#if it’s not clear I agree with op

[ivanhoe-dont-do-it]

I don’t usually comment but I had this same thought last week re: we used to get results same day and now we don’t, and my wife pointed out that this isn’t true, we just feel like it is.

If you were born in 1995 (as I was) less than half the presidential elections in your lifetime were called the night of. 2000, 2004, 2016, 2020, and now 2024 had final results called Wednesday or later. 2004, 2016, & 2024 were all called early Wednesday morning; 2000 and 2020 notably took longer.

The reason I and a lot of ppl my age feel this way is that both times Barack Obama was elected, the election was called that night. I vividly remember in 2008 it was called at like, 8:05pm pacific or something. This was the first time I actually watched the results of an election come in live, and also the only successful election night party my parents have ever thrown. There is a South Park episode about how lit the parties that night were. In 2012 it was called at ~11:15pm. We also watched this one live. In 2016 when I was in college in another state, my parents and I respectively had the least successful election parties ever thrown. Those results came in around 2-3am. I stopped watching live in the years following, though my parents still do.

My point is, if you are a left-leaning 90s baby as many of us on this site are, your perception of how quickly elections are called is likely heavily colored by the Obama years, when election days were both decisive and festive. The increased use of absentee ballots in 2020 did factor into how long that one took to count, but yeah, election results in the US are mostly Wednesday news, not Tuesday night news.

anyway my hot take is that the modern night-of live reporting model is bad and probably should be illegal. democracy is not a spectator sport and the fact that news outlets are allowed to exploit partial vote counts for ratings is ghoulish. there is nothing you can learn the night of a major election that has greater value than waiting the several days to a week that it will take, and always has taken, for the final vote totals to be established

[katyspersonal]

Regarding previous post about disco horse: I really appreciate that everyone is actually talking for once, but a kind of jab happened on my mental health so I have to step away. It isn't from this post, but the reason is sort of connected

Again, I personally find no problems with the DLC except for how Radahn ship came from nowhere and can justify how that comes. But regardless of how many things anyone else dislikes about the DLC: you are valid to hate it as much as you want, but when you start insulting people who loved/accepted/justified the DLC as "media illiterate fromsoft dickriders who keeps coping even after the honeymoon phase passed" and variation I draw the line. There are many ways where other fans can find reason where you didn't and there is potential in new lore that you won't use. Absurd how some people are still willing to support illusory narrative that Radahn Redditor simps are the "worst" part of the fandom when not even at their most arrogant and annoying they can dream to reach HALF of the toxicity cultish Miquella/Malenia fans have, over the awful crime of having different readings, opinions and priorities.

And yes, I know it is inevitable that Tumblr and Twitter fans WOULD make a moral/intellectual/maturity contest out of how people feel about the DLC (🤡🤡🤡), but it hurts when people I actually don't want to butt heads with who start to approve of this mentality. Like, okay cool. Wallow in your elitist toxic pool of Ledas while we, "pathetic dickriders" go and "cope" somewhere else, hope everyone is more comfortable this way 🤦‍♂️ I am tired of getting hurt through endless passive aggression and I have my limits. It is just always hurtful to finally rip the bandage, even IF it is to the better. I need a hiatus for a longer time, albeit for a different reason now

[moe-broey]

A lot of fandom takes that brush by me are insane to me idk what it is. But the "He's totally evil" about Kabru, like. He's just some guy with a savior complex. Who has problems. He's fine.

And by this I mean, from the get-go it was clear to me that he wasn't really a threat to the main party? He's just another guy in another party. Who very clearly has Something going on, but to me, it seemed he had good intentions and strong convictions. Again he just has a complex and problems about it. Which is fine 👍 (<- kicking my feet batting my eyes I'm soooo normal. About that and all his other tendencies and traits)

[immarainbowpatooie]

wild thread i saw on the fanfiction subreddit, this was just one of the conversations that went down

[starridge]

twitter users will complain about tumblr being a cringe cesspool then say shit like this

[toytulini]

god this stupid fucking intracommunity infighting bullshit never ends and im so god damn tired. stop it. and if youre fucking discoursing this stupid shit you should have to add a fucking disclaimer to your fucking posts at least im tired of having to search yalls blogs when smth slightly off about your wording that i cant explain has me like hmmmmm and then i end up right and i really dont want to be

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

Fantastic chapter like always and absolutely adorable.

I love how you expand so much on the characters even the dead ones in this fic in a way that makes them so present in the narrative. The way this makes Frank just completely absorbed by his family constantly while still building them as real people independent to him is great. Just the little details about Maria this chapter and how they relate to Matt is absolutely fantastic

The situation between Peter and Frank needed to blow up spectacularly before getting resolved I should have known that something would actually blow up.

The way you showed the Spidey sense in action through Franks pov was really good it's my favorite Spidey power and really fun to see in action.

Poor Peter though. I hope that once the situation gets resolved he can have a good cry about everything ever.

Also I really want Tony to get punched in the face. Just a small punch! Just once! But Jesus Christ the way he handled this situation has been so bad for Peter I am so angry at him. I know he's dealing with something behind the scenes bit still he needs to think about the impact this all has on Peter it's so bleak and isolating

i simply love explosions and add them in to everything i can. they're the spice of life. do not have the police investigate me i am so so normal about fire

Maria Castle is alive in my head and I love her. the version that lives in my head simply loves Matt. He's the dumbass little brother she's always wanted. He enchants her with his poor decision making and emotional unavailability. When he comes over she insists on throwing herself in his arms and he twirls her around because it annoys frank and they're inherently both assholes. The Maria in my head will never be showcased unless i end up pushing my Castle Family Agenda in earnest, but I will reference her as she exists in my head in works where she's still dead. I love her your honor.

The reaction to tony in kintsugi continues to be hilarious to me because kintsugi partially exists because I didn't see this reaction post-CW. Like the reaction I saw was mostly hardcore Iron Dad and i just didn't really see or hear a lot of commentary about how he handled the time between CW and Homecoming. And in kintsugi I changed literally nothing about how Tony treated Peter in that time and people are soooo mad at him. It's kind of funny

[nebulaleaf]

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[polygondotcomvideoproducer]

you dont count edinburgh as a capital? you would betray your own country like this?

Oh it's a capital all right, it's just that we all know that scotland unfortunately has no rights

[timoswerner]

[resetium]

yknow i kinda wonder why people who don't suffer end up glorifying the suffering of great artists and say shit like "the best art is made from suffering", i wonder why they say that

im sure it's totally a good reason

Just a reminder that Vincent van Gogh did not eat yellow paint to make himself feel happy, he ate paint, and drank different chemicals because he was suicidal and this is why he was not allowed in his studio while having breakdowns. He also did not paint starry night and his other great works because he was depressed, he painted most of them while he was in recovery and demonstrated his hopefulness and love of the world through this. Most of his great works were painted from his room at a hospital. Van Gogh’s depression should not be glorified. His hope and effort toward a better life, as well as his recovery from depression should be glorified.

[curiousorigins]

One of my favorite things to do is to say an opinion of mine is an objective fact when it’s clearly subjective. I understand that this makes me seem like I don’t understand what Objective means.

That’s fine. It’s constantly misused on the news.

It just makes me laugh.

I get a little giggle and some mirth and self satisfaction in situations that otherwise wouldn’t have it.

Plus I make native English speakers look dumb too. I often follow it up by saying my major in school was English. It’s a net good.

Anyone struggling with learning English (or thinks they’re struggling. I’ve met so many people learning English who speak perfectly) that understands it, gets a little laugh and feels smart (as they should being bilingual+ is hard work.) and understands that even Native English speakers mess it up sometimes. Plus I know for the grammatical inclined, it’s annoying and gives them a boost of superiority complex (so pretentious... I know I used to be that sort.) and that cracks me up.

The person learning English, ain’t judging me and determining that I’m lesser for my handle on English, just the reasonable feeling that it’s okay to make mistakes if they judge it at all. Whereas the grammar snob is trying to avoid their faces twitching while they hold themselves back from correcting me all the while feeling that they’re better than me. It’s wonderful how drastically different people think. I’ve literally thought the same when catching a minor grammatical mistake in Italian and when I was a grammar snob, that sort of thing. It used to grind my gears how often the local morning news team would screw it up.

Now it just fills me with glee. For the record very big fan of purposeful misuse of words for the laugh. Like yes, word choice is important for sake of clarity of a message and of course the primary purpose of communication is to share a message with the audience. So I do believe that it’s helpful to have it right. To learn it right. But also people are too precious about it, and so long as people understand you that’s successful communication. Message received and we can all go home.

[gay-otlc]

https://www.tumblr.com/arson-goku/748767908456448000

What exactly is wrong with this post? I’m confused is it just a criticism of the beginning or the whole thing?

If you're asking someone to explain a criticism of a post, I would recommend asking the person who posted said criticism?? Because I had not seen the post you linked until now and I was not really the one criticizing it.

So I can't speak for the op of the post I reblogged but speaking for myself having now seen the full post, I think overall it is a good post. It is absolutely important to talk about medical transandrophobia and the way trans men&mascs who pass as male struggle to access necessary, even lifesaving medical care.

I don't like that the part at the beginning frames it as though that op thinks we're focusing "too much" on non-passing trans men, which is... very much not the case. When people do emphasize non-passing trans men, it's not to erase trans men who do pass, it's to push back on the constant erasure of trans men who don't.

The people who deny that transandrophobia exists/is a problem repeatedly insist that trans men can pass mostly effortlessly ("all they need is a haircut and a hoodie") and can easily access medical transition. So we have to talk about trans men who are in an environment where they can't pass, who physically can't pass, who don't want to pass, who can't access medical transition, who don't want to medically transition, etc in a desperate attempt to get people to recognize that these types of trans men exist, and are suffering, and that their experiences fucking matter and don't deserve to be erased.

(Also in these same discussions I have seen people also talk about how trans men who pass can still be outed, and how trans men who pass can be harassed, assaulted, denied necessary resources or medical care for looking too masculine, so I don't feel that passing trans men are being ignored in any way? Maybe the op of the post you linked is in different circles and doesn't see those same discussions, idk)

The beginning of this post just seems to communicate "I feel as though my struggles as a trans man who passes well don't get acknowledged enough" by saying "because the struggles of trans men who don't pass get acknowledged too much," which again, isn't the case. I don't think that op had bad intentions, but it came off that way.

(Also, in seeing the screenshot of the post's beginning without context, I thought it was going to continue something like "trans men who do pass have all the male privilege but don't want to admit they have male privilege so they keep talking about trans men who don't pass to insist trans men are oppressed because they are whiny mras" or some shit. Which is a take that pisses me off. Knowing the actual full content of the post, I am significantly less pissed off, I think it's a good post overall with a clumsily worded beginning)

[otogariado]

lrb one of the problems with people treating any and all forms of AI as The Boogeyman that is undecidedly Evil At All Times is that its a slippery slope that is definitely susceptible to spouting ableist shit

[izzydizzy13]

i love people who reblog posts which contradict each other be explicitly unclear

reblog this post if you agree

fuck people who reblog posts which contradict each other. no! be explicitly clear

[elio-monroe]

on the last thing i reblogged i just want to make it clear that i know spotify wrap gets released normally on a certain day of the month, but i think its fair to say that they could have pushed the release either a day up or a day back to be respectful. but they didn't and thats still really fucking shitty, and only adds to the list of anti-palestine actions they've committed.