#anger as a virtue

[bonefall]

I understand being upset by the moonpaw dog post but i dont think talking about some random teen publicly (on a pretty big fandom blog) as opposed to like, dming them about it, is a very nice thing to do? Would recommend keeping that kinda gossip in dms going forward personally.

??????? "That kinda gossip???"

Saying that it's fucked up that a publicly posted incest joke about how deformed she should look went to the top of the Warrior Cats and Moonpaw tags, is gossip???

TRENDING TAGS?? GOSSIP?

I'm not talking about "some random teen," I have not even dropped a username and been VERY clear I don't want harassment of anyone. During this discussion about wider ableism against Moonpaw, I've directly answered two anons about the contents of a post that was/IS extremely popular to the tune of nearly a thousand notes.

One of those two asks was an anon who only stumbled in to say that the post was funny in a display of SHOCKING tonedeafness, while I was talking about how shitty it is to compare people who are the products of incest to unethical dog breeds, especially in the context of WC. The other was an actual XX/XY chimera who expressed that the extremely popular post hurt their feelings, and when they tried to express discomfort to someone, got told they "probably killed their twin in the womb."

It's not just one rando weenie little blog the minute half of the Tumblr space is openly laughing at a joke about deformed incest kids and hoping Moonpaw dies because she's so "gross." Not nice?? Your feelings are hurt? OTHER people's feelings were ALREADY hurt.

NOTHING about this was "nice" to begin with!

Difference is, when YOU cry me a river, you can build me a bridge, and get right the fuck over it. A person who's the product of incest cries and has to go right back to every shitty banjo-hunchback-hapsburg joke they've heard before, just feeling more unsafe about a space that PRETENDS to care about the abuse they experienced. If you feel guilty about that, maybe you should!

If you were under the impression I was ever "nice" about bigotry, you were mistaken. I don't appreciate calls for ME to be more polite when I'm at a trend of fandom ableism and calling it fucked up. I've named NO names. Sounds like what you ACTUALLY want is for people like me who have a platform to shut up.

[yoursjustasitwas]

while i understand the impulse to play fantine as angry (she does have every reason to be) i tend to think angry fantines during ‘i dreamed a dream’ cheapen the story and miss hugo’s point, and thereby make fantine an out-of-character ‘girl boss’ a la terrible YA greek myth retellings.

a great part of her tragedy is that it is completely undeserved. she has a heart of gold and is purely, invariably good. her soul is never corrupted. she is emblematic of virtue. and anger (while often understandable) is not a virtue.

i also think it’s lazy acting. anger is the easiest emotion to play because it’s all bluster, and often covers something realer and more vulnerable. anger, like thyme, needs be applied with a very light touch. the worst fantine i ever saw snarled her way through i dreamed a dream.

[lemonduckisnowawake]

Everyone talks about how Roy killed Lust as a symbolic proof that he is devoted to actual love but no one talks about how Envy was outed by Riza almost immediately as a symbol of her always accepting what she has and even being content with it. Maybe love IS a narrative force and theme to be reckoned with (and rightly so!), but content when you have so many reasons not to be and when others sometimes have what you don't? That's super cool, too

[good-to-drive]

One of my favorite subgenres of beatles fans are those people who take everything Paul says at face value and will deadass be like "I just can't understand how Paul is so well adjusted and mentally healthy, he's been through so much and yet he's never been bitter for a single day or hated a single person" and I guess what's funny to me about that is it makes them like and look up to him even more whereas if I genuinely thought that were true I would stage an intervention for Paul myself

[allalrightagain]

Oh god we’re approaching the end of the month again and I have a collection of half-finished Pocket Dad drafts and no motivation. Vote or send prompts please?

Prompts accepted (with my discretion)—

An emotion Peter (or potentially another character) might feel at some point

A canon event sometime before the end of Year 3

Something already mentioned or implied in Pocket Dad so far

[cyeayt]

Hey it’s 8 am in the morning I’ve been awake for 11 hours and once again I’m going insane about Tim stoker I have a lot to say about him and also here’s a doodle

“Do you have a-”

“Yeah”

In my mind smoking in an alley together has this kinda disconnected vibe that like, maybe they can’t talk for more than three minutes without it devolving into screaming but they’ll still bum smokes off the other? They just have this like, casual familiarity with each other that comes out when they aren’t paying attention to the animosity? Put part of my soul into alt id on this btw, I just find this shirt combo really funny on two people who seem like they hate each other but if you look closer actually can’t live without each other?

Rants below

Ough I’ve been listening to a jontim playlist all night and I’m just screaming about them and thinking about my own songs for them

I had a whole rant that was in some tags that got lost, but essentially

Jon is so full of love but he struggles with showing the vulnerability needed to maintain actually close relationships with people, and by the time he’s ready they’ve given up and moved on to more suicidal endeavors

I’m just picturing a series of fights with them, where in the first one Tim is looking for that old love and trust he knows Jon is capable of while Jon is too engulfed in fear to consider it

Versus a later fight where now it’s Jon trying to get Tim to recognize their history in a ploy to offset Tim’s conviction to die for his vengeance, but now it’s too late.

In which their emotional development bypasses and misses the other like ships passing in the night looking for the lifesaving glow of the others lanterns and just missing it through the fog

Thinking about Jon waking up and realizing that Tim’s funeral passed by attended by no one that actually loved him or even really knew him

Thinking about the Archivist and his doomed lovers and how he never got the chance to properly honor and grieve any of them

[tmarshconnors]

"If you hate a person, then you're defeated by them."

Confucius was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Confucius's teachings and philosophy underpin East Asian culture and society, remaining influential across China and East Asia to this day.

[arabdoll]

“The strong one is not one who overcomes people with their strength, the strong one is the one who controls themselves in anger.”

Islamic wisdom

[lightphieric]

Kyle was going to blow up Rhizome 9.

Before he got knocked out, before he lost his memories, that was what he was planning. He wanted to put a stop to the Nonary Game, and in order to do that he was going to go to the control room and detonate the reactor to destroy the entire facility. Even if that meant killing himself. Even if that meant killing Akane.

In the very same ending where he remembers all of this, Kyle tells Sigma as he is dying that he killed Dio because Dio killed Akane. He couldn’t forgive Dio for hurting someone who was so important to him. Even though Dio did it to sabotage the Nonary Game, even though Kyle was prepared to do exactly that not too long ago.

I don’t blame VLR at all for not exploring the parallels between Kyle and Dio more thoroughly. Young Sigma is our POV character and I can’t imagine him making those connections himself. But the parallels are there, dammit, set up perfectly for fan exploration. And I’m not gonna apologize for taking that bait.

[lilacerull0]

sorry to break it to you, but jo march is not the feminist icon you think she is. forget what the 2019 movie told you. stop voting for jo march on that poll.

[veilfires]

I mean this as gently as humanly possible, but some of you really need to start interacting with people you don’t like in person. I cannot stress enough that you will be EXPECTED to be able to work alongside or with people you don’t like throughout your life and, in real life, you can’t just clap back with a spicy comment and keep your job.

I am by no means saying you have to tolerate racists, ableists, homophobes, or sexists. But you will have to learn to work with people who you disagree with, whose personalities drive you up the wall, and who you just simply don’t like.

Being unable to do so is a “you” problem that you need to work on- because it doesn’t just apply professionally. It applies when fighting for human rights too. And if you can’t have empathy for the 80 year old who calls your call center because she can’t figure out the online portal, then you’re not really practicing the ~uwu im a small baby that needs empathy~ vibes that you preach, now are you? Treat otters the way you want to be treated, etc etc.

[moved-to-shijieswife]

cuz i feel like being a hater today... zhancheng shippers. why.

[lavellane]

high approval lavellan instantly gets so much more viscerally upsetting when u give them an ancient elven ancester oc who was friends w solas. btw.

[the-amalgam-house]

I really wanna say something real quick. I didn't come here to disrupt the ongoing thing everyone has here, but I saw there's a lot of tension, and I feel like there's a need to be filled.

Maybe I won't always be needed, maybe I'll just sink back into the woods one day, but you know being here as a part of this sort of get together of distinct people with a similar goal just feels like the right place to be.

I didn't really think about what would happen, I just went with it. This mans had a hard time of it and all the mumble jumble that goes on with you know not wanting to be perceived or wanting so bad to fit in or for everything to go perfectly. Nothings ever perfect, you know? Nothings ever gonna be the exact right time or conditions, not everyone's gonna be on the same page all of the time, things get messy things get weird and all anyone can do is the best you can.

I saw this bunch of people stressed out and this man at the core facing the outside world while we're here in the inside world feeding off the stress anyway, so like someone needs to tell them it's gonna be okay. Roll with the punches don't fight the rapids. Like do you get what I'm saying? Find the feel good in it all instead of worrying about things that don't really matter in the end. We all die someday, try to feel good as much as possible.

If that resonates with you I want you to really hold onto that. Be like old Olly and just vibe.

[eggsmuses-a]

Susie wipes flour from her face, narrowed eye slits like a stunned cat because quite simply, she was. She trades an awkward glance to Noelle who seems to be just as in cahoots as she is. The brute is askance to her own fault as she redirects her frustration to the crumpled &. exploded bag of flour in hand.

#ﾞ s ——— ❝ GOD DAMN BAGS, why're they made so small &. inaccessible ! I have claws, dammit ! Not shrimpish, soft hands like ... Kris. ❞ Susie's anger is misguided though, &. soon she finds herself sighing as she swipes the counter clean of the floury landmine (though her idea of clean is swiping it onto the floor and stamping it into the wooden planks).

A forked tongue emerges from her lips, flailing around her face as she licks the powder clean from her muzzle. The lizard covers her face in a somewhat shameful attempt to hide her improper manners. That is, until she's met with a hand towel and the proper means to clean up.

She takes deep breaths, focusing on Noelle's eyes again as she crouches down, wiping both her own face &. the floor. ❝ So I guess that means gingerbread day is ruined, huh ? ❞

There's a tinge of sadness, a sour vestige of Susie's resentment to the activity lingering in her mouth. She was angry, but not at Noelle or the bag, more-so herself. She hadn't meant to lash out, but she did. &. she regretted it. She wants to help, but it feels like everywhere she goes, she just causes more problems. [Christmas Spirit, my ass.]

She puckers a lip, failing to stop her snout from wrinkling at the negativity inside her. ❝ 'S there anything you want me to do ? ❞

@universalcarnival filled the interest tracker !

[lesbicastagna]

"this situation is really going to be make or break for me" says person who is unable to create conflict, ever