gaza.

finally... a lot of people in America, just don't live in reality when it comes to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Don't have any understanding of what October 7th was, what it was like, I'm lucky I didn't lose anyone close to me, but I had met a few people in passing and they were dead and that was November 2023 realizing "oh shit, I know him" about people who were killed in the worst ways imaginable. I can only imagine what it was like inside Israel when it was your friends, neighbors, family, through work I've met a lot of hostage families and that suffering is just unimaginable. Any ways point being Israel suffered a 9/11 level event, with rape and torture on top of the body count. The Two State Solution has been on life support since 2001, with slowly worsening vitals every year. 10/7 killed it for the Israelis.

And this is where the unreality many Americans live in comes in, they don't understand Biden's involvement in the war was a last ditch effort to keep that Two State Solution alive, time and time again pushing Netanyahu off from re-settlement or annexation in Gaza, pushing to involve the Palestinian Authority, forcing a refocus on hostages, over and over again.

so certain people loudly declared that nothing could be worse than the war, that it didn't matter who was President, that punishing Biden, Harris, Democrats mattered more than any results that might come from Trump.

well here we are, the President of the United States endorsing ethnic cleansing in the name of enriching himself... that is, at least on paper, the policy of the United States, we've gone from Biden's policy of a path to statehood, to Trump's of "GTFO of Gaza so I can build a Trump Casino!"

at the very end of Biden's term he managed to deliver a ceasefire that brought home most of the hostages and stopped the fighting and had Israeli forces pulling back. Under Trump that ceasefire is falling apart. I think that's the clearest split in the timeline? like what would have been vs what we will see.

idk what's gonna happen, I don't have a great deal of optimism.

[olderthannetfic]

Idk why, but for some reason the whole phenomenon of referring to fandom/shipping/etc as "playing with dolls" or "making dolls kiss" (no idea if it's new or new to me, and no idea if it's actually common or if it's a "I noticed this for the first time and now it's everywhere" sitch) really irks me.

Maybe it's just associations? Like, I've almost exclusively seen it in the context of wank. "Omg why are antis so upset over how I make my dolls kiss?" "Ship wars are stupid, why are you this upset over fictional dolls?" Which -- all true! And I'm sure it's used in more positive contexts too ("Can't wait to write 30k words about my dolls later tonight!") but I pretty much see it used exclusively in discourse.

I don't have an issue with fandom being likened to a typical "juvenile" activity, so it's not that.

Honestly. . .sometimes I wonder if I AM getting too old for all this new slang/metaphors/etc. I don't like words like blorbo or pookie either and I def don't associate them with discourse (I know pookie isn't new and often has non-fandom meanings but I usually see it used as a cutesy nickname for fellow shippers. Which is sweet and all! Just not for me). And, again, it's definitely not because it's too "young" sounding.

I know I don't even need a reason to hate something but ugh my beef with such an innocent phrase NEEDS to be investigated lol

--

Pookie? That's a term of endearment for your partner! I'd find that very odd as a term for fandom friends.

Talking about fanworks as making dolls or making barbies kiss is old. I've pretty much exclusively seen it when people are speaking generally. It's not always discourse, but it might be like "I'm in fandom to mash my barbies together". I would not expect to see it when the person is talking about a specific fandom they're going to go write fic for tonight. Even if they don't mention the name of the fandom, they probably do have a particular one in mind in your example.

[pretentiousscribe]

I keep seeing stuff of people joking that Ridoc wandered around during Threshing - just screaming "marco" until Aotrom replied with "polo"... And as a writer, I'd like to bless you all with Ridoc's Threshing pov.

Rhi said she felt a connection to one of those greens that were smelling Violet like a fresh turkey dinner, and Sawyer mentioned in passing that one of the reds had caught his eye - but if I were to be completely honest... I don't remember what color dragon I felt a pull too. Was it red? Orange? I don't know, how does this shit even work?

A sigh of exasperation escapes me, hands resting on my hips as my steps falter. A glance around at the golden leaves around me gives me exactly what I expected. Nothing. I've seen a few dragons around but I wasn't exactly sure if they were the ones, and I wasn't about to get scorched all because I can't remember the damn color of the dragon that took interest in me.

Did a dragon even take interest in me, or am I just delusional? It's starting to feel that way. I've already seen a handful of cadets - now riders - up in the sky, soaring above the clouds. It's almost hard to imagine how it would feel, to be completely weightless.

"Fuck man..." Running a hand through my hair, an idea forms within my head - the others would probably say it's stupid, and maybe it is - but I'm completely out of my league here in "find my dragon, or maybe be burned alive" class. Taking a deep breath, I suck in as much air as my lungs can hold - then clasp my hands around my mouth.

"MARCO!"

A few birds startle, the sound of my own voice echoing a bit. That was cool. For a moment I'm more entertained by the echo than my original goal of not flunking and repeating like Sawyer - not that it's a bad thing, Sawyer's a certified badass... I would just... Rather not go through all of that again.

I continue walking aimlessly, catching sight of a few oranges prowling around twenty yards out. Or was it the leaves? Shit, it's hard to tell out here. I decided to try again, maybe that orange - or maybe just leaves - is mine?

"Marco!"

There's a distant chuff, but no melodramatic voice in my head - or fire. So, guess that dragon isn't mine. Or maybe it is? And it just changed its mind?

"This is impossible." I wonder if Violet is having any better luck, she didn't have any connection with any of them - not even that cute little feathertail. Not that the feathertail would bond her just because it's small.

For Dunne's-sake. I've been thinking too much, and now I'm accidentally insulting my friends... Whoops.

"Gods damn it- MARCO!" I yell again, why the hell did I think that it would work to begin with-

"Polo..." A deeper voice rattles my skull, a hint of amusement lingering within the word. Shit, was that a dragon? Or am I just going crazy?

"Maybe both, Loud One." The earth shakes, causing my stomach to sink. I spin around on my heels, being met with a pair of golden eyes and brown scales.

"... Marco?" I whisper, as if that would give any more clarification on whether or not the massive brown staring me down was mine or not.

"Polo. Now shut up and get on before another roasts you."

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I'm afraid this ask is starting to break containment and get seen by people who don't know the context of why it was sent to me.

This anon was sent to me in response to this post

Where I commented on how stupid it is that any latin american on this website who talks about US citizens having first world imperialist privilege (and doesn't carve out an exception for people who experience systemic racism in the US) will immediately get yankees who know nothing about them or their life accusing them of being white and ignorant about the racism that exists in the US, and that it's especially stupid and fucked up the way some yankees seem especially fixated in doing this specifically to Brazilians when Brazil is a country where 54% of the population is of African descent, making it the country with the second biggest black population in the entire world.

You do realize there is a large African American population within the US that still face discrimination on a daily basis and saying that all USAmericans are privileged yet get made when someone indicates a white person from Latin America is also privileged is hypocrisy

no it isn't.

[unsolicited-opinions]

Someone asked me why I care about Israel at all.

I thought about it for a bit because I realized I wasn't quite sure.

I knew it wasn't simple tribalism. Maybe it's my neurodivergence, but tribalism doesn't speak to me. I've never really experienced tribal solidarity.

It's not because 80% of Israelis are my co-religionists, because I'm not religious and neither are a lot of Israeli Jews.

It's not because I have a lot of friends and loved ones in Israel because I only know a handful of Israelis.

It's not because I ever plan to make aliyah. I'm way too old to consider it now.

It's not because I admire the extraordinary things Israelis have accomplished, although I do admire that. Lots of countries have accomplished extraordinary things.

It sure isn't because of Israel's government, which I've spent a great deal of time feeling angry at for the last couple decades.

So...why? Why does it matter to me so much?

When I realized the answer, it came all at once in sort of a rush of images and reasoning.

Both sides of my family came to the US around the early 20th century. Like everyone else arriving in the US from Eastern and Central Europe, they emigrated looking for economic opportunity and safety. They were lucky, because they found it.

They (we) were lucky. They got to the US before the US closed its doors to Jews fleeing Europe.

Imagine they hadn't left Europe when they did.

Imagine they'd stayed in the shtetls in the pale of settlement.

If they had, the odds are that none of my family would be alive today.

I know this because we don't have any relatives we know of who survived the Holocaust in Europe. The only family we know of are those who came to the US before the US shut its doors to Jews fleeing Europe. The shtetls we came from now only exist as a handful of records in the Knesset library.

But imagine some of my family members managed to survive the Holocaust and were among those in the displaced persons camps after the second World War. Homeless. Stateless. Penniless.

Know where they and their descendents would be now?

Israel.

Israel is the best possible future that any of my relatives who didn't make it out of Europe in time could have hoped for, and none of them made it there. But a handful of their contemporaries did.

I keep thinking about the way Israel's enemies imagine a cabal of rich Jews plotting to steal from the Arabs of the Levant. I wonder what it would take to get them to understand that nobody went to Israel after WWII because it was incredibly appealing to them for economic opportunity or safety. They went because it's all there was.

Jewish Israelis can accurately be described as all which the remains of the Jewish civilizations of Europe and of the MENA region and a handful of other locations. They're in Israel because there was no other place to go.

To be an antizionist is to rage at them for not dying.

To be an antizionist is to fault them for surviving the genocides and ethnic cleansings and building something extraordinary. For enacting the most successful indigenous reclamation from colonialism in human history.

It's a stupid thing to hate a people for.

And I know, thanks to the genetic bottlenecks of the Jews of central and eastern Europe, that some of them are my distant cousins.

They are what remains of my family which didn't leave Europe in time to avoid being murdered for who they were.

That's why I care about Israelis. If my family had been slightly less fortunate, we either be dead...or we'd be Israelis.

And that's why nothing seems to make me more angry than Jewish antizionists.

Am Yisrael Chai.

[odileeclipse]

HIII HELLO ODELIE!!! Hope You're having a nice day/night, especially after that card incident! I'm gonna get straight to the point, because quite frankly, I'm very bad at starting up messages (and this is probably my 2nd or 3rd ask on Tumblr, EVER)– I LOVE the way You portray the reader in Your Sage of Truth fanfic! I'm personally more of a Pure Vanilla gal myself–something about him scratches my brain in just the right way (another reason I love Your blog <3 ), but Your Sage of Truth characterization.... Amazing. Jaw dropping. Makes me giggle and kick my feet like a lovesick schoolgirl. Just the right amount of compassionate & understanding, and ABSOLUTELY intimidating (because of both his patience AND authority). BUT! Back to the reader; I really enjoy that we can actually see them STRUGGLE. We can see the gears turning in their head, the knowledge doesn't just come to them with a snap of the finger or materialize in their head out of thin air. They have to work for it, and oh boy, do they work HARD! When it comes to the teacher/student, or mentor/protégée trope–I notice that the readers (who are most often the students/protégées in question) are often quite glamorized, so to speak. In a lot of fanfics with said trope, we don't really see the struggle of a student desperately trying to keep up with their peers, feeling like they are somehow worse or dumber for not immediately understanding hard concepts and ideas. And don't get me wrong, not every fanfic has to show that! But I have to say, I found it quite comforting–to see a reader that a LOT of people, myself included, can relate to. Someone who IS more than willing to learn– but someone who also needs time, patience, and compassion too.

And on another note; I ADORE their little friend group, too. Reminds me so much of my own friends and how we jokingly bully each other. Hazelnut Biscotti is an absolute mood.

Hope this message was somewhat coherent and understandable! English isn't my first language, but I tried EXTRA hard to show just how much I love your work lmao!

– ⚜️anon

You know what's really funny I'm a pure vanilla person too but my audience seems to really really love shadow milk cookie, which I love both and found myself almost faltering and betraying Pure Vanilla but I am true to myself and at heart Pure Vanilla is my #1!

The sage of truth to me is someone who is kind and compassionate, the reason he isn't as theatrical right now currently in the story is because he isn't particularly close to the reader yet so he isn't going to disrupt the boundary of student and tutor because we haven't gotten there yet. But also, in the KR version (I've said before I go based off of the KR voice lines) he is more soft-spoken less theatrical and a lot more kind. His voice lines reflect that, but the tone is just so much kinder, and it has this sense he always wants to see people enlightened with knowledge and encouraging other cookies to disagree with him. Of course, he will ask for evidence and all that jazz. And this gives me a chance to address some questions I've gotten frequently, the (y/n) or mc or whatever anyone prefers, is NOT stupid. And to the people who asked no this is not me reprimanding you because I understand however, I wanted this to be realistic. Think about it being at an academy where "The Sage of Truth" is I imagine it's a very competitive place to be and the classes are extremely difficult the reader got there somehow which means no they are not dumb but the academic life at a rigorous level is difficult for anyone.

I also wanted to reflect on how hard it is that some professors do in fact call out students who don't know the material, but I know a majority of them do it because they want to see you succeed. I think I did include that the reader had been previously attending office hours with Professor Almond Custard Cookie if not this is now canon to the story. Which is why the professor knows them by name and calls on them in class. It has definitely happened to me before irl too except I don't know why my professor knows my name...I guess it's because I was in a discussion section with them...anyways I rambled but my point is I wanted to make an interesting story about what I think Shadow Milk could have been like while using my own experiences to shape the story, which is only really in the academic sense.

I also wanted to base the cookies on friends I have now and have had in the past, I didn't really want them to come across as yes men to the reader but as actual friends and what I think is the most fun dynamic between friends. I wanted the cookies in the story to seem like they were their own thing. Reading all of this I didn't mean for all of this to come out poetically or anything, but I really am passionate about writing.

Thank you for the kind words and for allowing me to reflect on this story, I really do appreciate and love when people send in long messages like this concerning anything really...Thank you for reading my story and enjoying it I hope today's update will keep you guys full for the next 2-3 days!!! I'm glad you put in the effort to ask anything it's a lot more meaningful than you think <3

-Odile

[ning-ningx300]

UMMM-

So I found out the reason why that person blocked me..... THAT IS SO STUPID REALLLY....

That person said I'm adult and they are a minor and they felt uncomfortable with my talking or wtv I write... if you feel like that then tell me and I WOULD STOP OKAY? NO NEED TO OUTRIGHT BLOCK ME MAKING ME A BAD PERSON FOR LISTENING TO PEOPLE VENTING AND BEING SO SWEET AND EVERYDAY TALKING TO THEM.

This is basically to everyone who thinks writing mwah mwah and I LOBE YOU is wrong or whatnot...

I DO NOT WANT TO MAKE ANYONE UNCOMFY AND PLEASE DON'T PUT ME IN A BAD LIGHT LIKE I'M BEING A BAD ADULT.

I like spreading lwove and telling people I support them no matter what and through everything. This makes me really genuinely upset and shaky and I don't want that...

It's taking a toll on me..

I didn't know being sweet was a crime.

[melishade]

You know how we make movies out of old stories and myths from the past , just imagine if they made a movie or film about optimus or megatron and they got some aspects wrong like the paint job of megs and Op or the they made them more "bad" if you get it , Or they would make the Survey Corps stupid in a sense like when the Gaang from atla went to the theater and they were so humiliated by their interpretation of themselves, and if megatron is still there or optimus just comes to visit and they criticise the movie by say "they got that wrong" "levi wasn't that tall" , that would be hilarious,.

Alright, time to talk about the events of AOP getting the Hamilton Treatment!

Thank you @justawannabearchaeologist and @echoblaze5 for your contributions to this conversation.

So again, this is post AOP, Optimus is already on Cybertron, things are going well. Willy decides to step back from politics and focus more on his passion project: Theatre! He started getting invested in it before the Liberio attack and it's only gotten worse once he learned about musicals from Jack, Miko, and Raf (much to Miko's horror). He's made pretty decent hits over the past few years, but he's been wanting to create a master piece. He remembers Hamilton and well....you can see where this is going.

Miko:

So Willy starts putting in the work to make it a reality. He's thinking of set, vocals, costume design. Unfortunately for him, Megatron gets wind of this when Hanji brings up the fact that Willy been conducting interviews on the Survey Corps for some kind of pet project. They didn't get much of the details. Megatron goes to Willy and Willy explains what he's been doing. Megatron takes one look at the script.

Megatron grabs the trash can and drops the script in there.

Willy: You could have just said you don't like it!

Megatron: I'm helping you.

Willy:...I'm sorry what?

Megatron gets involved with theater production, cause Megatron can't murder, destroy, or be a gladiator, so this is the next best thing.

Hanji:...I mean...it's productive?

Levi: It's fucking weird!

Armin: Well it's better than him threatening everyone and wanting to murder them.

Erwin: Let's be honest, he's probably still threatening people over little details.

Levi: Someone has to stop this.

Megatron: Do it and I make you a caricature!

Levi: YOU WOULDN'T DARE!

Willy is still involved in the musical. He is the one funding this. Does all the costumes, sets, all that stuff. The writing portion? Yeah, Megatron has completely taken over with Willy trying to add some pointers. And when Megatron gets a writer's block, it's a whole thing. Hanji finds him in a river dealing with it.

Hanji: Hey, Megs. Do you need me to get anything for you?

Megatron: Hm.

Hanji: Sure? Nothing at all?

Megatron:...hm. Hanji: Alright, I will get the rust sticks.

Megatron: Hm.

Although, Megatron would ask to be under a pseudonym. He likes this privacy he has and he's already wrapped up in politics post AOP. He doesn't need the extra attention.

The Survey Corps do get to listen to it before it goes public and are surprised at how accurate it is. Willy is exhausted because of how many hoops Megatron practically made him go through for accuracy. Some of the Survey Corp members do get their own songs. Mikasa and Armin feel particularly embarrassed because the songs are good, it's just they feel awkward.

It feels even more weird when it becomes a success. Lol. Like it gets awards. Even the Autobots listen to it. And then Optimus hears about it on one of his rare visits to the AOT world.

Optimus:...Megatron, why?

Megatron: Look I'm not as blood thirsty as I used to be! I have to fill up my time!

Megatron makes Optimus watch it. And it's not great for Optimus because there would no doubt be a musical number that shows Optimus and Eren meeting, getting to know each other, their relationship deteriorating, and then Optimus killing him.

Optimus would probably have to leave at that point.

But alas, as Justa has said, it is historically accurate, so Optimus would archive it out of moral obligation.

Although Rung gets wind of the album and actually listens to it.

The Primes glaring at Rung from beyond the grave.

Rung:....So-!

Prima: REALLY?!

Rung: HE IS EXPRESSING HIMSELF CREATIVELY!

Liege Maximo: HE TOOK MY FRAGGING ARM!

Oh and vote in the poll if you haven't

[henrysglock]

So you preach that supposedly Patty didn’t listen when Henry was saying no, (which I don’t understand? It didn’t look at all like you describe “cornering him”. They were equally nervous about kissing, and yes she made the first move, but he reciprocated and put his hand on her waist. And “the first I love you” from the shows soundtrack plays) but you’re allowed to put that exact same thing in your mind flayer fic? Where Henry is clearly and explicitly saying no and not consenting but the mind flayer doesn’t listen? That’s a double standard. If you don’t condone Patty’s supposed behavior why do you get to write it? This is why people are fed up with you. The hypocrisy, your questionable choice of ships, and your rudeness to anyone who doesn’t share your exact headcanons or theories. Someone was just offering their explanation as to why El’s hair could change color and you were incredibly rude and dismissive to them. All to defend your theory you’re so sure of. And you do the same thing to anyone who doesn’t share your belief that Henry is gay. You’re allowed to have your headcanons, but you’re not always going to be right about canon, so stop forcing your beliefs on others. This is why you have upset people. And many people, including minors who have unfortunately seen excerpts of your explicit fics because you post it publicly, don’t want to see how you seem to only characterize Henry as some pathetic submissive and breedable twink, and how it seems like you have an odd obsession with him being sexually assaulted. That requires some self reflection. You post upsetting things, and act surprised when it upsets people and they tell you as such. If people have been telling you that you’re problematic for three whole years, it’s time you listen.

he reciprocated and put his hand on her waist

He very much did not, all four times that I saw it. Regardless, Henry said No. That alone should have been grounds for Patty to see that this was not the right moment to kiss Henry, that he was afraid and not mentally well, and that he was not, in fact, giving consent to being kissed. It fits into the larger pattern of behavior of Patty ignoring Henry when he says No or Stop.

but you’re allowed to put that exact same thing in your mind flayer fic? Where Henry is clearly and explicitly saying no and not consenting but the mind flayer doesn’t listen?

I don't present the Mindflayer as good. I don't try to portray the Mindflayer as a loving person who Henry should end up with. I also offer a direct look into Henry's mind and tell the reader that he is, indeed, simply playing hard to get. But I wouldn't expect you to understand that concept, it's a little nuanced for your level of comprehension.

your rudeness to anyone who doesn’t share your exact headcanons or theories

Maybe people shouldn't treat me like I'm stupid if they don't want to be snapped at. Beat a dog enough times, and it will bite.

stop forcing your beliefs on others

And when have I done that? When have I ever said people have to agree with me? I don't. I present evidence, and I expect to be treated like someone with baseline intelligence levels. Sue me.

And many people, including minors who have unfortunately seen excerpts of your explicit fics because you post it publicly, don’t want to see how you seem to only characterize Henry as some pathetic submissive and breedable twink

I post my nsfw snippets on a side account, and rarely, at that. Minors and people who don't want to see my content can block me. The onus is on them, not me.

You post upsetting things, and act surprised when it upsets people and they tell you as such.

If this is what you find upsetting, then I fear you wouldn't have survived the internet pre-2020. Imagine this person in the era of rampant ere/ri. Or the era of roy/ed. Lol. Lmao, even. The phrase "don't like, don't read" was created for a reason.

If people have been telling you that you’re problematic for three whole years, it’s time you listen.

Oh, they don't tell me I'm problematic. They just think they can tell me what to do. It seems you're keeping up the trend.

To which I say:

🖕🏻

[technically-human]

First meeting

[snakeredbirdbatkatana]

I have a controversial take I can't stand the fucking houseboat.

Like is it comedic sure but motherfucker, you are a millionaire at least and you choose to live in a stupid ass fucking boat some rich people don't deserve money and his name is Tim Drake.

Like Bruce lives in a fucking manor and here's Tim i'm gonna be gay in my boat like buy a yacht and go the fuck home. 

I just can't. I just fucking can't.

I genuinely can't actually explain why I hate the boat so much but I really fucking hate that boat like I hate that boat almost as much as I hate like the Joker.

Like if I had a gun and there were two bullets, I would find a way to sink that fucking boat and the joker would get to live. I would pull a Batman sorry Jason you're murderer gets to live because I need to kill your brother's fucking boat. 

Like it's the same logic of Dick having that shitty blud Haven apartment.

Like you fuckers are Nepo babies stop trying to pretend you're poor.

I did not mean to go on a rant, but this bothers me like I don't know why but why do I feel like Tim Drake would be that kid to go that's my dad's money as if you don't benefit from it. You piece of shit.

Oh my God, I'm gonna become a Tim Drake anti if I ever have to see that fucking boat again I swear to God.

* I figured out why I went on this rant I had to pay bills today. Like if I had $1 million I wouldn't be on a fucking boat.

[lemonisntreal]

TONE DEAF :: Rosita and Norman <3

The first in a [hopefully] series of redesign + headcanon posts where I give you my take on a character for my AU

I'm grouping the two together because a] a lot of fluff headcanons I have, they share [because they're literally husband and wife]. And b] if I made an individual post for every single character, I... would go insane. So yeah. A bunch of characters are gonna get clumped together.

[FULL MASTERPOST HERE [yet to be made <3]]

HEADCANONS // BACKSTORY ⬇️

Me and the bad bitch I pulled by being autistic [also autistic]

Both of them are the same age, mid to late thirties.

In terms of general intelligence: Rosita has gifted IQ, while Norman is at genius level.

I know. I know Norman seems kinda dim in the movies. But guys [LMAO]. "I know it looks like there's nothing happening behind those eyes, but...... he can make entire computers!"

He's so smart yet so stupid. He's that kind of character. Like he can do all of this super impressive shit, and is super talented and can do math like BOOM done, but he's also kinda a "deer-in-the-headlights" when it comes to life [I LOVE HIM 👹]

Both of them worked hard and have their college degrees almost completely paid off at this point because of the scholarships they earned.

Rosita has a degree in engineering, Norman's a computer scientist.

They're both in STEM, it's just that Rosita likes to handle more of the mechanical aspects of things while Norman's better with the technical stuff, which I think is cute af.

Yin and Yang <3

This dynamic is just how they are too. How they act. Like for example, Rosita can be very to-the-point-

She's very much a problem solver and will get right to it once she understands what she's doing. Like yeah, she often takes a very methodical approach to it [see the scene where she's got all the papers laid out to try and learn to dance- very new territory for her], but once she learns, she gos all in. And EATS.

Norman's gotta have a plan before doing anything, meanwhile. He has a morning routine that can't be interrupted or else his whole day and mood will be thrown off. He reads through a recipe twice before even starting. That kind of stuff.

He's a lot more hesitant to even try.

A lot of people find Norman boring. But Rosita is enraptured by every word he says, she LOVES his long spiels about hyper-specific [and often mundane] things.

AAAA--

Norman is also a closeted DORK. He ran a tabletop games club in highschool with a couple other of his geeky ass friends [he's still into D&D to this day and has introduced Rosita to the game too]

[she's fun to play with, but super competitive. This goes for ANY game, actually, not just D&D. She'll kinda accidentally turn everything into a "contest" due to her inability to not do her very best] [it's mostly inspirational, not annoying, if that makes sense?]

I also wanna say Norman was in a weird amount of drama that he didn't want to be in at this time. Like all of his friends had falling-outs, and he was just always caught in the middle of it.

He's afraid of confrontation [UNLESS IT'S FOR HIS WIFE] [HE STANDS UP FOR HER RAHHHH] [this is gonna happen when I get to rewriting Sing 2, he's NOT just gonna take Crystal calling his WIFE "mommy pig"]

They're sooo "excuse me, he asked for no pickles"

Norman and Rosita technically met in high school, in Junior year when Norman first moved to Calatonia.

WHICH, he and his family did this because this was a point in time where laws having to do with the rights of animals were VERY flimsy, and Calatonia was one of the first and only safe places at the time-- for Pigs especially, actually.

The 3 Little Pigs is deadass CANON TO SING. So Pigs were/are actually a marginalized species in this universe.

[[during the warring period that I have yet to really talk about, they were often victims of the anarchy and poaching, so stigmas and insults around them still exist to this day]]

[[[[see Jimmy Crystal]]]]

So anyway, they "met" in high school- Norman totally crushed on Rosita from afar whenever he'd catch her in volleyball matches-

Rosita had a major tomboy phase throughout high school, slowly falling out of it during college [still only saves dresses and skirts for special occasions really]

[[Fun fact, Rosita is also sapiosexual [attracted to intelligence] [Roxanne Ritchi ahh] ]]

[[Norman is bi]]

They actually got introduced to eachother and had a proper arc when they went to the same college [which might've been a college in Redshore actually? But I'm not 100% sure on that headcanon. It would line up since Rosita's "wanted to perform in Redshore since she was a little kid" and Redshore is obviously a massive city with a lot of notoriety. Idk though- and it's not really that important to the story anyways]

Norman and Rosita had plans together- they were gonna make it big and live freely. Things were looking up with the lawmakers, who were finally repealing a bunch of nasty stuff that was put in place during the war times. And the two had hope that their dreams could actually be accomplished.

Rosita, who was originally gonna play it safe and become an engineer, was now thinking about attempting to become a performer [which Norman has supported since the beginning, he LOVES her singing, and often tells her that she's "better than some of the people I've heard on TV!"]

But. Life got in the way...

Present day, Norman works in Redshore at Crystal Enterprises. He's the head of some sort of organizational team- not really working on what he loves at this point.

And this is because of their children, who were a very sudden appearance in their lives [which is why we see so much struggle in the chaos at the beginning of the movie in this AU]

Rosita stopped everything, and Norman grabbed the first high-ish paying job he could, spending all his spare time on clocking in overtime hours.

The kids are all adopted, and there's only 6 now: Oldest Caspar [13], twin boys Mickey and Moe [11], middle child Kelly [9], little bro Freddy[8], and Zoey the sweet baby sister [6].

They became foster parents after the death of Rosita's sister [this hc is kinda subject to change, but this is the story rn. I'll specify on this later ☝️]

So Rosita's kinda put her life on hold for these babies. She's such a great mom to them, and they love her and Norman so much

But some of the older kids [Caspar specifically] are kinda in a rough phase since they feel like she resents them [which she doesn't], or that she isn't their "real mom" [which she IS]

This is like an E plot in the story, but definitely's gonna get at least a little bit of focus.

Rosita and Norman's marriage is falling apart just a little bit due to burnout, but it'll get better <3 [I can't do anything tragic to these two they're too sweet]

Norman snuggles up to Rosita in his sleep. Rosita starfishes LMAO

They wake up entangled. This is normal.

"Pig piles" are also a thing- there have been several nights where all six children "had nightmares" and so the family of 8 all slept in the same bed.

Norman has the best bond with the two girls out of all the children. They immediately latched onto him to be their level-headed dad.

Rosita can carry two kids at once easily, and often "relocates" them like this :>

She's probably the strongest out of everyone in the troupe if you don't count the potential Meena has. She solos.

She's constantly taking notes on everyone and everything around her. At the theater, you'll catch her tidying stuff up she spots out of the corner of her vision while you're having a conversation with her [she's still listening]. She knows everyones favorite foods, and allergies, and their preferences in things, etc. She's the most attentive and considerate out of all of them [the mom]

She may have a touch of OCD.

She gives the best hugs.

Rosita is also a FANTASTIC cook [not even a headcanon, I'm pretty sure the entire fandom agrees on this one] and often bakes stuff for her sweet-toothed children [and husband]

This is actually how she initially connected with Caspar, who refused to eat or speak at first when they were all placed with Rosita.

Cinnamon rolls.

Kelly will only eat the frosting off the top, and has ruined an entire pan before by doing this.

Rosita actually isn't the biggest fan of chocolate, small detail.

Idk why she just strikes me as not being an enjoyer.

Loves vanilla though. People are furious when she answers "vanilla" with zero hesitation to the chocolate vs vanilla question.

Norman is kinda a hopeless romantic, or at least really enjoys the aesthetic of it [in a sweet and not shallow way ofc], and goes all out every Valentine's Day: balloons, flowers, the works. He's learned that Rosita prefers strawberries over a box of chocolates, however. Has a tradition of getting a fruit basket for her <3

They also have a tradition from all the way back in college, where they go out to eat at specifically the in-universe equivalent of Olive Garden [which was the fanciest thing they could afford at the time] and eat a shared giant plate of spaghetti.

Norman loves coffee. Insists he likes it black but actually prefers a good 50:50 ratio of creamer and coffee.

Norman is also ☝️ lactose intolerant LMAO

[[or would be, if traditional milk was widely accessible/a thing. I say "lactose intolerant" but what I really mean is he's allergic to most milk substitutes- like nuts and soy [gives him tummy ache, not anaphylaxis] ]]

God, parenthesis are carrying me so hard rn.

Stopping here because I'm tired, but I could go ON about these two omg-

Normita forever rahhhh <3