#it seems like such a mixed bag

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

I've been reading more discourse posts about The Boys tv show. It really does seem like seasons 3 & 4 are very flawed. It's sad but makes me kind of glad I didn't catch up with season 3. Apparently, this show has become a shitshow. It seems like lack of progression is a big problem with this show. Also, season 4's handling of male sexual assault with how poorly Hughie's assault was handled. It seems to fancy itself as having high minded ideas but fucking up the execution. Also, I keep hearing the gore has gotten old and has lost all shock value. I'm not surprised since when you over rely on being edgy with gore it will eventually lose its impact over time. Overall, it seems like the showrunners got full of themselves and the show became a caricature of itself.

I've noticed how Tumblr of all places has a more nuanced analysis than Youtube were everyone is just arguing past each other. Hopefully, this nuance spreads to other parts of internet like Twitter where they are forced to acknowledge the flaws of the show.

[sainz100]

Max Verstappen | 2024 Belgian GP | 📸 via Verstappencom's Insta

[andstuffsketches]

I'm really enjoying all the super hero art you've been sharing with us! I'm not as into superheroes lately but I get excited everytime I see your posts of them. I hope you're having loads of fun! Take care 😻

Thanks!! I'm glad you like the art! I've always loved superheroes but had hardly ever read any DC stuff, so it's been fun to get into!

[i-am-a-secret-ssshhh]

ADHD meds + coffee + essential tremors = me shivering my timbers

[yardsards]

,,,i miss Her (the ocean)

[rexscanonwife]

me irl

[spacecoffeeandcartoons]

oop its uni ranking time again

the time of the year when I remember that since age 14 ive basically spent my life in educational institutions that have been at some point ranked #1 on some of these lists. ugh. bleh. nothing intelligent to say just now, I just always need to remember the ways this limits or biases my experience in addition to the ways it broadens it. someday I will finally write the big article that's been brewing in my brain about the meritocracy fallacy.

[conquerthenight]

I’m BEGGING for some detailed reviews of London Rebecca. I’ve heard that there’s a lot of changes, but I need to know details. I NEED!!!!

[gibbearish]

yknow i hadnt really processed how much the adderall weight loss has changed my face shape but then i found this slightly older selfie

<== old now ==>

like. aww look at ur cute lil squishable cheeks:3 i can see why bf did that so much i would too

[thrandilf]

I actually kind of want to have a tdp fan discord and maybe even have a viren and or aaravos or viravos focus but I have a feeling that this is asking for a bunch of ppl together to get together who would all kill each other if left without moderators

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

ngl it's getting rly annoying seeing people say "remake of x game!" constantly. people are so obsessed with the idea of remakes lately. they don't wonder what the next new game will be like. they just want remakes (including in franchises that don't do those often. not every franchise is Tales, where they've been doing remakes actively throughout its lifespan and not just during this Uwu Remake Era).

with FE, remakes make me a bit eh bc they've all sold poorly or just barely made a profit. Marth's games' remakes on top of the failed Tellius sales almost sent FE into its grave. SoV is just... there. it happened and the fandom moved on, save for the Alm and Celica alts in Heroes.

but like, it was so annoying watching VA interviews and just seeing the word "remake" thrown around so much from the chat. people want "remakes" of games that just don't need them. updated ports is one thing, but entire remakes?

there's more to FE than remakes, but it's all people seem to talk about. I'd like Tellius ports as much as the next girl for people's accessibility (and specifically bc IS' lack of marketing destroyed those games' sales and now they're so rare they're super expensive), but a remake? it's not necessary. even with quality of life features added, those games only need ports. I play them very regularly and frankly have way more fun with them than I do with modern day Menu Emblem.

also, I don't want the fandom wank carrying over into remakes of games that never even had wank. the biggest wank Tellius ever had was the Ike vs Micaiah wars in the fandom, which were not only a fraction of what happens now post Fodlan games but also weren't anywhere near as aggressive.

idk I'm just tired of remake this, remake that. it's also because of the rampant remakes in the industry that I'm tired of it, but it's also tiring to see it constantly in this fandom. I'm glad that FE7 is coming back, but as a port on the Switch and still as a GBA game. FE4? super glad it came back as a port (JP eShop only). remakes though? too tired of the concept (especially when FE remakes have not only almost killed the franchise from lack of sales but were otherwise just mediocre and moved on from pretty quickly). I also don't trust the FE fandom with remakes at this point. character hate is so rampant in this fandom that for the life of me I don't even want Tellius ports if it's going to save me the headache and aggravation from people's lack of character comprehension. :') that shit will turn me into a hard stan and my blog will have to be painted in my blorbo just to keep haters away. :'''')

[magnoliamyrrh]

by this point when i see balkan ppl who think the solution to things is as ethnically pure as possible ethnostates whichever way this is spun i just want to hit them square in the head with a pan. the most effective way to deal with this? yea probably not. is this what i want to do? yes.

[mixelation]

Absolutely floored by how many posts on the “TikTok ban bill” I’ve seen today completely fail to engage with any of the actual reasoning for the ban. And by “how many” I mean every single post that made it into my dash or popular blogs I checked are about “anti bullying” or an elaborate conspiracy to censor/shut down marginalized creators and community engagement.

The bill is part of ongoing anti-China legislation for “national security” purposes, folks. The bill attempts to force the owner to sell to a non-Chinese buyer or else TikTok will be banned from app stores. Any news source besides tumblr dot com journalism covers this. You can debate if this is a slippery slope into US censorship of social media, you can discuss if TikTok is an actual national security risk or just usual US government Sinophobia and fearmongering-slash-showboating, and you can talk about how a ban from app stores would undoubtedly have the off-target effect of negatively impacting tons of people. But if you leave this part of the ban out, you are spreading misinfo.

[bistaxx]

Honestly, knowing this event is (presumably) ending on my birthday is already the best gift I could ever get

[captainsparklefingers]

It feels really weird doing this xD but I guess talking about asking for help/feedback/generally venting about stuff (minor or otherwise) is always gonna feel weird? Is that what I'm doing right now? I have no idea. But anyway, writing it all out will hopefully help get it off my chest and I can try to move on to practical things. Mregh.

So I'm working on a series of oneshots about the first year of Kingsley's life (it was initially gonna be just the first six months before M9 Reunited but then I had some ideas that would only make sense after that, so here we are), and I've managed to get exactly one of them done so far. Which is good! I've got a second one in the works and a list of ideas for the others, buuuut I've managed to get myself stuck in the middle of the second one. Turns out it's hard to write Caduceus and Kingsley interactions when you have nothing to base them on XD and I guess that means I need a beta/somebody to bounce ideas off of. My regular beta (who is a wonderful person and one of my closest friends and who I love very much) is busy with real life stuff like work, so I don't want to bother them, and the people I want to ask to take a look at stuff and get ideas from are busy with their own fics and projects, and I don't want to bother them either. So here we are. I have anxiety up the wazzoo for a lot of things, including this, so it feels weird just putting a Tumblr post out there asking for help with something as silly as a fanfic...

And I'm always sort of afraid of writing Kingsley 'wrong', if that makes sense. Like, I know he's not Lucien or Molly, he's himself and there are echos of them in him, but with my whole belief that the memories of the previous purples are still there (just locked up until he's ready and comfortable enough as Kingsley to take them back and not get overwhelmed by them) and they sometimes leak out (the problem traveling with your past lives family is there's plenty of triggers there for stuff to slip through the cracks without context), and I worry that that makes it seem like I'm trying to turn him into Molly when I swear that's not what I'm thinking at all. So there's THAT layer to the anxiety as well.

So here I am with one one shot done, one about halfway done that I need a bit of a push with, and a list of ideas that I haven't started in on yet because I haven't gotten the second one done, and a lot of nerves about never getting anything done. Like, I'm not even gonna tag this because this is mostly just me trying to work out my anxiety about stuff (but uh if anyone is interested in helping or looking at some Kingsley stuff lemme know I guess), and I hope it helps. I've been having a lot of anxiety and nervousness about a lot of crap lately, and compared to other stuff, this is just such a minor bullshit thing to get wound up about.

God, anxiety SUCKS, y'all. It's the stupidest most irrational thing. Like 'ooh you wanted to do this as a fun lil side project to keep the creative juices going during downtime at work NOPE YOU'RE OBSESSED AND NERVOUS NOW ENJOY FEELING WEIRD WHENEVER YOU'RE AT YOUR LAPTOP FOR UNRELATED REASONS'.

[ghosty-schnibibit]

me finishing the new graphic novel like on the one hand yes the art is gorgeous as always yes the chalice scenes were handled well yes the lunar interludes got included in a cool way but on the other hand me looking at ren (and also a bit at taako by proxy) like