#its needed in our opinion

[pluralhottakes]

My hot take is that system littles wanting spaces where they can talk about not child safe things isn't because they aren't "really children", but because adults creating spaces for children become way too coddling and sanitized.

I am really my age and don't have emotional regulation or skill development of an adult. I also don't need to be handheld. Both camps are taking it to extremes and making it harder and I hate it.

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[halcyon-deluxe]

what do you value most in someone?

At *least* a 2x resistance to ground type attacks. My last partner died due to a 4x weakness to earthquake and it gave me SUCH an ick :/ likeeeee I haaaaate it when my partner gets one-shot by earthquake spammers. its such a turn off.

[skunkes]

longlegs fucking sucked 😭

[3416]

also kyper going so hardcore about 1634 today saved me..... "34 wants 16. he doesnt want 88, he doesn't want anybody else. he wants him." he said it with SO much conviction, it's killing me. like that's how me and the oomfs speak bro, welcome to the club. also the use of their numbers to make it less personal like these guys dont wear their numbers like a LIFELINEEEE......

[ghostinthetumbchine]

Guys. Ok.

You have a series written by an author who strives to be a fair, gentle, good person that does not do harm. That is raised in a deeply catholic, western european, dominant culture, in an imperialistic country. Part of his strong relationship with faith, through which he sees the nature of good and evil, are monarchist beliefs, are some strong anti science sentiments. Not all of those sentiments are right but not all are of course wrong, especially when you even think of the times he had lived in.

He is a genius, a once in a century creative, worldbuilder. He writes a series of books that become genre defining. Any interaction with said genre after that is automatically measured to his mettle, that is how great is it's impact.

And those books being written by him end up naturally reflecting his beliefs, which happened to be dominant belief of western society - and dominant too in those liminal, outskirts of the west that have been under its boot and influence and strived to join, appease it for its own safety, for centuries. Like mine, for example.

And for me, as i am just a single example of someone who might come at these works from this position - of an author i greatly respect, whose choices and reasoning and context i understand - i was raised in this exact same dominant philosophies. They pervade so much of my environment, these same perceptions that are not entirely wrong but have so many holes and sharp edges that hurt people, hurt me.

And so, is it really that hard to believe that in interaction with such work and all associated ones, i would question its presentation of Good tm, disect it's ability to actually be what it claims, would empathise w Evil tm i have been associated with in real life for the most flimsy reasons? And then, there is also another layer, another group of people i belong to. People who have know in their life, been around bad people and saw a bit too much of how they become those bad people and how they stop being bad and what you gain as a community when they manage to do so who want to genuinely question societies perception on what we should do about them and how much collective responsibility for them we have?

Of course it shows up in interaction and transformative work of literature because literature is art and art at it's core is another means of communication.

At a risk of making it too serious, sometimes i feel like people see you playing too deep in the mud they prefer to be fascinated and entertained by from distance and use as character building for other characters and get irritated that you actually want to get into the dirt of it because they just want to keep seeing the mud and only mud and not anything thats hidden in it.

[yutamayo]

Y'all just cool with clicking kudos on darkfics? Nah bro I'm not ab to out myself like that ima close the tab giving the 20min experience of reading that a silent thas crazy and thank u tho

Fr I see the list of kudos accs names and I'm like..... Should I make a second acc for reading vs my one for writing cus. I won't lie I'm not THAT honest 😂

[boycritter]

if i dont get into [college redacted] im straight up dropping physics. that school is the only reason im taking this secret layer of hell disguised as a class. i am not gonna put myself through another semester of this bullshit if i dont have to.

[3416]

reading takes about last nights game from people who eye-test their way through anything is so funny like. they are watching something so entirely different than anyone else. it's almost commendable how stupid you can soundlkfjdsl

[bayrut]

severance ahhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[woodfrogs]

ive recently been having a lot of thoughts on politics and science and social media and the intersections of & interactions between the three

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

designing graduation albums must be one of the cringiest thing ever kids im sorry i know if u'd see it u'd feel sooooooo cringe

[centipedve]

going back to 2022-2023 realiblr posts does make us want to start killing people

[thebatapex]

as if the cheating wasnt enough.. 😒

[svyatoiy]

have i finished the nik duology? no ... but i do think it's vital that at some point after zoya's reign (or perhaps during!) there begins a process of dismantling the ravkan monarchy. alina personally is rather indifferent on the subject politically, and if she'd been queen she would likely not have begun the process herself — in a way she owes her life to the monarchy, as she was taken in by the nobility. she was housed, fed and schooled by them, it makes sense she'd be brought up with a pro-monarchy mindset. it's only when she lives at the little palace and sees the royal family and its dysfunction for herself that she recognizes how problematic this form of government is, yet at the same time it's such a permanent institution in her mind that what can you do but to improve it as much as possible?

[twitterdotcom]

Personally, I felt like episode 8 was the show telling us it wasn't going to be renewed. After 7+8 I never had any hope for its renewal. It just felt too final, and not in a good way, but rather that the show had no confidence that it would get renewed either. If it had ended on a cliffhanger I would at least felt something like sadness towards the show not getting renewed.

And even if it was renewed I felt like it wouldn't be able to fix any of the issues that season 2 had, but rather just continue them further. Max seemed really ready to sabotage the show long before it even was renewed, and with the various production restraints that the show encountered during s2 I can only figure as much.

Like if the issue was the budget, that'll still be a problem, if its the pacing I have no confidence that hbo would renew it for more than 8 episodes, and if the problem was executives changing the show and altering beloved characters thats not going away either.

I remember reading that s2 underperformed compared to S1 and it also ended with alienating a large (and active) portion of the audience, but it in terms of online interaction it still out performs many of the shows on the platform that have been renewed and is a well rated show that has an audience. We already know that the head of warner bros is a turd of a man whose only interest is money for himself, and whose choice surrounding HBO/Max has been incredibly stupid and demeaning towards all forms of filmmaking

I feel like it was intentionally set up to fail, because all Max wants is cheap TV or at least a show that can be drawn out forever and make as much money as possible, which Ofmd isn't, its a 3 season show with sets that have to he constructed, vfx that needs done, and costumes that need sewn. They cut the budget, shortened the episodes, and influenced the story all to make it look bad, so they could justify their decision of not renewing it while also getting to rack in money from ofmd's fanbase one last time.

[storm-of-feathers]

cant sleep gonna say my thoughts.

I think what a lot of people miss about tumblr (and especially unfocused blogs that, say, aren't fandom oriented) is that it's essentially an open journal. it's a microblogging website, and all blogging micro or macro is fundamentally a web log (where the term comes from!). if it seems like I'm not talking ab something enough, it's not because I don't care at all.

It's because first and foremost, this blog is a piece of my soul that I am choosing to share. I'm not trying to be an activist on the internet, I'm not trying to sway anyone to my opinions. I'm saying the things I think and feel. If I talk ab american politics too much, that's because im american. if I'm writing frustrated posts about performative internet activism, that's because it feels exhausting to be out there doing the work (because that's what it is. Its work. Its boring and taxing and it feels like youre getting nowhere. Until you see how far youve come) and having to come to tumblr and seeing people say I didn't talk about [disaster 30000 of the past ten years] enough.

if I seem angry and upset and scared and irrational, its because i am those things. you have to understand. in spite of my rather large follower number, this blog is, first and foremost, for me. I am writing things down and allowing strangers and friends and wanderers to read it. I won't call it a privilege that can be taken away, bc its not like some of my thoughts are exactly a treat, but it is something to keep in mind.

if you ask me why I'm talking about the supreme courts recent decisions but not similar decisions in other countries, the answer comes down to "one of those directly affects me, and therefore i can fight back."

but I shouldn't have to announce where and how I'm fighting back. if for no other reason, my own fucking safety. but also bc this blog isn't any sort of guide to activism, it's not any type instruction. it is, at best, my diary that I published.

and that isn't a bad thing!! and it shouldn't be!!! that's why I harped so hard on the carrd post. that's why I'm vaguely annoyed with my reddit posts. that's why I shared my marital status and sexuality for a long time. that's why i have a rwby icon. that's why my blog title which hasn't changed since 2018 is what it is.

I understand that sometimes I have opinions people don't like. oceangate in particular has proven to be a fantastic example of that. But i am, at the most basic terminology, venting my thoughts and feelings.

that's why I'm talking ab the supreme court and their awful decisions. why I may not be talking about issues that don't directly affect me, but might affect some of you. it's not because i don't care. It's never because I don't care.

It's because my target audience is a mirror.