#but im not gonna engage sorry

[wavetapper]

rb this and tag your favourite soundtracks! they can be anything like games or movies or shows or whatever i wanna know what the best ones are 👀

[the-kipsabian]

saw a take so fucking rancid on twitter i almost deleted the entire app from my phone jesus fucking christ

first of all ao3 is an archive site. this is like going to the library and saying "oh i dont like this" on every piece of media you find that you dislike and thinking they should be stamped with some sort of a marker just cause you didnt like it

you can always click back and leave. fic writers owe you nothing to explain themselves and their creations. if they have mistagged or miscategorized fics, then i understand, however there are report tools for that instead of yelling at the artist tbh

im not saying free works arent necessarily above criticism. but this is just. fucking wild. its common courtesy to just enjoy stuff (or fucking leave if you dont, the back button is free) and if the artist specifically asks for critiques, then give one - constructive that is, shitting all over someones work is not proper criticism, mind you

i just find it fucking wild people are treating art and archive sites as social media these days like this and everything needs to be policed and ~catered to the algorithm~ like. no. ao3 doesnt have an algorithm. you should be able to fucking tell what you like and what you dont like and steer away from that kind of content and let people fucking be with their art. they dont owe you anything (except trigger warnings i'd argue, but i know some people disagree with that as well for some reason), and imagine how much more energy you'd have if you only engaged with things you liked and spent time looking at instead of going to places where you dont enjoy yourself. let alone spending time telling other people you dont enjoy what they enjoy. what a fucking life

[alyimoss]

i cant fall asleep so you get a thought

ive always been bothered by dream's belt in his design. it has the letters "ds" engraved on it, standing for dream sans. and this has always kinda pissed me off because he is a sans by pure technicality.

he has the body of a sans, but he is someone entirely different, sharing basically nothing with a sans except appearance. hes still a sans in the context of like- the fact that hes an au character, sure, but, again, he is an entirely different character wearing the proverbial skin of sans undertale.

so, more to the point: it makes no fucking sense to me that the name "dream sans" would be used for him in his canon.

hes not a sans. he never was a sans. he never bore that name. so why the actual fuck is it on his belt. who is calling him that.

and i think the answer might be as simple as mirroring nightmare—since his name is a two syllable word, it can be pretty easily broken into a pair of initials. the same cant be done for dream. so he gets a second word, and now hes dream sans. ds.

jokus decisions with those two never fail to baffle me.

anyway if we wanna give him a two syllable name we should call him "daydream". put "dd" on the belt.

or say fuck it and draw a little sun.

god the "ds" pisses me off. makes no god damn sense.

ok good night everyone that will be all

[massiveladycat]

[ink-the-artist]

why even engage with a terf, even jokingly, sarcastically, or to dunk on them? its just giving them a reaction and attention, thats all they want. i would say to block and report but reporting wont do shit, but still, why not just block and move on?

cuz its funny

[pinayelf]

honestly outside being like "ep/ler was icky abt his own unexamined racial bias abt how he talked about ass/an and dav/rin" I dont care to read that AMA or engage in whatever about it

idk maybe I'm just jaded towards bio/ware writers and I fully well know they're gonna say/not say things that are Dumb and Infuriating like they have since the dawn of time for this series, but I'm not gonna make myself upset by looking at it

so yeah davrin beloved deserves way better and ep/ler (and the rest of the writing team) need to get their shit together and hire poc (black writers specifically for black characters and that applies to other poc in the same vein) but I'm over it ✋🏽

I love the games for what it is leave me alone. everyone is free to let their grievances out, but personally for me, I knew not to even peek at that ama and I'm just gonna ignore it and other lore stuff. whatever man

[moeblob]

I think the in battle verbal support when an ally breaks an enemy is cute and then you get Temenos just sounding so sarcastic about it to Throne and I would have it no other way!

[butmakeitgayblog]

I would like to run over Lexa, resurrect her, kiss her better and run over her again.

She loved (loves) you for fuck sake, she told you that and you broke up with her?!

Listen.

I know she had reasons, and I know Clarke is not entirely innocent here (even though until now she's just a babe but I trust you), but I would be so furious if I was Clarke when Lexa will eventually confess her feelings.

Can you imagine feeling not enough for someone you love? To know to be not enough because even though you are indeed soulmates, the person you are sure to be THE one, broke up with you? And you know why, or maybe you think you do, but she's still rejected you.

I'm so mad.

I know Lexa comes from a place of survival instinct and pain, but I'm so furious.

SHE TOLD HER SHE LOVES HER.

SHE SHOWS YOU THAT.

I'm... I'm so sad for the both of them, but because I was once in Clarke shoes, it's so sad I want to hug her.

In most of the ff Lexa is the one portrait as tough and still fragile, strong and delicate, but to observe Clarke being put aside (I know they still keep seeing each other, and being cute to each other and loving but it's... Not... You know? Enough?).

And to marry someone that you know, you KNOW is not the one for you but you do it anyway because you gave up on your soulmate, you chose the second best option... I really wanna run over Lexa.

I want to hug her really tight and punch her with love until she understands.

And then I want to hug Clarke and push their faces together while I whisper "And now... Kith... AND STAY TOGETHER OR I SWEAR TO GOD I'LL HUNT YOU DOWN."

Sorry.

My doctor would be a little bit disappointed about my heart rate right now.

I read this 3 times cackling 😭 (not the part about you, that im very sorry for and I'm sorry you can relate 😔 if you ever wanna send asks aboit Clarke's perspective you can! It help balance this out a bit because so far everything has been filtered through Lexa's pov)

Listen these are all valid things to feel. Lexa is very stupid in some ways, but those ways are indeed born out of insecurity and problems with accepting her self-worth.

I do want to point tho, just as a possible way to kind of... console the anger we all feel here, Clarke was not at all alone in how much she threw herself into this relationship. Lexa absolutely, 100%, just melted herself into Clarke. This 19 year old kid went from having no stability beyond her own work ethic, and no one who she felt cared about her, to having this sarcastic, mouthy, and genuinely weird little blonde lady who was very pretty and very much in love with her. And she did devote herself and her time and every ounce of her disgustingly robust affections to Clarke whenever they were together. Lexa forgot the world just to be near her, because that was obviously the only place she was meant to be.

But that was the problem.

Just how much she actually devoted herself and her time to Clarke became the problem. I mean it did more than that, there are other thoughts and emotions and insecurities at play that Lexa will word-vomit out eventually, bUT the crux of it all came down to her not having the emotional maturity to know how to balance a love that big, along with everything else.

But she never stopped loving Clarke. Not once. And while, no, she wasn't entirely truthful with Clarke or herself about what kind of love for years, and while it certainly wasn't "enough" (i know, for lack of a better word here), it was still incredibly palpable to anyone around her. It was tangible and demonstrative enough that it kept Clarke right there with her for almost a decade. It was intense enough and blatant enough that Costia gave up even trying to compete in under a year. There is just no questioning it when they're together. Everyone sees it pretty much immediately: Lexa is head over heels in love with that girl.

And that was the thing... Clarke saw it too. She felt it every single day.

She's just kinda stupid too 🥴

So I hear you, I do. Breathe lol. Check the pulse bby it's ok I promise. Just distract yourself with thoughts of them married with lil Griffin babies that Lexa cooks up herself simply because she loves Clarke that much

[fiery-emblems]

People going off about the Engage height chart again. I gotta admit part of the reason I like Soren a little taller is that it makes sense, but part of the reason is that so many people who are adamant about Soren being a "short king" seem to be doing it because of yaoi tropes and I kind of hate that.

Why do like 90% of ship arts just straight up portray Soren as a girl. Why is he suddenly a meek UwU soft boy?

[frogintheair]

okokokok listen. Alear with pointy ears. I absolutely agree with you. But hear me out. Alear with pointy ears and fangs. give that man some chompers

oh he looks so cute i got carried away

[violentviolette]

im gonna be really blunt but please understand that im genuinely not trying to be cruel or mean

i completely believe that u were abused. i have no doubt that the things that happened to u were absolutely fucking terrible and have affected u in lasting deeply harmful ways. i am not denying the reality of the direct psychological harm u suffered

but that does not mean what happened to u was ritualistic mind control performed by a satanic cult that kidnaps children in order to program them to have DID. that is not real. programming and mind control are not real. ritualistic satanic cannibalism and child sacrifice is not real. trafficking children to be used in satanic ritual sacrifice is a far right nazi conspiracy theory that has never been true. the same people peddling ramcoa are the exact same ppl saying that democrats in the us are all jews trafficking children in order to drink their blood in satanic rituals. that is two prongs of the same exact nazi conspiracy theory. it is far right bullshit. the mc is ramcoa stands for mind control. it is the belief that the government is kidnapping children in order to use mind control to give them DID. that is not and has never been real.

the ISSTD and associated organizations promoting ramcoa and masquerading as treatment centers are a multiply defunct far right organization that exists to further exploit and victimize its patients. they are a grift. this has been incredibly well documented since its inception in the 80s. it's founders had their licensees revoked for sexually assaulting patients, they have been found to torture false confessions from patients and only further their psychological harm, they have been sued consistently since their creation by former patients for abusing them during treatment. their last settlement was as recent as 2023. just because an organization exists doesnt mean its a reputable one, just because ur receiving treatment for this at one of these organizations doesnt make it real. far right organizations also opperate fake abortion clinics but that doesnt actually make those places legitimate places of medicine where u can recieve real medical treatment.

there are nuggets of observable truth within ramcoa, because there has to be. that's how conspiracy theories work. u must take an observable reality and string it together to lead to the false conclusion. something like, we know cults and high control groups are real, abuse and trafficking are also real, cptsd and conditioning is real and u can condition humans to associate certain triggers with certain behaviors and actions, u can make someone react with panic, violence, fear, ect. at certain triggers if u abuse them deeply enough and for long enough, ppl who've been bombed are often triggered by the sound of fireworks, these are things we know are true. same with how extreme childhood abuse often results in a fragmented and poorly defined sense of self that can be easily manipulated and exploited because child abuse victims are incredibly vulnerable. those are all real things, so then the ISSTD and far right conspirators extrapolate those out to suit thier agenda. conditioning and cptsd triggers become "programming" and mind control. high control groups run by shitty people become satanic cults run by evil jews and so on. but just because there is a nugget of truth buried deep down doesnt make the rest of that shit suddenly real it's the same way companies like doterra take the very real truth that some homeopathic remedies are based in scientific fact and do work, and extrapolate that out to peddle peppermint oil to cancer patients. just because one thing is true, doesnt mean the other is. this is very legitimately how conspiracy theories work and are structured on purpose. they *have* to include a basis of truth, or else no one would believe them

but ramcoa is a grift. it is a lie sold to vulnerable people in order to further harm and exploit them. point blank period. engaging with it in good faith very legitimately gets people killed, and i will not ever entertain it in my spaces.

if u walk into the er with ur arm missing, i'm going to believe ur arm got cut off, im going to believe that u need immediate and extensive medical treatment and care, im going to believe that ur in incredible amounts of pain and that what ur experiencing and have experienced is traumatic and awful. i'm not however, going to believe that a unicorn bit it off.

[yellowocaballero]

At this point you've written at least four different roleswap AUs, so I was wondering if you had any thoughts or takes about how a roleswap AU should be? - someone who's planning on making a roleswap AU

Please don't remind me. I'm embarrassed about this. I know I need to write other things. I don't know why the AU concept is so incredibly fun to write. I can't explain it. Roleswaps are very easy to write and a lot of fun and involve being a freak about everything. Who wouldn't write 10 of those bitches.

But yes, as someone whose roleswap AUs are like 9 out of her 51 fics, I feel qualified to talk about this. These are just my own opinions and takes, and other people might do it differently - if you write roleswaps too, feel free to add in your two cents!!

Before sitting down to write literally anything I always figure out the rules of the story. Writing is little more than a nonstop series of decisions, and if you abide by the rules of your story or characters then your decisions will be coherent and cohesive. By rules I don't mean worldbuilding - I mean the internal logic of the story and the characters. "X character will never explicitly say how he's feeling" or "the leads have to both win and lose every encounter".

I find establishing writing rules for roleswaps especially important - it's figuring out exactly how the roleswap works. Here are the ones that I find important, and kind of the process:

Decide what is swapped. Is it more of a universal swap, personality swap, backstory swap, chronology swap, or alignment swap? No matter which one you choose, all of these things are probably going to change anyway, but there has to be one central point for each character that guides your decisions. Are you actually swapping the narrative role in the story, or are you just changing it? You have to be really precise and have a very good idea of what exactly is swapped, and it has to be consistent throughout the story. It can't just (just) work on what you'd like to see, it has to be exactly the same between characters.

Decide the point of divergence. Sometimes that point is pretty abstract (She's a teenager in the 90s instead of the 20s). Sometimes it's much more specific, just one moment (He developed his superpowers at this moment instead of that). The point doesn't have to be immediately obvious, but you should know it - I did a backstory swap ages ago, and it seemed like a complete change, but like 150k in I dropped that a character dropped out of the police academy instead of completing it and that her entire life changed from there. If the swap is more abstract, then maybe it's just a series of smaller decisions - character A has these seminal points in his story, and I'm swapping him with character B, so here's what character B did during these seminal points instead, and how it changed him and his narrative.

Decide who the character is. This might be more personal, but for me, I think of the character as...there is a central tenet of them, of who they are as a person, that does not change no matter what. That's three or four traits of who they are, that you will not change, and that's what makes their swapped life their own instead of the OG dude's. But there's a lot of traits and behaviors around that core personality that's the result of their environment, backstory, and experiences. That's what should change. It's about figuring out how these essential traits + what is swapped + the point of divergence = an entirely different character and story. The roleswap you'll end up with will be a combination of all of these things: how the essential aspects of a character mix with what's swapped to create an entirely new environment and set of behaviors, which cause a chain reaction to create something new. As a writer, you sit down and say, "I'm keeping these parts of the character, I'm swapping out those parts, this new mix changes these points in their backstory, this results in this new person".

This is more of a guideline, but it's the most important to me: your characters have to be recognizable as the character. The reader shouldn't go, "this OC is making some weird choices". The reader should go, "I don't know how, because he's the exact opposite of his canon self in every possible way, but somehow he still feels like my favorite character". This is why you isolate those basic traits before changing the rest - so long as your character is still who they are deep inside, then they still feel like that character. And that's the fun of the story. You're selling something insane, and the reader is buying it.

It's a lot of really heavy character work. You have to really understand the characters you're writing - the less I get the original character, the more issues I'm perpetually having. I tend to fly fast and loose with characterizations, but when writing roleswaps I have to refer back to canon and the source material a lot ("In canon he did X thing, with his newly different backstory how would that decision change?"). The more you're rooted in canon, then the funkier and more divergent you can get.

Personally, I like to play a fun little game I call: how exactly opposite can I make this character until he stops feeling like this character? I Sometimes my goal in writing is "how deeply can I ruin this story". This is not a good game and people should not play it. I find that the lazier I get about getting in touch with the canon character, about keeping track of the canon decisions, and about following these guidelines, then the more difficult a story is to write. If you structure a story well then it's easy to write, and roleswaps are pretty easy. Thanks for the question!

[bedforddanes75]

hey so im not okay

[deadallover]

I fucking hate all the fomo in online gaming now, why the fuck can't i just play games at my own pace or go back and check something out later, like if i dont grind for this and do EVERYTHING RIGHT FUCKING NOW its GONE FOREVER, i dont need that shit. Its GAMEING?? It's supposed to be FUN!??

[dandyshucks]

blinks tiredly. i decide "hm maybe i should try to expand my circle and step outside of it a little, lets go look at the main community tags" and im just greeted with a bunch of edgelords who think saying "fiction doesn't affect reality, don't like don't read" is peak activism and "fighting censorship". head in my hands. this is partially why i do not ever go into the community tags, my nervous system cannot handle blocking fifty weirdos every single day just so i can have a normal experience in the community tags hfdsjkl

[catboynutsack]

I'm not gonna lie I feel like Tumblr truly has a terrible culture ATM of Do No Wrong Ever rather than. Do anything that's right. And as someone who's slowly distancing himself from that kind of thing for his mental health as he recovers from trauma and moral OCD. A lot of people (not saying who cuz it's most of us without realizing TBH) on here are more interested in being crabs pulling others into buckets rather than bettering their own situations or the situations of others as they claim. And it's genuinely kinda sad. You reblog the posts of mutual aid but don't engage beyond them. You post all damn day but don't lift a finger to enact change and then cry when bad things happen. Why is that? Why does your activism stop when it gets hard? Why do you feel you have the right to complain so much when you refuse to do the bare minimum? Food for thought more than anything, I don't expect any extreme change based on this. I can't save the world and I don't intend to try to; I'm just gonna fix what I can when I can so I can leave this world better than I found it. I'm just frustrated right now.