#esp if theyre harmless like??

[tinukis]

i open up sabosan tags here (like any1 else but 4 ppl will talk about it) and i immediately see someone hate on it

idc that youre aroace bc i am fucking too but DAMN??? who cares if they havent met. shipping is for fun. you dont have to fucking yell abt how much you hate a ship and tag it. you sound So miserable.

and holy SHIT you didnt have to state ur reasons like YES. WE KNOW. THEYRE CALLED RAREPAIRS FOR A REASON. rarepairs are called rare bc they either never met in canon/barely interacted.

but also im surprised that sabosan already got a hater like??? DAMN??? NOT MANY PPL KNOW ABOUT IT YET

and who fucking cares if ppl ship something bc they find the characters hot. i'd want to see my two favorite characters kiss for whatever reason!! these guys are fictional characters and theyre meant to be played with like dolls

anyway sabo and sanji are making out Right Now on the kitchen counter (sanji is sitting on the counter)

[souldivide]

fartfight is going to be hard when i kind of made a new acc to avoid a lot of people from my old one if only for like, innocent and harmless reasons

[janmisali]

the typical way to respond to a harmless prank is to feign some level of upset because to be pranked is to be the butt of the joke. it is saying "you got me, I Have Been Had." a smirk and a "you son of a bitch," and the prankster gets to feel proud for pulling that off. good pranks make both parties have fun w it, but whats good for some is just annoying to others. repeated pranks become in jokes where the pranked isn't necessarily tricked but playing along to be nostalgic for the time they were w their friend. its a bit of a script, esp with The Game which expects a particular punchline, and ppl are absolutely assholes for being dicks if u dont know, get, or care about the gag theyre trying to get u to participate in. it'd be like trying to talk about Updog and then getting mad cause the target Will Not Say "What Is Up Dog?" and it means They Also Are Not Doing It "Right". the prank isnt inherently shitty but being a dick when u dont get the reaction you Want is.

and it is Very common, esp among kids, for harmless pranks to crossover to "this person is just being an obnoxious ass and blaming u for not celebrating it." doing that is bullying.

I agree with this for the most part, but I will say that I don't actually think The Game qualifies as a prank? like, you've been "tricked" into performing an imperceptible non-action ("haha! I've tricked you into perceiving me saying The Game out loud, or writing it somewhere! gotcha!"), and the closest thing to a tangible effect "losing The Game" has is the social script that comes with it. it doesn't naturally or logically follow from "the rules" that losing The Game is a negative experience, you're just socially expected to act as though it is.

[andr0nap]

just dropping in to say I absolute ADORE your art, your colors and backgrounds and everything is absolutely gorgeous and I was losing my mind a little at your entire "ice planet au". Like, the backgrounds?!?!?! The environments?!! I need to sit down with those for a few hours and study how you did them because !!!! its amazing?! Also the ptarmigan inspired Tomas are adorable and I wish to hug them. And!! Diversity in Tomas?!! YES! My biology heart is singing with joy

also. Also. Sea Slug Vash. The Design. Is. Impeccable. Deep sea inspirations are absolutely perfect for the whole multidimensional kind of eldritch thing and vibe he + the plants have going on and it is stupendous. I absolutely love it

Aaaand the centaur au, is just delightful and I love the designs and the details to their forms, from Vash and Knives having different biology that's distinctly different when you look at details but close enough that Vash can mimic being horse-ish. (The coat patterns are so pretty!)

And (mostly last thing) this piece: https://www.tumblr.com/andr0nap/723041602792210432/turn-your-gaze-upon-this-wretched-holy-thing?source=share

I am in awe. The lighting, the detail work?! It has the feathers of trimax but the plant patterning of stampede (and oh gods, the patterning, the detail, the glow--) and then Vash's damned hand?! You've got all the pieces plus the texture and I'm just staring. AND the symbolism! Like, you've got Wolfwood staring at Vash, though Vash himself is hidden from view, and I'm just ajkghdkghjkd

Thank you very much for sharing your art!!

BWAAA THANK YOU SM!!! youre so sweet aaaa 🥺🥺🥺💕

im so happy people like my little ice planet au!! im no storyteller but i love worldbuilding and biology and putting my faves in new environments!! i definitely want to get back to this au when i get past the fandom burnout bc i put a lot of thought into this and id hate for it to end up gathering dust

YEAHH!! you get me!! i love feathery angel vash with all my heart but theres something so charming about the naked slimy chicken slug (more of that coming soon in the backlog dump)

designing the unicorn twins was an interesting little challenge, trying to make them look horse enough to be able to blend in with the masses but also predatory enough to make you go hey wait Thats Not A Horse. vash needs to put more effort into making himself look harmless because A. he moves differently from an equine when he isnt putting up an act with his exaggerated gait and B. the prey part in my centaurs brains is alive and well and theyre a suspicious bunch by nature so seeing vash stalk towards them in his normal gait would set off a lot of alarm bells

and im happy you like that piece!! it was my proper full render for the fandom and im still very proud of it!!! (esp the prosthetic.. and the fact that i remembered to turn on the timelapse yippee)

thank you again for the sweet ask!!!

[marudeinusa]

Clari what do you think idols really sell? I don’t think it’s music because most idol songs aren’t always fantastic, sometimes it’s performance but is it just dance?

Id say above all theyre selling a parasocial closeness u_u singing and dancing is there as a packaging while the real content is the fake boyfriend/girlfriend/friend with a corporate made personality i feel. At the end, idols could bang pots n pans and dance polka but ppl would stream and buy merch because they feel a sense of loyalty to their favs. I see how this is valuable escapism that can be harmless depending on the individual.but we really got to be aware that as far as we know every single word these idols ever spoke in an interview is engineered to cater to a specific audience. This doesnt hold true only.for EA idols id say its true for western celebrities to build up fake personalities too but i feel that the more you owe your career to a multimillion company managing you the less control.you have.over.the image you put out so its just unfortunate esp.with kpops huge boom worldwide. This isnt an excuse to dehumanize idols by saying theyre all fake - if anything, their own loyal fans further dehumanize them such aswhen they abhor seeing loona girls wearing very mildly sexual things like making a dirty joke is the mildest most normal.human thing in the world but fans straight up feeel cheated esp in this area bc they feel a certain level of sexual/romantic ownership over their faves' sexual agency which theyre sooner willing to share with other fans than the idol themselves. Something very very telling in being uncomfortable with the idea that a man or.woman you dont know and never will has sex with someone out there. Bleak....

[miiilowo]

Because I want advice, I wanna ask... For someone who is not good on fps games (me), would be worth to get ultrakill or is a bad idea?

this is hard to answer because ultrakill is generally considered to be a very difficult game (the standard difficulty is marked as being hard by the game itself). the thing about that, though, is that most people play it on standard or above. there are lower settings that make the game a lot easier, and if youre not good at FPS games, then it'll play like normal. though i know a lot of people dont like playing on lower difficulties because it makes them feel like theyre cheating or theyre not "actually" playing it. regardless, there are two easy difficulties (harmless & lenient), as well as a bunch of assist and accessibility settings in the menu (ex. auto aim. you can control how much auto aim there is which is a nice touch). ive played on harmless and lenient before and i can tell you that they definitely make the game a lot easier and if dying over and over frustrates you then i can see merit in those settings (+ esp because harmless literally doubles your health)

i do think its very fun and can work for anyone who wants to try it, especially since ultrakill logs your highest score on each level and when you get better you can visibly SEE the improvement. its very encouraging

there is one plus to ultrakill that other FPS games dont have, which is that theres no ammo, and you heal by hurting enemies. as a result, youre constantly being encouraged to play, and you cant hide and look for health or ammo, which holds a lot of other games back and makes them less fun because it feels like thats the only way to play those games if youre not good at them. ultrakill doesnt have this problem. there are weapon cooldowns, but the gameplay is a constant GO GO GO that makes it a lot more fun than other FPS games. that & because its so high speed you do a lot more. pulling off combos and doing cool stuff is the goal of the game, and its interactive in a way that makes it really fun even if you arent good at the game. you WANT to get better at it. i personally cant recommend it enough but i can understand why people might be put off by how difficult the standard mode is lmao

[viktoriakomova]

What's wrong with the ballet footage? Gen question, I don't know much about ballet

ok i will separate this into 2 parts, glaring fundamental flaws and pedantic nitpicky shit (which, to be fair, should only be corrected once the former are dealt with. but it looks like neither are happening any time soon so...)

Part 1: The Egregious

Zero turnout happening. Usually i'd point to the hips and talk about if the rotation is coming from the hips (good) or the knees and/or feet (bad very bad and kinda dangerous esp in gymnastics). but they arent even doing that.

The arms. The elbows should be slightly bent to create a "curved" look. The arms should be held up and in front of you with your hands around the height of your belly button, supported from your upper back muscles. The girl in the back (nola???) actually has hers pretty good (ignoring the hands, see below) but i would say she should have them a little lower and it looks like her delts are doing the work to keep her arm lifted instead of her back muscles.

Alignment. its difficult to tell from this one screenshot (i refuse to put in the effort to watch these frames 100x to get a great one im sorry) both because the legs are straightening (after what is ostensibly a plié lol) and bc of the camera angle, but you should be able to draw a straight vertical line from the ball of the foot to the hips to the shoulders. again the girl in the back looks a lot better than jade or kayla here.

More issues with turnout here that are more evident (bc theyre making an actual attempt to turn out here) they're starting to turn in passé here, i wont bother trying to articulate what the legs are supposed to look like bc miss betty okino here is doing it correctly xoxo.

i'll start with leanne. her supporting leg is actually quite nice and she's very high up on relevé, her ankle is straight/extended and right on top of the ball of her foot with her knee straight and quads engaged. however the leg she's bringing up to passé (pretty late, since shes turning, i should add) is basically totally turned in. the muscles in the hip that rotate the leg outward are doing nothing. the leg should be turned out from the hip the whole time you're bringing the foot up to the front of the knee.

now onto kayla. i circled the reflection because you can see the leg positions better, the video crops it out. she has the same issue with the hip turnout of the free leg, but her supporting leg is also turned in. look at the knee in the reflection. it's basically not turning out at all, but her supporting foot is like 45º turned out. considering that they're turning in this screenshot, thats bad news. turning out from the foot (ie rotating outward at the ankle) instead of the hip puts a lot of torque on your knee. its obviously not nearly as severe as the stress that twisting into the ground on a tumbling pass would put on it, just bc of the force being applied there, but its still not harmless.

Part 2: The Nitpicky

The hands...... how are the fingers (jade's and kayla's) the body part doing the most work here 💀 broken wrists (but like. tense and intentional, inexplicably???), palms facing the floor. hyperextended fingers. thumbs rotated away/out from the palms. the wrist should be straight but not rigid, it should complete the "curve" mentioned above when i talked about the elbows. the thumbs should be in, but again not taut, just relaxed by the rest of your fingers. its hard to explain verbally how the fingers should be, but they shouldnt be taut and/or stuck together either (aka pancake hands or karate chop hands lol). the girl in the back, her hand would be decent if she put her thumb in and rotated her wrist 90º counter-clockwise

Forward head carriage. That's my only gripe about Girl In The Back's posture, and even that isnt really Bad, otherwise it's great. Kayla's would be fine too but her shoulders themselves are a little too forward. Jade's is.... not great, it looks like she carries a lot of tension in her neck. i typed this whole post hunched over in my bed tho so.... do as i say not as i do ;)

i didnt bother editing the picture to circle it lol but kayla's foot is sickled in the pic with okino

also the first pic is hard to look at alignment/posture bc none of them are on the same count kfjdkjfkdjfk so musicality is a big fat L there

[kuumara]

Do you ever feel like this fandom just isn't fun anymore?

The homophobia on other platforms seems to be worse than ever. People on here are having Byler doubt because of all the propaganda the homophobes are spreading. None of the Stranger Things or Netflix social media accounts are addressing the rampant bullying and homophobia, even when people are commenting the most disgusting things and including them in it.

And even on our tag, you see people get a bunch of hate for harmless things like headcanons.

I'm sorry to unpack all of this on you, but I'm curious to see if you or anyone else feels the same.

its alr lmao and i get where ur coming from anon although i dont rly feel the same, i mean the homophobia and stuff is veryvery bad but that's why i stick to my tumblr dashboard and go nowhere else. i agree it would be good for someone with a lot of influence to say smth but i dont think theyre aware that much, except for the duffers saying they hate reddit which. we all do

and dw even though the stranger things subreddit has 1.1mil members it's mostly harmless questions so don't feel like there's more homophobes actively against bylr, i mean uve seen that poll mleven lost in the first round (yeah we all voted but i doubt we would get mevil out just by us voting esp not when there was sm votes for it)

idk i hope this wasnt inunderstandable and hope ur feeling better tbh it's not worth not liking smth anymore just bc the homophobes are insane

[ravioliworm]

anyone who's scared of the ocean because of "scary deep sea animals" is a COWARD bc if you swim normally you're never gonna stumble across one and you'll be fine. like the most i come close to in the ocean are crabs, maybe some harmless comb jellies, a seagull just sittin out there, and dolphins minding their business in the distance. even the whole shark thing, depending where you are/what you're doing, it's so rare to see them, let alone get attacked.

there are things like rip currents and rough surf and stuff, but usually theyre very well monitored and there are usually warning flags or lifeguards present.

then we move to a freshwater river or lake?

there is no WAY id be stepping foot in there.

first of all, i watch wayy too much river monsters. that's self explanatory. secondly, there's a higher chance of parasites and etc in freshwater, esp if it's standing. brain eating amoeba?!? third, if there's a dead body in a lake, im way too close to it already. in the ocean at least i can be blissfully unaware. they are 1000% definitely THERE, but i dont know about it. not to mention depending on where you live, rivers/lakes have more alligators/crocodiles, bull sharks, crazy huge catfish, stingrays, dams, debris, bad water quality, mosquitoes, etc etc

OCEANS ARE MORE OPEN, BIGGER, BETTER, CIRCULATE MORE, COOLER ANIMALS, FEEL NICER ON THE BEACH, AND MORE

OCEANS 🔛🔝!!! RAH RAH RAH SALT WATER BEST WATER

[backseatloversz]

r ppl aware of how hard theyre punching down when they make fun of trans teens/youth for things like the way they dress and the names they experiment with. idgaf if its coming from ppl who had cringy phases in their youth and are making fun of themselves, in fact it makes me MORE pissed when its coming from queer ppl themselves. like do u guys not remember how much it sucked being 12-15????? can u not imagine/remember how SCARY it is navigating trans/queerness as a teenager, esp in our current climate???????? who cares if kids are being cringy who. fucking cares. kids are an insanely vulnerable demographic show some compassion and let them do whatever harmless cringy shit they want

[kholnt]

i was looking at some of my old posts from when i had only just joined the fandom like four months ago (which in hindsight isn't that much time) and i realized that my tastes have changed drastically so we're answering these questions again baybee!!! hi cheeto if you see this 1. wild is still the fave mostly due to his games (i have both of em now) and lost's existence, but wars has skyrocketed into second favorite very quickly. so due to biases i'd say wild since i know his lore inside and out, but do know i'm currently hyperfixated on wars 2. sunset pt. 14's final panel. midna's lighting especially fucks me up /pos 2.5 I CAN ANSWER THE ARC QUESTION PROPERLY NOW! when i read lu i barely digested any of the actual plot, but thanks to the wonderful existence of analysis posts, i can actually respond! currently, it's the bg arc of wild and wars thats happening. no idea if its going to become a Thing like how time and wind's did but i'm hoping it does! its two of my sillies and theyre experiencing Very conflicting emotions about eachother. i dmed this to kay when the new update came out but "[wars] becomes authority in the face of uncertainty vs [wild] follows authority in the face of adversity" 3. july's starry notes because its the one that lives rent free in my brain, and as for general tastes: the chain being harmless little shits to eachother. a lot of my lu likes are mask but thats because he is THE little shit. like guys theyre siblings theyre gonna mess with eachother lightheartedly!!! plus its funny!!! 4. fics? not a fuckin clue honestly. i counted recently and ive read over 600 lu fics in total and hoo boy. wowee. a fic i shall not name used to be one of my favorites but in hindsight one of the link's characterizations was Awful and i had to weigh my losses of "really good characterization vs even worse characterization" HOWEVER. I DO HAVE FAVORITE AUTHORS NOW!!! Can_Opener aka @/crazylittlejester, alternatemind (no tumblr :() & qar!! @/noorahqar (admittedly ive been reading qars fics for years but shhh) (also as for tumblr only: @/tenderleavesbob has amazing bite sized fics!!! my personal faves are ones with mask and wars because i am a simple man) adore their fics, definitely go recommend you read them (ESP if you're a wars or twi fan!! alternatemind's dog days au makes me unnecessarily happy, and i adore both jes & qar's wars fics so much. peak wars food honestly AND MASK???? amazing) also shameless promo for @/eponatheestallion's lost link fic bc THATS OUR BOY!!! (an update will happen at some point we prommy kay is just in the trenches) 5 & 6. answers still apply :)) art still rarely arts its misery

Hey, you! New person! Welcome to the LU fandom, we’re so glad to have you! 💞💞 Saw you were looking for mutuals—I just have a few questions… *flips through pieces of paper real serious like*

👀 You got a favorite LU boy yet? Or a favorite panel/arc of Jojo’s comic? Favorite fic, art piece, author?

👀 I saw your Wild sketch, it was very nice. So you draw? Do you write, too?

👀 Finally and most importantly, what is your opinion on mayonnaise?

HELLO HELLO!!!!!! i am so very happy to be here i am giggliing kicking my feet 1. i find all of them to be absolute whimsical goobers but probably wild (botw is the only physical loz game i own and it was a gift from my brother so i do have a wee bit bias. but they're also just like the Guy ever) 2. this wolfie from the most recent update has my heart and soul. so very polite heems so!!

3. art piece of jojo's has got to be either september's stormy draw, but outside of that. honestly just any sleepy lu. little snoozin guys yk?? 4. goddesses fics,,,,, keeping it to lu a home for flowers (faufaren) & silent princesses (korokcrucifierr) absolutely eat personally. as for authors, i don't pay much attention since i read based on me tag-hunting (i do say that nintendo fics absolutely eat and rarely miss. i have yet to be proven wrong) 5. tysm!! i DO draw!! and write on the very very rare occasion (as in once a year and if i finish something its a miracle). i'm currently at a roadblock w/ art and i havent seriously drawn in nearly a month but i do silly little doodles like the wild in both my pfp and the one mentioned!!

6. not a mayo guy personally but i love ranch

[piplupod]

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[leopardsealz]

out surveying w my dad but at this site u have to walk through fields n since its wet theres so many slugs. so i am waiting in the car :(

[surge-the-tenrec]

one thing ive always hated abt the sonic fandom, even from Ye Olde Dark Ages, is folks that are like,,, weirdly fuckin rude abt shipping. like bro its not a part of my identity which funny animals i think would be fun dating one another. i genuinely do not care about things being ‘canon’ or “well ACTUALLY this OTHER ship also has a scene so-”. or ppl who are running in the dms/commenting “WELL I HATE THIS CHARACTER/SHIP” on ppls art its just like. rude?

like i partake in shipping bcs Character Dynamics Fun and idk as an adult watching the Teenage Bullshit relationship drama is something thats really fun to laugh at from a distance! and ive been w these characters since i was six fucking years old, i also just wanna see em happy.

im just here playing w my dolls whilst ppl are out fighting in the fucking trenches over sonic the hedgehog ships

[newty]

catholicism is feminist, actually, is not the take i expected today on tumblr

[isaacgetspegged]

anyway now I’m thinking. I rly like myself but I like the duality I’m able to have with my faves... like no disrespect to people who do this but I really feel like some ppl take liking characters too serious? like. fandom arguments and insulting ppl and writing long philosophical/literary/etc intricate explanations on the fave... and while I do appreciate some of that I like. don’t always have the energy for it. I don’t always have the energy to write long paragraphs on why I fucking hate Marvel’s portrayal of Fat Thor’s or what I think about T’Challa and Erik’s relationship or opinions I have on Isaac. I just don’t! I don’t always have the energy to be serious and it takes a toll on me to always be that way. I like to have fun, I like to poke fun at my faves (over appropriate things ofc) and I’m naturally just... an upbeat person. again, life is too short for me not to accept myself as the silly little bitch that I am and I’m having fun doing what I do so?? yeah