#My bullying is like not crit or hate or anything

[maipareshaan]

Do i bully all the Sams and baby all the deans hmm?

[aria0fgold]

Wait before I sleep, lemme tell yall bout the personal grudge I have for Childe cuz why not. When I was playing GI, I first used the EU server during launch, but then Childe got announced and I'm like really bad with bow characters, but Childe's kit makes it so that he doesn't need to shoot with his bow. So I was like: Okay, I want this ginger boy in my account now. But then I got really hyped by his trailer, I HAVE to have him in my main.

So I opened up the NA server and Asia server to get as many pulls as I can to securely get him cuz I pulled for Venti in my EU server and didn't have any for Childe. But like the gambling addict that I am, used up some pulls in the NA server on Klee's banner (I got her too!) And I was like: Whichever server gets him, will be my main server. So theeen! His banner comes out, I have around 40 smth pulls on the NA and Asia server. I didn't get him. And so I was like: Okay... I'll play some more then keep pulling.

Took me total 80 pulls in NA server and I didn't even had the time to do anything on the Asia server cuz I was searching EVERY nook and cranny for primos in NA server and his banner was SO CLOSE to ending. It nearly broke my mind. So NA became my main and ever since then I started bullying Childe every now and then. Which wasn't a good thing. Cuz the game rng does reverse psychology of: If you hate a character, it'll be the only one getting good rng for nearly everything.

I mained Qiqi, and then Noelle after getting her c6, AND then Itto. But guess who was my strongest character with his own signature weapon that I somehow got from a joke pull? Childe. He has the highest stats in my account. And his crit rate is definitely around 60% with nearly 200 crit dmg, BUT HE NEVER CRITS WHEN I NEED HIM TO. I use his ult and then I see that tiny ass dmg with its small font and I'm like, bro... for the love of god pls CRIT (I don't remember what his crit dmg on raw power was but it definitely was past 90k. and he can get around 200k if buffed. I'm a casual player so I'm satisfied with that but GOD, this man knows to annoy me by showing me that mf 10k from an ult that can nuke small enemies).

[scoobydoodean]

Shy Anon here. I got HARDCORE Dean Stan in the quiz. It's funny cuz well. I used to hate Sam a lot up until recently (i was 13 when i started watching, I'm now 25). But now i just. Tolerate him? Because Dean loves him, and so I try.

Like i don't care about Sam or Cas, i have plenty of other characters I love. Like Ree. Ree my dearly beloved. I actually think that nickname will identify me in the fandom because I'm the only one that uses it but 🤷🏻🤷🏻🤷🏻🤷🏻

And yes. Plenty of things happened to me in this fandom over the years. I grew up in it. I got bullied. I had anon hate thrown at me, and this especially because I do not ship Destiel but i have plenty of Rare Dean Ships. I changed blogs a few times because of it. Whatever. I've learned to just stay in the Dean-side or neutral-Side of the fandom

I think a lot of people find themselves trying to tolerate one character or another, because we all analyze the chars usually starting out from just one char's perspective (or they might do things that dig into very specific hangups for us). As you know, I consider myself to be TFW positive, but if you were worried about it, I don't stop people from following me who don't like one char or another—even Dean. I doubt anyone with extensive issues with Dean follows me on this blog (unless it's a hate follow lmao) but Dean crits and Dean antis follow me on my other blog, and I don't care as long as they aren't constantly being annoying in my notes (because I actually mod the posts on that blog to keep the mood light-hearted for followers—anything overly nasty about a char gets removed so if someone is being annoying a lot, it gets to be a lot of work to mod and they might get blocked, but it's very rare that that happens).

I know I've told you over DM's Shy, but I'm really sorry to hear about the way people have treated you over some harmless rarepairs. I think it's a damn shame that some people in this fandom have such thin skins that they develop animosity toward people just for shipping something besides destiel (or other things), and I don't know why some people feel an entitlement to be so cruel about, what is, at the end of the day, all of us enjoying a TV show. I have seen some absolutely vile bullying happen in our fandom at times that will simply never ever make sense to me—who is doing that or how utterly pathetic and depraved and miserable they have to be to do what they do.

The destiel side of fandom can be really fun to engage with (because some of them will be happy to engage with you and others won't and the ones who will engage are generally nice), but interacting with the destiel fandom is also kind of like playing with fire—even for people firmly entrenched in that community. From an outside perspective though, you have a post that makes it too far into that community and someone who isn't as nice and kind stumbles across it and reblogs it to their toxic little circle and suddenly shit hits the fan. Some people are just unbelievable assholes, and I think destiel, being the biggest of the spheres we all drift through in this fandom, is naturally going to contain more people like that because the share of toxicity is (usually) proportional to size. But then if someone gets mad at you... it is, again—proportional to size, so instead of having like... 2 toxic non-shippers screaming at you from a total draw of less than 50 who make posts, you have... way more people to deal with than that. I understand wanting to stay away from that for safety—especially with a previous bad experience. Please know if you ever have issues with bullies, you can always come to me. I can't always promise much besides emotional support, but there have been a couple of small situations where I've been able to do a little more than that. Regardless, this blog is a safe place for you and you are always welcome here. <3

[impossiblegirlposts]

Monthly Theory Round Up (New Years and Long Edition)

Orym: He has made numerous references to Rabbits (the name of his horse and what his were beast would be), so what is his connection to them? It might be another connection to the moon as there is the mythical figure of the Moon Hare. As well as it could be another nickname from Will possibly because of Orym’s jumping and fighting style. 

Imogen and Liliana Temult: Is Imogen exalted? “Certain ruidius born that exhibit stronger connection and exhibit certain capabilities”. There is a lot of evidence that she is, specifically because of not only her growing powers (the new feat) but also the fact that she levelled a square block of Bassuras. As for Liliana her need for answers overloaded her judgement as stated by Ebenold Kai so she went to get answers from Otohan. But here is my question, if she wants knowledge so bad why does she want Imogen to run instead of luring her to meet Otohan again for a round two? As well I don't think Liliana is truly an evil person but I do have a crack theory that Imogen is related to Otohan somehow and it would be funny to have a evil mom and evil grandma duo. 

Shadowfell: Did Predathos the god that ate Ethedok and Vordo create the Shadowfell? it was said that Predthados resisted their miracles and hunted them and created its own twisted life in its wake and it was described that the Shadowfell is a more dangerous but less guarded and a weird dreamy place around Exandria that is much darker, gothic, and hated life in itself. And to top that off, the description sounds very similar to the place that Bells Hells went to rescue and bring back Laudna. So there is no doubt that Delilah is probably messing around in the Shadowfell too. And if she took Laudna there, maybe Laudna has some connections there too?

Cerberus Assembly: Janina, the Grim Variety’s other colleague is trying to find the Nexus to the north of the city. This Nexus was tied to the Tishtan culture. This makes me think that she could possibly be trying to find Leylines as that seems to be making reoccurring appearances. (There is no way that we were shown Calamity without there being some kind of connection going forward...besides the obvious of it being a major part of Exandrian history). As well later on we found out that the Cerberus Assembly bullied their way into the site about 5 months ago. I wonder if they are doing more Luxon research? Are they still looking for more of them? Why is the assembly branching out now to other continents? I wonder if they have been trying to “lay low” by branching out to other continents to get information on the Luxon but stay out of Wildemount?

Planerider Ryn: Going back to Campaign 2 I went back and looked at what information Beau and Caleb found out about her (Thank you Crit Role Stats) and where the Plane Shift spell came from in the first place. The scroll was given to Yussa which is interesting and further solidifies the theory that all wizards know each other. As well creates the questions how do they know each other and would Yussa know anything of the Grim Varety or what is up with Ruidius? As well on Ryn’s notes there is a symbol of the Arcana Pansophical which is the organization that Allura is in. Ryn’s seems to be dipping her toes into many organizations of powerful wizards. Her notes spoke of poles flipping, aberrations to Exandria that come and go in the span of months, something that upsets Ryn’s readings and confuses her data. So since Beau has taken her notes right now we can assume that the Nein might have no clue about Ruidius. Cont. 

Demid Sunlash: Which leads me to the next connection which is Demid Sunlash, this is the individual from the Cobalt Soul who was heavily researching the moon. Unfortunately I don't have the tweet I found but I read that Demid is most likely dead as it seems that everyone connected to any moon research specifically Ruidius research is being targeted. I think that there may be a Professor and student hit list. There is someone or a group of someones out there that want to kill anyone connected to studying Ruidius. There is part of me that thinks that Kadjia Sumal might be next. She is busy doing research and has no lectures which is what tipped me off in the first place. I wonder if the Bells Hells going to have to play catch up until the find someone to talk too as it seems like their possible contacts are slowly dwindling. 

Other Lingering Theories and Quesitions: The Nightmare King is my guess as to who is playing triple agent in this whole mess of groups, secrets, and machines. 

The Judicators reminded me of the mage hunters in the happy fun ball, I wonder if it is the same technology or mages took ideas from the judicators? 

Did Raishan form the hishari, or at least greatly influence them? She was taught by the Fire Ashari in elemental magic. Before she worked with the Chroma Conclave did she side track and make even more trouble before doing damage in Emon and partnering with Vox machina?

[bip0lar-queer]

I ain't deleting my blog or my response wow I can't believe the crit space has allowed such bullying my feelings are so hurt lmao-

Anyways I have these blogs mainly as receipts from the realization that viv, raph, hazbin and helluva are terrible you can block accordingly <3

yeah I've gotten sidetracked on haterade but I'm not actually a menace/threatening anything or anybody by simply responding to people's posts and giving the same energy you give out within the space-which is an anti hate space mind you where the critical space was founded on hating/ripping on viv

I just think it's hypocritical for hater blogs acting like they aren't just as negative as my hate blogs. All I've tried to do is interact calmly within a confounds of peoples' posts at their level and berating me by tagging my responses or taking my tags out of context to paint a picture that YOU specifically want from the critical space just isn't really that friendly.

I don't take part in bullying much less doghunting screenshots so I'll just vibe in my own corner 😌

You guys realize which show were all watching right???? I used to also look forward to pre-amazon hazbins' release up until last year realizing that she's a fucking scam artist ????

This isn't the first time this has happened, I guess I'll just rewrite some of my posts to be a little nicer from now on :/

I shouldn't really have to apologize to strangers I don't owe you one and you guys definitely don't owe me one. IDGAF<3

[newrww]

reminder that this person or persons made over six brand new blogs and stalked me for over 2-3 weeks in order to draft the selfies i share and delete shortly after, something that i seldom do to begin with.

they shared the selfies and me ranting about toxic shitbags like yasferatu/georgesantosapologist with 2 different drama sites, despite getting no interest and making shit up b/c they're a retarded bully. trying to socialize with other ugly sociopaths who've been harassing me online is a real good look. you can see what my sideblogs are used for. one has rbies from people who rb from me & block me, the other has TRAs making violent sexual threats. neither of them involve the other idiots on radblr.

but this idiot whose original burner blog was following 'our-queer-experience' and a blog full of objectified black women who had a face full of slap and were posed partially nude for the male gaze. so in likely, this absolute jewel is a black idiot who got pissed b/c I called menahole a brown bitch. which is exactly what the ho is. ffs and then decided to scold me FOR NOT PRACTICING INTERNET SAFETY while reposting dumb receipts of my reasonable opinions and frustrations that don't matter to anyone but to power tripping losers on radblr who have no idea what being normal is. any attempts i made at thwarting reverse image searches i made (which weren't rly possible considering my settings afaik) were to prevent ppl i didn't invite to this blog from seeing it.

the entire time this pornsick ~poc~ troll was on this quest to get me off radblr (as if i care what they say) they'd be messaging me (after getting blocked several times) that 'everything's online forever'. if you mention that harassing someone who appears alienated is literally something that can cause suicide, I'm sure they'd somehow spin that as another thing to harass me for. it's infuriating and i hope some real karma's headed both their ways. this is why ~fem solidarity~ is a joke and favors those with power & visibility at the cost of those lower in the hierarchy. literally none of the dingbats on here care about you. or pay much attention other than to attack you which is infuriating and honestly, I've had it. I despise this site and I can't believe anyone would say that they care about women who are strangers. they don't. it's infuriating for them to pretend that this is a 'community', when it's a loose congregation of ppl with similar gripes a t best. ultimately, my experience here has been shitty. and afaik i have no desire to help any woman. with anything, ever. go find another scraper bot to rb from.

menahole is a vile idiot who is a driver of harassment towards randos on here and who makes outlandish claims of pedophilia at people she doesn't name which are baseless but i guess the retards need to stick together, ig if you blame me, a single person whose accusations have been consistent, for the massive amount of hate and crit she gets on the net, it's just easier for your ego.

if you talked shit like this offline, you'd regret it. i don't write on here b/c i'm begging for validation from nasty pieces of work, i don't police my own thoughts b/c i don't care what ppl i don't like or respect think :) it's my fucking blog.

humanity is inching towards oblivion and food scarcity and these idiots will always be there, being stupid and malicious. if humanity wasn't set to end itself by making the planet uninhabitable, there'd be countless infuritating asshats like this in the future. maybe global warming and zoonotic/infectious diseases are a boon. humanity never has and never willl be anything but a mass of selfish and evil. the end will be full of suffering but if you add more ppl to this shit world b/c entitlement, you'll be responsible for what those people suffer.

i blocked her twice because I don't want to talk to people who insult me for using this stupid blog to vent. now she made a fucking burner to ask me weird questions.

[heliianth]

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[i-put-the-yan-in-polyandry]

I've decided that I need to know all my favorite sagau writers' faves! I wanna hear about you and them and how you'd interact with them. Yes, this is mandatory, I don't make the rules i just blindly enforce them.

I'll start, (Warning, thirst ahead)

Thoma

Literally this man owns my entire heart (and wallet please someone help me). He's so good? So pure and precious???? I deadass felt like I was having a heart attack doing his hangout, people literally had to beg me to stop (I didn't, I just laid down after, crying my heart out). I love him so much. man's my screen saver rn)

I haven't done character art screensavers since I was like twelve, probably longer. I've been that boring bitch bc anxiety but this man THIS MAN

absolute malewife, I wanna marry him. If I'm in sagau I'm kicking down the door to the Yashiro Commission and just "you wanna make me happy? gimme Thoma" like if they're not gonna appreciate him then I will. just gonna grab him and "we're married now"

And his FUCKING HANGOUT (i will never be over this) HE'S SO PERFECT??? THE ANIMALS??? THE MALEWIFE-ING????? THE FUCKING DESTRUCTION OF THAT BITCH?????? we're fucking married that's it

I love him?????? Honestly like Thoma pls take care of me I'm a wreck

Ningguang

THE QUEEN. omfg I love her, ship her and Lumine so hard. She's just so elegant and amazing and so genuinely good??? I just wanna be her sugar baby friend. Like her teapot convo where she tells you that she wants YOU to help her with decision making and YOU to rip up the papers and throw out the next "snowstorm"???

Honestly, like, I think it was myuni who posted about it recently but I wanna go shopping with her in Liyue and just dressup and shit and it'd be so fun??? Girl needs to let loose and I'm willing to offer myself up for the job. Wanna give her genuine connection and shit kjsdkhgdsgds

Klee

Do I even need to SAY ANYTHING??? She's so precious??? She was my first 5* I think, or at least my first event character. I joined Genshin during the summer banner after putting it off a while (I didn't know it was a gacha I'm so sorry Zhongli, Venti and Xiao pls come home at least Ganyu and Albedo will be getting their reruns)

I wanna go fish blasting with her and I want her to teach me how to make bombs and show me her treasures and I wanna hold Dodoco and be her best friend like hgesjdhgdjshgjdsghnnbfdjg

No thoughts only sibling bonding with Klee

Some honorable mentions:

Keqing, if Klee wasn't my first 5* it was Keqing. I love her so much??? Like Ningguang, I wanna hang out with her and make sure she's taking her breaks. Same with Ganyu, the QUEEN deserves a NAP

Kazuha stole my fucking wallet (stupid ADHD) and so I have him at c2 and I will forever hold resentment for that but I still love him so much

Hu Tao!!! I've loved her from the first sight. Her view of death is so like nice?? Not seeing it as something bad but as another part of life. I've always believed that funerals should be a celebration of the person, not pure mourning (I mean, mourning lasts a long time, why not devote some time to celebrating the person instead?) anyway I just love her I'm so glad I just got her (already got her at like 58% crit rate and over 150% crit damage & like she's only level 70?? her artifacts rolled so good as well????)

Ei!! My first archon character. Inazuma is too fucking sad all the quests are ripping out my heart and I know her story is about to so I've been procrastinating reading it. I wanna go out into town with her and drink some fucking dango milk and also tease her with Yae

Yoimiya is a good girl. That is all.

Xingqiu and Xinyan have gotten a lot of hate in my convos so I wanna send them some love. Like, they're just kinda beaten out by a lot of other characters but they're so good themselves???

I am a simple enby, i have simple tastes. Those tastes are Arataki Itto. Thank you

I wanna step on and bully Zhongli??? and Xiao I just wanna make a mess of them

Razor, Bennett and Fischl, you all know what I'm going to say. There good children, I love them, I'd die for them, they deserve better. Gonna give them all hugs and love and gdi they deserve it. Gonna introduce them to Xiangling as well and get them some good fucking food.

Albedo and Kaeya. Do I need to say more? Also Diluc, thank you.

Now to call out @raidengaile and @nicebonescomrade to make sure someone does this (all the pressure /j) bc they're on my mind rn do the thing

[shroudcore]

Speak now, or forever hold your peace.

Summary: Ace, Rook, Epel, and Riddle failed to stop Eliza and Idia’s wedding. All hope is lost, and midnight is approaching. 

An angstier take on Ghost Marriage. Idia x GN!reader. Idia-centric. Reader is MC, or takes the role of MC in this story. (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)

Warnings: none

Wyd when you’re minutes away from receiving the literal kiss of death? Idia wished he could ask Threaddit. Of all ways to go, he never imagined getting kidnapped by a ghost princess and being forced to marry her. It was a dark but almost funny twist that wrote itself into his uneventful shut-in life. 

“The wait is over, my prince. It’s time for our vows!” Eliza told him, as if this were something to be happy about. It was absolutely baffling how she never noticed his tears today. His pleas fell to deaf ears as an ancient wedding march played, which sounded more like a funeral march. It was a fitting BGM. 

> Idia tried to escape, but was paralyzed on the floor and couldn’t move an inch! 

> We need a healer to come save us! 

> Someone with a skill to clear debuffs!

At first, he thought it was ridiculous for him to be chosen when Vil, Leona, and Malleus were right there. But now, he figured it was only right for an NPC like him to be sacrificed so that the heroes could shine. The problem was that there were no heroes here—everyone here was selfish. Besides, no one could really save him now. His schoolmates lay defeated on the floor, frozen by Eliza’s OP status effect. 

Ace-shi was tied up and silenced after “offending the princess”. He tried to speak, but only incoherent grumbling could be heard with that silvery, translucent gag in the way. 

Epel-shi followed after him, but started yelling and wildly waving his bouquet around after Eliza asked him to consider being a bridesmaid. He had to be restrained by the ghosts. 

Rook-shi almost did it, but was slapped after Eliza somehow felt that his words weren’t for her alone. 

Riddle-shi was rejected for being too short. He tried to reason with the princess, making her feel that he was too serious. He was slapped. 

These four would-be saviors were frozen on the floor like everyone who came before. The Headmaster was nowhere to be seen. Since he’d been kidnapped, Ortho had been trying to help. Unfortunately, his brother was unable to do much for him without anyone’s aid. He isn’t even here right now. Idia’s heart broke at the thought of his brother still gathering people to help him.

And you? He hadn’t seen you all day.

While he waited for a savior, Eliza waited for his “I Do.” When the clock strikes twelve, she would kiss him. Then, it would be Game Over. 

“I stand before this couple this day to unite them in the bonds of matrimony,” begins the ghost officiant. Idia thinks of his unfinished manga volumes, the anime he didn’t get to watch, the games he never got to play, and movie sequels he’d never get to see. Most importantly, he thinks of you—his unexpected friend. Or maybe the more appropriate word would be crush. These past few weeks, he strongly denied these feelings as if his life depended upon it. Maybe it did. 

“... if there be anyone present that may present a just and lawful cause why these two individuals may not be lawfully wed…”

It was totally lame, but yes—your rejection would Crit him. 

“... let them speak now or forever hold their peace.” 

If his schoolmates couldn’t do anything, he didn’t expect you, a magicless human to be able to stop this. Still, it would have felt better to see you try. So, where were you? Did you ever care for him at all, or did he overestimate your friendship points? 

“Do you, Idia Shroud, take Eliza as your lawful wife...”

Can someone crash through those doors right at this moment?

to have and to hold from this day forward—”

Maybe an explosion could happen in the middle of the cafeteria idk

“for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer,”

Or the ground could crack open, sucking all the ghosts into the Underworld! 

in sickness and in health?” 

Anyone, please?

“Man, I’m so done with this!” Floyd whined, cutting off the vows and distracting the ghosts. Idia let himself exhale as he silently thanked the eel for interrupting. “When Mr. Firefly Squid gets a kiss, we get to go home, right? Get it done already.” Oh. Or maybe not.

“My back is starting to hurt from being stuck in the same position for so long. Give her a good peck on the lips while the gettin’s good,” said Lilia. What? I gamed with you! Traitor!

“Do as Lilia says! Hurry and give her a good peck!” yelled Sebek. This was followed by more jeers—more urging for him to just die already. 

Unbelievable. But he should’ve expected this from the beginning. This was why he hated people. None of them liked him, so none of them would care. It was fair, wasn’t it? There was no one he cared about in here. Only Ortho strongly protested against the wedding, but what could he do and where was he now? If only he knew this was going to happen, then maybe he could have installed some ghostbusting features into Ortho—like that one movie he watched!

In his desperation, he tried to appeal to the closest person to him in the room. “Azul-shi, we’re board game club buddies. Do something!” 

But his friend, if he could even be called that, only faked a sniffle. “I’m so moved I can barely see through my tears. Congratulations, you have my blessing!”

If Azul-shi, his closest in the room won’t and couldn’t help him, who would? He hoped it would be you, but that hope has long been squashed and only left him hating that he ever hoped at all. He must have bullied you too much while you were gaming. Did he overdo the trash talk? Was he too mean? (He swears it was all light-hearted!) Did he shut you out too much? Did you hate hanging out with him all along? Of course you would. 

Gaming together and talking on VC for hours, he supposed, weren’t enough to make you care if he lost his life tonight. 

Eliza talking about the kiss barely registered as a lone tear escaped his eye. 

“Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!” If you were here, would you be chanting with them? Probably. It’s about time you showed your true colors too. 

“STOP CHEERING!” he yelled, anger flaring amidst his sadness. Did he deserve this? Did he deserve to be this hated?  

“Pay them no more mind, Idia. Midnight is here!” 

“Shut up, shut up! Can’t you see I don’t want this?”

But Eliza leans in, drawing closer and closer. Tears seep out of Idia’s eyes, weeping for things that never came to pass. No. No. No, he chanted in his head with his eyes closed, as if it could do anything. A chilly feeling begins to cover his face. This is it. GG. 

A sad and pathetic ending for a sad and pathetic shut-in boy. This was the only love he’ll ever get. Love wasn’t real. Heroes aren’t real. Dating sims aren’t reality. He should just—

BANG. 

Huh?

“I OBJECT!” 

“That voice!”

“Is it really…?”

Gasps and murmurs erupted in the hall at the sudden arrival of a figure clad in all-black. Beside them was Ortho, and at their feet was Grim. A large hat obscured their face, adding to the mystery of their person. The entire hall was awe-struck.

The ghosts whispered in confusion and alarm, but those who recognized the voice began hoping to be saved. Eliza, who’d been stunned into silence, quickly grew annoyed at the new interruption. 

“Who is that?” she asked him, but Idia couldn’t care about her. His heartbeat drummed in his ears. His blood was alive. There they were again—those butterflies you’ve been giving him… as cliché as that sounds. 

He watched you take off your hat as the hall greeted you with cheers. 

~~

To be continued

This is my first post and I’m nervous as hell.

I’ve been seeing the “Yuu-crashes-Ghost-marriage” idea around and decided to write my (really long) version of it. (Seriously, it got really long ahaha) Thank you for reading. If you liked this, stay tuned for the next parts!

(Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)

[agent-cupcake]

consider: nuvestra

~hubert and constance should have had supports they’d be fantastic

~could be romantic or platonic, dealers choice

~aesthetically prime (seriously! blonde hair/dark hair, purple eyes/yellow eyes, short and bubbly/tall and sneaky)

~super mega ultra chaotic energy

~constance would follow hubert’s other supports perfectly... he’s mad at her bc she’s annoying edelgard, she gets mad in return because she’s contance von nuvelle, they argue, she proves her intellectual and magical value, he softens up and admits that her tenacity and desire to help the empire is, in fact, a good thing and he might kind of sort of maybe respect and enjoy her company, and she preens + decides that he’s actually pretty cool and they could work well together 

~they’re both idiots and rude in a similar way so her bullying tactics wouldn’t work and he’d never be able to intimidate her which would force them to find common ground in more normal ways

~like, he could take cheap shots and try to scare her all he wanted and she could be petty and haughty all she wanted and it wouldn’t mean anything to the other person... making it even more satisfying when they came to a mutual respect

~ambiguous morals!!! (constance in crimson flower goes full ham i love it)

~coffee dates (caffeine benders)

~intellectual equals who would butt heads a LOT but always come back for more bc where else could they find that? like seriously, constance’s familiarity with the shadow library alone would make her of note to hubert, let alone her zany weird brains and her potential interest in the stuff he would know about black magic

~their arguments would be funny and honestly if they didn’t get their big ole egos involved they’d probably have fun with the academic discourse

~he could temper her wilder ideas and she could encourage him to think more creatively

~laugh crits!!! my god!!! 

~they’re both secretly really insecure in very similar ways despite their overconfident exteriors. there’s some heavy stuff they’ve both gotta unpack, maybe having someone who understands would make it easier? 

~constance could stand to learn to be more emotionally aware, so maybe having someone who is similar to her would help her figure that out? (i could be reaching, but i don’t like the uneven emotional dynamics in some of her other supports)

~he DOES get this in other supports, but hubert neeeeeds to learn tolerance for opinions and thoughts that diverge from his own and he deserves to have his soft side fed bc he’s cute and deserves to be valued

~hubert getting the full brunt of constance’s manic excitement would be cute. like, just picture it. she’s too oblivious to take hints or be scared away and he’s secretly soft and even though he’d say he hated it, would he? would he really?

~likewise, constance would go along with his evil plotting given enough incentive+logic, no matter how villainous he seemed in a way i don’t think many other characters would

~constance could teach hubert how to ride a pegasus and overcome his fear of heights... like, in the dark or on cloudy days, but STILL

~even if the relationship stuff wasn’t going the best, they’d still be fantastic research buddies

~basically, intellectually and emotionally i feel like they’re on the same level and there’s not much of that weird imbalance they have in supports with characters who are just fundamentally different from them, you know?

okay that’s all thank you for your time

[emenerd]

So I actually looked at SPN on AO3 today for some reason, and it reminded me of stuff I hate, so I’m gonna be pissy for a bit.

I dislike a lot of spn characters, most obviously Dean, like Dean!crit and sam stans are basically the only parts of spns fandom that I ever engage with, but I hate this one character who I cannot find hate for on here. I’m sure its here somewhere, but I cannot find it and I have looked.

I just absolutely despise Gabriel. I just hate him and his smug smirk and condescending “teach assholes a lesson” excuse. I enjoy hating Lucifer, Michael and Raphael are barely characters. I just want Gabriel to never be mentioned again except to spit on his burnt wing marks. Part of this is probably because of the pair the spareness of sabr/iel and extension of my disdain for destihell, and that’s probably why Gabriel even shows up in a lot of fics and meta and art, even if its not sabr/iel, that ship helped popularize a character popular enough to keep getting brought back.

TW: rape mention, murder, torture mention, its about supernatural

Okay, reasons why I hate him, in no particular order.

1. Mystery Spot. Its a fun episode to watch, but its literally just 40 minutes of Gabriel torturing Sam for no good reason. Death of a family member is not something you can inoculate someone too? It’s debatable whether or not the repeated trauma of losing Dean made Sam’s reaction to Dean’s actual death worse, but it sure as hell didn’t help, and in what world would it? I can take a character being an asshole and if Gabriel did Mystery Spot cause he just didn’t give a shit and thought killing Dean was fun, fine. Its supernatural, fucked up tragedies are the name of the game, but no, he had to make up some bullshit about teaching Sam to let go of his brother. You know what would have been helpful? Telling Sam about the seals and Lilith, or about the vessels and the angels, or you know, doing anything constructive!

2. Changing Channels has so many weird sexual jokes and I do not like it. Given that Sam is the butt of most if not all of them and later seasons stuff with possession and the implications of what happened in the cage just makes it worse.

3. Bringing him back and saying he’d been in hiding for years really just takes all the oomph out of the one good thing he ever did on the show (standing up to Lucifer and you know any semblance of a character arc), and shits all over it.

4. The punishments he doles out as part of his trickster gig are usually just whatever his victim did to their own victim, which is great for an antagonist your mains need to stop, but not great for a heroic character cause turning around awful things on people is not a great thing to do. Murdering a professor who sleeps with students isn’t unreasonable for this type of show, but “probing” a bully or murdering a researcher is disproportionate? Its possible the researcher had crossed lines, but its not stated in the show, just that he does animal testing. That’s not great in my opinion, but murder by alligator is out there. And I’m not going into the probing thing.

5. He is so fucking sanctimonious about every fucking thing he does and I hate it.

Obviously ymmv. I don’t know how to end this.

[scoobydoodean]

@lonelygodscompanion said: the quiz literally wasn't even about sam or cas 😭 you weren't really making a statement on them and if you were, definitely not the sort of statement that should provoke un-ironic vitriol- I'm like racking my brain what aside from 'sam+cas don't deserve dean' (which as you said was pretty tongue-in-cheek) you could've said that ruffled people's feathers this much 

I absolutely was not making any negative statement about Sam and Cas lmao and in fact tried my very best to indicate that in several of of the "explanations" which said things like, "Cas was just hungry" and "Sam liked the taste of blood and wanted to save his family". Obviously a normal person would infer those are not what I actually think or at least are not the limit of my analysis, but I don't know how you transform "Cas was hungry" into "Cas was wrong about everything and is evil and stupid and OP hates him". Like if I wanted to be some jackass anti, I wouldn't have fucking said that Cas was hungry. I would have regurgitated some Cas anti's flippant, rancid one-sentence take that they think can perfectly encapsulate the reasons for his choices in one single putrid, braindead sentence.

I can't believe I have to explain the joke (and this is not @ Jo anymore obviously—I am now speaking to the crying stans stalking me and deciding whether or not to pop in my inbox), but I was making a joke about dean crits holding Dean responsible for every single bad thing that has ever happened (John core). You may not realize this is a thing some people do to Dean, but it is, which was why it was meant to be enjoyed by dean girls [gn] who are familiar with this brand of crit. It wasn't about Cas, and it wasn't about Sam, and the last question happened to be a jab at hardcore dean stans (Sam and Cas antis). You people can't help but pick out judgements of your fave in absolutely anything that dares to ironically say Dean's never done anything wrong, because to you, if that's true, then I have to be saying Sam and Cas are villains... which is an absolutely illogical conclusion that shows exactly how thin-skinned you are compared to Dean fans—who constantly hear rancid takes about Dean and are subject to the existence of entire blogs about his "transgressions", then are told by deancrits to shut the fuck up because Dean is popular, so we aren't allowed to complain about people ripping apart of the fabric of the show (it's relationships—which tend to circle around a certain person at the center) by repeatedly framing every single characters motivations and actions around how Dean wasn't a good enough mommy.

So yeah you do have bad opinions—and you can think I have bad ones—I don't give a shit. The issue is, you're also shitty human beings, because I know at least one two of you have been publicly bullied by the destiel fandom en masse in the past for your opinions on Supernatural (which is absolutely ridiculous behavior that anyone who participated in should be unbelievably embarrassed by), but you still choose to enact that same treatment on another person because you couldn't take a goddamn joke that wasn't even about your fave. It's pathetic behavior, and if I come back and block you later, it isn't because of our "differences of opinion" on Supernatural (2005). It's because you behaved like a fucking child over a TV show and weaponize your follower counts against someone (who luckily is not in a bad place and is able to deal with it—which is NOT something you can assume of everyone) because you perceived them to have opinions you didn't like about a fictional character and it hurt your feelings. So you can go on my blocklist right next to the Bronlies who screenshot people's posts to mock in their knitting circle, because at the end of the day, you aren't any different from them—except by maybe being less racist?? so congrats on that. Consider one day growing the fuck up and not making everything about you.

Some people simply cannot conceive of a world where Sam and Dean and Cas might all have a logical perspective on something based on their own personal morals (which are not exactly the same) and feelings. Instead, they seek to divide the characters into neat little categories of "Bad/Wrong" and "Good/Correct"... and then get mad when someone makes a shitpost uquiz because they are convinced that by framing character Y as "not bad" for their reaction in situation X, the other character, character Z, is automatically condemned as an evil villain for their reaction in situation X. There always has to be a "good guy" and a "bad guy".

Hot take they're both right and both wrong and they're both sexy. But also neither of them made the other do anything.

[isitandwonder]

What to do when your fandom becomes nasty and doesn’t stop fighting

I’ve been looking at the current fandom situation since the weekend. I see several fighting grounds, accusations being throw back and forth, trolling, hate comments, emotional responses and so on.

As much as I understand at least part of this and the heated atmosphere - this is really not helping!

I’ve been reading around a bit and thought a bit and here are my suggestions how to go about it and maybe make things better. I know some of them sound harsh and hard to follow but I believe it’s the only way to change this hurtful, damaging, unhealthy sitaution.

- Accept that you won’t change a single person on here. No matter how good, sound, rational your arguments are, they won’t change anything when it comes to emotional responses or delusional behavior. You are not here to educate others by demanding a certain behavior.

- Set an example. Be the change you want to see. Behave like you want the fandom to behave. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

- Don’t argue online. Never explain, never complain, at least not out in the open. It leads nowhere and only fuels hate.

- Ignore. No matter how hateful some stuff is you see when it comes to fandom fights, ignore it. IGNORE IT!

- Block. Ignoring doesn’t mean you have to expose yourself to content you don’t want to see again and again. The next step after ignoring a post and not attacking the blog that posted content you don’t like is to block the user or the tag. And never go back. Don’t go peeking after a few days. Again - IGNORE them completely.

- Don’t feed the trolls. On platforms where blocking isn’t working, never engage in conversation with trolls and haters. They want attention and every comment is just that, even when you call them evil fuckers they’ll thrive. Delete the comment/anon ask without interaction. Though, when it’s too bad, file a complaint with the site’s owner, report them, or, in severe cases, involve the police where this is possible.

- Find friends. Okay, maybe friends is a too strong word, but find a group of likeminded people and stick with them. Have fun with them. Bitch to them in private if necessary.

- Support each other by reblogging content, fics, reccing your mutuals’ stuff, comment on their fics, whatever else positive interaction you migth think of - do it! It will be appreciated.

- Be positive. Try not to spread hate openly, don’t put other’s down, don’t attack others. Just behave like a decent, polite, respectful human being. Don’t reblog hate or demeaining posts even if you think it’s funny. In most cases, say something nice or say nothing at all is very sound advise to keep a community peaceful.

- DLDR. Seriously. It’s so easy! And don’t leave unsolicited crit. Ever.

- It’s not that important. Seriously, 99% of the stuff fandoms argue about is not important. No matter how often some folks tell you that, if you don’t attack a ‘Hater’ or ‘Anti’, the world will end and you’ll be responsible for the spread of homophobia, racism or misogyny - you’re not. The world won’t stop turning if you just ignore a post full of hate against a celebrity you love. Instead of attacking the ‘hater’, post somethin gpositiv ein return.

- Reach out. If you see a fellow fan bullied, reach out to them, not to the haters and bullies by attacking them. Cheer them up. Distract them. Say something nice, ask a question unrelated to the hate or just send them a heart or smiley face. Actively reblog their content. Show them they are loved and valued. This helps more than any ever so well-intentioned attack on the bullies.

- You don’t owe anything to anyone here. Don’t allow others to exploit you. Don’t fight their fights because you hope they’ll become your friends or accept you. It’s not worth it.

I know that it can be really fucking hard to follow this advice. I’m aware that I myself am often not able to follow it. That’s why I wrote it down. Before I will engage in any arguments on here, I will at least try to look this post up and read it through in the hope that it will help me with my impulse control.

Btw, if others have more helpful ideas how to go about the situation, please feel free to add.

Peace & Love

[therealtsk]

On Criticism, Fanfiction, And Writers

I’d like to preface this with the fact that I am a fanfic author. I’ve made no attempt to hide this. I don’t feel any need to. Fanfiction itself isn’t anything to be ashamed of. I’ve enjoyed my time in my fandoms, and I honestly think that I’ve become a better writer because of what I’ve been through. I’ve seen fanfiction shilled as a place for new writers to learn characterization and plotting without having to worry about worldbuilding and such, and that’s true...if you have people who will give you good feedback. Otherwise, you’ll learn all the wrong lessons from writing fanfic, because most of the people who read fanfic are not there to help you improve. They’re there to enjoy something for free.  I’d like to focus on that last bit: for free. Fanfiction is free entertainment. So long as you have access to the internet, you can read fanfic for free. And that’s why, I think, criticism of fanfic is oft so looked down upon.  “Dude, this was written and produced for free. Why are you criticizing it?”  “The author just wanted to write something for fun. They decided to share it with us, and you’re telling them they suck? Wow.”  “Why are you giving crit! No one asked?!” To some degree, I agree with all of this. Posting crit in the comment section of a fic when is not asked for is rude. Full stop. And there are many, many people who don’t know how to give crit. There are many, many people who will use the guise of criticism to shit on something they don’t like. I have no love for those people. I’ve seen many authors bullied off of platforms or forced to change their fics due to the sheer amount of vitriol and hate from the anonymous masses of the internet. I have only enmity for those people.  However.  Let’s lay out three things. Number one: crit is not always for the author. As a matter of fact, this is what most reviews of books, movies, games, ect are. They’re not directed at the author, they’re directed at an audience. The author can choose to read this or not, but if someone chooses to discuss the failings of a fic without directing it at the author, I hardly think that person is evil. Obviously, there are lines that shouldn’t be crossed. I’m not a fan of bashing. Criticism should always be con-structive rather than de-structive.  Number two: crit is necessary to grow as a writer. Obviously, this doesn’t apply to the “I write fanfic for fun” gang- and there’s nothing wrong with that. But it is a solid fact that you are not going to improve as a writer without people giving you feedback. And even the nicest, most gently phrased crit is going to hurt. You have to learn to live with that hurt. This makes me sound elitist, but if you cannot handle criticism in any way, shape, or form, do not post to a public forum. Even if it’s frowned upon to send crit to authors who aren’t asking, people do it. It’s a shame, but they do it. If you wanna write fanfic but don’t want to deal with crit, share it with friends. Disable comments on AO3. But if you want to improve as a writer, you’re going to have to learn how to deal with it.  Number three: nothing should be immune to criticism.  I think that it is inherently dangerous to state that anything should be immune to criticism of any kind. Criticism is how we protect ourselves from propaganda and hate speech. Criticism is how we defend ourselves against the spread of toxic norms and ideas. Criticism is how we push back.   Fanfiction can contain vile things. I’ve read fanfics that had my stomach churning. I’ve read fanfics that are offensive and I’ve read fanfics that I earnestly believe shouldn’t have been posted.  “But fanfic is harmless!”  No. It isn’t. Fanfic, like every other form of literature that exists on this planet, has the power to influence. In the age of the internet, nothing online exists in a vacuum. Ideas, the most potent and resilient of viruses, spread rapidly and spread unseen. And you’re mistaken if you believe that people can’t implant insidious things in fanfic. Just the last week, I’ve seen trauma exploited and romanticized. I’ve seen relationships with minors normalized. I’ve seen nazis excused and rapists defended. I’ve seen a lot of shit. And it’s important to call that shit out. To be brave enough to criticize authors who put those kinds of things in their works. If fanfic becomes immune to criticism, then how do we push out those kinds of ideas, when they’re buried into the works like worms buried in the dirt?  In the lawless land of the internet, we must be the arbiters of our own communities. And criticism is essential to that.  If you see someone bashing, tell them to stop. If someone is getting needlessly bullied for trying to defy fandom norms, defend them. But constructive, fair crit should not be treated as a crime. If it is, we’re failing to protect ourselves. 

[closetededgy]

Bards 5e

I 100% am full of myself when it comes to making bards, I would go as far as to say I am an expert on making bards and an expert on all the reasons people will groan when you say you’re bringing a bard to the table and I will never not make a bard because it’s important to me that I change people’s minds about them because when I first started playing dnd, which just happened to be fifth edition, I was given a bard pregen. The reason I am this confident is because using this bard, which I slowly retconned level choices with the dms permission as I learned about the games rules, I changed the minds of the entire table about what a bard is, should be, and how useful they actually are. Using more bards I have done the same at multiple other tables and in this opinion piece I will show you how to hopefully do the same

I was literally bullied by party members (who are thankfully no longer playing at that table) for having a bard that I didn’t even choose, they would constantly talk down at me IN REAL LIFE for playing a bard not to mention how venomous they were in role play, for no reason. I hate this so much. They say that the reason dnd is great is because it’s about the group not an individual so to find that people are so vehemently against bards that they will make it about the individual is the dumbest goddamn thing, to the point where clerics whose entire personality is about protecting the innocent, clerics of goddamn pelor are somehow willing to just let bard characters die, to the point these die hard role players are willing to meta game and break character because they hate an official class so much. And I’ve come to realise it’s because literally no one takes the time to read into the actual rules surrounding a bards ability so I’m going to outline them here and yes this post was triggered by people taking shit about bards for no reason and it brought back to the surface the intense feelings I have surrounding bards.

First is seduction because we have to remove this stereotype from existence before continuing, the “I roll to seduce the dragon” bard is both the fault of a player, a community, and a Dm. Let’s talk about them in that order. The roll to seduce bard player doesn’t know what spells they have and they don’t care they just think I’ll roll a dice on which I’m guaranteed at least a thirty regardless because of expertise and I won’t have to even think about it because that’s how it works, and because I successfully neutralised a threat that will mean I won and am the best player. It boils down to someone wanting to reliably be MVP and reliably, down to a science, succeed at everything. This person doesn’t even have a backstory they just showed up with perfectly calculated bard sheet. When the party begins to air their complaints about this they will see it as a personal attack and do it even more. This player has given all bards a bad name. Then there’s the community, they don’t check to see if that’s even allowed, but instead try to come up with overly complicated house rules to stop it like “roll constitution as the male dragon fucks you” or “fine role play it” which just punishes the party in the end. No the actual solution falls upon the Dm, it’s something that’s almost stigmatised in Dnd but I’m so glad my dm was willing to do this to me because if he hadn’t I would never have enjoyed dnd as much as I do. Let me preface this. We were in a place where paintings were coming to life I had my bard pregen (which I hated by the way, poorly designed, no coherent backstory or style, an absolute mess.) I had asked how to play, and out of earshot of everyone else a player who had been banned from making bards at the table for this very reason said to me “just roll to seduce on your turn” and like the fool I was I trusted him. A manticore came out of the painting and I did exactly that. And rolled a nat 20 of course in real 5e rules you can’t crit succeed on skill checks and my real number was 31. I thought, well I must have succeeded. And then the dm nonchalantly said “the manticore did not understand you or find anything you did attractive, that’s the end of your turn.” And then moved on. No punishment, no giving in, just, what you just tried to do doesn’t make sense and I’m telling you why, do better next time. And god did that open my eyes, I decided to figure out what spells I had, how combat worked, how skill checks worked, without that reality check I would never have come to enjoy dnd, and especially bards, the way I do. And if he had just punished me in a wierd way like making me succeed but in a way I didn’t want, I would never have learned this lesson in fact I probably would have been incentivised to stop playing because I would never want to try new or interesting things for fear of provoking the dms wrath (Fyi all of my stories are basically just going to be about how this specific dm is a god among men and I love him because he is incredible) but that’s it no wierd house rules, no convoluted punishments, that’s literally how the game is officially meant to be, player can try whatever they want, but if it doesn’t make sense they just fail and look kinda stupid for a minute, then they move on and figure out more interesting and fun solutions like using thaumaturgy to set the painting the manticore came out of on fire. More in the next post

[your-blorbo-from-whore-bo]

So, ah… my school textbook started hating on liberals, especially in an educational aspect of liberal “values” in the classroom.

Soooo being the rational person I am, I wrote this:

1. divorce rates: because people are now allowed to get divorced instead of staying in abusive environments

2. Child/spouse abuse: Because they weren’t reported before due to victim blaming

3. Lack of ethics in business and government: ever heard of southern plantations? Marie Antoinette?

4. Drug and alcohol addiction: you know they used to legally administer cocaine to kids often as a form of treating the common cold, and the only difference is now it’s illegal so it’s being reported as an illegal offense, who knows how many people have been addicted in the past?

5. Teenage pregnancy rates: huh, they used to just call that obligatory legal pregnancy after being married off to some sick middle aged fuck

6. Excessive reliance on childcare: because you republican fucks won’t raise minimum wage, and parents have to get second jobs to support their families ya dingus

7. Acceptance of immortality on television: oh, you mean gonzo coming out as non-binary? You scared of that twit? Your stone heart felt something awful? Well I hope it’s a heart attack you dinosaur

8. Cheating scandals: it’s not anything new that liberals have conjured up in their crit race theory cauldron or whatever, ever heard of the Reynolds pamphlets, otherwise wrote by Alexander Hamilton, a founding father, one of those dead people you treat like another gaggle of jesuses

9. Bullying and explosive violence in schools: wooooow. I WONDER what’s the root of bullying? Whatever could it be? I wonder if ya’ll have ever heard the story of 14 year old Mexican me running for my life as people in TRUMP MASKS paraded round the school saying I don’t deserve to be here. I wasn’t even an immigrant fuckwad

I got more and more unhinged as I went through the list haha