#i'm boiling right now

[sincericida]

ANDREW GARFIELD

attends the Loro Piana event celebrating the annual Record Bale Award | February 1, 2024 in London, England.

[artsekey]

It really does look like pivoting to Harris has thrown the Republican party for a loop. She's speaking clearly, concisely, and with wit; if she were to be put in the ring with Trump, it would be a knockout if only because she's coherent.

I'm voting blue regardless, but I've started to feel like I've moved from voting for the 'least bad' option to someone I might actually be more passionate in supporting.

[neobastard]

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

tnt has officially put the void within on pause between chapters 7 and 8. according to their statement on the official twitter account, it's to "make exciting improvements based on your feedback".

all plot activities (void essence collection, battledome fights, volunteer shifts, and story updates) will be on hold, and voidworks specifically will be getting an update.

the void within is slated to return in early 2025, but the team's assured us that there will be plenty of holiday activities in the meantime.

i have absolutely no clue what this means for the future of the plot.

but i'm going to trust that tnt made this decision because they felt that the feedback they received required such a long hiatus to make changes around.

[xellandria]

Okay, "aging userbase" or whatever, but I've had a favourite since I first started using it and that was at like eleven or twelve, so.

[vaguely-concerned]

say whatever you want about the combat in this game it's ultimately a subjective thing what form of gameplay you enjoy more, but c'mon tell me you don't understand the thrill and High Romance of setting up a detonation combo with your LI as rook and hearing then exchange little pleasantries about it as everything goes BOOM

[arendaes]

It's 5:30am, I can't sleep because I had a bad night last night and I need to vent.

Sometimes I wonder if not being more open about my offline life is to my detriment, because it never fails that I seem to attract people who see me as someone who's easy to walk all over. So many people I've known both online and off really like to treat me however they like, including being rude, condescending, and sometimes just downright cruelly, but the moment I have enough and draw a line in the sand they just want to wipe it away and tell me all about how I'm the one in the wrong.

I once had a friend who ignored my existence for six months and then got mad when I told her I wasn't coming to her son's birthday party. When I say "ignored my existence", I don't just mean unanswered texts; I mean I worked at a store in town and saw her in there multiple times. Every time I would wave and say hi while she was looking right at me and she would walk right by me as if I wasn't there. She knew I worked there too because we met working there. Literally we went from hanging out every day off we had together to that and still she got mad when I was hurt and just didn't want to come to a child's goddamned birthday party (when I have no kid of my own) because of it. The kid was only a year old so it wasn't like he knew who I was, either.

And online has been worse in a lot of ways. I made a friend a few years ago back when I first started getting involved in fandom. At the time I was resistant to the idea but now I realize I befriended him out of pity, because no one seemed to really want to be involved with him and he'd always been so nice to me. That was a mistake, because it turned out he was an alt-right chud who waited until he thought we were close enough and then started deliberately baiting me into arguments where he'd say horrible shit to me and make me upset and then fucking laugh He admitted it was fun for him to upset me. He stopped laughing when I finally stood up for myself and cut him out of my life, only to repeatedly ignore my requests for him to leave me alone. He would send me messages and like my posts, along with asking his friends to do the same and even writing a fic about one of my favorite characters where an unnamed OC treated said character poorly (all while said OC said things that were word for word things I said to him in out last conversation) and posting it where he knew I'd see it. Thankfully his conscience got the better of him with that last one and he took it down just a few days after posting, but the damage was done. He's the reason my ask box is closed most of the time and I have it set to where only followers can message me or comment on my posts. I think he's moved on - I hope he's moved on - but I live with this ever-present fear he hasn't and if I let my guard drop he'll start again.

And this is just two of the biggest incidents in a long line of family members saying I can't have boundaries with them because they're faaaamily and honest conversations with friends about how they've hurt me only to have them turn around and blame that hurt on myself. I'm just...so confused about what I can even do anymore. It feels like no matter what I do I just attract people who want to use and abuse my good nature. Hell, it's been so bad that I typed that and immediately thought "are you good-natured or do you just have an unnecessarily high opinion of yourself?" Which I know is the brain demon talking, but sometimes it's hard to drown it out, especially when this is all I've ever known.

[arttsuka]

Would it be possible to boil something (pasta perhaps?) in boiling cheese?

[shiraishi--kanade]

I do not condone Grinch's actions but as someone who has to do Christmas prep & decorations while being hit with Holy Mother of All Flares, like. I get it.

[cappucosmico]

guys my spider looks weird. she looks a bit gay. do you guys think she will moult out of this or will she turn even gayer ?

[imaginarypasta]

like let me be clear. it's nostalgia-poisoned market products when they’re bad and insightful uses of adaptation and medium when i like them

[noirandchocolate]

There's nothing like (derogatory) scrolling through the tags for something you enjoy and seeing people conflating their personal headcanons with actual canon and repeatedly making viciously nasty posts threatening and name-calling anyone who has a different view and saying they're 'not welcome.'

Oh fandom, never change please change.

[sincericida]

ANDREW GARFIELD

attends the Loro Piana event celebrating the annual Record Bale Award | February 1, 2024 in London, England.

[torchickentacos]

Things my middle-aged mother has said that caught me off guard and made me have to pause whatever I was doing and laugh:

Huge if true

Canon

Shrimps is bugs (WHERE DID SHE LEARN THIS ONE????)

Will update as more come in

[victimsofyaoipoll]

I think skyler has like way worse treatment by her fandom but doesn't suit the competition theme of Yaoi as much n uraraka does butttt skylers treatment is just still so much worse that I'm on the fence. like the only shipping I could see that isn't kind of weird and reaching feeling is Walter White n his meth but. I don't think that counts as yaoi. thinkin on it

That poll has been haunting me since I posted it. Because you're right. Skyler White is in no way a victim of yaoi. I don't see people fridging her so Walter can with Jesse or Saul or whoever. She's not out of character so Walt can dump her to be with another man. Skyler's treatment is due to plain old misogyny and dudebros wanting to side with Walter on everything. In my opinion, she does not fit the theme of this poll and I was on the fence about even letting her in. Half her submissions mentioned they were kinda joking about it.

Uraraka, on the other hand, is a classic anime victim of yaoi. She's a shounen protagonist's love interest. She probably got five times the submissions of Skyler and is still losing. And it's not because people think Skyler deserves it more. Go look at the post. People are admitting they don't think Skyler fits the theme of this poll, or that Uraraka definitely suffered more, and then they're saying but I'm still voting for Skyler. BECAUSE URARAKA IS A MY HERO ACADEMIA CHARACTER. People are voting against her because of her source material and it's honestly pissing me off.

Uraraka is not just a victim of yaoi she is a victim of you all

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF PRIORITY: TUCHANKA (PART 2)

Featuring: Cmdr. Sophie Shepard, Lt. James Vega, EDI, Urdnot Wrex, and Dr. Mordin Solus With: Urdnot Bakara And a Special Guest Appearance by: Kalros, Mother of All Thresher Maws I MADE A MISTAKE! I made a mistake... big picture made of little pictures- too many variables. Can't hide behind statistics... can't ignore new data- my responsibility. Need to go- running out of time. Not your work, not your cure- not your decision. Had to be me- someone else might have gotten it wrong... Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

[z0mbiefrank]

just got my second serious burn of the month after a hot water bottle i was using for severe period pain exploded onto me