#categorically awful

[overlord-of-chaos]

Hello who would like to stab some Tories with me

[heartscrypt]

"this isn't the proper meme format" yeah well i cant control them they're freaks sorry they defy the logic of the original meme okay

[pianojoy-blog]

In the back of my mind it’s always there 🥲💥💥💥💥

Pulling out my white pen from 6th grade for curly because this game has me in a chokehold

[aetherbladedstick]

R*ngers gossip keeping me sane is something I never thought I'd see

[majiburger]

now that i've been thinking about one direction again for the last few days (and forgive me if this reads as tone deaf considering the general situation rn), i do want to say that it BAFFLES me how niall kept his love life a secret for five whole years. this is not me saying he owes me this information or that he should give fans a play-by-play of his dating life. i'm glad he's been able to keep things private, i'm not digging or fishing, i'm just nosy as hell, he's not going to read this etc etc. but like. the boys were so overexposed for years, literally every interviewer asked them about their love lives, even when they dated non-celebrities, their relationships were widely discussed. even when they tried to keep it a secret, they were papped alllll the time (like the time harry was supposedly dating t-swift the first time around and he got caught kissing a girl that was NOT her). even when they weren't papped, they were most certainly spotted in public by fans and non-fans. i know eleanor and louis had been sighted by multiple regular, non-1d fans who only vaguely knew louis as "that guy from 1d." people used to follow perrie's brother and zayn's sisters on instagram and get updates about their relationship from there. stans had a hawklike eye on who the boys and their family members started following and unfollowing on instagram and twitter. bobby and greg have public accounts and so do his cousins and friends. i refuse to believe hailee steinfeld was niall's first relationship, he's had to have dated around. but you mean to tell me he bypassed this mass surveillance/panopticon of celebrity life and did it secretly? never even got caught once doing anything that would catch people's attention? and you mean to tell me it was such a well-kept secret that the boys, who were notorious for letting things slip, did not let it slip? did they even know what he did in his free time? did he even tell them? he's so funny

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

I don't appreciate Gabe enough honestly. A++ character growth.

[tulsa24]

book percy was always this character who i thought was the coolest & who i experienced comphet for (& i still do.) tv percy, on the other hand, is this rightfully fed up kid who i adopted & is now my son.

[kaeyapilled]

. (tw heterosexuality)

[thespineoftherighteous]

I don't know if it is a aftg song but I feel like it, it's "happy pills" by wheaters, I feel like it's an Aaron song but it also could be an Andrew song, so maybe twinyards, but I don't know, I like it though

the way it flips from lyrics that are sooo Andrew to ones that are sooo Aaron like?? it's a twinyards tune for sure

[llycaons]

uh oh

[israbelle]

i found literally the worst thing ever (list of my favorite characters i made when i was 11)

[thewordenreport]

Biologically, experiences of awe, whether religious, moral, or in Nature, can render a person less self-centered. https://thewordenreport-religion.blogspot.com/2024/12/overriding-selfishness-by-experiencing.html

[gayofthefae]

The first "when you're different, you feel like a mistake"

I keep thinking about these parts of the Will Byers’ Secret Files book. I’m so sure s5 will drop some big reveal about willel. “I think I know how she feels” mhmmmm….

[em-writes-stuff-sometimes]

Hello, Lurker Chick! Or otherwise known as Former Friend #1! I knew you'd stop by and leave a message for me. You and your unhinged buddy cannot help yourselves.

Since you LOVE playing mind games with everyone in the fandom, I thought you'd enjoy this new game I invented. It's called "Who Said The Shitty Thing?" Basically, I share a redacted screenshot - somewhat redacted, at least - of something you've said and everyone gets to speculate about who they think it is! And you get to scramble and try to explain yourself to the people you're slandering!

So, if this is Former Friend #1 sending me this anon, you might recall this?

But of course, it might not be Former Friend #1. It could be her unhinged anon-ing bestie, Former Friend #2! Y'all had a LOT to say about the gal you're supposedly besties with now, but this little exchange is probably my favourite:

Would you ladies like to know the best part? This isn't even the worst thing you've said. Not even slightly close.

People are so sick of the toxic chokehold you have on this fandom. I've tried to keep myself out of your line of fire but you just cannot stop yourself from stalking me and dragging me in at every opportunity, can you? Maybe this isn't the nicest thing to have done, but you're hurting everyone with your crap and I've had just about enough of you thinking you're above facing the consequences of it. You've burned too many bridges here for me to possibly grant you mercy.

I suppose this is my official warning. Fuck around with me or anyone else, and I remove the redacted bits. Keep on going, and I fish out the absolute worst of your gross little deeds - and these are just the things I have a record of. I'm sure you've done far worse. By fuck around, FYI, I'm talking about your whole group; no anons, no spreading rumours, no posting slander, nothing. Rein in your dickhead friends. I'm dead serious.

Want to keep playing? By all means. I have plenty more where this came from.

[shiredded]

Happy father's day!

This poll is about estranged fathers. If you are not estranged, congrats! You all get to share one answer.

Good lord! This sure did go. I'll answer some confusion as best I can.

This is a poll about estranged fathers. I'm interested in the timelines of people who don't talk to their dads.

Because I am interested in estranged fathers, I basically categorized everyone who is NOT estranged into one answer. If you have spoken within the last few hours or weeks: congratulations! You are within normal relationship parameters.

If it's been more than a month, something odd may be going on, especially if your culture normally observes father's day. After a year, it's definitely not normal.

If you want to be more specific within that month, make a poll, it's fine! No need to get mad, go hug your dad!

The results (aside from the volume holy shit) are pretty much what i expected: the vast majority of people are not estranged. Within that, some love their dad, some do not. But I don't personally care how recent contact was if it was within the last month.

I'm not trying to make a commentary about how fathers are all awful and everyone should reject them. I'm not an authority on dads either.

I am not "everyone" and I am not "tumblr"

I'm literally just a guy.

There's no goal here to try to fill every slot evenly, nor a message that you should.

Not every poll is all inclusive, and not every poll is about you.

For those who it is about, I see you. Father's day is weird for us, especially when surrounded by people who like their dads. We are rare in the grand scheme of things, and that's a good thing. But estrangement is about loneliness, either ours or his.

It's raw for some of us, an old scar for others, and for me: a turning point in life where everything started to get better. A year becomes two, a decade another, and someone who consumed your life becomes a part of the past so distant you stop remembering it so well.

We may not have dads, but we have each other.

[anam-mana]

It fascinates me that Alistair gets lumped in with the “Chantry Boys” in discussions about Dragon Age Archetypes because it’s just. Very untrue. But it’s an idea the text actually pushes you to connect with in a way I think is purposeful.

This guy introduces us to the lore of the Blight by asking if we want “the chantry version or the truth.” If we ask if they’re not the same thing he smirks and says with some attitude “they rarely are.”

He sums up his religious beliefs saying he’s “not especially” Andrastian, and that “believes in the Maker well enough.”

He’s actually LESS religious than Zevran, who describes himself as fully Andrastian with a regular prayer routine in optional conversation branches.

The things that people use to categorize Alistair’s supposed “Chantry Boy” boy status all have non-religious motivations.

For example, the big one, his virginity, is because 1. He’s nervous around women, which is the gender he finds most attractive 2. He’s actually the youngest Party Member, being freshly 20 years old. 3. And most importantly, he correlates sex with love and was brought up to see them as requiring the other and so feels uncomfortable having sex without what he sees as “true love.” And he just hasn’t been in love yet.

Another example would be his reaction to the Urn of Sacred Ashes. He reacts with wonder akin to Leliana where many others react with a contrasting blasee attitude. Even the Andrastian Zevran.

But you gotta read between the lines here. Zevran doesn’t hold remains as sacred. He’s an assassin. So his prophet’s body is in that urn. It’s a body. The least remarkable and most mundane, perhaps even the hardest to swallow, thing she could ever be to Zevran is a corpse. Kinda takes the wonder out of faith for an assassin if she dies and rests just like any one else.

But Alistair is fascinated, in awe. 1, probably because the Chantry he doubts so much now has some kinda proof that something they said was true, unlike what he previously believed. 2, Alistair is WAY more patriotic than he is religious and we gotta remember that the Fereldans pride themselves on Alamari heritage, and Andraste was probably the most powerful and influential Alamari person to ever live. 3, he’s actually a giant history buff. He info dumps history on you often, with the memorized readings of whatever question you ask. If asked about the King and Loghain before the betrayal at Ostagar, he shows respect for Loghain’s service in the War for Independance, and knowledge of his tactics. And when speaking about his time in training with the chantry as a child, he says the education was actually what he liked most. And a lot of his gifts are things like replica soldiers, Fereldan historical things, maps, (along with his interest in magical artifacts but that’s for another day.) etc. Given his patriotism and love of learning history, yeah, the Urn is a big deal to him.

I have more things I could say, but really, I just find Alistair to be one of the most misrepresented by fandom characters. His character has a TON of subtext that challenges you to look beyond what others represent him as and the low opinion he holds of himself.

The perception of him as Andrastian and devout is one pushed on him by people like Morrigan (and others to some degree) who fights Alistair more like a straw man representing society than she engages with him as himself. She sees him as a Templar even though he left the order specifically because they abused him And he fundamentally disagreed with their practices, The Harrowing specifically being what pushed him to fight to leave.

There are, textually, two ways to interpret Alistair. Through face value aesthetics and symbolism pointing to association with the Chantry and by observing other’s opinion of him. Or through actually listening to what he says and watching what he does.

And it’s just interesting to me that a lot of people get caught in the trap of what he represents aesthetically rather than who he is.