#i distinctly remember being like

[maximura]

Best Friends: Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev

[creekfiend]

people act like being intentionally whimsical is inherently more annoying than being intentionally serious but why. suppose my temper is just naturally whimsical.

[birf]

I remember my inner fan child officially felt like I “made it” when I started seeing people use my dabi fanart in edits/amvs and I’m excited cause I could maybe one day feel like that again with my Mello and Matt art

[byuluno]

✧ 10 years later ✧

140819 - danger by bts

[front-facing-pokemon]

[hzdtrees]

Small Beginnings

[they-didnt-last]

anyone interested in talking about the iconic 2000's middle-grade-bordering-on-ya book series gallagher girls??

[milfygerard]

you guys dont get it gerbert is like good luck babe but they both think theyre chappell

[coffeegnomee]

Has anyone ever (idk why they would) compiled a list of every time someone was banned on lifesteal?

Like I'm going to just have to do it myself to prove my own point, and it's a stupid point because for lore and content it's far more interesting to be afraid of the threat of getting banned.

But I'm pretty sure... all... of the bans have been either out of pure accident or out of the player choosing to be banned.

Like has there ever been a time where someone got legitimately farmed off the server (and succeeded?)

It has been close multiple times, but someone always saves the in danger player. Spoke trapped Clown's spawn point in the Cleansing, but didn't ban him. They spawn trapped Zam in the s3 finale when he was revived. Spawn trapping Jaron on his revival s4. Both were saved by teammates. And wemmbu almost getting banned by Ash s5, but breaking his own bed and escaping.

I guess Squiddo banning wemmbu s5 was an unplanned and not accidental ban tbh. But since it was later, and a betrayal, it's not the same as the threat of your enemy banning you.

But I feel like it's got to have happened more I just can't remember when. The threat is always there and when someone wants someone banned they really do put their all into trying.

But it just genuinely doesn't happen that often. Which is really interesting to me because the new members are so afraid of getting banned, flame almost the most. He's talked about it ages ago that he wanted extra hearts specifically so if he got farmed off and he would be able to come back on 20 immediately. And then with Kab originally wanting to ban Mane, and then being so afraid of getting banned herself.

[thefirstknife]

glad to see that ppl are aware that nimbus doesn't deserve the hate they get bc it stems from them being nonbinary! but i also see them be compared to cayde a lot, which i understand. but ppl are like "they're basically another cayde" and idk how i feel about that. it seems weird and ignorant to sideline them as cayde but nonbinary when nimbus is more than that despite our lack of interactions + lore w/ them. ppl already had a hard time comprehending how they processed their grief through humor and their recklessness in the deterministic chaos mission so it's no surprise they just view them as a cayde comparison :/ sorry, i could be overthinking things i'm not sure. what do you think?

I feel similarly, it feels a bit reductive to just boil them down to another Cayde, though I understand the comparison. People mostly say it because a lot of the hate for Nimbus is the, genuinely, fake outrage over a character being a little silly and humorous at odd times which is strange because everybody loved Cayde who acted the same. And imo, with fewer good reasons for it as well; although both Cayde and Nimbus hide behind a persona to mask their feelings, I feel like Cayde, one of the Vanguard leaders with hundreds of years of experience under his belt should be a little less silly than a rookie Cloud Strider who's never had anything happen to them in their short life until the start of the expansion.

They're both different characters, but share some similarities in how they're perceived so I understand the comparison especially when people ONLY hate Nimbus for "making jokes." And you have to ask "If you dislike characters making jokes, how can you like Cayde then?" It's always people's first association when someone complains about a character making jokes. I don't think people often think of them as just copies of each other, it's just a natural comparison to draw when people pretend to be bothered by jokes.

I also feel like both of these characters have jokes that are a product of their time; this isn't unusual of course, but people tend to look down on anything new. Naturally, the jokes from MY youth were good and funny, the jokes the kids have these days are cringe and bad. That's essentially it.

I like both of them for their own reasons and I enjoy both of their humour styles. Also, a lot of people thought Cayde's behaviour in vanilla D2 was super cringe btw, I remember people being fairly annoyed that he was "cracking jokes" in the middle of one of the, arguably, worst situations the setting has ever been in (Red War, loss of Light). A lot of people don't remember that, but people did NOT like Cayde's silliness. I understand why, but I never really had an issue with it; it was just a relief from all the gloom otherwise. I think it makes sense to add a little bit of silly, and I think the same applies to Nimbus.

This is why people tend to compare the two! And then you look at all of that and you wonder why Nimbus is the one getting the hate and in most cases it boils down to transphobia. Not always, people can dislike the character for other reasons; but in a LOT of cases, online especially, it's just that. It's evident from the misgendering and the type of hate being hurled around which went as far as insulting the devs and the VA (who is nonbinary and spoke publicly about finding it hard to find work because of their identity). Again, people can dislike Nimbus for other reasons too, but it's really hard to divorce the overwhelming hate for Nimbus from their identity and the state of the gaming community currently.

[clfixationstation]

I just remembered the time I was a summer camp counselor and I tried to read the first Harry Potter book aloud to my campers, and I had to skip over so many fatphobic lines

Because why would I just expose these perfectly nice kids to a bunch of mean comments, played off as comedy, that they would use as ammunition against other kids and themselves? It's just plain cruel. Joanne was incredibly fucking weird for that

[garnet-xx-rose]

No but can someone explain the rise in Drakgo’s popularity in the last like 3 years. Cause I really spent most of my childhood being told I was delusional that this was the best relationship in the series and now I’m an adult and it’s the only ship I see with an actual fandom.

[jokerlennon]

am i the only one who remembers people boycotting eurovision last year as well like i know it's a bigger thing now for obvious reasons but i keep seeing posts that seem to suggest that this is the first time this has ever come up ?

[error-core-animations]

I'm in a very interesting position of "got comprehensive and age appropriate sex ed at a young age" but I was also molested as a kid. I am walking evidence that seeing diagrams of penises and vaginas isn't harmful and the real thing that gets kids hurt and sexually abused is not knowing shit. Cuz like, I did get told what genitals were and how zygotes implant into the uterus walls and stuff, but nobody told me about sexual abuse and assault for a while.

This also illustrates something ✨extremely fun✨: CSA is treated like it is Too Yucky to tell kids about, even in technical terms, even if the kid is aware of what sex is, they simply cannot know that if their friend pressures them into touching their genitals, that's a bad thing and that friend is probably being hurt! It's so weird, there's literally a whole saying about how knowledge is power, but kids are intentionally denied knowledge that could save them so much pain.

[comradeboyhalo]

the most badboyhalo thing bad's ever done was when that whole "would you trust [x cc] to hold your drink" trend went on and when bad heard people were saying his name, he lectured chat about how you should never let anyone hold your drink ever regardless

[exaltedgrimleal]

but why do some people have the audacity?

when i was twenty, i went on one date with this guy in my college program. it went fine, and we were getting along, but i didnt want things to progress and it ended with me kind of cutting ties with him

only for this guy to follow me on instagram and unfollow me

at least three times

once per year

and this only stopped because i blocked him because stop?

so now it's seven years later and this guy stumbles upon my dating app profile, under a different name and different pictures, and he decides to send me a super like

sir i promise you the answer is and will always be no