#man two years huh

[plushegutzz]

what being trans does to squids

[theminecraftbee]

okay, so in a rare moment for me, there's a discourse thing i want to bring up, and that thing is. okay. so on iskall's stream there's this thing that can happen where someone brings up a criticism of his content or vault hunters. frequently it's self-evidently wrong, but sometimes it's not. and then iskall spends the next thirty minutes shadowboxing this guy, explaining himself, and completely derailed. and this is an iskall trait we all know and sigh bemusedly about, because he cares about the community and wants people to understand his intentions! he wants the community to understand his decisions!

however, it's not the community as a whole he's fighting; he is in fact, arguing with One Guy, who often doesn't represent the wider community, and who normally won't have their mind changed. hell, sometimes it's believable that they're satisfied having just managed to upset iskall, and they'll leave, no change to their mind, perfectly pleased that iskall's responding at all (that's what i firmly believe the people who poke at the 'you don't upload enough and that means you're falling off and a bad person' wound are trying to do, at least).

in the vault hunters community, we refer to this as iskall getting One Guyed, and it's typically viewed as bad, because it ends up focusing an entire moment on a single guy's negative opinion as opposed to on the larger picture. and it's an understandable thing to have happen! but it's frustrating to watch from the outside.

and so now i am looking at that cat poll. and the way everyone is still shadowboxing someone who has since apologized. and the way i would have never ever known about any of the negative comments about jellie if it weren't for fellow mcyt fans constantly putting them on my dash to dunk on them. and it's like. if you look through the notes most of them are just... normal? it's only a tiny few of people (and the pollrunner, who has since apologized) who were being dicks. it's a very, very ignorable demographic.

but. well. there was One Guy. and we had to correct them.

and folks, i don't know how to say that i almost never see "lol mcyt is cringe" type comments unless one of you puts it on my dash. both because i don't go looking through the notes of things that are likely to have them or go looking for reasons to be upset and because it's just... not that common! very frequently these days it is, in fact, One Guy!

i have almost never seen that poll on my dash without at least one instance of the One Guy. instead of being for fun, it's mostly become about explaining ourselves to someone who will not listen and will not change their minds, and treating this as a the whole of the Other Side of that poll, when most people are being... fine. they're fine! the majority of the people voting for the other side are doing it for perfectly normal reasons that don't require fighting about.

and man. let me tell you. after spending as long as i have watching vault hunters development? it can be just as frustrating to watch a fandom get One Guyed as it is to watch iskall.

[junebugdunes]

man kellen goff amirite

[sesamestreep]

“requiem for methuselah” crazy ass episode for many reasons. Kirk is being fully insane, like I don’t actually think, even controlling for how quickly and easily and readily he seems to fall in love with anybody at the slightest encouragement, that he’d go that bonkers for that android woman he just met while everyone on the ship was this close to dying, but that’s neither here nor there, because in the background you’ve got an equally but much more subtly insane episode for Spock, who extremely uncharacteristically admits to experiencing an emotion (or nearly experiencing, whatever) and that emotion is ENVY of all things. And then spends the rest of the episode warning Kirk away from this new love interest (something that doesn’t usually happen, even when Kirk has very inadvisable love interests) and is, in the end, the person who accurately identifies that Rayna’s competing love for Kirk and Flint is ultimately what overwhelms and destroys her with the most killer line in maybe history???

And then to wrap it up we get an equally uncharacteristic sort of denouement scene (TOS loooves to cut an episode off right after the actual climax, leaving little time for falling action or character reflection, or to stick a sitcom-y button on the end where the gang all smiles and laughs at their misadventures and everything resets to zero, which is not a criticism, it’s just the style of that era of tv, honestly) where Kirk is literally miserable over Rayna’s death (again, kind of unusual for a lot of his love interests, he tends to be able to move on pretty quickly) and Spock goes to see him and he falls asleep right in front of Spock (also odd) and then when Bones comes in to give the final word on Flint, Spock waves him off from waking the Captain (tender) and Bones gives him that awful speech about how it’s sadder that Spock can’t even imagine the love Kirk felt for this random android woman than it is that Kirk lost her in the first place (debatable but also rude) and how his great tragedy is that he can’t love at all like they can and how all he wishes is that Kirk could forget about all of this and move on. AND THEN, to have Bones leave and Spock go over to Kirk and very gently, tenderly, reluctantly touch him and put his hand to his forehead and tell him to forget and HAVE THAT BE THE END OF THE EPISODE??? What am I supposed to do with that??

[maxdurden]

adding this to my ragh and fabian toxic yaoi evidence folder

[thatneoncrisis]

oh captain my captain i didn't know what league of legends game was when i watched arcane. so i thought the plot was alright since i didn't (still don't) know the game lore. if it wasn't basically a prequel story, trying to aim the characters at the way they are in canon, do u think the plot and character arcs would have held up alright? or does that actually make the arcane canon story worse since it wouldn't at least have the existing canon as something it needed to land at eventually as an excuse for any "out of character" decisions? thank u

i wouldnt even call it a prequel story? its like a very elaborate au in a sense, one that feels comfortable changing things to a certain extent- clothes, personality adjustments, motivations, but they still have to hit certain beats. vi has to be an enforcer, jinx has to be a wild card harley quinn type, ekkos time powers ect ect. idk WHAT it is maybe the show needed more time or tighter focus or less characters but i just felt that like, some of the story decisions directly relating to LoL lore werent outright bad but didnt have a lot of time to breathe. the standout example being ekkos time thing, where when i watched that scene i assumed it was both a stylistic representation of a fight and establishing his and jinx's prior relationship (which is kind of too little too late considering they did not fucking speak once as kids pre time skip), and then i had to get a friend to explain to me for SEVERAL MINUTES that he literally died during that fight and it was supposed to be showing his rewind thing. it just wasnt clear at all and his character would not change in the slightest if he didnt have it. but you cant NOT include it so. *

really i have no clue the full extent of the story the writers wanted to tell and how much LoL is binding their hands on story beats. and i REALLY dont want to be inflexible considering i still have a full season coming up that might make me more receptive to certain decisions. but considering how much of the cast i REALLY like just straight up are not in the game, i think they are fully capable of making a solid story completely divorced from league

*someone in the comments told me apparently that Wasnt his time thing and my original read of the scene was correct so im not gonna hold it against the show.

[lotusarchon]

"this person appears around you so much you're dating!!" "omg no need to be mad that someone asked if you're dating people are curious"

Yes this still bothers me and Jesus I hate that both anons so much because are you stupid on purpose and trying to make yourself seem like a victim here?

Like. I'm sorry, maybe I'm just too aroace, but I'm still genuinely baffled how you can see two friends speaking and bothering each other, and immediately think they're dating?? How can you even come up with that? The world doesn't revolve around romance, how can you just jump to that conclusion, then get upset that I'm mad at the insinuation?

Replacing Hongtao for another older friend of mine like Pome (hi Pome), I'd still be offended because why tf are you thinking two friends are dating?? I'm sorry, just........HUH?!

Idk how many times I had to say this on my account but 1) I'm aroace, the chances of me feeling any type of attraction to anyone is slim, 2) I am in love with someone already and we are never going to be together and she's the only person that owns my heart so fuck you and 3) I like older women.

I've said it so many timesss ☹️ it's weird asf dawg, that's like someone asking you if you're dating your little sibling when you're clearly just tryna kill him

Please I just don't understand where the hell have Hongtao and I ever acted like that??? LITERALLY EVERY CONVERSATION WE HAVE IS ME LOSING MY MIND TF

Also like again, you can't tell me you weren't aware they were a minor. Not if you've been around my account long enough

And, again, HOW DO YOU SEE TWO PEOPLE INTERACTING WITH EACH OTHER AND THINK THEY'RE DATING??? HOW??? WHAT THE FUCK KINDA LOGIC IS THAT

Bro I don't understand y'all sometimes 😭😭😭 anyways I stand by my statement anons who dared to ask that question you're stupid and a coward l + ratio suck my balls I don't care if you're upset about it that shit was weird and you're weird I can interact with whoever I want

[crystalleoi]

5C

[maybeicanbesaved]

got into yet another fight with my mom, again about voting/the election, she said that she’s only voted once in her life and never cares to again because she ‘doesn’t care about politics’, saying that shit almost proudly?? and it set me off for obvious reasons, then she got mad at me for saying it’s because she’s privileged and ‘most’ shit doesn’t affect her directly so she can afford ‘not to care’

[trans-estinien]

i love being autistic cause sometimes i get a glimpse into how regular people perceive things and its like. what the fuck. what the fuck is that? you live like this? and its normal?? i think YOURE the weird one actually. im fine. thanks though.

[deus-ex-mona]

biannual reminder that this event sure was a ✨thing✨

[hiveswap]

OUGH. theyre gonna really end a superhero comic with a tolstoy quote thematically accurate enough to kill on impact.

[iqmmir]

Hi im back . For some time

[giantkillerjack]

The cool thing about a horror movie that takes place in a mental hospital and, shockingly, actually turns out to be on the side of mentally ill people is that it avoids all the common disgusting pitfalls of mocking, demonizing, and infantilizing mentally ill people.

The downside is

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[It's much scarier.]

[asktheotherfrance]

JAMAIS 🙅‍♂️ FREDMIEL 🌻 N’AURAIT LAISSÉ FAIRE ÇA ‼️ C’EST-À-DIRE QUE Y A 4️⃣ 2️⃣ MILLIONS D'ABEILLES 🐝 7️⃣ 0️⃣ % SONT DES OUVRIÈRES 💪 ET LA REINE RESTE À LA RUCHE 🏠 AU LIEU D’ALLER DANS LE POT⁉️ ET DE DIRE BZZ BZZ 🔪 JE REPRÉSENTE LE MIEL 🍯 JE REPRÉSENTE LE MIEL 🗣️/

qu-quoi

[TRANSLATION : NEVER 🙅‍♂️ FREDHONEY 🌻 WOULD HAVE LET THIS HAPPEN‼️ THAT IS TO SAY THERE IS 4️⃣ 2️⃣ MILLIONS OF BEES 🐝 7️⃣ 0️⃣ % ARE WORKERS 💪 AND THE QUEEN STAYS IN THE BEEHIVE 🏠 INSTEAD OF GOING IN THE JAR⁉️ AND SAYING BZZ BZZ 🔪I REPRESENT HONEY 🍯 I REPRESENT HONEY 🗣️/]

[sofiapagen]

I was mad and disappointed at myself. It was then also up to me to rectify it and dedicate time to express that pain.

Better out than In, says shrek! 💨