#media and world are TIRED

[yujateaandpi]

the devil works hard but the Mabel haters in my Instagram comments work harder

[castielsprostate]

breaking the sign in two by how hard im tapping it

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

i hate it when people’s idea of a “complex character” is just a bad guy with a tragic past. or someone who is an asshole but has expressed emotions ONCE. like no babes, that’s the most base-level characterization you can give to a character.

[clonedchaos]

Welp, as I was googling some images for Yasammy week, I came across a thread and turns out one of my favorite Jurassic YouTubers is homophobic and a Yasammy hater…

(More ranting in the tags)

[triaelf9]

hey folks who interact with creative works online! just a tiny PSA

If you don't like a character, that's totally fine! If you have a different reading of a situation in a show & have issues with stuff that's going on, that's also fine.

What is NOT fine is to ACTIVELY SEEK OUT fans of the characters you don't like and talk shit about them, the characters they have feelings about, or the content they've posted b/c you, Freddy McHatesalot really needs to tell everyone how much you dislike a...fictional character.

You are totally welcome to consume content in your own space in whatever way you see fit. It is disrespectful of the fandom space to try to drag other people into your space and interact with you if they don't want to. And dunking on a character in writings or art of them is fucking rude as hell to the person who put work into into the creation they made out of some feelings they were having.

Also. side note, it is possible to enjoy a character who is Wrong About Some Things or Isn't Doing The Right Stuff In The Right Situation. Sometimes it's possible to like a character and disagree with them, and shitting on people b/c you can't see what they see in a character is pretty trash garbage and is 90% of why I just make silly little art for me and my own silly feels and hope folks get a chuckle or some enjoyment out of it too.

[belliesandburps]

Interactive - Favorite Burp Scenario

I need something to take my mind off the fact that we are home to the dumbest, most bigoted fucking assholes on this planet, and I feel like a lot of you probably feel the same way right now. So, how about another interactive game? Send me character requests via my askbox here and I will respond with my favorite burp scenario to imagine for them. (Note, ideally, keep it to characters I know or that you think I may know)

[canonkiller]

I don't think I have a target audience. I am just doing things and if people like them that's fine. Sorry I saw an Instagram post and got disgruntled about the commodification of people's attention again

[witchqueen]

Does anyone have any tips to help stop yourself from comparing your artwork to others, or equating your value as an artist with likes and reblogs?

I've struggled with this for a while and it's getting old, I don't know how to just shrug it off. Any genuine advice would be nice

[violetnaps]

cant wait for the american elections to end

[twnj]

MSN Culture and Sports correspondent Alistor Kirkland managed to catch a few words from Shikamaru Nara, GM and former World Champion (seen in video above) on how his Candidates tournament has been going so far.

"Thank you Shikamaru, and welcome back. And congratulations as well."

"Thanks, man."

"So I think I can speak on behalf of the chess community when I say it's a surprise to see you back so soon. There's obviously been a big change in your life recently - do you think it has affected your game this week? I think your opponents would say your middle game in most of your matches today were somewhat distracted, or confused. Do you think it was wise to return when there was so many new faces in the game now?"

Needless to say Nara was concise and blunt as ever with his responses, despite at one point being handed his three month old son.

"That's not a serious question. This Candidates is missing some players, for sure- one in particular [...] but the games were fairly decisive. And no one has given me a good fight yet. But I don't know, man [...] I think I just need more sleep. Next question?"

Find out more later on this week where we have exclusive commentary on the highlights by GM and World Champion Temari Koroleva!

Unofficial Grandmaster headcannon madness by TWNJ, inspired by my friends and some crazy cute new-dad Shikamaru pics posted by @eeveleon and original GM by @notquitejiraiya

[icewindandboringhorror]

little lord cottonball gazing down from his ominous perch

[realbeefman]

i'm a cis woman, but in the past few years i've developed a habit of headcanoning any male character i relate to as a trans women, beginning a fic trying to explore that, and then miserably falling short as i can never figure out how to end the story. i've recently joined a new fandom and started my most recent attempt at writing this ever-elusive character interpretation i've been trying to explain for years. and it occurs to me that maybe the reason i keep trying to interpret these characters i relate to as women and failing to, is because i'm trying to project the wrong experience. because i think that conclusion i can never fully bring myself to write isn't one about coming to terms with womanhood and embracing that identity, but about coming to terms with being a man.

so tldr im a trans man and this is a coming out post.

[llitchilitchi]

I get hating certain political systems and trying to abolish totalitarian regimes but at the same time many of them are so interwoven with our history and society they have become tropes and when I consume media with a setting where the monarchy is absolute and revered then I am playing my part and sucking that princeling off

[kitnita]

★  —  jason robertson for after hours; november 4, 2023 (x)

what's it like being part of arguably the greatest draft class of all time – greatest dallas draft class of all time – with oettinger and heiskanen? so the stars took heiskanen and oettinger in the first round, you in the second round, so it was a very productive draft. is that lost on you, that class? no, I mean, it's, it's — it's truly a special moment, I mean, we always see it, uh, and think about it when it's ever brought up, how special it is. you know, you don't find a franchise goalie, a franchise d-man, and a player … a forward like me in, uh, one round very often. so, um, very — you look back on it now and uh, we hit all of the spots, and six years later we're all pretty, uh … producing, and being big parts of this team. and hopefully and ideally we're gonna be big parts through these, uh — our carers.

[halfbagged]

I was replaying through Link's Awakening a little while back, and after completing the penultimate dungeon, I realized I didn't have it in me to finish the game. (To any unfamiliar, Link is stranded on an island, and slowly finds out that the island is only a dream. The only way to escape is to wake up, removing everyone else in the dream from existence.) However, from this, I realized this is also an ending to the game. Link was given a choice, and this is the outcome of the choice: his life is frozen in time, just like the lives of all of the inhabitants of Koholint.

Link's Awakening uses many tactics to unsettle the player, to show them that something is wrong with the island. The whole island has a hazy quality to it, occurrences that are completely illogical (even for a Nintendo game) occur frequently. You hear of calamities happening on multiple occasions, but you only ever see the outcome. Each character is strange and interesting in some unique way. Some characters' dialogue never changes, their routines remain set in stone.

And these can all easily be dismissed as video game logic. And I'm sure that it is the cause of most, if not all of them. But it only adds to the unsettling feeling everything gives you, especially when you learn the truth.

You figure out the truth at around the halfway mark of the game, after developing significant bonds to many different characters. Though there is no explicit decision, no text box asking if you want to end the dream, it is there all the same. You have the choice to walk up to the massive egg on top of the volcano and watch the world disappear or... what? Join the life of the villagers below you? Try and forget this fundamental truth of the world?

After the reveal, several characters will express concern that their lives are the same, day in and day out. It's almost as if they are in stasis, the only change coming from the outsider. If he so chose, Link could join that stasis, living forever with Marin, never changing. It is this option that I chose: forget about the game, leave its world to itself, remove the element of change: the player. But is this any better?

[3416]

the accountability talk from people not in the room drives me nuts bc no one even blinks or thinks about that once if you didn't just spend 20 minutes focusing on it all panel long. 'it's not a big deal, every coach does it' okay so why is it the only thing we're gonna cover during a live hockey game rn like ???? the leafs are purposely so closed off from all your nonsense but talk about something that is so fucking stupid and self perpetuating thanks to the toronto media, it's like the playoffs bench shit all over again.