#it fucking sucked!

[serandipity]

☀ What's your rp pet peeve?

Salty af munday meme

I have several small ones:

I’m big on tagging especially for mumu’s. However, in general when people do not tag stuff: be it blog names, nsfw content, etc etc. I get really annoyed.

There are names I have black listed and that filter / black list fails to work if people don’t do the bare minimum of tagging blog names in their tags and that really defeats the purpose of “curating your own space”. You feel? Additionally when people don’t throw their nsfw content under a read more and im jump scared by untagged nsfw on the dash. I’m not a prude by any means, but plz throw under a read more because I use tumblr at work and uhhhhhhhhh I do not want a situation you know?

More personal issue under the cut but it deals with “drama” so you can skip if you don’t wish to read

A bigger more personal issue I have is the way rp community is all “no drama plz”, but really what people mean is “do not bring conflict to the dash no matter if you’re defending yourself or not.” Like sorry I’m not gonna let someone slander me on the dash just cause they got the jump on vaguing about me on the dash first and got a jump start on the narrative? But then suddenly you defend yourself and all the people are like “well both sides are just as bad as each other” and I’m gonna level with you here: if a person is defending themselves and did not bring it to the dash initially that’s not someone being “just as bad”. This “no drama” bs is literally just a zero tolerance bullying policy where victims are punished for defending themselves.

[corrodedparadox]

My other car is a rainbow trout

[barbex]

[eosofspades]

i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues

[superkramone]

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[citricacidprince]

Was forced to get a new phone today

[crustaceousfaggot]

No nuance allowed. Put your nuance in the tags, I just want a yes or no answer

[cognitiveinequality]

So... a bunch of NFT grifters threw a party in Hong Kong this weekend and reportedly a bunch of attendees are now at risk of permanent eyesight damage because the promoters used unsafe lighting, and people are going to the ER...

[liquidstar]

Yes, Greece still exists, we didn't all die 2000 years ago. Yes, people speak Greek. You people are so fucking stupid for real. So many of you claim to love ancient shit but can't even acknowledge the actual living culture of the people whose mythology and classics you romanticize. You keep leaving annoying comments about how you just forget Greek people still exist, thinking you're being quirky because you love ancient stuff soooo much that you forgot about the people it came from. You think about it so little you don't even realize that an actual Greek person has to read this shit, making it clear how little you actually care about the culture beyond the romanticized (and westernized) mythology. Don't claim you love Greece, don't use our mythology anymore if you can't acknowledge that we're still around without making it about how little you think about us. It's mind boggling that you'd think a Greek person would read this and think you're anything but obnoxious. Explode.

[sourkreem]

A couple of lazy Jason sketches. Still figuring out his design. Also do you think he ugly cries at least once a week.

[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[yb-cringe]

something insanely meta about jack and tommy chatting about how it all sucked everything sucked and it was a mess and it hurt and no theyd never wanna go back but.. they miss it sometimes. to the way things were and how they felt. sometimes you just wanna go back

[donutdrawsthings]

It's still on my mind... save me

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