#listen people might understand them

[gotchaocha]

Me, making horrifyingly evil antagonists that no one will sympatize with:

[puppyeared]

i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you

[thwispsings]

the idea came to me in a migraine induced dream but now im obsessed with the concept of a mu qingfang who knew the abuse bunhe was going through at the hands of og!shen qingqiu/shen jiu and did his best to treat the kid whenever he could (and bring his concerns to zhangmen shixiong, which were obviously very much ignored) and his constant worry over the situation means that when the qi deviation happens he is suspicious of shen qingqiu’s changes for all different reasons and very much protective of luo binghe -who is a sweet child and an earnest disciple who seems to always find the most incredible medicinal herbs to bring to his mu shishu as thanks for the care bestowed upon him- which means that when the whole shen qingqiu dying thing happens instead of bad mouthing luo binghe or fighting him at every chance he does his best to come over and keep an eye on things to try and help him and make sure luo binghe won’t kill himself trying to bring shen qingqiu back because he remembers that earnest kid and he’s witnessed luo binghe’s devotion to this shen qingqiu first hand and knows there is no way that the kid who cried when ning yingying found a bird with a broken wing and begged mu qingfang to fix it and the kid that would always borrow medical texts and try to find new herb combinations as if it was a game between him and qian cao disciples is actually doing anything nefarious to shen qingqiu’s corpse.

anyways in this essay i will-

[perenians]

oh merrill...

[moghedien]

ONCE AGAIN REMINDING YALL THAT DOM AND SUB ARE NOT SYNONYMS FOR TOP AND BOTTOM

TOP/BOTTOM ARE POSITIONS AND JUST DESCRIBE WHO GETS PENETRATED/DOES THE PENETRATING

DOM/SUB ARE TERMS INHERENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH KINK. IF YOU ARE A SUB OR DOM YOU ARE PARTICIPATING IN KINK AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY BE A SUBMISSIVE TOP OR A DOMINANT BOTTOM

STOP CALLING CHARACTERS DOMS AND SUBS WHEN YOU REALLY MEAN TOP AND BOTTOM

[maybemeursault]

look okay it's bad to erase marvin's canonical sexuality and the fact that She Likes Men but i literally genuinely with all my heart think that she is a trans woman

[practically-an-x-man]

listening to my parents rant about how disrespectful and impolite my little cousins are after they visited the last couple days is giving me a lot of insight into their parenting strategies for me and my sister

[anastacialy]

y'know, i keep making a habit of swinging my bat at hornets nests, but i have to say i'm getting so, so tired of people complaining about shows not making perfect sense when they aren't even close to done. we're four episodes into this season of doctor who. we're four episodes into this season of bridgerton. and yet in both fandoms i keep seeing people whine that such and such didn't make sense or it wasn't explained all the way and by god you guys i think maybe explanations might come later in the season. this is something most viewers will recognize as being called a 'plot.'

[noisytenant]

feel like a broken record sometimes about this, but...

i am not nostalgic for many things, but i am sad that breakcore and associated genres have become quite defanged. there's a level of irreverent edginess that can sometimes veer too far for my sensibilities (where do "ironic" sentiments become legitimate and so on) but feels really formative to the genre and its sound.

i sometimes feel like trying to recapture that energy is just trying to resurrect a long-dead corpse. that type of music was already here and gone by the time i was a teenager and discovered it for the first time, but i also don't feel satisfied with the present outlets available to me

when i expressed this to my roommate though they did note that it seems the tides are shifting again on a lot of the... uptight, paranoid approaches to art that i think coincided with the reining-in of the scene. crass flirtations aren't strictly relegated to, like, channers any more. so perhaps something new will be born from it all

[starbuck]

I remember back when The Mountain Goats No Children was a meme on here seeing a post that went “I hope you live, i hope we both live,” and it making me SO angry…

And this was before I had ever even listened to the song (or anything by TMG for that matter), but now, knowing that John wrote the song, and specifically the line “I hope you die, I hope we both die” in response to radio overplay of the sugary sweet I Hope You Dance, I feel even more vindicated, because like.

Yes. Ultimately my overall life philosophy is that I hope we all live… I would hope that goes without saying. But No Children isn’t a life philosophy. It’s about how sometimes everything sucks and you feel like shit and trapped and hopeless and angry and I HOPE YOU DIE, I HOPE WE BOTH DIE!!!!!!!!! And who can’t relate to that? Who has NEVER felt like that in their lives??????

I feel a little silly accusing what was ultimately just a joke meme post of Toxic Positivity, but that was the vibe I was getting from it, which is why it made me mad. As though it was sticking up its nose at a song it clearly had no understanding of and going “well I hope we both LIVE 😇😇” and like. Fuck you lol. It’s okay to feel negative emotions. It’s okay to be angry.

[scorndotexe]

i may be a tad too assertive at times but at the very least i dont find myself in the shit my friends end up in all the time due to not wanting to be rude

[pa-pa-plasma]

kind of frustrating that people took "fat does not equal unhealthy" to mean "fat is not unhealthy." sometimes being obese IS unhealthy & excess fat can cause a lot of problems. ignoring health issues isn't progressive. real "oranges kill people with depression" moment

[a-salty-alto]

I don't even get the point of Thunderbringer to be honest, like it's just the crew facing the consequences of their actions. Why is it this big sad dramatic moment it should be three minutes of Zeus rocking out while dancing on the crews corpses because they stabbed Odysseus.

[lingeringscars]

something that is so compelling to me about ta/ivan is that...they actually aren't compatible. they are not good for each other. and like, they could probably both use some of what the other gives, but they aren't able to do that because of the circumstances. tai needs van's humor and their more easy going nature. and van sometimes needs tai's no-nonsense and straight to the point, practical thought patterns + the belief that something Can be done ( though they are entirely capable of being pragmatic and addressing the situation with that, it differs from the way tai does).

but they fundamentally have different mechanisms of coping, processing, managing conflict, etc. and these things are irreconcilable. and eventually, they would have realized that these things were true and gone their separate ways because they just could not sustain a relationship when their worldviews were so different and the conflict led to losses in autonomy on both ends. but because of the wilderness, their relationship is not just that but a means of survival.

their relationship becomes so entrenched in survival and love and peace and care that they are unable to move on from each other until they are outside of that circumstance (or at least are able to convince themselves that they are no longer in that state of survival). instead, they cling harder. instead of adapting or addressing these fundamental differences at their core, they just keep going.

[cowboyhorsegirl]

Steve is most likely to end up in a lavender marriage and Tony's most likely to end up in a “married for tax/immigration/inheritance fraud” reasons.

They meet as married men and pine for each other hardcore and are also trying not to read too much into how their interest seems reciprocated and oh nooooo both Immigration/the IRS and the the Church/in-laws/DADT era army dudes or whatever are snooping around at the same time at each of their marriages and they have to be so good at being married at the people they are married to oh noooooo and they other guy doesn’t know why they are suddenly being iced out and maybe they were just imagining things? maybe it’s for the best with all these eyes around on them…

[nickbutnodick]

i really dont understand people who 'hate kids'. they're just regular people but more honest. and stupider. and slightly quicker moving.