#and its always so UNNECESSARY

[ld-fc]

do these ppl actually play their own game? y tf is widow gettin nerfed while mei of all fuckin ppl is gettin buffed? can we actually be so fr right now

[wasyago]

we're at it again🕺

[tarufai]

[lollytea]

I really love hope is a thing with feathers and I also really LOVE the hope as a sewer rat poem too but I wish it was not explicity written as "well actually" against Dickinson asgvsjnk. The imagery is SO GOOD but this whole vibe of "my metaphor is better than your metaphor" kinda sours it for me

[blue-sunflower-bee]

The fnaf movie novel really be punching securitywaiter shippers in the gut, huh

[cosettegf]

the commenting feature on podcast episodes is so irritating you make one wrong move while listening and all of a sudden. spoilers

[give-me-your-heart]

me when my top kins are vil honami and azul 😔😔

[unforth]

I. Hurt.

And I was hurting anyway, I'm pretty down this morning, but this hurt came from an outside source, and affected me in a way I'd honestly not have expected.

See, we bought Nimona last week. After seeing the movie, my kids wanted to read it. And I ended up reading ahead, and I just finished it.

Bonus content at the end, it said, and I was like, oh, an epilogue to the epilogue maybe? That'd be nice. I don't love bittersweet endings, I'd rather...

...no, it's not the conclusion.

It's CHRISTMAS.

In a book that'd had no religion that I noticed up to that point, BOTH bonus extras...were Christmas.

Ya know, usually it doesn't bother me. Usually I just suck it up. I think it helps that I was raised around mostly Jews and people who, if Christian, it didn't matter much to them. I'm from the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the descendent of Lower East Side immigrants, and while the world outside was brutal - my grandfather was a World War 2 veteran and among the soldiers who liberated Dachau, I can't remember a time when I didn't know that most people would look the other way if people like me were slaughtered wholesale - my bubble was safe, we were accepted, we were insiders.

I honestly can't think of another time I've interacted with a piece of media and felt so immediately, instantly knocked across the face by OUTSIDER as I just did when I excitedly turned the page to see what these fun extra bonuses were...and it was fucking Christmas.

I didn't even read them.

I'm honestly. So disappointed.

I don't have a thick armor for this kind of hurt. I'm Jewish, and as an adult living outside my old UWS bubble, that's often meant I've felt like an outlier, but I've hardly ever had this feeling where I was welcome to something only to be suddenly, violently shoved out the door.

And I've heard nothing, n.o.t.h.i.n.g. but praise for this book. And on another day, it might not have bothered me. I've never really felt like I had to fight to be seen, especially since I'm tremendously secular. I mean, I've celebrated Christmas my entire life, for starters.

But why. Why was this fantasy setting suddenly Christian? Why was this the touted extra content? Why is THIS special, when the areligious world established to that point was apparently not special enough?

I can't say yet if this ruined the story for me. It's far too soon. But I'm *intensely*, viscerally let down, and...I hurt.

Christians...maybe stop doing this shit.

[snekdood]

idg bullies bc if you think someone is committing some sort of social sin... why aren't u stepping in to help them, why are you watching them fuck up? clearly its important enough to you that you try to socially punish the fellow, if this is a social cause you are so very impassioned about, why not help that person not fuck up?

or... did you just want to laugh at someone fucking up? bc at that point you're providing nothing to anyone besides just being an asshole but hey ig some people are proud of their assholes so

[todayisafridaynight]

Is that character gay? *points at Mine*

Allegedly.

[maaxverstappen]

i cant believe how massively the lando/max incident has absolutely spiralled in the media and online. it was for the lead in what is shaping up to be an exciting season, i get it, but surely this reaction is way out of proportion? why are there 86 journalism think pieces on max's racing abilities and lando's winning capabilities? it was a single incident and an overal sloppy race. seriously?

[charliework16]

moments preceding disaster

[s-ccaam-era-crepe]

aurhrhrgrg I hate homophobia I hate needing to teach just to live my life

[hotsugarbyglassanimals]

even though i feel like i can confidently tell when a piece of art is generative A/I, i really don't feel inclined or really even justified calling someone out for it due to the precedent it sets - especially when artists who DO make their own pieces get caught in the crossfire for being inexperienced or making the choice to be more free-form when it comes to character design / consistency...

[w98pops]

🥕🥭🍐 for Nico!!

THE OC INTERVIEW GAME!!

🥕 [CARROT] How tough is your OC against certain situations? How weak are they against others?

I feel like during his years in the Legion, Nico has grown a pretty thick skin, so he's very good at being tough at all times. When it comes to confrontation, it's totally fine. This Legion rethoric of "they are barbarians, you are better than them" got internalized by Nico from a very young age, so he treats people around him like lost puppies, which comes out friendly and even gentle. But when it comes to genuine feelings and actual relationships on the line, he just CAN'T, he's extremely vulnerable and confused. But!!!!!! Years of living inside of understanding community (The Khans) helped him so now he's mentally and physically a perfect man. No flaws. No weaknesses.

🥭 [MANGO] What colours best represent them and why? Does this differ from their favourites?

Mmmmhh, probably black? He's pretty much the "black sheep" but I'm bad with methaphors so I just made his hair black and bushy lmao. His favorite color is navy blue because it looks good on him + appears friendly from a distance when he approaches a settlement.

🍐 [PEAR] What is their current social standing? If they could change it, would they, and to what?

I don't know if it's the language barrier or I can't read but this question is strange 😭😭😭😭. I mean, he was Legion and then he joined the Khans? He's pretty liberal for a person who barely glimpsed the life outside Caesar's eyes, although his strange relationship with women prevailed. (He thought Wendy was a dude all his childhood and then a few months after they're reunited and started dating.) Most of his bad understanding of social structures and relationships comes from the Legion teachings and they are so weak and baseless, they can be destroyed by literally one (1) conversation with a sane person. Read: "Oh My Papa" quest.

[guinevereslancelot]

i actually never think a romantic subplot is unnecessary because i desperately need to believe love is real and that it's everywhere i hope this helps ❤️