#anyway. rant over.

[eyes-above--the-waves]

There's a Leafs update page that keeps popping up on my Facebook timeline that's doing a countdown to the start of the season using jersey numbers, and people are really out there trying to say that Darcy Tucker is/was a better #16 than Mitch because Tucker was an enforcer and Mitch is too soft like WHAT IS THE OBSESSION WITH WANTING MITCH TO BE AGRESSIVE?!?!

I bet Darcy Tucker would have loved to be as good of a playmaker as Marner is, but that wasn't his role. Tucker's role was grit, and he was good at it. Mitch isn't paid to be gritty, he's paid to score and set up plays, AND HE'S REALLY FUCKING GOOD AT IT!

Since when is the mark of a great hockey player limited to their ability to beat the shit out of people, and why are so many men obsessed with Mitch's apparent inability to do that?

[dudeshusband]

literally wtf are you talking about?

he beat out the beatles on the charts with "i will" in 1965 and the matt helm movies, which weren't liked by critics but were well liked by audiences would start coming out in 1966. he was what's considered the first disaster movie in 1970.

the dean martin show, wildly successful, would run for 8 seasons beginning in 1965.

[rudestmechanical]

i am so tired of tiktok. ‘eclectic grandpa’ ‘bookshelf wealth’ you people are POSERS. you want to LOOK like you have a vibrant and full life and personal taste and a sense of individuality but you don’t actually want to HAVE those things

[jfkisonthemoon]

sitting a tumblr user down and trying to explain to them that discrimination is not simply interpersonal interactions but a system and set of societal norms that back up individual actions and watching them nod along as i discuss how while an individual can make statements or have feelings, when not backed by institutions, historic discrimination, legalized discrimination, or de-facto discrimination these feelings are essentially harmless. i then ask them if i would be a misandrist for saying i hate men. they nod. i restart.

[broodwoof]

i get why ppl say sera has terf bangs but it's like.... it's so obvious that she cuts her own hair with a knife? and that's so in character for her? using whatever tool gets the job done + not depending on anyone else?

[gunpowder-tim]

posting this on main bc. i can but oh my god fucking fuck off the sire rule is so not a fucking thing the movie & tv show are the same universe!!!!! i dont care what the vamps i the show think. it doesnt fucking exsist okay. the reason guillermo didnt die when derek got killed is bc hes a van helsing okay. so he just aged the time he was a vamp instead.

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

"You and me, Ethan. Together we go save Rose, and then we can grind Miranda into paste!"

[accordionlover]

assigned a psych who works a full hour away from me 👍 and is a man 👍

[frownyalfred]

I'm seeing a lot of "ugh, so we can't even criticize fic authors anymore?" posts popping up on here and the ao3 subreddit and I just want to say, for the record: No one's saying you can't criticize (fanfic) authors publicly. They're saying it's rude and antithetical to positive fandom experience. And, yes there's a difference.

If this website was a conference and I had just spent a whole afternoon listening to a presentation on [unpopular fic trope] and after that was done, I got up on stage and very publicly told the audience that [unpopular fic trope] was illogical and anyone who writes it is woefully misinformed and should be banned from writing [relevant character], that would in fact be a dick move.

"But the canon character would never--" it doesn't matter. You're shouting down the hall at the person who just happily did a whole seminar on their OOC version of that character. "But I don't like that the author chose to make them--" good, you're well-acquainted with your likes and dislikes, time to find another fic.

We all run into fics and interpretations we don't like. But there's a huge difference between loudly talking about it on Tumblr where the author can see it, and just venting in a private discord or other group. Also, gentle reminder that this is a hobby for most writers and something they do purely because they enjoy it. Stop being massive dicks just because you feel entitled to a certain flavor of fanfiction you will probably be chasing until the Reformation of Krypton.

[yujateaandpi]

Oughh it’s 2:00 AM and I’m having Thoughts and Emotions about Marceline the Vampire Queen. Like— she’s a punk bisexual and cool as heck but she’s also a terribly sad immortal with mom issues and double dad issues BUT BUT ALL of her parental figures gave her unconditional love so strong that it fundamentally saved the human race. Marceline saved the humans who hated her because her demon dad passed on the legacy that helped her grow powerful and her mom sang her lullabies and her adopted father clung to every shred of his breaking mind to protect her childhood. She was so loved! She was so loved! And that love never went away it stayed inside her even when all three of her parents hurt her so badly that the pain stuck for a thousand years. And all of the ways they hurt her were BECAUSE they loved her, so Marceline never learned to differentiate what it meant to love someone and hurt someone. So she hurts the people she wants to protect, she’s rough with the people she wants gentleness from, she abandons the people she wants by her side. And so much of the show is her collapsing and falling apart because she can’t figure out why why her relationships are all so broken. And then little by little she gets closure with each chapter of trauma— with her demon father, with her mother’s memory, with dear Simon— which then allows her to finally be at peace with herself and accept love— pure as it is— and give it back.

[dudeshusband]

the students at san francisco state didn't protest for black studies for these to be the questions on this exam

and you didn't even ASK about the sf state or howard university strikes

[exhausted-undead]

ah, young love (they will hate eachother at some point, pinkie promise)

[shivunin]

Because I have just seen this specific thing for the second time, I would like to say:

If I reblog your art, I do not expect you to reblog (or share!) my fic in return

If I comment on your fic, I do not expect you to comment on (or read!) mine in return

My enjoyment of anyone's work does not come with strings or expectations

My friendship is not a bill that you will have to pay later

That's it!

[nipuni]

Casanova sketches!

[batsyheere]

Phantom doesn't trust the Justice League as far as he could throw them- which was a weird statement to make considering, so he might as well say he did not trust them.

First there had been the attempt to exorcise him. That had been done with some very obviously coerced members of Dark, who had eventually been stopped by a panicked Constantine who Phantom now had weekly tea with. (Because Danny needed more ways to defend himself outside of his ghostly abilities, and especially with the attention of the JL now focused on him. Constantine had not put up much of a fight, especially after that incident.)

Following that had been the JL's attempt at peacemaking and finally handling the Anti-Ecto Acts- which had simply sped up the work that Team Phantom had been working on since the majority of their group hit 17 and the threats were more human than ghost. Taking credit for the years of activism and appeal Team Phantom had already made efforts in had soured whatever they wished to gain.

Offering him a place within the teams of Young Justice or the Titans had been another layer of insult when they tried to pressure him into some sort of mentorship- Phantom very much was insulted by the implications that he needed any such help after the years of being left to fend for himself. And the implications that they thought they could control and observe him now.

The final straw was their invitation to join the Justice League itself.

"I don't know about you," Phantom drawls, tone almost apathetic as his head leans against his fist. He was hovering in the air, sat back in a pose his little sister often called his "I'm dealing with idiots and politics" posture. "But if I've repeatedly rejected and ignored an individual who asked for help, then ignored their requests to leave them be... well, I wouldn't assume they would wish to join your club and be pleased by it."

"King Phantom," Wonder Woman begins, one of the few who actually had any sense. She looks exhausted.

Another member, one of the Green Lanterns whose names Danny couldn't be bothered with after some rather volatile debates with the dead of Oa, cuts her off.

"Look, kid, you're being offered something most other heroes only dream of being offered-"

"Most other people have to be recommended or apply to join the League, or otherwise be ignored and left to handle situations such as a chunk of the Midwest sinking into the Infinite Realms through the directions of a tyrannical conqueror seeking to gain access to the mortal world."

Silence. There were a few winces, as well as a few heroes who were glancing nervously towards Superman who was frowning.

"Look, we've obviously made mistakes-" the man in blue begins. Phantom cuts him short as well.

"A mistake is dismissing a call about ghosts as a prank," he states. "A mistake is making assumptions based off the research of science and believing it to be true."

He sat up, crown flaring above his head with frost as the temperature in the room dropped.

"What you have done is blatantly allow a government to persecute and prepare acts of genocide, while ignoring the evidence and pleas of the people you swear to protect. You then proceed to ignore the word of those who have stood the line of defence and resolve the matter without any representation of the voices that fought long enough to be heard."

"What would you have us do."

It was Batman who spoke up. While not his favorite member of the League, Phantom could appreciate the fact that the man had been left out of most of the formal decision making on these matters- even Amity Park had heard of the strange mass outbreak of Arkham residents spilling into Gotham- something that had not happened in quite a while. It had kept Batman and his associate busy enough to keep away from League business, in an effort to keep the chaos contained to Gotham's borders.

But Batman had many issues and Phantom had very little care for them.

"At this time? Move on. The situation is handled, and those who have not screwed up diplomatic matters are informed and may keep contact. We want no further ties to the Justice League or it's members at this time."

[ongoingexperiment]

A dreadful night