#maddening.

[vounoura]

the only thing I hate coming back re: DAV is the dialogue wheel, in the sense of 'it's 2024 why is it so hard to just tell me exactly what I'm going to say instead of a summary that might be outright different from what I think it says'

[danse--macabre]

while we're on hair opinions, I'm of the belief that astarion 1. had naturally good hair, somehow, without need for a pact with the devil or anything and 2. happened to die on one of the best hair days of his life. thus, for the next 200 years of his undeath, he literally just Woke Up Like That, mirrors be damned. absolutely nauseating.

[girlbob-boypants]

Hey if you feel compelled to tag a post just commenting on how buggy the most recent patch of a game is with "[game] critical" then maybe there's something wrong with the fandom space of that game

[echthr0s]

the problem with sensory defensiveness is that sound, particularly (but not exclusively), is actually multisensory. you don't just hear sound, you feel it. this can be fine, except when you have noise-cancelling headphones on and that still does nothing to block out the percussive vibrations of a noise

[supercantaloupe]

i've felt like there's something stuck in my throat all fucking day and as far as i can tell there's nothing actually in there but it's driving me crazy

[knittinglizards]

there's a tendency i've noticed and grown more irritated by in online gay/trans spaces over the years (and i'd like to think it's largely attributable to very young and/or very newly out people but who knows), towards discomfort with and dismissal of any nonconformity and/or self-expressed fucky feeling about their own gender/sexuality from people who (at least publicly) ID as cishet. and that's usually expressed as a sort of friendly 'i didn't know they were gay'/'🥚'/etc that despite good intention is still a dismissal that amounts to claiming you somehow know the person better/more correctly than they themself do.

(and like even if you're 'right' and the person is closeted/just doesn't want to disclose specifics to you the presumption is still fucking rude and has the potential to make them further closeted! i've had similar experiences myself and they made me want to just never interact with the person in question again!)

like it seems to me somewhere in between not getting that it's inappropriate to decide/'headcanon' the identity of a real life person like a fictional character (e.g. weird idol/band fans and rpf people) and discomfort with sharing experiences with someone who IDs differently than you. probably depends on the instance and the person doing it. regardless it frustrates me

[icanbeyuoronewingedangle]

this is the greatest night in the history of this sport

[kuuhaiyu]

i really can't emphasize how heartbreaking it is that the recent harassment campaign against @/90-ghost (among others; see: 1, 2, 3) has led to well-meaning people telling others not to listen to him. he is one of the most visible survivors of the genocide here on tumblr. his entire journey of escape is so well documented! and yet, it only took a few people confidently pointing fingers to create an entire witch hunt accusing him and other palestinians of being disreputable scammers and liars.

i can't help but feel like the reason why people were SO eager to believe those accusations, is because it was uncomfortable to see posts from palestinians every day asking for our time, attention, money, and support; so when someone presented the perfect excuse to ignore all those posts and asks while also taking the high ground, people just LEAPED onto it. they wanted to believe it, because it would be more comfortable.

honestly, i understand feeling overwhelmed by bad news, by the number of asks and messages in your inbox, and so on and so forth. i understand needing to set boundaries for yourself so you don't get burned out. i think this is really when you have to have a set of principles to fall back on, even when you're tired, uncomfortable, angry, and/or sad. so here's the one i suggest, which has been working for me best: don't make your discomfort with this situation into someone else's problem, and for god's sake don't make it a public problem.

if you hate seeing fundraiser posts or news about gaza, i can't emphasize this enough, JUST MOVE ON. KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT AND SCROLL PAST! all you have to do is absolutely nothing. which is what you were doing anyway, so it shouldn't be hard. if you don't have the heart to read, or reblog, or share, or donate, or support in other ways, at the very least, don't obstruct the efforts of people who ARE trying to make a difference. this is, quite literally, the least you can do.

[anotherpapercut]

yesterday I went to a little meeting at my local queer community center and I was admiring their bookshelves and mentioned that I work at the public library and someone said "well I bet they don't have any [LGBTQ+ books] at our library" and I was like um. yes we do. we have tons of them. half of our employees are queer leftists so they said "oh well I bet they don't in [nearby rural county]" and I was like uh once again yes they absolutely do. gay people live and work there as well

so here's a quick reminder that if you don't think your local library has enough queer centered materials you should actually check before assuming, and if you're not satisfied with their collection you should submit a request for more such books. I don't know what the political landscape of libraries looks like outside the us rn, but within the us no matter where you are, I promise you there are employees at your library fighting for inclusion and intellectual freedom and they can't win without vocal public support

[socvincjpeg]

No bc if i fumbled ford as badly as bill did i'd be on the news

Edit for clarity: The text says ‘I Grow Maddened’!!

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[rixareth]

As requested, I have examined my fondness for terrible characters, and I have concluded that I like them because they're terrible and I'm not sorry.

[simcardiac-arrested]

i think what pisses me off the most is that last year, nobody had trouble going against russia. companies dropped everything so they could keep russians off their sites, to block them from their news articles and to sanction in other ways. eurovision kicked it out. even steam, discord, any fucking western apps or websites have been so willing to perform in ‘activism’. musicians and celebrities speaking out and country-blocking their work, and so much more. but now what? where is all of that now for israel? where are all the brands leaving the country to ‘protest’? where is anything? what pisses me off the most is that none of them have actually really cared about ukraine, ever, and none of them care about palestine now.

[possiblyawesometmblr]

my brain just spat out what is simultaneously the best and worst potential end credit scene for fnaf

a bunch of cops are surveying the inside of the wreckage of freddy's. there's dead bodies. they're taking pictures. chatting amongst themselves. whatever. one guy in a detective style trenchcoat is standing off to the side. his back is to the camera. one of the cops breaks away and approaches the detective guy.

"so, what do you think happened here?"

"i'm not sure."

the entire audience freezes in horror as they realize. they know that voice. the camera pans around to face the guy, and slowly. matpat removes the sunglasses he's wearing indoors.

"but i have a theory."

smash cut to black. the theater collapses, killing me, in the audience, instantly--

[rob-pattinson]

RICHARD MADDEN "Killer Heat" | 2024, dir. Philippe Lacôte

[blackthornluce]

GAME OF THRONES (2011-2019) HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022-present)

[arrimorr]

OH MY GOD.....