#LITERAL NOTHINGBURGER OF A POST

[tillman]

[ritzcuit]

thinking abt klav dar morality and stuff is so fun to me but it's soooo unsatisfying bc ill NEVER HAVE ANY ANSWER EVER. sigh! and also it's deeply tainted by my own beliefs. SIGH!

i like them being pre-gavinners young and childish and "oh well, clearly, Bad People do Bad Things" a thing they both agree on. very confidently. i like a daryan who like, you'd think he was a delinquent kid, a shitty brat.... but tbh i just don't think it would be the case. i think MAYBE he got in some fights.... but i don't think he was the full blown like, "always in trouble good for nothing no future" esque punk.

i think if he was cool enough to be a delinquent he wouldnt be in the FUCKING GAVINNERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!COUGHS UP BLOOD

i think klavier went into law bc kristoph (obviously) and daryan went into law bc of klavier more or less..

i think of them having really confident discussions on like. well why don't evil people just not be evil. right? "oh clearly something would have to be wrong with you to murder someone." esque beliefs. "normal people can't do something so fucked up." stuff like that...dumb self assured kids. esp klavier, who i don't have interesting thoughts on bc i dont care about him LOL

like they get a little older. and get into law. and it's cool. and fucking awesome. and aging makes them a little less tightass about everything. they get independent they make music they get exposed to the wider world etc.... i think daryan stays looser about it overall, about crime and shit. and then daryan moves to a different division and quits working w klav on cases and blah blah

taking the music as a metaphor for their view on crime probably, how klavier freaking over [the missed cue] whereas daryan insists that it's Not A Big Deal... which, like, for the case specifically, it did turn out to be a big deal, but i'll pretend like it's indicative of their views overall, where daryan's willing to let tiny things slide and where klavier pointedly won't. Bc it's about the principle of the thing.

i think klavier goes back to being a tightass. i think when he was 17 and looking like a little lesbian was probably the Coolest he ever was. idk what happened between then and canon that made him regress into being a kristoph 2 but it's fun to me if something did happen... i just don't care. probably not the disbarring? or i guess it could be. i dont CAREEE about him

all this to say, i really like thinking about a klavier looking back on daryan and wondering [what went wrong], because either something went wrong, or he had always been friends with an Evil Person. and for years he's just never noticed that daryan was Evil and capable of Murder and Covering up and Lying. and stuff.

which of course was a question he was already going through with kristoph, or maybe pointedly *not* going through? daryan is close to him but not as close as kristoph and the crimes weren't so fucking premeditated so it's maybe an easier entry point for this whole thought process for him. "your best friend botched a drug smuggling and snuffed a cop who was gonna rat him out" is a hard pill but not as hard a pill as "whatever the fuck kristoph was up to" NELKNDLKNGFD

And it's fun to think about... him trying to get answers from daryan directly. like tell me are you a bad person? are you? or like, what happened? and when did it change? and how long and why? and it's like. there isn't an answer! daryan doesn't have one! and it's just a shitty thing to ask. as if klavier's shattered sense of comfort is the real issue here and not "daryan is in prison for murder"NELKNDFKLN it's just fun... it's just fun... was it always you? or was it like, the system? who changed you? and daryan's so uncomfortable. and it pisses him off so bad.

i just like it. it's so cutie. two boys who thought they had such a sure view of the world realizing in the most simple of ways that Oh, No, it turns out we're all directly capable of crime in various shades of culpability and evilness can't be cleanly prescribed like that. and it was a deeply flawed and stupid way of viewing the world, especially if the person who told you that in the first place was one of the cruelest people either of you knew up to that point LIKEEE. messyyy lol. it's so cute.

Like like like daryan who already always had an aggressive demeanor and kind of rubbed people the wrong way but klavier always insisted he's an upstanding person and one of the people klavier trusted most ... someone who klavier probably had to defend a lot just in conversation. and it wasn't misplaced? like klavier wasn't lying! being an asshole isn't a crime and doesn't make someone evil. but in hindsight oh it's tainted foreverrrr.

also again the daryan who's watching klavier have this like internal crisis of faith and he's like can you do this elsewhere. Like i'm in prison right now i don't need thinLKNFKLDFNGKNDFG HELP

[thatdykepunkslut]

"Don't fuck with me, I have the power of police brutality and the divine right of kings on MY side!"

[gumy-shark]

i think one of my favorite things about ritsu’s portrayal is how much his intelligence is an informed attribute to the audience- bc the show is from mobs pov! the audience sees ritsu as smart bc mob thinks very highly of him! and while we do see that ritsu is good at planning, problem solving, working within his limitations, and [lateral thinking? i don’t remember the word but like. knowing what he has available and how to make use of it], and he does get good grades, he’s also a character that we see fuck up a Lot and make a lot of bad judgement calls! (and that’s not even mentioning shit like suggesting mob could be a magician or thinking teru’s wig is his brain lmao)

it’s a more realistic take on an “intelligent” character than i see in a lot of other media and i like it a lot :)

[goldenspringmornings]

I mean this so genuinely- leave the spring court alone!!!

[staneetrashee]

Do you have any evidence whatsoever for the idea that plants have “complex thoughts and emotions” because I sure can’t find any…

This has absolutely nothing to do with the complaints i made in the tags of that one post but here we go anyway

okay so plants dont have COMPLEX thoughts and emotions, my bad for spreading misinformation on the internet, but they do feel sensations and communicate

If Wikipedia has an article on something that they dont immediately claim is false it's probably a thing with actual basis behind it. Just maybe.

The existence of consciousness in plants, as well as the ability to feel pain, is highly contested at the moment, and we probably wont actually KNOW as a species until well after i have passed away uncaring of self righteousness

Alana Scheltzer (who is cringe btw* but for unrelated reasons) wrote this for University of Melbourne back in 2017

But feelings are not consciousness. Not that plants need to be conscious for my argument against Pretention to stand but, regardless, these guys

wrote this

for PMC back in 2021.

So plants dont have consciousness, whoop dee i was wrong. They still Feel and are Alive

And my entire tag rant was about, again, the pretentiousness of people who only pretend to care about something cause it makes them feel better about themselves and allows them to put down others, something i should've communicated better. There are better ways to go about animal rights activism than blaming other people. Maybe start actually putting pressure on corporations to treat farm animals better, just a suggestion. Maybe buy from sustainable farms that can prove they treat their land and livestock with respect and care. Maybe get off your fucking high horse and actually go out to protests or donate instead of sitting on your ass and being a twitter warrior.

and judging by the fact that you, tumblr user, sent this ask in anonymous mode: you probably dont care about what i have to say. just a thought. cowards dont use anon.

Sorry for the rant at the end, kind of. I'm sleep deprived and off my meds, not that that's an excuse. Just. Pretentious people who don't back up their words with actions piss me the FUCK off.

*cough* so anyway yeah plants dont have complex emotions but they do have an amount of thought and communication that is non-zero. i used a strawman cause i was mad. now go back up and read the rest of the post since i know you girlies scroll immediately to the bottom of shit longer than two paragraphs

[eurekq]

I genuinely don't understand the popularity of bloodwe@ve can anyone explain the appeal to me or is it just Two White Boys syndrome

[cheesebearger]

yeah sure death to america and the american war machine but you all understand youre not actually doing anything by purposely setting off fireworks to trigger military vets? like i dont even get it. what does that even do. it doesnt do anything about the people they possibly hurt overseas, it doesn't help their victims, it doesn't even protest military action abroad. it's just a deliberately malicious action that serves to make someone's life less pleasant. i guess if that's what you wanna do, go you. but i just don't see how any of it does anything to combat american militarism. just seems like diet propaganda of the deed

[kittyb1tz]

martin you are my babygirl and you are struggling........

[genericpuff]

oh boy it's that time again

when rachel posts 'video progress' of her work and we proceed to dissect it like a frog in 9th grade science class

like ok first the caption of "is persephone the chicken and hades the egg" makes no fucking sense except to anyone who overthinks it and goes "wait is that a reference to the popularly-perpetuated version of the myth where persephone went down to the underworld willingly and hades didn't actually exist???" because if it is ima scream lmao

but MORE IMPORTANTLY-

Here's the transcript of what she's saying in the video:

"I think I've always wanted to write Hades' and Persephone's story because obviously I really like them. It's like very much a chicken and egg situation because I think in the beginning I thought that I was going to use a very abstract black and white style, and I realized it wasn't very enticing or fun for me, um... and I started drawing these very like vibrant characters and as I drew them I understood more about the story the more that I explored the art style, um and I guess an example of that is, y'know, Persephone is like a very bright color um, and the Underworld, is a very dark dark blue, and so when she says she really sticks out so it's just environmental uh processes like that that really helped inspire the direction of the story."

(despite her expanding on the "chicken and the egg" bit it still doesn't make sense imo lmao)

But what we're seeing isn't S1 LO, it's actually from S3 of LO:

But um... you notice anything interesting about the screenshot I just showed you?

That literally looks NOTHING like what we see in the final panel. At the VERY least I think this goes to show how overcooked it becomes in post-production, when they add the canvas layer and hypersaturate the shit out of the colors, but even the blending technique just isn't matching up?

A lot of what she's doing in this video also feels very... non-existent, like she's brushing her pen around but very little is happening so it feels more like her just putting down random brush strokes to try and make it seem put-together but really she's just kind of pushing colors around and/or doing nothing. Especially when, again, what she's painting here looks nothing like the final picture (so at best it's a lot of wasted work??)

And knowing what we know about the assistants drawing the characters separately so that Rachel can rearrange them in the final episode layout... I don't wanna call foul play here, but this feels like yet another attempt on Rachel's behalf to make her process seem more involved than it is by simply redrawing a scene for the performative aspect of it all. It's like the "sketches" in the books looking way too 'clean' for the final product and giving the impression that she just sketched over the final panels to make them look pretty enough for print.

I also wanna mention that for some reason she's drawing this on her iPad when she owns a Cintiq. It could be because she was drawing this while abroad in the US for her conventions last fall, but despite clearly being ahead of schedule, she still wound up drawing the final episode the night of-

Oh yeah and btw there are like a million clipping layers for what looks like just a simple drawing of Demeter. And this lines up with our previous theories about her using like 128549021809 layers for literally one character.

And aside from all that her commentary, as always, is very nothingburger, just a bunch of word salad. Like she's literally trying to explain LO's color theory as "well Persephone is bright pink and the Underworld is dark blue so she sticks out! That's all you need to know!"

IDK, I'm not coming to any sort of ironclad conclusion based off this one video, but it does feel like yet another desperate attempt to prove that she does work on LO and doesn't just leave it all to her assistants to do at the last minute. But like... she's kind of screwed in that argument either way, because even if she draws the majority of panels in LO, that just further proves the argument that she's stopped trying.

[adobe-outdesign]

Welllll, since it got brought up... Charcadet line shiny review?

Charcadet: Everyone seems to agree that this line's shinies suck hard and... yeah, this line's shinies suck hard, all right. Swapping out the eye color and literally nothing else is just not noticeable enough compared to the original. The only positive thing I can say is that it does make sense conceptually to swap the eye color to reference the split evo's palettes, but they also could have, you know, just swapped the entire palette. I already made an edit of the official art a while ago for a post, so here you go:

By swapping out the typical Armarouge-colored palette for a Ceruledge-colored one, you still reference the split evos and have a really good concept that's, you know, actually noticeable as a shiny. As is, it's a complete nothingburger of a design.

Armarouge and Ceruledge: Lumping both together because they both have the same problem, which is also the same problem as Ceruledge: changing only the eye color is boring and barely noticeable. It's even worse with these two because their eyes are small, and in Ceruledge's case, the red eye doesn't stick out at all because it blends in with the purples of its palette too much.

Honestly, they just had to swap the colors around again—make shiny Armarouge blue and purple and make shiny Ceruledge yellow and red. That's it. Simple, works conceptually, and would be easy to tell the two apart. I don't know why they insisted on not doing that; were they like, afraid that people would confuse the two if the shinies swapped their palettes or something? Because if that was the case, they also could've just changed the colors to something else entirely—make Ceruledge's body a ghostly white, make Armarouge's body a fiery orange, just do literally anything noticeable.

Overall: A very underwhelming shiny line that has a decent concept marred by the majority of the palette barely changing, making them indistinguishable from their non-shiny counterparts.

[plaquerat]

I'm beating a dead horse but genuinely like. It sucks so bad that a post I made got taken so badly. People I like and look up to as authors and artists vagued me over it. Someone I've never interacted with harassed me over it. My friends defended me at least thank GOD but like. Is this seriously what you want to do? Harass people for making posts you don't like? Make other fans feel like shit for getting frustrated? It's embarassing. It's fucking ridiculous. I already have someone obsessed with me because he thinks my transfem Copia reading is stupid. I'm literally just some guy posting online. I'm not the fucking fandom police. Holy shit do what you want I don't care. But it feels so fucking awful to become the fandom bad guy over something as nothingburger as me clumsily wording a post over characters having accents that don't sound like what people say they do to me.

[pr]

you can tell how many new baby gaylors there are bc this was such a nothingburger statement it is literally not worth getting upset about at all like aldhalahalaah in 2014/5 she liked a tumblr post calling gaylors "freaks" (after liking a string of posts where ppl were saying she was grabbing karlie's ass) pls relax life goes on

[just-some-guy-joust]

Just Some Guy OC Tourney - Side B: Round 4

Rules:

do NOT be mean to anyone or any characters in these polls. you MUST clarify if you are joking/teasing or you will be blocked. if you are someone who entered an oc into this and you are mean to other contestants you will be disqualified

do NOT claim a character doesn't deserve to be here. yes including your own. be nice

if you are posting propaganda you have to @ tag us, including if your propaganda is in the reblogs. it is difficult to tell when something is or isn't propaganda. anything not tagging us will likely be missed

please don't hesitate to let me know if i messed something up!

have fun, hype each other up <3 thank you

Mendel Warrenpeace | He/him | @bittersweetbonbon

CW: Transformation horror, isekai, lightning strikes

Mendel was just a normal guy, who happened to love Toontown: Corporate Clash *so* much that he played it nearly 24/7, maxing out all of his gags and disguises, even going so far as to become a beta tester for experimental VR haptic suits, just so he could be more immersed in the game. However, he was foolish enough to play the game in VR during the most intense lightning storm seen in his area, got struck by said lightning, and was isekaed into the game itself. Now trapped in the world he used to adore, at level one no less, he would do anything to get back home, up to and including re-beating the game, no matter how strenuous running around and throwing pies at robots is in "real life". Of course, beating the game isn't going to free him from Toontown's inky clutches, but we don't have to tell him that, right? Of course not.

Promos: He has a blog at mendelwarrenpeace.tumblr.com and a WIP toyhouse page at toyhou.se/26655994.mendel-warrenpeace

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Zena | She/her/hers, it/its/its, and ze/zir/zirs, but all pronouns are acceptable | @spark-ocblog (CW: mentions of blood and murder on this blog)

Zena works a variety of retail jobs and lives in a boring, cheap, low-quality apartment. She is entirely oblivious to the various supernatural happenings in the town she's in, despite being one of the oldest supernatural creatures in the area. It likes to participate in mundane human activities for fun, such as "Lie Down On A Cushion For Eight Hours With Your Eyes Closed," and "Pet Animal." Zir biggest worries are busy shifts and managing human finances.

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Levi | He/him | @cyikess

An unwilling chronic isekai protagonist. He can't catch a break! He keeps getting thrown to new and different fantasy/sci-fi/whatever worlds when all he wants is his normal life back. He's just a guy!

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Full images and descriptions under the cut!

Mendel is, quite literally, so just some guy that I refuse to develop what he was like or what his name was pre-isekae, because his past is literally so generic and unimportant. He was NPC-core. He was nothingburger. His only friend is a 17-year-old who physically cannot stop themself from stealing things. Even now his only hobby is playing video games all day. He almost died a few days after being isekaed because he didn't want to leave his house. He's scared to walk around because he thinks the robots will shoot him point-blank just for being near them. I want to grab him and spin him around like that gif of a chimpanzee. He's even a furry.

Zena is an immortal plant spirit who really wants to participate in human life. After zir move to the city, ze hops from job to job trying to sample the human experience as best ze can. She tries to keep a houseplant and care for it manually (without any magic) and it dies immediately. She's aromantic and orchidsexual, but alloplatonic. It's very awkward trying to socialize with its coworkers, especially because its first language is not a verbal one. Ze's very easily tricked and oblivious to many things... including the many witches in the area that stop by the cafe ze waitresses at. The cafe is perfectly normal, but its primary clientele is criminals and illegal magic users from the surrounding area (just because of where it's situated, locationally). She sticks out like a sore thumb because her human disguise isn't particularly stealthy, but most people politely assume her appearance is due to some sort of curse and avoid commenting on it. It likes reading corny romance novels and hanging out with people in its spare time. It's autistic and obsessed with puns, and fascinated by human languages. Zir whole entire aspiration is basically to be just some guy.

He is one of the guys ever tbh. All this crazy shit happens to him/around him and he stays normal! This crazy shit includes being sent to other worlds again, and again, and again. He does not know why this is happening. And in all these worlds there's cyborgs, and non-humans, and all sorts of people and then there's him. With his stupid glasses and failboy energy. Love him. All my friends love him too. He's even on my water bottle!

[postive-rainworld-anarchy-conf]

full offense to that lnk-q guy but has this fucking fandom learned absolutely NOTHING from the last couple months?? the screenshots theyve posted so far are literally a nothingburger of highschool drama type shit that just looks like the guy being accused is going through his edgy phase. NOT TO MENTION THE GUY FUCKIN MADE THE SAME TYPE OF POST LIKE "DOC COMING SOON!!" AND PEOPLE FUCKIN REBLOGGED IT?? good god. stop interacting with lnk-q theyre just trying to stir up more shit in the fandom because of personal beef that should stay in the damn dms.

whatever new bullshit is being a "scandal" and the such, really really sounds like it's some friend group drama that stays in the friend group. there is no reason to make a document for it. just move on, and find new people who don't checks the notes what the fuck?

WHY WAS THIS POSTED.

YOU DON'T NEED A CALLOUT DOCUMENT FOR EVERYTHING.

JUST LET THINGS EXIST, AND BE KINDA SHITTY, AND LIKE, STOP TALKING TO THAT FRIEND NOT "CALL OUT THEIR BAD BEHAVIOR"

what the hell?

[karcatboy]

asterisk on that one post i made complaining abt movies being over two hours. its fine if the movie actually has enough story in it to take two or more hours. but most movies that have come out since 2018 that are 2+ hours are such massive nothingburgers Ugh i wanna be one of tjose annoying movie reviewer youtubers so bad i need to complain how horrifically tone deaf (both in a figurative AND literal sense*) spirit is

*WHY WOULD YOU MAKE A MOVIE MUSICAL AND THEN HIRE PEOPLE WHO CANT FUCKING SING I CAN ALMOSY NEVER PICK UP ON WHEN SINGING IS AUTOTUNED AND I CAN FICKINGNHEAR IT IN EVERY SONG