#but don't make me tap the sign

[hirazuki]

The urge to get an Uchiha clan lanyard for work is overpowering.

I can't, for several reasons, but. the temptation is there.

... I'll probably get myself a small Uchiha fan sticker to put on my water bottle or something. Something discreet ^^

[greghatecrimes]

for the love of god

[gojosbf]

and it is a fact that you cannot blame anyone here. you cannot blame yuuta either, infact he's the one who's suffering the most. he wanted to make gojo's sacrifice worthwhile, he did not want any of their deaths to go waste, he had to become a monster too and give up his life so he could be useful. no one probably hated that decision more than him but tragedy is never merciful and they're not heroes.

[wizzard890]

So there’s a trend that I absolutely hate in online discussions of (non-satirical) genre, particularly genre that’s influenced by the gothic. This trend makes my eyes roll back in my head until I can see through my own skull. It makes me want to bite a car in half. It makes me want to step into the jellyfish tank at the New York Aquarium and beg for the sweet sweet annihilation of a thousand stings. 

I call this trend: Oh Just Be Sensible, and it goes like this:

“Why do vampires always end up covered in blood when they feed, I don’t spill soup all down the front of my shirt when I eat dinner. Real toddler energy.”

“Why do people always cut their hands to swear oaths, everyone knows it would hurt way less on the [insert body part with fewer nerve endings]”

“Vampires shouldn’t be feeding from people’s wrists, it damages the tendons, if doctors don’t take your blood from your wrist, vampires shouldn’t either! No one will be able to flex their fingers the next day.”

(This comes up a lot with vampires, I mention, as I stride purposefully into the glistening mass of jellyfish.)

There are direct answers for some of these when it comes to the practical visual language of a particular medium (for example, you cut your hand on stage / on set because you can hold a blood pack in there, and even if you don’t have an effect, the gesture and its purpose can be discerned from the nosebleeds) but what really gets me is how thematically boneheaded this sort of observation is. 

Like, let’s go down the list here. 

Why do vampires end up covered in their victims’ blood? Well Scoob, do you think it could maybe have something to do with their bestial, inhuman nature? Or with the erotic and sensual abandon with which they can approach violence, now that they’re untethered from human morals? 

Why do people cut their hands to swear oaths? Aside from what I mentioned above, do you think maybe it’s because it adds a layer of gravity to see two people swearing an oath to one another with blood dripping from their clasped hands? Do you think it’s maybe to evoke a unity of body, something greater and more primal than a unity of word? Or maybe to remind us of the dire consequences of breaking a blood oath?

Why are authors having vampires feed from people’s wrists if it damages their tendons? Damn, maybe that’s because it’s where the pulse is. You know, the pulse? The heartblood, the thing that races when you’re scared or turned on or both? The thing that stutters when you’re close to death and could, should the author choose, ring in the vampire’s ears like a chime or a great pounding thunderclap. Maybe in a story about undead beings who drink blood, we can sacrifice a bit of sensible reality in order to enforce the emotion and thematic heft of a scene? 

Images like these communicate what is happening between two characters, not just the events that are transpiring! No one making stories forgot to consider ~sensible~ little observations, because it would be absolutely inane to consider an observation with the creative value of a wet paper towel. This stuff is part of our visual language for a reason! Themes also need to be communicated! 

God, like, okay, I’m exhausted and the aquarium staff keeps yelling at me when they find me here, but let me just wrap up by saying that relationships, character and meaning are expressed in so many ways beyond dialogue or internal monologue, and those expressions are so rarely sensible. 

(Also all this shit looks cool as hell, do you really want your protagonists swearing to die for one another by dabbing their slightly bleeding elbows together, grow up.)

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

at this point you should just make one of those 'don't make me tap the sign' memes for responding to people about birds being dinosaurs 😭 lol

tadaaaa

[moonnlsbn]

Spoiled brat little sib who tried to blackmail their big sis when they found pot in her room -> gets force fed shotgun hits until their brain melts. -> Gets railed senseless bc they're only just conscious enough to realize what's going on

MEN DNI. 18+

[dolceaspidenera]

After yet another post against women who romance Astarion, I had to say it.

The whole point of Astarion's romance is that he loves you because it's you, because he feels safe and seen with you, which is really ironic when people straight up deny his sexuality to project their ideas and preferences on him. He is pansexual, not gay, he loves you independently of your gender, so stop hating on women who romance him (and fyi, women can be bi too). I understand wanting to see more content with the ship dynamic you prefer, that's valid, but I don't see what use it has to shit on other people's pairings. 

We should be supportive of each other, not be divisive over this stuff. Just post and share more screenshots of your own Tav if that's the content that you'd like to see more of, or do some fan art yourself. If you don't have the ability, ask some of your favorite artists, I'm sure there are plenty out there that would be happy to draw you something. 

Honestly, I just love gushing over other people's Tavs, they are all so cool, and Astarion deserves all the love, independently from your Tav's gender.

So yeah... Don't make me tap the sign.

[weskie]

Gentle PSA

I will not be fielding asks about the easter egg pic of rebecca in re2. I've answered about it once, so anything more pertaining to the subject is going to be deleted from my inbox.

it seems like there has been a recent drive from anons to get folks in the fandom to cave and call wesker a predator despite the fact it's literally just a weird fan service easter egg that never comes up in canon.

that being said, while it is anyone's right to believe contrary, it is not a right to heckle others repeatedly about the subject and/or accuse them of predatory behavior for "defending" or even simply liking wesker.

[koreandragon]

park shin hye beating the bad on screen kisser allegations with the final episode kiss 🙂‍↕️

[aleisters]

hey i thought this could be a useful blank meme template. go forth

[naranjapetrificada]

The word "cringe" began life as a verb. 🤨

As an extremely him-coded person let me tell you that the thing about calling Stede "I've been a failure my whole life, it's not so bad once you get used to it" Bonnet a loser is that 99% of the time, he literally doesn't give a single solitary shit. True, he's insecure as hell in a handful of very specific ways and flattery can make him make extremely poor choices, but every time we see him taking it badly when someone is mean to him it's either because they're pushing trauma buttons (i.e. the Badmintons) or it intersects in some way with the people who matter to him (Ed, the crew, etc).

But mean randos? He knows what mean randos think about him. If Stede is the living sunbeam of a man that so many of us liken him to, then the thoughts of mean randos are just so many weak lightbulbs. Mean randos can call him (and have called him) everything but a child of god, and every time they do he brushes that proverbial dirt off his shoulders and keeps moving. He's still the unkillable fucker who pulled the baddest bitch on the seven seas* because of the kind of genuine behavior that makes lesser mortals (present company included) cringe sometimes. To Stede, their urge to cringe says significantly more about them than it does about him.

If getting to wake up every morning with the brilliant, playful, gorgeous love of his life giving him gooey eyes and wanting to be soft-dommed into oblivion is losing, why on earth would Stede Bonnet ever want to "win"? Why would anyone ever need to "defend" him against accusations of being a loser either? To Stede Bonnet, discourse like this is entirely immaterial. I for one am going to try to care about it exactly as much as he does.

*The best part of this is that Stede doesn't even see this as a flex the way everyone else would. He knows he's unfathomably lucky but he's lucky to know Ed, and would have felt that way even if Blackbeard never existed. And that's why knowing Stede completely rewired Ed's brain in the first place.

[normalbrothers]

[unimatrix69]

k/s - almost (@sha-ka-re pointed this out)

[lazykurocat]

how many times are y'all gonna make me tap the damn sign? stap it~ awww sillies, stop projecting it's not a good look y'know

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

@ tags: don’t make me tap the sign again

“Saying humans are naturally evil and violent is just another form of anthrocentrism and isn’t any better than saying we’re perfect and better than other organisms”

Humans! Are! Normal!

Not! Evil! Not! Perfect! Just! Normal!

[escaped-goat]

"Its only because you haven't found the right person yet."

"What do you mean?? EVERYONE feels attraction! It's what makes us human!"

"There are pills for that, you know."

"Oh, don't say that. You'll find someone someday!"

"You just need to start dating and you'll realize you were wrong."

"Okay but, like, ZERO attraction? Is that even possible?"

"Its because of your trauma. It's a trauma response. You just need to fix that and you'll-"

HI DIDDLY-HO NEIGHNORINO! 👋 SHUT YOUR DIDDLY DARN TRAP!! IT'S TIME FOR A PSA!

Just because you like the color blue and can't imagine liking the color purple, doesn't mean everyone who likes different color than you is wrong. Your imagination isn't the litmus test for whether or not something can or should exist within the scope of reality.

Lack of/ refusal of understanding individuals outside of yourself or your scope of reality is arrogance and ignorance. Get your head out of your lower intestine and clean the crap from your ears. Because you look like a real shithead with a superiority complex.

All folks on the Aromantic and/or Asexual spectrum are real, valid, and live happy and fulfilling lives, and exist in the same reality you do. Quit tossing us in the trash because you have an issue thinking outside your echo chamber.

Plz and thnx.🌸✨️

(This also goes for aro and/or ace folks who have differing libido, preferences, or like their romance/sex in fiction only. If they identify as Ace/Aro? They are. Period. Leave them alone. They are just as valid. Elitistm/Exclusionism in the LGBTQIA+ community has no place and only furthers harm. Don't don the mask or image of the people who made life hell for us in the first place.)

This has been a mildly friendly PSA.