#fully over the nonsense

[ambelle]

At this point, as a first generation American whose immigrant family has been through hell...I'm not willing to talk to people who are xenophobic.

Just did a fact-check on some lies about illegal immigrants being given good jobs, free housing, free health insurance, and kicking students out of schools so they could live there in exchange for voting Democrat. I don't like being lied to. I also don't insist something is true to other people unless I know it is. Spreading rumors about entire races being violent rapists getting freebies is how you incite violence (it also sounds exactly like what they say about black people- whether citizen or not.)

That's how you get here :

Trump did nothing about immigration he tanked the economy and got like a million Americans killed by mismanaging the pandemic. Then even more when MAGA clowns decided to convince each other not to wear masks and get vaccinated. Does no one remember what Trump did in office. He singlehandedly brought neo-nazi's to mainstream politics. He did everything wrong yet Im supposed to think Biden was worse because house REPUBLICANS wouldn't sign a bi-partisan bill to address immigration?

If you are anti-immigration you should maybe read the fine print where it says you've now subscribed to white supremacy. Meaning you won't be helping Palestine by doing legwork for Trump/Maga. Meaning you wont be helping working class American's and the homeless by slut shaming Kamala and lying about her record as an Attorney General. Wont stop illegal immigration without acknowledging America's hand in them fleeing their countries which ironically is what Kamala was trying to do in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. I know it's nice to think America has nothing to do with South America but we do.

The only reality is that either Trump becomes a Dictator and ruins the life of anyone who isn't a conservative rich WM or Kamala wins and Democracy lives on.

A Trump Dictatorship will not help Palestine. There are valid ways to help. Share the links, show up at rallies to raise your voice, do the boycotts, DONATE some money.

[wtftaylr]

I love Companion Benny. I love the idea that he gets huffy-puffy and “just a little” jealous if you switch him out for another companion. He simply cannot cope with the fact that you’d toss him aside like yesterday’s trash for… what, some scribe in rags? A boring-ass first recon guy? A vaquero ghoul? (ok he thinks Raul is kinda cool actually but he won’t openly admit that)?? Benny has STORIES, baby. Interest. Intrigue. You wanna know all the juicy strip gossip? Guess what, you CANT now because you DISMISSED him. How DARE you.

Benny is VERSATILE, baby. His tagged skills are guns, melee, and unarmed. Good luck finding another companion that can do what he can. Yeah Craig “Frowns” Boone can headshot a cazador from a million yards away or whatever, *mumbling* show-off, he would’ve seen that cazador eventually *end mumbling* but Benny can shoot, stab, AND punch. Hey courier, watch this. I’m gonna punch the fuck out of this deathclaw. He does it (you gotta administer a few stimpaks) BUT HE DID IT. And he was only at half health. 400+ health honeybaby, Benny can take a few whacks from those deathclaw freaks. What was that? Showing off? Benny doesn’t have to show off, sugar plum. He’s just that good.

He also won’t complain that his feet are getting tired. Yeah he’ll complain about minor inconveniences and wants you to do something about them regardless if you realistically can or not, but at least he’ll walk miles upon miles in a day and not complain. He also won’t complain about going back to the Lucky 38. (he’ll just complain about not being able to get in there before the Courier showed up.) What, no one else complains about their feet hurting? Uhhhh BOOT-RIDERS. Silly name. But that’s how they rode the Mojave, dig? On their feet. He’s done this before. Experienced.

AND ANOTHER THING. how many companions shout words of encouragement during a fight. Go on. He’s waiting.

You’re doing great, baby! Show these punk losers what you got!!

I bet all the caps in Vegas you’ll miss that while getting shot to shit by the Fiends or whatever. Grumble. Benny hopes you come back in one piece, of course. He’d just rather see to it himself that you remain in one piece. Uhh BECAUSE HE’S JUST THAT GR-

(The courier left with their choice of companion hours ago. Swank is trying to work but Benny won’t stop gabbing his ear off. Dear god Benny just go be the Head of The Chairmen somewhere else. Swank is trying to do actual work here.)

[nani-nonny]

Rereading the fight scene and maybe it’s the sick or because I just woke up, but the fight scene isn’t clicking

Hmm. I remember editing a prewritten fight scene so this isn’t new… maybe the edits are what threw it off?

I should eat something and take some cold medicine then check back on it

[atypical-transfem]

Kind of a rhetorical question

Can someone (preferably other intersex peeps) please explain how dyadics/perisex/endosex are so hellbent on not being reminded of the fact that they're dyadic/perisex/endosex?

Like this doesn't even bringing up the fact they're so ignorant about their privilege and how their community, at large, is so inaccessible for the intersex (and questioning) community.

Why do they have such a knee-jerk reaction when we remind them that they, by large, (supposedly) benefits from intersex suffering?

[kushanna]

it's like. maria. please explain it to me using other words. describe your friend beatrice to me. let's play a game called "describe beatrice to me", but you cannot point to the portrait and say she "exists". you have to use other words. describe beatrice to me using other words. PLEASE, maria, describe beatrice to me using other words, i'm begging you...!!!

[creedfought]

guys i think it is time.......... for a louis starter call. >:) like this post for a starter, etc!

[maladaptivedaydreamsx]

vent/rant

I am so sick and tired of his stuff always being so expensive. It'd be nice if characters rotated once in awhile or something (speaking for those who enjoy some of the other "expensive" boys), but you know damn well they're gonna milk every mf cent and then some if they're even remotely popular. Just gonna start making up my own stories for him in my little daydreams, cause this shit just ain't it, even if I did have the money to (like way back). 100k is a damn scam at that 😒

[hana-bobo-finch]

JUST FINISHED MY STUPID LITTLE PDBC COMIC 🦅🦅🔥🔥🔥 it’ll be scheduled to post on the 13th because the comic is about the briar zome and if you remember The Lore™️, the briar zome can only be accessed on Friday the 13ths so I figured it’d be fitting to post it then been if it means delaying it a bit (wasn’t actually planned that way, it just so happened that the week I finished it was the same week as a Friday the 13th, lucky coincidence)

[cuntwrap--supreme]

Having to explain to my 57 year old mother that, no, it is not funny to send me photos of a clearly exhausted woman at the airport at 3am who had an accent she thinks makes her stupid. Like. Just tell me what she said that was funny. I don't need a series of photos of this woman exhaustedly explaining to your coworkers what she needs.

[normalest-of-knees]

That.... was an episode. Technically.

Volume 9 Episode 9 discussion below the cut

Tw: mentions and discussions of suicide and how the show and characters were framing it

I may make another post or rb this to discuss the rest of the episode, but this mainly deals with the whole Tea thing

I'm-- I just-- what in the whole entire fuck was that?? Yes I saw somewhere it's supposed to be like a part 1 or 2 but.... Jeepers crappers, man.

So not only does WBY&J not react at all to what happened to Ruby last episode, tea or otherwise, but they just kinda run off, stop and... be sad??

They talk about how shit happens sometimes, then the crystal people show up and it's suddenly hugs and smiles??? Guys?!?!

Yang only reacts to Ruby being gone after she finds the wooden cocoon thing, and even then the others are quick to "It's not that bad. It's what she wanted." Like they haven't been ignoring/not noticing Ruby's severe depression and state of mind for the past few days now and that she didn't just barely blow up at them.

And something I want to address, is the show writers, and characters, and everything framed in the last episode made it quite clear that the tea was suicide. I saw a few takes saying "the tea clearly wasn't supposed to be about suicide. They wouldn't kill her off" etc. Etc.

And I want to say, no. Just, no.

The suicide thing fucking sucks, yes. But the show last episode and this one made it clear that Ruby drinking the tea was her choosing to commit suicide.

Do I think that this should've happened at all? Fuck no. This company has no goddamn clue how to write and talk about sensitive topics such as this, and they need to stop immediately.

But I cannot wrap my head around how anyone could've looked at what happened last episode and think: its just healing tea!

The show has done a terrible job of using an "unreliable narrator" or other such to convey information to the audience.

Ascension is like death, but not, but is! Jaune said its bad, but the Stars say it's good! The Cat said it's normal, but the girls think it's wrong or unnatural. The Stars dying is ok! Then it's even better than ok, because they're "better" now! Herb is new and better! Ruby will be... ?

The show doesn't properly or clearly make any information given to us make sense, and even with the knowledge that the Cat is supposed to be bad, we still don't actually know what's ok and what isn't when we look back.

Yes, Ruby is clearly going to be ok from what we saw this episode. But she still very clearly was not ok mentally, and was actually literally pushed towards taking her own life.

She said "I just don't want to be me, anymore." And then drank the tea, knowing at the very least, that she'd be remade and lose her memories, at best. At worst, it would outright kill her.

Even Neo, who likely knew less about Ascension than the rest of them, still was framing it to Ruby as suicide.

Then, when Ruby did it, Neo was distraught. Regardless of what happens to Ruby next, she's gone. And Neo now has nothing. To Neo, one way or another, Ruby is dead.

But that's the thing.

Regardless of what happens to Ruby, she viewed it as dying or not being herself anymore.

Doesn't matter if the audience knows better or thinks they know better. CRWBY, the show, the characters, everything, framed this as Ruby Rose taking her own life.

And what happens immediately after such a thing? Her friends and family run back to safety, in which I assume they're trying to head for the tree perhaps, and then they just stop and Jaune is sad.

Not even Yang or Weiss or Blake seem to really have a reaction, only until after they hug it out and see Ruby encased in wood at the tree. Suddenly it's real now. Suddenly it's different. And Yang does have a good reaction! She's panicked, crying, angry, desperate. That's her sister in there! Dunno where this reaction was before but ok, at least we got there!

But the others are quick to tell her that it's not that bad and it's up to Ruby now. Which, if they had conveyed Ascension to us in any other way, could be fun and interesting! But because it's this world's closest equivalent to death that we as an audience and the characters can compare it to, it makes it seem like suicide is a good thing.

Like it's just a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.

No matter what happens next episode, and what becomes of Ruby, the framing was still that for her and the Paper Stars, suicide is good and gives you the power up/strength you need, and your loved ones just have to accept that and move on.

And that's disgusting.

[spirit-small]

i post mere Concepts for g/t stories because my secret is that i am imagining these scenarios with Current Blorbos and sometimes they don't perfectly align with the themes and characterization of the original work so i refuse to write it down as fanfiction. but i also don't really have any OCs that work for this kind of thing.

[star-studded-zweilous]

with tumblr going the way it is [ie down the drain] i think im going to look into setting up an account somewhere new. i do have a discord but its not the same as having somewhere dedicated to post things

the two ive been hearing most about are cohost and pillowfort, so ill likely look into those, any advice about them would be appreciated

[martyrbat]

carrying on from last post have been rotating a vampire sid fic in my head that's sooo funny. gods most loveable tortured lamb is cursed forever to be undead. he can't play hockey because the cameras. hes drinking from the wrist of his pack of boytoys and malewifes and is in hiding. he is so fucking annoying to everyone around him without his autism and obsessiveness being channelled into his sport. 18 years of love and friendship despite the odds grows longer and longer, even if the odds are referring to something else. he is tortured in watching his friends grow older and the inevitable separation that finally comes with them leaving him only in death, the only place he can't follow. g is so fucking pissed that he wont convert him while he still something of a hairline...

[ablog]

I love pov!! I love povs so much!!! I love to see stories of why and how the "bad guy" got to where they are! Bonus points if from their pov they are the good guy!

I would LOVE to see a show/movie that starts with us following the regular hero backstory and see the character grows and becomes a better person and all of that, and later have corruption arc, but not from some evil dude doing something to them, but from the inside and all that occurred to them, the bigging of a hero and a villain are often similar with little differences from their lifes and the environment around them it's so fucking interesting and i would LOVE to have it as the show's "twist"

[memorys-skyscraper]

here's a potentially hot take that i havent seen: i think the yakuza series' approach to narrative and storytelling has a lot in common with kingdom hearts

walk with me on this:

plot is purely a vehicle for putting Characters in Situations for the sake of interpersonal drama & emotional moments. both series have their fair share of utter nonsense (e.g. the mechanics of hearts/nobodies/time travel, yamato II, Yakuza 3 Chapter 9 The Plot) because that nonsense is purely a means to the end of getting us to the emotional destination the writers are after

yakuza 1 is literally just kh1 where kiryu = sora, nishiki = riku, and yumi = kairi. haruka and date = donald and goofy. tell me im wrong (you cant)

what constitutes a fatal wound varies wildly and characters are brought back from the dead (literally or figuratively) not infrequently

plot points and character traits are readily retconned and/or abandoned if the game decides they're inconvenient to how it wants to develop a character going forward (see: rubber bullets, axel's CoM murder spree being quietly forgotten from 3D on)

if you took a tally of the number of fights between current or ex-best friends/found family members, i genuinely don't know which series would have more

in conclusion: yakuza is just kingdom hearts if all the characters were middle-aged japanese men

[21clownboyroach]

im thinking about how they made oswald such a stereotypical gay man. like really old stereotypes that people don't even seem to perpetuate the modern day. but gotham had to. they went ok lets give this fag an overbearing mother and absent father. oh and make him overly neurotic. oh and also let's pull the 1950s trope of the homicidal homosexual. and so they did and then the entire series is like "let's see how much we can make this gay man suffer." there's not really a Point to this post i just find it interesting bc it stood out to me so much and ive talked to my friends about it but no one else online seems to have mentioned it

which is crazy bc the only thing you could do to make him any more stereotypically gay would be to make him extra flamboyant and really into theater and do drugs and listen to amy winehouse.... but they had to save those stereotypes for the other gay lmao