#alyssa rants

[bealovid]

bugsnax has everything. doomed lesbians. gays who didn’t know they were dating. nonbinary scientists. parasites. scoopy banoopy.

[vividaway]

so like, you know the way bill cipher was formed in a 2d world? and you know the way he can see through our fanart or any images of himself? do you ever think about the fact that every time we're drawing bill, he's become 2d again. for just a moment, he can remember euclydia and relish in the 2d world, but it'll never be real for him because he's just looking in like a window and not wearing it like a suit.

because uh.... yeah. i think about that. a LOT.

[followdelight]

Why is gen z continuing to reinvent gender essentialism now we're back to gendering domestic roles like oh my god, I keep seeing clips on socmed of cis women trying (and failing) to do basic repairs (like hanging a shelf) and calling it like, "a pink attempting a blue chore!" And like "ook at me I'm just a silly little female trying to use a hammer! What was I thinking? Tools aren't for girls!"

Is this supposed to be cute?? Bc at the risk of sounding like an old angry feminist: THIS IS NOT CUTE!!!!

Like, this is actually worse than tradwives. Bc at least they're saying the quiet thing out loud.

[vividaway]

literally just reblogged this but i actually want to talk about this a bit because its so....annoying tbh. 

like, obviously what OP said. if you force your religion down somebodies throat the way catholics and christians do-- you have no right to be upset. 

but this is completely ignoring the fact thats CHRISTIANS AND CATHOLICS ARE NOT THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO USE ROSARY BEADS.

rosary beads are an important practice of a multitude of cultures, to name simply a few, paganism, buddism, islam.

in fact, the earliest record of rosaries we have is from the prehistoric settlement of Akrotiri, Santorini (Thera,) Greece from the 17th c. BC (c. 1613 BC.).

so not ONLY are they shoving their religion down their throat, theyre making assumptions about what my beaded necklace means. they ASSUME they’re ALL prayer beads, and that they all tie back to THEM.  its very.,....exceptionalism thinking and i do NOT like it, at all. 

Hey just a reminder that cultural appropriation taboos should not apply to religions like Christianity that repeatedly force themselves down the throat of basically all societies. You cannot brutalize the world and force your ideology on everyone, then complain when your aesthetics are appropriated

Steal the aesthetic all you like babygirls

[emilyskinners]

defending overhated characters on the internet isn't enough. I need a mini gun.

[wolfy1298]

Don’t you ever wonder what kind of secrets and plot points Venti keeps hidden? He claims to be the weakest amongst the Seven-and that could be true given his whole 500 year slumber and poison and all- but he’s still a god. AND one of the original Seven. You gotta be good at SOMETHING to survive for this long…

He’s also the only archon so far that doesn’t have a second story quest so what is he hiding?! We have accounts of him literally shaping the land with ease from both the Golden Apple Archipelago events and his character stories. We know that he has close relationships with the Hexenzirkel and somehow managed to avoid conflict with them??? And there’s also the fact from the skyward sword series that he was originally a catalyst user before picking up the bow in honor of Amos. He’s pulling a Childe when it comes to weapons he currently uses and the ones he’s proficient in.

And don’t even get me started on his connection with Istharoth and Celestia! Mondstadt already has the Thousands Winds Temple AND the nameless island where both Venti and Istharoth were once worshipped. And from Before Sun and Moon, we know that the Thousand Winds (which Venti IS A PART OF) were once called the Thousand Winds of TIME, all of whom were created and controlled by Istharoth. AND THEN you have Venti suspiciously appearing in the right place at the right time again and again and again. He even self proclaimed knowing every song: past, present, and future. Hell he’s probably one of the only few beings in Teyvat who can naturally bypass Irminsul because of his songs: Nahida already shown it’s possible to save deleted info if rearranged into fiction so the same should work for songs and poetry. And there’s also what the hydro fungus in Nahida’s second story quest said about changing forms. That you need time for growth to occur. And Nahida - an ARCHON- had trouble maintaining her fungus form for even the short period of time. She was even told that to do so for longer, one would need to bypass time itself which is near impossible. AND YET VENTI CHANGED INTO THE FORM OF HIS FRIEND IMMEDIATELY AFTER RECEIVING HIS GNOSIS AND HAS YET TO CHANGE BACK OR TIRE FROM FATIGUE (as we know it). HOW STRONG IS HE. Sure, the yokai in Inazuma and Adepti in Liyue can all change into a human form, but we know in game that it takes a long time and steady energy to take on a human shape, and the Adepti all seem to have that ability naturally: there’s no bending the laws of nature if it’s already natural to them. So what’s Venti’s excuse?!

As for Celestia: there’s already written in the statue of Barbatos “the gateway to Celestia” and what not. And Khanreia! In the chasm AND in the Caribert quest, Barbatos and Mondstadt keep getting named dropped. According to Dainself, the city in the chasm is supposedly OLDER than Khanreia and possibly the Seven, yet BARBATOS of all beings is mentioned in the records you find??? And in Caribert, it’s a Mondstadtian woman who that one bloke had a child with. Never mind that Mondstadt is where Kaeya and Albedo - the two characters with confirmed Khanreian origins- end up! There’s also the fact that Khanreia seems to base its gods and names and whatever around Norse mythology….which has strong ties to GERMANIC HISTORY. WHICH MONDSTADT IS BASED OFF OF. And Enkanomiya, which was once ruled by Istaroth, is Greek origin. Suspicious considering all the connections to HERMES Venti keeps portraying. (And then there’s also a connection to all three places with the hexenzerkel with their Chinese names? Like I think I read somewhere that Alice is Aries(?)/Eris(?) and Nicole is actually Nike in the Chinese version? Which are very much based in Roman/Greek origins)

Oh and something I forgot to mention earlier with the whole Istharoth connection. Mondstadt’s saying “seeds of stories, brought by the wind, and cultivated through time”. SUSPICIOUS

Anyways, this has been my nonsensical Venti theory rant

And you’re stuck with me @worldsokayestmagicalgirl

[minnipe]

Hotd new episode rant (SPOILERS)

We need new writers. They need to fire and burn the ones they have right now. First they butcher the characters personalities so deeply it’s shocking. They are just so different, and in some aspects it’s interesting but others it’s such a deep change that it’s a bit frustrating.😫

And the scene with Dameon and his MOTHER. Oh my god I was so shocked they did not actually do that. Dameon needs to get out of harrenhal IMMEDIATELY 😤

And Alicent thinking that the small council would allow her to rule. The same people who usurped rhaenyra like girl if they didn’t want her why would they want you.😭

The aegon scene with alicnet made me so sad. Alicent never seems to be there for her kids when they need her leaving in the moments they need the support the most. The trauma just keeps coming 😵‍💫

We love you helaena and alys you guys are the best😔 you deserve to be able to collect bugs and haunt stupid men!

How I felt watching the scene with daemon and his MOTHER

[twilight-princess240]

I am seething. I am furious. I am crying inside. What was that portrayal of Alyssa Targaryen in House of the Dragon?

Fire and Blood explicitly described her as having dirty blond hair, mismatched eyes, one violet, one green, ungainly features, and a crooked nose because she broke it when she was six. She knew she was not a great beauty and never would be, but never gave a shit about that. She preferred trousers over gowns, rode Meleys whenever she had a chance, was openly a tomboy, and once again, never gave a shit about any negative opinions about that. She was spirited and fiery, openly saying she was "as bawdy a wench as any barmaid in King's Landing."

Why couldn't they have portrayed her like that? Was it so hard to show that she was still a Targaryen and Daemon's mother, the parent he took after the most, while using the book description of her? The fans, especially those who have read Fire and Blood, know how Alyssa really looks and what her personality is like. Do the show's creators think all fans don't know anything about the source material?

The grievances I have with the scene depicting her and Daemon are innumerable. I have just become more Team Black than ever before and am so relieved that I never watched Season 2 except for the new intro. I know now that I won't be able to stomach the show from now on knowing they ruined my girl Alyssa in such a, excuse my wording, blasphemous way. I now feel afraid, no, terrified, for the day that Targaryen women like Alyssa's many sisters, her mother, and Shiera Seastar will be adapted for the screen, because they will be ruined and reduced to unrecognizable beings who might not be like their book descriptions at all. Since the story of Dunk and Egg is being adapted, I feel afraid of how any Targaryen woman in that show will be adapted, such as Aegon V's (Egg's) sisters Daella and Rhae, and possibly his daughters Shaera and Rhaelle. Hell, maybe Egg's wife Betha Blackwood, his mother Dyanna Dayne, his sisters-in-law Kiera of Tyrosh and Princess Daenora Targaryen, and his niece Princess Vaella Targaryen should be on that list too because they were Targaryens by marriage, in Vaella's case, by birth, and in Daenora's case, by both birth and marriage.

Targaryen women have been ruined for far too long, and Alyssa Targaryen was only the latest. She was reduced to an unrecognizable being who was used to make fans unsympathetic to Daemon and by extension Team Black, and it disgusts and infuriates me. Yes, Daemon has done morally questionable, if not outright immoral things, throughout the books and the show, but this scene feels too much like they want to depict him as an irredeemable monster in contrast to Team Green, and that is, to me, abhorrent.

I apologize if this rant makes anyone uncomfortable, but I absolutely had to get it off my chest after seeing (on here, not the episode itself) and hearing about Alyssa's appearance in House of the Dragon and how it was used. The only things this show has accomplished is me confirming that I'm solidly Team Black all the way and me desiring justice for not just Alyssa, but every Targaryen woman who was ruined before her, might be ruined in House of the Dragon, and might be ruined in future shows.

[atopvisenyashill]

idk it’s like. rhaenyra’s fear and paranoia over what alicent will do to her kids gets her killed. alicent’s fear and hostility over what rhaenyra might do to her kids gets all her kids killed. daeron’s hostility towards daemon (there’s a difference in how he treats brynden & shiera and how he treats daemon & aegor and it’s pointed even if it makes sense) over whether daemon will be a threat to his kids kicks off more than one war! davos is willing to die to protect edric from stannis. jon gets sent to the wall bc of catelyn’s resentment and paranoia and ned’s refusal to deal with the situation and not only does jon’s entire arc in agot deal with the fact that even if the wall is less cruel it still sucks and is a wild miscarriage of justice against all the boys who get pressed into it and crucially, jon is now dead over this shit! maybe the problem is that all of these people keep reacting with fear and hostility and paranoia when confronted with a child who, through no fault of their own, has the potential to be dangerous later in life. maybe the problem is the entire concept of legitimacy and the way it destroys every family it comes into contact with, and keeping that system going is a moral failure on the part of our heroes, from the patriarchs who set their families up for failure to the ladies who understandably react with hostility and isolation towards their husband’s bastards to the noble born children who are learn from their parents’ example and make sure to drive home the fact that their siblings are lesser, base creatures because of something they have no control over. perhaps the point is that everyone in this system has blood on their hands and the series is saying “so now you know you’re complicit. now what are you going to do about it?”

[zouisalmightie]

sometimes i am put in situations that only could happen on tv but you can’t make this up

sonon wednesday my coworker called me during my prep period and was like hey can you come to my room really quick. and that’s normal like 1 im department lead so if they need something i told them to hmu and i got them 2. we’re friends so if you have to pee well fall each other to cover. so im like yeah sure what do you need. and this bitch goes [name of student i hate] keeps saying the n word with the hard er and i bet him he wouldn’t say that to a black persons face so can you come to my room to prove a point’ and she’s like laughing as she says this. with her whole class there like it’s some sort of joke; when she’s acting like she’s shaming this child. and like…. what the actual fuck. mind you, this kids that i hate HAS called me the n word with the hard er before my coworker KNOWS this because we all went out drinking afterward and i cried cuz i was so angry. so I was like what the fuck no and hung up on her. then like 30 mins later she texts me and says “that was such a silly call! i didn’t actually expect you to come lmaoooo. i just like to fluster them when they do things like that” and i didn’t respond and haven’t spoken to her since.

and we are in a bunch of group chats so i left the chats that aren’t work specific and blocked her number and blocked her on ig. and i don’t say anything to anyone at work cuz im grown and i can stop being friends with people without making it an announcement. and so today she texts one of our other coworkers that ive been friends with for almost 5 years now, like omg have you talked to asyah i think she blocked me on ig and idk what i could have done to deserve this it just makes me so sad cuz ive had people just stop being my friend for no reason before and i have abandonment issues please ask her if i did anything wrong. and so my friend came up to me like girl wtf and so i told her what happened and my friend was like this is the last straw for me she’s been saying fucked up shit for a while and i didn’t want to rock the boat but im tired of her.

and then my coworker texted one of my OTHER work friends like omg woe is me everyone is being so mean to me cue white woman tears™️ and im like…. i would have NEVER asked you to be in a position like this. when students do antisemitic things i stop that shit right then and there and never tell you about it because that’s harmful to you! and i thought we were friends i would never put you in a place of harm but you have the nerve to call me and ask me if i want a child to call me a nigger to my face? you laugh while you say it, then send me some fucked up not apology and then when im not fucking with your ass you drag my friends into your pity party? bitch fucking CHOKE.

i was just going to ignore her and leave it as it is but now she’s trying to play the victim like im the one in the wrong here. like im so mad! ive been mad since my homegirl came and told me what she texted her. im going to go to my union rep and let her know what happened too before this girl tries to tell the whole school im bullying her no one would believe her cuz ive been there for 6 years and have no problems with no one but i don’t like people being in my business and would rather get ahead of this but my GOD.

[bealovid]

YOU CAN KISS AND HUG AND HANG OUT WITH YOUR SPOUSES ON CORAL ISLAND NOW WHAT THE FUCK

[vividaway]

idk im just so disappointed in general. it's hard having friends who are still genuinely excited by the fandom because it feels like they have these rose tinted glasses on and cant see through all the obvious signs thomas is giving us. they view it as "just ONE more ad closer to the finale" and at this point....is there really even a finale? would we even like what we were given? what's the point when thomas is clearly not the same person he used to be.

i dont understand how he could talk the way he does to his own fans who are simply expressing their disappointment? like my Previously Mentioned Friend is grouped in with those people waiting patiently and eagerly for the next episode, grasping to every aside they get, and now they're not allowed to voice how they miss a series without being guilt tripped by their fave? it feels like something we've literally addressed IN the series. it's extremely extremely wrong.

thomas is not a perfect angel, and yet he doesn't allow anybody to treat him other than that

[gothixm00nz]

I don't post any of my OC art including Dante or Logan on tiktok because everyone there is so fucking miserable and they just want to throw lil temper tantrums because god forbid I have OCs.

Anyways; I hope tiktok does get banned. I know it'll be absolutely awful for the people who use it to talk about the situation with Palestine and Rafah, but everything else on that app is just the trash fires of hell itself. I'm just sick and tired of how tiktok has encouraged bullying and other awful things because people have realized how fucking easy it is to get away with that shit now.

[emilyskinners]

I am screeching

[unitchiefs-blackbirdphoenix]

okay so the fact that MGG “loved” the Jeid storyline and AJ hated it, was based on the sounds of it actually extremely upset about it, seems super telling. I am probably grasping but seems to me a bit like something he might have pushed, which is gross and not a thing “friends” do when it was something that made his friend and coworker clearly upset and uncomfortable. Which I guess seems very fitting of their characters with Reid doing what he wants even if it upsets JJ.

but god how the actors and creators felt about it just makes me hate it even more and also hate MGG. Ugh. Ew. Poor AJ.

I don’t know much about MGG (or the actors’ friendship irl) but I feel like he was always just into the idea of JJ and Reid together from the beginning. Especially when it’s the whole “nerd boy x pretty girl” trope (I hate to say it lol). Idk if he jokes around with it bc of the unauthorized docs as an example and he jokes around a bunch in general, but I know he had a crush on AJ irl if I’m not mistaken.

AJ (from what it seems) in the early seasons didn’t have much against the idea bc she was curious of how it would���ve gone after that date (mostly bc the show wouldn’t emphasize much on characters’ personal lives). And she did admit herself that she saw them as more like siblings, but I think she jokes in a silly “what if they had hooked up” way and understood the show would never go there. Then over time, it seems like the way she talks about JJ and Reid’s friendship, she makes it clear that they’re only platonic friends.

I’m not a huge fan of MGG and for some reason, he doesn’t vibe so much with me. But I’m not sure if he’s the one that pushed for the prison storyline also and it was honestly unnecessary for the show (I think the reason was to put him in more dramatic scenes which to me is off bc he’s not so good of an actor haha). So it wouldn’t surprise me a lot that he wanted this jeid storyline and it makes no sense, like for what? For Reid’s closure on JJ “reciprocating” his feelings? It seems more like an opportunity for his to show off dramatic acting but let me tell you… he wasn’t even that great in the eps for jeid! In fact, AJ did way more work carrying the storyline she didn’t even want and was forced to perform. She did her job well and still hated it. And it makes me more mad too when Erica finally decided to go against even her own narrative of JJ and Reid being like siblings, just for more pain to Reid’s character (her profiting character). Little to no regard to how it will affect JJ’s character! And AJ thankfully knows her character well enough that it does not look good on her part (especially with the obvious fact that she’s married).

[yourfavouriteprettyboy]

guess who's watching the end of the fucking world again