#I'm sorry for ranting

[bloodbathfortwo]

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[weirdestcornelius]

Honestly I feel there's a conflict of interest when it comes to the world building being stripped of politics when attempting to also have a story that critiques the medical world. I get it's a vent comic and I respect it but I'm honestly quietly dreading how themes are going to be protrayed, i dread it's just going to say nothing and come off not saying much of anything. .

-•👁️•new anon btw

Other critique blogs have talked about this before, but in a lot of cases you cannot just remove one conflict of the world without affecting the others. The politics thing is especially annoying because I just KNOW that Kc is gonna woobify everyone except Cuddles once we actually get introduced to Meat. It's going to be "don't blame Meat you guys!!!!!!! He didn't do anything wrong, blame Cuddles!!!!! Cuddles is the bad guy!!!!!! :(((((((((" even though Meat has just let the hospital run. And from how nervous he's always looking in art and ref sheets, I can almost guarantee you he knows at least a little about it.

Not saying I hate Meat though. I want more FUCKED UP GUYS I want more crazy or selfish people like seriously everyone is just a husk of their formal self at this point. But my question is how is Kc gonna say politics doesn't exist but then turn around and give them a president. Do elections just not exist? Is this one of tyranny things that are gonna be painted as good because "politics bad"? It's really confusing because we don't even know how their political system even works, when in reality politics and the terrible things that happen in hospitals/mental wards plus the shitty way American healthcare works are all intertwined with each other. I personally wouldn't be really surprised if we were just told that Cuddles invented medical malpractice himself or something.

Some of the world building I really like, but come on now. If this is supposed to be a comic that mirrors actual real world problems, you should at least TRY to make it similar to our world. "People don't eat meat because of cultural reasons! It's considered barbaric" is how I knew that Kc is probably a vegetarian. This is supposed to be the "ideal world" while still including medical malpractice, but apparently Kcs ideal world is just Christian/Atheist utopia where everyone gets along except for this One Guy who just absorbed everyone else's evilness.

[songmingisthighs]

SORRY FOR BEING LATE AJSVJDDH I HAD TO DEAL WITH SOME FAMILY ISSUES

the pussy boy who recorded me and my little siblings talking and shared it to the whole family and ruined my whole bali trip has somehow made things worse bc now i'm being singlehandedly blamed for the whole debacle and by god can SOMEONE HELP ME GET SOME COMPENSATION FROM THIS FREAK FOR MY LITTLE SIBLINGS BECAUSE HE BROKE PRIVACY LAW AND ELECTRONIC LAW IN THIS COUNTRY

like dude istfg do whatever you want to me, i can take your stupid test cheating, vapid ass, but no one DISTURBS MY LITTLE SIBLINGS' SAFE SPACE

[angeyartist]

Sometimes I feel overwhelmed in a way when it comes to drawing just for posting..... I have a bunch if fanart ideas yet I don't even have the energy to draw it.... It makes me sad too, this week has been hectic... Sometimes I wonder if I'm even making any progress throughout my social medias as the algorithm is quite bad for me haha.... Ha..... It makes me question myself if all of this effort is just a waste...

[oh-snapperss]

they'll fund a genocide and let their poor regions be destroyed. don't fucking forgive them for that.

my hometown is completely gone from what pictures i can find of it, i have not heard from my family (including aunts, uncles, parents, one sibling, and a grandparent), and the infrastructure in the mountain communities is wiped out. i cannot stress how catastrophic this is, or how difficult it will be for these communities to build back. i am angry, and scared, and heartbroken by everything that's happened.

and our government is spending it's money to fund a genocide.

free palestine, and don't be complicit. realize that this is not something happening that doesn't affect you--although it shouldn't take this to care about the deaths of thousands of people anyway.

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I am incredibly serious right now when I beg you all, please, and if you have Twitter or Tiktok or whatever to please spread the word: click on an author's profile on Ao3.

You want to know if an author has written more? Want to know if they're still writing? Want to see more from them? Want to know if they've written a trope or kink or sex scenario you enjoy?

Click on their name. And look at their profile.

I cannot tell you how many times in the last six months someone has read a new or newer fic of mine and said they (a new reader who has read nothing else I've done) "can't wait to see what you do next!" I've written 50+ fics and over a million words already.

"I don't know if you're still writing..." click on my profile. I am. I literally wrote a 128k+ fic for that ship last month.

"Would you ever do X?" "Please do Y!" I already did. Click on my name and look at my works.

Archive of our Own is a library. It's an archive. Not social media. It is your responsibility to fight back against the laziness that corporate algorithms have trained into you.

Click my author name. Just click it. Just click it.

Before you demand more, or ask if a writer will do XYZ, or wonder if the author still writing, or anything - click on their profile. Click on the author's profile.

I'm not trying to be mean or condescending or anything like that. I'm just exhausted. It's disheartening and frustrating to repeat myself ad nauseam, because someone couldn't take thirty seconds to do the tiniest bit of work to see if I've written lately, if I've written more for their ship, or scan my works to see if I've written what they're asking for. Please. Please. I'm begging.

Click the author's name, and explore before you ask.

[varpusvaras]

I mean...technically, Fox isn't portrayed as a villain, and neither is the Coruscant Guard. The right word is antagonist. Villain is someone who is doing bad things with malicious intent, and Fox is not canonically that. What Fox's canonical role is, is to show how the clones and the indoctrination they go through can manifest when they have no positive leading examples around. Fox is rigid and goes by the rules and uses power heavy-handedly at times, because that is what he was trained for and what he is told to do time and time again. He and the Corries are an opposing force to the more free-spirited main characters who have character arcs about bending the rules and whatnot. Thus, he is an antagonistic character at times (not always, as he is on the same side as the main characters after all).

This post wasn't about "boohoo, my blorbo is not portrayed as a sweet cinnamon roll by the fandom!". No, it is about the fact that you really, really cannot go outside of tumblr without seeing masses of people saying that he is an absolute evil psychopath and deserved to die. No matter where he is mentioned, these are the majority of things said about him. People are 99 percent of the time happy about the fact that Vader (someone who is actually a villain) killed him.

Yes, darker interpretations of Fox are a healthy part of fandom, as well as are the portrayals of him as a more nuanced character. That's fine and cool and honestly very great. Also yes, he does a lot of mistakes, but I do think that you are being a bit unfair here towards him (no offense, okay? I just wanna talk). Like, yes, he used too much force when dealing with Ahsoka. But then again, Ahsoka has just broken out of the prison, after she had been caught murdering someone on record, and she is a suspect in terrorism and is apparently on a murder spree again. Fox, canonically, deals with terrorists and other security threats on a daily basis. He is most likely approaching this like every other job he has. Not saying he didn't do anything wrong, but again, he is supposed to be antagonistic here and a nuanced character, who has been dealt with an equally of a shitty hand as all the other clones, but who doesn't have a Jedi telling him to be mindful and patting him on the back when he does something correct. No, he is supposed to deal with threats efficiently. That's his job. A job he didn't choose, and in which he has no room to grow freely as a person. That is a nuanced take on him based on canon.

Also...Anakin has a reputation. He was acting aggressive and threatening towards Fox. Fox didn't attack him, and neither did the Guards there. Fox flinched, and the Corries escorted Anakin out. Anakin is not above the rules, and Fox did correct by the rules there. We can argue if the rules are correct or not, but not really fault Fox for following them.

So yeah. He is sometimes an antagonist in the storyline, someone to oppose the mindset of the main characters. He is not, canonically, a villain, and has never been portrayed as such, and it gets really fucking tiring when you cannot have any positive discussion about him outside of small circles on one single website.

Let's talk about he unwarranted Fox hate.

I often see that a lot of people tend to hate on Commander Fox, often portraying him as a villainous kind of character or very cold and selfish compared to the more heroic and beloved Commander Thorn.

I see these two characters portrayed as "the good commander" and "the bad commander" of the Coruscant guard, when in reality they are both pretty much the same character.

But just for the fact that Fox killed Fives, the public decided to label him as a "bad guy".

But that's not the case, in fact if we changed characters and placed Thorn hunting after Fives and Fox on the diplomatic mission, chances are both situations would have ended the same way: with Fives dead at the hands of Thorn and Fox dying heroically for the republic.

Why is this?

Well for starters we need to understand what a Coruscant guard is.

These were clones that were raised and trained differently from common clone troopers as their assignment was to act as a security police force for Coruscant. As a result, they dealt with different threats than normal troopers.

Clone troopers knew what their enemies looked like, the separatist forces were easy to recognize in the battlefield. But for the Coruscant guard the enemy could take many forms. They would not see battle droids on the streets attempting on the lives of the senate. They would have to deal with terrorists, dressed as common folk or unconscious work droids. They had to be more alert and more skeptic of their surroundings 24/7 as the fate of the republic laid in their hands.

One false move could cost the lives of the chancellor and the senate and with them the Republic would fall. That is the weight these clones carry on their shoulders. This is the responsibility that both Fox and Thorn carry along with the other commanders in red.

Both Fox and Thorn are very similar in canon.

Fox appears more than Thorn and we can see from his canon(and legends) appearances that he is a fiercely loyal clone to the republic, hard working and honorable like many of his brothers. He is the first to charge into battle, leading his troops with bravery and has little patience for criminals.

Thorn seems to have a similar sense of duty, loyalty and bravery that Fox has, as he also stands his ground during battle, refusing to surrender til the very last second. We sadly don't see more of Thorn beyond his one and only appearance.

So why do people hate Fox so much, when he and Thorn are not that different?

Well, he killed Fives.

But I don't think he should be hated for it.

To explain this, join me to see things through the fox's eye, and learn the other side of the story.

We as the audience know Fives since he is a Shiny, and we see him grow up, level up, become an ARC trooper and survive many perils. We see him discover that one plot that we know causes so much death and destruction and even tho we know the ending of the story, we want to root for him and we get frustrated when we see no-one hears him out. We also, as the audience, know that Palpatine is the bad guy, he is playing chess against himself and ruining the lives of countless people for his own sick pleasure in his path to rule the Galaxy.

But Fox doesn't know any of this.

He doesn't know Palpatine is secretly Dath Sidious. He doesn't know there is a secret plot to destroy the Jedi and that he and his brothers are just pawns in a greater scheme.

As far as he is concerned, the Chancellor is the head of the Republic, and if anything happens to him it might mean the end of the Republic and the death of not only him but all his brothers. It's his duty to protect Palpatine from harm. And there are a lot of people trying to hurt him.

He also doesn't know Fives.

He might have heard of him as Fives is a respected ARC trooper from the 501st. But he doesn't know him personally like we do, like Rex does. He has no real connection to him other than Fives being another Clone like him.

So when he hears that there is this erratic clone that tried to kill Palpatine and is now on the run, of course he would see Fives as a threat.

Remember that the Kaminoans covered the whole inhibitor chip thing by saying it was a behavioral regulator, that kept Clones from becoming aggressive and erratic. The Kaminoan even took the example of Tup's chip malfunction as proof that without the chip the clones turn irrational and unpredictable. This is the information the characters have. The ONLY ONES that know the truth are Palpatine, the Kaminoans and Fives.

So in Fox's eyes, Fives turned erratic because he also has a chip malfunction. He became irrational, unpredictable, erratic and has attempted to kill someone before. He might try to do so again and is now on the run. It's his duty as head of the Coruscant guard to find him and stop him before he hurts someone.

When he finds Fives, he has Anakin and Rex as hostages and is talking nonsense, acting erratic and paranoic. He could hurt Anakin or Rex, two very important and prominent figures in the GAR and their deaths could result in disadvantage against the Separatist forces. Fox cannot afford that. And yet he doesn't enter shooting, he points his gun at Fives and orders him to raise his hands and surrender. He gives Fives a chance to go peacefully, to de-escalate the situation. And when he sees that Fives looks at the blaster on his side he even yells at him to stop, he asks him not to do it, not to take the gun and make things worse. But Fives doesn't listen, he takes the gun yelling and Fox has to make a split-second decision.

In a moment like that, when you are a second away of a disaster, when you, your brothers or the hostages could get killed by the shot of a unhinged person. You don't get enough time to think.

Fox reacts and shoots Fives to stop him from harming others.

Sure, we could argue that Fox could have used stun instead, or that he could have shot Five's hand, anything to not kill him.

But we need to understand that in situations like that, when tensions are high, then it's life or death and you have to take a split-second decision, you don't usually have time to be rational.

Even the most trained people can't always take the most rational option, and often choose the best option they can.

Fox took the best option he could in that situation.

And I don't think that Thorn, Thire, Stone or any of the other Shock trooper Commanders would have done any different, any better.

They all would have been faced with the same dire situation, and they all would have had to take the split-second decision.

One could argue that the fact that Fox was not present in the circle of Coruscant guards taking off their helmets as they mourn Fives, could imply that he was indifferent to his death.

And maybe? However I don't think that's the case.

Remember that Fox tried to stop Fives, he tried to give him a chance to surrender and in the end he couldn't stop. He had to shoot a fellow clone. A clone whose face he sees in all his brothers, the companions he trained with, fought with, work with everyday. He did not wanted to kill Fives.

That has to be very haunting.

I like to believe that Fox is not the mourning circle, because he had to take a step back to come to terms to what he has done.

Fox has been proven to be an honorable man. How can he stand a join the mourning of a man he just killed? How can he see into Rex's eyes as he cries for the close brother he has lost? Maybe he felt like he had no right to be there.

Then again this is just my speculation, considering what little canon we have of Fox.

In general I don't think we should hate on Fox for Fives' death. Sure, Fives is easily my second favorite clone, way above Fox in my raitings, and I suffered a lot when he died. But I do think that the situation was way to out of hand and Fox did as best as he could to keep everyone safe.

Fives was not at fault either. Remember he was drugged, and he was feeling frustrated, paranoic, confused, he was panicking and not thinking clearly.

The only one at fault here is Palpatine and his schemes.

That said...

I'm not saying that you should stop portraying Fox as a cold and ruthless character.

Hell, I myself like to represent him as a more stoic and sarcastic person compared to his brothers and I've seen many different portrayals of this character, with many different personalities that I love!

You are free to a enjoy the fandom as you wish after all!

Just keep this post in mind and please don't hate on people who like Fox as a character.

We all deserve to enjoy Star Wars and it's wonderful characters that inspire us.

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Well, this has been my Rant! If you reached all the way down here thank you for reading ♥

And may the force be with you.

[simandy]

I need everyone to sit with me on the floor for a second. You guys remember this is a community centered around a dress up game, right? A simulation game. You know. EA once stared down at SimCity and asked themselves: "hey! Those people screaming down there, because of the alien attack, what are they thinking about?" And then we got The Sims. This is what this community is about. You remember that, right? We're all just a bunch of nerds (affectionate) playing a videogame. We are ALL nerds. You are not the cool kid for bullying another nerd. In the end of the day you are also a nerd who's obsessed with a game. And I mean this with all the kindness in my heart. We were supposed to be sharing our little colorful pixel people and cheering for each other's games and stuff. How does "hey this modder didn't update my favorite mod in 5 days now. I should expose their address online for strangers to harass him personally" comes to one's mind??? Over a dress up simulation game???? Hello??? Respect your other nerd friend! Stop biting, kid! I'm calling your mom!

[sob3rdeath]

mdni, please! +18 content ahead. ♡

nanami, who's into innocent, naive and sweet girls. he finds pleasure into being a little mean to them. he just meets you one day on a bar, by accident, and he's so, so nice and gentle that the next thing you know he's groping your tits while he whispers in your ear about how he's gonna ruin you and break you. he thinks that it's so funny to see you blush and turn into jelly into his strong arms, and he whispers again with that deep voice of his on your ear about "you're so damn precious and sweet — you have no idea of all the things i want to do to you right now, doll. how bad i'm holding myself back now."

but after all, it's fine. by the end of the day, he has got you sitting on his dick while he fucks up into you, smiling like an idiot at your, into his words, 'doll face', full of smeared makeup and tears he'll make sure to kiss away. but by now, he just wants you to cum on his cock again and listen to your sweet, honeyed moans that are the most pleasant sound he has ever heard.

dividers by aquazero.

[nipuni]

Casanova sketches!

[snarkspawn]

I really enjoy playing through tnp again like hi it's been a while

[itachiiwrites]

I'm so tired of people complaining over and over again about how they're tired of seeing smut all the time but then there are very less reblogs on their page of any genre at all, especially the genre that they're demanding. This is such entitled behaviour, you consume and consume and do nothing to add to it, you don't share feedback, you don't comment, you don't reblog. It's insane. Second of all, I am voracious smut writer and reader and I have never had any shame in it whatsoever, however, I have so many pieces on my blog that are not entirely smut, it's smut with plot, I have pure fluff, angst and non-smut dark content as well. But guess what? Those posts get 100 notes over the course of a WEEK whereas a stupid horny choso drabble of mine that's so fucking unserious gets 6.5k+ notes, very obviously writers will have to write things that gets them engagement sadly before they can even introduce the work they really like to write. So yeah. Don't tell writers that they don't write anything beyond smut when this is how you treat them.

[andsewingishalfthebattle]

Novice sewing pattern: Cut out shapes. Line up the little triangles on the edges. Stitch edges together. We've also included step-by-step assembly instructions with illustrations.

Novice knitting pattern: yOU MUSt uNDerstANd thE SECret cOdE CO67 (73, 87, 93) BO44 (63, 76, 90) 28 (32, 34) slip first pw repeat 7x K to end *kl (pl) 42 * until 13" (13, 13, 15) join new at 30 pl for 17 rows ssk 27 k2tog mattress lengthwise BO and sacrifice a goat to the knitting gods. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WANT "INSTRUCTIONS," I JUST GAVE THEM TO YOU

[shinynewmemories]

Listen to me Suzanne Collins did not have to give Katniss and Peeta a history before the games. She did NOT have to do that. She could have just had their story begin when Peeta's name was called. She could have had them be total strangers until the moment of the reaping.

Like: "And the boy tribute is... Peeta Mellark!" Katniss: Who's that? Or she could have made them vaguely familiar with each other! Peeta's name is called and Katniss just thinks, Oh, I know that name! He's in my class, actually. Poor boy... Anyway!

Either way, SC could have written the rest of the story exactly the same! I think many authors would have done that! Because if Peeta's purpose in the book was to be Gale's competition, to be one of the 3 corners of a love triangle, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE WAY TO DO IT!! But that's NOT how she did it because that's NOT what Peeta is.

And who is he? To Katniss, Peeta's someone who saved her and her family and received nothing in return except a beating. Peeta's someone she has had her eye on but has never worked up the courage to talk to. Peeta's someone she associates with kindness and hope. And all this before the start of the events of the book! Just because WE, the READERS, met Gale before Peeta and immediately felt a connection with him does NOT mean that was Katniss's experience! And that's what SC is trying to tell us!

To dismiss Katniss and Peeta's past as unimportant or inconsequential compared to whatever Katniss and Gale have in the present is to fundamentally misunderstand Katniss as a character and, as a result, condemn oneself to never fully understand the choices she makes in the future.

Suzanne Collins wrote it that way on purpose because she had something to say. And no one will ever be able to convince me that something wasn't "It was always going to be Peeta".

[menlove]

someone: are you okay

me: so in 1964 john lennon wrote one of his only love ballads, "if I fell" and called it auto biographical even though it doesn't match w any of his public relationships. the lyrics can easily be flipped to be about him pining for someone already in a relationship with a woman which would most likely be a man (as seen in "across the universe" where they did the song from a woman's pov to a man without changing the lyrics and it still worked). he wrote the full lyrics for the first time on the inside of a valentines day card and in the corner you can see his handwriting that says "to: paul with love" with an arrow pointing inside and some doodled hearts. it was auctioned off in the 2000s, but the description only says it was written on a plane on a card "given to paul" as a spare paper, not acknowledging the little dedication with the hearts. years later he referred to it as a "silly love song," referring back to paul's song that was in turn referring to his mocking comments. and that's why he's a fa-

[featheredadora]