#RAIN ON MY PARADE WHY DONT YOU

[goatpunches]

get a friend like @bonesblubs who responds like when you tell them about a cute 3zun fic you’re reading

[eyes1nthewoods]

i really just. dont like shipping as a concept. it annoys me. idk why.

[kroosluvr]

sorry i feel bad for ranting on """Main"" i guess though i kinda keep this more of apersonal blog than a very polished art blog thing. under the cut

things wld be easier if i was just an oc-centric artist (which i kinda am but only to myself in my head) but it Is how it is at this point (i want to draw my ocs more but they never turn out the way i want) and theres just so much i want to draw for the silly little media franchises that happen to capture my stupid little heart and etc.

ahhhhhhhhhhhh ifeel stupid for loving too much or whatever. i dont want to throw a pity party over this either because in the end its just "who cares LOVE WHAT U LOVE DRAW WHAT U WANT" right but in the moment i feel stupid and it sucks and i hate it actually!!!!!!! and i WILL in fact keep drawing hwat i want and what makes me happy but like idkidkdidkgkhw

sometimes i cant help thinking if i was a better artist.,, like more artistically skilled........ would people really say the things they do about the things i draw

^ (Authors note: no one has been mean about the stuff i draw just. side comments i guess lol. from my friends though and not random people . so its harder to just brush off i guess)

like maybe im just not good enough yet. which is fine. spite is actually a really good drawing proponent. but its also just like . when will it be enough to be worth it? will it be worth being my friend now if im a good artist? if i draw what you want? ...........................

its obviously not discounting the people who really enjoy my art style adn what i draw regardless (which im soooo so grateful for bc i never like expect anyone to stick around sicne my fixations change like the wind) but its like... these r the people i spend the most time with . and it sucks. i have to. second guess what i say and what i type and just. ok like i know its not that serious either but i hate it i really dont like it (<- im also just socially anxious if u cant tell)

and its also like i cant just extract myself from my friend group for a while to kinda cool off (read: muster the courage to be an idiot in front of them again) bc ummmmm um i dont have many friends . they are kind of all i got. (which is nice i like small circles(?) im not good at opening up to people.) and i do admire and like them very much but then i just feel like i get bit in the ass all the time (This past month) with shit like this i guess

and honestly like. well half the reason i keep switching fixations is BECAUSE of stuff like this where i feel self conscious of """"Being obsessed"""" over One thing so much so i just immediately switch tracks so fast but its just a cycle (Which i dont see as a bad thing tbh? it keeps my art moving and things fresh so like.)

And honestly i dont really try to . be too vocal about. fandom? stuff? when im with my friends? unless they bring it up first? i got burnt so many times with my vtuber interests so like lol ive Learned. but maybe it slips out too much? bruh. my bad i guess

i have to stop thinking abt this man.., why has this happened to me so many times this past month lol its kind of ridiculous

(Im sure they dont like. mean it. right? ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, if they actually meant it and want me to shut up then they should just actually say so right.,

i just want to draw . its not going to stop me from drawing but damn does it really like rain on my parade or put a dent in my fender or whatever other sayings that i cant think of right now

in the end i really REALLY appreciate frm the very very bottom of my heart everyone that even remotely likes/appreciates my art (especially the persona stuff nowadays bc thats what im mainly pouring all my mental and physical and emotional into) like i really really mean it. because this stuff like my silly comics and stuff is really stuff i make for purely my own heart and just what i want to see kinda. and so it just makes me feel really warm that people also want to see it and keep seeing it and love it and everything like that. and, with all this kind of negative stuff going on i just go back and reread tags and comments and stuff and i feel encouraged to keep going and draw more and everything like that. so like really, truly, thank you. i really never thought so many people would like the stuff i make. even if its not really artistically good, or really deeply interesting, im really happy it could be something special to people out there

[farasen]

not the same anon but i do have the spanish translations of level 2.0 so i can try telling (i read them a long time ago so i'm not sure how much i can recall, anyway spoilers?)

first of all, i haven't watched the animation series yet but i'd say both are unrelated (iirc there's a different character cast), they're sequels to the other books but there's a timeskip (they're like 13/14 or so, which may be why they used the series style? to show they're older?)

Donnerschlag: Nerv's pov. Dwk have continued playing in the same league and some players have left the team in the meantime (for better teams as they were bored, april later implies). The wolves pop up, tease them and challenge them to play in donnerschlag, which is pretty much the freestyle football champions league (literally if you lose, your team stops existing and have to leave the field naked?). Nerv+dwk want to go, leonessa/willi/hadschi are like "no" ("no, are you crazy?" in the adults' case), idk really what else happens exactly between then and the match outside of april trying to charm marlon (i think they kiss? or something? Idk but marlonessa drama) and them preparing for the match.

Der flüsternden riese (excuse my german?): Marlon's pov. Picks up right when donnerschlag ends (after the match) but then the adults (willi, his gang and some parents; i think there was a lesson in there but idk) rain on their parade. They have a "we dont need adults" moment which is cool and all, but not your brightest idea when said adults control the access to your base/training ground + you need money for your team (they kind of manage though), marlonessa drama continues (vanessa almost leaves, actually) and they have to play against the biester + fabi (iirc there's not really an ending? like i dont think the match gets resolved?)

That explains why Deniz is missing on the cover (Jojo isn't there either, but I'm pretty sure he is in the book?? I might be mistaken tho)

Pretty interesting, but what it is with always making some romantic drama connected with Vanessa somehow. I mean, it happened in the films several times and now books.

I'm glad that there's almost no romance in the series, that Vanessa is actually separately existing female character without a love interest. I don't mean it to dunk on the author or people who like this this, it just a preference thing.

Thank you for that info! Would like to find out more details once I get these books (oh the dreams) or if there are others who can share.

[kravisaweeb]

okay ive just been thinking about bkdk wayy too much recently (when am i not, though, honestly?) and i just Have to dump my thoughts somewhere. these are my own personal opinions and if you don't agree 100% (or at all) that's perfectly fine!

it's kinda Long and Rambly so beware lmao

so ive been reading more bkdk meta (of course) and like, i have so many conflicting feelings cause. y'all, no amount of evidence and logic and reasoning and thematic and narrative parallels and development and arc conclusions and build-up and Everything will make a weekly shonen jump main title gay. that's My opinion as a terribly bitter cynic, and it is in no way meant to rain on other people's parades (if you think they will be canon, you are more optimistic than i and are making the world a sweeter place). I've just been burnt too many times, i don't really expect anything from mainstream media At All—only indie content gets my unfiltered hype and hopes—and whenever things do shake up differently from what i thought, it's a nice surprise! cause the alternative is, This Mountain of Evidence and Development... and then oops get hit with the straightification beam on the last second.

"but it would be so unsatisfying! and completely out of nowhere! and just plain out of character! and ignore so much development! and it wouldn't make any sense at all with what has been established in the story!" Yeah. i know! im as angry and annoyed and disappointed about it as anyone. and yet, so many fucking times, that's how it goes. it would be terrible, and weird, and completely against everything that's been set up, and yet it would happen anyway. this is true even for things that are not shipping-related—ask game of thrones how it ended. cause executives are Executives everywhere, including the "west", which is """"supposedly"""" more liberal (lol, lmao). people with money that make all the decisions force creatives to comply, or fight with tooth and nail and blood and sweat and tears into allowing them to make the story they DO want to make. so it's really hard for me to see it in any other light, when i have seen it happen so many times before.

and yet.

And Yet. i cant help but think, but wonder—what is it all for then, anyway??

i can honestly say, taking off my shipping goggles for a moment, bkdks platonic relationship has ended. it really ended two years ago, culminating when bkg took a bullet for him, and then was cemented when he apologised, you know, to trample down any doubts. there we go, narrative concluded! from rival to best friend. all loose threads tied in terms of their relationship. if that's how it had ended, how it had stagnated, remained in stasis, with this New Dynamic the new canon going into the final battle then show over. yeah. typical shonen bestie stuff. it would have ended and i would have gone "oh they were in LOVE fr" forever, but knowing that people who were like "this is what besties are like! this is what siblings are like!" also had as much of a claim to their interpretation as mine (even if i didn't personally agree w it lmao)

BUT IT DIDN'T STOP THERE and i have to ask why???? WHY is it more central i Don't Get It. i dont understand? i really dont get it cause.... why? bkg is important to deku, yes. other people are also important to deku (all might, his mom, his other friends, civilians, any lost pet he has to kill himself over cause he is a Good Caring Shonen Protag). that has been established for forever. so i don't rly understand the necessity to further highlight that One part of his personality (caring about kacchan) to motivate him into fighting the Big Bad Villain, when 1. he would've fought the villain anyway cause that's what heroes do, and 2. it could have been a generic "you hurt my friends!!" and like lump in more people there, like in the first war arc where several people got hurt (aizawa, gran torino, etc).

but No! you hurt that guy. that guy, that while he was dying, the villain, textually, explicitly says, "i am hurting you because it will make deku angry and sad, since you are his most important person" (that's almost a fucking quote im basically QUOTING here). and it's like, what? lmao wait. what?? why???

what is it building up towards?? i dont get it. it's not going to build up to the apology/their relationship being mended (what we thought would be the climax of the whole thing), cause that already happened. there's no "oh my god if kacchan dies he'll never get to say sorry!" stakes, or "oh my god if deku fails he'll never be able to be friends with kacchan again!" stakes, cause like, that already did happen though. i mean i know obviously in real life, you do things for people just for their sake, not because of what it will mean for your narrative arc. but this is a made up story and thus needs storytelling reasons for shit to happen. so what is the reason for deku needing to be pushed, needing to be backed into a corner, over kacchan dying? why did bakugo have to die (had to get FRIDGED, it's a trope and everything), if not so that his death would fuel dekus rage (which we were told explicitly was the reason why)? why, out of everyone on the battlefield, out of everyone in the CAST, did it have to be bakugo, the one to make deku Lose It?

i mean we know why, but still. what? is it really, textually, canonically That?

i just don't get it. and secretly, deep deep inside, i really hope we get to find out soon

[orbch]

wait can I ask why you don't like the name Andy for old shorts anxiety? is it because you see that as Virgil or do you just not like the name?

kind of a mix of time being a flat circle and me having experienced it all (was around long enough to see remnants of sasi anxiety being called andy, and now shorts anxiety. its like flashbacks…) but also like. idk. any other A name yall 😭

and maybe i also just dont really personally like when the shorts characters are given names. like i’ve referred to sleep as remy but. eh.. not really even a fan of that tbh. its giving very much missy and pranks which also gives me flashbacks…

thats just my opinion though. im not even like. thomas’ shorts Number One Fan or anything so dont let me rain on yalls parade. person who dgaf about shorts sleep or anxiety sharing their opinions on the names like who cares abt what i have to say LMFAO

[ageofgeek]

on second thought i dont really want ops notifs flooded w this so dont reply there if you must

Thank you! I don't want to clutter up OP either. My reply is somewhat long, so don't feel compelled to respond if you're not interested. But I wanted to get some of these thoughts off my chest.

So, to respond to your first point: "yeah but this is all operating under the assumption that they were ever intended to be ace rep, or rep for people who dont have sex. which is just an odd and very specific expectation to have for seemingly no reason, why them specifically? no one ever makes comments about het ships like this. all youre saying could be true but also could not be true. its just a really unecessary thing to insert into a post like this"

For one, Neil Gaiman has explicitly accepted the interpretation of Crowley & Aziraphale as ace and/or aro. He (and fans who HC A&C as ace) primarily bases this off of several lines in the book identifying angels and demons as "sexless." This has been interpreted by both Gaiman and fans as meaning that angels & demons are non-binary/agender (and rightfully so!). However, as Gaiman points out in his tweet, it is just as easy to interpret this as angels and demons literally not having an interest in sex.

So, if you're asking why some fans have latched onto A&C as ace rep, it's because (1) one of the authors of the book - and the creator and writer of the TV show - has explicitly identified asexuality as a possible interpretation, and (2) there is explicit textual evidence supporting such a reading. That doesn't seem like "seemingly no reason" to me.

As for it being unnecessary to go into ace discourse on such an innocuous post, I completely agree (so ty for sending this ask so it doesn't continue in OP's post). I understand my fellow ace fans' frustration or disappointment with the season 2 kiss, but it's unnecessary to be complaining about it in completely unrelated posts.

To your second point: "its kind of raining on someone elses parade when theyre excited abt azcrow just having been established as explicitly romantic in the show talking about their own interpretation of the two to make comments like that. the headcanons are fine on their own but read the room"

For the record, I ship Aziracrow in the TV show as romantic. I read them as romantic, I think they're explicitly canon as a romantic couple, and I think it's pretty difficult to deny that. I'm one of the people celebrating Aziracrow as canonically romantic! So I certainly hope that I'm not raining on my own parade. But just as you mentioned that "ace people can have sex," ace people can also be in romantic relationships. It's actually very common. It is completely valid - and moreover, compliant with TV canon - for fans to interpret Aziracrow as an asexual romantic relationship. And as I discussed above, there is Word of God and explicit textual support for this reading.

This is more tangential to your point, but I'd like to link this blog post by an ace GO fan and this post about GO non-binary rep. They both make the point that queer representation is not and has never been limited to two cis gay men in a romantic relationship. Relationships with non-binary people are queer. Ace relationships are queer. Queer-platonic relationships are, you guessed it!, queer. The relationship between Aziraphale and Crowley is inherently queer, regardless of how that relationship presents. This is true in the TV show, and it is true in the book, which was published over 30 years ago!

I am happy that Aziracrow kissed in season 2. I am happy with the direction the show is going. And yet, it's disappointing that some fans interpret the kiss as the "moment" that Aziracrow became romantically canon, or the "moment" that they became queer. Because for many fans - especially ace and non-binary/trans fans - they had been in a queer relationship all along! As that ace GO fan pointed out: "In our sex-steeped culture, the idea that deep, devoted love does not have to involve sex is unfathomable. It’s why the very existence of asexuality is questioned."

And if you HC Aziracrow as sexual beings, that's 100% valid! I'd be lying if I said I had never read Aziracrow smut. But I simply argue that an interpretation of Aziracrow as asexual is no more and no less valid.

[usertoxicyaoi]

well I LOVED my personal weatherman and I LIVED for your posts about it then and now! "if you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all" is my motto. why people think they can just rain on your parade, i don't get it. sorry for the rudeness of some :( please keep up the posts and updates; i'm crossing my fingers for a season two and a movie!

hiiii my love!!!!

thank you!!! i havent been on here as much recently over the past couple of days bc things have been a little overwhelming and i wanted to take some time away and devote that time to some personal and religious healing, and thankfully, i feel a lot more better now spiritually.

and then i come back on here, make One post, and then get silly rude stuff like that sent into my inbox. like. what does that anon want me to do about how they feel towards something they can't stand but i like??? like ........ just dont send me that stuff then? post about it on your own blog? i dont know, ignore mpw and watch something you do like instead? touch some grass get some air go outside??? fhsjfi like. what do u want me to do! you hating mpw isnt going to make me love it less! and this isnt the 1st time ive had rude anons come into my inbox wrt mpw either.

like i genuinely cb a small little jbl is causing this much agony and irritation to u that ur having to need to find me and send me your frustrations just to make yourself feel better. are we really going to be this pathetic now 🤷‍♀️?

anyway! fingers and toes and everything crossed for a season 2!!!!!!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🧡

[lyllith]

WHY DONT YOU RAIN ON MY PARADE? SHRED MY EVENING GOWN? READ MY SENTENCE OUT LOUD? CAUSE I LOVE THIS CURSE ON OUR HOUSE! TELL ME, WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON, DEAR? GIVE ME SOME TIPS TO FORGET YOU. HAVE I BECOME ONE OF YOUR PROBLEMS? COULD IT BE EASY THIS ONCE? EVERYTHING THAT'S MINE IS A LANDMINE. DID MY LOVE AID AND ABET YOU?

[seancamerons]

i really dont like the fb fandom for degrassi. i regret joining. its not fun. i just got desperate for community and like this was like a mistake. im done with this kind of behavior this girl had.

In one of these stupid ass groups, I think I've met the mosts meanest nastiest bitch in the world, can't relate. How dare you? Come bullying people who like to joke and have fun? Ew. Nasty writing indirectly like fu, don't get cocky with me. I'm not cool with people poking fun at others. I'm aware im friggin ugly as hell but you know what? I don't care she don't live anywhere near me but now she's nothing but a memory bc shes blooooocked.

here is the scoop, this one girl tried to be rude to me that i was 'weird' bc i wore a stupid friggin character costume with my bf, unorthodox bc its not a popular show or film franchise or whatever but like ugh shaming people? what is with you, boring bitch?

tell that to all the moanas, disney dressed, superhero, queens and kings, Harley Quinn and Barbie's walking around this week! Just because I made my costume kind of out of odds and ends doesn't mean shit. If you got nothing nice to say leave me alone, your opinion is invalid I don't care, but that was out of line. Blocked. I have half the the mind to contact the moderator to get me out of that nasty group of stupid ass people. Ugh I hate being mad about stupid shit but c'mon. i really am starting to be like super hurt and bent outta shape bc i worked really hard and like i was just trying to have a teeny bit of fun. I don't even know. I hope she ain't on here. She seems more casual bc whatever.

I been around this for 84 years, half of my life (exaggerated) but basically i know shit, you don't and it shouldb't be this serious but shaming people isn't nice. I'm trying to be a nice person keep the piece she is disturbing my peace and i just wanted to show off a fun thing I did. Ugh people. I do not wanna be in a group with this girl bitching about something so ridiculous and making me all hot and angry maybe this is why I almost never do shit or open up about anything I'm about to blow a gasket over a basic bitch!

She got blocked hope I don't see nothing, even if she did like semma/sean/emma or whatever i don't wanna know. Leave me alone or I'll report your ass. I had to block 3 people today, 3 I do not care. Don't push me I will.

I am done with people who do not give a fuck about me, pardon my french. Do me a favor and lay tf off or you're blocked. I will not respond. You will be insignificant.

I am very pssionate about things i like. Do not make me an enemy. I will go to literal war. I do not care. Understand? Ughhhhh I hate this.

so you're blocked if you say anything neg, i have no room in my life for people being nasty for the sake of being nasty. stop being mean girls, this isn't 2004. support ladies, don't be a bitch bc you don't have fun, and shit on others parade.

that is a double negative, you are a double negative and you're raining on my love parade. or something like that.

[torahtot]

me when my dad says halloween is dumb: umm.. why do you have to rain on their parade.. it's just for fun it's cool u have a stick up ur butt

me when all the gay people are having a halloween party that i didnt know about and i also dont have a costume: i hate halloween!! chag purim remains supreme!!

[heliianth]

I'm not the same asker, but may I inquire about the opinions on Sonic you think are unpopular? If you're uncomfortable still then... What do you think of Silver haha

im not uncomfortable per se, just dont want to rain on other peoples parade. i usually make characterization posts looking for feedback and similar viewpoints, and bc i know my sonic opinions are unpopular at least from what i can see i wont receive that so it makes this subject offputting for me. but u asked so i shall deliver

im not a huge fan of the interpretation that sonic internalizes or suppresses everything, or considers his "hero role" restrictive or burdensome in the sense that he cant show weakness, etc... maybe im just an adventurehead and new games have more basis for this interpretation, but it kind of feels like the fandom exaggerating traits in order to make sonic an interesting pov character when hes really not meant to be...? thats not to say sonic isnt interesting in general, but i dont think hes equipped for carrying a narrative by himself so usually people try to give him some deeper traumatic internal world to explore when i personally dont think its there, lol. ive said before that i think the most interesting sonic stories to me arent really about Him so much as his effect on other characters and thats why im so mehhh abt this take.

thats not to say sonic doesnt withhold information about himself. in sa2 he very blatantly lies to amy about his thoughts and oftentimes tries to keep others out of harms way by doing stuff himself. but i dont think this is martyrdom or needing to "fulfill his role as a hero" so much as him just feeling some responsibility as, for a while, the oldest kid in the friend group. he doesnt consider himself a hero but hes aware that younger characters, like amy and tails, look up to him so he doesnt want to talk to them like he would a peer. he is generally more serious with characters like knuckles who are around his same age and do not hold him to this pedestal. we see as tails and amy grow he begins to be more relaxed and less "big kid needing to remember his audience" now that they arent as young or star-struck.

splitting up this paragraph to avoid more wall of text but in regards to this ^^^ i also think most of it is just that... hes a private guy. he doesnt particularly want ppl to know whats going on in his brain all the time, has a personal space bubble, doesnt hang around the public often and lots of times doesnt talk much in very social situations. tho i wont knock ppl for trying to find a deeper more psychological reason for it, i dont personally think there is one... hes just an introverted dude. some ppl just dont like talking abt themselves and get awkward abt it.

also what i think of silver? not sure. i think he has good potential... but sonic teams fear of 06 after it flopped so hard didnt let him grow to meet it. i think his arc in that game was unfinished and suffered from the timeline reset. but i also dont remember lots from his story, so i may have to revisit it. i like him in those early days like in rivals, but im afraid to say i dont find him very fascinating nowadays :( sorry! i get why others do tho

[william-s-churros]

i really love complaining about shit and even if im getting a little hyperbolic i really hope no one is taking it that seriously lol. i know many things that i complain about are like completely harmless (especially fandom stuff...... mostly fandom stuff....) and its like. yeah i complain about how people will draw a character or some dumb headcanon thing im like hmph! i dont like that but i dont actually expect everyone to drop everything to please me. im just some guy who has flashbacks constantly that make me insane and find things more frustrating than anyone should. much of life is deeply unpleasant for me, but its not actually anybody's fault. my brain just came out bad i think

and yeah ive been through a lot of things in my life that have made me into this miserable weirdo, but i dont exactly feel great about making that other people's problem. like i actually dont enjoy raining on anyones parade. i did that recently and i regret it deeply lol! which is, truthfully, why i vague so much. im not trying to call anyone out! its more like just a thing conceptually irritates me and not really people doing it ever. i just want to complain about ideas as a separate entity from people lol. its not me trying to morally judge you, even if i think an idea is bad, i guess. idk. maybe this all just comes across as stupid, but thats sort of just how i feel about this kind of stuff. idk. i really am glad people are having fun, even if i find the way they achieve that to be very annoying personally lol

[motelmars]

why dont you rain on my parade?

shred my evening gown

read my sentence out loud

cause i love this curse on our house

[deanwinchestergf]

i'll ruin it all over and over like i always do WHY DONT YOU i'll ruin it all over RAIN ON MY PARADE i'll ruin it for you SHRED MY EVENING GOWN i'll ruin it all over and over READ MY SENTENCE OUT LOUD like i always do CAUSE I LOVE THIS CURSE ON OUR HOUSEEEEE

[franciskirkland-deleted]

What do you think about 2p (if anything at all)

shrugs. i like the 'another color' designs as a concept, but i really don't have the best grasp on 2ptalia as a whole. bc to me the 2ps are like. a character who is based off of the canon character, but their personality and traits are totally inverted; and their appearance, like coloring and clothing taste, are slightly altered? but according to some, it's the character "gone bad"? "gone evil"?? anyway.

2p england is the bane of my existence get that creepy little pink haired killer-clown ass mf out of my sight. i dont mean to rain on your parade if you're a 2p england stan but as you can tell i am very Old™ and i remember the early days of the fandom. people used to go hog wild for this guy but to me he is an abomination im sorry i can't let it go he has blighted the concept singlehandedly and beyond repair.

2p france is swag ig but the fanon design kinda just looks like regular france?? but depressed?? and why is his name françois when francis and françois are the same name!!! goofy mfs!! anyway i have my own version of 2p france. louis. he is a brunette and a terrible man. he only exists to ship with his 1p self, who deserves better :3

2p america i can get behind. i haven't written him yet but alfred is such a squeaky clean good christian boy to me, i need a version of him who is Evil and Edgy. like. i find rusame cute ig but i'd like 1p russia x 2p america even better. bc of the potential for Dark'Ness. does that make sense. 2p nyo america also could absolutely get it. the baddest bitch of all time <3 and i love the name amber for her for some reason

as for the other characters i don't have much of an opinion and it's probably not something i'd get deeply invested into at this point tbh. sorry!