#This is my biggest pet peeve

[loomiscarpenter]

billy loomis already has a canon established child. stop erasing her by giving billy random ass adopted ocs he adopts with stu. if you're going to do that, at LEAST have him parent the child he canonically has as well. stop ERASING SAM IN FAVOR OF A SHIP!

[frasermints]

question of the day are some people incapable of guestimating

"he blew past me going like 90 (miles per hour)" "how did you know were you pacing him"

i have eyeballs

"yeah the beetle was huge it was like 2 inches long" "what did you do pull out a ruler and measure"

no i know how long 2 inches is i can tell by looking you people are fucking stupid

[shysimblr]

No but why do people play their phone out loud on public transport, like can you not act civilised? Ffs it doesn’t matter the age either I’ve seen grown ass ppl do it like not everyone wants to listen to your pastor do a sermon, or you on tik tok, damn.

[shesfromtheheavens]

why message me and not bother replying?!

[masn-mount]

jude pls start putting a space before the emoji 🫶🏼

[smollmilly]

This goes for art style as well! And it makes it WORSE when they say your art style reminds them of a popular thing. Like they probably think it’s the highest compliment but think about it for a SECOND people please.

What if the person never watched said thing, what if the person doesn’t LIKE said thing, and even IF the person likes the thing mentioned, spoiler alert, IT SUCKS! It comes off as the rudest thing ever because an artist’s art style is something they have carefully crafted over the years alright?

It is something that changed, that they had to adjust here and there to their liking and comfortableness. It is of their own design and each art style is UNIQUE! Unless the artist is trying to replicate the art style of a show, then okay, THAT is the biggest compliment but otherwise, never say that someone’s art style looks like someone else’s or a show’s. I BEG of you.

something that really sucks about being an artist on the internet in 2024 is that a lot of people don't know how to respond to art anymore. not ALL people, but a noticeable amount of them. they look at a piece of art that you made, that you care about and put time and effort and love into, and they'll say "wow! this is just like [THING YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF]!" or "omg! it's exactly like [THING THAT ONLY HAS SURFACE LEVEL SIMILARITIES AT BEST]!" and i know those people don't have bad intentions. they're trying to say that they liked what you made. but that's not how it comes off. it comes off as reductive. as dismissive. and the worst thing about it is, if they simply ASKED what my inspiration was, then i'd love to tell them. no art is without a muse and we're all impacted by our experiences. my problem with this type of response is the assumption, and oftentimes the insistence that your thing MUST be based on or inspired by this other thing. that they only value your thing BECAUSE they can make some weird connection to something that is, 99% of the time, either unintentional or entirely unrelated. it just hurts. what did you like about my thing? did you like the colors, the composition? did you like how it made you feel? those types of reflections are so much more valuable than "your story/character/etc reminds me of [other story/character/etc]". and i hope you can understand why.

[deceptivelycomplex]

does anyone else hate when people refer to regina as gina or is it just me

[kyeterna]

IT'S NOT GREEK INDEPENDENCE DAY

THERE IS NO GREEK INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!!!

TODAY IS THE CELEBRATION FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE START OF THE GREEK REVOLUTION OF 1821 (and the religious holiday for the Annunciation)

PLEASE STOP CALLING IT INDEPENDENCE DAY

[manebioniclegali]

Oh thank God there's a way to fix this

Also @yourheartinyourmouth can you clarify if this applies to foreign-language subtitles, like the ciao example? Are they required to subtitle not super plot relevant dialogue that's not in English on the English setting?

netflix subtitles are great for when you want to read a caption with like 50% resemblance to what's being spoken

[stealingpotatoes]

i'll never get over Leia naming her son Ben like imagine naming a child after your absentee uncle's fake ID

[potatototheleft]

THIS ISNT HOW IT WORKS 😭

SSRIs work by preventing the serotonin from being sucked back up into the axon terminal.

Neurotransmitters NEED to be floating round in the synapse (space between neurons) for signals to be sent

[sugarcoatednightshade]

thinking about how Humans Are Space Orcs stories always talk about how indestructible humans are, our endurance, our ability to withstand common poisons, etc. and thats all well and good, its really fun to read, but it gets repetitive after a while because we aren't all like that.

And that got me thinking about why this trope is so common in the first place, and the conclusion I came to is actually kind of obvious if you think about it. Not everyone is allowed to go into space. This is true now, with the number of physical restrictions placed on astronauts (including height limits), but I imagine it's just as strict in some imaginary future where humans are first coming into contact with alien species. Because in that case there will definitely be military personnel alongside any possible diplomatic parties.

And I imagine that all interactions aliens have ever had up until this point have been with trained personnel. Even basic military troops conform to this standard, to some degree. So aliens meet us and they're shocked and horrified to discover that we have no obvious weaknesses, we're all either crazy smart or crazy strong (still always a little crazy, academia and war will do that to you), and not only that but we like, literally all the same height so there's no way to tell any of us apart.

And Humans Are Death Worlders stories spread throughout the galaxy. Years or decades or centuries of interspecies suspicion and hostilities preventing any alien from setting foot/claw/limb/appendage/etc. on Earth until slowly more beings are allowed to come through. And not just diplomats who keep to government buildings, but tourists. Exchange students. Temporary visitors granted permission to go wherever they please, so they go out in search of 'real terran culture' and what do they find?

Humans with innate heart defects that prevent them from drinking caffeine. Humans with chronic pain and chronic fatigue who lack the boundless endurance humans are supposedly famous for. Humans too tall or too short or too fat to be allowed into space. Humans who are so scared of the world they need to take pills just to function. Humans with IBS who can't stand spicy foods, capsaicin really is poison to them. Lactose intolerance and celiac disease, my god all the autoimmune disorders out there, humans who struggle to function because their own bodies fight them. Humans who bruise easily and take too long to heal. Humans who sustained one too many concussions and now struggle to talk and read and write. Humans who've had strokes. Humans who were born unable to talk or hear or speak, and humans who through some accident lost that ability later.

Aliens visit Earth, and do you know what they find? Humanity, in all its wholeness.

[gilly-moon]

I am BEGGING society to start using the oxford comma again. I have misunderstood too many sentences in recent memory all because someone couldn't put ONE extra comma in.

[fizzyrodeo]

saw a critical post that made me realize IMP is extremely lucky that all of their human victims are already predestined for hell, otherwise they'd have surely made enemies with more heavenly beings by now. even without that luck i feel like they should be getting more backlash from heaven soon– and i hope they do, because are we forgetting they killed at least 50 humans in spring broken? you're telling me all 50 of those humans belonged in hell??

[unveiling-unguarding]

It's becoming exceedingly clear to me that the structure of Veilguard was compromised by the pivot away from live service. And I do empathize with the devs for trying to salvage what they could. In that vein, for all the problems I have with their writing and presentation, the companions, by and large, I found charming. I commend them for this.

And yet, nobody made them treat every conversation in act one as hardly anything more than a vehicle for exposition. Nobody made them write Bellara explaining what a damn dock is when you rock up to D'Meta's Crossing. Nobody made them introduce the Veil Jumpers, a supposedly major faction, in the most amateur way I've ever seen from a AAA rpg.

The things that disappoint me the most in this game are 100% self-inflicted. I've seen speculation that the turbulent dev cycle left little time for them to write anything but a 1st draft. It troubles me to think that any writer who does so for a living would even include such omnipresent, dry, and character agnostic exposition in even a rough draft. It drives me insane (the proof is that I created this blog, surely the greatest crime to come as a consequence of Dragon Age: The Veilguard).