#just a pet peeve

[toffeebrews]

I'm I the only one who's tripping or do other people get annoyed when people say the only thing their fandom has is "low quality" fics or art. This isn't a store or a business bro???

[justfriendsbestthings]

Big side eye to fan accounts who put their watermark on pictures and videos they post even tho they didn’t take any of them. What do you get from all this gate keeping? Mhhhhhhhhhh

[robinette-green]

I love you guys

But

Please

Please, if your gong to post your fic straight to tumblr

Please use the read more function.

Pick a nice snippet to catch the readers attention and then put the rest under a cut

It’s either going to be a squiggly line on your options bar beside the poll option

or you can type out

: readmore :

With no spaces and hit enter

Let’s you hide things on your post

[blueishstrz]

why is it that any time i complain or even just talk about my chronic back pain, every one else's back has suddenly been killing them as well? it's not that i think i'm the only one allowed to be in pain or anything, it's just as soon as i mention how my back is aching or i can't balance because of it, the people i'm talking to are suddenly also in pain

like what am i even meant to say back? one time i tried giving them stretches to do or advice to make the pain less, and they just looked at me funny and dismissed it. am i meant to ignore it? or just say im sorry?

[edwinspaynes]

Confession: the pettiest reason I've ever DNFed fics or refused to follow people is that they use the "Paine" or "Pain" spelling for Netflix Edwin's name

[numberonetrashwitch]

People are mad over mods

So yeah, there are 3 Mods for Astarion that are commonly used, and 2 illicit some vile hatred amongst the player-base for some reason, bashing not the mod itself but the people who prefer to play with these mods. Personally, i wanna voice my opinion because i have played with some of these mods (and deinstalled them for various reasons)

Younger Astarion; The reason i have used this mod is because it, to me, added immersion, simply because Astarion is an elf who died young and has stopped aging since. It doesn't really make sense to me - role playing wise - to have visible signs of aging a human of his age might have.

It makes sense for Gale who appears to be in a similiar age range to Astarion, with the main difference between those two being that Gale is a human; humans age differently. Even between humans aging it manifests very differently based on genetics, sun-exposure, diet etc.

I myself am just 9 years shy of Astarion before he died (going by the dates on the grave) and have no smile lines, forehead wrinkles or crows feet - so i don't really think it is that much of a contentious issue?

Black Hair Astarion (white hair version is what i used) - basically long haired Astarion people call this cliché, but.. you only see vitriol against those who change Astarions hair? By all means, if you prefer his hair in the Style Larian provided go for it, but why bash those who have other preferences?

No-Abs Astarion;

Actually a mod that is hailed for its "realism"? Astarion is 1,75m tall, or 5'9 (cannon) & about 55-65kg (~ 122-144lbs - sources differ) heavy, ... which are quincidentially the measurements of my boyfriend (1,75m / 55kg) So he is on the lower end of what is theoretically possible for Astarion and doesn't work out, and he has abs. Now, they aren't deep indentations, more of a faint outline of the rectus abdomini (or front-lower belly muscles)

If if you're underweight (which i was, briefly) abs will show. Simply because there isn't enough (often essential!!!) fat to cover the area. HOW they manifest though is entirely different to everyone.

That being said, the game model of Astarion appears way to broad and muscular. Truly realistic would be if there was a mod that would shrink his bicep, tricep, latissimus dorsii and external obliques (less arm muscles and a more skinny waistline)

Sincerely, i don't care if you use this mod.My stance is; Its a fantasy game, and you can customize your experience based on your preferences. But so do I - and others.

Especially because the people who hold vitriol against young Astarion mod - claiming it's way more "realistic" that he has visible signs of aging are the one who often use this body mod but don't see the issue. My guess is that this stems from a lot of first-time fantasy players who love the more mature aesthetic (compared to other games, such as Dragon Age) and bought this just to date Astarion yet don't really care for the lore-background, going by human standards and well ... that is fine!

For me, i have been obsessed with dating "the elf" since lord of the rings came out. I have been diving deep into this hyperfixation through books, shows and mostly video games of the same genre. I am also a metalhead who has a thing for "shorter" guys (<180cm) with long hair, so .. fuck me i guess?

I just don't get where the hatred is coming from.

[femmefataleapologist]

fanfic writer psa: If you are going to use a number to describe a character's weight, first google how much people weigh. Because I have yet to see a number that isn't off by like. 30 pounds at least. I once saw a fic describe Izzy Hands as 110lbs soaking wet and bestie, my five foot zero aunt weighs more than that. Aziraphale is not 150. In no universe does he weigh less than me, a skinny 20something who is shorter than him. Ya'll please

[lunarrisings]

One of my local tattoo artists just shared a "Tim Burton mashup" tattoo of all her clients favourite Tim Burton movies.... the second most prominent character is Coraline 😭😭

[golyadkin]

you'll get the urge as an artist or a writer to say out loud the things you're worried about "the proportions are off" "kind of out of character" "i'm not good at summaries" "didn't get as much detail as i wanted" "i made a mistake and here's how" and that's the self-conscious part of your brain telling you "it's bad and if you don't tell them you know it's bad then they'll think you're stupid" but you've got to ignore that little voice and pretend you think it's good or else that little voice is going to ruin your life

[grapefruide]

whenever someone says the phrase" thats so real" i think a small and cute animal should die

[tolkpopfan]

Hot take, full grown adults, pls stop riding ur bikes on the sidewalk. Bike lanes exist for a reason and I should not have to go out of my way to dodge you since you’re going more than twice my speed. I understand not feeling safe in the bike lane, but if you can’t use it like it’s supposed to be used, maybe just don’t bike. I’d appreciate not being imperiled while using the only space that is supposed to be safe for me as a pedestrian. (This goes double for people on mopeds, scooters, etc)

[42-clocks]

[image ID: Bernie Sanders meme with a small aromantic flag captioned “I am once again asking for you to include aromantics in your pride art/posts/merch” End ID]

[mydeaddad]

im the only person in my family who has manners

[norselyqueer]

oh gods oh no-

people using elder fuþark as direct replacements for latin letters 😨

[eternalgirlscout]

earlier today i told an acquaintance in passing that i'll often be in the middle of a novel and think "man i wish this shit were more ambiguous" and had to reiterate twice that i wasn't being sarcastic before they believed me, so this post is to say: i love when writers don't bother to explain everything, i love when stories end uncertain and unsettling, i love being required to think as a reader, i love when stuff makes no damn sense, no i'm not kidding

[nyancrimew]

i'm a us liberal and i think you're cool

i highly doubt you're a liberal then and just think liberal = leftist which it very much does not