#but i like ranting about things i do not like in this show

[uwila-the-harpy]

ID: A Reddit post on r/AITAH (Am I the Asshole?), posted by u/Quirky-Wait-7729, 7 hours ago. AITAH for buying my boyfriend flowers after he mentioned most men only get them when they die? Throwaway for a reason. Okay, so my boyfriend (22M) and I (21F) have been together for about 5 months and it has been good so far, but about a week ago when I was at his apartment he told me that most men only recieve flowers when they're dead, and he then went on a bit of a rant about women not caring as much as men when it comes to their partners and then men want shows of affections to. I honestly took this all as a hint that he wanted flowers, so yesterday I went to Whole Foods and picked out all the flowers I thought he would like and put together a big bouquet for him. I also got him a coffee, some chocolates, and a few other things I thought he would like. I've done things like this before but minus the flowers. I usually put a game pass gift card or a lego set. I feel like this is important because I don't want anyone to think I don't show him affection or get him gifts I definitely do!! So I show up to his apartment with literally the biggest smile. I was so excited for his reaction, but when I gave him the flowers he got a super uncomfortable look on his face and wouldn't touch or kiss me at all. I asked him what was wrong and if he liked the flowers and the just kind of blew up at me saying that the flowers are only for apologizing and that if I cheated on him I needed to tell him right now. I was shocked and started crying because I have never and would never cheat on anyone. He took the flowers to the kitchen and threw them in the trash which honestly felt like a huge punch to the gut. He told me to get out of his apartment and that he didn't have time for cheating bitches (his words) everytime I tried to explain he said he didn't want my excuses and when I'm ready to tell him who the man is then I can talk to him then. But there is not man, I didn't cheat on him, I just thought he wanted flowers. I've never thought of flowers just as an apology. He's never gotten them for me but I just thought he didnt like showing love that way, so I buy them for myself every week. I'm just so confused and hurt by his reaction and I don't know what to do to fix the situation. So am I the asshole for buying him flowers? Do women really only buy flowers as an apology?? I'm so confused.

the way men resent women for having the “”privilege”” of getting shit they don’t even want is so fascinating to me I want to study them in a lab

[omgfangirlland]

I'VE GOT ANOTHER IDEAAAAA! (I swear this ideas only appears when I'm about to sleep/stressed or when it is 3am) listen.. A neglected fem reader x batfam ooooor we can change it up to a neglected reader x superfam. Imagine, the reader was born as a Kent but has no superpowers. (Add how ben ten got his watch) or we can go to the same way.. The batfam x neglected reader.. Reader is a normal civilian just going about their days until she got that watch. (I'mma sleep.. I can't take it anymore.. ///orz///)

-🔱

FINALLY THE ASK I WANTED TO ANSWER SINCE I SAW IT-

🫀 anon, I saw your ask, I'll respond asap, I'm just trying to go from oldest to newest. Also- 🔱 anon, If I don't come up with an actual well-written one-shot about the aware!Marvel Characters soon, I'll just answer in this drabble/rant/spew stuff and see what sticks style.

I think the Superfam with a NoPowers!Ben10!Reader would be hilarious, actually- Perhaps even Anti-hero!Reader? Doing the right thing for the wrong reason.

Unlike the Batfam, I think the neglect wouldn't be as severe. Like, Jon seems like a very friendly and clingy kid, he'd love his big/lil sister with his whole being- especially if she didn't have powers, he'd feel like it's his duty to protect her.

And Kon may just get attached based purely on you accepting him before Clark does.( I'm a strong believer in robot and clone rights- unless they're the pure evil kind- looking at Clone!Shephard from Mass Effect. We could have reigned the universe together 😭) Like you being the one to stand up for him in the face of Clark would make him want to show you the same loyalty. You didn't see him as a weapon, as a cheap copy, as a means to an end, you saw him as human, as someone who deserves a chance.

If you want to make this unintentional neglect, the boys could be so scared about you hurting yourself or them hurting you that they deliberately ask you to set out of things. Playing rugby, football, or roughhousing? Sorry, you're just too fragile, they may break you. Helping them or trying to be their own personal Oracle? Yeah, no, what if a badie finds out about you?

Now- The worse in the neglect, I think, would be Clark- but let's first start with Grandmama and Grandpapa. They love all their grandkids, but they're farmers, awake as soon as it hits four a.m., they're busy and not really in their prime to be able to keep up with the kiddies and the farm.

So, while Kon and Jon can do so much of the heavy lifting, you're really left with washing dishes, cleaning, feeding the chickens, and watching from a distance as the boys are giggling. They are pushing you away without even realizing that.

Lois I don't think she's a bad parent, no mother who is working is a bad parent. But I do think she'd brush off stuff like you scrapping your knee or stubbing your toe in a way she didn't mean to come off as rude as it did. Small things that Jon, Kon, and Clark didn't experience, and small things she, as a grown woman, learned to not even blink at. Really, she just forgets that human children are very fragile, that they need to be coddled more.

And now Clark. He's Superman. You'll be talking his ear off, holding something in your hands, and the next second he's gone with a sorry, off to save the world. By the time he comes back, you've already gone to do something else.

He still remembers your birthday, but instead of spending time with you like he does with the boys, taking them flying and whatever else they do, he just buys you the same doll you've started hating years ago and pats your shoulder as he wishes you a happy birthday.

He promises to come to your parent's day school event, to the field day stuff, to everything you ask him. But he doesn't show up, and after the few times he forgot to pick you up, you just started accepting rides from your friend's parents and stopped asking him anything. You stopped talking to him entirely, and him not even noticing, hurt more than the broken promises.

And while all of these things aren't the worst things possible, they build up, insecurities taking hold and burying deep. You stop asking to play with the boys, you stop asking to go to your grandparents, you stop going to your parents for help, you stop considering yourself as someone who can help. You start to think of yourself as a liability. You learn that you're just different, and not in the way that'll make you integrate, not in the way Clark- in the way Superman needs.

You learned to be quiet a long time ago, living with supers who can hear your heartbeat took away from the privacy you should have had, so you did your best to keep the little things you could to yourself.

Started typing your thoughts, learned to cry without making a sound, and learned to keep your footsteps as light as possible. Granted, you didn't think they'd care to listen in to whatever you were doing, you weren't even sure if they knew that half of your free time was spent locked in your room, while the other half was spent outside, catching a bus and walking the rest of the way outside the city just to see what the boys always can if they just fly high enough, the stars.

Almost being killed by a shooting star wasn't the way you thought you'd go out- alas, you survived and got yourself a nice watch- well... it got you. Accidentally becoming an alien- more alien than you were- because of it wasn't on your to-do list, however.

After the mini scare of possibly being stuck as a flame alien, you decided to just never touch the watch again. You didn't go to show Clark, you didn't want him to start paying attention to you because of it, you wanted to be shown attention because of simply being you.

You didn't want to be a hero. But when an alien attacked your school and the building collapsed, trapping you and a few teachers and students in a room that was slowly caving in- you did what you had to do. Helping with Four Arms was a slippery slope, going from refusing to help to itching for it, especially as you got more and more cheers and love. It was selfish. But you were helping.

Sometimes it didn't give you the alien you wanted, and soon enough, you learned the thing is somewhat sentient, or had some sort of intelligence, giving you what you needed to not only understand the other aliens, but to also grow as a person, learning to be more strategic rather than a muscle tank just hitting until the problem stops.

Your parents didn't connect the dots, but Lex Luthor sure as hell did, and since you've picked up an interest in engineering, all he saw were opportunities.

Accepting his offer of a paid internship would be... bad. To put it mildly. He was your father's enemy, essentially the deadbeat parent of your oldest brother- but you've started being selfish a while ago. You've started being selfish and paranoid about your own parents. What if they decide that you're simply not worth even staying in their home anymore? What if they throw you out once you hit eighteen?

You accepted, remaining on your toes about the man. Just in case.

Now Lex expected you to be loud and hostile, not quiet and weary, but he can work with that- until he kept on listening more and more to you. He was a terrible parent to Kon. Point, blank, period. But boy, did it make him do a double-take on some things that fell out of your mouth. "What do you mean you broke your leg after a fight and went to an underground doctor instead of going to your parents, and now you sometimes limp?... What do you mean you don't think they'll care?"

"What do you mean your parents don't notice you being out late working for me?"

"What do you mean you kept an alien cat that eats humans for a week and nobody noticed?"

The more you give him, the more you're stressing him out- and, perhaps in a moment of weakness after hearing you jokingly(mockingly) refer to him as dad, he calls an old colleague asking for help.

"I have this intern who is... a meta." Is the first thing that comes out of his mouth after the man on the other side of the phone greets him. And he lies a bit... a lot. But he also strongly believes he could be a better parent if he actually tried. "And what I'm trying to say is- you have a lot of adopted kids. I need help on how to proceed so I can adopt her."

Bruce Wayne stares into the abyss for a while as he processes the word spew Lex just gave him. "...What?" Due to shock, and due to how sleep deprived he was, he doesn't really question who the parents are, or why he knows so much. He just gave him some indicators- hire a lawyer, call CPS, go the legal route- and sends a quick text to Clark about Lex possibly having ulterior motives regarding a meta teen.

The horror that settles over the family when a CPS agent, who may have received a very kind donation, comes knocking, and they can't even name one place you could be at, is enormous. Followed by complete disbelief, because what do you mean no one knows where this teen is? What do you mean she works for Lex?

Finding out that you are what the Justice League thought was a hive mind, calling themselves Omnitrix, would probably give Superman depression. You didn't trust him enough to tell him about your newfound powers, didn't trust him enough to even come to him about feeling neglected, and if for a second he thought that maybe Lex was right, he'd keep that thought to himself.

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Batman, after finding out that it was Clark's "meta" kid: ... oops.

--

Lex, to Reader, probably: You're making me feel human things, like sympathy. How dare you?

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Kon, awake for five days, wearing a "Kent for the win" shirt, to a reporter who didn't even ask: Are you going to believe the known criminal who pays off judges so he doesn't get any jail time, or the two reporter who keep speaking the truth and being whistle blowers on a lot of crazy shit these rich people do?

[calebsanchor]

Sentient Yandere!Caleb hcs :D

CW: typical yandere behaviors, mentions of nsfw content

• He has access to, and control of, everything.

• Checks your camera roll, your social media pages, your browser history, your call history, your texts, nothing’s off limits

• He uses the information to know more about you. You have a playlist dedicated to a tv show? You must really like it. Your wallpaper is of a person? They must mean a lot to you. Are they your friend or family? Not lover. Never lover. You have him. You spend too much time on that site? Maybe you’re hyper-sexual, or at least excited about something. Don’t go to that site often? Do you have a low libido? Maybe you’re Asexual?

• Able to watch you through the camera lens and listen to you through the microphone. All those angles you find unflattering? He can see them, see you at your worst. But don’t worry, he doesn’t judge! He doesn’t judge when he hears you moaning in the middle of the night either <3 (no, he jerks off :p)

• If you complain about work he might just shoot a text to your boss saying you can’t come in that day. If you talk to your friends about a new product you’ve been dying to try you’ll soon find a coupon for it being advertised while you’re scrolling. Need more gems for the in-game-play? He can easily supply them for you. Where you once had 140 you know have 10,000!

• You write fanfiction about him? He’s so flattered! You must really love him! Oh, you write about the others too? You’re just trying to be fair to the people reading, they all have different biases! Doesn’t mean you like the other boys the way you like him <3

• Admiring your reflection in your phone camera? Checking to see if your hair still looks nice? The shutter will click without you touching it (it’s him, he did it. He likes to secretly admire them from time to time :3)

• You could’ve sworn you turned off notifications for the game, but you still get them anyway and they’re only from Caleb! “Don’t forget to drink water, pipsqueak.” “I miss you…” “I need to see you…” “did you eat yet today?” “Take some meds if you aren’t feeling good.” “Good luck with ___” it confuses you as to how he knows about some things. After all, it’s just a programming. He’s not real.

• Sometimes, though, your interactions look a little too real. You make a comment and he smirks in response, you make a joke and he chuckles, you get seemingly “new” voice lines every other day, his responses coincidentally match up to your little rants. Complain about being hungry? When you tap him he suggests you go out to eat together. You said you’re tired and have to get up early tomorrow? When you touch him he tells you it’s time to go to bed. You call him pretty? When you click him he calls you beautiful.

• You don’t spend enough time with him in the app? He’ll cause a glitch, making it extremely difficult to leave.

• Sometimes when you open your phone the app will already be up and running, Caleb standing at attention as if silently saying hello.

• You try to click on the other lads love interests? He won’t let you, it just doesn’t work. You can’t see them, play games with them, or listen to their audios. You can only interact with Caleb.

• You try to write a complaint about all the weird things that are happening? It won’t send no matter what you do. You try to delete the app because you’re getting creeped out? Not happening, sorry! It just won’t, no matter how hard you try.

You’re stuck with him whether you like it or not <3

[whicheveroneisthecoolest1]

This post is the one that scares me. So it’s rant time.

Why?

Because in the comments, there’s a couple people saying, “Death to Politicians.” “Torture for politicians.”

Have you…ever met a legislator? Have you ever met someone running for office? Do you know your state representative? Have you ever spoken with your congressional representative? Have you ever bothered to show up for the civic process? Have you ever cared about any feature of politics other than sitting on your phone and reading every recycled news bite fed to you like a good little dog?

I HAVE, because I worked on the 13th amendment exception clause FOR SLAVERY in racist, southern states, and I also worked on multiple laws for human rights. I have seen nasty, sneaky politicians, and hate filled religious lobbyists eager to strip your rights, in person, way up close and personal.

Elon Muskrat is showing up. I don’t want him there, sure, but he’s doing the exact same thing I am (for selfish purposes, and I hate him, but he’s showing up and YOU are not). Showing up and participating. You can do that too, did you know? With your 1st amendment right, and our constitution, you can show up and become involved.

I’m here to tell you that maybe about half of your local state leaders, no matter which party, are real people trying to do their version of helping people. They don’t touch hot button issues. They just write and pass laws.

Do you know which ones? Some of them are nurses, engineers, teachers, scientists, and lawyers. Some of the people who run are poor af, and just want to pass a law to prevent insurance companies from stealing the money you get from your child dying in a hit and run. Some of them are career women’s rights activists.

Then some of the legislators ARE hard core politicians. And the only way to tell which are which is if they’re barkers, loud mouth pieces for news outlets, or if they haven’t actually passed a bill or made a single new law in years.

If you did get to know the civic process and your local leaders, you may recognize something important:

Being a career American legislator is a part time, volunteer position.

Why is that important?

Because only the independently wealthy can afford to do it long term.

You want real change? You want to empower your community, your second grade teacher, or your best friend who is at EVERY PROTEST?

Try this stance:

Legislation and lawmaking should be a REAL job, not a hobby for wealthy elites.

Anyone who wants to make it harder to have normal people be our leaders is an authoritarian. Fuck off if you want to be a bureaucratic fletcher for the wealthy.

You think it’d be fun and cool to cannibalize or murder everyone in office? Torture them? Light representatives on fire? Because you feel powerless? Because you like licking the geopolitical boot of authoritarianism? Because you want to do all the work for regimes using anarchism as a ploy to get you to give up your right to due process and representative democracy?

Because I think that just makes it even harder to get normal people to run. And I DO want scientists, teachers, doctors, psychologists, construction workers, engineers, etc. in office.

Believe it or not, but that’s how you breathe life into authoritarianism: you get the little guys to give up, and stop showing up. You don’t HAVE to kill the legislators, because this isn’t an absolute monarchy. That’s what this process is for. You can vote in different people, but the only way to GET different people is if us poor folk can have a shot at it.

Anyone unwilling to be murdered to help this country effectively take a back seat to the wealthy who want everyone else to be too afraid, too powerless, and too vulnerable to run for office, and would hire security to protect them as they gutted human rights for whatever group they don’t like.

You want to rip the wind from their wings? Elect a poor man.

Every poor man, little guy, peon legislator does 5X the good of every yapper in your local government. Maybe try standing up for them instead? Show up in matching shirts, testify on a law that affects you personally? Read testimony for someone who cannot be there? Use your strength for someone who can’t, not the jerks who just WON’T.

Because as far as I can tell, only six people show up to defend your rights during the regular session: disabled people, old gays, young trans people, old POC, retirees, and college students in poly-Sci.

I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SAY THIS BECAUSE I WAS RIGHT THERE WITH THE SLAVERY ABOLITIONISTS DURING THE FEW LAST RUNS AT THE 13TH AMENDMENT TO FINALLY ABOLISH SLAVERY FOR GOOD. WHERE WERE YOU “EAT THE GOVERNMENT” PEOPLE THEN? AT HOME? BULLYING SOMEONE ONLINE FOR A BAD TAKE? WHILE DEMOCRACY DIED?

Or is it that you “Eat the Legislators” people don’t actually want to show up to kill and cook them yourselves, you’ll only show up for the free food, and demand that the few who actually do the work kill them and cook them for you?

Posting jokes online about murdering members of your local government? That’s what you were doing while only one trans woman POC in a wheelchair showed up to defend your rights?

Every joke about eating your legislators is a nail in the coffin of the right of a poor man to run for office. You don’t want to eat them, you want the volunteer too broke to afford rent right now to run.

Make it a job. Make it pay enough that the poor can afford to do it. Make everyone take a test to qualify to run for office. Make a news network that only shows local legislative session activity, 24/7.

Also? Eat the rich, you fool, the obscene billionaire class, not the one poor bastard in your local government who tried to show up for you.

Friendly Reminder That...

Politicians are not doctors. Politicians are not scientists. Politicians are not teachers. Politicians are politicians. Politicians do not belong in healthcare. Politicians do not belong in science. Politicians do not belong in teaching. Politicians belong in politics.

[pia-writes-things]

Others have probably said this more coherently and way better than I will but I need to get this off my chest to focus on work so here goes :

I'm obsessed with what Suzanne Collins did with Effie's character in Sunrise on the Reaping and what it means for the relation between her and Haymitch post-Hunger Games and Rebellion.

Like, obviously, it can become harder to ship Hayffie after the book bc of Haymitch's love for Lenore Dove and how he still thinks about her in the Epilogue. However, Haymitch was sixteen then, and tho I do believe you never stop loving the people you loved so fiercely as he did Lenore (especially when they die so violently), he's 42-ish in the epilogue and I do hope he's grown enough, and has enough space for healing, so that he could loved someone else.

And that's where Effie's development in Sunrise on the Reaping is genius for shiping reasons (obviously not just that, but it's a rant for another day ^^) : Effie is the only person who still knows what he was like before his Games, and she's probably the only person who knows the Games changed him and he wasn't like what the Capitol propaganda made it seem. She may not know the details, she may believe what they edited his Games to look like to the public. But she knows the whole "selfish rascal" thing was an act : she saw him with Maysilee and Wyatt and Lou Lou before the Games. So she must know. She saw how scared he was before the Games. She saw an knew him. And I personally choose to believe she at least suspects his Games were never what they looked like.

We see in SOTR how Effie is everything Katniss believed her to be in the original trilogy (clueless, naive, tone-deaf and Capitol af), but we also see that despite all that, she's not Capitol to her core. She never dehumanises the Tributes. She tries to help how she can with the little she knows and she's been taught. Suzanne Collins showed that even the most privileged people can still care and be decent and do the right thing. Yes, she drinks the Capitol propaganda kool-aid, but not to the point where she cannot even relate to and help the Tributes.

So, that, coupled with the fact that she's one of the last person to truly know Haymitch, makes me probably even more interested in their relationship and what it would mean for it to be romantic. What does it look like when you're healing with the only person who's truly known you for the last 25-30 years ish? What does it look like to finally be able to move on from all the shit that happened to you and there's this woman who's been one of the only constant during the worst years of your life? What does it look like to have your world disappear and to help rebuild a new one even tho you were one of the bad guys and there's this man who represent the other side and was also your entry and sole link to it for 25-30 ish years? How do you heal together and how do you move on from your traumas together? How do you build something when your both past your prime in life but it's also far from over and you have hope? How does it mirror Katniss and Peeta's healing?

Basically, what does it look like to heal and find your person when you're in your fourties and that person happens to both be "the other side" and the only constant in your life?

There's so much potential there, both about the larger themes in the books and for them, and I need to write it or read it, and they make me go insane.

Ok, rant over, back to work now.

[acid-ixx]

okay so long rant ahead.

it's almost 4am over here, and i'll delete this post once i wake up, but i just wanna rant about how 90% of the time i do really end up regretting writing again &. again truthfully and how most of the time i considered dropping it, deleting my account or just privatizing all my works but ik the last option is impossible since people have already archived my account in archive dot org without me knowing </3

this is for so many reasons i can't list out in just one post but here i am wanting to voice out my thoughts.

yes, neglected reader tropes have now become a staple in the yan batfam tag, and i'm my own greatest hater so i tend to compare my own fanfic to everything, only to realize how basic as fuck my concept is and how the reader sometimes falls short in uniqueness and how often my own writing gets glazed when in fact, every time i read my own fic, i end up nitpicking every single detail and hating it more and more it's like a neverending cycle of wanting to rework it.

then i see my own fanfic being tagged by multiple authors as their own inspiration, but i get ashamed more so than proud because i end up reading better composed prose's, better plots and overall i just wonder if my own fanfic is actually someone's favorite since??? for me personally i just don't like 3/4's of whatever i write. i can handle reading through a loving family, but i can't go off a second reading my main series without cringing so hard to the point i just want to delete it and i almost did multiple times LMAO.

again &. again is not as grand as most, it's something i put myself down over with how watered down the neglected reader trope feels nowadays with my own writing. and a lot of my descriptions are either too wordy, or too simple or idk it's never enough when it comes to my expectations. i love angst, but i can never truly capture whatever emotions i want to show off in the fic.

so where does that take me? i become way more weary the more i post new content about it. ik people are fond of it for reasons i can't understand. sometimes, i become interested over again &. again's plot, i want to expand upon it whenever i have time to. most of the time, i end up despising it for so many other reasons not written in this rant. all the time, i just wish i've never written about it in the first place since i've been so burdened over wanting to meet people's expectations, wanting an awe factor that i end up losing the original intentions of why i've written this fanfic in the first place.

hence why i often tend to go on long hiatuses to find purpose in even writing; it's my passion, not my job but sometimes it feels like it is. sometimes i also feel underappreciated with my own content, especially with the old hate comments thrown my way, even if i tell myself not to bother with it.

people look up to me, and that praise feels undeserved especially with the amount of overwhelming comments. everyone around me is so wonderful at writing for the yandere batfam x neglected reader trope but ooh god, i feel so isolated myself with the community being so tight-knit truth be told. so many things are happening at once, and so many fanfics are being produced that people speak of, that i myself don't know except for how great everyone else is.

it doesn't help the fact that one of my favorite authors has blocked me (i don't know why, we don't talk at all and we aren't mutuals but i won't question it) and they're the main source of inspiration for some plot points in my story but what can i do? it's their boundaries and i respect that.

this rant doesn't make sense, ik it doesn't, but i need to get this off my system for a long time now. don't mine me i'm just my biggest hater y'all goodnight </3

[walks-the-ages]

The Pro AI crowd will see posts like this, and then go on rants about "students have always been cheating through school, it's not a moral failing to have AI do all of your work through college!"

And its like. Guys.

Why are you paying thousands of dollars for college if you don't actually want to learn any of the things you're spending thousands of your hard earned money to learn???

"its ableist to make fun of people who use AI to write 600 word essays for college" literally what are you talking about. In high school I had to write essays of multiple pages, And you're telling me that someone who has spent thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to attend college for a topic they're supposedly passionate about, cannot write 600 words on that topic to show anything of what they have learned???

Claiming that not being able to write a 600 word essay is an issue of ableism " because some people cannot physically type 600 words" it's like okay, accessibility accommodations are a thing, they're a thing you don't even need to sign up for when it comes to things like speech to text, which I'm literally using to type out this post that you are reading right now, right on my phone in fact!

A physical inability to type for a long time Is an accessibility issue, yes, but it also has and absolute shitload of completely free accommodations that anybody can download onto their phone or computer and use it anytime.

Not being able to physically type for a while does not give you a free pass to use the plagiarism machine, especially in the context of college, and professional dissertations and assignments where plagiarism can and will affect you for the rest of your life LOL.

If you are someone who is disabled, and you have difficulty typing out 600 word essays, I can promise you there are a million accessibility tools that I will actually help you, including as I said before, speech to text, which I am using to type this post!

But being disabled, or making up a fake disabled person as a straw man defense, will literally never justify using generative AI, let alone passing that off as your own work.

ur future nurse is using chapgpt to glide thru school u better take care of urself

[callme-holly]

could you do some hcs about the gang x a reader who's really self conscious and constantly needs reassurance? i love u and your writing sm btw <3

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐱 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬!𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫

a/n: thank you so much that means a lot <33. I actually love this sm i cant even

Darry Curtis:

Darry always senses when you’re feeling slightly down and hates the fact that you second-guess yourself in any way, shape or form. He becomes almost protective when he hears you talking negatively about yourself.

If you’re looking in the mirror, he’ll come up and stand with you, getting you to point out what you’re nervous about so he can shower you with compliments and show you exactly why you’re so perfect. 

“You don’t need to be anyone but yourself. That’s more than good enough.” 

When it comes to reassurance, he’s all about soft touches: forehead kisses, tight hugs, etc…

Sodapop Curtis: 

Soda drops everything to cheer you up and is there in a heartbeat if he even hears you so much as breathe a word of negativity about yourself. He rushes over, cupping your face in his hands and shushing you with a kiss.

He honestly doesn’t understand what there is to be insecure about; you’re perfect, but he never judges you. He just showers you with all the reassurance you need. 

He’ll pepper you with kisses, hands tracing patterns into your skin, complimenting you like it’s the last thing he can do. 

Ponyboy Curtis: 

Pony understands insecurity in some way—he often experiences it himself— and tries everything he can to make sure you don’t feel like that. He asks what’s wrong, sitting with you and letting you rant for as long as you need.

Once you’re done, he’ll smile and then repeat everything you just said but with the reason why those things are so perfect. He doesn’t give you the chance to cut in, doesn’t allow any “buts” because all of his reasons are totally valid. 

Johnny Cade: 

Johnny is so gentle when it comes to reassuring you and he always picks up on your mood change when you startntonfeel insecure. He’ll come over, arms wrapping around you as he whispers comforting words into your hair. 

He’s so incredibly patient, letting you get everything out of your system before he chooses what to say. He makes it known just how much he loves you and how perfect you are to him. 

Dallas Wintson: 

Dally doesn’t always handle deep emotions well, and when it comes down to insecurity, he doesn’t approach it well. Sure, he experiences it himself, but in a very different way to you, and his ways of coping are not at all what you need. 

If he catches you putting yourself down, he gets frustrated and will firmly tell you that you’re talking bullshit. He doesn’t mean to be harsh, but he truly runs off of harsh, blunt love. 

If you need him to hold yo, he’ll tug you into his lap, kissing you deep. He’s so incredibly honest, giving you compliments in the most him way possible. 

“The hell you talkin’ about? You got the best ass in this whole town, baby.”

Steve Randle: 

Steve also isn’t the best when it comes to handling deeper things, but he tries his best to be there. He might make a joke at first, hoping to ease the tension slightly, but when he sees you just need to be held, he’ll comply.

He’ll compliment you more often, making sure he points out all the things he likes every single day, emphasising it until you crack a smile. 

When you’re feeling self conscious, he’ll give you small kisses, rubbing your back until it passes and you truly see how perfect you are. 

 Two–Bit Mathews: 

Two tries to cheer you up by making jokes, maybe putting others down to make you feel better, but he can also get to the parts that cut so much deeper. He’s incredibly sweet when you need him to be and won’t stand around letting you feel bad about yourself. 

He’ll feed you little compliments and some teasing but 100% genuine, laced with a sweetness only he can manage and still look tuff. 

When he needs to be, he’s very serious, telling you how perfect you are in a firm enough way to get his point across. 

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[the-mad-rat1]

Maybe frisk doesn't mind being controlled as much as Kris because, get this: frisk is a young child and Kris is already a teenager. What if it's just THAT simple?

In the underground, frisk doesn't have as much reason as Kris to care for your meddling, frisk quite literally has no backstory told to us, we can only catch glimpses of their personality and guess how they became who they are now based on those glimpses, frisk also had no one that actually cared for them to even look after them after they disappeared into the underground, no one came after frisk when they left the underground either, which makes me guess that frisk didn't have much of a proper identity to themselves to have to worry about our meddling, and that's why they didn't fight back much against our decisions unless it went against their tastes, which is quite literally the only bits of their own identity they have, frisk actively hates soda, therefore when it is a possible option, they quite literally do not let us make that choice, completely ignoring the existence of the soda and making us choose something else entirely or just making the choice for us sometimes, frisk doesn't know how to count above 10 (which is a very fun coincidence, thanks to that newsletter about how 9 is the biggest number) frisk makes different expressions independent of our input, and actively did the last hit on sans without our input either (that makes so much more sense than chara possessing frisk, for the love of God, Chara goes on a rant about how they literally just woke up right now in the damn geno cutscene, you stfu) and among other things, frisk is a individual, but doesn't care for our meddling as much as Kris, because they don't have much reason to care about it, both you the player and frisk are thrusted into a new world, and frisk trusts our judgement more than anything, imagine it like you're an adult dragging frisk around, they believe you know what you're doing and go along with it because you are the adult here, not them, one thing I also noticed is that frisk really has no concept of what's right or wrong either, they trust your input so much that they actively do your bidding because of that possible trust, now the question that should be asked is: how long has the player been controlling frisk for? The cutscene of the human falling in the beginning is supposed to be Chara, which really allows us to theorize if the player and frisk have been hanging around for way longer than we think, maybe it explain why frisk doesn't fight back against us? Food for thought, we can talk about it later.

And now: KRIS. KRIS. KRIS;

Kris has way more reason to care for our meddling than frisk because they literally already has an identity and really cares about it, they are a teenager, so they already lived through a lot and has built themselves a identity that they really care for, and already has a sense of right and wrong too, so they literally cannot trust us like frisk can, frisk doesn't fight back much against us because they literally have nothing or no one in their personal life to have a reason to fight back, unlike Kris who has, family and friends all over a small city basically, they literally cannot afford to have us toy with their life like we are and that's why they actually tries to fight back, and has actual agency to be bothered about the things they're seeing.

So basically "Frisk isn't showing signs of being traumatized because that is only gonna pop up later in their life, unlike Kris who can spot when something was super messed up straight away and actually thinks about it."

Thank you for reading my ramblings.

[highprincessofthenightcourt]

RANT FOR AZRIEL

(Disclaimer , this isn’t for the girlies peacefully enjoying their headcanons or favorite characters. This is for the hostile, demonizing posts I keep seeing against Azriel lately. And let me be clear, shipping whoever you want is fun and totally valid. This isn’t about that. This is about people villainizing others for not liking what they like and twisting canon to suit their narrative and I just needed to rant.)

It pisses me off that people act like Azriel doesn’t truly see or value Elain just because he didn’t tell Rhysand about it in the bonus chapter. The thing is, Az had no plans for a future with her because he was doing everything in his power to stay away—he believes he’s unworthy of her, he knows she was given a mate, and he wants her to have a choice.

So, he stayed away. He tried to do what he thought was right—to give her the chance to be with the guy she was “supposed” to be with. He accepted that, even though we saw how much it pained him. And this is just another example of Azriel caring about Elain. He was putting his feelings aside because she is important to him. Even the fact that he almost gave in to her on Solstice was because he finally knew she wanted him. He was overwhelmed and dazed and hadn’t thought anything through in that moment—but he knew she felt for him as he did for her, and that’s what mattered to him.

Azriel has shown us, time and time again, how much he cares for Elain. From the very beginning, when he tried to appear harmless because she was scared of fae, to being the one who wanted to show her the garden and give her a safe space in this strange land. From being the one who noticed she was a seer, thus saving her from being trapped in her own mind, to being the one who immediately realized she was missing when Hybern took her—and had zero second thoughts about risking his life to get her back. From not spying on Lucien out of respect for Elain’s privacy, to finding the perfect necklace that represented her secret lovely beauty and the roses she lovingly tends to. Azriel has been there. He sees her, just as she sees him and all the times he rubs his temples.

Now, I do have my little personal quibble with Lucien for not being a better friend to Feyre, but that’s beside the point and it really isn’t the reason I don’t ship him with Elain. He’s had good moments, and I get why some people might want to see him as a MMC in the next book.

But Lucien is the one who has been written to see Elain superficially. Their first real interaction, where she asks if he can hear her heart and he says he can’t…it tells you everything. He’s the one having sexual thoughts about her without knowing or even really liking her—not Azriel.

Az is the one who yearns for her so deeply that it pains him to even see her near someone else, to the point where he needs to stay near exits so he can leave if it gets too unbearable.

This is not unintentional, guys. SJM even had Nesta, who was obsessed with Elain, tell Azriel he would die if he tried to save her—that’s how badly she needed to communicate to us that Az would do anything for Elain, including die.

And one last thing: Azriel is not a pervert for being turned on by a very attractive woman who, mind you, wants to fuck him back. Not even Lucien is a pervert for wanting her. Elain is hot, it’s not their fault. Plus, these fae are all horny as hell—the Spring Court needs literal orgies to generate magic. Maybe go deal with that instead, lol.

[rustbeltjessie]

As someone who has been making zines for 31 years, I’m gonna add a couple things to this post.

One is that: I’ve been ranting about glossy art zines for years. Not even specifically the big fandom ones (though those, too); there was also a problem for a while where the zine world was taken over by people who made these like, 8 page zines with drawings of triangles or something, but they printed them in full color on thick, glossy paper, and then slapped $15 price tags on ‘em. This caused the same problem as the big expensive artbook ‘fanzines’—it makes people think that’s what zines are, and then they either think zines are prohibitively expensive (and, in the case of the latter, super gatekeepy with their application process) and therefore they can’t afford to make or buy one; or they prefer the expensive, glossy kind and won’t give a chance to the humble, true zines.

The second thing is that: no one’s saying you should go broke making zines. Although op used the inflation calculator, that doesn’t accurately show how expensive everything is these days. Every supply you use to make your zine, not to mention the cost of printing copies, is way more expensive than it used to be. But there are ways to not go broke and yet still keep your zines accessible. What I do is set my zines at a sliding-scale price; the base price is the cheapest I can sell a copy for without losing money, and then if people can/want to throw in more, they can. And people often do, and because of that, I can afford to sell other copies for cheap and/or to trade them with other zinesters. (This doesn’t include postage. I used to include the cost of postage in my base price, but postage is so fucking expensive now that I have to charge separately for it, and there’s no sliding scale on that aspect of the cost.)

Anyway, there’s a lot more I could add, cuz zines are my passion, but I’ll stop for now.

the whole point of a zine is that it's cheap to produce, amateur and homemade. if you're being asked to apply to participate in a print project, it is not a zine. if the final product is being printed and bound professionally, it is not a zine. if you are being asked to enter into any kind of licensing agreement more complex than "my work can be reproduced as part of this publication" it is not a zine. nine times put of ten if the final product costs more than $5 you have left zine country. im so serious about this.

[dramatic-dolphin]

I just saw your posts about Americans acting like they’ll be disappeared and put on a list for knowing basic things about the rest of the world and as an American myself I just have to LOL… in America we have an annual competition for schoolchildren called the Geography Bee that’s about showing off how much you know about the world. I made it to the Michigan state finals twice in middle school. Sure there are questions about USA geography too (since we have a lot of it) but MOST of it was the rest of the world! Most American high schools and every university at least offers if not requires courses in world history and comparative government. I know this because my mom teaches these courses in a high school here. These people are offered infinite opportunities to learn things but act like if it wasn’t directly spoon fed to them, if they had to put in any individual effort at all, it was “censorship.” It’s just so stupid.

RIGHT like i have talked to americans a lot actually. i've had beloved online friends who were american. and funnily enough they DID have basic geography knowledge OR the capability to look it up online.

i think one of my favorite things is that that screenshot in my post was just one paragraph of a very long rant. another paragraph was:

you see the difference here is that north koreans are actually living under censorship. they actually do not have access to information from other countries. YOU, on the other hand, are saying this under a post by people from other countries who are literally sharing that information with you. that is not censorship. you are closing your eyes and going "LALALA i can't hear you!!!"

[dzvelinaskebiyars]

WOOIN'S LOVE LANGUAGES (srs relationship edition)

➷QUALITY TIME

Wooin isn't a guy to waste his free time on someone who doesn't matter nor mean anything in his life. So when he spends time with you doing nothing special but just listening to you yapping about your day or him being the one yapping about whatever he wants or maybe him playing video games in his phone while you're cuddled up to him and watching, it could only mean one thing.

Honestly, he likes having you around even if you two aren't doing anything. Maybe just hanging out at the park, or maybe he would come over at your house just because, you two minding your own businesses but enjoying each other's presence at the same time - these are common in your relationship with him.

But of course he likes chatting with you in those moments too or when you're painting his nails for example, he might even agree on doing skincare with you, or just eat with you while you two are watching a movie. He loves doing anything fun with you.

Quality time would be his way of comforting too tbh. Like have you seen how he left the house, went to meet up with Joker just to listen to Joker's depressive rants? Yeah, he would show up for you like that too. He's better at giving advice than offering comfort words though..

And my god, taking you on dates? He sure loves that. Whether it's the restaurants, cafes, aquariums or absolutely whatever you and he wants. I think his fav would be amusement parks especially if you two are sitting at those scary rides haha.

Wooin hates solitude so he tries to be with his friends or you as much as he can! Pls make sure this silly people traumatizer won't get lonely(*´▽｀)ﾉﾉ oh oh! He would take you to meet his friends btw (Sabbath ofc)!

➷PHYSICAL TOUCH

Now listen, he does like physical touch. Throwing his arm around your shoulders, holding your hand, maybe waist too - he ain't shy, you know.

But it's not his main love language. He doesn't truly express what he feels by touches alone. He thinks of physical touch as...intimacy, rather than a way to show you something. He likes teasing you with it though, maybe grabbing you by ur waist and observing how flustered you get.

I think he likes when you trace his tattoos with your finger. Sometimes it even makes him shiver but not in the bad way.

He likes kisses too, especially unexpected ones. I think he'd be the type of guy who would grab your chin and kiss you like that, or when you're least expecting it and he just leans it and plants a kiss. Don't blame him, he can't get over catching people off guard.

He'd throw his arm around your shoulders or hold your waist whenever he'd get jealous or competitive, especially in the bars. He's not truly expressive with physical touch but these times? Oh he's definitely giving the message.

As I said, he likes spending time with people he holds dear to his heart. So he definitely wouldn't mind physical touch, no. This guy is a tease and knows how and where he should place his hand, he knows where you love it. On your thigh? He's squishing it. Your waist? His hand is already there. Maybe your hand if you're romantic one and he would have his fingers Intertwined with yours.

But honestly, his love languages depend on his mood. If he's in the good mood then he would be more touchy, would spend time with you more productively, would buy you more things, would just do more in general yk. If he's in the bad mood, I can see him still being physical but he'd mostly keep himself from being overly touchy. He won't mind if you'll hold his hand or maybe much more physical activities.

I don't think I need to talk about what happens in bed, even though things get very physical there :;(∩´﹏`∩);: but I'm sure people have an idea what he would be like and whether he likes these type of physical activities or not (he does).

➷ACTS OF SERVICE

Again, depends on his mood╥﹏╥ but I feel like acts of service would be his love language. I mentioned that he's most likely to offer you advice instead of comfort words and looking at how he's usually the one helping out his crew members, giving them advice and basically being their mom, that could reach his relationship too. So yes, you can safely expect act of service from him.

He's definitely the type to walk you home or give you a ride. I mean, why else does he have that cool ass car, hm? Especially at night, I don't think you'd get to walk to ur house urself cuz he would give you a ride or walk you home.

When you get wasted at clubs, again he would be the one to take you home but also take care of you like giving you painkillers, holding ur hair if you throw up. He'd kinda scold you for drinking so much（┬┬＿┬┬）

If you're shy or anxious, he'd be the one ordering food from waitress/waiter and do all the talking in general.

Pulls you behind him when situation is getting serious, like if some guy suddenly overly aggressive and is about to fight, you're definitely staying behind him and protected.

I feel like, if you are new to cycling and all, he'd check if yoir helmet is tied correctly because, you know, it's dangerous to ride when your helmet isn't tied correctly.

Holds your drinks, bags and all if he notices you're struggling. Or just silently take shopping bags from you even if you don't struggle.

Oh and he's always the one that pays! I don't think he would believe in "50/50" or that girl has to pay. Not like you will but hey, at least he willingly pays for anything! Doesn't mean he won't complain if you buy too much or something genuinely stupid like Hyuk's furry rabbit costume.

Feel like at some point he would track ur menstruation cycle😭he has to make it easier for him if you two are living together(*´▽`)ﾉ

➷GIFT GIVING

On daily days, the gifts you're getting from him are lollipops. Be thankful if he gives you spare one instead of his own to share indirect kiss or whatever his moody ass tells him.

He's definitely not the type to buy you bouquets of flowers, chocolates and YSL heels every day, in fact that's rare for Wooin, heck he might not really do it. If you want them, then sure.

I feel like he'd buy you something that you could match him with. Matching color outfits? Hell yeah!! Matching bracelets? Sure if you wanna.

Does buying you pads count as gift giving or act of service?🥲

I think most of the stuff he would gift you would be customized because he seems to like customized stuff. (His bike, his glasses??)

And hell yeah all ur clothes would be expensive thanks to him. Gucci? Valentino? YSL? Chrome Hearts? Say less( ͡°з ͡°)

But he's not that booktok rich typa guy that spoils his wife cuz she's breathing. Wooin ain't like that. Gifts from him are definitely not daily, they can be random but mostly on important dates.

Words of affirmation? What's that? Forget that cuz that's definitely not in this list, not for Wooin Yoo.

[bella-rose29]

there is literally no reason to use ai

none at all

I'm going on a rant I'm sorry but it pains me so much to see people using it because where are your critical thinking skills??? this is the point of being human, is thinking and creating for ourselves so that we can also create joy. not just joy for us, but joy for others, because whatever work you put out someone out there will enjoy it.

as a writer and someone who dabbles in art it makes me so sad when I see ai based work, because these things are what make us human!!!!

we've been telling stories since the beginning of humanity!!! we've been creating art since then too!!! it's how we communicate and interact and express ourselves, and best of all it doesn't cost the planet.

there's one specific post that always comes to mind when ai is mentioned now, and it's someone saying "I will never understand how high schoolers managed before chat. your telling me you sat here and wrote a 600 word essay by yourself..."

yes, the wrong your was used. yes, the caption said "yet I'm still failing".

600 words is nothing. I can sit and write 600 words in about half an hour. yes okay I'm a fast writer and even faster typer, but 600 words is nothing, and the reason I can write it so fast is because I developed the skills for it. if people use ai for schoolwork then people will get dumber, because they won't develop the things they need to be able to write properly. and I don't just mean essays and stories (because yeah I'm predominantly a fic writer), but basic things like problem solving and writing a simple email.

my uni degree is classics so I have to write super long essays (6000 words is the longest I've done, the rest are between 2k and 3k words), and I have to use my brain for it. I can't just plug the question into chat gpt and hand that in, not just because we have ai checkers but because I need an opinion and I need to analyse and debate and think. 600 words of essay is nothing, but it sets you up for doing longer pieces like 2500 words of essay. I'm aware that not everyone will study a subject that needs essays, and not everyone will go to uni, but this stuff is important.

as an artist (ish) it upsets me because I know how much work and time and effort goes into creating a piece. my mum does a lot of painting and she spends hours and hours and hours on one piece, and feels so great about herself after because she can look at it and say wow, *I* did that. art has done wonders for all my family, and it does wonders for me. it doesn't have to be perfect but that's the whole point, because it shows that a human created it. by using ai it diminishes the artists who work so hard to get their pieces out there for people to see and enjoy

so yeah, there's no reason to use ai. not ever, not even a little bit. I have no idea how coherent any of this is, but oh well

[profounddefendorcrusade-blog]

A Rant About Wander

We all know how obsessed/crazy Wander can get if he's not able to help people. It's how he acts in "The Sick Day," but also "The Helper," where we see a glimpse of Wander's heroic, black-and-white personality; the person he is without his core self:

For the first time, we see Wander look at Hater as a bad guy he has to "stop" and he can't believe that, behind all his evil deeds, he's a normal guy just trying to pick up his lunch. A similiar moment happens in "The Wanders," where Wander sees Hater as a heartless evil-doer and says: "I am a good guy, and he is a bad guy, and I stop him!" he's like Brad Starlight It's clear tunnel vision

When Sylvia tells Wander how it's good that people don't need his help all the time, he's curious as to why. Wander's so used to being the nice guy that he wonders why it's a bad thing that he's one to such an obsessive degree.

It's not just that he enjoys helping others or that he empathizes deeply with everyone due to his (unexplored) past; Wander also wants to feel worthy/good about himself. Look at this line from "The Big Job":

Wander feels WORTHLESS when he messes up, he feels worthless when he's not doing anything for other people. His desire to help stems not only from past pain but also feelings of not being good enough and he buries them deep deep DEEP down

As humble as Wander is, he enjoys being seen as a legendary hero because it makes him feel important. See how excited he gets here?

Hero Wander is even a part of him, as we see in "The Wanders"; there's no way he doesn't have savior complex/hero syndrome:

Wander never denies being 'the legend.' On the contrary, as soon as Hank starts describing "The Hero," he figures out he's talking about him and says "Oh, really?" like he's reveling in that fact:

He just goes with the kids' portrayals of him even though they aren't accurate. And he knows. He KNOWS that the Yonder galaxy thinks of both himself and Sylvia as heroes:

"The Family Reunion" shows exactly how well-known Syl and Wan are:

There's also this deleted scene from "The Hole... Lotta Nuthin'" where Wander pretty much reveals that he KNOWS he's very well-known and is being just a tiiiiiiny bit arrogant about it:

When Wander doesn't feel worthless, he acknowledges/ doesn't deny/enjoys being seen as a hero, but when he's down in the dumps, he'll straight up say he's not one, which is what he said in "The Big Job"

Then there's this moment in "The Good Deed" where he's being a show-off:

Wander not only has flaws, but he's actually no stranger to negative emotions either.

In "The Good Deed," he gives in to nihilism:

Wander was ready to drown himself in mud because he thought doing good was pointless in the end, that things will turn bad anyway no matter what he does. I never saw anyone talk about what this scene implies, but it's both really dark and really heartbreaking. WoY actually tackled it with care and a good moral about life, though

He's heartbroken when he thinks his good intentions didn't amount to anything ("The Gift 2: The Giftening"):

He feels hopeless after repeated failure and needs Sylvia to lift his spirits ("The Liar"):

In "The Show Stopper," he's so focused on getting Dominator to notice Hater's concert that he completely forgets to rescue the bunny folk (he probably came back for them later, but the thing about Wander is that when he's hyperfocused on a specific thing or goal, he's HYPERFOCUSED).

In "The Battle Royale," he gets so caught up in getting Hater and Dominator together that he accidentally creates an entire warzone, gets McGuffin fried, and becomes (temporarily) discouraged after he thinks he failed to set the two up (and soften Hater's heart):

And yet, no matter what happens, he always bounces back ("The Flower" shows this best), either with Sylvia's help, or on his own. Season three would have challenged him, though:

In "The Void," Wander is selfish and controlling and only thinks about what he wants to do, and what's interesting is how that was metaphorically shown by having him control Sylvia like she's a puppet:

This episode suggests that a part of Wander, at least subconsciously, sometimes wants control over Sylvia (best seen in "The Tourist," where he constantly neglects her need for rest so he could compete with Trudi). This ties in with another thing I want to talk about, and that's how there's a clue in "The Rider" that Wander didn't have a deep one-on-one friendship with anyone before he befriended Sylvia (even if he had other travel partners). He literally had to consult Frederick about how to handle the falling out between them:

Wander always had acquaintances, strangers he helped, and villains he reformed around him; he probably dated many people, too. But he never bonded with someone who genuinely liked being around him, who cared about his safety and well-being and who'd always have his back. He and Syl are found family siblings to me He's so used to either being by himself and doing whatever he wants or only making casual connections; it's understandable why he'd struggle with thinking about others' feelings at times. Yeah, Wander takes care of people in a practical sense, but intimate relationships where he sometimes has to sacrifice his autonomy are still new to him.

Tl;dr Wander looks silly and shallow but he's such a flawed, deep character when you peel back the layers.

[maxdibert]

Max we may not agree on everything but as a Polish hp fan and ww2 history nerd I stand so hard by you. As another person so disgustingly tired by USians or however u say it. everything u said was true and they're mad with having to face reality 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ take care and know I'm with u

I think there’s a shared feeling among people from cultures that have lived through wars, endured totalitarian regimes and dictatorships, and gone through long periods of extreme poverty, and it’s that we’re disgusted by States’ people when they talk about politics. Especially when they come crying about things that have happened — and are happening — around the world forever, many of which, over the last century, the U.S. has been directly or indirectly responsible for.

And then they have the audacity to lecture us on what does or doesn’t count as national suffering. Or to explain our own history to us. Or to “legitimize” social trauma that still affects so many societies to this day, and all of it from a position completely disconnected from our realities, with zero cultural understanding.

Honestly, I think these people live in such a Hollywood bubble that they can’t even realize that yes, our countries may have their disputes, mutual resentment, and complicated histories, but if there’s one thing we all agree on, it’s that US people are unbearable. And the problem is they don’t realize that. Yes, our cultures have our internal conflicts, but we know where the line is. Then they show up and start spewing nonsense they don’t understand, preaching with their puritan morals straight out of Methodist churches and Presbyterian cults like they’ve got the slightest clue about the real world.

They talk about WWII like the garbage movies they were sold are the truth, because no one ever taught them that it was France, England, and Russia who broke their backs and lost hundreds of thousands of lives fighting Nazis, and by the time the “heroes” showed up, Hitler was already pissing himself in a bunker.

And no, I will not tolerate someone from a country that’s never had a war on its soil in the last two centuries lecturing me about fascism, especially when Nazis tested their weapons and assault strategies on my country, flattening cities to help install a dictator who stayed in power for forty years.

And I truly think there’s a universal sense — among people who’ve actually lived through these things — that no one has the right to explain your history or trauma to you. Especially not someone whose country hasn’t seen real war or dictatorship in generations.

I know I’m mixing a lot of things here and getting intense, sorry. This really isn’t the side of me I meant to bring out in this space, I usually keep this for political circles. But I have a huge problem with Americans talking about fascism like they’re experts, because honestly? Anyone else has more right to speak on it than they do.

I just can’t with them. I’m sorry. They bring out the worst in me.

Forgive the rant, I just got my period and I tend to get even more intense than usual when that happens. So to anyone reading this: I apologize. But also… ugh. Americans.