#ess rants

[essence-stealer]

I really have issues with how Star Trek portrays it when a Q loses their powers...

Okay so a mini Sunday Morning Ess Rant incoming, but it really annoys me how the shows portray a Q losing and then getting back their powers. They're meant to be non-corporal beings (I know I personally headcanon Q looking like nebulas, as do many people I know) and they simply chose to wear a human (or other) body when interacting with mortals…so if they've been made mortal and literally had everything they are changed and shoved into a shell of flesh, you'd think they'd notice the second their true form was returned to them?

Same with being able to use telepathy/powers/being connected to the Continuum again…I was showing my partner the end clip from Q2 (Juniors' episode) because he didn't know JdLs actual son was playing Junior, and the bit where Q tells him he already has his powers back…it just makes no sense to me that he wouldn't already know?! Or when Q gets his powers back in Daja Q, there's no relief or reaction really from Q, other than grinning and snapping back into a uniform…he's just been saved from death and given back powers he thought he'd lost for good, not to mention his true form, you'd think there'd be more of a reaction to that - although of course it's Q, so you could argue he's hiding it to not show weakness.

I just wish more thought had been put into little details like that, as it always throws me a bit that entities that are omnipotent and near-omniscient wouldn't react more to losing and regaining their powers…

(And that's before we even get started with how that process is portrayed on screen: he's just lost everything he's ever known, and forced into a form that isn't his own, he must be scared and traumatised and struggling to adjust, yet it's just played off casually and almost for laughs in the show!)

[wiggly-round-worm]

I’ll be honest i HATE the way the QSMP fanbase is treating Gegg and Tallulah. Like Gegg literally just appears, bro hasn’t done a single thing and people start talking about how they want him to die 😭 ?? And Tallulah starts feeling insecure trough no fault of Gegg and the Gegg tag just EXPLODES with hate. I’m a big petty baby and i don’t like seeing /neg in the tags bro. It just kinda feels like tallulahs the golden child who can do no wrong and Geggs the scapegoat who’s blamed for everything, and i feel like people are already taking it too far

[fatisntprtty]

[chiisana-lion]

discovered upon trying to make a mangadex account i, had in fact already registered with the email i attempted to with, and with that was hit with the realization that i did in fact already have an account from when i was 11 that was somehow simply erased from my mind completely for over half a decade

[lem0nademouth]

we as a society have to get more comfortable with the word “rape” in the way we are comfortable with the word “murder” by which i mean we all know those things are bad and wrong on principle and you shouldn’t do them but one of those words is just A Word and the other will make grown fucking adults act like you have invoked Satan just by saying it

[fitzrove]

"omg ewww only crusty misogynist men think about the roman empire/ww2/military history/insert other theme, and they think about it CONSTANTLY haha" some people need to listen to themselves and pay attention to what they're saying 😭

[fletcherdi3d]

in love with my best friend </3 will they love me back if im skinny? will they ever say i love you in a way that isn't friendly? will they ever kiss me again without alcohol on their lips?

[gwensy]

status of the now. i have not slept its 5am

[essence-stealer]

How is it that every other millennial I know spent their teenage years learning how to code and pirate shit, and I manage to break my entire website just by trying to change a theme 🤦🏻‍♀️ I really am rubbish with tech and it's not even funny at this point!

[jaywritesrps]

[starduststomach]

why.... did i get called.... fat.... today....

(im trying so hard not to breakdown rn.)

[alullinchaos]

i'll say it. the reason the kids are using "pos" to mean "positive" and not piece of shit is because piece of shit is not a phrase that should have an acronym, actually. every single time I've tried to write it as p.o.s I delete it because that's a phrase that is supposed to pack some Punch don't tuck your cuss words away if you're going to say them fuckin' SAY them yknow.

[ess-presso]

Just to add on to the american fic writers discussion,,, how would these people even know if the writer was american? Like ofc if you know them on other social media then you might know, but if you're literally just reading a fic on ao3 and assuming the writer is american bc they write 'favorite' instead of 'favourite' then. buddy. i've got news for you. For a lot of people in fandom, english is a second language. And *most* esl people, unless making a conscious effort to learn British English, will pick up and use mostly American English, bc that's just more widespread. We grow up on american movies, watch american youtubers, read books that come from america for the most part. american hegemony babyyyyy

So these people should keep in mind that when they're 'accusing' someone of not writing in proper british english, they might literally be asking someone to write in a specific dialect of their second or even third language. And then they should think about how many foreign languages they know, and if they can switch between dialects in them :))

(And all this is not even considering the fact that it's ridiculous to be mad about this at literally anyone, including american writers lmao. like. it's not that serious.)

no literally , everything you said. every single word.

how would YOU know they're American ? maybe they're from another country , where American English is used alongside the national language. kind of presumptuous to assume there is only two groups of people in this fandom ( Americans and brits)

for me personally , english is like my fifth language. and I know British English because I live in England. but if not for that , I'd probably be using American English too , and I would go nuts if people were getting on me because of that. like let's see your arse try to balance several languages at once and also being asked to learn a specific dialect of one. say I was American , not British. you'd be asking me to write a specific dialect of my fifth language. do you even know how smart I am in all my mother tongues ? I'd use all of them to cuss those bastards out.

also when people get on things like 'semester' or the one I see all the time 'high School' because British people don't say 'high School'. news flash you dirty fuckers - some secondaries literally have 'high school' in their names. the one I went to did. and as a brit , I'd refer to 'high school' in my writing. and if anyone tried to correct me , I'd go absolute ape shit and start threatening to fuck some mums. like the NERVE. the absolute nerve to ask someone to do that. like gentle corrections in dms or ask boxes is one thing but the shit I've seen on twitter and the self-entitlement MY LORD. and the thing is that whoever started the whole tirade wasn't even British. so I'd like to see them write a marauders fic , and then I'LL be the judge of how good it is.

(that person was yapping on about how no one ever talks about class systems in England or anything. like girlie is this like Charles dickens or something what the fuck ?? no one HAS TO do anything ???)

anyways sorry I went on a rant these people are arseholes to the max and any American/ non brit fic writers keep trucking on and ignore the arsholes x

[glimpsesofeuterpe]

... so normal™ about Loкi doing time jumps

[softcarebears]

me tmrw at school😭i can't believe its the 2nd term already wtf the igcses are looking a lil bit too close...i havent even started revising the things we did in 10th grade umm imma kms hold up😭💀

[neozhelps]

pelo amor de deus arruma um emprego, vai organizar o seu quintal sei la puta merda

oi logan! nossa, você teve esse trabalho todo de criar uma conta fake pra mandar foto de carteira? achei que a sua tivesse assinada... você também deve tá precisando de um emprego pra vir aqui me perturbar quando já te dei block, não? que tal VOCÊ seguir seu próprio conselho?

ah é, esqueci, sou só um token, não tenho voz porque não concordo com o trans mais trans de todo o universo. só sua opinião e visão importa, né? já que você adora chamar as pessoas de transfóbicas de graça, toma aqui uma ofensa que vai me cancelar na sua rodinha: vai se fuder, seu otário.