#i'm an old man yelling at the cloud

[gatheredfates]

@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!

[raylangivins]

i am Locked In.

[yupitsmekat]

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?

[horreurscopes]

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

[chronologicalimplosion]

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.

[michelleaneousart]

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

[gayferrari]

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

[americankimchi]

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.

[beth-purcell]

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.

[rhouxl]

Ja mir wäre Habeck als Kanzler auch lieber, ja Scholz hat bestenfalls die Kompetenz einer hinter den Kühlschrank gerollten Kartoffel, aber wir brauchen in der nächsten Wahl so, so, so dringend eine starke SPD.

Rot/Grün sieht nach den aktuellen Umfragen schmerzhaft unwahrscheinlich aus, und selbst wenn dann hat die SPD trotzdem noch bessere Chancen die stärkere Partei zu sein; und wenn wir jetzt realistisch bleiben steht uns eine weitere CDU Regierung bevor, ob wir wollen oder nicht, und die werden absolut nicht mit den Grünen koalieren, selbst wenn die (wahrscheinlich leider nach der AFD) die nächst stärkste Partei werden. Mit der SPD hat die CDU immerhin noch eine Recht freundschaftliche Geschichte, gegen Rot/Schwarz werden sich also eher wenige stellen, oder zumindest um einiges weniger als gegen Schwarz/Grün.

Wir müssen der SPD, trotz ihrer Fehler, in dieser Wahl unbedingt den Rücken stärken. Nein, sie sind nicht ideal, aber mein Gott, das ist absolut nicht die Wahl für "sind doch alle unwählbar" und "my way or the high way". Wir müssen realistisch sein, und am realistischsten ist aktuell einfach eine halbwegs hinnehmbare Regierung wenn sie eine starke SPD hat.

[a-dragons-journal]

in a post you mentioned that copinglink is not only for coping, and I admit I felt a bit confused after I read it. I was told it was that, and always seen it written that way in the definitions. Can I ask you the favour of helping me understand?

As gently as I can, in the future you may want to check the related tag on a blog to see if they've discussed this in the recent past or, as is the case in this instance, already had this discussion with another asker after the post that sparked a question went up. (Not mad, just - it'll save both you and the person you're asking time.)

Copinglink, per the original coining post linked here, covers all consciously created identities. It was never restricted to coping mechanisms only. It is a perfect synonym with otherlink. The reason it's got coping- in it is because a) it was coined as a replacement for copingkin (which only kind of worked, because the people then called copingkin were about 30-40% actual copinglinkers and about 60-70% what we now call "kin-for-fun" people or KFF for short, and the latter, as we have seen, just moved on to different versions of "kinning"), and b) to my understanding (as someone who wasn't around for that time period but has heard about it secondhand, @who-is-page please correct me if I'm wrong here), at that point in the community's history, there was a very strong insistence that kintypes absolutely could not be voluntary/consciously created and there had to be a hard line between kintypes and voluntary identities, and the primary pushback against that was "but what if it's a coping mechanism, not just something I'm doing for fun?", hence copingkin, hence copinglink.

The only reason otherlink even exists as a term is because some 'linkers didn't like that copinglink implied that it was by default a coping mechanism for something, so someone (I'm not actually sure who, I've never turned up a coining post for it) coined otherlink to provide an alternative that didn't have coping- in the name.

To be perfectly clear, I have no problem with this. I get why people feel that way and that's perfectly fine. I do, however, have a personal distaste for people retroactively insisting that copinglink can only be about coping-related identities when that has never been true. (That is, ironically, reinforcing the very misunderstanding that drove the coining of otherlink to begin with.)

[kausijuoppo]

More undie experiments

[raylangivins]

i need to have a sit down with ben affleck for real. i need to talk to him. i need to see what we're working with here.

[maximura]

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.

[runawaymun]

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?

[radiomurdeer]

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!