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@tsukinoxiv Tumblr is NOT being kind in letting me tag you in the replies to the Compendium, but I wanted you to know I saw this comment! 🥺 Thank you for your lovely words, I hope you get a lot of use out of it!
#。・゚゚・ — sea speaks#omg it's still being a little SHIT by the looks of it#i'm an old man yelling at the cloud
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i am Locked In.
#i have to say. i'm not NOT enjoying the divorce.#jlo's pulling the same shit i make the beatles and their wives pull in the angsty horrid love triangle char study fics i write#i'll just say that#old man yells at cloud
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Random thought at 1am but if anyone is still in the Assassination Classroom fandom, wasn't it kind of fucked up how ppl kept showing Nagisa in feminine outfits despite him being as on the nose allegory for transness as possible. Or how Kaede was villified for being the "love interest", when her main story was about getting revenge? And that it both happened mostly for shipping?
#man idk what i'm on but it sure is annoying me#kaede is one of my favs you can fight me on this#old man yells at a cloud moment#I should reread the manga but eeeeh?#assassination classroom#nagisa shiota#kaede kayano
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omfg found the catch with spotify audiobooks being included in your subscription and it is that at some point you are out of "listening hours" (unlike other audiobook apps, it does not tell you how many hours you've listened to and it definitely doesn't tell you how many hours you have left, or even how many audiobook hours total you have been granted unless you go looking for it)(it is 15 hours) and when you hit the 15 hour paywall they graciously inform you that you can "top off" your account and buy extra audiobook listening hours (no you are not warned this would happen. when you start listening to audiobooks it seems by all accounts that it is unlimited)
and i was like okay, fine, for convenience's sake i'll fall prey to their scheme this ONE time so i can finish this damn book, thinking it'd be like, $5, considering the monthly subscription is $10.99+tax. but
you have to pay THIRTEEN DOLLARS! FOR TEN HOURS OF AUDIOBOOK! that will get you one full airport paperback novel or self-help book. most of everything worth listening to is longer than that
for that price you're much better getting a scribd $11.99 subscription which although it comes with its own faults, it will at least let you listen to a handful of complete books before it starts getting choosy
or better yet, get your audiobooks from your local library app. libby my best friend libby and her girlfriend overdrive would never do this to me
#this is so old man yells at cloud of me but this is my blog and i get to have my tumblr rants#spotify#anyway i'm quitting spotify by the end of the year once i'm done building my library so <3
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Thinking a lot about pendulums in fan culture and the number of "he WOULD NOT say that no one here would ever go to therapy" posts I see these days.
Listen, I've clicked out of fics for "he would not fucking say that" so many times. I also find fics with too much sanitized care over a certain sanctioned kind of communication a little uncanny and offputting. (So I use the back button, it's okay to not like things, dldr, etc)
But I don't think it's fair to characterize the people writing these fics as puritanical thought police unless they're actually trying to say their fic is more virtuous.
Sometimes you see a situation so messy that you want to see what would have to change to get them through it. Sometimes it's an art form to carve through all of the muck a canon presents and ask how they, too, could be redeemed. Sometimes the author has just learned about these interpersonal concepts and it feels less cringe to practice using those tools and scripts with your blorbos. Sometimes you want to make him worse, and sometimes you *do just want to fix him*. Sometimes your life sucks and you want to read a story where everybody makes the right choices and communicates and it all works out!
Sometimes the self-indulgence is whump and sex and pissing on the poor communication skills in a safe playground. Sometimes it's Blorbos Practice Active Listening Together.
#Did I feel the need to write this out for my own inner old man yelling at cloud#Because hoo boy there are Some Therapyspeak Fics in the Bucky Barnes tag on ao3?#I couldn't possibly say#It's not like I'm at the gay teens writing about men out of time adjusting to 2010s queer culture store
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Hey everyone!
I'm still (somewhat) alive!! 🥳
I did this way back in 2020 actually, but it was meant for a zine (which, to my knowledge, never saw the light of day) and since I've been going through my computer and saw this, I figured I might as well post it now. At least it might fit the summer vibe (not where I'm at though, here it's only rain all day long...)
Hope you guys are all doing well x
#yes this is like a personal blog post okay#I'm done playing the cutesie clean and sorted social media profile thing. That died with the start of my unending hiatus back in 2020.#also what the heck happened to this place#this is not the tumblr I remember#I'm too goddamn old for this#insert old-man yelling at cloud meme please#anyways#reylo#reylo art#ben solo#rey#star wars#summer#digital art
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Charles is definitely a serial monogamist which some people think is a red flag but honestly there are many worse things to be
I totally get what you mean and I'm sorry to be a stickler over semantics but. some people are wrong <3 there are a multitude of behaviours that a handsome, universally beloved, extremely charismatic multimillionaire could display that I'd perceive as “red flags”. never being single for more than a few months is NOT one of those.
AGAIn nothing to do with you I agree and I think Charles's serial monogamy is very funny to mock!!! but every time people online bring up words like “red flag” or “love bombing” or “gaslighter” when they just mean your garden variety douche at the worst, an angel loses her wings :/ I wish we lived in a society where serial monogamy was the worst thing a woman in a het relationship had to worry about! which is what “red flag” is supposed to mean
#again sorry to go off on you!!!! I broadly agree that Charles can't be single and it's nbd but it's funny to bully him about it#but i cannot take seriously anyone who in the context of a F1 discussion looks at the leclerc guys and goes 'red flags'#I have to see Horner's face on camera at every grand prix and for WHAT?#once again sorry for making this more serious than it was meant to be but I'm sooo old man yells at cloud about this specific term lol#I have much beef with pop psychology or whatever devaluing words like red flag#every time pop culture forums fixate on stuff like. someone dating ppl who all look similar. or being cringe on main in the early days#or age difference when no other power imbalances are present. or dating someone who looks like your cousin#and they go 'rawwwr BAD!!!' I'm like wow I wish THESE were the real problems#SORRY FOR THE RANT LMAO#elle asks
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god i wish they hadn't retconned maul's death. i get wanting to explore more of his character because he was, objectively, one of the coolest star wars characters to ever hit the big screen and didn't get much screentime prior to his death, but also his role was fulfilled perfectly within those constraints so i wasn't too upset by it.
but by retconning it and making it so he never died it's like. okay. what now? the whole point (well, to me, ymmv of course) of the theed generator fight was that it was the first ever fight between the jedi and the sith in thousands of years, and that in the end even though the jedi (obi-wan) won the fight, a jedi (qui-gon) and a sith (maul) still died. a master and an apprentice dying together to herald the start of a new age/the return of the sith. perfectly paralleling the way in rotj a master (palps) and an apprentice (anakin/vader) died together to herald the return of the jedi. in both instances, a father figure (qui-gon/vader) dies in the arms of their son (obi-wan/luke) as a sith (palps/maul) is cast down into the abyss to their deaths. (palps being alive in the ST and retconning his death in rotj is also annoying for this reason)
i mean i like maul. don't get me wrong. he's an incredibly compelling character and i enjoy seeing more of him... but there's always the thought hovering in my mind like "he should be dead though. he should 100% be dead. this wouldn't be happening if he was dead, but i honestly would rather it not if it meant that maul was dead."
like the tpm fight just doesn't hit the same knowing that canonically he's just. going to become a robot octopus at some point. (shoutout to palps becoming sith glados in the ST) it cheapens the moment for me. it was supposed to be a moment of triumph marred by the deep and soul-crushing loss of a loved one and it's just... not, anymore. or at least not to the same extent. AUGH i'm just. frustrated. wish star wars as a whole wasn't constantly reframing/retconning what's been established. just puts a bad taste in my mouth.
#personal#star wars is HUGE#there's a GALAXY'S worth of stories to be told#and we're always for whatever reason focusing on this ONE PARTICULAR TIME PERIOD#it's suffocating#this is partly why i'm so excited to see the acolyte#it's a break from the skywalker saga#i love the skywalkers. i love the skywalker saga.#but that's also why i want them to STOP ADDING TO THEIR STORY#sometimes a story has a beginning middle and an end and that's okay!#that's fantastic!#we don't need to see between the lines! or behind the scenes! what if we just LEFT IT ALONE#AUGH#anyways. i don't know. i'm just frustrated with the state of star wars as a whole#it feels so claustrophobic right now. just because the space is there and undefined doesn't mean it needs to be filled#this constant push to canonize the years leading up to an event with content is so frustrating#negative space in an image isn't a bad thing it just helps guide the eye to what's most important#otherwise it gets too cluttered. too noisy. too DISTRACTING.#this was supposed to be about maul being alive but it's really about my ongoing grievances with how star wars is cannibalizing the movies#i'm tired of it........ tired i tell you#anyways that's all. real old man yells at cloud moment rn lmao
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The Ink Demonth: Regret
The consequences of one's actions are rarely affecting just themselves, so it's often a source of regret when the chaos happens, and your options are limited to just bearing witness to it...
Beth ranting and rambling ahead, so I'll put it under a cut so you can ignore, but this one has thoughts and feels regarding the fandom.
I got to admit that it's incredibly frustrating as a fan of this series to not only witness the tomfoolery of the Dev Team, but also the tomfoolery of the fan base who despite being given every opportunity to stop while their ahead and told point-blank the consequences of continuing with their goals, they seemed bound and determined to play chicken with companies that are well within their right to smite them and have done so multiple times before. And the bigger issue is that it won't just be the individual that gets affected when the consequences come around, and we all have to suffer, whether it be through harsher fan content policies, a change in what's considered canon, or just deciding that Bendy as an IP is not worth the monetary risk and scrap it all, among many other nasty possibilities.
And I also know that this problem is only going to get worse as newer games come out and the team keeps flip-flopping on what they want Bendy to be. Because I can lay money that if Bendy: The Cage does even the tiniest bit poorly, there will be such a pivot, you'd think we were at a dance studio instead of an animation one.
#my art#the ink demonth#bendy and the ink machine#bendy#yes this is essentially 'Old Man Yells at Cloud'#but the muse was refusing to budge so ah well#maybe it's just me feeling sensitive cause I feel like I've seen this song and dance before and I'm tired of it#maybe it is just a factor of being old#beth rambles
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More undie experiments
#illustration#sketch#mundane happiness#comic art#did some switching up here#tried some bodyhair on Pasi. wonder how it looks#also did traditional lineart with him. It just feels more satisfying when compared to digital#I think I'm giving 'old man yells at cloud'-vibes
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Millennials and People-With-Superior-Tastes will understand this: I just saw an orchestra perform Sandstorm by Darude and Children by Robert Miles. Even if you don't recognise those titles, you most definitely have heard the songs somewhere. I thought Symphony + Metal was good when Metallica did it but Symphony + House/Trance is a whole new level of enlightenment.
#sandstorm by darude#children by robert miles#iconic songs that are actually iconic#so i'm going to tag them properly and with respect#tw: flashing lights#in the videos#i know i'm giving **old man yells at clouds** but old music was better in every way#sandstorm is TWENTY FOUR years old#and people still vibe with it
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when you finish a bad book it's like getting out of jail
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god i wish i could turn off my 'this is fucking toxic' radar while reading shipfic. It would make it so much easier to find shit i like.
Like I am absolutely here for 'this is fucking toxic' because that's VERY interesting. What I am not here for is 'this is fucking toxic' but isn't it so romantic?
#i am aware this is a skill issue#authors are under no fucking obligation to portray something awful and then make a moral statement about it and that's not what I mean#idk how to explain myself here#lmao#I just find it so hard to enjoy a shipfic when the author writes a progression of a relationship that is CLEARLY unbalanced#and borderline codependent or abusive#but it's written like it's romantic#and then there's no resolution either way#'so then anyway we never talk about the trauma or the power imbalance and instead they have a threesome' is just not for me sorry#but it's so hard to find anything else#AGHHH#i know i know it's a skill issue on my part#i'm not blaming the authors at all they can write whatever the hell they want#i just wish it wasn't so hard to find something else#using sex as a bandaid is so common and it just isn't compelling to me#ignore me lol this is v old man yells at cloud moment
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I see people asking a lot about affiliates and if anyone wants to be affiliates and figured I'd just make a post. I know people use terms interchangably but they're not actually interchangable. The terms refer to specific things and I think a lot of people are new to the Tumblr rpc and just making guesses on how things work based on what they're seeing. There's also less rp helper blogs in general so some of this stuff fell out of common knowledge / people don't have the context on why the terms are such.
Mains: people you prioritize when doing replies. This is usually discussed between muns, and often is something that develops naturally. Sometimes they may be referenced in other replies or asks but not always.
Exclusive: I will only write that character with you. So it would be like me, an Alastor, only interacted with one Vox blog and did not interact with other Vox. As with mains, it's usually something discussed between muns and develops naturally.
Affiliates: a closed rp group. These are NOT mains but it's what people often get it mixed up with. Affiliates means that you are sharing your main verse with this group. That the events that happen on their blogs influence your own and vice versa. That these other blogs are INTEGRAL to your blog's main verse. That when you get an ask about a character, you will reply referencing the blog within the group. The term is from when there were two kinds of blogs in the rpc community, independent and affiliated. Affiliated blogs went down in popularity as Discord rose, since the groups just moved to servers instead. Generally to get on with an affiliated group you have to apply, and keep up a level of activity. There are often events for only that group, and they don't often allow duplicates.
Bonus:
Group verse: the independent's answer to affiliates. This may or may not be closed. An example of a closed verse would be the war on heaven one that I think cast-you-dxwn and hellsirenqueen are running. Single muse slots, by invitation only not everyone can participate. An example of an open one would be staticintone's RAM one. A group verse may or may not be the blog's main verse, and is usually only listed on their verses page and tagged with the verse tag when used.
Even if people don't quite know the reasoning for it, labeling people as affiliates when you mean mains tends to ostracize since the assumption is 'oh they they are already rping with my character, no point in interacting'. If that's your intent with affiliates, go for it. Otherwise maybe rethink the terminology you're using. As writers, we know how important word choice and accuracy is. Hopefully having a little context helps!
#//dead air; ooc#//i'm an old man yelling at clouds obviously people can do what they want#//just thought it'd be helpful information to have
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i cannot express enough how much i fucking hate that i cannot plug a pair of headphones into any mobile device i own right now. one phone ago i could charge my phone and listen to music at the same time, but not now!
#this is old man yells at cloud shit i know but i am so fucking annoyed about this#this is a measurably worse use experience on every level than having the ability to just plug a pair of headphones in#i'm gonna get a fuckin flip phone and a desktop and pretend i still live in 2005
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Hey am I the only one who thinks the Bat Queen can't be the Titan's palisman because of the simple fact that we have no evidence that Titans used palismen at all?
Like, hear me out. I think palismen are only a witch thing. We have no evidence of Titans using palismen too.
If the Titan's magic is like the stuff Titan Luz was doing, then it's mostly glyph based and it seems each individual Titan has their own glyph language unique to them but they can also learn each other's glyphs (seen as how King learned his dad's glyph language).
So like, what's the point of a Titan having a palisman?
Witches mostly need their palismen to fly and, son of a gun, Titans have wings!! They can fly by themselves!! They don't need palismen to fly!!
And like, the Bat Queen is big but she's not THAT big. I don't think she's big enough to have been the Titan's palisman.
I will die on this hill. The only one that can change my mind is Dana.
Palismen are a witch invention!!! Titans did not use them!!!
#old man yells at cloud#I'm not angry I'm just using exclamation points for emphasis okay?#the owl house theory#the owl house speculation#the owl house spoilers#the owl house headcanon#toh spoilers#toh headcanon#toh theory#toh thoughts#toh s3#toh bat queen#bat queen toh#papa titan#papa titan toh#toh papa titan#the owl house#toh rant#long post
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