#idk what or why

[kdramacrybaby]

I really want to love this drama the way everyone else seems to - and it is good don’t get me wrong - but I’m not as into it as I thought I would be? And that makes me sad. Like I love seeing her get revenge and all, but the romance is not sweeping me off my feet. Is there something wrong with me? 😢

[kanguin]

Honestly I want to add on that Discord isn't just a bad way to spread info and support about your project. Even confining the community to a Discord server ONLY can be detrimental to longevity of the community.

The problem with Discord-Server-Only communities is twofold:

Discord servers are private from the web and not web searchable. Effectively speaking, Discord servers are isolated caves that do not connect to the rest of the internet, not the rest of Discord. They are black boxes to the outside world and literally antithetical to the nature of the world wide web. While this is amazing for chat rooms and community centers for whom privacy is appreciated, such as among friend groups, gaming teams, support groups, and so on, it is actively stifling to open communities and development feedback, as everything said on the Discord server can only ever be found by searching the server itself. This can be compounded as an issue if developers and support for PUBLIC games and projects are only accessible on PRIVATE servers, essentially gatekeeping information. Anyone can be kicked or banned from a server at any time for any reason admins see fit, so every user is at constant risk of sudden cutoff from access to information.

Discord servers, being privately owned in nature, are way too easily deletable and lost. One bad day for a developer, one wrong move from an admin, one malicious act by a power-tripping admin, and poof, it's all gone. All discussions, all Q&As, all documentation, all photographs, all information held within, period, gone in the blink of an eye. And again, because they are privately owned, NOBODY BUT MODERATORS AND ADMINS CAN MAKE BACKUPS, NOR ARE THEY AUTOMATICALLY BACKED UP. Discord servers are high risk storage environments because storage of information is always at some sort of risk due to their nature.

I'm not saying that Discord is badly designed and should either not exist or be reworked from the ground up, I honestly don't know enough about its efficacy at its intended functions to say as much. In fact, I honestly believe Discord is a far better chatroom and voicecall service than Skype ever was, with the exception of animated emojis for non-premium users (I will always miss you, dancing roast turkey...). It's certainly better programmed than Skype's later updates (not that Microsoft's application development teams make that any sort of competition).

What I'm trying to say is that when you view Discord through the lens of its original intended use, Discord's design philosophy makes sense. The best way to design a chatroom and voicecall service for online gaming and social communities is to make millions of blind alcoves of information inaccessible from the wider internet. But that is the only usecase in which being designed that way is advantageous. A service like Discord cannot effectively and safely replace open web services like web forums, but it's made to by the simple fact many people have probably already thought of:

Most web domains cost money to license. Discord Servers don't. Even the ones that don't require technical knowhow for web design that today's average user lacks. When faced with the decision between either purchasing a web domain or hiring a web developer onto your team, or opening a free Discord server, indie game devs of today are going to do the latter 100% of the time. And I want to be clear, I'm not okay with this, I'm not defending this, I'm merely explaining.

If you are passionate about access to information and have a connection to a project, charity, game development, or other community that would best be web searchable, it's up to people like you to put pressure on these people to realize the risks they are taking and difficulty they by existing only on Discord. Put pressure on the admins to go onto the web and establish a more permanent community and archive of information.

And if by chance you're reading this and you're in charge of a project, program, or community that discusses information the public should have access to, please look into forums. No they're not relics, a lot of them are very modern in design and you may not even think of them as traditional forums. For instance, while it has its issues, Reddit is a forum, has a massive userbase already, and it can be very accessible to the wider web depending on the subreddit's settings. Consider setting up a subreddit for technical discussions, and another for memes and community building, and then a discord for community events and general live socializing. That way if Discord suddenly implodes one day and takes all servers with it, you won't lose everything. As it stands, even if Reddit implodes, much of its content can be web-archived by services like archive.org. Of course, the safest way to preserve your forum is to have your own independent one, or at least one hosted by a stable webhost that can easily be wholesale backed up and imported to a new host should the old one go down.

I know this was long, but I've been on the internet since childhood, I've used every type of service I've mentioned at the very least as a user. Some of my earliest memories on the web were in the early 00s lurking on Zoo Tycoon forums (many of which have since gone the way of the dodo themselves). So take it from me as the oldest end of Gen Z, take it from more experienced millennials, and make a forum. Please. We don't want to join your Discord server to search up one thing.

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[despazito]

Adult website and period tracker

[slushy-sash]

what in the 4d chess are they playing 😭

[splatoonlink]

HELP i was watching off the hook perform and the angle i was at makes it look like pearl is being repeatedly set on fire 😭

[hinamie]

10 years later

[theangelcatalogue]

Making a chain cause why not!? Hdisiwisjs

Put your name/nickname in the Character Headcanon Generator and see what you get!

Link!

Erm...so-

@starsinthenigth @mxnaceo @duckp0t + Anyone who wants to do it! (No pressure)

[lazylittledragon]

the real reason gale proposes so quickly

[blorbologist]

Misc Chateau Shorthalt screengrabs because OH man, look at how happy they all are!!!!!

[bean-spring]

Hot take and not to be a killjoy or the shipping police but people treating Viktor or Jinx's aroace headcanons as if they were canon is not the revolutionary take people think it is.

Headcanons are always all right but we have to acknowledge that they are somehow damaging when they apply to stereotypes. It might not be the case for everyone but most of the time people unconsciously assume that disability/mental illness=asexuality. These headcanons erase the freedom of attraction from people who are already seen as unable to have sexual/romantic experiences/desires, when it's completely untrue and harmful.

You can headcanon Viktor and Jinx as aroace, but I have seen people changing their minds once Viktor is no longer disabled (s2 with all of his other forms) and Jinx is no longer as mentally ill (alternate universe Powder). And it speaks wonders of how people see these characters.

"I never thought about Jinx being able to feel romantic/sexual attraction until s2!" To believe she's actually only capable of that when she's not "damaged" is incredibly disturbing. Especially since Jinx has always had a bit of a flirty personality too.

"I've always seen Viktor as asexual, I don't know why!" That's fine. You can headcanon him as ace. But I believe there is a reason behind it, most of the time, if for some inexplicable reason the "vibes" of the disabled character are making you think he's ace.

I say all of this being aroaspec myself, by the way. Headcanon all you want but going to people's posts commenting how "it's weird for you that they have romantic/sexual plots when they're clearly aroace" is not a win at all. It's a headcanon, after all, and it should be treated as such, and that's fine. But it also is damaging to spread stereotypes like these.

Of course the disabled character is asexual. Of course the mentally ill character is aromantic. It's not as revolutionary as you might think, tbh.

Fandom is not activism and it's all right to have any headcanons you want BUT some of them are filled with damaging stuff and perhaps we should look into ourselves more before treating these assumptions as something canon.

[artist-rat]

some epilogue vibes (an excuse to draw some hugs. and my durge so many times)

[chaoticbuggybitchboy]

So done with all the defeatism nonsense. Life keeps going. My girlfriend has her first job interview later this morning. I’ve got to fold my laundry. My friends and I have a d&d session later this week. We’re still going. You’ll keep going. I’ll drag your asses into the future kicking and screaming because they want you to lay down and die. And I’ll be damned if any of us do what they want.

[adriles]

when we’re done with our overwhelming grief we’ll eat i guess

[crows-home]

part of my nimona viewing experience. idk why but i got super emotional in the first five minutes.

ID by @peachygos

[ID: A comic juxtaposing screenshots from Nimona 2023 and drawings of a person watching the movie. The first screenshot is Ambrosius's introduction; he grins at the camera as the news anchors introduce him, his name in big print on the screen. The person watching thinks with a bored expression, "Ah. Ok. This guy is gonna be the jackass. Typical golden-boy stuck-up prince that thinks he's better than the underdog. I see where this is going.

The next screenshot is of Ambrosius and Ballister on the platform above the arena, Ambrosius doing his news anchor bit and saying, "Aaand will Ballister be broody on the biggest day of his life?" Ballister laughs at his antics. The person watching now has a small smile, as they think, "Huh! Aw, they're actually nice to each other and are friends! I wasn't expecting that, that's nice-"

The third and final screenshot is a shot from behind of Ballister leaning his head on Ambrosius's shoulder. The caption reads "the knighting ceremony is just moments away." The person watching now has a touched, soft expression, like they're holding back tears. They think "OH." as a partially transparent doodle behind them bends over crying and blubbering, with another doodle showing their heart shot through with an arrow. /end ID]