#and for the rant lol im just so mad

[itsmiyamore]

People bullying Maisie for how she did at the eras tour makes me genuinely want to cry because I'm feeling like I'm 14 again and my best friend just told me her lyrics aren't great and I think the world of his opinion so it ruins the song for me and I don't listen to it for another 2 years after I blocked him

Also bc that was literally Maisie's dream, a huge milestone in her career and yeah she was breathless and kind of out of tune she was probably really fucking nervous up there and also that stage is a lot bigger than she's used to and I hate everyone who's bullying her for it!!! Like stfu you try getting up there and doing that

[aibouart]

compilation of my other fav palette challenges from the years past... i should do them again sometime......

chara #9 belongs to @askbookwormflareon

[kirkwallguy]

They sanitized being queer so much in Veilguard and for what. Your Inquisitor still needs to be binary, and god forbid if they transitioned between games. And for what, Cullen and Solas? Girl, dump him and take his gender. It won't fix you but it'll make shit funnier.

IF more than one romance actually mattered id understand it being too complicated to allow for transition, but seriously? only solas gets more than a codex entry afaik, how hard it would have been to have the m inquisitors record voice lines and have gareth david lloyd record alternate versions of like..any gendered lines which i assume there aren't many of. they should have dropped the illusion that romances had content and just done a 'did you romance solas?' toggle that any inquisitor could turn on lol

[i-love-def-leppard]

just received heart shattered news and now have to pull myself together and go to work in an hour..

[al-luviec]

still haven't moved on from zane in this episode (aka I hit tag limit again and am unhappy about it)

[theclearblue]

I'm gonna get into a brawl with my mother one day don't be surprised when I get on the news

[poppyseed799]

btw I don’t know if this is a thing anyone is thinking about but I’m not gonna stop drawing Jimmy as a canary. It’s a lovely bird. It’s still something that’s been really important to his series. There’s no reason to drop the canary headcanon just cuz Lizzie fell into the void.

[writterings]

procastinating at work but here's my philosophy for today: it's okay to hate a behavior in someone else but also understand that this behavior does not make them a bad person. like i HATE when i'm venting or talking about a serious problem i have and then the person i'm talking to starts trying to relate by talking about a similar experience they've had. like absolutely hate it. make me feel like the focus is being taken off me and it genuinely is in some ways, regardless of your intent. yeah, i understand that's your way of trying to comfort me -- but that's not the way i need or want to be comforted, and that's what matters in a situation where i'm coming to you to be helped.

and that's okay! like. no one is in the wrong here unless i have explicitly asked you to support me in a different way and you're intentionally refusing, or if i lash out at you when i could just disengage. it just means you're not a person i should go to for help when talking about my problems. we can still be friends, you and i can probably support each other in different ways, but we're just incompatible in this regard. and that's like....okay. it's okay to be incompatible with people.

[determinedowl23]

So obsessed with when a Nintendo game releases and the fans just go “nah…… I could do it better” and make some of the greatest aus known to mankind

[fruitsofhell]

I still think about this post I made anytime I see someone talk about Sephiroth Like That. It's still so weird to me, do people realize a character being designed to be hot doesn't automatically mean they're supposed to like… sex-y? With Kuja and Sephiroth I mean this as in their attractiveness is meant to be aesthetic more than sexual, it's like that shit Greta Gerwig was saying about Barbie to me.

I remember something that really struck me when I first played those two's respective games was the way their beauty was treated. I had never taken a game with bishounen characters seriously before, so there was a slight culture shock at how much aesthetic weight was put on them, especially combined with the angel motif in both their characters. Two interesting details about angels (archangels or guardian angels specifically) this brought up in my mind was 1) that traditionally these angels are meant to appear as incredibly attractive people, and 2) that they're traditionally portrayed as androgynous men. Which hey, they nailed those both on the head with their "One-Winged Angel" and "Angel of Death".

But with angels, that humanity and human attractiveness is kind of just a guise for a creature, ancient, divine, and terrifyingly powerful - sort of far beyond the actual functions of a human skin. So their attractiveness is not because they're sexy or sexual, but because its an aesthetic representation of that divinity - a way to make that appalling level of power more palatable and, attractive.

And I find that really fun and interesting, a lot in a gender way because, once again, angels traditionally being seen as masculine, and that sort of "sexy for no reason even if its a de-sexualized non-human being" is only ever an excuse for flaunting a feminine form and not a masculine. And I tell you boys, I am on my hands and knees scraping at the dirt everyday for representations of male beauty.

Which is why for Sephiroth and Kuja this was so striking to me. The way their designed beauty incidentally or purposefully invokes the beauty of angels is just so cool. They are characters not at all presented as having any sexuality of their own, but that It-Factor they got encompasses their character and how they are popularly perceived. Like what would Sephiroth be without his imposing form, long silky hair, and cat-like eyes? Or Kuja without his doll-like face and, well, everything else about him? But that beauty is not FOR us or the characters - it's attractive, even captivating, but venomous. Those mako eyes only hold emptiness, to then be set ablaze by an otherworldly, alien hatred; Kuja's lips only purse in a sadistic, callous grin before twisting into the tortured scowl of a disgraced angel willing to destroy creation out of spite.

And that cruel beauty is mesmerizing to players and a lot of what they're remembered for. Which once again was amazing to me cause they're guys and seeing men get that level of attention warms my cold bisexual heart, but also because MAN it ties in so well to their motifs. I straight up think you get less out of them by assuming that being designed to be hot and being a character with sexuality are synonymous. At least personally I am way more enamored with this dynamic of these beings made to catch our eyes (either narratively or meta-textually) in order to tease our senses and twist our hearts, as they move whole celestial bodies and crumble empires with a smile. I'm Just Obsessed.

[quixlebug]

sometimes people like to correct me, when i refer to something by color and they find they disagree. I find this infuriating, for no particular reason that I'm aware of, and so this is what I have to say

each and every color runs into the next color on the spectrum. the difference between blue and purple, red and brown, black and the deepest shades of everything else- the distinction lies only where we see fit to draw it. to some eyes red and green are exactly the same. there are creatures that see only in shades of gray. there are people like me, who say one color when maybe another could be said instead, and there are people, like those I have met, who would seek to define every shade in only the strictest terms possible, and must make sure everyone else agrees with them.

don't tell me yellow is actually orange. my yellow and your orange are someone else's green. a color is not any less beautiful for being seen differently; isn't it wonderful how we can all look at the same thing and yet it's unique to every eye?

[syninplays]

Just spent a few hours trying to make ts4 work and when I did I created a few sims only for the game to close itself when I was ready to play I hate it here 😤

[amethyst-halo]

btw fuck the tiktok trend of “ohh this sound will get u money dont even dare skip this” “ohhh use this sound for your dream life DONT skip it or it’s over” etc etc it’s so fucking infuriating because it’s bullshit i KNOW it’s bullshit but i can’t get around it because my ocd rips me in half over them

it’s literally just the new version of those facebook “send this to five people or you’ll die” things do u know how distressed those made little undiagnosed me? i fucking hate them because they prey on people like me who have ocd or paranoia or something and sometimes Can’t NOT interact with them or else they’ll have a panic attack At Best. “oh just skip them ignore them they’re dumb” i KNOW they’re dumb but i WILL have an episode if i so much as consider skipping them sometimes it’s not that simple

i think the trend of interaction baiting posts- ESPECIALLY ones that threaten bad things if you skip them- should burn in hell. it’s one thing if it’s something soft like “rb this to give the person u rb’d from some soup” or “rb and tell me what ur favorite candy is” that’s ok interaction bait it’s a fucking whole other ball park if it’s “rb this or this creature will be at the foot of your bed tonight” it’s so fucking awful and i hate it stop making them it’s not funny it never was funny

[lottieurl]

The people saying shit like the ear eating isn't about Jackie and Shauna being in love are stupid and Wrong. Like, genuinely wrong. Here's an interview the showrunners did:

https://variety . com/2023/tv/news/yellowjackets-premiere-showrunners-shauna-eating-jackies-ear-1235563321/amp/

(no space between variety . Com obvs but Tumblr be stupid about links sometimes)

Also they were on a podcast:

https://open spotify . com/episode/4WBBVxpcip9F8lz35zNAPC?si=5095e4e1514c4d67

(same deal about the . And spaces)

I haven't listened to the podcast myself yet but here are two choice quotes from someone who has that they sent it to the discord:

"it's very intimate...there's like an even slightly erotic component to it, i would argue...both friendship, but also almost a quasi-sexualized love, in a way"

" who knows how the dynamics of any kind of relationship would be different given a different kind of social context...given various repressive forces of the age...who knows what would have been different"

And I have some Thoughts on all of it but the ear eating is intentionally homoerotic

ok so. for the podcast search for "Prestige TV Podcast, Yellowjackets season 2, episode 1 recap" (that's a link but in case it doesn't work you can search manually)

and here's the article

i still need to listen to that podcast but THOSE QUOTES huh huh huh honestly if you don't think it's gay you're boring and i have no interest talking about it with you

[mostlymaudlin]

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[six-of-ravens]

home. have dinner. need to do my weekly call with my aunt in half an hour. sooooooo sleepy. no time to sleep before the call. im going to die lol