#is getting on my last nerve

[willowcrowned]

sorry to bring up that snake post again but I think the replies/reblogs of it are a really good case study in people on tumblr forgetting that op is a real person whose complex views and experience are not entirely contained in the >100 word post they made for fun on tumblr dot com.

like this?

this is not what it looks like when people are remembering that op is an actual person with a worldview not entirely contained by their tumblr post who can see the comments. and that's fine, if annoying, when it's a post about snakes*

*also occurs when the post is about star wars, bank robberies, blood drinking kinks, and presumably just about anything else in the galaxy

but as someone who's been afflicted with enough popular posts to have firsthand experience with this sort of pattern of behavior, I wish people would try a bit harder to:

1. assume good faith from op (ex. op is not dunking on the UK, just surprised)

2. assume op knows about the topic they're posting about (ex. op literally just got a degree with a focus in ecology. she knows why the UK/pretty much all of europe doesn't have a lot of snakes)

3. allow for personal experiences shaping op's worldview (ex. the fact of the matter is that just yesterday op saw two copperheads within ten feet of each other and barely goes a week without seeing some sort of wild reptile, so it's reasonable that the idea only of three native snakes would feel odd to her)

[vargdottern]

me when they had an entire build up for snufkin and joxter finally meeting but then just made him walk out the door instead

[puppyeared]

I just skimmed through the art part of your blog and holy bajeebus your LMK art is so beautiful and the headcanon ideas you come up with are so good I wanna steal em-

Kinda wanna see like a part 2 of the little angst you did between MK and Macaque a while ago. It's so interesting and I wanna see Macaque's reaction in your art style. (You don't have to of course, it's just a suggestion [idk if i spelled that right])

Thanks for reading and hope you have a good day/night!

Hope this is to your liking ^^

Part one here

[tgmsunmontue]

                Bradley looks around the bar. None of his friends are in sight and the quiz is meant to start in less than five minutes. Their regular, weekly, quiz, which they all confirmed they were coming to not even two hours ago. And yet here he sits alone, nursing his bottle of beer and picking at his bowl of fries. He’s been stood up by his friends. Assholes.

                “Where’s the rest of your team?”

                “Good question,” Bradley mutters sulkily, then turns to look at how has addressed him and he scowls. It’s the hyper-competitive guy from one of the other teams, the one who had shoved Bradley out of the way one time during a spot-prize round, tossed a you snooze, you lose over his shoulder and since then he’s sort of hated the guy. Of course, he’s let all his friends know about it too, ignored their sighs and eye rolls at his dark muttering; reminded him that it was meant to be fun. Not whatever thing he was turning it into.

                “You can always join our team for the night? If you want? Give you a taste of what winning feels like.”

                Bradley wants to be petty, wants to stomp off, wants to shove him.

                But his friends have made him come here and then left him alone. He’s not an idiot. Maybe he should have lightened up before they took to drastic measures.

                He looks at the other guy's easy smile, he’s clearly not been stewing by how annoying Bradley is, and he’s not sure how he feels about that.

                “Thanks. Buy you a drink?”

                “Yeah. I’ll have what you’re having. Name’s Jake.”

“Bradley.”

                “Bradley,” Jake repeats, “nice to meet you.”

[universe-of-peoples]

I’m patient with PJO show fans that haven’t read the books. I really am. Getting to experience the story for the first time is great and I want to encourage them to get into my favorite fandom I’ve ever been a part of.

But I’m going to lose it if I see another “Percy and Annabeth are related! 😱😱😱” post.

No they’re not go read the books 🙄

[faceeeeee]

Sneak peak time

[massiveladycat]

"its not lukes fault!" the entire titan army who was SLAUGHTERED after the war was not lukes fault?? silena beauregard, who died because luke groomed her and used charles and her previous crush on him, was not lukes fault?? luke being fully prepared to make percy watch as grover and annabeth were eaten is not lukes fault??? luke poisoning thalias tree was not lukes fault?? yes, i can see how luke castellan is a sweet innocent baby boy who can do no wrong. he probably feels sooo bad so its completely okay that dozens of campers died because of him and the entirety of the titan army (in which, had DEMIGOD CHILDREN IN IT) died except for alabaster. gosh. im so stupid. luke is just so tragic and sad uughh. he didnt mean to do it when he held percy at scorpionpoint. "its because of his dad!" most of camp half-blood had absent or bad fathers. and yes, thats awful and i can understand the trauma that comes with it, but it'll never justify the shit he did to the children he claimed to want to protect. "he had a point!" he did. sure. the gods were awful parents and awful people. but he was ready to use the demigods, who suffered because of the gods' actions, as child soldiers. he manipulated, threatened, and groomed them into joining the titan army. he stole kids' childhoods. he was responsible for the death of hundreds. he tried to kill annabeth and percy multiple times. tell me what the hell those two did wrong to deserve that.

[cornerstoreclown]

‘terrifier has no story, it’s all gore!’ ‘terrifier is just one big gore fest!’ ‘it’s just gore porn!’ ‘people who watch this are sick!’

1. It’s a slasher movie, plot was never gonna be that serious to begin with. they never are.

2. Saw is gore porn too, and it’s been in the cultural realm since the early 2000’s. When it first came out it was said to be torture porn, too. I know—I was there.

3. It’s transgressive media, it’s a breath of fresh air. Liking a clown cutting people up doesn’t make you fucked up in the head, never has and never will. Put down the christian right wing talking points and chill. It’s not that serious. It was never that serious. And moreover it’s not real.

[astoldbychae]

Ms. Webber, if ya nasty. 😛

[druidberries]

a day in the life of clementine: 1. working, 2. watching her precious baby, 3. getting simultaneously cyberbullied and told jokes...yeah

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imagine getting cyberbullied by your (kind of) exes roommate??? its okay cece out here cheering her up with dad jokes

[thevelaryons]

This show never allows Corlys the right to his grief. Each time, he tries to express his grievance, he is shamed into submission.

Season 1 Episode 10:

Corlys is angry over the death of his son and also his brother. But he’s not allowed to express his feelings on the matter.

He actually gets shamed for abandoning his family (purely a show invention and now I understand the reason why).

Season 2 Episode 5:

There are several similarities to the scene from season one. Corlys is once again denied the right to express his grief (apparently it’s dehumanizing towards his wife who he is treating as a thing by shedding tears over her!). He is always presented as the unreasonable one unnecessarily blaming Rhaenyra. Baela is compared to Rhaenys in this scene and there is a clear purpose behind this writing choice.

Once again, Corlys is shamed for abandoning his family (literally never happened in the book but it’s obvious now that it’s a plot point invented by the show runners to make Corlys look bad). His family’s suffering is Corlys’ fault apparently and the writers have managed to cleverly deflect attention away from Rhaenyra every single time.

[kat-rose-griffith]

Y’all aren’t allowed to get on your soap box about any of the actions of the fictional characters in the show when you can’t even just not bully an actor for being a person and dating someone who isn’t their friend/coworker

[karioke13]

Me asf:

[aquareegia]

BMTH has been taking the piss out of christianity for a while and some people just realised that??? BRUH! what the fuck have you been listening to the entire time? bc it sure as hell wasn't BMTH lol.

[snezfics-n-shit]

[abraincellandahalf]

If I hear one more person on twt/insta whine about how Doctor Who has become too "woke" I will hit them with physical CDs of all the other seasons so maybe they remember how progressive it was and how subtle political commentary has been the heart of this show all along