#knock it the fuck off

[quynhorlose]

okay so.

i have seen a pattern lately and i am not gonna let it slide. i know that fancasts in general are a way bigger debate than they should be in this fandom, and i’ve loved the spike in diversity between them thats come up recently! i genuinely don’t care about fancasts or have any real faces in mind when i picture these characters, but if you like to, good on you.

here is where i have been very frustrated lately: some of y’all seem to really struggle understand that asian ethnicities are not interchangeable. its become a really popular (and very lovely!) hc to picture sirius and regulus as asian. i love to see it! but i have seen people throw together a korean and a vietnamese person and go: “ta-da! sirius and regulus!” i have seen them defend their choices to asian people by saying some variation of “it doesn’t matter” “they look similar enough” or even just straight-up “well, they’re both asian” and like. it makes my fucking blood boil.

it’s one thing if it’s an honest mistake. it is entirely another if an asian person calls you on it and you decide that it truly doesn’t matter to you.

i could get into the harm that the cross-race effect has, but really i just need to say that perpetuating the idea that all asians look the same is inherently problematic. if you are the kind of person to declare that you see no difference or that there is no difference between different asian ethnicities: you are promoting a long-standing racist ideology and i’m sick and fucking tired of seeing it.

i (again) genuinely do not care about fancasts. picture whenever you’d like as whomever you’d like! but the moment that you cross the line into “whatever they’re both close enough”, that is where i will take issue with it. if that’s an idea that you carry with you outside of fandom spaces: THAT is what the problem is.

japanese people, vietnamese people, chinese, korean, philippine, desi, north south east west fucking ALL OF US have deep and rich cultural backgrounds and distinct features that differentiate us and make us all beautifully unique.

it matters to people. it matters in characters. in the media. in life in general. don’t fucking erase that because you can’t differentiate. do not knowingly and willingly erase us.

either take the time to learn and recognize that or stay in your fucking lane.

[whumpfish]

I swear to god if I read the phrase "Texas drawl" one more time I will go feral

The Texas accent is not a drawl. It's a twang. There's a fucking difference. A drawl is a drawing out of words. A twang is a difference in inflection.

Read the following sentence as written aloud:

"The boy ain't right."

See? You didn't make any of the words longer, you just emphasized the vowel sounds.

Now, you get down south Texas into bayou territory, there's a slight drawl due to the Cajun influence resulting from fishing commerce between us and Louisiana. My cousin who grew up in Port Arthur has a minor drawl. But the predominant twang makes it still shorter than, say, Louisiana or Kentucky.

There are certain words that we do draw out by either adding other vowel sounds or breaking them into two words. Mostly various degrees of cussing. There's "shyit," and "dayum." And when I'm watching Lone Star Law (a great reference to hear the range and pitch of twangs across the state, if you're inclined to research), I always glitch out when the closed caption spells it "golly."

Texans don't say "golly," that's like. Leave it to Beaver. "Golly gee willickers, Mister Wilson!" Fuck off with that shit. We invoke the ancient eldritch deity Ga H'Lee (or Ga Ha'Lee, depending on the degree of astonishment/admiration being expressed). So have the minor decency to write it "gollee" if you absolutely have to, otherwise leave it out.

And for the love of god don't do that thing where you try to make it phonetic and replace "I" with "Ah." Again, more Georgia/Kentucky sounding. If you had to write "I" with something else even in Port Arthur would be "Aih," which of course doesn't look as snazzy in print. So just don't.

Get your Texas accent right, or face the wrath of Ga H'Lee

[rachelfoleyisntdead]

I love how when men do bad things, it's interesting and cool and drives the plot forward. But when women do bad things, they're the devil and their love interests should be redistributed to men who did bad things.

[angele-midnight]

People on Tumblr/Twitter are being way too weird about working artists on tv shows. Knock it off.

I've been quietly in this industry for almost 6 years now, and I have to say y'all are WAY too entitled to what working artists do online and the art that they create, especially if it's the art they do in their free time.

If you're on the internet demanding an artist be fired because of the art they draw on their personal accounts??? That's insane and highly invasive behavior. What an artist draws in their free time and for fun is none of your business, nor is it the supervising artist/director's business. Any professional director will be staying out of the artist's non-professional work, and any professional artist keeps their work and leisure art separate, no matter the content.

If the storyboard/rough anim/cleanup artist is following directions, doing their assigned shots (not scenes every single scene is worked on by multiple artists stop going after one person for one scene), and working well with their team members, then you can assume their personal art is not "bleeding in" to their professional work and they are, in fact, able to keep the two separate.

"The personal art is proship/SA glorification/gives me the ick" I DON'T CARE. Don't interact with it, that's not your business, if it's triggering you don't engage with it. Get out of that artist's DMs and mind your own business, what they draw for fun is their choice and has nothing to do with their careers. The art depicted isn't real and isn't harming anyone in real life, you need to calm down.

Remember when SU crit was happening?? Remember when the internet decided to bully Lauren Zuke for the harmless art they drew for fun with characters they worked on?? Remember how they ended up leaving the show and art altogether because of that?? We are NOT going to repeat that. It's just a tv show, calm down.

[seasaltcosmos]

bg3 youtubers who use ai art for their thumbnails i'm typing this from inside your house

[chickensarentcheap]

I'm starting to see why people get pissed when others steal their gifs and don't say who the creator is.

Knock that shit off!

[colors-echo]

Tumblr I sewar to god if you keep showing me weightloss ads I'm going to steal your toenails. I hate it.

[endless-nightshift]

I really hate when queer people treat Twink like a genuine insult.

[quinn-o-lantern]

Hey @staff abruptly cutting off the audio to what I’m watching and shoving the tumblr tv feature in my face for every single piece of media I expand on mobile is 100% the way to make sure I never use that feature.

[fervidusships]

do u ever just feel that first little hint of finding someone attractive and its like

dont. stop that

[tagerrkix]

Eden was their ✨disney princess era✨

[beastlyidiocy]

my sweet old man who is genuinely too kind for the world he lives in :(

[drowningbpdbodies]

“How are you?” I should be in a straight jacket but unfortunately for the both of us I’m here

[buggachat]

yes the peacock miraculous obviously needs to be felix's and is extremely significant to him and there's so much poetry about the fact that he is the holder of the very miraculous that created him and him being the holder of it is deeply entrenched into the plot. HOWEVER.

sometimes i miss the cat!adrien vs dog!felix dynamic. because it was really fucking funny

[chickensarentcheap]

And ISTG, I can't handle any more fake ass hollywood/entertainment couple bullshit.

[doreensladle]

stunned condition in real life