#like if i reblog smth and don’t add something i feel bad

[fishnuke]

That type of people scare me

i am afraid of people who reblog things with no tags. not even any identifiers like the show it’s from or anything. just silence. what are you thinking?? hello??

[sapphireis]

Dark/Yan Aemond HCs

ೃ⁀➷ TW/CW: DARK CONTENT, 18+ (MINORS/AGELESS/BLANK BLOGS DON’T INTERACT), Bad English, Toxic Relationship, Implied AFAB Reader (talk about pregnancy and stuff in a part, but for the rest pretty GN), Jealousy, Manipulation, Breeding Kink a bit, OOC?, let me know if I need to add more TW/Tags ♡ My blog contains dark content, be careful when interacting/following! ➳ Characters: Aemond Targaryen

⤠ I'd do anything for you, Mrs. Highness (Aemond) ⤟ Masterlist (soon!) ⤠ None ⤟

hello hotd fandom... pls be nice to me since this is my first time posting smth about this fandom hndhhd and I'm also very insecure about my writing rn, anyway... i wrote this mostly for myself so I'm sorry LMAO

He's so possessive and protective of you. To the point where you can't go anywhere without guards who are loyal to him, due to his paranoia. Aemond would prefer to be your guard all the time, but alas he is unfortunately a very busy man so he has to trust the guards

When you are forced to do parties or appear in public Aemond is always around you or watching you, his eye never really leaves your figure. He always has his hands over you either on your lower back, guiding you where he wants, or on your waist. To remind you who you belong to.

Heleana and Alicent are the only one who he lets be around you when he is gone to keep you company, his brother Aegon? AH. No. Maybe Daeron, but Aegon absolutely not. Why would you want to spend time with a drunken fool?

In truth he is insanely jealous about everything and everyone, including his own family. He trusts his sister and mother to not pry too much into your relationship, and in fact his mother is more of an enabler for him. She is just so glad her son finally found someone he loves and cares about, so that he isn't alone anymore. How could she deny him such happiness?

Will try to get the two of you married instant. As soon as he saw you Aemond knew he had to marry you, it doesn't matter if you are highborn or not to him. Much to his mother and grandsire's displeasure of course

Once you are married of course he's gonna make you pregnant if possible. You wouldn't try to get away from him with a child on its way no? When he has endless ways of helping you with a babe, both during the pregnancy, the birth, and the years to come. Why have it the hard way when you can live a life of luxury?

Talking about a life of luxury, Aemond will give you anything you might need and more to keep you compliant. However, some things are not negotiable like for example what you wear: its either green or sapphire blue, no other clothes are tolerated for him. If you want to be more transgressive you can wear something outside of that, though the consequences...

He's so manipulative and wouldn't care to bring the situation in his favour, and would absolutely use your own emotion against you. "If you are hurt imagine how I feel" and stuff like that is often said when you two are fighting often over nothing, if not directly about Aemond's way of treating you.

You think it's unfair, Aemond thinks you don't understand how he feels. There is a war coming and he won't always be there protecting you since he will be on the battlefield. Its only fair that he fears for your safety, no? What kind of husband would he be otherwise?

This work belongs to @/sapphireis, do not repost, translate, copy, rewrite or share on tiktok without my permission. Reblogs are appreciated and encouraged♡

[archersgaymerblog]

Regarding Volo at the moment, but also in general with any hardcore villainized characters, I certainly get the sentiment behind wanting to not woobify antagonistic characters too much, but also like. I think for me, when the primary fandom take away is that a character is HARDCORE IRREDEEMABLE, NO GOOD QUALITIES IN THIS ONE!!! it’s almost like… an act of balancing out. Yes, I get Bad Man did Bad Things, I’m a person with a brain, but when it seems like EVERYONE is talking about how the Bad Man did Bad Things and needs to be, generally, physically harmed for the Bad He Did, it just feels like an act of balance to say,

“Okay but why don’t we explore this line where he said he’s experienced trauma before? And how he instantly backs away from talking about it under the explanation he gave himself that everyone must experience trauma to that degree?”

Or, “Hey, the guy has three friendship evolution Pokémon, two of which notably will leave their trainers if they don’t like them. Why do people extrapolate from that that he must be an abusive trainer?”

Or, gods fucking forbid, “Hey. Why is this character, who’s notably got indigenous roots to the setting, constantly being made the villain in angsty stories for the two white twins?”

Idk man, again I get not wanting to woobify too much, not wanting to strip a complex character of their complexity and the like, but if your takeaway is that any sympathetic or nuanced takes on a heavily villainized character is “woobifying,” like… idk, touch grass as the kids say. Who’s going to stop me, the Anti-Wooby Police?

[whatsaudreythinkingabout]

ok ik i reblogged this already but now that i saw THIS add-on i’m rb’ing this again bc it makes smth that happened to me recently make a LOT more sense. and this happened to me as an adult.

obvious TW for abuse but anyways audrey lore time:

so for those of you who don’t know me well enough, i’m autistic & still live w my mom & stepdad; bc of a lot of personal biz that happened in high school it wasn’t until late last year that i finally got a job & a driver’s license & whatnot. and living with them as a disabled adult has been. interesting! to say the least. i love them. but it’s complicated. yk how it is

anyway, this also happened last year, but a few months before i got the job, license, etc. my mom, my stepdad, my mom’s friend & i were all working on a puzzle together. i reached over to grab some pieces but ig my stepdad was upset that i was getting in his space bc he started repeatedly smacking my hand. hard. like, it actually hurt. i left the table after that, but later on i walked in on them having a conversation. i won’t go into specifics but it was basically one of those “oh x used to be called y but you can’t say that anymore bc of woke” and “y” in this equation is an actual slur. and ofc i was like “yo wtf that’s racist you can’t say that” & it just started another argument until he left.

& then my mom told me abt how earlier she had lectured him about putting his hands on me & threatened that if he ever did it again she would “whip him with a big black belt & send him running down the street screaming.” which i thought was kind of funny. but then she gave me the whole “oh he’s from a different generation blah blah blah” shpiel & told me that if i “disrespected him in his own house” like that again she’d do the same thing to me. & immediately followed it up by saying i could “run to my friends’ house if [i] wanted” as if me seeking safety in this hypothetical was something to mock. like how when bullies taunt their victims by asking if they’re gonna “run home to their mommy” but yknow. inverted

and then at the end of that convo i started crying & said smth along the lines of “you were just joking, right? you’re not actually gonna do that?” (bc once again, i’m autistic & normally i can understand jokes & sarcasm just fine but when it’s smth that activates the fight-or-flight response then it gets a lil harder to distinguish). & ofc she immediately switched up & was like “oh no honey of COURSE i wouldn’t, i was just trying to make a point :)” but when i told her please don’t say things like that anymore bc it makes me uncomfortable she said she couldn’t bc it’s just part of who she is

bc the thing is. my mom used to hit me when i was very young. but what makes it complicated is that it wasn’t like…well, whipping me with a big black belt & sending me running down the street screaming. it was “just a swat,” as she calls it. which she justifies as “oh i only did it when i thought you were gonna get hurt bc i was SCARED” oh so you hurt me bc i thought i was gonna get hurt. & once she stopped doing that she resorted to making empty threats of hurting me; and i was never sure what to do, bc it meant either she WAS going to hurt me if she didn’t do what i wanted, or she had no intention & was just saying it bc she knew it would scare me (or “to make a point”) and honestly idk what’s worse.

and the thing is it’s only been over the past year or so (& thanks to some very dear friends, if you’re reading this you know who you are) that i’ve realized a lot of how she’s treated me isn’t normal bc i’ve repeatedly fallen into the trap of “oh it wasn’t that bad, other ppl have had it worse so what do i have to complain about???” bc not to air out my mom’s dirty laundry but she did come from an extremely abusive & dysfunctional family & while she’s working on healing those wounds (& good for her for doing so) a lot of that generational trauma unfortunately got passed onto me. & i feel like she also justifies it as “oh what i had to go through was worse so you should be grateful i’m not doing that to you.” and whenever i show objection she acts like i’m playing the victim & i WANT to paint her as the bad guy. but i don’t! i want to have a good relationship with her! i do genuinely get along with her sometimes! & it’s in those moments i think it’s finally getting better but then we get sent back to square one again! & it’s so confusing when she wants me to see her as a friend (re: so she can vent about her own trauma to me bc i’m really her only close female friend) when i’ve known her as an authority figure my whole life & the lines are getting blurred when they shouldn’t!

my mom wants me to feel safe around her. i want to feel safe around her. but how can i? if i bring up smth she does that bothers me, she lectures me for two hours about how it’s actually my fault. if i cry, i’m emotionally manipulating her. if i even act afraid around her bc i think she’s gonna get mad at me for smth, she gets mad at me for being scared she’s gonna get mad. she says she would never hurt me. but truthfully? i don’t believe her. she’s done it before, how can i be sure she won’t do it again if i push her too far?

and how this loops back to the above reblog is that i’ve seen how she is when someone ELSE hurts me (see the earlier paragraph about my stepdad). she takes pride in how protective she is over me. as soon as it’s someone else, she goes into mama bear mode. but it also goes to the point of paranoia; tracking my phone, making me aware of every possible danger, beyond the usual stereotypical overprotectiveness a mother would show. and i can excuse some of it as a trauma response, but at the same time i’m 23 years old. i’m not a baby anymore, even if she still sees me as one. i feel safer in the outside world than i do my own home sometimes. but that’s just the thing. no one’s allowed to hurt me but her. everything’s a contradiction. she wants me to feel like this is my home and i’m welcome here, but also it’s HER home and i just live in it (re: that one quote from carmen maria machado’s in the dream house). for that reason she wants me to move out & be independent & she’s proud of me for taking those steps, but she still wants to control everything else. any time i try to tell her i struggle with smth bc of my autism, it’s an excuse, but whenever i try to call her out on smth she’s all too ready to blame it on her trauma. she always makes sure to stress how much she loves me and supports me and is proud of me every day, but is what she does out of love, or ownership? i genuinely don’t know anymore.

ever since realizing all of this, a song that’s been popping up on repeat every so often for me is “christmas kids” by roar. it’s become one of my favorites; though in-context it’s about the true story of a woman escaping her abusive husband, out of context it feels all too familiar:

you’ll change your name, or change your mind, and leave this fucked-up place behind…but i’ll know.

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(a/n: this turned out a LOT longer than i expected & this isn’t even all of what i’ve experienced, this is just from one incident, but anyways if you’re reading this & can relate just know that i love you & you’re not alone)

I think the hardest part about addressing child abuse is getting people to acknowledge, not just intellectually but actually responding accordingly, is that the biggest threat to children, the biggest risk of abuse, is family and parents.

it is of course most often parents who are crowing about needing to protect children (often against far smaller threats than family), and pointing out that they are, statistically, the biggest threat to their kids is not gonna be received well.

[leviathans-watching]

hihihihihi

hope u had well deserved rest, and a happy new year :)

if your doing requests may i request, part 3 of the rival solomon au 😉

where he does something and the mc gets all flustered or realises ‘oh shit maybe he aint all bad’ or smth

rivals au w/ solomon pt 3

includes: solomon &/x gn!reader (no pronouns mentioned)

wc: .9k | rated t | m.list | pt 1

a/n: how about a retelling of pt one from mc's perspective? hope you enjoy!! my inbox is open to chat, req, and leave feedback, so come say hi!!

warnings: mentions of violence, depictions of blood, cursing

please reblog <33

“this,” you say, when solomon pulls the door open, staring at you with a look of surprise, “does not mean i’ve given up. however, temporary truce?”

water runs down your neck in cold rivets but you’re long past caring. you haven’t been out in the rain for long, but it was definitely long enough to soak you to the bone.

“well, well, well,” solomon says with a smirk, and you hate that that familiar tone puts you at ease, cocky as it is, “if it isn’t mc. here to finally give up and admit i’m the smarter and cooler sorcerer?”

on any other day, you might have indulged him, given into the prod and retorted back, leading to some banter that got more heated than it should, but you were so tired today. too tired.

“were you not listening?” you ask rhetorically, stepping inside, hoping he won’t kick you out. “i literally said that’s not what i’m here to do.” after a beat, you add, “dumbass.”

dropping your jacket onto the ground, you let solomon take care of it, just trying to get as much water off of yourself as you can. now that you’re out of the rain, you’re fucking cold.

“i tend to tune you out when you talk,” solomon says, and oh yeah, you’re having a conversation.

“funny. real funny, solomon.” you send him a scathing look barely hidden behind a smile and he lets out a little chuckle, reaching for the light switch. the overhead light hurts your eyes, so you don’t notice that he’s stopped, staring, until a few moments have passed.

“what the hell happened to you?” solomon asks, and belatedly, you realize you’re injured. you haven’t had a chance to assess the damage, since you’d come right to him and all, but it must look worse than it feels because he looks oddly concerned.

uncomfortable with that concern, you roll your eyes. “don’t get your panties in a twist, but some witches tried to start shit. i, obviously, put an end to it. but i can’t go back to the house of lamentation, because, well, you know the boys and i just do not have the energy to deal with them right now.”

“so you came here?” solomon asks, eyes wide and incredulous.

“not as my first choice,” you hurry to assure him, “but the library is closed, i can’t go outside because of the rain, and the restaurant i was at kicked me out because i-” you form air quotes “-was scaring the other customers and making them lose business.”

“huh,” solomon says. “i didn’t know restaurants in the devildom would do that sort of thing?”

“i know right?” you agree, throwing your hands in the air. it seriously wans’t fair! “they literally serve live sacrifices but this is too far?”

you feel your lip split again and curse, metallic blood running into your mouth. pressing your sleeve to your lip, you try to stop the flow.

“disgusting,” solomon mutters, leaning around you to grab some tissues. you hadn’t noticed them on the table. “here, use this.”

you don’t thank him, just taking one. a long moment of silence passes, and like you had suspected, solomon’s the one to break it. “you should probably disinfect all of that,” he says, gesturing generally to your injuries. “there’s first aide in the bathroom under the sink.”

“what,” you tease, “not going to offer to bandage me up yourself?”

he scowls, and really, it’s endearing how much of a rise you can get out of him. “not unless you want me to be generous with the peroxide.”

you chuckle then, surprised by his wit, and the smile you get back is surprisingly handsome. you usually see him smirking, or scowling, or insert any other expression but genuinely smiling, but you find you kind of want to see more of his happiness. wait, what they fuck are you thinking? solomon’s your rival, not your friend. you want him unhappy!

flustered, you disappear into the bathroom, leaving the door open because closing it somehow seems weirder.

“wait,” solomon calls after you, “how’d you know where the bathroom is?”

turning to him, you raise your eyebrows. “i’ve been here before.”

“what? why?”

“to snoop through your room and steal all of your secrets, obviously. no, dipshit, simeon invited me over.”

“that bastard,” he hisses, and you smirk. it was no secret that solomon hates that you and simeon are friendly/

“what? mad that your friend likes me more than you?”

“in your dreams,” he scoffs back, and you stick out your tongue childishly, catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror, and ew, you really need to clean yourself up. solomon stays silent while you work, and you hope he attributes your unsteadiness to your injuries, and not to the fact that his eyes on you are doing weird things to your stomach. you hadn’t put any thought into coming to purgatory hall, honestly hoping simeon would be there, but strangely enough, you weren’t mad he wasn't.

leviathans-watching's work - please do not copy, repost, or claim as your own

[fictionkinfessions]

THESE ARE ALL THE HETALIA RACIST SOURCE ASK RESPONSES. IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION REPLY OR REBLOG THIS POST. IM NOT POSTING ANY MORE ASK RESPONSE ABOUT THIS

I'M SHOVING THEM ALL INTO ONE POST BECAUSE YOU ALL HAVE A TERRIBLE HABIT OF READING PAST EACH OTHER AND PLAYING TELEPHONE GAME. NOT ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT BECAUSE THEY GET PARTITIONED ON ON THE QUEUE. ANYWAYS.

THANKS FOR UDNERSTANDING.

READ MORE'D DUE TO LENGTH. CAPSLOCK CRUISE CONTRol deactivate.

Anonymous asked:

Some of y'all need to remember that it is not, in fact, morally wrong for people to make fanworks of your kin that you don't like. I'm not talking about legitimately problematic stuff, I'm talking about totally normal ships and interpretations you don't like. You don't get to be the fandom police, suck it up and just block people and tags that make you uncomfortable like the rest of us

Anonymous asked:

guys you can just… choose to not talk about certain kintypes, esp if you know they are from something harmful 😭 like, sure, on here it’s fine, that’s what the blog is for! but it supremely sucks seeing people defend their sources from criticism when the criticism genuinely is ‘this has so much racism/antisemitism/ableism/etc.’ i have kintypes from harmful media, i get it! i just… don’t talk about them, or if i DO i recognize the harm the media has caused, and boost the voices of those it affects. also, on this point: no one ever needs to feel guilty for kinning from smth - esp spiritual kin or someone who does not control it! just be understanding of the harm the Media does, and be respectful - thats it. idk, critical thinking and respecting others is so important.

Anonymous asked:

@ post/703018736627679232 - Would you rather someone be upfront about it on my list so you can block them and move on or befriend them not knowing and then only learn it way into a friendship? I've had the latter happen before as someone who kins from a problematic source (not Hetalia), which is why I mention it upfront.

Anonymous asked:

cannot believe we are actively having hetalia discourse in 2022. don't you guys have jobs

Anonymous asked:

Respectfully, it is not the responsibility of everyone else to suppress themselves when it comes to catering to some random individual's personal discomforts. It's up to you to curate your own online experience.

Block users! Block more tags (such as # racism cw)! Don't interact with content that bothers you! Nobody is forcing you to read, reply to, or send in your own asks about sources that are triggering to you.

Also, being kin doesn't mean you support or enjoy your source's creative origins, writing, or canon at all, obviously. Identity on this level is not a moral issue, it's just a fact of being.

Anonymous asked:

Boy some of y'all are missing the point of that guy's ask about Hetalia kins. The "stop kinning" thing might've been poor wording because yeah, most people can't simply not kin anymore, but you can absolutely stop engaging with the source, stop supporting it, not list your kintypes publicly.. I kin from Hetalia too and I simply don't talk about it publicly. I actually started keeping a diary where I write about my problematic sources and kins when I get the urge to talk about it. It's helped a lot more than I thought it would, honestly. Maybe some of y'all should try that too?

Anonymous asked:

Hmmm MPC, if it’s okay, could you add on to my Hetalia ask (the one signed from a biracial POC) the addition that the anon I think was very out of line was the one who claimed only the English dub was racist, however, I was already seeing people say this before that ask, so don’t think those comments are only directed at them?

(I felt a little bad about singling someone out, but the more I think about it, I really do need to clarify that. Sorry for a SECOND discourse ask now!)

Anonymous asked:

Okay sorry to add to the discourse but I think some people are seriously conflating “kins a character from a show” to “enjoys the show.” To me, someone liking Hetalia is one of the biggest red flags, but idk why we’re acting like kintypes can be helped. They can SOMETIMES be suppressed healthily, but not always!

I totally get if you don’t want to interact with Hetaliakin. I’m not sure I could comfortably, tbh. But people keep saying stuff like “how dare you ignore the racism in that show and act like nothing is wrong with it,” when I don’t think a single person defending the ‘kin from it has said anything like that. -A mixed POC

Anonymous asked:

wrt 703034476015566848 - yes, there was someone in the replies of one of the (many) hetalia posts blaming you for their being triggered because the post was "untagged" … even though if you use blacklist properly it blocks any post with the blocked word (in this case "hetalia") even if its untagged, so its just kind of on them and i dont like seeing people put responsibility on strangers for their own caretaking lmao. sorry if commenting on it was out of place though.

Anonymous asked:

Hetalia discussion: idk why this is a discussion at all. It's between a kin identity and a history of oppression and genocide and real people's trauma and discomfort. Genuinely how is this discourse. What's more important.

[biocrafthero]

Ok I saw the long tags about Omori characterization in one post you reblogged and tbh you’re so right like. So many times I’ve really been annoyed w how characters are written in this fandom and especially with characters like Basil it’s CRAZY to me how badly he is written at times

OKAY IM GLAD IM NOT ALONE BC FANDOM IS INSANE LIKE THAT

Honestly it’s a problem in every fandom I’ve been in, where the majority of people writing fics don’t get it when it comes to the main characters. Luckily Omori isn’t that bad compared to other fandoms, but it’s still common.

When I see people that do complain about certain fics, it’s usually people talking about YBM/Pursuit but imo that argument doesn’t hold water since a) it’s very explicitly an AU where the characters are gonna act a little different and b) people writing things like Basil being obsessive over Sunny is something that’s been around since the fandom’s inception (post-game release, I know the fandom has technically existed for like 8 years or smth). YBM/Pursuit just did it differently which is why it’s well-known, some good examples of a similar phenomenons being the AU comic “Eye for an Eye” by @/ginumo or the fic “Sharing is Caring” by ooCatoo on AO3 (not as well-known but very good).

Aside from that, I think a lot of it is people either just misinterpreting the characters due to lack of understanding or pushing them OOC for the sake of OOC angst (once again, I don’t believe YBM/Pursuit falls under this category, I think it does it beautifully). It’s not really something that can be fixed, so I don’t really lecture people on it too hard because I just don’t have the energy for that and I don’t like debating people. It’s why I’m picky with what I read/engage with; I have been known to drop fics if I don’t like things like characterization, even midway through very long stories. If the character feels too unnecessarily pushed out of their canon personality, I tend to quickly fall off, but if the shift is built up to and/or developed properly then I adore it.

In general, I tend to write for myself, which means stupidly meticulous detail (that sometimes happens on accident, admittedly) and analysis to get exactly what I want, which can hit for some readers and miss for others. I’m very much someone who likes to ask why the curtains are blue, if that makes sense.

When it comes to my friend’s writing, a lot of the people I talk to also pay attention to these kinds of details and will discuss with me why the curtains are blue, so when I read their writing I’m satisfied with things like story and characterization. I don’t always agree with them, but the way they handle and write their own thoughts/interpretations makes it work for me.

For example, I believe Sunny is a very quiet person who chooses not to talk a lot, but my friend believes him to be a rambler that will go on for a while if prompted. Usually I have issues with those kinds of interpretations, but at a core level it’s due to how it’s written; since my friend actually writes Sunny in a way that has it work for the character, I think it adds instead of subtracts from the interpretation and story, even if I personally have different headcanons and ideas.

I have read things from people I’m not friends with that have interpretations different from my own, and in the fics where it’s done well really work for me. However, I have read ones where it just doesn’t, because there isn’t the proper ease-in or build up for the changes.

Another example I can think of is the fic I mentioned previously called “Sharing is Caring.” In it, Sunny is a manipulative little shit, and obviously in canon he isn’t like that at all, therefore my interpretation of the character differs from how he is in the fic. However, due to the time we’re given to understand Sunny in this fic, the character changes aren’t that jarring and don’t take me out of the story.

This is kind of why I have issues with people interpreting Basil as extremely obsessive, or when people say the friends would never forgive Sunny and Basil, or when people interpret Mari as a perfect, (metaphorical) angel, or when people interpret Omori character as a demon or a jerk towards Sunny. A lot of people miss things like subtext or just whole character interactions, and t bothers me.

Idk, it’s just my thoughts. I tend to overanalyze a story so what I engage with leans into those detail-oriented things. It’s also why I have trouble discussing characters or even other fics with people. This isn’t to say people are interpreting things wrong, of course, I just think it’s an issue of people missing or overlooking things.

When I write, I don’t expect the majority of readers to see the subtext I intentionally and unintentionally leave in (I have been told before of small details in my writing I had never even thought of when putting them to paper). I write for myself, therefore I write very meticulous and complex stories that involve active thought about the themes and characters. I want my readers to ask why the curtains are blue, because I ask those same kind of questions. It may be because I’m an overthinker, sure, but it’s also what I tend to enjoy. I guess that’s why I love Omori so much, haha.

This was a lot longer than I intended, but I have a LOT of thoughts on the subject of writing and reading between the lines. So that’s my thoughts, and it applies to writing in general, not just fanfiction.

[sccarletella]

once again forced to cope w seeing bad takes on this website…. very long bitching about smth in nrt fandom under cut

LOL i feel like a kid posting a vague on here but it’s not a big deal i think. maybe i’ll delete it later…

but i’m just pissed off at some stupid ass post i saw from a blog which already annoyed me. like. people who dislike hsmd/sns for narrative reasons (the way the stupidass will of fire vs. curse of hatred shit played out), they’re fine, i don’t agree obviously but i respect it.

However. this person, the more they talk the more it just sounds like homophobic bullshit hidden behind that.

like… saying how these shippers oftentimes just seem like they have a “””yaoi””” (man it’s 2022) fetish and how they Don’t Understand Friendship ??? the let men be friends bullshit….. i guess the thing about how adults shipping 16 y/os can be weird, yah alright but. there’s nothing…. wrong with it, so long as they’re not sexualizing them. it’s not like they’re 10. and hell, many of these people are quite young adults and/or started shipping them when they were the same age or younger as nrt and ssk.

i think some of the stuff that pisses me off the most is the going on about how characters like mdr are too… “overflowing with testosterone to be babygirlified” ???? seriously? overflowing with testosterone? and that other post about “masculine mdr supremacy” and wanting to “support hyper masculinity” are we fucking serious with this one?

that to ship hsmd is to throw out everything mdr is as a character and replace him with “AN ABOMINATION OF FEMININITY”????? how are you going to talk about misogyny and then say this in the same post. btw.

and at the end saying how there’s “no point in reading too deep into interactions between two men just to have a yaoi ship”. So you think there’s no point in shipping two men…? or is it just when people don’t pull it out of nowhere and look upon canon interactions?

Yknow maybe people are calling this kind of shit homophobic because… it is?

Let me be clear for the record and say that I know damn well there are still people, even on tumblr specifically, who are super fetishy about gay men and make everything very stereotypical stupidass uke seme yaoi woobified waif hyperfeminized bottoms etc. I Know. And I hate that shit, if you’re friends with me you would hear me complain about these kinds of people.

but they’re still not the majority. not by a long shot. to act as if the entire fandom for a ship is only full of stereotypical fetish content which destroys characters when there’s a lot of really well-done, thoughtful content, is just gross. and hell, it doesn’t have to be wholesome anyways, there’s nothing wrong with just straight up down n dirty gay sex.

the obsession with masculinity vs femininity and acting as if 1. being part of a gay ship somehow strips away masculinity and character both, inherently and 2. there’s something… wrong? with a man being feminine? it all just reeks of very weird thoughts about gay ppl and gender essentialism to me. idk.

not liking hsmd (or sns but i was focusing less on that in this post) is fine. not wanting to see your favorite character be woobified is fine, i agree strongly even. but this is ridiculous, and honestly, i find some of the implications disgusting. as a fuckin faggot and a shipper myself lmao.

one final thing, bcs lord i needn’t be here all day this is already a super long post. but i wanna add that despite anything i said here i don’t have anything against the OP of that post as a person— i don’t like their opinions, and i do find what they said to be weird and homophobic, but i’m not calling them specifically a homophobe, as i don’t know them, and things can be deeper than that. i’m hoping this post won’t be seen far outside my circle/followers, and i did already block the OP before writing this. i’m gonna be turning off reblogs on it just in case.

[nagichi-boop]

No. Fixating on fictional characters and making a lot of posts and art and headcanons about them is the farthest thing from creepy.

But if I am allowed to be frank the fact that you are scared of the mere appearance of shipping two characters is probably the bigger thing to be worried about here. That's... Not a healthy way to approach this kind of thing generally. I don't know you so I really can't judge much outside of your post, but if it was just a matter of you finding the ship icky (as many do) you'd have no reason to think anything about yourself was icky cause your not.

I'll be blunt and say that I'm afraid this whole pro/anti shipper fandom mindset that's emerged in recent years is likely the cause behind why you might feel that way. I'm not saying it IS but I've met more than a few people in fandom who used to be either hardlined anti-ship or anti-anti and all of them agree the whole thing was mentally and emotionally exhausting and turned things they were supposed to enjoy miserable. Running their blogs was suddenly less a hobby and more a constant chore to assure strangers they were the "right" kind of fan. They only liked "good" and "correct" things to a pre-approved degree out of fear of appearing like an anti or a pro shipper or whatever. All this to say that if you like/enjoy the submas twins, to any degree, it's the right amount for yourself.

This is your private blog. You shouldn't have to worry about what others perceive you as since you know what's true. You get to like, reblog, and create any content you please to criteria you set for yourself.

Follow people who won't judge you or whose content you enjoy. Block people or tags based on the content you do and don't want to see or based on how they treat others.

Sorry if any of this was unwelcome or invasive. Feel free to delete if you disagree or are made uncomfortable. I just wanted to ensure you knew nothing about your enjoyment was wrong.

Gonna add a read more cuz this is long. :P

No no, I totally get what you mean. I sorta touched on this in the previous ask, but I suspect I maybe have ocd, so I overthink a lot of things. If there’s even a slight indication that I’m doing something weird, my brain will try and convince me it is. Like even sending a smiling emoji to someone I know to be 17, my brain will be like “ugh disgusting, you’re gr**ming them” when I’m actually I’m literally just mirroring the emojis they send to me.

There’s a thing called POCD which I’m pretty sure I have, but I don’t rly say that much on my account cuz I know a lot of people blur the line between “I have intrusive thoughts about X” and “I enjoy thoughts about X”. I don’t enjoy my thoughts at all and they put a huge damper on my relationships. When the thoughts are bad, I will avoiding talking to younger people at any cost. If they text me, I spend ages trying to word my message in a way that doesn’t seem suspicious. People who I’d otherwise be friendly with (eg my brother) I will just be very bland with, like I’ll talk to them like I’m not close to them because I don’t want to be perceived as a creep when I’m not.

Obviously I’m not self dxing here but I definitely have a lot of rather strong ocd traits, as well as neurodivergent traits (hence the whole hyperfixation thing…if I’m allowed to say that without beint dxed?).

Uhhhhh I rambled but anyways, thank you for your concern. I will be okay and I’ll do stuff like blocking and such if people try and get in my way. As you said, this is my blog and it’s pretty much just for me to talk about and share things that I don’t rly get to irl (like how I don’t say anything about submas cuz I don’t want people to be like “here she goes again” or say smth to ruin them for me).

[justjstuff]

6, 9, and 26 for the writing asks! Hope you are having a wonderful day, J 💜

hi, hon! sorry for the wait! hehe thanks for the ask <3 Btw, was it you that reblogged something from Zoey smth-smth? lmfao bro you GOTTA watch Zombieland I swear to god I love that movie, it's so ridiculous xD

6. What point of view do you tend to write in? Do all of your pieces use the same POV? Do you have strong opinions on the POV used in novels?

r: Third person, always. I have VERY strong opinions about 1st person POVs lmfao I actually hate every single book I tried to read in 1st person. It feels very off-putting imo bc I never read a book inserting myself into the character (same reason I can't read y/n fics) so it feels wrong to see it "talking" as if it were me. The only two exceptions to that rule are Twilight bc I read it when I was 8/9/10 and it was the shit back then and Ume's fic the Eventual Descent. I don't know what it is about Ume's fic but I barely even notice that it's in first person, the plot is so captivating, the characters so fucking well-written it's just *chef's kiss*. This isn't to say that I don't change POVs while writing. I know some people say it's "bad writing" but I wholeheartedly disagree. A story can be told by just one person and it's even nice to play with the whole unreliable narrator style and the ramifications of it but that's not the only way to tell a story imo. I do think that the way the guy from GoT wrote his books is terrible tho lmfao. Yeah, mad genius that he is, it's very very VERY uncomfortable to me to be reading about smth that's kinda dull and then as soon as it starts to get interesting I'm suddenly reading about a character that is even more terribly boring than the first one. Lol, I'm probably gonna get hate for it but hey, if it's your thing then it's your thing, this is just my opinion.

Another thing that it's definitely a no-no for me is when the POV changes without a proper sign of it changing. No line breaks, no chapter breaks, nuthin'. It absolutely takes me out of the story when you're reading something and then you have to keep reading back to figure out who is now describing the scene to you. Changing POVs is great imo but it requires a bit more care about how the story is written in general, you gotta be mindful of the flow.

To answer the question, yes I do have strong opinions about it lol.

I should point out that these are all my personal opinions, this doesn't mean at all that if whoever is reading this does the things I don't like that they're a bad writer or anything like that. Even if I had tons of degrees in Literature (which I obviously don't) you should never listen to someone who says things like "this is the way you write well" or "if you do this, then your story sucks". Just tell those people to shut the fuck up. There's no right or wrong in writing, okay? Just what you like and what your readers like. Machado de Assis, one of the most famous Brazilian writers of all time wrote his books with TONS of grammatical mistakes. And you know what happened? We made rules about it lol. Now we accept those "mistakes" as something you can do in Portuguese all because this guy wrote books that people liked. So, yeah. To anyone reading this: DO YOUR THING.

9. What scene was the hardest to write for you and why?

r: Kakashi and Sakura kissing. LMFAO. I took around 200k words to get to a point where they would kiss for the mission, right? And it was fine, I kind of freaked out about it when I wrote but it was cool cool cool. Now, their real kiss? OH MY GOD, bro, I had such a hard time. I think I already told you guys this but I wrote like three times how they would get together and then ended up saving those scenes for later lol. I think this story is just an immense buildup to getting them to a point where I would like to see them together that now that they're finally there I'm... scared? I don't really know. It feels like I forgot how to write romance lmfao I'm currently rewriting their first real kiss for the fourth time I think and it's where I stopped with this writer's block :/

26. What do you feel like you need to work on as a growing writer? How can you improve?

r: This is a really great question. When I started writing (in Portuguese) I kind of copied the style from the books that I used to read at the time which is fine, you can't do anything without copying something first. The thing is, brazilian writing is a bit more... descriptive than English writing in general. Actually, let's make a comparison between English and Portuguese first. There are many linguistic reasons for this which I'm not gonna get into but in general, in Portuguese we use more words to speak. That is because of many many reasons but one of them is the fact that in English there's a process called "verbing" or "verbification" I think? Which is basically, you take a noun and you create a verb out of it. For example, to elbow, to distance, to inconvenience. In Portuguese, to say those things, we have to use more words, it takes us longer to get to the end result. Some more modern examples of it is terms like "Google it" or "Tweet it" or I dunno "DM her". We don't have that in PT.

Let me try and get back on track lol. So yeah, that happens because English speakers but mostly USAmericans tend to have a snappier way of speaking. You are direct and straight to the point in general. When I first started writing, my texts were best described as poems in prose form. lol. I was very descriptive, I took my time making sure the emotion was there and not just the basics to get my readers from point A to point B. I still like that type of writing but it gets tiring if it's a long piece. So, after being corrected by many english teachers on how I structured my stories (they were always very long sentences, sometimes a whole paragraph w only one phrase), I started changing the way I write.

Like anything in life, when you want to make a shift, you usually go from one end of the spectrum to the opposite. A full 180 turn. So I started writing shorter phrases, I stopped describing every single thing in the scene. I decided to let my readers fill in some of the blanks, let them figure out for themselves what kind of dress this character is wearing or how did she get from point A to point B, that's not the important part. Now, if you go see the first maybe ten chapters of Daughter of Fire, you'll see that I exaggerated on that end lmfao. Some things are too vague, some paragraphs could have been two or three sentences instead of five or six. It's okay, I don't go back to change those things bc I think it shows the progress I made as a writer.

What I want to do now, is to reach that middle ground, make a 90 degree turn instead lol. I managed to get better by treating first drafts as first drafts, I get my point across, point A to point B, quick, snappy. Then I go back and edit, I add descriptions, I connect the dots better. And that whole poem as prose thing? I save it for important moments. Those emotion heavy moments in the story where I do want to make the reader stop and feel. It's all a work in progress, I'm not even close to a professional writer or anything like that but that's where I'm at rn. I'm trying to find my feet in that middle ground.

[thermie]

h h hewwo owoo 22 / 23 / 29 / 31 / 34 / 50 / 58 / 61 / 88 in any order, and u can also just. pick only those that u want :3

hhhh-ewwwo? I did say I wanted to chat and I desperately do not want to do work or studies so buckle in for a long post (derogatory). 22. role model? Oh man, I don’t think I have any, like, specific ones for entire things, though I do fall in my hero-worship phaes and then fall out of them like everyone else. I think that taking an entire person and being like I wanna be like them is... not for me though. But I do look up to some people for specific things - I look up to, weirdly enough, Abigail Phylosohpytube who I didn’t watch before her coming out for her graceful coming out video though she admits that the experience wasn’t obviously as smooth. I look up to lots and lots of people for their ability to create and their art (not gonna tag my fav artists bc am tiny and do not want people to look at me, but i do be reblogging). I look up to people like ConcernedApe Stardewvalley and Supergiantgames Hades for their ability to put so much soul in their work, smth I aspire to do. I look up to @not-poignant for, among other things, their idk how to say it best, wisdom in understanding and communicating with others and with myself? I’ve learned a lot by just sort of being in their periphery and seeing how they articulate their thoughts and choose to be kind and witness other’s pain. Hell, I look up to twitch streamers and youtubers sometimes (the recent nice trait I’d like to have if I ever went into bigger content production is how ibxtoycat deals with parasocial relationship realities). 23. strange habits? Hm. I don’t think drinking tea whenever I need a pick-me-up is strange, that’s just probably forcefully assigning a British nationality to me. I think my insistence on misspelling words in a way I think is lowkey funny might be one, I say thamks bc it feels softer, or thank bc it’s funny, I say sleeb, I say finkers or tryink or otherwise replace g with k for lulz. I also don’t know if it counts as a habit but I have a small leather band around my wrist that’s been there for a year soon. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm I probs have like, stranger habits but I can’t recall rn. 29. best way to bond with you? Hmm. Well, if you show initiative and are explicit about wanting to spend time with me, that’s already a big chance of me spending time with you. And then if our interests match and I don’t think that you’re like, young in a way that automatically puts me in a position where I don’t feel comfortable really being myself around you bc in my head I have to look out for you (it has happened with two of my friends, sigh), and we regularly spend time together, voila, friend acquired. It simultaneously doesn’t take much and takes a bit to be my friend and bond with me - it’s easy af to become a casual friend cuz I’m always open to new people, but there has to be a level of trust to become like, a close friend. Respecting my boundaries, talking shit with me, being explicitly committal about wanting to bond with me are big steps that way. 31. what outfit do you wear to kick ass and take names? Uh, I don’t do neither, but a current fave that is reasonably badass is my black tshirt with like, a ritual circle and a deer skull. V edgy, 10/10. I also used to have like a real edgy tshirt with a jester and some dice that said the game of life, but I threw it out bc dysphoria. or maybe I put it at the back of my closet along with one other shirt In Case I Get Top Surgery so I can wear them then. 34. advertisements you have stuck in your head? Many, such is the nature of advertising, alas. I have managed to avoid most of it tbh though, so the only place I am forced to sit through ads so they stick is my scrabble capitalist nightmare app where I play and always beat haha my coursemate. And they have adds for those shitty apps where you have to solve a puzzle that ends up failing in the add and like, drenching a man in green goo. I find those kinda fascinating tbh. Who plays these games? Who plays these shitty shitty games whose ad has to be “prove your IQ“ to make you want to prove yourself to play them? Oh and also, the insidious nature of ads in media I consume - the mcelroys have gotten me informed about many many things bc they do it in a funny way. Have you heard about squarespace? What about meundies? I also literally installed honey yesterday that I knew abt bc of the relentless adds and I wanted to save, uh, 2.50 from my minecraft server purchase (and then spent some time googling how they make money before giving up. just say u sell my data, that’s easier than not knowing what part of this makes you money). I was tired and in a weird mood, ok. 50. what made you laugh the hardest you ever have? It’s always the stupidest jokes, what matters more is laughing together with someone and getting caught in a laughing loop. I still remember laughing with my siblings until our stomachs really really hurt bc I think one of us said a rug was vomit-colored and it was funny in the moment. How many times have I laughed like that with you too, vit. I know that Laura’s one is nostrilatu, right? :D :D It’s just something that catches you off guard, I think.

58. four talents you’re proud of having? Oh shid. Hm. 1) My ability to analyze data and understand the basic building blocks of something. Makes me cool at studying and sexy at explaining things to my course-mates. 2) Not a talent more like a skill that I’ve worked hard on through therapy - but my inner positive voice/healthy parent is very strong and automatic (something I was sure would never happen). A good example is me going out for a walk, my phone dying so I can’t listen to music, when I went in my head “well I can always make music in my head. do-do-do *drum sound*“ and I could feel the wave of self-reprimand cresting but before I could actually hear any negative comments the positive voice said with a light of a thousand suns NO THAT IS ACTUALLY CUTE AND SEXY and just haaaaaaah. 3) I sing good. Need to sing more. 4) I think I’m good at making conversation. Even with people I don’t necessarily like or want to talk to. More of a skill again but whatever. 61. favorite line you heard from a book/movie/tv show/etc.? Do not come to me and ask for favorites, witch. Uh, I have some quotes in my notes app, like 7 from Pia’s writing :D. But imma go with “It’s a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world“ by Mary Oliver. It counts, ok. Or, wait, something I will for real one day either crosstitch of commission shitpostcalligrapher: “t’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. “What are we holding onto Sam?” “There’s good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.“” 88. your greatest wish? Hrm. Right now? To have like a couple days with no responsibilities and without the outside world bearing on me as heavily, to be tiny tiny tiny so I’m invisible and can drink tiny tea on a tiny leaf. Uh, in general? My recently formulated wish or a goal is stability/peace. Then everything else becomes ok because you can bounce back to stable ground between feeling shit or everything happening so much. And I’ve sort of reached that. Also like, half a million euros would be nice too so I can get a house and a car and go on a few trips abroad. :D // there’s two ask memes in my blog recently, go wild

[mwagneto]

hey!

do you like gifs?

do you want people to keep making them?

then stop fucking stealing them/spreading stolen gifs!

making gifs is HARD SHIT and the fact that gif stealing is so widespread but rarely talked about is, in simple words, really fucking bad!!!

gifs are fandom content people put work and effort into just like fanart, fanfic etc but somehow gif stealing is completely ignored when it shouldn't be coz frankly it's just as shitty as reposting art or other forms of stealing fanworks.

how to know when a post has stolen gifs in it

check op's tags! some people straight up add "not my gifs" to the tags, but most if not all gif creators will add something like "#mygifs" or "#[name]gifs" etc, basically check for personalised gif tags so if those are missing the gif is most likely stolen

also check the tags for stuff like "#user[name]" or "#fyeah[name]" etc which are tags big blogs track and gif makers tag them to get notes, gif stealers however don't.

if the tags are only the person/people in the gif it's most likely stolen, especially if the post is crosstagged to 30 different fandoms in a desperate attempt to fish for notes

check if the gifs fit together. is it a coherent gifset of a dialogue? that's most likely not stolen unless someone straight up stole an entire post (happened to me before). do they fit together in size? are they the same length and width? do they fit together in quality or is a photoshop made sharpened slowed down gif next to a blurry low fps one? how about colouring? are they all mostly the same aesthetic or are the colourings and effects all over the place? and if there's text, do the fonts match? the sizes of the texts? letter colours?

lastly, check the caption. the people who make gifs usually either don't add captions or caption it with something devoid of emotion like "[movie] ([release year, director])" or "every [thing] in [movie]" or "favourite [movie] things 9/: [smtg]" while stolen gifs will be captioned with smth about how the person stealing them feels about it, "i love this scene so much😍" "wow he's so hot here😩" etc

basically. use common sense! and remember, making gifs isn't easy and people stealing them and then getting hundreds, if not thousands of notes from them feels fucking awful and discouraging and it'll make gif creators want to stop making gifs since people will just steal them anyway so if you care abt creators stop liking/reblogging posts with stolen gifs and for the love of god stop reposting gifs people worked hard on.

[decembermoonskz]

I had a question, why do you and most fic writers reblog reply to reply to each other? Wouldn’t it be easier to reply to each other’s posts? I hope this doesn’t come off as mean but I follow a lot of you and sometimes your conversations clog up the dash.

hi hello. Oh wow, this isn’t something I think about really, in all honesty I think it’s just because(?) 🤔

Edit: I threw this under the cut as it ended up being pretty long 😂💦 oops it’s nothing bad though dw!

I don’t think we’re thinking about like clogging up dashes. we’re just having conversations and this is just the way we’re doing it. I will say that we don’t always do this, some prefer to reblog, some prefer to reply, some prefer to send the post in dms and pick up the convo there. It’s just in terms of what ppl feel like doing I for one, do all of the above. When I reblog I simply do it because I felt like it I’m not really thinking of anything else. I’m either joining in or I’m just adding my two cents on something both in the caption and the tags. I like talking in the tags a lot so that’s probs why as well, also it’s just fun to add your take on things haha 😂😂 I’m sorry for you if it’s become something that somewhat irks you but I believe it’s just smth that the user feels like doing so it probably won’t be stopping anytime soon. reblogging is just another way we talk here on this app after all. You could always ask others and gather some more opinions on this if you like!! This is my take 🥰 oh and no this didn’t come off as mean it’s a genuine question! I hope this is at least gives you my opinion on this. It’s really just a in-the-moment type thing and it’s fun(?) 😂😂

[yaboylevi]

Levi used to be my favorite and I cant stand him anymore >Ignored Eren in 123 >Not a single thanks to Hanji for saving his life >No concern for Mikasa's suffering or Jean discussing Its like he is there "yeah yeah people I dont care about your feelings, can I kill Zeke already?" Isayama needs to fix him

I hear you and I understand why you may feel the need to come here and complain about him. But I have already posted a lot about him and what I feel is needed for his character arc’s conclusion to be satisfactory, as well as highlighted flawed and weird writing Isayama has chosen for his most popular character. You can decide to like/reblog those posts, add your opinion there, etc. I appreciate that a lot more than asks that repeat things I have already talked about and 10 notes on those very same posts.

Besides, I feel like a lot of people who like even this current Levi are following me so I don’t want to spam their dashboards with the same, trite argument. I would love if you guys who agree supported my other posts, instead of sending character complaints! 人´∀｀)

Also, may I suggest taking the time to watch other series, instead of focusing so much on SnK if it doesn’t make you feel satisfied about your fave? I mean, I am salty as well, and I used to feel like complaining all day every day because I felt SO disappointed about smth I liked SO much, so I am just suggesting to spend your time on finding something more entertaining and satisfying, it is great for the soul! I’m telling you this because I understand how you feel.

If you like characters similar to Levi, I have 3 suggestions with characters that reminds me of him very loosely:

Psycho-Pass → You have the bad parts of Levi in a character named Kogami, and the good parts in Ginoza…you can imagine which one I prefer. Also adorable and strong female MC and side characters + amazing, morally gray story (much more gray than snk imo).

Sarazanmai → very weird but entertaining story, you will sob, canon gay characters, complicated MCs; the character that reminds me of Levi is Tooi, but he’s a sweetheart and legally my son.

Fullmetal Alchemist → Roy Mustang is a similar but different version of Levi, some things I prefer in Roy, some others in Levi, at first glance. I’m currently rewatching the show, so maybe I’m wrong, my memory is quite foggy. Anyway, the story and characters are amazing, you will cry a thousand tears.

So yeah, other series you may like and end up obsessing over if you like anime/manga a bit similar to snk: kimetsu no yaiba, the promised neverland, shinsekai yori are the first that come to mind that I “recently” watched.

[gohyuck]

A few months ago I saw an author say “likes don’t mean shit” (verbatim) & I get that they were imploring ppl to rb fics, but it made me feel a way bc, it parallels the paranoia I have that my appreciation or feedback isn’t good enough. If I “like” a post, that’s “not good enough” to some writers. yeah I can be rb’ing it, but if I rb to share to my literal 3 followers, but don’t add tags gushing abt it, that’s also not enough. So then it feels like anything short of a huge post isn’t good enough

& no this isn’t about me but I have major depression and I don’t want to be the reason someone else is depressed so I WANT to give fb but sometimes (most of the time) it’s overwhelming to make the aforementioned big post & specify this part makes me think or feel this or etc, but I feel like nothing short of that is good enough to be considered worthwhile to author & they’ll still get upset esp if they check my blog & see what I rn or post after I feedback-ed their so I haven’t posted anything

in about a month? so then I feel bad cus I’m hiding from everyone even my mutuals who are writers & essentially pretending I’m not online bc reading is how I cope but I don’t want anyone to be bad if I like a post or rn with no tags in a just-to-share way so even tho I read like 50,000words a day I’m too anxious to where even if I kinda enjoy smth I don’t “like” it at all so they don’t get mad at me for it not being enough If they don’t know about me to begin with & I thought this would fit in 3

but it didn’t & it feel like I’m rambling but basically I just felt like giving an author the insight to know that there are a couple more reasons your work may not get as many notes as one would think..ofc u guys have the right to vent & make posts reminding ppl that u like fb but that one author made me so anxious abt how much appreciation is acceptable that now I just use my web browser’s bookmarks to keep track of what I’ve read bc I’m an insecure fraid-y cat 😔 ok that’s all, bye 🚀

i mean... okay let me compose my thoughts. 

when that author said “likes don’t mean shit” they mostly meant that a like is not usually representative of someone’s approval. as writers on a platform like tumblr (or ao3, or whatever), we provide a source of entertainment for free. it is a type of service, and it is freely available to others. i’m kind of in agreement with them, honestly: a like is not entirely equivalent to any kind of review. however, that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to reblog work if you personally are not comfortable with doing so. 

you not leaving feedback on a post will not give someone else depression. if they say their mental state rests on the responses of others’ to their work, they have other things going on and it is likely their mental state rests on many shaky things, and that’s okay, because mental health is different for everyone. do not let anyone make you think that you not reblogging their work on tumblr dot com is going to push them over some kind of edge. most writers on this site are well aware that, because we provide something for free, we cannot always expect feedback. it’s really nice to receive some, yes, but it isn’t a necessity. this is a public forum. you get what you get. 

a reblog with tags is great. a reblog is good. a like is fine. however you want to show your appreciation, do so. that being said, if you don’t want to reblog or don’t feel like you’re up to leaving tags or even liking, you can always drop an anonymous comment in the author’s inbox about how much you enjoyed their work. i assure you, i look forward to those messages just as much as i like seeing reblogs/tags. there are many ways to show authors you appreciate them, and you do not have to do so at a negative impact on your own mental health. 

[doofsss]

Lotor rant for myself

I just wanna put out my own view on Lotor here lol.  So first a little bit of backstory, I watched VLD back in 2018 when S6 just concluded. Back then, I didn’t love Lotor as much as I do now, but he was my favourite character already back then, just not to this extent ig lmao. Then S7 and S8 dropped and we all know what happened in them, I lost interest in VLD afterwards and basically forgot about it. It did pop into my mind every now and then but it never lingers yknow?  Until 2 weeks ago, Lotor entered my mind and possessed me; that was kinda what happened lol, I thought of him randomly, and BOOM it turned into a full-on brainrot over him and eventually I relapsed into my VLD phase. Desperate for Lotor content, I returned to the roots of VLD: Tumblr. And during this time, I’ve come across a lot of Lotor posts and shit, either saying he deserved better or he didn’t, etc.  This is why I wanna make my own post with my view on Lotor, from my past reblogs it seemed like I was influenced by those posts so I wanna put out my own (hopefully) unbiased thoughts. Before I start, yes I know very much that what Lotor did in canon was bad. I wished the show had went in-depth into what was actually going on in the second colony which may have shown that we were wrong about him, but well it didn’t happen so based on what we do know, yeah what he did was pretty fucked up lol. And to add to this, no I do not hate Allura nor blame her for kinda causing Lotor’s downfall. She had every right to feel and act the way she did, it makes me so confused when some Lotor stans shit on her when it’s not her fault at all??? Yes what she said to Lotor about being like Zarkon was fucked up but at that time she was going through a shitoad of emotions, we all might do and say stupid shit in the heat of the moment. Obviously this isn’t to justify what she said but it’s not her fault the writers never wrote her to show regret over what she said.  ALRIGHT LETS GO Let’s just skip to S6 because that’s where all the shit went down. I honestly have A LOT of mixed feelings about S6 and onwards. I know in my previous posts I’ve said that I hated the Altean Colony plot but now I will take my words back... somewhat. I still hate it because the show never goes in-depth into explaining it, like what I said earlier, but well I suppose that’s a bit unfair right (not rlly but okay fine for the sake of this rant lets just put it aside lmao). I said last time that it came out of nowhere, which I guess is sort of untrue? Since it was actually kinda implied back in like S5, when Lotor said he had a “secret team” construct the gate opener or smth. Then again that could’ve meant anything back then, but okay whatever, I can’t deny now that they didn’t set something up from the beginning. My thoughts on what was going on there is following a few theories which I have reblogged, but ultimately I don’t think he killed those Alteans, at least not intentionally or directly. If he just needed their quintessence, why keep their bodies in those pods? In fact, why does he need the quintessence in the first place?? There was definitely more going on there than we know (unless well. The writers just threw that in for the “huehuehue he’s evil all along twist”). Also, the scene where Lotor finds Bandor’s (or was it someone else idk) corpse and he has a really upset look on his face, it’s clear he feels remorse over it.  And what was the plan? To open the rift of course, so the Galra can have access to the unlimited quintessence. I don’t believe Lotor had an ulterior motive to this so that’s that, but what was he planning to do with the Altean colony aftewards? Rn he’s trying to keep them lowkey for their safety, so idk I feel like once he opens the rift, he’ll heal the Alteans that “perished” for the mission and then allow the colonies to rule themselves.  Now that all of that is over, let’s talk about Lotor himself. Oh man where to begin...well I guess I’ll start by saying I LOVE HIM, he’s one of my all time favourite characters in media. I love his pretty face, majestic hair, his mansplain manipulate malewife ass... basically everything about him lol. I do believe he deserved better, but not to a full extent. For me, whether he goes down as a villain or a redeemed one, what matters is the writing ya know? But at the end of the day we don’t even know the true reason why he’s supposedly a villain because they never explained much about the second colony, we just know “he killed a bunch of Alteans so duh he’s bad!” which is valid but still. Plus I feel like he has a lot more potential as a redeemed one, the framework is already there. Adding to the former point, I don’t believe he is evil by any means. Some may say the part where he snapped in S6 showed his “true colours”, but please I beg to differ. He was just compared to his father by the only person he’s grown to trust and love, and that’s where he starts to fall apart. I truly doubt he meant any of the shit he said, at that point he basically lost himself. All the pain and anguish he accumulated over 10,000 years just came spilling out, he was shattered.  Moreover, yeah he may have just been using Allura for his goals, but I fully believe the emotions he felt towards her are genuine. Using her and the team was part of the plan, but actually genuinely falling in love with her was not, which was why Allura saying what she did hurt him so much. I also believe he was planning to tell Allura about the Altean colony, but before he had the oppourtunity to do so, Romelle comes into the story.  Tbh in that moment I wonder why Lotor didn’t just admit it there, but oh welp when in confusion blame the writers! If they actually had just sat down and talked for like 15 mins there would be no robot action so they had to do something right.  Honestly to sum it up because I’m getting sleepy lol, someday I will actually write a proper essay on him, I do believe he deserved better. The Altean Colony plot was handled poorly. Plus, Lotor’s been a villain for like the past Voltron shows. Having him be a villain first then be redeemed would’ve been a nice change of pace, even if his redemption comes at the finale, following leakinghate’s S8 theories. At the same time, the story that did play out has it’s sentiments. I won’t say it’s completely bad, just that it had a shitload of lost potential.  Kinda related, but that interview with LM and JDS about how he was supposed to appear like a “Zuko” on his path to redemption but then yeeted off said path to become an “Azula” instead really left a bad taste in my mouth. Like I know I may just be biased here but that’s iffy isn’t it? For him to “”turn evil”” for the sake of bamboozling the audience?  The show did him dirty by not showing the full story honestly, which is just sad. He could’ve had a great story: the child of two tyrants raised in an abusive, neglectful environment leaves their shadows and takes down their empire, building it anew as a peaceful one. But instead, we got this tragic one.  Tl;dr: Love Lotor a lot, have mixed feelings about what happened to him. Colony plot should’ve been expanded in the following seasons, ultimately was not and so his potential was washed down the drain. He deserved a better story.  (also maybe im just being biased but VLD started to getting interesting after he was introduced since he brought so many things to the table, rip to the most interesting character.)