#Yes I'm pissed

[dandelionsprout42]

What happens when people don't read even 1 newssite in their entire lives

Looking through the "#rednote" tag on Tumblr, I see there's FAR, FAR too many Tumblr users who think Xiaohongshu has less censorship than the society of America.

Dudes… dudes…

America wouldn't throw you in concentration camps for 10 years for talking about Tulsa or for saying Matt Gaetz is evil. They wouldn't ban you from the entire internet for talking about Graham Norton Show. They wouldn't temporarily shut down the entire internet for 3 days each year to prevent people from talking about the Iraq War.

Did no one on this godsforsaken site watch the South Park episode about Free Hong Kong?

Did no one realise how hard PRC struck down the Hong Kong umbrella movement (PRC would 139% do the same for Black Lives Matter if it had occured in China)?

Did no one remember GOG's Devotion superscandal?

Did no one remember the time China banned an entire NBA team because one of its staffers didn't like PRC?

Did no one remember the time all of China ganged up on HoloLive on laughably fake charges, and that they still gang up on them to this day?

[somethingsad]

Do yall realise how good it would be if Hikaru was treated w some nuance that just a straight up villain? Like the conflicting thought of loving his children but never being able to? Loving Ai but never fully being able to do so??? Like he would've been more interesting if there was this clashing conflict inside him, insert Taiki! What does he think of him? The child he bore from abuse??? Are we really not going to dive into that?????

[sailingfireshipz]

I have a pitch for a documentary.

Surviving Dick Wolf:POC actor edition.

And for the FIRST round of episodes, we'll interview the following. 🤗

[straysinfiltrator]

"My daughter loves me respects me and obeys me even if my failure to stand up to sexism gets her killed: Ultimate conservative male fantasy edition." "That won't work as a title." "Okay we'll call it the Witcher 4 trailer."

[amityandeir]

Mc we treat our drivers equally, papaya rules, we have no first driver Laren everybody

Team orders in the literal first race of the season

[dandelionsprout42]

Power move. 😎

Trust me, I've been really, really pissed about what I call baby buttons that are on almost all highly allegedly "smart" remotes nowadays. Chromecast remotes, TV remotes, even godsdamn PS5 official movie remotes.

The guy who took that photo back in 2021 is a hero to mankind, and I have strong respect for him for that.

[lillian-gallows]

In light of Ao3 getting scraped I want to make something abundantly clear. I'm not going to hold your hand. I'm not going to be nice. I do not care if this hurts feelings.

If you read my fics and don't like how they ended, or if the next chapter is "taking too long" (fuck you btw if this is a complaint you make, we do this shit for free), and you put ANY of my work or anyone elses into an AI to "finish it" or "improve it" (again, fuck you), I can and will block. You will have forfeited your right to see ANYTHING I post.

It. Is. Theft. Period. End of story. I will not debate this.

And don't even think of jumping in my asks to defend it, your messages will be deleted without acknowledgement.

[dandelionsprout42]

Seeing people's true colors can be nasty

By mid-to-late 2023 I realised way too late that the alleged "MLP G5 fans" except me were just br**ies in disguise (It's a nasty swearword in my eyes) who were not at all dedicated to the G5 cause.

They refused to distance themselves from the miserable decade that preceded the genuine masterpiece that was A New Generation, which was by far and beyond the best MLP media regardless of gens to this day. They refused to distance themselves from 11 years of pain, leaving me as possibly the only person on the planet who was actually all-in on G5, at least for the first 1½ years or so.

All the others greatly enjoyed art based directly on the Painful Decade and often admitted they liked that era more than they liked G5.

It came to a bunker standoff when the supposed leader of the G5 community betrayed us all and started working for the constantly lying toilet paper tabloid that is Eq***tria Daily Mail (The cartoon industry equivalent to The Gateway Pundit), who blatantly spread the Gullierme Lie about the TYT S2 dubs and who therefore directly heavily contributed to the death of G5 through no fault of MLP itself, and who had the bloody nerves to claim on Tumblr to a positively intentioned questioner that, quote, "As things stand, it looks like the biggest impact G5 will have is that it will serve for Hasbro as an example of what not to do with MLP."

It always just me to begin with. I was the only one on the planet who wasn't just faking the whole thing. The pain never ends. The pain never ends. The pain never ends. The pain never ends. The pain never ends. The pain never ends. The pain never ends. The pain never ends. The pain never ends. The pain never ends.

[truuskn]

the most beautiful smiles are always coming from those people who don't really like to smile much

[quantumshade]

can anyone explain to me at what point rose tyler was "unbelievably stupid". was it when she was inventing transdimensional travel

[bad-euphoria]

YUTA in every NCT music video ↳ WALK.

[somaneeshipz]

I will thank Matthew for creating a way for that story to remain theirs forever. I cannot ever forgive him for not letting them share it with us in the context and space that means the most....

The story of the prince being told by Henry to Alex at the lake house and not by email means that no one was able to steal it. It will always be their story, a moment just for them. I'm so normal about this.

[rad-batson]

Headcanon that Billy is not only immune to the magical lightning that helps him transform, but he’s also immune to normal lightning and all other forms of electricity.

At first, the realization is super cool. Billy doesn’t get hurt by static electricity anymore. He’s immune to Freddy’s hand buzzer pranks. He even gets 200 bucks from some big shot teenagers that dared him to touch an electric fence.

The problem comes when he tries to catch the bus in the rain one day and gets struck by REAL lightning. In front of dozens of people. Who are not supposed to know he’s immune to lightning. And Billy is very bad at improv.

Billy: *gets struck by lightning*

Billy: WHAT THE F—

Everyone: O_O

Billy: Oooo ouchh

Billy: I am in so much pain

[dandelionsprout42]

Time to bring up the topic of Lily Leapers floor-failers

I picked up on playing Fall Guys again a couple days ago and seeing that it was in an "up"-period where it's pretty good, compared to "down"-periods where the game is practically unplayable (for instance the first few Creative Updates, and that time during the Blastlantis season where the game crashed so often).

Lily Leapers still seems to be drawn pretty often, and over the years I've seen a 4-digit amount of other players with own 2 eyes who didn't seem able to reach up the floors there if it was a matter of life and death, constantly failing even the most basic jumps and dives. And most of them haven't got any better after 4 years or so.

It.

Is.

Not.

That.

Difficult.

The problem is so massive that it makes Squads and Duos outright unplayable. Watching paint dry is a preferable experience to those modes.

[horsefigureoftheday]

TERFs are so fucking stupid. You are literally reblogging from a man. Do you think my trans flag and she/him pronouns are just for shits and giggles???

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

Holy crap, and these are the people complaining their craft is dying out. How did they think embroidery was traditionally taught?

Because I was 4 and my stitch count was counted in inches per stitch. My first "real" embroidery had a whopping 3 spi. After which I ditched my familial teachers unless things had gone tits up, and just worked my way up to a "40 hours per repeat, 5-8 repeats recommended (:" pattern.

And when I shashayed my butt into Norway, my school friends were happy to teach me white on white embroidery for a bunad shirt (still regret politely declining for fear of making a cultural faux pas).

Was their traditional embroidery perfect? Fuck no, we were 19 and discussing how open we were to menacing fir trees during Russ as she was doing it. But artisan level work was several thousand kroner, which is a lot on a teenager budget for the collar and cuffs of a shirt you will still grow out of, if not outright stain and wear out in the coming decade of weddings you'll attend, and which no one is gonna see in that much detail unless they're your mom, or they're the kind of person who you'd want to involve in the aforementioned tree-menacing. (And if they are gonna critique your embroidery at that point, you push them out of the damn tree.)

There's several thousand hours between learning a technique and being an expert at it. You do not need to be at expert level to teach someone enough basics that a library book on the subject starts making enough sense to be useful. You do not need to be at expert level to give someone enough skill to feel confident to muddle on unsupervised and see where it takes them.

"You want to reinterpret this in a way that would not have been acceptable for royalty 200 years ago, so I'm going to insult your ability" is a dick move, and it's been the death knell of several crafts over the last decades.

Last year I met with a local embroidery expert to ask her opinion on making a line of stick-and-stitch patterns that would make it easier to adapt folk embroidery patterns to modern garments like hoodies and t-shirts, and maybe even teach rare folk embroidery stitches that have fallen out of popularity with the proliferation of cross-stitch.

She... looked at my 8 stitch per inch product samples, and samples stitched by beginners and my niblings, and advised me to stick to embroidery patterns I was actually competent at before purporting to teach anyone else. Before trying to market anything as connected to a specific folk tradition, I should, how should she say... learn to be actually good at embroidery.

(I can mostly take criticism on the chin, but I did cry a bit when she talked about limiting myself to "techniques you're physically capable of" because if I go too hard on handsewing the nerves in my arms go on strike for a couple weeks, so that would limit me indeed, but like, she did mean well. In a strict high-standards way.)

Soooo when I got home I picked up a test copy of my Jane Seymour pattern I'd put aside because it printed out at a masochistically small gauge, and started stitching it out of pure spite. I've been working on it in slow inches for half a year now.

Anyway, that's a pattern that will finally go up on the shop this month! At a slightly bigger and more reasonable size, and printed more cleanly.