#It’s kind of disheartening
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Not gonna lie the way some people talk about the female characters from PBB/LL makes me want to lay on the floor
#does YOUR comment about tess that you wrote in 30 seconds pass the bechdel test?#complaining#text#pbbposting#I understand that this trend within the fandom is difficult to deconstruct because it’s more-so a product of broader societal problems#and also the fact that canon has semi-facilitated it by not really giving any of it’s female characters a whole lot to do?#It’s kind of disheartening#to see people not really be able to comprehend Tess/Mabel/Faust#as anything other than orbiters of male characters#:|#Better content creators have made this exact same sentiment before so I’m preaching to the choir A Bit#But I think we should make a better effort to recontextualise how we discuss these characters#Anyways sorry my blog has been Like This I’ll go back to posting art soon
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First time I’ve seen artist victim blaming.
Annon, people apparently are allergic to reblogging art these days. Which means less people see it and reblog it. If you’re so concerned, start reblogging art.
Is there a reason you don't get more notes? You have amazing art, are you cancelled or something and I shouldn't be following you? Genuinely concerned. What is wrong with you?
. are you blaming me for not getting more notes is this what is happening here on this day !
#not gonna call anyone out#but I have a few followers who alway like my art#but never reblog#it’s kind of disheartening
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something that’s always been funny to me is that long fics with smut tend to do better than long fics without but it’s like. if you write a longggg 10k+ word fic with a build up and plot and sprinkle in smut at the end, people will read that long build up and pay attention to the plot in order to get to the smut. and 99% of the time the tags and comments will talk about the plot itself and the way it was written as opposed to the sex and they will ask for more or for part 2’s and as annoying as the part 2 comments can be sometimes, it also means that they focused on the plot and not the smut. but if you post that fic without the smut—as in same fic and same build up and everything, but the smuts not there, a lot of those same people will simply not give the fic a chance. it’s just funny to me bc yes, a part of it is just horniness, but also i think it’s partly that there is also some conditioning to believe that a “perfect romance” or a “perfect story” of a romance is sealed with intimacy that’s more often than not sexual in order to actually be valid. and yeah. idk. it’s an interesting thing to see from a writers perspective
#me personally i write what i want im at a comfortable place in my writing that#i don’t rly feel i need to add that smut to get engagement#partially bc i think im blessed with readers who are very kind to me and always reiterate that they would read whatever i put out#i have so many anons that tell me they don’t know anything ab genshin but they read my works for the fandom anyway bc i wrote it and i feel#grateful that there will always be an audience i can count on to support my writing#but partially also bc i’m also happy w my writing that if i did post a fic that had not smut and it didn’t rly get attention i wouldn’t feel#disheartened by it bc writing it was meaningful to me#but#ig it’s just an interesting divide to see of like ‘i won’t read it without smut’ vs ‘i will read it with or without for the story !!’
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pretty & cute witch men
#witch hat tag#orufrey#i'm not drawing as much or as well as i'd like to be doing. i'm trying to get through a comic i've been really wanting to do#but i'm just finding it so hard. disheartening. btw the 2nd one relates to some official art of qif wearing a dress like the girls#and the 4th one relates to how i've been drawing EXTREMELY SMALL for years. idk how to explain it but i always clicked 'fit to screen'#and so all my art EVER has looked bad when you zoom in bc it's already like size 1 zoomed in to the MAX pfhgguguhfpfhGHAHHHHH#i was so confused allll this time why brushes always look different for me than what they're supposed to#'wow this brush is so jaggedy..really rather jaggedy...calling it the Jagged Cai Special..bringing it out for those jaggedy moments..#really quite jaggedy i must say...' and it's literally not jaggedy#but now i have to get used to how all those brushes that i'd gotten used to indeed look how they're supposed to finally. Alarming#I have simply been working out absolutely everything by myself for years and that's why my technical progress is slow#ppl say my progress is fast and i certainly have improved much since i began doing all this but#like..it took me a year and half to start using a program where i could Colour In The Lines aka the..whatever it's called. whatever..#just on my lonely confused solemn journey to express gay love better than yesterday.. -_- *picks up my pack n continues through the snow*#btw thank you sm for people's kind words enjoying my narumitsu art & fic over the christmas & new year period <3
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Patalliro! is fascinating to me because of stuff like this. It's unapologetically gay - even within its anime which aired during primetime hours in 1982 - in a way that many later BL manga would never be, like the ones from the early 2000s which would never dare to call their characters actual homosexuals. Patalliro has actually aged quite well in this regard, there's something comforting about how campy it is.
#i still dont really understand how they got away with this kind of thing honestly#female VAs i get that - but first m/m kiss in an anime in episode THREE?????#theres also the maraich/thomas episode where they are *Both* voiced by women....advanced yuri#patalliro#i love how bancorans gender expression is pretty much explicitly to attract only bishounen#you blushed - so you must not be a girl#etc#i also love how joyful it all is#theres never anything sad or tragic about being gay - only that bancoran is forced to kill the bishounen spies/assassins/etc#when bancoran finds out that gay sex feels good after demian; in the manga he is elated. its basically a positive thing#he awakens to his true power...lol#also notable is that while bishounen youth is glorified maraich is 18#this means it portrays being gay as an adult as normal; not a phase relegated to nostalgic adolescent periods of time#according to the NYT japan's psychiatric body called homosexuality a mental illness until 1995#im NOT going to say patalliro changed that or anything lmao but its just significant to me that banmara get to live their lives happily#even raise children together in the manga....???#especially contrasting that with kaze to ki no uta and other manga of the time (no shade intended)#yaoi#<- for tagging purposes#obviously it also got away with a lot by being a gag manga. but still!#months later edit: want to say im not intending to moralize BL manga from the 2000s either. like gen. no hate on them.#as a gay person i just appreciate when characters who act gay are considered gay textually#and its kind of disheartening how gay-as-identity was treated as something incredulous in those manga a lot of the time#even the mere suggestion of attraction to men as a whole and not just the other male lead...yknow#this post is meant to praise patalliro for being unique in its approach to gay content compared to other titles#ive enjoyed plenty of 2000s yaoi titles despite their shortcomings lol#joseiposting#shoujo
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Not to be that person who starts discourse on their fandom blog, but like clearly I need to say this outside of the pinned post bc it keeps happening??
I’m cool with reuploads guys, put my shitposts on Reddit all you want, I’m fine with it. But for the love of god give me some credit when you do??? It’s really not hard to put a link or just even say “this was drawn by dailydegurechaff on tumblr”
This is like the third time the “PSA regarding proper handling” post has been reposted without proper credit.
And like????
What do you mean you “couldn’t find the artist”??? You had it right already. The artist is Dailydegurechaff?? Do you think I don’t draw these myself? I feel like I should be offended people would assume I’m just reposting art I found elsewhere.
I’m sorry to rant, but lack of art credit is the one thing that seriously sets me off
-- Editing to add further comments bc reddit saw this post: This post was made in a fit of irritation, literally only meant to vent some frustration. I just wanted to complain abt my feelings a bit, not start some inter-website fight. It wasn't intended to be a personal attack at the OP, but I see now how it could be read that way and I apologize for that. The OP apologized to me and added credit which I thank them for. No hard feelings for them, I'm cool with them.
I really have no intention to stir up drama with the reddit side of the YS community, I just want to continue to draw daily tanyas. Ty
#not a daily post#it’s kind of disheartening to see over a years worth of effort on this blog reduced to the assumption I’m not the artist#like… does this person think I’m just a reposter? I don’t get it#also#did you know? the first repost of that drawing is the second most upvoted post of all time on the subreddit#it was an uncredited repost because of course it was#yeah. maybe I *am* salty about it. sorry
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It's "mental health is important" until someone prioritises their mental health in a way that inconveniences you.
#chappell roan#I understood where the scheduling conflict cancellation backlash was coming from#because her team should have figured that out sooner#BUT THIS?#how was she supposed to know?#it wasn't even her concert it was a festival and the lineup is so good!#being disheartened is one thing and taking it out on her is another#you need to remember artists are human beings and so this kind of risk is always there#and make your decisions accordingly#mental health
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omg you're 38?!? 😳 same age as me... i was certain you were a lot younger than that.... unghhh that makes me yearn SO much harder 😵💫
Okay you win for the nicest ask ever, I will go cry now
#not the assumption of me being younger lol#but it's obvious and disheartening that my age bracket gets less love here#its hard enough to see in the real world#thank you for being a light in the dark seriously#posting in the hopes it lifts some other people my age up too#seriously very kind of you to say and im hoping you have a really good day#asks#also lol im constantly calling myself an old lady its not a joke or anything
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#I wasn’t going to post abt this again but it rlly bothered me#I rlly dislike how normalized condescension and downright hostility in the lolita community is#all I did was send a silly little tier list that I put my own time and effort into making#but instead of just…. doing the ranking multiple people decided to be blatantly rude to me because of the title?#like 1. it doesn’t even matter 2. it’s just the fucking title#they also seemed to blatantly misinterpreted what the title was#it said ERA at the end because it was a tier list of the era that AP made things in that particular style#the title wasn’t ‘aps Swassic releases’#I just didn’t know what else to title it yet somehow that was enough to be rude to my fucking face and even comment further to basically#make fun of me#genuinely it’s tiring and ridiculous#sorry that I didn’t title it#the era that angelic pretty made some Swassic#some gothic#some creepy cute#and some sweet releases#like jfc this community’s issue with nitpicking and condescension is why people no longer want to try and do fun things#everyone always asks why blogs and YouTube channels and lolita media in general is dying and it’s because#trying to do anything even for fun in this community is met with these kinds of responses#over a TITLE#that literally doesn’t fucking matter#like I try very hard to avoid ranting because I don’t like conflict but what the fuck#it’s very disheartening#I mean maybe they didn’t realize I made it and they were pretty much making fun of me to my face but even the#why be ok with making fun of smthn ANYONE did just for fun#yaps
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11. Blood at the corner of your mouth.
It is not your blood at the edge of your mouth. Not your blood that your tongue swipes from the corner of your lips. Not your blood whose coppery tastes lingers between your teeth.
But he fucking deserved it.
Sister Kindness has you tucked under her arm as she, to use her words, books it. Something she must not do often because she huffs and puffs her way through the crowded Shaded Bower. And though some call out ‘Sister’ to her with warm recognition she does not stop ‘booking’ it. (Sister Kindness would have you know that she is perfectly in shape for a woman of her age. She was ‘huffing and puffing’ from the extra weight of carrying you, thank you very much.)
She slows when the westshore pier appears around the corner and then she steps off the main path and sets you down. Kneeling to be something more like eye-level, she pulls a Roegadyn-sized handkerchief from the depths of her habit. Wetting a corner with a flask pulled from a separate, equally confusing pocket she begins to clean the blood from your face.
Sister Kindness’ hand is firm where it grips your chin, holding as little of you as possible. For once the contact does not send you recoiling. Perhaps it is the way your rage has left you as quickly as it had flooded you, leaving you feeling drained of everything else as well. Now that the moment has passed you tremble and, to your horror, you can feel a well of tears rising to fill that empty space.
“Was a helluva bite, darling girl,” Sister Kindness’s voice is quiet as she tilts your head to the light, searching for any blood she may have missed. You focus on her creek colored eyes and swear you feel their waters lapping at your ankles. Her smile is sudden but woozy around the edges; she is just as shaken. "Reckon he'll have a scar, too. Bet he lies about who gave it to him." ‘He’ was an elezen man -- maybe a merchant but likely not, as Sister Kindness did not know him -- with a face as sharp as his ears and a smile that spoke of too much confidence. And you had hated him on sight. His crime was making Sister Kindness uncomfortable and his mistake was not being aware of his surroundings.
It does not take much pressure to break skin.
Pleased with her work, Sister Kindness rises and disappears the handkerchief away. Handing you the flask, she instructs you to take a sip, swirl it around your mouth, and spit it out. There is some confusion about what 'swirl' means but, eventually, she is satisfied with this too. “Well, we didn’t get what I came for but we’ll be headed home all the same. Come now, before the ferry leaves without us. We will, ah, not be telling the abbess about this.” You don’t know if she means the bite or the trip to the city.
You don’t ask.
Thank you for the ask, Anon! ][ Sensory Prompts ][
#Answered#Pigeon Writing#Sister Kindness#Sister Patience#<- tags for odette/convent stuff as it's her nun name#i have just decided this#which means I will forget it thank you#but also thank you for the ask anon this one wrote itself more or less !!#posting this before i think too much about it#i am lowkey trying to stop writing only second person pov because I've had enough people casually tell me the hate it#(not my writing like specifically but just the pov in general)#(which is normal and fine !!! just sometimes disheartening like life is sometimes)#but the prompt used 'you' and gestures#but also sister kindness why do these merchants greet you warmly HUH!?#aren't you suppose to be living a secluded life of holy contemplation HUH SISTER KINDNESS???#(i remove my hands from the keyboard so i stop editing the tags)#(brains are dumb why do we even HAVE these)
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Hello! I've been kind of vanished, and I'm not confident I'm fully back yet, but I'm feeling noticeably less frazzled, and I'm ready to start catching up on the backlog of what I've been doing! To start with, I went mad with my new homeowner power and decided to paint a room. And then I decided to paint it a WILD color. And then I decided I also wanted to learn how to panel a wall. All by myself, with a hard deadline before my aunt gifted me a pile of old furniture that was going to take the room from empty to full. It was very cool and fun, but oh my god
Also, most of the paint work quality in my home is uhhhhh indifferent, so i had some fun soeed bumps like having to cut an old mirror off the back of my door and finding at least two color strata of it being painted into place (even after filling and sanding and priming and painting, i can still see the shadow, but that's a problem for future me to continue addressing). And I picked a REALLY dark green. I knew that taking a dark color back to white would need a lot of coats, but I.... did not consider that going from white to almost black would be equally bad, even with toned primer.
If I was doing this again, I think I would have attached the paneling after that first coat. But I think I was still underestimating how many coats it would take to darken bright white material, even with sanding for better grip. And the caulking almost broke me! My secret strategy to picking up new skills is always to underestimate how complicated they are, then power through on pride and stubbornness, but this tested me, haha
But I really love it! It's been done for a few weeks, so I've been dragging furniture into the room and steeling myself to drill holes for the curtain rod, and the Horrors have faded and I'm considering painting another guest room. I adore this color (salamander) to pieces, and I still have another gallon, but I'm not sure I want to commit to all this again. But.... the effect is soooooo restful, and it looks SO luxe, especially with the colored outlets and wall register. It's not going to be in my next paint project, but it may come up again!
#crafts#me home#painting#sure why not let's use that tag for all kinds of painting#i have these lovely wood floors and wanted them to pop#i love it they look great but for the love of god montressor#also the struggles of threading flexible 12 foot molding pieces into my little five seater#they fit if i wrapped them around the back headrest but holy shit there was a moment i thought I'd have to cut them in the parking lot#but i broke the seal! I'm now basically an expert!#im not an expert the genre of shortform videos where pro painters dunk on each other's technique is actually kinda disheartening 🤣#but it turns out it looks good and i love it!#my laundry room sink will never recover
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its really starting to bother me that theres so little to be done for karlach in act 3. like when you first meet dammon he seems so hopeful about finding a solution. he runs through a bunch of ideas and says he cant do anything with the tools he has but he'll keep looking. and then when you meet him in act 2 hes says he cant think of anything but he'll keep trying. and then in act 3?? all he says is that he cant find a solution. theres no way to ask him what research hes been doing. no way to try and do any research yourself.
karlach's companion quest basically ends in act 2. you get that second upgrade and it doesn't make a difference to the way her endings turn out. yeah you can touch her, but that's it. theres still only two 'good' endings for her character.
and it feels like theres so much we should be trying to do? the steel watchers are made of infernal iron. every single watcher has a piece of infernal iron you can collect. some of them even have enriched infernal iron. and apart from the armor dammon can make... there's nothing else to be done with those pieces? even the enriched infernal iron doesnt seem to serve a bigger purpose.
i feel like i should be able to talk to the gondian gnomes for help. they built the steel watchers, which are made of infernal iron and can blast hellfire at you. we can literally go to hell and theres no way to look around or ask about a solution. theres a magic tower with a locked vault and no way to look for magic to nullify/contain the heat.
also we cant talk to karlach about going to stay in the house of hope? i know one of the endings is that she can go to avernus with wyll but shouldn't we be able to suggest she can stay with hope? who's literally trying to make a place of hope in the middle of the hells? theres even portals in one of the rooms to a bunch of places. she could come and go as she pleases. we already have the means to visit if we want.
like i get it the whole point is that shes doomed from the start tragedy etc etc but it still sucks that we can't at least try to do more when it feels like theres so many ways we should be able to
#baldur's gate 3#baldur's gate 3 spoilers#karlach#bg3#bg3 critical#i guess? if people want to avoid anything negative#im just kind of bummed i started romancing her on my first playthrough and discovered theres really only two endings where she doesnt die#and they both kind of suck#and got disheartened and haven't finished it#and im doing another playthrough where i skilled the grove stuff so she only has one upgrade and discovered that it doesn't change her end#at all#her companion quest basically ends in act 2. after that theres nothing to be done#also what does that first upgrade even do??? i know it makes her feel more powerful but does that actually change her stats???#why cant the first upgrade let me hug her#why cant the second upgrade stabilize her more#why is one of my fav companions so neglected in act 3 le sigh
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why do so many people draw their big man gijinkas/humanisations as slightly larger than average man it’s BIG MAN it’s IN THE NAME
#draw a fat man i know you wanna#splatoon#big man#deep cut#no but actually it’s kind of disheartening when people draw him as like an average build#that’s his whole thing ://
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The worst part about the pwhl gaining traction is the hate in the comments. The Instagram comments used to be sweet and fun and encouraging. Now I keep finding people (mostly men) commenting mean things.
I wish that as the pwhl grows its fanbase, it would stay the same as when it had a smaller reach. I wish people would just be excited by more hockey and how skilled the players are. But instead people want to start fights in comment sections. And I know this comes with the territory of getting bigger, but still a girl can dream.
#pwhl#natalie posts#some man said that women always piggyback on mens success and thats what broke me#and i know arguing online is what these trolls want#thats why im venting here#there are still lots of kind people tho!#its just disheartening to see hate slowly creep in
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Ok I haven’t checked up with him in a while but you know that Finn guy that’s been doing the girl month thing? Like??? Why do people keep calling him an egg? From what I’ve seen, he was super secure in his identity as a guy and just genuinely enjoyed how he looked in feminine clothing n shit.
But isn’t that fucking dope???? I thought that was fucking cool as shit!!! Yeah!! That’s a dude guy!! In a dress! Hes very pretty!!! Fuck yeah!!!! You don’t have to be trans to do gender presenting stuff!
Gender presentation and identity should have fuck all to do with each other if you don’t want it to BITCH
#obviously slay if he does end up transing the gender but the speculation and doggin on him all the time is kind of disheartening to see.#yknow?#f1nn5ter#<fOUND IT THATS HIS NAME
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Hello sorry to bother you if you are already get that question, "who holds the devil "will get an update ? or it's on hiatus ? <3
It's not on hiatus, no. I actually have the first draft for the next chapter written already, I just need to edit it. But I really want to finish posting Each Touch first, simply for the satisfaction of actually finishing something, I guess?
Who Holds the Devil is incredibly dear to me and I have every intention of finishing it, but I can't lie and say that it's not exhausting sometimes. The determination required to keep writing a fic this long — to keep believing that I can see it through to the end — is going to wane from time to time.
And, when it does, it helps to finish something else, since it proves that I actually can. Like, even if Who Holds the Devil is nowhere near done yet, I'm not a complete failure.
So a new chapter is on the way, I just can't say for sure when I'll post it. But it'll most likely be what I focus on after I've finished Each Touch.
So just hang in there a little bit longer :)
#Amethystina Replies#Anonymous#I might be projecting a bit#Sorry about that#Because I genuinely feel guilty for prioritising Each Touch over Who Holds the Devil#Since I know a lot of people probably don't want me to#I've already gotten questions asking why I'm posting other things#And not Who Holds the Devil#Which in no way helps#Like#I'm glad people are enthusiastic about Who Holds the Devil#But it's kind of disheartening when I'm told to ignore other projects because of it#(this is not related to this specific ask)#(so don't feel bad anon)#(it's not your fault)#(I'm just projecting)#Ah well
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