#maybe this is also just my biased opinion

[twig-gy]

it’s not inherently mischaracterization to write hms gore what matters is the way you do it. gore is a tool that can be amazing or horrible just like any other depending on the execution. pun. gore is not necessarily more shallow than anything else. no one is going around saying ‘stop writing fluff that’s shallow and only meant to make you feel good’, so why does this apply to gore? if this sounds either biased or targeted, that’s because it is :)

less briefly:

yes, gore can stem from Nothing, or mischaracterization. it can also stem from traits that the character has.

sure maybe ‘soul STABS MIND 3000 TIMES IN THE CHEST because ???? uh why not’ is a bad usage of gore, but consider ‘soul stabs mind to punish him for doing something minor (because he is desperate for heart and mind to stop their fights at all costs, and feels as if he has no power, and feels as if the only way to gain power is by making them afraid of him)’.

maybe this doesn’t fit with your specific idea of soul, but there is still character depth there.

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what mischaracterization even MEANS is dependent on person to person, because, you know, PEOPLE GET DIFFERENT THINGS FROM THIS ALBUM, and they INTERPRET THE CHARACTERS DIFFERENTLY. additionally, what seems like ‘mischaracterization’ can just be what the author thinks they would react like when placed into a situation, which can be incredibly different from how they usually act! for example, both of my aus are based on how i think the characters would react whenever placed into situation x

(with maybe their characters tweaked a little, which is fine sometimes as long as you aren’t going to claim it’s canon. it’s fine to have headcanons. it’s fine to have different versions of hms(w) that aren’t specifically au. and people who are mad about it - which is a group that may include me, sometimes, i am aware - can be mad! and that doesn’t mean you’re wrong and that doesn’t mean you have to get out the ukelele and be like i’m sorry for having fun with the characters (when you Should be having fun with the characters and if you aren’t then maybe. stop?))

and in my aus they are incredibly different from canon hms! which isn’t a bad thing, it is the point!

anyway you aren’t morally bad for talking about the characters without cited sources. (the annoying part is whenever you act like you /are/ being objectively correct, and right about everything, whenever you’re clearly Doing Shit To Them (also sometimes maybe consider making an oc and whether that would be more fun than saying it’s hms. however you aren’t. morally corrupt. for not making an oc. it’s fine))

(again please don’t say people are morally corrupt for being wrong about the characters. they aren’t. it’s annoying but it’s not bad morally, and they don’t need to get hosed down for it. It’s Fine)

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again, compare ‘heart and mind snuggle and don’t argue ever because ???? why not’ and ‘heart and mind snuggle and don’t argue ever because they’ve resolved their conflict, and don’t feel like they need to anymore’ (an attempt to keep the level of fluff while adding a reason- though i admit i’m not good at writing pure fluff), or ‘heart and mind snuggle and don’t argue ever because they’re tired of the pain and want just one moment of peace’ (something more similar to what i write that keeps bittersweetness/tension there).

if reasonless gore is bad, why isn’t reasonless fluff bad? if reasonless gore is ‘immature’, then isn’t is reasonless fluff also ‘immature’?

sure, maybe one is less shocking or more to your tastes than the other: it’s fine to have preferences. what i don’t agree with is saying one is horrible and the other isn’t.

my opinion is that we should stop saying anything that one writes is morally bad: and if you want to anyway, just keep the complaining (because that’s what this is) to friends you complain with, or discord servers meant for complaining, or complain on your own blog without maintagging it, rather than trying to set these rules of what one should and should not write upon the entire fanbase.

thank you (i bow and leave the stage) (ALSO STOP ACTING LIKE IT’S NOVEL TO THINK THAT HEART ISN’T AN UWU BABY OR MIND ISN’T A DEMON IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE FANBASE WE’VE BEEN OVER THIS. WE WERE GOING OVER THIS LAST YEAR. I AM SO TIRED OF PEOPLE MAKING THESE POSTS AND EVERYONE CONGRATULATING THEM OVER IT AS IF IT’S DESERVING OF THE NOBEL PRIZE)

[elrohirtheneurodivergent]

Something I'd like to know about speakers of languages with a lot of complex shit like cases and such: does everyone actually use them? From my own experience as a German native speaker, the only people who actually properly use for example, the posessive case are those who think of themselves as very sophisticated and the "um acktually" people. Usually, in most casual and even professional and academic settings, most people go for easier constructions.

Also side point, those people also often correlate with those who (in the German educational system) chose Latin instead of French as their second mandatory language.

[sukugo]

everytime sukugo gets called a crack ship i suffer +10 damage

[the-somwthing]

Controversial opinion: I don’t really count Cleo’s win as a full win, LIKE LISTEN I REALLY WANTED HER TO WIN, but Real Life is like a half win or something.

People always act like this opinion is an attack on Cleo and all that but like, you’re saying Real Life counts as a regular win like any other? So, if next season Cleo makes it really far, she should give up so someone new can get a win? You think she should say “I already won a season someone else deserves this more”? Like idk, to me counting Real Life as a full win feels like saying you don’t believe Cleo could get a win in a legit season so you want to count this one. And I don’t think that’s fair. Cleo doesn’t place very high on average but anyone can win. I think her winning Real Life is proof that she’s getting closer to a real win, like how Jimmy dying near the middle is proof that he could fully break the curse. I don’t count either of those as fully winning/breaking the curse but I see it as like. Half points. But apparently this opinion makes me a Cleo hater who doesn’t want to see her succeed. Idk it just feels like secretly thinking she isn’t capable of a real win, of course I don’t assume the worst of people like that, but like, that’s why I can’t subscribe to the opinion that RL was a win like all the others. I would’ve said it wasn’t a real win no matter WHO won, changing my mind just because it’s a woman feels like backwards feminism to me lmao.

I mean I’m going to assume that most people who say this aren’t doing that and would’ve said that it counts as a Real Win no matter who won? But if not then plz think about that lol. But like. No seriously if someone who always wins like idk Scott had won would y’all be saying “wow… Scott won yet another full season for realsies…” I’m assuming the best of you all and assuming that for some reason y’all hopped into Real Life thinking “can’t wait to see who our OFFICIAL sixth winner is”

[darabeatha]

/ I think f.ate moved way too fast on o.dysseus

[huntingrays]

a dumb, pointless hill i’m willing to die on is that i think leo would be a cat guy, not a dog guy

like he’d own a cat, not a dog. allow me to explain my reasoning

so, dogs are very cute and loyal. they’re very silly and man’s best friend. however… they wouldn’t be suited for his ‘lifestyle’. lots of dog breeds are very active and can sometimes require things like daily walks and likely need to be trained. considering how he spends hours straight working, i think cats would be best suited for him. they can be very independent and will go to you and demand affection when they want it. like i can image a cat jumping onto his lap and he stops and realizes he’s been busy for hours, so he takes a petting break. he’d totally own an orange tabby that can be as weird and crazy as he is. he’d see the cat like doing a jump kick off the wall and think ‘mood, wish i could do that too’. and cats can also be little assholes and i think he’d respect them for it. i can imagine he’d be the kind of guy to get into an argument with a cat bc they keep knocking shit off his desk. i can imagine him getting a “talkative” cat and they yap at each other for hours

OH ALSO!! so many people tend to write leo being very warm, like a human heater. you know what love warm things like heated blankets and sunny spots? cats. he’d be a cat magnet. they would LOVE him

also, he’d be a great cat dad? like he loves to invent things. he could make so many things for his cat baby. cat house, cat tree, scratching post, perches in high places, he’d make them all. he’d spoil his cat child. they would live like royalty

maybe this is such a random thing to have an opinion on, but i believe strong in it. in my opinion, leo is a cat guy and jason is a dog guy and they own a cat and dog together that get along surprisingly well

[lady-bee-holmes]

So, I realize the intent in trilogies is to move a story forward, rather than back, but wouldn’t it be neat for a prequel storyline for Dishonored 3?

Like, whether it would follow some of the early Marked or focus on our resident void boy, it would be cool to see the world before the main storyline

Especially if it followed our void boy in the time before becoming the Outsider

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

find it very funny how so many twin peaks fans (aka redditors) seem to think there's really only one way to read the series and just ascribe every single thing to their view of it instead of actually interrogating things

[motherforthefamicom]

begging u guys to tag ur spoilers oh my god

[the-demon-prodigy]

this is random but ive seen some ppl say that in this recent chap and the previous one, dazai was not worried abt sigma and was just stressed abt fyodor and in need of sigma's information.

i wanted to debunk that. in my opinion, dazai is worried about sigma. because he's trying to be a good person and doesn't want people to get hurt. it wouldn't even have to be sigma; since joining the ada (and even before then maybe), dazai seems to have an at least slight aversion to letting innocent people or people that he has interacted with and deems to be good get hurt in any way.

yes, dazai is stressed abt the fact that fyodor is alive and on the loose, but hes also worried abt the fact that sigma got pulled into it so much more than he was supposed to.

[snekdood]

idk who needs to hear this (vaush) but being a skilled debater and being Good With Words does not make you correct.

[sarcasmchandlerbing]

My top 37 Eurovision 2023 songs

1. Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha (Suomi/Finland 🇫🇮)

2. Loreen - Tattoo (Ruotsi/Sweden 🇸🇪)

3. Sudden Lights - Aijā (Latvia 🇱🇻)

4. Vesna - My Sister's Crown (Tšekki/Czech Republic 🇨🇿)

5. Teya & Salena - Who The Hell Is Edgar? (Itävalta/Austria 🇦🇹)

6. Alessandra - Queen of Kings (Norja/Norway 🇧🇻)

7. Iru - Echo (Georgia 🇬🇪)

8. Luke Black - Samo Mi Se Spava (Serbia 🇷🇸)

9. Mae Muller - I Wrote A Song (Yhdistynyt Kuningaskunta/United Kingdom 🇬🇧)

10. Let 3 - Mama ŠČ! (Kroatia/Croatia 🇭🇷)

11. Joker Out - Carpe Diem (Slovenia 🇸🇮)

12. Pasha Parfeni - Soarele Şi Luna (Moldova 🇦🇩)

13. Wild Youth - We Are One (Irlanti/Ireland 🇮🇪)

14. The Busker - Dance (Our Own Party) (Malta 🇲🇹)

15. Alika - Bridges (Viro/Estonia 🇪🇪)

16. La Zarra - Évidemment (Ranska/France 🇨🇵)

17. Remo Forrer - Watergun (Sveitsi/Switzerland 🇨🇭)

18. TVORCHI - Heart of Steel (Ukraina/Ukraine 🇺🇦)

19. Brunette - Future Lover (Armenia 🇦🇲)

20. Voyager - Promise (Australia 🇦🇺)

21. Noa Kirel - Unicorn (Israel 🇮🇱)

22. Lord Of The Lost - Blood & Glitter (Saksa/Germany 🇩🇪)

23. Blanca Paloma - EAEA (Espanja/Spain 🇪🇸)

24. Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper - Burning Daylight (Alankomaat/Netherlands 🇳🇱)

25. Marco Mengoni - Due Vite (Italia/Italy 🇮🇹)

26. Gustaph - Because of You (Belgia/Belgium 🇧🇪)

27. Mimicat - Ai Coração (Portugali/Portugal 🇵🇹)

28. Diljá - Power (Islanti/Iceland 🇮🇸)

29. Albina & Familja Kelmendi - Duje (Albania 🇦🇱)

30. Reiley - Breaking My Heart (Tanska/Denmark 🇩🇰)

31. Monika Linkytė - Stay (Liettua/Lithuania 🇱🇹)

32. Andrew Lambrou - Break A Broken Heart (Kypros/Cyprus 🇨🇾)

33. Theodor Andrei - D.G.T (Off And On) (Romania 🇷🇴)

34. TuralTuranX - Tell Me More (Azerbaijan 🇦🇿)

35. Victor Vernicos - What They Say (Kreikka/Greece 🇬🇷)

36. Blanka - Solo (Puola/Poland 🇵🇱)

37. Piqued Jacks - Like An Animal (San Marino 🇸🇲)

[suboficialflores]

Cool non-binary pronouns you got in your profile there. It'd be a real shame if you started acting like a man on the internet

[the-fire-might-be-shooting-at-us]

Soooo do people in this fandom know about not being fucking condescending assholes or

[bmpmp3]

it is interesting how different stories about showbiz try to depict a character as having star power like a common method in audio-visual mediums is music and lighting to try to make a fictional actor's performance in a fictional movie look transcendent (like in Babylon 2022 which I watched the other day) while mediums that don't have the benefit of audio or the moving picture like most comics will have something like a bunch of sparkly screentones all over the place or glitter in their eyes that kinda thing (like too many manga about the entertainment industry to name) but i still have a soft spot for Penguin Revolution's method of just hallucinating wings on everyone

[trans-leek-cookie]

someone talking about the ways media and common tropes/depictions of things that are either explicitly or implicitly linked to marginalized people are demonized and presented badly is not a fucking opportunity for you to flex how you're doing it Differently And Better