#RANT MODE ACTIVATED

[romanos-photo-album]

ffxiv mods are a touchy subject for a lot of the community, and while there are some people who charge up the butt for their mods, there are a lot more who offer their stuff for free. so i feel bad when i complain about something thats free not matching my tastes, but i will sometimes be a begging chooser about it.

Here we have 3 of the more popular lala bodies, Stacked (Right), EveHD (Middle), and Bibala (left). I like to use EveHD, because I have one major complaint about the other two.

The Waist. The Snatched Waist that Bibala and Stacked use is WEIRD to me. (And it's not a problem that's unique to lala bodies, 90% of body mods for tallfolk are an hourglass and the ones that make people even slightly pudgy get next to zero support, but thats a whole different discussion.)

the problem can be alleviated a bit with Customize+, but then if i wanna put anything else on i have to go turn off the scaling.

i dunno theres no point to this its just something about a fair number of 14 mods that bothers me, but im in no way bashing the hard work that goes into all of these mods or the people who do enjoy them, i just wanted to put my thoughts here cause i couldnt put them on twitter

[what-the-fang]

FSOG Trailer Reaction and Some Stuff about China

I’m baaaaaaaack! Not, of course, that any of you were actually missing me, I’m sure. But for the three of you who might’ve actually been curious as to where I’ve been for the past month after only 5 posts, I’ve actually been halfway around the world. No, seriously, like I was actually in Taiwan and China for two weeks. Yes, I climbed the Great Wall, and yes, I really am just that awesome. For…

[whatsleftofdishaa]

Simp aisa kro chand pe jaisa koi insaan insaan pe bhi na krta ho

[eyeballsoup7310]

Maybe the reason Rolan got so high off of straight up real actual non psychedelic mushrooms is because his bug brain is very susceptible to placebo effect

Like, every human behaviour he has, he picked up from people around him. Everything he knows how to do in a human way is just because something told him that when this happens, this is how your body or brain should react. When he’s given mushrooms and told that they’re supposed to have an effect on him, his brain goes “if you say so man. Activate silly mode”

[jovieinramshackle]

When I made my username I actually used to go by jovie, hence "Jovie in Ramshackle" however now I'm too attached to it to change it

I guess the logical thing to do IS to change it...but also this damn oc consumes like 85% of my brain, if my brain is Ramshackle then ofc she's in it. It truly is Jovie in Ramshackle.

[cantevenbeachhere]

☕️ + wiping out while surfing

Uuuuuggghhhhh!

*sigh* Dude. You have no idea. Like seriously, it’s intense.

Sometimes I think it’s safer flying through the air than it is to actually surf! Shredding waves is much more dangerous than people realize. I should know. Not only do I try surfing, but my job is Beach. I know these things.

Send me a ☕️ and a topic to rant about

[heavenly-wounded]

Here’s GingerBrave as phos!

GINGERPHOS‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ THIS IS VERY COOL AND AWESOME AND I LPVE IT :3:3:3:3

seeing his silly smiley face turn grim is so sad tho i wanna give him a hug 💔💔💔💔

[pockysquirrel]

Oi why do I keep getting posts on my dash that are just generic porn but inexplicably tagged with Kamen Rider? Like, I get the concept of spamming your ad for bog-standard boring smut with fandom tags to bait the algorithm into giving you views, but Kamen Rider ain't exactly the most popular fandom out there.

And when I see porn tagged with Kamen Rider, god dammit I expect there to be cyborgs.

[what-the-fang]

FSOG Review

For the lazy, here’s my Fifty Shades of Grey review from Goodreads in full. Yeah yeah, I know I’m way behind on the times and everyone and their mother has reviewed this garbage already, but hey, I hadn’t discovered Goodreads yet back when I first read it, ok? And since my opinion is the correct one, I must put it out there. Besides, the movie will (unbelievably) be out in less than a year, and…

[nikibogwater]

In today's episode of Niki is Very Done With This, I just learned that people on TikTok have meme-ified the term "intrusive thoughts," and are using it to describe relatively harmless impulses like cutting their hair or eating ice cream at two in the morning.

Here's an actual example of what Intrusive Thoughts are and how they feel, right off the top of my head: When I was eleven years old, I once spent an entire weekend curled up in a little ball of agony in my room, genuinely terrified that I was going to stab my grandma or torture my parents. It was a never-ending assault of images and ideas that were so far removed from who I was and who I wanted to be, it felt like there was an entirely separate entity taking over my brain and trying to forcibly turn me into a monster.

So yeah. I would like to politely request (read: loudly demand) that the internet stop appropriating mental health diagnoses for the sake of clout. Especially in this case. If 11-year-old me had heard someone talk about their "intrusive thoughts winning," even as a joke, it would have made my fears a hundred-thousand times worse. I'm very lucky to have been professionally diagnosed with OCD and ADHD early on, so that I understood what was happening to me and that it didn't have any real power over my actions in real life. But there are struggling kids out there who have never had that opportunity, whose only exposure to this particular mental disorder is through people making poor-taste jokes on TikTok about the "intrusive thoughts winning." And that makes the eleven-year-old-curled-up-on-her-bed inside of me want to get up and nuke the app off the face of the planet.

[sweetfirebird]

I know part of it is extreme weather changes because of climate change and all, but the sudden appearance of "bomb cyclones" in the news irritates me so much. First of all, suddenly calling severe storms "bomb cyclones" is designed to scare the shit out of people without actually telling them anything about it or what to do for them. Are they truly unprecedented? Then maybe tell people what you mean by "cyclone." The first one that hit us up here in 2021 was just called a big storm up until the last second. Then they called it a bomb cyclone, sent everyone into a panic (but not enough of a panic to order businesses to close early and send people home while roads were still passable and power was still on, btw. My whole separate rage for how America handles increasing natural disasters is for another time.) Then they acted like, well that was weird, anyway while we were all without power for days or stranded in our homes.

Keep in mind that no storm here in my lifetime has ever been deemed a cyclone before. So everyone here was sort of??? about what that meant for us the first time as well. Sounds real scary (because it is) but what are we supposed to do? What does that mean in practical terms? Oh you just wanna fearmonger and not be helpful? Cool.

Then now there have been two this year so far, with people buried and starving or freezing to death under snow or isolated by water/mud, and the media sort of treats it like, "we've just decided to slap that label on extreme weather I guess."

And it's the least helpful thing they could be doing, honestly. If they said, "hey we are possibly about to get winds up to whatever mph and that on its own is going to cause serious problems even without the heavy rain or snow--though we will also be getting that--and here is what needs to happen before this storm arrives" that would actually be helpful.

You'd think after the handling of Covid, I'd be less surprised by how incompetent the people in charge are, but... here I am still shocked at the constant mishandling of shit.

Also when severe weather is predicted, I don't care how used to it your area is, workers and schoolchildren all need to be sent home. Period. And frankly, even if you are used the occasional storm, we don't live in normal storm times anymore. Send people home before the roads and trains and buses stop being available and stop expecting like... fast food workers to come into work during this shit.

(oops here's that rant now)

Also with rising costs to live in urban centers, most poorer workers... actually most workers... do not live near city centers, which means they have to travel to come into work. Nope.

(Also those people expecting like a Subway sandwich shop to be open during a hurricane.... what is wrong with you?)

....I am avoiding formatting. But my rage is valid. When we had the first big fire up here, once the phone lines and towers went back up, which took a couple of days *while the fire was still burning out of control* my manager got calls from people mad about businesses being closed. People had fled across the county/state and were waiting to learn if their homes burned. People died, a lot of people. Businesses burned down. Communications were down. Absolutely no business was getting done anyway.

Honestly the most selfishly stupid stuff from humans who did not deserve politeness.

[shoot-of-corruption]

6. is roleplaying the only writing-based hobby you have, or are there other things you like to write?

12. what roleplay trends do you remember from the year you started tumblr rp? how did you feel about those trends?

6. I USED TO write short RPGPlayer type games with plots and in ye olden days, I actually did write some fanfiction, but it was BAD, really bad. x'D

I still feel terribly cringy remembering an original horror story I wrote for our school paper, when I was like 16 years old PFFF.

I have to say roleplaying in written form is really my poison of choice and I am doing a pretty acceptable job at it. That won't change that anymore, I think.

12. ........ UUUHM.

Do you know when I started RPing here?? I can't even remember well anymore?! It must have been like 2011 or 2012? *shifty eyes*

We were all throwing stuff together wildly, this community was at it's golden age. Everyone and their mother did what they wanted! We took icons from art, doujins, wherever. Nobody had a plan but all of us were so enthusiastic it didn't even matter.

I remember we all did some asks, where it's like characters talking about their RP- partners or evaluating them IC but we had to do it on soundcloud and it was SO CRINGEY to speak as Mariku anywhere for me.

Also something with a lot of handwriting memes... I always used NBC backgrounds, because i was like " You thought, I use blank paper?? HAHAHA WROOONG!"

Also the drama was terrible... and back then I got a LOT of hate, because apparently it was still hard to understand IC =/= OOC...

It was wild as fuck.

[babieken]

hello again! i sent the ask earlier about stuck kihyun. i actually think i'm an anon of yours... 🚇? i can't remember for sure though lol oh how i wish i could go back in time and witness monsta x's debut and be here for the entire journey. did you witness it? i too ended up going and listening to his solo music after sending my last ask. i'll have to go watch the stuck mv asap though! i'm just having a whole kihyun moment recently. he is my bias though so it's bound to happen every again, but being a multi impacts the frequency >.<

OMG subway anon!!!!!! Hi!!!! how are you??? how have you been???

no, i didn't witness their debut either (I got into them in 2018 and became a casual listener and in 2020 it became official <3) but I kind of prefer it that way... i will elaborate. for one i do no have the stomach to watch No Mercy, Even today. after watching Pentagon Maker against my better judgment i vowed to never watch an idol survival show. also tbh mx's earlier music wasn't really my taste so i probbaly wouldn't have gotten too into them anyway.

That being said, not a day goes by where I don't wish I had gotten into them sooner so I could experience being Wonho's Monbebe... like this is legitimately one of my few regrets in life: not getting to truly experience ot7.

[cantevenbeachhere]

☕

Strong feelings about hot chocolate flavors (good OR bad!)

~☕👈

Are you ☕️👍🏻anon who decided to change things up or are you a different anon? I’m guessing you’re the same anon…or maybe you’re different because you didn’t ask about coffee 👀

Listen! My dude! You’re gonna get both because why do “or” when you can do “and”?

Okay look, I wanted to like candy cane hot chocolate. I really did. Lots of my friends like it, and they’re like “it’s so the holiday flavor” and I tried it and it’s so not my holiday flavor. Normally, mint and chocolate don’t bother me. Is that my go-to? Heck no, but I’m not gonna turn my nose up to it. But ew, this was not good hot chocolate. Like not at all.

But a good flavor of hot chocolate that I think is like unfairly overlooked which is maybe one reason why I like it is mixing a little bit of cinnamon with my hot chocolate. It’s sooooooo good! Like this is a flavor most people sleep on, but I swear, dude, it’s no different if you dunk a churro in chocolate! You’ve got the cinnamon and the sugar and the chocolate! It’s good! What more could ya want? Cover the top with marshmallows and whipped cream and you’re all set!

Send me a ☕️ and a topic to rant about

[mytrainline]

a casualty of hatred/ignorance over academia on here is that there arent more portrayals of soft academia pairings

like, when u see soft ships/aus its always coffeeshop au, cottagecore, flowershop, etc

like

the potential of just two individuals, mentally exhausted, who have no idea what to do on their off times bc theyre always busy,

[gaypiratepropaganda]

well you see, I enjoy all those other things. they're funny and I can forgive them. the only one that made me sad was ed pushing lucius overboard but it makes sense he's got intimacy issues and lucius witnessed the first draft of his terrible breakup poetry. they're pirates. a bit of violence is to be expected.

izzy tells the navy where they are so he can legally steal their ship and ends up with ed released to his custody, whatever that means. I just think that's icky, I don't know. it's beyond regular pirate violence. he's brought the english military into their little gay interpersonal drama. who does that?

literally I can forgive torturing racists or setting them on fire, plotting to murder your husband, cannibalism, a kinky bit of stabbing between friends, and um… having passionate, consensual gay sex. but I draw the line at snitching on your own people to the english government just so you can be captain. he uses state violence to try to get his crush's boyfriend killed. and then they give him legal custody of his crush. that's fucked up on a different level, man.

I also have a hard time forgiving izzy for assigning people bullshit busywork just so he can feel powerful or whatever. that's more scandalous to me than polamory. I know it doesn't seem as bad as cannibalism, but cannibalism has so far never affected my real life, so.

he represents a lot of things that make my life worse. toxic masculinity, authoritarianism, sexism, homophobia, those guys that get a crush and make it your problem. it's an important role for a character and I understand that he's needed for the plot, but that doesn't stop me from hating him. in fact, I think that's his intended narrative role. the hateable guy with bad opinions. I think that, for once, the people writing the story actually agree with me about the characters. that never happens!

it's ok to like any character, obviously, even if they are evil. but I don't even really think he's evil, just a dick. in a special, power-hungry way that reminds me too much of real life. so I can't love him the way everyone else does. sorry.

'Izzy is evil'

Ed just pushed an innocent young man clean overboard and Stede Bonnet burned an entire ship full of people. Spanish Jackie just gave 0 fucks about one of her husbands being shot and Mary Bonnet was about to skewer hers in the ear.

Frenchie wanted to turn a man's back into a table!

Roach literally tortures people for fun.

Buttons' only joy in life is to eat people's juicy legs.

'Izzy Hands is a freak, he's disturbed'

Izzy has a sore tummy and is crying about Blackbeard, meanwhile the Swede is shaking his dumptruck ass at not one but TWO cannibals

Like ???

Ed and Stede were stabbing and shooting eachother for shits and giggles.

Lucius was having passiomate sex with like four different pirates at the same time.

Izzy could never. He's the weak link of the group. Wee John will set fire the the ship for fun before Izzy does anything scandalous or violent lol

Not even defending Izzy just he's a sad lil man, face facts.