#i'm ranting

[bilolli]

I finally finished and edited it! This time there shouldn’t be problems with sizes and messed up colors.

Anyway, this scene lives rent free in my head and I HAD to draw it.

Solar Lunacy belongs to the talented @bamsara​ , (seriously, it’s a wonderfull fanfic, read it.)

Process GIF and variants under the cut!

On PC this one looks better, but on my phone it’s wayyyy to saturated and dark. Ujsdbidfshf I hate screens differences.

[patovpran]

Can't wait for Colin to be his true self in pt 2 so people can finally understand him as a character

[pineapplehazard]

Too occupied ranting about 911 I forgot to do my duolingo😔😔😔

[dazzle02]

Buck and Maddie's relationship is one of the most interesting on the show to me personally.

She was nine, she lost her brother and gained a new one and suddenly she's not just an older sister, she's a parent too. She's nine years old and someone's Mother. While not being allowed to properly grieve the brother she just lost. Not even allowed to acknowledge his existence.

And of course she did the best she could, but she was a child raising another child. No parent has all the answers, but especially not a CHILD who never asked to have this put on them. So she of course got things wrong. One that really sticks out is her explanation about their parents worry when Evan falls off his bike. She kinda put the idea in his head that getting hurt is what will get him that love he craves from their parents. And that was NOT her fault. She was 12. And also living in this abusive household. But she was the one that gave him the idea to continue hurting himself to get attention. And there are likely other things that he learned from her that weren't actually healthy, due to her being a child trying to learn about the world herself.

And when she left for Boston, that would definitely feel like a parental abandonment for Evan due to her being the only parental figure he ever really had. But it WASN'T. It was a 19 year old moving out and going to School, which is what a lot of people that age tend to do. But to Evan, it would feel like the only parent he's ever known leaving him. And logically he'd know that's not the case. She's NOT his mother, she's his sister and she's supposed to live her life and she never asked to raise a child at such a young age. He was NOT her responsibility. But emotionally? That's the start of his abandonment issues.

And it's why Maddie can be kinda overbearing with him at times too. (Especially after the lightning strike...) It was ingrained in her from the age of nine that he's her kid and she has to take care of him. So as soon as she sees him suffering in any way, those instincts come back full force. She's gotta take care of him, make sure he's not going to die while she's not looking. AND make it clear she's not leaving him again.

They've had to figure out how to go from the relationship they had as kids where she was more a parent than a sister, to a new one now that they're adults where they're siblings.

And that's gotta be tough. And I would love more of a focus on that really. Just them still kinda adjusting to having to have this new dynamic. Because logically they both are aware that Maddie having to raise Buck was messed up and unfair for them both. But it's also just what's normal to them.

And any time someone comes for Maddie about not being a good sister it makes my blood boil. SHE DOES HER BEST! She was a child raising a child, and she's now an adult who went through abuse for pretty much her entire life! First the neglect from her parents (plus the parentification) and then her marriage to Doug for like 15 years! Of course she's not perfect. And as much as they both love each other, they ARE BOTH part of each others traumas. For Maddie a big trauma for her was having to raise him, and for Buck a big trauma for him was her leaving. And they've managed to work through that for the most part. It's always going to be there, they're both very defining for each of them. For Maddie having to become a parent at such a young age made her feel as though she couldn't be a very good one due to not being a perfect parent AS A CHILD. And for Buck, Maddie leaving was definitely the start of his abandonment issues. And neither of them are at fault for that, but they both have these issues that are directly tied to each other. It all comes back to their parents though. If they'd just done their jobs as parents, things would be so different.

Some of this may not make much sense as it is very hot here right now and I am not thinking right. But you get what I mean, hopefully. 🤣

I would also like to add to Supernatural fans, you can not claim Dean Winchester is just the best brother in the world for raising Sam and then turn around and claim Maddie is a terrible sister. Especially as Dean could be very abusive at times...

[garrandia]

should start drawing ppl like this

Maybe I'll become famous on twt 😲🤔

[exhuastedpigeon]

I saw Taylor Kelly hate on my dash in the year of our lord 2024... what is happening today? Are we relitigating the fact that Taylor was exactly who she said she was (a career driven woman who cared about the truth coming out above all else)? Are we trying to pretend that the reason she and Buck weren't comparable long term because they were too similar?

You don't have to like Taylor Kelly, but my god don't act all high and mighty for it. She was a fantastic character. He flaws made her interesting. She and Buck were good together until they weren't. Acting like she's some devil for putting her career over Buck/the 118 is wild since we've seen Buck put his career before his family before too.

[thepurplewombat]

I was in a bookshop today, and they had a whole display (like, not even a shelf, but a whole set of shelves) for Colleen Hoover, and one (1) Anne Rice novel.

And it's not even just about the Anne Rice, even though Anne Rice is a great example because her books are currently being made into a TV show that is doing numbers. It's about six different versions of Dune and virtually no recent SF at all. It's about four (I counted) different editions of LOTR, an entire shelf of Pratchett, a whole shelf display of Sanderson, and virtually no other fantasy. And I love Pratchett, everyone loves Pratchett, I have a full set of Discworld novels with the original covers and like, a third of a set of the pretty new hardcovers, but I don't think you need to have the entire Discworld out in two different editions when your fantasy section has less shelf space than my office, you know? They had two Naomi Novik books. Not even two books from her most recent series, just two of her books. Sarah J Maas is great and all, but I don't think she needs an entire section to herself.

I don't even know where I'm going with this, I'm just...its frustrating, because you can clearly see that a lot of the shelves were stocked by people who had absolutely no idea what they were packing.

If there was a series, it's out of order. They had two of MXTX's novels, and for some reason Scum Villain and MDZS were on entirely different shelves. Erha was once again shelved in the (tiny! It's so tiny, it's three shelves!) YA section (but like, the cool YA section, where the boys' books are next to PJ, not the girly YA ghetto across the street from the romance novels) which, why?? Did anyone look at the back of the book, or did they see an Asian art style and go 'well its Asian but not Manga, guess it's for kids'?

I want to buy a bookshop and make them do it right 😡

[acrazybayernfan]

I just want to say my love and appreciation for goalkeepers again ❤️❤️❤️.

Like I think it's really the hardest position on a football pitch. It requires so many qualities.

Such as, of course, incredible reflexes, but also a very good perception of the ball and of the game, a great understanding of trajectories, knowledge in defense coaching, extraordinary courage (because standing there when a ball comes at you at full speed, or going out while a player his running towards you, also at full speed, and he could easily hurt you, that's brave) and also to be good enough with your feet to dictate the game and be able to resist against pressing.

But really the most important qualities of goalkeepers are their mental qualities. Like imagine you have to wait for minutes and minutes, while all the others are enjoying themselves, and yet stay ready and super focus because at anytime your team may need you. Imagine the pressure you must feel as a goalkeeper during a penalty shootout, like you're the last hope of your team. And people are so ungrateful to you. A goalkeeper could have a great game, could do many important saves, could be crucial in the development of the game, but if there is just one mistake, everyone is going to remember this mistake and will say that the goalie was the cause of the defeat.

Goalkeepers are truly amazing and we should have a lot more respect for them ( "coughing" ballon d'or jury do you hear me?!)

[beevean]

Really hoping that it really does storm from next week so that I can go outside and breathe

Felt temperature 42°C, fucking help me I need to get out but I'll die

[twicethetrouble]

I literally have one more scene left to write in "Proud Family Traditions" but i got sick and instead of getting fixated on writing during my imprompu time off work, i got fixated on stupid fish tank games.

[bilolli]

I wanna talk about my o.cs, I wanna talk about my o.cs, I wanna talk about my o.cs, I wanna talk abou-

[rogue205]

Bit of a 9-1-1 rant/unpopular opinion

As always, people who lash out will have their comment deleted and themselves blocked. People who respond in a civilized adult manner will have a response given in an equally civilized adult manner.

So here it is....

Am I the only one who feels that now the show has officially created this “dad & son” thing strictly between Bobby and Buck, that it actually lessens the whole “Fire Dad” thing Bobby had going for his whole damn team? It’s essentially made even worse by the fact that Buck is the fandom woobie so that is all everyone is focusing on. I find it annoying especially given that Buck is not the only character with sh*t parents as well.  Speaking of, anyone else think those two are up to something? They didn’t change that much overnight.

Just my opinion.

[riptidespen]

The biggest disappointment about tsats to me is the lack of demigods. Like firstly, the whole camp is empty is so unrealistic. You are telling me every single demigod has a good home/parent/family to go home to? I read the books, I know it wasn’t just Luke, Thalia, Annabeth, and Leo out there with issues of returning ‘home’. Camp Half-Blood grew in numbers because so many were being claimed and brought to the camp there is no way during the school year it’s just Nico and Will as the remaining demigods. 

I so desperately wanted Clovis to be involved in this quest in some compacity. The son of Hypno, he could have been useful in some way about dreams and nightmares. I get the book is about light and dark, Will and Nico, and mostly just Will excepting his boyfriend is his grumpy little ball of darkness and that’s ok because not all darkness is bad. Still, it would have been nice to have someone else with them to help combat against an invisible force that invaded their minds. 

[empyrean11]

I shouldn't have checked jays twitter so early in the morning. 😣

I get the frustration with not winning and questionable decisions, I DO.

but holy crapcakes, if you think they're unwatchable, unlikeable, boring - that's a choice you're making. you don't even have to look very hard to find joy in this team!

*cough* best spencer *cough*

[monsamborabutterfly]

This week is honestly the first time I'm feeling a bit meh after watching the episode. Maybe it's also cause I've watched last episodes BTS on YouTube and there was literally no NeoMark in it despite Nick and Boston having such important scenes last week.

Idk it just feels a bit sucky lol I'll be back to my BostonNick screaming self in no time but I really think I just have to give myself some room to rant a bit.

I'm not even mad Boston and Nick didn't get their big happy end yet. If they get it I low-key knew it would be in the final ep. I'm just mostly annoyed with the lack of screentime they got this ep in favor of Boeing. I get it he's hot. But it definitely did happen what I fear it would. He's there to create unnecessary drama between the characters in a way that feels a bit lazy in my opinion.

I love Jojo and the team and what they created but damn this annoys me.

Is that just a me thing? Idk I'm probably most definitely overreacting but eh it happens lol sorry for all the whining. BostonNick are my faves after all and I just don't want their storyline to fall short is all

[ayosdesignz-blog]

Spoilers for across the Spiderverse I guess.

Finally watched Across the Spiderverse and despite the spoilers and observations I'd read beforehand, I'm offended by both Spot and Miguel.

Like...to the point I don't understand why the content I came across generally really liked them? Miguel especially. FUCK Miguel. Good guy my ass. Dude has practically built a cult. And he's the unquestioned head who's word is law and doesn't have to listen to anyone just because.

I don't understand the vehement and persistent hate these 2 GROWN ASS MEN have towards a damn 14-now 15 year old boy. A goddamn child.

Both keep victim blaming and pushing and projecting their mistakes, the wrong doings of others, the plot of fucking KINGPIN onto him and I just DON'T understand. Miles literally did NOTHING wrong to get this kind of vitriol from a pair of strangers who Actually know what's up. Or that claim to anyways.

Spot over here claiming to be the scientist that made/had the spider that made Miles Spiderman. He also basically admitted to being one of the evil scientists that was under goddamn Kingpin's employ. The same Kingpin who cooked up and pressed and demanded his selfish world destroying demands be met. Yet he wants to blame the scared child who was literally only defending himself and trying to do good by helping to stop more ppl (including that family he claims he lost but had actually rejected him for reasons) don't die. Why is he not mad at his boss? Former boss? Why is he not taking responsibility for losing the spider experiment? Yet he wants credit in making the newest spiderman? Why does he want to make a literal child the root of his problem instead of literally any of the adults it could've been...like other Peter?

Only thing I can think of is that he's such a sad pathetic piece of incompetent shit that a damn (mostly)clueless child was the only target he could shift blame too and feel like he could properly threaten and win against. Only to be proven wrong and have the audacity to be offended that the child he's failing to harm doesn't take him seriously nor accept the false responsibility of his own problems he's trying to place on Miles.

And then there's Miguel's bitch ass.

Acting all knowing and despite being aware of the facts that Miles is OBJECTIVELY not at fault or aware of any problems (aside from Spot) is unnecessarily rude and hostile towards him from the very start.

And when he calms down enough to actually talk and explain some things like a rational person, it's essentially to give his own crazy (and mildly horrifying from implications cuz STALKER USURPER ALERT) sob story so he can tell a kid to let his dad be killed "because the worlds will end otherwise" and basically imply that since Miles saved Captain Singh they'll have to murder that cop to make things "right".

And then later, when he catches Miles outside after that ridiculous and hilarious chase was somehow compelled to tell this child, with words filled with (unnecessary) aggressive hate, that he's a "mistake" that shouldn't exist and should have never been spiderman.

Smells like self projecting to me.

And also, it's bullshit!

Based on what I recall from this movie I just watched, one or both of these men I can't stand is lying. Spot is claiming to be of Miles' dimension with the radio active spider but Miguel is claiming that spider is from a different dimension.

And the fact that Miguel rudely brings up more trauma, victim blames MORE, and tries to put the responsibility of a death caused by a murderous adult villain onto that same (child) victim only to later try to lament to the other spider ppl that Miles "won't listen" and "talking won't work" since he just tried it honestly put him on my character shit list.

Like I knew from spoilers that he was deemed attractive and interesting and that he didn't like this version of Miles but I didn't have like...any indepth details or whatever. I wasn't actively looking for spoilers.

I went into this movie expecting to like him, even just somewhat. But honestly? Fuck that guy. And not in a sexy way.

I mean...He immediately attempts to intimidate a child into submission upon 1st meeting for no reason after being rude as fuck while said child was trying to make a good impression and was honestly just happy to be there. And then he later tries to emotionally (and mentally?) break Miles verbally as if him loving his family, wanting his dad alive if possible is a bad thing. I had assumed, before going in that Miguel had at least started off civil and professionally polite with Miles. Figured Miles had purposely done something to his face that made Miguel go from cautious to distant. He hadn't. At all.

It's giving racist lowkey for the way he literally hates this mixed, primarily black presenting, child for existing and the way he said he wanted to just ignore/pretend that Hobie (another black male) was even there also made me raise an eyebrow. Maybe it's cuz of my own experience dealing with prejudice from ppl I least expected it from as a kid myself but Miguel is giving it and that's what I'm seeing and he's an asshat for it. He has no right and no reason to act as he did let alone say what he said. Fuck his ✨️trauma✨️ caused by his own mistakes as an adult who damn well knew better.

Mans literally stalked his own doppelganger and inserted himself into the other him's life once that one died only for it all to go to shit from glitches likely because he shouldn't have been there and what Kingpin was doing. Hell I wouldn't be surprised if he'd killed his other self to live that dream life he wanted so bad.

Yet he wants everyone to believe a child in the wrong place at the wrong time and being saved by a superhero before taking up the mantel of a hero himself in honor of his savior since shit just happened to him...in his OWN WORLD MIND YOU, is completely wrong and unacceptable.

He can miss me with that bullshit. He's wrong period in my book.

Also if Miles is considered the: "oRIgInaL anOmALy" and has been living life just fine with powers caused by a alternate dimension spider then there's probably a good chance he can change his world's "canon events" without things going to shit since according to bitchMiguel, Mile's has technically been doing that from the start by even existing.

Think about it: Miles became a spiderman with active spider ppl there to train him. He wasn't alone or even the 1st spider person there. He knew what was happening as he changed since it had happened before and was publicized. His love interest Gwen is not only from a different dimension but also spiderwoman. A civilian unrelated to him knew of him and the others and provided additional support without becoming a liability, his uncle may have died but was a criminal unlike all the (known?) others, he's had no glitch or issues with his powers, he has more powers than the basic spiderman w/o the need of a suit, he's got both parents and both love him and also think rather positively of Spiderman w/o knowing it's him. His cop dad willingly works with spiderman too.

Also am I the only one concerned that the so called sophisticated technology they have to send ppl back to their dimensions has semi regularly sent their captures back to the wrong place? Because the only thing they tried to do was stop the machine from sending him, so unless that affected the way it operates to determine where a person is from that means they probably have been sending ppl to the wrong places, unknowingly fucking shit up just as much if not more in the multiverse than b4 they tried to correct it.

I bet they're actually wrong about all kinds of things and their causes and just don't realize it.

But I am estatic Hobie is just as awesome as I was lead to believe. Watching him, listening to what he says, I firmly believe he was an op to the spider society from the start to learn what he could, try to get other spiders to THINK more, and prepare for when he decides to leave them so he doesn't need them to utilize the tools they had a monopoly on.

I mean bro made the tactical decision to quit when Miguel and others were fully distracted by Miles on some sketchy shit and I feel like that kept him from having to deal with a cult leader bitchMiguel trying to make an example out of him for doing so or something.