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[art-appreciation-dog]

Indie Animated Action

Playground |||| Gildedguy

The Legend of Pipi |||| Monkey Wrench

Lackadaisy |||| Ramshackle

Arin or Kogan |||| Lonely Man's Lazarus

2Spooky |||| Hellbent

The Showdown |||| Wire

[who-is-page]

-watching discourse about alterhumans and packers float by me like an iceberg-

Look, I'm gonna be honest, the people bitching about what silly silicone shapes people put in their undies are fuckin feds. They're trolls at best, cops at worst, and still fundamentally not worth the time of day either way.

Don't waste your time yelling at brick walls like those guys; use your annoyance and spite as a jumping off point for talking about the ways you love your own gear, or how you enjoy the process of making it, or how seeing other people with it has made you feel. Pictures of your gear, or your friend's, or drawings of your dream gear. Anything like that. Your thoughts and opinions deserve genuine engagement from people who actually care, not heckling or harassment from some concern-trolling sealions whose life goal is to make you feel shitty.

Joy shared with others into your community is joy multiplied. Growls aimed at the guy tapping on the glass of your enclosure to piss you off are reasonable, but it's not worthwhile to do for long when you can shut the blinds and go hang out with some friends instead.

[ribena59p]

[kavehpilled]

I think one of the most significant things we dont talk about in the game is how alhaitham isnt “bullying” kaveh, he’s treating him exactly the way he needs to be treated so he can stay afloat and still confide in alhaitham or himself when he needs him

like. he purposely doesn’t give kaveh that many compliments because he knows for a fact that he turns those compliments into words against himself when he’s upset. he knows he drinks too much so he goes to pick him up when he’s too drunk because he would rather know that he gets home safe and quickly. he purposely makes rude remarks about his work or his feelings because he knows that kaveh is going to get defensive and speak better about himself as a result

granted, kaveh knows none of this and probably never will but they are SO mischaracterized to the point where their entire dynamic is off. constantly. alhaitham probably knows that this Will affect kaveh in the long run but if it gets him to care and treat himself better he’d do anything, and i think thats the point the entire fandom is missing here

[hstylesficrecs]

Angst With Happy Ending

erodasfishtacos

HendallReunited Adjustments Tastes Like Sugar and Relief

For-fucks-sake-h

I'll Be Home For Christmas

Moonchildstyles

Aster (Tattoo Artist H) First fight Meeting y/n's Parents Time Apart Period Citrine (Witch H) First Time Clingy Black Magic Chiaroscuro (Vamp H) Harry Goes Too Far Prosecco (older H) The Wrong Thing

JarofStyles

Breaking Plates

Harryhoney-bee

Gonna be Better in The Morning My Muse Idiot

all-my-love-for-harry

A Priority Sing Me My Song Not the Future You Want

havethetimeofyourstyles

Your Beating Heart Deep Sleep

bopbopstyles

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Stylesharrys

Home to me [x] [x]

ever-since-kiwi

The One With the Internship The One Where You're Jealous The One Where She's His Little Secret The One Where She Comes From Old Money The One Where You Fake It

Svnflowervol666

Crisp Trepidation Harry's Wife Doesn't Want Him In The Delivery Room

Harry-Writings

The Commitment Series Broken Promises Series The Lover Series The Mute Series The Edge Of Tonight

Meetevieinthehallway

Why Would You Keep Something Like This From Me? And I Can't Give That To You Even If it Was Momentary Just One More Couldn't Lose You, Still Can't Wish You Were The One Who Told Me

Atlafan

One Last Time She Doesn't Like Him

Adore-Styles

Hook, Line & Sinker

[airplanecrashingtowardstheground]

i will forever have beef with dc over nightwing: new order.

like, someone looked at dick grayson - a trustworthy and good person in literally every universe; a multiversal constant - and decided it would be a good idea to turn him into a fascist

[the-soup-specter-sillies]

EVERYONE STOP CLOWNING ON EUSTACE HES A CRINGEFAIL BOY WITH A CRINGEFAIL NAME LET HIM HAVE HIS MOMENT WE SHOULD BE CELEBRATINGGGGHGG

[entryn17]

new ut/dr mini newsletter dropped!!

I'M LOSING IT

[ask-am]

I'm texting and driving right NOW . on a scale of one to ten how bad do you hope I've been in a car crash by the time you've read this

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[incrediblysincere]

why does jauffre have a bowl of garlic on his desk

[eeveekitti]

mrrp meow

meow mrrowwwww

[someguywriting]

gerbils can develop music tastes and my gerbils like traditional country music

[butterfly--empress]

....About that Attack on Titan Series...

Well, well, well......I wasn't going to make this post, but fuck it, we here and I feel like ranting into the goddamn void, it's been a WHILE.

If you enjoyed this series from beginning to end and don't have the emotional maturity to understand that I don't fucking LIKE THIS SHIT. DO NOT REPLY

I don't have patience and I will block you on sight! As we fandom old's say: Don't Like? Don't Fucking Read!

Anyway onto the rant...

it's June 2024 and I finally after so many years, watched this show because it was recommended to me and I brought into the hype because I had NO IDEA just how derisive S4 and the series finale actually was back in the height of it's day.

I had always meant to eventually get around to watching the show and maybe even reading the manga alongside it, but as the years passed, I just never found the urge to pick it up.

And now that I have, after believing the show was great from beginning to end...

GOD, I sure wish I could get back the time I spent watching the entirety of Season 4, that Finale, and feeling utterly annoyed that a writer chose to end their story on such a nonsensical plot.

In fact, I sort of wished I never bothered at all to be quite honest.

The short of it: Seasons 1 to 3>>>>>>Season 4 and that awful ass Finale.

Very unfortunate too. This is just another case of 'great ideas, bad execution'.

And I'm not sorry but the more I think about it, the more I just cannot turn my brain off, suspend my disbelief and gaslight myself into accepting season 4 and that fucking finale as peak writing.

That shit was awful, the fact that seeing the latest interview from the creator himself, just reaffirms how strong the author's intent was when writing this last arc!

It wasn't the fact this was bad on accident, or that the creator ran out of ideas, OR the story got too complicated and complex, OR that he couldn't commit to what he already established in earlier seasons.

If his words are to be taken at face value from that interview:

It's not that this guy is a bad writer, Attack on Titan's last arc's messy writing:

-Plot holes and too many subplots that go nowhere

-Last minute ass-pulls and Deus Ex Machina that make no damn sense.

-Adding time travel-esque powers out of the blue, and it amounts to nothing in the end.

-Never giving an actual satisfying reason why Eren *couldn't defy his fate*.

--We not gonna talk about his mom...

-I'm not gonna bitch about that Ymir subplot about her loving her abusive ass slave master/husband, after what was already established before this point was fine by itself...nope, not going there...

-That god awful confusing asf 4yr time skip. (listen, I don't know NOR do I care at this point, if this time skip was elaborated on in the manga. This was just a poor attempt to hand wave away the obviously inconsistent switch OR lack of development to the characters I followed since ep 1.)

-The stagnation of already established characters we were with since the beginning and basically being replaced by new characters: the MINUTE the Marley characters took center stage, something in me just KNEW, the original crew were being replaced but hoping to GOD I WAS WRONG. --Turns out my gut feeling was correct and it makes me dislike these character more than I already did.

--Yeah, I really did not care AT ALL for the Marley crew. There's just something about shoehorning in new characters that I have no attachment to and telling me, they are now the real protagonists (who get sudden plot armor and make it alive by the end, with no real consequences...in a series that had no qualms about killing just about 90% of the characters I actually gave some fuck about and knew since ep 1 feels very contrived.)

-The unnecessary death of fan favorites that amounted to NOTHING

--I'm not...I'm just going to leave THIS ONE ALONE because I'll be here all fucking DAY and boy I'm doing enough ranting as it is.

~If You Know, You KNOW!~

-I'm not going to rant about the female characters because 1. we'll be here all day, 2. to be fair: most of the characters sort of fell flat regardless of gender anyway. (But I def get that the female cast in particular was done so dirty in the last arc. It's one thing for shounen writers to write one dimensional female characters...you have to be some kind of SPECIAL to create two-dimensional, even three-dimensional female characters only to downgrade them to their lowest common denominator. THE AUDACITY, THE INSULT TO MY FUCKING INTELLIGENCE!)

-I'm not going to bother about the shipping: it's obvious that a certain ship was going to be canon but god, do I really need to bitch about the utter lack of meaningful development to get it from point A to B?

--Then again, maybe it was supposed to be toxic? Lord knows it fits well into the clusterfuck of the last arc of this story.

--Honestly, I was more into a non canon ship that developed thru friendship naturally onscreen anyway, so I have no horse in this race.

-The BIG ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM of mixes messages, that maybe, certain extreme ideologies are correct and justified.

--Yeah, we gonna leave this one alone too...Honestly because this is actually the one thing I don't think was intentional, even if the blatant implications of it are there...and I don't want to make assumptions of the man's politics and what he believes, and his worldview (outside of his personal feelings about himself), I don't know him personally.

--I will however, rant to high hell and I do think he utilized and underutilized the allegory he borrowed from real life history; which led to the unfortunate 'Fantastical Racism' that happens in AoT.

--The slaughtering of poignant thematic themes, period!

--That bad ending (not that it's tragic per se, but just thematically bad).

~~Are you starting to see a pattern??~~

ALL THIS TO SAY:

He didn't WANT to allow his story to progress 'naturally' in the direction it 'wanted to go'.

Isayama didn't want to commit to anything he established. The story is the way it is, because he INTENDED it to be this way.

Eren fails to be a great hero OR antihero (depending on how one sees it) because Isayama doesn't think he, himself is a great person even if others tell him he is. (Ring a Bell?)

And I think it's a hard pill for a lot of people to swallow. Your time was wasted theory crafting, giving the creator the benefit of doubt, all for him to basically say, because he suffered from a serious case of 'Imposter Syndrome', you are an idiot for ever thinking this story was great, was suppose to be more than it is, and that his success isn't earned because he doesn't feel that way and you have to feel that way too.

The creator wanted a nihilistic, myopic, depressive ending. Worldbuilding, lore, cohesive storytelling be DAMNED, because he let his negative feelings about himself bleed way too much into his work.

He wanted the message if there was one at all: there's no point in putting hope in humans because 'we're all just trash anyway', people will always fight, good people shouldn't sacrifice their lives to help humanity or put any hope into humans evolving to change our ways, so why try to find another way, and maybe 'Hitler was right'.

It gets worse when the creator HIMSELF, out of his OWN MOUTH, stated; if he WANTED TO, he could have given the story a better proper send off. He knows what he wrote, and he knows that the natural, better progression of the story he created would have been better received by the fans and critics alike, if he allowed it to go in that direction, but he didn't want that.

Granted: I'm all for writers doing ultimately what they want with their stories, for better or worse.

But that's not what he wanted. And that's what I take from all of this.

However what pisses me off, is that he should have been HONEST about the story/themes/message he wanted to portray from the start.

I don't have a problem with tragic, depressive tales and it's themes, if it is done right. This was not done right and we know it wasn't, because you can look at past and even present discussions and arguments throughout this fandom and see that people have valid reasons to be very upset. (No one likes for their intelligence to be insulted when the story takes them out of the immersion to the point, that the critical thinking jumps in, and now a person is starting to realize that a lot of writing choices that they ignored before, because the story was still good, are now flaws. Stories don't have to be PERFECT, but once those flaws can't be ignored, people begin to see them as the red flags that they are. We might be hopeful, that these flaws or plot holes will be course corrected at some point, but we will not ignore, when we see the trajectory of a story's plot going downhill to the point of no return. AoT's story went beyond the Point of No Return...ON PURPOSE!)

What grinds my gears about this entire situation is that, we have a creator here, who purposely build up a story, world, characters, and themes that the audience expected would follow through and make sense, given what we have of the story.

Only for the creator to fail spectacularly by trying to fucking subvert the audiences' expectations, and seeming to really not give a damn that it's what he wanted to do from the start.

Despite whatever issues he feels or has about himself, it sours whatever sympathy I may have for the guy, because in a way, what he decided to do of his own free will, seems very jaded and quite narcissistic...

I SAID WTF I SAID

It's the audacity for me.

People were lead on, lied to, and wasted their time for nothing.

Character motivations, deaths, sacrifices, the themes, worldbuilding, all of it, amounted to NOTHING.

We were idiots to put good faith into the author. We were idiots to think, this story was worth it. For some of us, it felt like a slap in the face if you were an original fan since the story's inception and honestly, your resentment for sticking with it til the end for ten plus years for an unsatisfying bullshit finale is very valid.

TL:DR: AoT's ending is trash because the Author wanted it to be trash, and that's really, unfortunately what it all amounts to.

Soo, yeah, I don't think I can really say much more than that.

Man should have just stuck with Keeping It Fucking Simple Simon and just ended the story where literally everybody dies from fighting giant ass flesh eating zombies called titans.

Okay NOW I'M DONE WITH THIS!

Edit: GOD, and here I thought I finally fallen into another great shounen on the same level as FMA:BH after the constant disappointment, that is MHA's last arc.

...Maybe I'm getting too old for anime, at least 'shounen'....idk...anymore

At least Spy x Family can't hurt me...

[qualityrain]

in shambles thinking abt hny 36 because yk. the mirror. yk how in 8 satoko has this flashback of how when she was a kid she would look at her scar in the mirror and know that it makes her undesirable but she shows it to shinpei and is proud of it even calling it her badge of honour and then in 36 she once again sees her scar in the mirror and realises that shes getting so thin her ribs are showing and she knows shes looking more and more undesirable and ugly and shes so ashamed she tries to hide and pass it off as a lol i havent been eating thing instead of it being yk. her chronic illness thats supposed to kill her. and she literally expects shinpei to think shes disgusting or something like tachibana. tachibana. i am on my knees take all of satokos pain and suffering and give it to literally anybody else

[lascitasdelashoras]

Mesh Reas Ven AOK (All Out Kings) Graffiti _ Super Rare 80's Subway Bombing Video (BQ)

[rinniereads123]

i live in my headphones

“I can take a beating like a good pair of headphones” i live in my headphones in the lyrics and melodies that come from them i never know what song will come on next my taste in music has been described as polyjamorous i never leave without them if i forget them i feel naked the world is so boring without my headphones a constant cacophony covered by melodious voices and instrumentation my headphones provide the symphony of life and every day has a new soundtrack when i wake up in the morning i get up, get dressed, and grab my headphones i get on the elevator and hope no one else gets on so i can jam in peace “Living in this big blue world With my head up in outer space I know I’ll be A-O, A-O-K” i start the walk to class i’m always coming up with choreography i must look crazy while i walk “Sometimes I wonder if I should be medicated If I would feel better just lightly sedated” i have dance class every morning and unfortunately i have to take my headphones off at least the accompanists play good music as soon as class is done i’m out the door with my headphones on sometimes i wonder if i’m missing out by not staying and talking to people “Looking for an answer, trying to find a sign Until I saw your city lights, honey I was blind” when i get to my dorm i always hope i can get the tv if my roommate is already using it i keep my headphones on “And the girl in the corner is everyone’s mourner She can kill you with a wink of her eye” i have a playlist of songs that remind me of my best friend when i miss her i put it on shuffle “A gift real special, so take off the top Take a look inside it’s my dick in a box” she really loves dick in a box “Now you’ll never see what you’ve done to me You can take back your memories, they’re no good to me” one more class i’m so tired my body hurts i’m covered in bruises from this morning but i love what i do so i keep walking “A-breaking my back just to know your name But heaven ain’t close in a place like this” at the end of the day i finally get to rest i take a shower i do my nighttime routine hopefully sleep takes me soon so i can wake up and put my headphones back on “It’s hard to say that I’d rather stay awake when I’m asleep Because my dreams are bursting at the seams” i can’t fall asleep i feel like i need to cry maybe it’s because i miss home maybe it’s because i miss my friends maybe it’s old grief sneaking back up on me honestly i don’t know nights are the hardest “So I’ll kiss the air, And hope it finds you well Goodbye”

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Songs Included (in order):

"Headphones" by WALK THE MOON

"AOK" by Tai Verdes

"Free" by Florence + The Machine

"Honky Cat" by Elton John

"Ballroom Blitz" by Sweet

"Dick in a Box" by The Lonely Island

"Gives You Hell" by The All-American Rejects

"Somebody Told Me" by The Killers

"Fireflies" by Owl City

"Kiss The Air" by Matt Bloyd