#i would never pit two bad bitches against each other

[puppygirl-slimegirl]

not enough people notice the intricate differences in girlsmell between shaven and unshaven women. its like red vs white wine. and baby im a sommelier

[capriciousarsonist]

the homecoming queens got a gun ran so the ballad of sara berry could also run

[applebees4prez]

snl wishes they could be this funny prepared, let alone off the cuff. nobody has perfected the art of comedic timing like zac oyama has but also, nobody could work with other comedians well as these guys do.

[precalamity]

I’ve cultivated a beautiful dashboard where I can’t tell at first glance if a given piece of fanart is of lestat vampireinterview or curt velvetgoldmine

[lesbiansagainsttheatre]

move over mitski there's a new song called nobody i'm obsessed with

[waitineedaname]

rewatching the cleanup arc shortly after rereading it in the manga is really making me realize how much better paced this arc is in the manga

[die-mitri]

Brother I thought I started it :,( I guess we're all psychically connected and felt the need to talk abt it at the same time.

I just don't wanna make anyone mad/ruin their fandom experience but also I physically cannot keep my opinions to myself or my head will explode. Any near argument I've gotten into was resolved in my comments and I just really don't wanna start shit on someone else's post so I make my own. It's very sweet that most of us can move on while disagreeing. Very different from other fandom's I've seen.

It's so easy to forget we're all talking to another human and the things we say have an actual effect on the other's day. I know how frustrated I get. I think it's cute that we try to minimize collateral damage 😭

My favourite phenomenon in the dungeon meshi fandom I've seen is that no one reblogs their beef on the post that "started it". Most people just... Make their own new post that is definitely a direct response/vague at the original post. And the tags are so quiet that someone will definitely see it.

I think I started partaking before I even noticed but the labru top/bottom drama definitely made it super apparent

[zeldatourney]

Polls and Explanations

The tourney is over, and it's been a lot of fun! Especially for me, who got to see all the comments everyone left.

One recurring question I got (other than "Why would you pit two bad bitches against each other;" sir, this is the "pitting two bad bitches against each other" blog) was why I matched things up as they did. For example, putting Wind Waker up against Breath of the Wild in round one, when that seems like a final battle sort of deal.

There are two things that have always bothered me about poll tourneys.

Overwhelmingly, the results are dominated by "which is more recognizable" rather than "which is better." Just about everyone in the Zelda fandom has played Breath of the Wild, so it would outcompete almost everything based on sale numbers, which was boring and predictable.

The first few rounds never seemed to MEAN anything.

Number 1 was easy enough to fix: just add in options for "I haven't played these" and specify that you want answers from someone who's played both, and boom! You get informed opinions on which is better.

2, though, was more of a problem.

See, the way most brackets are engineered is to build up FOR that final battle. You want a clash of the titans as your finale! You want the biggest and baddest to have to claw their way to victory! You want your favorite game to have the highest kill count!

Which means your first round pits those titans against small competitors that never stood a chance, just to get them out of the way. With the exception of meme entries, nothing ever comes from that.

Of course Breath of the Wild would blow Cadence of Hyrule out of the water.

Of course the Oracles games wouldn't stand up to something like Skyward Sword.

None of these polls answer any questions. They're just obligatory so the match can get to that final battle without complaints.

Wanting to avoid that, the way I approached this bracket was a bit different. Instead of guessing at which would be the most popular and reverse-engineering that epic showdown, I wanted to match like with like.

So I made something to test the waters:

Without an explanation attached, this one made a lot of people mad! Why was I separating Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, which shared a map, but not Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, which were vastly different games?

I didn't have enough poll options to do every single game, so I had to mix. And the mix was strategic:

Most games on here that are paired together share fans. For example, the majority of Ocarina of Time players either like or are ambivalent towards Majora's Mask, while a VAST majority of Breath of the Wild players take issue with the story of Tears of the Kingdom. If I grouped BotW with TotK, I wouldn't be able to get a read on how many people loved TotK, because BotW would be so overwhelming.

I'd seen about equal fandom obsession with Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword, or with Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks, so I could take their result and divide it by half.

Anyone who didn't fit either of these criteria got grouped together as best as I knew how. Wind Waker and Minish Cap are both full of whimsy. Tri Force Heroes, Cadence of Hyrule, and Hyrule Warriors are all different gameplay loops than the standard Zelda, and are (at least honorary, in TFH's case) spin-offs.

This poll gave me good data. There was about an equal level of interest between Four Swords and Echoes of Wisdom. Minish Cap probably made up a very small percentage of Wind Waker votes, so it would have to fight its way up through smaller guys. Something BIG would have to go up against Breath of the Wild to have a fighting chance.

With all that in mind, I started hammering out what the polls would be. I wanted each one to

Be paired with something that had a similar level of interest

Answer a question or sate a curiosity

That way, hopefully, they'd be neck-and-neck, and I'd get some good opinions out of the people who voted one or the other.

So, with all that in mind: here's my thought process when making this tourney, step by step. You might have to click to be able to read it all.

So...what now? A loser's bracket? A re-do with different matchups?

Not exactly.

I'm going to make a separate post on that. Rest assured, though, this tournament is far from over.

This was just the first run.

[starleska]

Heya. So um... I got a question. Which character you fell in love the most? Maxime Le Mal (Despicable Me 4) or Ronaldo (Helluva Boss) or maybe both of them? If someone already asked you that question, that's fine

oh...forgive me, you made me think about Maxime Le Mal and Rolando at the same time, and i think my brain blanked out for a second 🥴💖 what were we talking about? 🙈🙈

my first response to this excellent question is: why would i ever pit two bad bitches against each other? 🥰💖 i adore both characters in different ways for different reasons but i think trying to figure out which one i love 'more' is a bit like that 'two cakes' comic. it's less about one cake being better than the other - i'm just like, 'Holy shit! Two cakes!' 😂💖

however, this is an interesting pair as they have a lot of similarities to each other!! both older, fancily-dressed villains wearing tinted glasses (why is it always the tinted glasses?! 😖) who spend a great deal of time trying to cause distress to their targets and who are hiding a sexy monstrous form 😉 equally funny - the second i saw both of them in their respective trailers, i knew i was doomed. sometimes you just see a character and hear the autistic equivalent of the Kill Bill siren, you know? 😭💖

if we're going by a 'how ill is this guy making you' metric, i can confirm that i've done very little but think about our new favourite eel fellow for the past few days...and Maxime had me in a similar 'can't think about anything else' grip 🙈 a lot of my character fixations can be put on a spectrum somewhere between brief crush and Category 5 Autism Event, with the closeness to the latter being determined by 'how much have you talked about them', 'how many fanworks have you created in a short period of time', and 'how severely are they reducing your functioning' 😂 i think the absolute worst i've had over the past year or so were the Toymaker (i have never made that amount of fanworks for a character so quickly) and Nordic Bunny (i forgot to eat 💀💀). but!! i hold all of my beloved characters close to my heart even if they were just teeny-tiny little fixations, or if they're characters of fixations past...if something makes you happy even a little bit, i think they're just as worthy as the things which make you really happy too :3c

[chaos0pikachu]

Omg Tonkla in Role Reversal GreatTyme would be funny af.

Tonkla: Okay, but have you considered this: we murder Tyme—

Great: P'Tonkla, you always suggest murder as a first AND last solution!

Like, Great was all for some mid sextortion because Tyme has a girlfriend, but Tonkla has fully embraced "Eat the rich" mindset and Korn is too lovesick (amused) to ever try to put a stop to it (not like he can in the first place).

I really do want more tonklakorn x greattyme allyship why are we pitting two bad bitches against each other y'all?

I also love the idea of Tonkla being high key down for eat the rich mentality while Great is like "I can excuse revenge porn and sextortion but I draw the line at brutal murder" and tonkla is like "ugh fine, gentle~ murder" like those two cat boys deserve their fail men so much tonkla and great never meet in the show but imagine the possibilities!!

[catbreon-draws]

I just realized that the only two meowscarada fusions I've done both look like masked wrestlers and I kinda love it?? here's the other one-

Glameow x Sprigatito evolutionary line! hehe funny cats :3

Please consider sharing my art if you like it, thank you! My commission details and available pokemon adoptables are in my pinned post. Please PM me if interested!

[dirty-bosmer]

Catch Up with Me!

Tagged by @inkysqueed Thank you <3 I'm looking forward to watching beloved episodes of How it's Made later today, hehe.

Tagging: @elavoria @justafoxhound @chennnington @wispstalk @theoneandonlysemla @ladytanithia @miraakulous-cloud-district district if you haven't done it already :D

📚️ Currently reading:

Fanfic: I'm in the middle of quite a few at the moment 😅 Most recently, The Nature of Fire by wispstalk/buttsmcginty (haha butt) and Dealings with Daedra part 2 by theoneandonlysemla/semla

Published: Just finished 'Normal People' by Sally Rooney and that was akjagijhjlg good but extremely frustrating. I stayed up until 1AM ripping out my hair my while reading it. Also 'These Violent Delights' by Micah Nermerever

🎶 Last song I listened to: Pope is a Rockstar— SALES

Last series: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, the tv miniseries. I really liked it!

🎬️ Last movie: Gremlins lol I'd never seen it before, and I loved it. So chaotic. Definitely adding it to the annual Christmas watch list.

📺 Currently watching: Interview with the Vampire season two with some friends. I love toxic gay shit. If I had to pick one genre to read/watch/listen to for the rest of my life it would be toxic gay shit. Someone pls rec me more toxic gay shit.

🌶️ Sweet/Savory/Spicy?: I could never pit three bad bitches against each other. All of them, couldn't live without them.

❤️ Relationship status: engaged 💍

🎨️ Favorite color: Earth tones, green, baby pink

🤩 Current obsession: My fiance bought an espresso machine after trying out his brother's over Thanksgiving, and since he's been on a work trip all week, I've been learning how to use it. We were a black coffee from a V60 household prior to this, so it was kind of intimidating to foam the milk, and the first time I made a cappuccino it tasted like grass lol (used oat milk and overextracted the beans). I'm not the biggest fan of milk tho so I stick to macchiatos, and my last two have been 👌

☕️ Tea or Coffee: Slight preference for coffee, but I love an herbal tea after dinner and am currently drinking a vanilla almond black tea.

🌐️ Last Thing I Googled: "Altoona style pizza" because I refused to believe it was a real thing and not something made at 2AM by drunk college students.

[tarak-manspread]

I gotta be honest. I’ve rewatched Magadheera a few times now, and I think it’s becoming my favorite non-RRR Rajamouli film???!! Never thought Yamadonga would be usurped, and I still love Yamadonga with all my heart, but Magadheera is so sweet and sincere, and my little fluffy gay heart just loves that to pieces. Not to pit two bad bitches against each other, but Magadheera has really come out on top!

[solarwynd]

https://x.com/jkzpop/status/1805747713880785276?s=46&t=xZfMNrysfzaHDchIEDZ2ZQ

imagine if th would’ve dropped a song that day… the way these bitches would’ve been crying in every tweet about the streams saying how ths song keep free falling (bc yes it would’ve happened, likee 🥴) but they have the audacity to say they enjoy when “contents overlap” BITCH STFU yall were the ones crying because ygs album didn’t have a single song in the top 50 after a month

There is a part of me that understands why armys would think like this, (apart from them always minimizing transgressions against Jimin.) because people who are OT7 would obviously enjoy a surplus of content at once.

But at the same time, you’re absolutely right. Armys have already shown what they get down like when it comes to Jimin doing better than other members. They were pissed that people part 2 didn’t chart on Hot 100. Saying that the fandom should’ve completely dropped LC which was literally still fresh out, to support that song. The brunt of the bitterness armys harbor for Jimin now stemmed from that. All because of how close FACE and DDay were together. (I still believe had those two been spaced out properly, the blow back wouldn’t have been as bad as it was cause armys really got a lot of false hope from Jimin doing as well as he did)

And given that it would’ve been TH in this case, you know the victimization would’ve been 10x worse. Armys like to act like they don’t pit the members in competition with each other but they do. They for sure would’ve been comparing and contrasting numbers between Jimin and TH. Especially if Jimin would’ve charted in US Spotify and TH didn’t. So of course they’d act nonchalant about it now since it’s just a photo book or even when the songs would’ve initially dropped. But shit would go left throughout tracking week. Like the day Jimin and another BTS member drop a song on the same day is when you’ll really see them put that Jimin anti mask on.

I don’t know how they don’t see how shitty it is that none of the members (apart from JK) can really have a fully realized era or moment to themselves because BH refuses to not let them eat off each other. And have they not been complaining about being burnt out? Having to divide your attention between seven men who drop projects at the rate that they do. Do y’all not want a breather? Can’t even process the music one of them just dropped because you’re already making charting goals for the next member’s comeback. These over lapping releases are part of the reason why some of these other projects can never really have any real longevity. Cause apart from armys not fucking with the music, they immediately have to drop the previous member and focus on the new release since they still can’t multitask. Like that’s not “fun” in my eyes it feels like a burden.

[xx-thedarklord-xx]

if you could whats something that you would tell your past self when you first started writing

Oof, there is several things that I would tell myself.

One, write what you want and not what you think others will like. Kudos and comments are nice but if you have to censor yourself or change aspects of your story because you think that it will be better viewed or perceived, I think you lose part of your charm and part of yourself in the process.

Two, that social media likes/notes do not equate to readers. Take tumblr for example, it's more of a community of likeminded individuals that connect together, but that doesn't always transfer to Ao3. I could get five likes on a link to one of my fics and the story gets say 1k hits over night. I could get one hundred likes on a story and it could still get those 1k hits or even less. I've seen it over and over. Don't beat yourself up over a lack of social media attention, the hits will be the same regardless.

Three, not everyone is going to like you. It hurts, it sucks, and the reasons why might eat at you but in the end, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you aren't one of the popular people in fandom, it doesn't matter if you don't have a lot of fandom friends. It doesn't matter how those that don't like you will perceive you, because there is nothing that you can do to change their mind. Why give a single bit of focus on someone that already doesn't like you and will never change their mind? How exhausting.

Four, don't get caught up in feeling not seen, in not ever being in fic recs or posts of appreciation. People like what they like, and while your stories fit the criteria and you wish you were included, it doesn't mean that your story isn't good or isn't already a rec to many others.

Five, don't compare. Not as a writer or a person. The world already has that one individual, they don't need another one. Be you. You have things that others admire too, whether it's stated or not. Comparing your stories, methods, styles, prose, it's all meaningless. All it's doing is pitting two bad ass bitches against each other, even if it's only in your own mind. Be you.

[neuroticbookworm]

Thai QL Favorites Tag Game

Tagged by @telomeke, thanks friend! ^^

Credit: this game was created by @thatgirl4815 as Thai BL Favorites Tag Game.

Favorite Thai QL: Bad Buddy, my beloved. I've watched very few QLs, and Bad Buddy is the one that I often go back to when I need a pick-me-up. It may not be perfect (Wai, my beloathed) but the show never fails to make me feel deeply whenever I revisit it.

Favorite Pairing: I share @lurkingshan's opinions on branded pairs, so I'm gonna answer with a pair that I think is well-matched in terms of on-screen talent, and therefore, my favorite: FirstKhao. GMMTV took two bad bitches and said "We're gonna pit them against each other and they're gonna love it" and boy, so do we.

Most underrated actor: I saw Sing Harit almost drown Gun Atthaphan in Not Me and I've been in love ever since. I have no reasonable metrics to know if he's actually underrated, other than the fact that he doesn't show up on my dash as much as I would like. I want to see more of him, and I can't wait to get to The Warp Effect, where he wears.. *checks notes* a puppy mask? Ummmmmmmm

Favorite Character: Time to get controversial, baby!

(tagging my ToL gang @waitmyturtles, @lurkingshan, @manogirl. Keep the getaway car running, frens. We might need to make a quick exit)

*clears throat* Khai from Theory of Love.

Wait.

WAIT.

WAIT. HERE ME OUT.

I absolutely love the fact that Khai is so well-written that half the audience can't stand to watch him and the ones who make it through either viciously hate him or absolutely love him. I love that he was unabashedly awful in the first half, and I love that his redemption arc was gradual. Was he still a dipshit in some moments in the second half? Yes. Was it realistic and in-character? Also yes. I love a character who can fully acknowledge his mistakes and wholeheartedly apologize and strive to do better in the future. So, to sum up, *hugs him close to my chest like a stuffie* KHAI, MY UTTERLY BELOVED!

Favorite Side Character: Hoon from I Told Sunset About You. The fact that called Teh a crybaby when he was having a complete breakdown in Hoon's arms cemented his place in my heart.

Favorite scene in a QL: The AlanWen conversation scene at the outdoor diner in Moonlight Chicken, episode 5. Yes, I'm a masochist, thank you for asking. I'm also a staunch Alan apologist, and will defend my poor little meow meow to the ends of the Earth. (ha, me clever)

Favorite line in a QL: "Why is your wall so high?" -- Wen to Uncle Jim, Moonlight Chicken, episode 6.

Most Anticipated QL (& why): Only Friends -- doy.

Healthiest relationship in a QL: My Sunshine babies, Mork and Tawan from My Ride. They were so good to each other and they got to know each other as friends before moving into a romantic relationship, and the transition felt as natural as possible. The drama was minimal and there were no stupid misunderstandings for the sake of moving the plot along.

Most toxic relationship in a QL: VegasPete in KinnPorsche. I also co-sign @lurkingshan's pick, ToyBoss from My Ride. If anyone messes with my bookshelves the way Toy does at Boss' apartment, they will get thrown off the balcony.

Guilty pleasure series: I don't have one, fam. I'm very new to the QL town and the ones I feel guilty for watching were not pleasurable in any way.

Most underrated series: La Pluie, the love of my life. I've gushed all over my blog about this show, week after week. I don't think I can say anything more that hasn't already been said, so I'm just gonna link the La Pluie meta round up, and invite you to ponder truly how amazing a show must be to inspire these many incredible metas.

I am a full three weeks late to this game, so I'm pretty sure everyone has already done it. So if you made it this far, and still haven't participated, consider yourself tagged, my friend! Toodles!