#I'm genuinely really angry about this

[yesterdayiwrote]

The most fucking annoying thing about all the "conflict of interest" gate is it's going to be F1 Academy and Susie that suffer as a result of it.

They're not going to lobby for Toto to move on and dissociate from Mercedes, they'll want Susie fired, so F1 Academy will lose the person spearheading it, despite her clearly being the best qualified person for the role right now. Just as the series is finally going to get an opportunity to take off, it will lose its rudder and get derailed before its begun.

And even if they DON'T find anything of note, it's Susie's reputation that will end up being tarnished, because its always women that bear the brunt of these things, despite F1 and 'conflict of interest' going hand in hand since records began.

And all this for a tabloid magazine article by someone who not only is banned from the paddock, but has been on the receiving end of numerous libel cases from people inside the paddock.

The FIA are trying to appear like they're being 'fair and thorough and authoritative' but they're not, they're just legitimising the accusations when it's not really their issue to investigate. It's shameful politicking and it's yet another example of the FIAs internalised misogyny. Where was their investigation into the allegations about Mohammed Ben Sulayem? Or is it only when it suits them?

[speedygoreman]

When I finish the comic (if I finish the comic. This might be a long one) do I draw the alternate ending where they kiss about it instead

[ghostinacardboardbox]

CC is one of my new favourite things ever but ill respect your dislike of it far more than i ever will going "I'm not saying you cant criticise the musical but" then express discomfort with people calling out the antisemitism

CC is my least favorite Starkid show ever but I'll respect your appreciation of it far more than I ever will people who go "there's nuance here" in a post that is fully just using polite language to shut down criticism. I genuinely don't know what's so hard about this.

Anyway it's been a Rough Time to be in the Starkid fandom and actually want to complain about things I disliked in a show I was incredibly excited for. Somehow having literally any issues with the show at all means I must be someone who is only here for Hatchetfield and is just trying to bully Starkid back into doing Hatchetfield stuff. Piss on the poor website.

[kanerallels]

Well I could freak out about whether I've ever accidentally flirted with anyone, but why do that when I could listen to music and work on fan fiction?

[cobra-wives]

"leaks" "ugh hoohooey bleepo suffering for the 458353957938th time :((" "LEAKS LEAKS LEAKS" "oh my gooosh here's bloobie toopso fight one billionth um here's why snurble solos and will dominate" "wow hoping that meepie teepie doesnt like die or whateverLOL" "guys wurplemurple is a better ship than meepsiclepoopsies because blablablah" "kinda dgaf about snurble's character. can i see more of wurplemurple" "guys did you see the leak where pleepo kills woomble and-" DO YOU GUYS EVEN ENJOY THIS FUCKING SHOW I SWEAR TO GOD YOU GUYS ARE SO. FUCKING. BORING!!!!!!!!!

[mushroomjar]

I don't like the way you guys talk about Palestinians asking for donations. I don't like it.

I had to see someone make MULTIPLE posts bitching and moaning about how people need to stop sending them asks asking for them to reblog their donation posts, that they'd just be blocking them from now on, and that they didn't care if they were vetted because they still found the act of sending asks to get reblogs on their donation links suspicious, even if they were in a dire situation. They even went as far as to say that they got an ask, deleted it, and then they got another ask from the same person, and accused the person of sending another ask to purposefully "get under their skin"

I don't know man, have you considered that being a victim of ongoing genocide will make you ask for help in whatever way you can? And sometimes that involves sending random blogs asks to see if they can donate or at the very least share your donation links? A Palestinian reaches out to you multiple times because they need help and your response is to whine about getting donation links in your inbox? I wish I had your problems

Also the thing about "getting the exact same ask from the exact same blog multiple times"... uh, duh? First of all, they're probably reaching out to dozens of blogs daily, do you think they're gonna type up a new paragraph for each blog they reach out to? Second of all, maybe they reached out to you multiple times because a. They really really really need the help and b. What, do you think they're gonna see your URL/blog and be like "oh! I already reached out to this blog, I'm not gonna send them another ask"? Or do you think they'll be like "this person has been reblogging other people's donation posts, maybe they'll reblog mine too"?

Like I understand being suspicious about getting sent donation links to your inbox, but literally all you have to do is check if the blog's been vetted by other bloggers? It's as easy as searching for their URL on tumblr sometimes, it literally takes less than a minute or two. And that's what bothers you? That's what you're complaining about? Find a real problem!!!

[pynkhues]

The same people on X who post that not partaking in the femme Louis head-canon is racist have posted that they hate when people use she/her pronouns for Lestat. And they don't care what he calls himself even though he's used she/her pronouns in the show, because he is a MAN. Surprise, surprise.

I mean, as you said, it's not exactly a surprise, anon. I sometimes wonder if some people's more aggressive behaviour in the fandom has been partially motivated by - - mm, not jealousy, perhaps, but frustration maybe over the fact that Lestat's already done in canon on the show what a lot of them want Louis to be doing (i.e. he's worn drag, used she/her pronouns, compared himself to a mother, been the unemployed, supportive spouse to a working partner, been the birthing parent of a daughter [which I say just because Louis pretty explicitly doesn't see Madeleine as one]). Things that in some people's narrow view of gender 'feminises' him - again, I don't think Lestat's all that feminine really as a character. Is he gender non-conforming? Mm, maybe? I really tend to think he's just Lestat, haha. That said, these are all things that he's canonically done already - and the fact that the show has gone there with Lestat explicitly kind of muddies the water a bit as to how you might be able to argue why the show might not have with Louis. if Louis being femme is what the show's canonically trying to get across, why haven't any of these things happened with him, given the show's clearly not afraid to go there, y'know?

I mentioned it in my posts last weekend too, but I do wonder how much of it is about trying to temper the waters ahead of s3, particularly with this holding to the idea of Louis as a gothic heroine. Again, I don't think either he or Lestat are personally (I think Claudia is a quintessential gothic heroine, and a brilliant one at that, as I've said before), but, through Anne, TVL is deeply entrenched in the female gothic as a story, and it'd be pretty impossible to deny that there are traditional gothic heroine tropes in Lestat's story - from the abuse within his father's house, to the utter lack of familial protection that sees him almost torn apart by wolves (and gosh, it's not gothic, but The Little Red Riding Hood parallels are explicitly talked about in canon - Lestat relates to her! More than once!), to Magnus terrorising him through Paris before he rapes and kills him, to Armand's tormenting obsession, to Marius' patronage that eventually sees him straight into Louis' arms and a real (albeit complicated) love story.

I do think a lot of these parts of the fandom aren't overly familiar with the books, but I think a lot of them also know enough at this point to be Aware, y'know? So in some ways it feels like - - mmm, pre-emptive action from a few people? Or, I don't know. I said it in the last post, but there is this sense of some people wanting to salt the earth of this fandom so nothing they don't like can grow, and maybe it really is just that. But anyway, yeah. Not surprised, and I'd just ignore it, anon, if you can.

[itischeese]

The meaning in a name: Oh-Bee-Toe

SO THIS HAPPENED. Yeah,,, I've been on a binge of drawing these two recently (I need to post some of the Actual Stuff but this took priotity for obvious reasons)...

ANYWAY, CRACK AU TIME

(Yes I know this doesn't work in the original Japanese. Yes I am choosing to put a Might-Guy spin on his name. No I do not regret this)

SO in this AU, Obito is named Obito bc his mother's first words upon his birth were "Oh! Bee-toes!"

His tragic backstory in this AU is that his toes stung his mother the first time she held him, and she was horribly allergic to bees.... She died holding him....

He was raised in his little years by the granny next door who happened to be a bee keeper...

[yellowlaboratory]

omg did you see that our boat show is ending.

literally want to cry and bawl my eyes out. im so saddddd

i can’t believe this my favs are leaving us.

i have seen it. then I spent 20 minutes gaslighting myself into believing it wasn't real. now I'm still working on processing it. like I'm truly cycle through the stages of grief.

sending you a massive hug 🫶🫶🫶

(and i'm taking any and all recommendations for new upcoming hyperfixations)

[arctic-hands]

Time and distance heals things I guess. My parents got into an abusive fight with me after i took markers and pens to most of my clothes in middle school to scribble doodles and social justice messages (most prominently, Save Darfur–which really needs to be a rallying cry again given that the genocide has kicked up again as the Sudanese civil war rages). They were worried I'd look "unpresentable" in my massively oversized boy graphic tees and baggy jeans held up only by the grace of God (this was all by choice btw, i had and have always despised tight clothing and by middle school I had shunned girl clothes all together). But now at 31 I make mention of writing messages in sharpie on new t-shirts and my mom thinks it's cool and my dad offered to buy me proper fabric markers (I declined bc the cheap shirts will prolly wear out before the sharpies fade anyway). Go figure

[dennisboobs]

plain and simple i am not going to be able to remain in this fandom long-term if i have to keep putting disclaimers on every single one of my posts that say i don't condone dennis' bad, bad actions and that i am in fact aware he's got a history of sexual assault and dubious/nonconsent. the entire gang has done heinous shit. why is dennis the only one who needs to be treated like this? if some rando wants to post about how dennis is pookie pie that doesn't automatically mean they're blind to his crimes. every single member of the gang is a piece of shit. that's kind of the point.

draw dennis with cat ears who give a shit

[aceofwands]

idk man I just think of all the franchises you could try to make the Next Big Thing by creating a bunch of new shows and movies, maybe don't pick the one with the notoriously nitpicky obsessed with canon fandom ?? if you don't plan on applying any sort of consistency to the world, characters, alien cultures, entire ethical and moral framework of the universe, etc etc ????

[eddis-not-eeddis]

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[quitedisastrous]

i wish i could just do nothing for a few days straight. maybe even just sleep for a few days straight. sooo excited for constant misery over the next 20 days

ranting in the tags. i would just scroll past if i were you