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Why DO I do that?
#yeah I’m writing a new fic but taking it very slow because kinktober was so unbelievably draining and also#well#you know#being an American this week has been#it has taken a toll#anyway#it’s a COD fic cause teehee scary mask guys#hope y’all like ghost
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Reading loz/lu fics and it's just so interesting how wide the spectrum is of their personalities.
Sometimes it's got an in universe reason (different past (usually gender or species change), recent or ongoing traumatic events, a spectacularly bad first meeting), but sometimes (often) the characters are just... Weirdly angsty or peppy, there's no in between!
And I'm beginning to think less people have played more than one game than I thought XD.
Not that it's anyone's fault! One game is more than enough to be part of it all, and loz is exclusive to Nintendo consoles - and all the older stuff is frustratingly hard to get hold of. Heck, I'm still looking for wind waker, and that was really popular! And then you have to play it! They're not small games!!
But could people writing wild please ease off just a tiiiiiny bit so he can be a semi functional member of society pretty please XD? He's just as much a polite boy as any other member of the chain! He won't even run in shops! He can't attack npcs! He talks to every single person he's ever seen and remembers every single name. Yes, he's three quarters woodland creature with a hefty amount of trauma but he's also a fashionista who managed to avoid accidentally taking sides in a mayoral election and that's not easy!
#I have some actual gripes but that's just me being pedantic about something I know a lot about#loz#legend of zelda#tears of the kingdom#loz link#loz botw#loz totk#the legend of zelda#totk link#lu wild#Okay but please stop making his teleportation a point of interest to the chain they ALL can warp it's not even slightly special#And the slate/pad doesn't hold any items I'm begging you that's just fanon it's never been canon or been implied to be#Travelling across hyrule (on horseback) is about a week and a half following the paths at a walk. Rito to lurelin. It's not weeks on foot t#Hyrule Castle!!#This isn't a problem but like. Let link be petty brats to civilians occasionally. It's enrichment. They all have beef with some rando.#They're all extremely polite and let people get away with more than they maybe should but like. Adults starting smth with a 16yo.#Also wild has serious beef with ganon why does everyone write him so chill. Like botw sure but totk?? Absolutely not.#'wah my home is in ruins it's all my fault' it's been like that for yonks no one's even mad and hello?? Miles on miles on untouched#Landscapes?? Millenia of ruins indistinguishable from the recent stuff?? Link literally died he could not have done any more#How anyone can play botw/totk and not be BLISTERINGLY proud of hyrule I don't know#Okay but why does everyone (particularly legend omg) always bitterly blame hylia like loz has a dozen odd deities and hylia is the ONE who#Got cursed right alongside link. It's just... Idk but it seems like such a culturally Christian thing. All the focus on one who then gets#Blamed for everything in life going wrong. Not even Christian but specifically American Catholic. I don't know.#Hylia is the one deity we can pretty safely assume is neither omnipotent or omniscient lmao#In every time she has a voice (botk/ss) she pretty clearly mucks up or gets tricked and has regrets#In ss when she was zelda she hated every second of leading link around and even then it all hinged on link being completely willing!!#And then she got kidnapped anyway!#In totk (spoilers) she loses contact with one of her statues and asks link to check it out. Another statue gets POSESSED by ol triangle hea#And again link has to figure out the problem. Like even in her divine form she is so far from all knowing and all doing.#It's a lot of conflating with the concept of fate maybe?
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I always get detained at da border because PROFUNC never ended but basically I'm like if a targeted individual didn't even care
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Being a human is literally like this weird combo of being okay and not okay that goes on forever except there is also death
#(i'm fine)#(personally) (mostly) (really)#this has just been an absolutely terrible year for our planet and its people and animals#and it's fucking insane that as an american living in relative safety and comfort and experiencing the pleasures and guilt of that...#...i can experience this horrible yet ENTIRELY SURVIVABLE blend of acute pain over so many things at once#including war and genocide and the utter hopelessness of that#and also things like being really really sad that matthew perry's life was so hard and he died#and also so many bad and weird things have happened to family members this year but we mostly have the resources to come together and deal#which is amazing and bolstering and exhausting#and my brain still has space to be excited about writing and numb to writing and angry/impotent about writing#desperate for feedback yet private and retreat-y and weird#always hoping to hit upon The Perfect Thing :-/#and i live in a place that basically is not a democracy any more and also the u.s. is so cursed we've never been what we said we were#so a lot of my own perceived safety is incredibly fragile#but still so much more solid than what the people i am mourning for had#and none of the comparisons make a lick of sense and are in and of themselves deeply unfair#to the point that it's humiliating to feel guilt (making it about me) and simultaneously humiliating that i don't feel guilt *constantly*#and i have therapy this week but also this deep sense that while my therapist will be a fine person to talk to it will feel unuseful#i've always been a muddle of optimism and pessimism and i am very adamant that life is super beautiful and this is precisely why...#...all the violence in the world is so brutally devastating#it's just that the casserole of all these thoughts feels increasingly horrible#and feeling that way is 100% sane#and even intersectional frameworks and intentional attempts at gentleness only get you so far in the grapple#for meaning and for ideas of what to do#so i end up contacting my reps about various awful things#and zooming in and out on my fixations and having excellent days and terrible days#often dependent on what feels like a camera setting i only partially control#and i'm sure i'm not alone in feeling embarrassed that deep empathy and grief for people i've not met somehow ends up being...#...at least a sliver about ME and my little world#about me
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brother where is the charles appreciation
#so dark out here#umm dead boy detectives review here we go! first two episodes were definitely the worst of the series. both are kinda weirdly paced and#the exposition is done poorly in places. overall from episode 3 onwards it gets much much better with pacing and show dont tell#do not understand for the life of me why they made crystal palace american#kassius nelson (<- crystals actress) was very good in places and kinda ehhh in others and im 90% the issue for most of the latter moments#was just that her american accent is not great. sorry they did that to you queen#dialogue was a bit dodge sometimes as well#stuff i liked now! the plot felt quite solid and i really enjoyed the monster of the week approach i think thats the perfect way to#do a dbd adaptation. was a bit annoyed they immediately went to america but port townsend was an interesting setting and all the#supernatural elements/characters fit in nicely#major props cos i feel like the show mostly pulled off the emotionally charged moments without getting corny and the dialogue was generally#good in those moments#particularly charles/crystals heart to heart in ep. 3 and like the entirety of episode 7 (<- ep 7 was brilliant)#overall very fun watch and i feel that the more irritating typical YA show garb was at least a bit offset by them being willing to get#quite dark in places#bit sad people are mostly posting about edwin becos charles was my favourite. has been entertaining watching americans scramble around#the cultural differences in the show#shaking my inbox like a maraca. if anyone wants to talk at me abt the show i will love you forever#.log
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My passport got delivered yesterday and I just filled out my last scholarship application. I guess I really am going to Greece? Fucking wild
#It's a two week study abroad but I've never left the country before and visiting Greece is a lifelong dream for me#So. Still special#I had a semester abroad in reading England planned before the pandemmy so I'm sort of expecting everything to fall apart#Between now and may. But here's hoping!#I have a thirty day streak on Greek duolingo which will probably not help me at all#I'm nervous about being an embarrassing American tourist but. I'm sure there's been worse American 22 year olds in Europe than me#I've only ever had Greek food in America so if anyone has food recommendations I'm open#Trying new food is my favorite part of traveling on the rare occasion I do it
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#don’t read this if you love mr jock guy I just need to rant:#I’m sorry but I’m so fucking bored like it’s CLEARLY pr and that’s FINE#and that doesn’t mean she couldn’t also actually like him#but oh my goddddddddd I’m so fucking tired of hearing about it and it’s only been a few weeks I can’t do this for months#if she genuinely ends up head over heels in love with this man I will acknowledge that I’m being a dick and eat my words#but this straight white american cliché ass thing has me bored to tears like at least Tom slayed y’know#anyway 1989 vault tracks I’m counting on you bby#my post
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I have a horrible horrrible horrible essay to write BUT it’s my last one and when I am finished I am going to let this poor sad girl watch top gun maverick as many times as she likes
#about to be unhinged BUT#well firstly when I watch the red shoes I watch the ten minute ballet sequence in the middle of it about 10 times a week on YouTube until I#watch the red shoes again. and when I watch top gun maverick I watch the 10 minute test run sequence in the middle of it about ten times a#week on YouTube until I watch top gun maverick agains#so there is a link. to me.#BUT after watching a lot of Powell and Pressburger recently it has fascinated me how we really try and seperate art and propaganda by#assigning one as a lesser form yet it is unlikely we would HAVE film as art WITHOUT propaganda and particularly the interaction between war#departments and filmmakers in the Second World War. so the seperation gets muddied and tenuous.#and top gun maverick has been so routinely dismissed as propaganda OR loved in spite of it being propaganda which is to ignore an essential#component firstly of its existence and of its artistry. you can’t take the propaganda out of a matter of life and death and you can’t take#it out of top gun maverick and that’s okay and it is a part of their existence as art#art is never a pursuit outwith ideology and some art wears it more firmly on its chest than others#all Hollywood film is propagandist if you consider it an extension of American cultural dominance. it’s still art.#I don’t actually have to be shaking my head in disapproval#anyway I bought a book about Powell and Pressburger and propaganda and will report back ☝️
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I swear the thing that's finally gonna convince me to delete Instagram is all of the Americans whining about the smoke and 'blaming Canada'
#disclaimer I know it's mostly a joke and yes having that kind of air quality SUCKS.#but Americans try not to make everything about you challenge.#'blame the Canadians' 'wtf Canada' 'wow thanks a lot now we're back to masks' first of all fuck you#people are losing their homes and everything to this. imagine living near it.#also. just saying. like two weeks ago my province was exactly like NY with the air quality. and no one was being super dramatic about it.#I mean I saw a little bit of reels for it but not to this extent#idk why but all of the americans I see complaining about it are just really pissing me off.#'blame Canada' wtf are we supposed to do!?#'it's cause of canadas climate change' ok 💀 1) literally forest fires happen every year#MAINLY because of dry grass (not rainy season) and people who throw cigarette butts out the window#2) says america!? since when has California NOT been on fire because of those stupid gender reveal parties#3) says america who is one of the main contributors of the whole climate change business#anyways tldr I'm just really pissed off at every single reel I see of Americans talking about the wildfires
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I grew up eating.L bean soup + rice that my dad cooks bc that’s like, a Colombian staple, and I know the general seasonings that go into it and my dad taught us cooking growing up so it’s not like I’d never seen the process
But also his style of cooking isn’t exactly recipe or exact measurements bc he’s been doing it for years , but I swear when I do it I almost never get the seasoning right and I’m never sure what it is i did wrong, like If I was missing something or had too much of something or both or what!!!
#and SO many times the beans were unevenly cooked#I think in college it was due to weak stoves#bc it got better when I moved into apartments#BUT. last week I made shitty soup again#lime mostly cooked beans but some were still kinda harder#and the seasoning just wasn’t good#now to be fair I realized I was out of sazón so that’s something that I could attribute to being misisng#but I feel like everything else still coudlve made a decent flavor if I had done it right!!!#idk I’ve been agonizing about it since then lol#like my mixed heritage and stuff is a bit complicated sometimes#but food is one of my closest ties to my Colombian culture#and lately it’s like#I’m forgetting Spanish I’ve learned bc I don’t practice enough. my food sucks. but I don’t wanna lose those ties#I did get a Latin American cookbook last year#and it has some authentic Colombian recipes#I learned arepa. which I didn’t like growing up but I’m learning to figure a way they’re alright lol#and a sancocho recipe!! my dad loves making sancocho#I made it once from my book and I think it was decently good#people make fun of me for eating beans all the time but they DONT GET IT#uugghnhhgjgjgjgh whatever I’m just sad I suck at cooking lol 😭
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that’s it i’m setting fire to the netflix building
#dead end got cancelled this is my final straw#i fucking hate how poorly animation is treated#w/ netflix it isn't just animation either... any show that isn't immediately an overnight sensation gets treated poorly by them#even if it's very good and has a strong + growing fan base#and is actually creative and contributes something to pop culture + society#but if it isn't stranger things or wednesday or heartstopper levels of succesful#i guess it just isn't worth making to them#i feel like animation especially has been treated poorly#cos it's hard for animated shows to reach that lvl of success#especially if it's something completely new#it just makes me so mad#how is it that inside job and dead end got cancelled within the same week#it makes me so angry especially because there's really nothing fans of these shows can do#and w/ toh being leaked early BY THE COMPANY ITSELF#a company that is known for making animation relevant in american pop culture#and producing animated media that is resonant with audiences of all ages#not just young kids#and then in recent years they have been blatantly disrespecting the art form and any innovation within it#making live action remakes of really beautiful and unique films so they can make more money#disrespecting toh- probably one of their biggest shows in a while#it makes me so mad cos animation is such a cool medium#you can do so so much with it that you just can't do in live action story telling#like secret of the kells?? would not have worked in live action#and it's probably one of the most beautiful movies ive seen#not the most beautiful animated film#but most beautiful film in general#and recently animation has done so much for increasing lgbt rep and diversity in media#i'm just so angry over how animation is treated#dead end deserved better#inside job deserved better
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#my coworker is about to find out how petty I am when I want to be#for the second time she has decided to talk about how she doesn't like cartoon styles or toy designs that are Asian inspired#now honestly she has yet to show me any examples that are actually from any Asian country at all other than Speed Racer#the most absurd example has been PEPPA PIG#And today it was Squishmallows which sure kinda look Sanrio and Monster High#I have ghibli figures and pokemon all over my office and a kingdom hearts print not to mention my own art and a gorgeous Dark Paladin print#I was also wearing my Kingdom Hearts shirt today#so guess what#I'm wearing anime for the rest of the week and bringing in more weeb merch for my desk#one too many times has she made it a point to express her dislike for things I clearly enjoy or have said I enjoy#Now I'm gonna be obnoxious about it just to spite you#I am also an animation nerd who knows enough about animation history that I could easily show her things she grew up with that are Japanese#Heck some of the things she thinks are good drawing and not ugly were designed by Asian-American artists from various countries#so she's just being racist and I hate it#delete later
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accounts to follow to learn more about palestine or keep up to date on events in gaza:
theimeu
mohammedelkurd
anat.international
jenanmatari
sbeih.jpg
letstalkpalestine
itsyasmeenalhaj
wizard_bisan1
motaz_azaiza
byplestia
eid_yara
and if you want a jewish anti-zionist perspective too (bc there are many), author sim kern has some videos, including recommendations of books to read, by both palestinian and jewish/non-palestinian authors, to learn more
edit: see this post for more accounts to follow https://www.instagram.com/p/CySCPAprJ9M/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
it has been genuinely devastating to see major governments, global news outlets and ignorant celebrities spreading a narrative that supports and upholds a regime responsible for the genocide of thousands of innocent lives. palestinians have been suffering for decades and nobody has cared; nobody has offered them the empathy that is now being so generously handed to a military force that is brutally murdering and displacing the palestinian people. 2.2 million people in gaza have had their electricity, food, water and fuel cut off. we are witnessing firsthand the utter annihilation of a population — dehumanising media coverage, blatant islamophobic propaganda, hundreds of children massacred — please understand that taking a "neutral" stance is siding with the oppressor. free palestine today, tomorrow, forever. from the river to the sea 🇵🇸
global conflict tracker
palestine resource library
donate to islamic relief worldwide
donate to medical aid for palestinians
donate to the palestine children's relief fund
#if it seems “complicated” here are some concrete stats:#6000+ israeli bombs in six days#724 palestinian babies/kids massacred in the past week (and counting)#2000+ civilian deaths (and counting)#1000000+ children still trapped in gaza#there is an active ongoing genocide#so please please either spread awareness or help dispel misinformation#a lot of unsubstantiated israeli propaganda (40 beheaded babies/mass rapes/etc) has been officially retracted by news orgs#but it's gone so far the general public still believes it#these fabricated atrocities are being used to desensitize people to palestinian pain & genocide & widespread islamophobic racism#on october 14 a six year old palestinian-american boy was stabbed to death bc of it#misinformation is dangerous; propaganda is deadly.#palestine#free palestine#update: all of these numbers have risen exponentially#9000+ civilian deaths as of november 2#israel has bombed multiple homes schools hospitals refugee camps and more#update: it's december 4 the death toll has surpassed 15000 and that number is definitively far lower than the actual count
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why does bitch ass 쏭 always start spamming the fromm chat when i start working 🧌🧌 literally on the dot as soon as my shift starts
#i get so excited to finally look at my phone#n then i see like 500 notifs from that man#makes me wanna kms tbh#in a good way#kinda#☆ ; dear diary ?#if anybody sees this#pLEASE give me some music recommendations#i am so desperate#my music is not musicing atm bc i musiced everything too much#literally open to anything#except for schlager im literally gonna block you#BUT#theres this one woman on tiktok#her whole page is abt her being an american living in germany and her transition n stuff like that#shes so cutesy i love her#n she learned german through old schlager so she also makes them#n one of her songs has been stuck in my head for wEEKS now#anywayz what was this post even abt i dont remember
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Having to explain to my 57 year old mother that, no, it is not funny to send me photos of a clearly exhausted woman at the airport at 3am who had an accent she thinks makes her stupid. Like. Just tell me what she said that was funny. I don't need a series of photos of this woman exhaustedly explaining to your coworkers what she needs.
#we've been in the south for 20+ years and she still corrects people on pronunciations and thinks southern accent = stupidity#watched her have an entire meltdown over my brother saying 'y'all' a few weeks ago#fully threatened to slap the kid if he didn't stop the 'hillbilly nonsense'#like dude. you're the one who had kids in tennessee. you cannot get mad if they say y'all.#or someone will say something like nashvul. murvul. cookevul. knoxvul. and she has to 'teach them' to speak 'properly'#who is it hurting if someone says shebvul instead of Shelbyville?#does everyone else know what's being said? cool. then ignore it and move on.#go back to the midwest where you can act superior to everyone else with your 'neutral american accent'#people speak differently everywhere. ps i know you're fighting that southern illinois plainsbilly accent. i hear it sometimes.#bitch wholly forced herself to sound less like she's from southern IL because she thinks they sound unintelligent too#it's wild#accents#southern accent#classism#probably#since she thinks cool rich people don't have accents#racism#also 100%. because she'll make fun of black people for saying finna over white people for saying y'all any day.#and i get it. she's only this way because she's a miserable person.#but at some point she has to admit SHE is the problem and like... work on that?#she's just so miserable and makes it anyone else's problem. it's exhausting.#she apparently ruined my grandma's funeral by throwing a random hissy fit and calling everyone fuckers and cunts#i was not there bc the whole family went to hawaii for it????? and that was simply wildly unaffordable.#but yeah. she explained it and it all boiled down to 'no one cared about my input so i caused a huge scene that almost got me disowned'#wild shit. horribly dysfunctional woman. it's surprising I'm half as together as i am having been raised by her.
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funniest things in interview with the vampire:
the fact that we got reverse-queerbaited and there was levitating gay vampire sex in episode 1 and then never again :(
"he ain't white he french!"
lestat showing up to louis' family dinner in the gayest outfit he could wear in 1910, pretending to eat, and hypnotizing paul when he really was trying to make a good impression
florence du lac clocking louis as gay because of his acrylic nails and tinted glasses
"what's wrong with that man?" @ lestat
louis with the "no whites allowed" sign despite lestat being inside the building
"i'm not sure how i feel about that pleated skirt" "it's chiffon it has movement"
grace calling lestat louis' white daddy
louis, lestat, and claudia treating nosferatu like a comedy
louis telling the police they should be ashamed of how they treated "law-abiding, taxpaying citizens" and forgetting that it's illegal to be gay
"we sell...incinerators. to various american cities." "we bring our clients here to demonstrate the product"
louis throwing lestat's coffin out the window
tom anderson not seeing louis and lestat for 17 years but for some reason he has a picture with them in his desk drawer
the fact that rashid was not just a character armand made up but a real employee of theres who was mysteriously absent for a week while seemingly consensually being played by his boss
armand and louis walking up to daniel holding hands like two people who have never held hands before in their life
armand had a threesome with a father and son while watching now, voyager, something louis didn't even know about
armand telling daniel his own armandstat fanfiction, stopping at the scene where they fucked in the theatre box, and daniel wanting more
"are you schizophrenic louis?" "...no"
the insinuation that the real irish playwright samuel barclay beckett was a vampire. not only that, but that his most well-known work, "waiting for godot," was originally written for the theatre des vampires. not only that, but that he is now an unspecified DJ
french man yelling at louis and armand that they should blow each other when they're kissing in the public park
daniel molloy being so unbelievably gay in the 1970s and being immediately into fucking louis in the coffin
daniel molloy having his body comandeered by armand and still offering to suck his dick
daniel molloy trying to escape from armand and immediately running into the wall
armand walking back into the dubai penthouse being the silliest he's ever been, nourished, happy only to find out that his husband and weird gay boy situationship have unionized
armand gaslighting his way out of the situation he gaslit himself into by telling louis he asked him to erase his memories
armand animating the raccoon into the projections during the trial
santiago small dick reveal
lestat still wearing a 150 year old leyendecker robe and playing a wooden piano, but somehow having the money for an ipad, speakers, and wifi
"siri pause"
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