#i know this is an unpopular opinion

[kidovna]

what do you think about els new fit?

i think it’s fun! at least i like it more than the rink-o-mania fit 🫣

[sugarbear2001]

Rogue is a great character, but I feel that some people in the fandom just water her character down to being nothing more than sex appeal or just Gambit's wife when she is so much more than that.

[ladysparrow01]

I love being a Romanticist, actually, because I can just look Historical Accuracy clean in the face and say, "You Have No Power Over Me."

[vodkacheesefries]

Everyone's like "oh inzoi is gonna make everyone forget about the sims" and tbh...

I don't enjoy the hyper realism. I don't like the idea of actually working a job in the game. Sims has a level of fantasy and absurdism that I feel like life sims need to be, y'know. Fun.

I have zero interest in playing a life sim that's ACTUALLY like real life. Like if I had to play a game that was like the past year of my life I'd uninstall it so fast.

It'll be interesting to see how long it's staying power is.

[bowtiepastabitch]

I hate it when people use "dear boy" in fanfics

Like I genuinely can't fucking get over it. "My dear"? Cute as fuck, affectionate, everything to me. "Dear"? Mildly less affectionate but still love it. "Good boy"? Crowley has a thing for praise, leave me alone, actually perfect. But "dear boy"? It's giving "old sport". Same for "my boy" most of the time. I know it's canonically used by Aziraphale in the book but to me it just isn't intimate in the way people want it to be. Especially in smut. I genuinely have to change it in my head to keep from closing the tab out of spite.

[quercussp]

this is my yearly rant and one of my truly unpopular opinions is that i hate halloween with my entire heart and i cannot wait for the "spooky season" to be over

[i--see--everything]

Never liked the soulmates trope. Not only because nobody ever talks about the sociological implications (fun fact, I have a degree in sociology), but also because, in my case, it makes the relationship feel more shallow.

I much rather read about two characters chosing to be together out of their free will because they care and want things to work out. Instead of some external, somewhat omnipotent force that has decided it before them.

i can never write a soulmates au cause i very quickly stop thinking about romance and start thinking about the sociological implications of a world where soulmates are a confirmed verifiable thing

[artsymeeshee]

[deadpoets]

JESS MARIANO + GREEN QUILTED JACKET [x]

[slybluehologhost]

NITRO CHiRAL fair Purchase Bonus Postcards [2024]

Figured I’d take a minute to scan the postcards that came with the merch I had preordered from eeo! If I’m not mistaken, I should only be missing the café one… which is likely because I didn’t order any of the café designs, haha. I love how cute all the new outfits are — I’d probably buy them all if they ever released official versions someday! These scans are available in better quality (along with their backs & front/back PDF sets) here.

[shinidamachu]

Very specific Inukag type of angst I wish I found more in fics because it just hits different: Kagome slowly becoming indifferent to the love triangle drama and Inuyasha getting heart broken because he realizes he's losing her.

[tvreadsandsleep]

I don't know. I feel some sympathy for W'Kabi. His parents were killed when Klaw attacked Wakanda to steal vibranium, and for years, under T'Chaka's rule, he waited for them to be avenged. Nothing happened though and he thought it was going to be more of the same with T'Challa on the throne.

Killmonger knew exactly what he was doing, bringing Klaw's dead body to W'Kabi (Ross did say he specialized in destabilizing nations), so W'Kabi played right into his hand. Plus, we do know he and Killmonger already had a similar ideology from the conversation he had with T'Challa outside the rhino pens, so it wasn't much for him to betray T'Challa and align himself with Killmonger.

I get the dislike (what he did wasn't right), but some people seem really intense about it. If characters like Namor and Killmonger are considered redeemable, why can't W'Kabi? (They all have their tragic backstories that explain their actions.) Fandomwise, he doesn't even really get in the way of Attoye since he was pretty much a nonfactor in the second movie.

And I know I'm guilty of writing this in fanfic, but it doesn't look like his betrayal had any real blowback on Okoye (other than emotionally, which yes is a biggie, and excluding Ramonda's tirade but that was more grief than anything else) since, in the Daughter of the Border deleted scene, it was said to her that, "no one has more support among the people than you," and her uncle wanted her to make a play for the throne.

I really wish all those deleted scenes (except maybe the Ross one cause I don't care about him) had been included in the movie, but that's another conversation.

So I watched Black Panther again and it confirmed what I already knew.

W’kabi. Ain’t. Shit.

[birdy-babe]

UNPOPULAR HELLUVA BOSS OPINION

I actually think Stolas calling Blitzø “Blitz” and not “Blitzy” is positive character development- HEAR ME OUT

I’m a linguist. So when I think about the addition of the -y on his name, that is known as an English diminutive, which is an affix added to a word to make the it smaller / cuter. Some examples of this are: Dog -> doggy, Cat/Kit -> Kitty, etc.

This is how we got a lot of English words like “tiny” “teensy” “baby” “stubby” “mini” “itty bitty” and more because that -y (or the -y sound) at the end indicates smallness.

When considering the political context of Helluva Boss, adding the -y to Blitz name could be seen as degrading, or emphasizing his smaller place in the world. Especially when it accompanies other nicknames that Stolas uses in season 1 like “little ones” “impish little plaything” “itty bitty imp” to refer to Blitzo and other imps. It’s like he’s constantly reminding Blitz of how small he is.

So from Blitz perspective, he could see this nickname reminding him of his “place in the world” which, in the context of the show, is “inferior.” And each time Stolas uses “Blitzy” it feels degrading and belittling.

Especially when Blitzo works so hard to fight against that box that Hell places him in. In the Harvest Moon episode, Striker tells him how it’s impressive that he started his own business, because not many Imps do that.

So these nicknames and this attitude from Stolas might also indicate him not taking Blitzo and his business seriously. His business is something we know Blitzo values above most things.

Which is why I think Blitzo hates it so much.

And thus I like when Stolas uses “Blitz” instead- I feel, from Blitzo’s perspective, it more respectful. Using his name makes it seem like Stolas really does view them as equals.

But that’s just a theory-

A helluva theory

[stray-but-okay]

new power duo

[the-girl-with-too-many-ideas]

Unpopular opinion, If the story was told from Shen Jiu's perspective, svsss would be a horror and Shen Yuan the villain.

I mean, you're talking about someone who had little to no automony their entire childhood. Who was a slave and suffered unspeakable horrors at the hands of his master to the point of developing a fear of men. Who knows what it is like to have no control over your body or what happens to it.

So, to be not only kicked out of his body, but forced to watch as someone else occupies and uses it (arguably doing and becoming everything he was rumored to have been and done) would be viscerally horrific.

(This is why I firmly believe that YQY would take the Shen Yuan revelation badly. He was a slave too, and without a doubt, knows how much Shen Jiu valued his freedom and autonomy above everything else. He would be so horrified and devastated to learn that his Xiao Jiu was stripped of both again while he stood by and did nothing again.)