#it's so incredibly rude

[demigods-posts]

don't mean to reopen this can of worms. but cotg is better than twottg. i said the opposite months ago. but the more time progresses, the more my opinion changes. there are still aspects of the books that ttwottg does better than cotg does in my opinion. but overall. i would re-read cotg. and i can't say the same for twottg, unfortunately.

[rainbowfoxes]

Just so you know, if you tag things "for exposure" on Ao3 I hate you, specifically.

Ao3 has no algorithm - it is an ARCHIVE; that means it stores works in a completely value-neutral way. Nothing you do will put it in front of eyeballs that did not go specifically looking for it.

So when you tag things "for exposure" - meaning you tag things that are not in the work at all in order to put it in front of people who DON'T WANT IT. If you use a /Reader tag "for exposure" and have NO /Reader in your work, all you're going to get is a bunch of people mad at you because they went looking for /Reader and got whatever you wrote instead. And all the people who would've liked what you wrote are going to skip over it because they don't WANT to read a /Reader fic.

Tags are not advertising, they're the nutrition facts on the back of the cereal box. They tell you what is ACTUALLY IN THE THING so you can make an informed decision about it. But if people LIE about what's in it, then everyone gets rightfully upset because there were nuts in their nut-free granola. And if I was promised nuts in my chocolate bar and didn't get any, I'd be mighty peeved.

So don't tag things "for exposure" it's rude and scummy and most of all, annoying.

[brucenorris007]

I've seen that post going around about Shadow and Omega and swearing; that the Robotniks don't swear, Eggman because he's pretentious and thinks he's above it all, Gerald. . . doesn't teach Shadow about it because he sees no reason for it

And while it's absolutely a fact that Rouge taught Omega how to swear--relishing the entire process--I find it absurdly bold of anyone to assume that Maria Robotnik didn't know the Fuck word

[whatwooshkai]

Lucky Number 7!

"Designation?"

"Chase."

Chase keeps his finials pinned flat against his helm, doorwings wide and fanned to keep the bot behind him from getting too close, which they have been for the past five minutes.

He has a vibroknife in his subspace. He'd rather not use it- you can only make a first impression once.

The femme flips through a datapad until her optics go wide. "Oh," she murmurs, the dangling jewelry from her finials making a loud ting! when they flatten to her helm. "Oh, you're one of those. Hang on."

Chase's optic twitches. He is normally very good at keeping his emotions in check, and no one who knows him has ever seen his temper, and that's the way he wants to keep it.

But if one more bot refers to him as "one of those" he's going to do something stupid.

Chase hates doing stupid things.

"Okay, I got you right here!" The femme gives him a sheepish smile as she hands over a pair of keycards. "There was an issue with organizing the dorms this year. Normally you'd be put with other bots in your track but you ended up in the randomized group, so you'll be staying with a few bots from other tracks. That's not a problem, is it?"

Chase's finials lift slightly away from his helm. "That is fine," he says, accepting the cards. That is... probably for the best, actually. "Thank you."

"No problem!" the femme says brightly. "So you're in room 704. Elevators are on your left. Next!"

Chase shuffles away from the table, readjusting the bag he has slung over his shoulder, eyeing the key cards in his hand.

Primus, when was the last time he met new people?

The elevator is blessedly empty when he steps inside, and so is the hallway as he follows it down to his room. Well, he was in one of the last groups to check in, so that's expected.

The door has four slots for name tags, as all of the ones in this hallway do. Only two have been filled in so far, for mechs "Boulder" and "Heatwave". Both have little drawings on them, one better than the other's. However, both seem to have identical handwriting... interesting.

So it seems only two have checked in. Maybe he'll have a choice of berth, then.

Chase swipes the key card and gently opens the door.

There's two sets of bunk berths, a desk in front and behind each one. None seem to have been claimed, but on the left, there's a bag tossed on the top bunk and a few posters plastered up already, and some blankets and pillows piled up. And on the right, there's a bag on the bottom bunk, and-

Oh. He's being glared at.

"Another one?" the mech mutters, green optics narrowed at Chase. He's orange a white, with a scar cutting down through one optic. He looks about Chase's age. "'Oh, we'll get you your own room, Blades'! my aft. Mechs walking in every five minutes," he huffs.

Chase frowns. "The attitude is hardly appropriate," he says, and the mech's optics suddenly go wide, as if he thought Chase couldn't hear him.

He mutters something unintelligible and then turns over on his side, revealing a pair of rotors. A flight frame, then.

Blades. His name wasn't on the door.

Chase looks around at the other bags. So his choice has been made for him, then. As usual.

He sets his bag down on the berth to the left, projecting his calendar up on the wall. And then he sits.

He's not really sure what to do now. Conversation is not really an option, what with the less-than-warm welcome, and he has no need to explore the city he grew up in.

Well, that’s a bit of a stretch. He mostly grew up in various facilities around the city, but he spent enough time out on the streets to know it.

Besides… he’d really rather not risk running into his batch. Not alone, at least.

Even though his coding cries for them, his frame hurts without them, he couldn’t get out of berth for several days after they were officially separated-

He’s better now. He has to be better.

He’s never had to try and make new friends. He’s never had to make friends, period. Chase can’t remember the last time he met someone new before this week.

But it can’t be that hard, can it? Sure, this Blades is… hostile… but maybe the others are a little more friendly!

Speaking of- someone decides to kick the door open at that very moment.

Blades looks up, and slight relief teeks through his field as he lies back down. So one of the mechs on the door, then.

Heatwave, he imagines- only because the mech is hot.

He stops a few feet from Chase once he lays optics on him, but Chase can feel the heat he gives off from here. That has to be unnatural, surely. Even Ultra Magnus, the largest mech he’s ever met, did not give off that much heat.

Beyond the odd temperature, the mech looks friendly enough. He’s red, with bright and warm yellow optics, and twin scars cutting up one cheek. In his arms are a plethora of cubes and energon sweets, several shoved in his mouth as well.

He mumbles something Chase can’t make out around the food in his mouth, then tosses a cube at Blades. The flight frame mutters some kind of thanks, and the mech turns back to Chase.

He shuffles his items into one arm and offers a hand to Chase. He once again speaks, presumably introducing himself, but Chase can’t understand a word he says.

He takes his hand and shakes it. “You really shouldn’t speak with your mouth full,” he says.

Yellow optics narrow at him. “I’ll do whatever the fuck I want,” he snaps. There’s a thick accent there that the universal translator is doing its best to suppress. “I asked for your name.”

Chase’s doorwings flick and the mech’s optics only follow them for a second before training on Chase’s face again. “Chase,” he says. “I will have to ask you for yours again, I did not understand you. Also, please let go of my hand.”

“Heatwave.” A correct guess, then. Chase’s doorwings raise slightly, but Heatwave’s gaze doesn’t shift to them again. Instead, he keeps his optics trained on Chase’s face, who looks away from the optic contact. He does release Chase’s hand, though. “You should check out the mess hall,” he says, moving his quarry back to both arms. “Never seen so much fuel in my life.”

Chase watches him in mild fascination as he figures out how to climb the ladder of the bunk without dropping any of the cubes, and from there Chase can’t see what he does with them.

So he’s expected to go collect his own ration. Good to know.

…He should be trying to make more conversation, right? Blades might be a lost cause but Heatwave at least introduced himself.

He just… doesn’t know what to do from here. Should he ask what track Heatwave is in? He can guess, from the paint job, but would Heatwave even entertain that? He’s sure he knows what Chase is here for, and has thankfully not said anything derogatory about it… yet.

It’s not wrong to expect it to happen eventually, right?

Then he realizes something. “Where are the washracks?”

Heatwave leans out over the top of the bunk. “Hallway.”

Chase frowns. “Why?”

“What, never been in a communal wash rack before?” Heatwave asks, an oddly aggressive tone to his voice. “This ain’t no prissy enforcer academy, Chase. You’ll hafta get used to other mechs in your space.”

Oh, that accent is really coming out now. Chase wishes he could place it. “It is not a problem,” he growls, though it is… not ideal. The idea of sharing washracks with anyone other than his batch makes his plating crawl. He doesn’t appreciate the attitude, though.

“Whatever you say.” Heatwave leans back.

Okay. So far, his roommates are violently antisocial and rude. Wonderful.

It is now that the fourth roommate decides to show themselves, and Chase braces himself for the worst.

They gently push the door open, holding a datapad. They’re green and far more heavyset than any of the others, though Heatwave comes close. Blue optics widen at him. “Hello,” they say, in very thickly accented Common.

No universal translator, then. Interesting.

“Hello,” Chase says back, offering his hand. “Chase.”

“Boulder.” So that’s all four. Good. “I am… stop by for my datapad. Good to meet you.”

“And you.” Primus almighty, Chase wishes he’d met someone who wasn’t Iaconian before today, because all these new accents, and he can’t place a single one. Maybe if he knew what their mother language is, he could speak to them better? “If you speak in your native language, I can still understand it,” Chase says, tapping his throat.

“I know,” Boulder says. “But I like to make the effort.”

“Okay.”

Boulder turns away from him and grabs the datapad from their bag, before offering everyone a wave and leaving again.

Chase sits down on his berth again. Boulder seems nice.

…This might not be so bad.

[shiryawashere]

her face body language and general demeanor in this scene make me feel such intensely sapphic emotions i want to bite off my own hand about it

[send-noodles-not-nudes]

So a lot of my feed has been about thunderbolts lately (haven't seen it yet but I'm planning to watch it eventually) and consequently, there's been a lot of talk and fics and memes about Yelena

I love her, so I'm happy that I've seen so much media around her, but there's one thing that makes me sad:

Yelena is aroace, and a lot of people don't portray her as such.

My initial reaction isn't anger. A lot of people don't know; I've seen through my own life that most people don't know what the fuck an asexual is, let alone what aromantic means, nor that you can be one but not the other. I've had to educate a lot of people, and that's just part of being aspec. So please, when you see people who mischaracterize a character as allo when they're not, don't have a knee-jerk reaction of anger just because of something that's more likely than not simple ignorance that wasn't intended to harm. Only get mad if they're being intentionally ignorant and rude.

That being said, for those writing fics/making memes/posting hcs or whatever else you do, please remember that Yelena is aroace according to the writers. It may not be super explicitly confirmed—Devin Grayson only said that she was "likely" to identify as ace, and the aro bit comes from a comic where she says that "no, I'm not a lesbian. I'm not anything"—but it's plenty enough to call her canonically aroace, and she's heavily aroace coded in comics and the mcu.

Plus, you can still write plenty of fics with an aroace character! Make a platonic x reader where they're QPPs! You still have plenty of options! I'm absolutely not trying to take that away from you and I encourage people to keep at it!

But in the same way you (hopefully; I know there are still people who do) wouldn't write a fic of a canon gay character in a straight relationship, please don't write Yelena as allo. If you've ever craved representation for yourself, you should understand why it hurts to have representation taken away from the aspec community. We have so little representation. All I ask is that you respect what representation we do have.

[astracora]

Sobbing away all snotty at midnight because the stupid evil tech show made more tragic lesbians and I'm too emotional for this shit.

[sphylor]

Phantom loves things that can fly. he loves birds and bugs and bats and animals that can glide. he thinks theyre all super cool. he especially loves bats and moths, though. Mountain takes him out one night to watch the bats fly through the night sky and set up a moth watch. they hang a sheet over a tree branch and shine a torch through it and watch as moths slowly start to gather. Mountain tells him their names and any facts he knows about them and Phantom just watches and listens in awe

[lbhslefttiddie]

HOW AM I TO CHOOSE BETWEEN ALL THE MOTTAU WIPS??? (Mouse on the Thorn is my favorite SVSSS fic thank you for your work <3). I'm really intrigued by the SY Pov though, since you said MOTT would be all outsider POV. Side note, I'm deeply charmed that you have wips for qijiu atticwifing both ways. As it should be. -Fish

AS IT SHOULD BE!!!!! they can take turns its enrichment for them

and i will be so fucking honest with you chief for a fic that shouldnt exist because i absolutely DID say i wasnt gonna do a sy pov for this fic. i sure have written enough of it for it to take me a Hot Minute to decide which snippet i wanted to share. alas i love sy. also it helps me work around him if i have concrete records of what i was planning for his whole deal behind the scenes, because otherwise i would be forgetting shit allllll the time, more than usual

anyways!!! sy pov snippet!!!

People were nice to him, nowadays.

He wasn't really sure why, but it probably had something to do with Gege being the Sect Leader. He hadn't realized it right away, but Gege was actually pretty important, though it did make sense. The strongest person should get to be the guy in charge, and Gege was definitely the strongest. He didn't even need to draw his sword to kick peoples' asses, but also his sword was the biggest and coolest. Even if Shen Yuan had never seen it, he’d heard the stories about Xuan Su. Of course everyone respected him, so of course they wouldn’t want to offend him.

Also, Zhao Jie was everyone's da-shijie, and she could be a little scary sometimes, so if she warned people to be nice to him, they definitely wouldn't want to make her mad.

That was fine. Shen Yuan generally liked not being yelled at or laughed at. He tried not to go on too much about his own things—he didn't want to wear out their patience or anything, when they were already putting up with him this much. He could save most of his talking for Gege, because he knew Gege worried if he was quiet, anyways. He could be himself at home. It was good enough that he got along with most other people.

That Guy didn't even pretend to like him, but that was okay. Shen Yuan didn't like him—every time he spoke with Gege, his scent got all sad and dejected and Shen Yuan was the one who had to cheer him up. Hating him was one thing, but what the fuck was his problem with Gege? As if anyone could hate Gege? Especially when Gege liked him so much.

Plus he smelled bad. Shen Yuan couldn't smell anything when that gross fake scent was in the way, he didn't know how anyone could stand being anywhere near him. He didn't really get the point of wearing that stuff. Maybe he liked smelling like poison. Maybe he wanted people to stay far away from him—not like he needed any help.

Whatever. That guy was a moron. He wasn't gonna say it, because Gege obviously loved him, but Gege had some really awful taste, apparently.

Or maybe his standards were just really low? That would explain why he was happy with a kid like Shen Yuan.

[teemhaunts]

happy birthday to meeee

(original by gobou)

[notearsnora]

It’s really disheartening and disgusting that everyone jumped to call Ariana rude and didn’t ask why she would feel uncomfortable to take a picture with Elvira and leave a concert hall before the show even started. As I suspected this was around or after Manchester (2017) and as she had to prove with brain scans back then, because y’all wouldn’t even believe she was affected by the bombing, her PTSD made her anxiety flare up and she hated large crowds back then so she left. It’s horrible the internet loves to jump to conclusions and paint Ariana as rude when everyone who knows her deeply says otherwise.

And the fact y’all chose Cynthia as the Black Woman of the month to make fun of and crucify for having an opinion on how y’all edit and “fix” her body and face over a poster is also disgusting. These were some of the edits, literally a monkey edited over her face, this is what y’all invited in with your “fixed it” posts. Racist vitriol. And y’all dare to say she has no right to feel a certain way about this shit? Congratulations.

[satorus-princess]

i had a dream i was married to geto

[tatck]

for some reason i was just scrolling through sonic twitter, i must hate myself

[trans-yllz]

obsessed w the scene where wei wuxian goes to jinlintai to ask about wen ning, because when he comes in, while he Has sort of crashed their party, he is still, Technically, following all of their social rules. he's polite, and courteous, and respectful. he tries to speak with jin zixun away from everyone else first, he's well spoken and appropriately vague, he doesn't say anything when everyone continues to insult him directly to his face. they all know what he Means but he is, technically, still behaving exactly as a respectable cultivator should. and then it sort of starts to go sideways, and you're like uh oh. we can still make it out of here unscathed tho I bet. he hasn't said anything crazy yet. but then wei wuxian looks jin guangshan in his face and says "please allow me to ask another question - does jin zongzhu think that without the qishan wen sect, lanling jin is supposed to take it's place naturally? so everything should be handed over to you, and everyone should follow your orders?", which is insane,

[the-mad-owl]

Deeply surprised by how many more middle aged metalhead assholes the Ghost concert had than the Powerwolf concert.

[23fallencomets]

That's right, Daniel still has to prove himself because he doesn't have a suga daddy to buy him a seat. Hope this makes you happy and hope you enjoy watching checo wreck that car for the rest of the race.

okay so first, do not come into my blog and be rude. that’s not gonna fly here as I respect all the drivers regardless of their driving abilities.

The reason I said he has to improve is because in the last 14 races, his teammate Yuki has outperformed him in every race but 5 which were Bahrain, Canada, Spain, Austria and Spa. If we count in Daniel’s DNF in Japan, then will have to count in the double DNF in China.

Yuki is ahead of Daniel in the standings by 10 points! That means Yuki missed out of points in 6 races!! If anything, Yuki deserves that seat. We can blame it all we want on the car and team and strategy all we want —and i’m genuinely biting myself in the ass with this given the team i follow—but one made it work and the other is struggling.

Do I personally believe that Daniel is out of his prime? No! He clearly still has potential, it’s just that he’s currently being outshined by a teammate that is clearly doing better. Yuki himself thinks that he deserves a chance in the Redull seat.

Now, with Checo.

The first time he dropped out of the top five was in Emilia when he ended up in P8, in Monaco he was crashed out, in Canada he DNF’d, in Spain he placed P8, P7 in Austria, he got P17 in Silverstone and Daniel got P13, both of them out of the points. In Hungary he got P8 again and P7 again in Belgium. In 14 races, Checo missed out on points 3 times. The reason it looked bad was because he crashed out back to back.

Wanna know the difference? Checo was and is still scoring points. In the last 14 races, Daniel outperformed Checo once. Besides those three races, Checo has consistently stayed within the top ten.

Compare Checo’s 131 points and 4 podiums to Daniel’s 12 points and 0 podiums.

Another reason his performance looks “bad” is because of the Red Bull dominance. While it’s not completely wavering, Mclaren has shown how fast they are with how consistent they’ve been within the top 10 and top 5.

It puts the Red Bull Dominance in jeopardy if Checo continues to place lower than the Ferraris and Mclarens, who again, are their biggest competitors right now.

Had it been any other team, they would have been satisfied with Checo’s placement but because it’s not just any team, it puts an insane amount of pressure on Checo.

And the car is bad!! Checo has been saying that he’s been struggling with it and no one bats an eye, but the moment Max struggled to pull a miracle out of his ass at the Hungarian GP, everyone started pointing out how shitty the car is.

Now, did Checo’s financial backing save his seat? In a way yeah. That’s the power of having personal sponsors and the financial means to back him up.

If Red Bull starts listening to their drivers and figure out what’s wrongs with the car, then i wholeheartedly believe that the two can climb to the top again and stay there.

And since it seems that you didn’t read the second part of my original post, I said that if Checo doesn’t improve then they’ll have no choice but to drop him and promote a VCARB driver and in parentheses i put Daniel even though i personally believe that Yuki deserves that seat.

In the end, that post was just my opinion but you had to go and be rude on my blog and I had to pull all this information out. Remember that there was at least three drivers in consideration for Checo’s seat, it genuinely could’ve been anyone.