#haterism moment

[veilkeeper]

i say this with as much disrespect as i can possibly muster, some of you would call movie trailers spoilers.

[clementine-kesh]

when aroace was trending and half the top posts were that ugly motherfucker from h*zbin h*tel… i’m so sorry my aroace friends you deserve so much better

[chantryexplosion]

okay i Am kinda annoyed tho that my inquisitor didn’t even get to talk to solas at all ???? bc i know that if you romanced him you do get Something right so like 🧍what about friendship man. did my wet cat of a lavellan not deserve closure just bc he did not wanna fuck that man.

[mobgoblin]

Queued right up for it

[rollercoasterwords]

pet peeve is when a fellow hater conducts their haterism such that they leave the hater community vulnerable to attack. “i think characterizing Character A in x way is boring and annoying” = beautiful, flawless, unimpeachable haterism. no one can tell u that u aren’t allowed to find a certain characterization boring. “it is morally/objectively wrong to characterize Character A in x way” = sloppy, reactionary, overcommitting. you have left our eastern flank open to attack girl what the hell….now my dedicated hater troops are taking fire from YOUR enemies fuckkkkk

[carlyraejepsans]

fandoms love to go ooooo you have to read this fic it's the most popular fic in the famdom it's a fandom classic and then you read it and it's bad

[kulluto]

please excuse my hater moment but i hate when people see two characters that have the most insane dynamic and they’re like but what if it was wholesome :) okay well what if they fucked nasty style and tried to kill each other all the time also

[lgbtlunaverse]

Fanon likes to portray Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji as being jealous of each other because they fear wei wuxian will choose one of them over the other. Which is ignoring the fact that at least in novel canon Jiang Cheng did not even fucking know wangxian ever got along let alone that lwj was in love with wwx until at the very end of the story (in cql canon he does go through a wangxian phase early on and gets very confused by their "breakup" during wwx's sunshot era) and that Lan Wangji is mostly filled with loathing towards both himself and Jiang Cheng for 'abandoning' Wei Wuxian and not being able to save him.

It also ignores the much bigger point that both Lan Wangji and Jiang Cheng are actually jealous of Wen Ning. And why wouldn't they be? That is who Wei Wuxian chose in his first life. He left the Jiang, told Lan Wangji to fuck off no he is not coming to gusu with you, and spent his days with his little-brother-shaped corpse bestie on his mountain in yiling. And then when he came back he immediately called him up the second he could string together more than two notes on a flute. Wen Ning is the real competition. (And he's winning)

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael is FNAF Baby's number #1 hater

[veilkeeper]

"whether you're Solavellan and you've romanced Solas, or even just any other Inquisitor" why are they talking as if being an inquisitor who DIDN'T romance solas is like, hard to believe

you had to play a female elf to even have the option to romance him (and that's assuming you even wanted to). there were 3 other lineages and 7 other romance options in inquisition. NOT romancing him is statistically more likely, and yet they're treating it like you're the outlier for not romancing their specialest boy.

here's how your inquisitor feels about solas. solavellan is soooo important you guys don't even get it. btw nothing else in the series matters.

[mouseshift]

[veilkeeper]

i truly don't understand the complaint that "oh, x information is only in codex entries, why didn't they put it in the game!" well anyone who's been around in this series for longer than five minutes knows that the codex is not just there for funsies or as a meaningless lore dump. there is often extremely pertinent character details and background information in there, as well as heart-wrenching and thematically appropriate stories that are worth reading. it is the dev's intention that you as the player are taking the time to read at least some of it. it is in the game. it's right there. in the codex.

[vebokki]

they're judging you unfortunately

[headspace-hotel]

so I was running the first paragraph of this essay I hate through google translate, for reasons that are too long to explain, and became very thoughtful about these lines:

Most North American places have shed wolves, elk, moose, brown bears, panthers, bison, and a variety of fish and wild plants, which were all abundant four hundred years ago. Before those species were driven out, there was the slaughter of the mammoth, the ground sloth, the wild horse. The squirrels, rabbits, and sparrows that surround my North Carolina porch are less signs of burgeoning life than survivors of an apocalypse; so are the revenant coyotes that poach chickens and puppies from the neo-hippie farmsteads outside town. 

I was interested that the author mentioned living in North Carolina, a place that is such a stunning jewel of biodiversity. The world capital of salamanders, home to numerous endemic plants including the Venus flytrap, the most biodiverse temperate forest in the world.

I detest nature writing by people who do not engage with nature around them, and worse, denigrate it for being worthless compared to some imagined pristine pre-human Wilderness.

The author grieves the loss of the animals missing in the environment around him, but he does not love or revere the animals that still exist or newly arrive.

The essay goes on to further discuss the extermination of wilderness, the elimination of the human connection to nature, and his longing for a primitive, spiritual sort of connection to land and nature. He presents brief reviews of several books of nature writing, all of which he judges as incomplete for addressing this primitive spiritual yearning. His review of Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane is insultingly egotistical, dismissing the meaning within Gaelic vocabulary because it doesn't give him the sense of "animistic" connection to the land that he wants.

But the author reveals the reason his yearning remains unsatisfied in the first few lines of his essay! He is isolated from the natural world because he has decided the Nature around him, the Nature he can see, touch, experience, and commune with, is "already destroyed" and no longer Nature at all. He refuses to see wildness in the sparrows, therefore wildness is inaccessible to him.

When he thinks of ecological tragedies of the past, or ecological threats of the future, it is all generic: destruction of bison, climate change, losses of species. No sign of intimate communion with the devastating wounds of the land on which he lives: the killing of millions of salamanders in logging, the perishing of the spruce-fir forest due to acid rain... he is tormented by abstractions of ecological tragedy, not the suffering of the land that is his home.

He wants to be deeply spiritually grounded in place....but no, not the place he lives in, some Other place that fulfills all his fantasies of "wildness."

[valtsv]

[ping-ski]

does this make sense

(celestial meridian au belongs to @pluck-heartstrings <3)