#No red flags

[melisssg99]

My partner looked me straight in the eye talking about "pancake dough" and "bread batter".

(in Dutch, "pannekoeken deeg" en "brood beslag")

(this man has no red flags, he's just chaotic and dyslexic🤭😂)

[perfectsunlight]

sunny, if jimin was the most toxic, most red flag having woman to ever exist, would you still love her? 🤨

i can fix her.

[d1scow1ng]

Holy shit we own a house now

[pangur-and-grim]

Belphie feels good enough to climb!!! that's actually huge

[horrorhorizon]

I appeal to you with all the pain and suffering. We are living in difficult circumstances as a result of the war in Gaza. Our homes have been destroyed and our dreams have faded. We are stuck in Egypt after my wife and I lost our jobs. My family lives in constant fear. My brothers, mother and father also live in Gaza. The catastrophic conditions are the result of bombing and genocide. They are facing an endless nightmare and I need help. Your help to protect my family and restore hope to our hearts

Unvetted but appears to be ledgit!

Medical needs for multiple members

Low on funds!!!!

[assiraphales]

remembering the time I called american psycho (a satirical film about toxic masculinity) a dark comedy and the overwhelming response was 'oh so u think men killing sex workers is funny? u think THAT'S funny?' like no I find a patrick batemen listening to 'i'm walking on sunshine', killing jared leto while wearing a clear raincoat and giving a dissertation on huey lewis n the news, using 'I need to return some video tapes' to get out of awkward situations, throwing a hissy fit about business cards, dropping a chainsaw down a flight of stairs, thinking an atm is telling him to feed it cats, and crying hysterically under a desk is funny. but thank u for ur wonderful insight

[clarythericebot]

(spoilers for Emma M. Lion - currently on book 4)

Just because I'm currently a little sick of age gaps, I would like to whisper into the void that I would like Emma M. Lion's ultimate love interest to not be Niall Pierce. He probably will be. Arabella ships them, they had a tense moment where he might've kissed her, and Emma does adore his company. But he's ten years older at least :(

[kropotkindersurprise]

July 8, 2024 - Thousands of Samsung workers have declared an indefinite strike in South Korea, demanding better pay and benefits. [video]

[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[mammutblog]

i wanted to draw tim in an MIT sweater since this tiktok

[cruelestpigeon]

Media that the gay tumblr people love

[thesparringpanther]

Jinx restoring her family back from the absolute brink of destruction, only to have it violently ripped apart in front of her eyes once more in the same manner she lost it is exactly why I will be seated for anything this staff does in the future they are DEMONS

[hajimedics]

I'M NOT YOUR DOLL AND I'LL THINK FOR MYSELF AND I'LL LIVE FOR MYSELF

[ninjautizm]

ATE AND LEFT NO CRUMBS !! THE RGB SIBLINGS ARE CANON!! ❤️💚🩵

[nerd-elf]

I’m tagging all my favorites here, feel free to do the same