#might even delete this later Idk

[punchratt]

Rambling about this because it’s the only thing on my feed rn and I’m trying really hard to stay awake, so sorry if this isn’t really the most coherent rant. I’m honestly just word vomiting lol.

But Miriam Margolyes is a fucking legend and I agree wholeheartedly with what she said about Harry Potter fans.

Like, she’s not saying you can’t enjoy this shit as an adult. She never once said “if your an adult you can’t like Harry Potter”, what’s she’s saying (and people are misinterpreting) is that she worried for these hardcore HP fans who make being a fan of the series their whole personality. And I gotta agree with her.

It’s a 25 year old book series for children. It’s okay to have nostalgia for it, it’s okay to still interact with the fandom and have your fun with it, but why are you making so many of the most important days of your lives (and others) revolve around an okay book series at best?? She brought up weddings as an example so I’ll use that as mine. Like, sure, have the Harry Potter themed wedding, it’s your life do what you want. But don’t be surprised when people are a little concerned that you’re wedding cake has Dobi’s cum sock on it. Your union should be about your (hopefully) everlasting love and how you’ll be together through thick and thin, your celebrating a whole new chapter of your lives! Celebrating the love you feel for one another! Not the passion you both have for your favorite book series.

They are just like those hardcore Disney fan girls and are just as concerning. There’s a difference between a healthy interest and an obsession. If your willing to ruin people’s lives over a piece of media you like, you need to take a step back and get some help. Not talk about how your “so Slytherin core uwu”. Maybe slyther into some therapy, damn.

Anyways, I don’t actually care that much, im not into Harry Potter and I think it has a lot bigger issues that have already been talked to death pretty much everywhere. I’m just sick of seeing people try to act like the grandma from Flushed Away is trying to kill them because she had an opinion about them that they didn’t like.

Enjoy what you enjoy, be nice to other people, and don’t be fucking psycho about it.

[dxkjf]

I finished beast wars why did I kinda like it that's wild

Anyways I kinda brain rotted over Optimus primal and dinobot while watching so heres some older crumbs

[myokk]

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Referenced from this, La sirenetta illustration by loputyn💓

[cheaptaxidermy]

super quick + rough animatic i did so the brainrot telling me to animate would shut up

[nostalgia-tblr]

okay, so the thing with wishing we could kudos every chapter of a fic.

i get it, we all want to hit the little like button more than once, it's the easiest way to express our approval/enjoyment/gratitude. i am going to address this to a generic 'you' (hello Y/N!) and assume that 'you' has either never posted fic to ao3 or hasn't posted both oneshots and multichapter works.

hits, kudos, comments, bookmarks. every marker of popularity (which many will interpret as quality) on ao3 is inadvertantly weighted in favour of works with more chapters. no, not longer necessarily, but with more chapters. go and sort a few fandoms by any of those stats and you'll probably be able to spot this trend in action right away.

oneshots are only at the top of a tag (by the default date sorting) once, and even if you re-read it you can only leave one kudos on it.

a multichapter can stay near the top of the update-sorted results for months if you time your chapter drops right, and of course every time someone comes back for the next chapter that's another hit, and being seen more it is more likely to end up with more kudos. you can still only leave one per work, though, which limits the effects to some extent. multichapter works still tend to overall outperform oneshots on stats, and the longer they are the more likely that becomes, but you'll still usually see a couple of oneshots on the first page if you sort that list by kudos.

and a lot of people (percentage unknown) do sort by kudos (or some other stat) and works at the top of 'by kudos' will thus attract more readers and more kudos. so there's an incentive to get as many kudos as you can on your fic, and if cutting it up into 250 chapters will help... well it already does, and that's had an effect whether writers will admit to dragging fics out a bit on purpose or not, but imagine if that effect were to become orders of magnitude more intense.

even if you personally prefer longer fics cut into fairly short chapters, you probably don't want to get your 150k epic in chapters of only a 100-300 words, do you? you don't want the oneshot writers to just give up when every page, no matter how they're sorted, is full of 5000-chapter works to the point that readers now riot when asked to read a whole 2000 words in one go. your fave author is now feeling insecure because chapter 12 didn't get as many kudos as the last one did.

and this is why ao3 will never let you leave kudos on every chapter. they're aware that the site already incentivises chaptering works and doing that more than you otherwise might. so you're just going to have to learn to put an emoji heart in the comment box.

[solarpunkani]

"Oh no, someone's attracted to the aesthetics of my -punk movement but doesn't know the praxis and history behind it like I do--"

OK. Tell them. Make it a teaching moment. Everyone who's in your movement learned the background from somewhere at some point, maybe this is that point for that person. Give them a jumping off point that they can dive into later.

"Oh but I shouldn't be responsible for teaching baby -punks about the history and the how-tos and--"

OK. Then don't tell them. You don't have to be responsible for teaching people with a budding interest in your group the ins and outs and how-tos. That's fair and valid! It can be a lot of work. Someone else will handle it

"But I'm annoyed that they would try to claim to be part of/be interested in my community without knowing all the details that I know after being in it for months/years/decades, they're dumb, they're posers, they're--"

OK. Then don't engage with them, if it's that bad. Maybe someone else will come around and tell them the history, maybe they'll pick it up on their own, maybe they'll just enjoy the fashion elements for awhile.

"But they shouldn't claim to be part of the -punk community if they don't know the--"

I feel like we have a few options here. People can either talk to them, share the history, share the values, share the praxis. Or they can just chase off anyone who even thinks about dipping a toe in their community, and then wonder why it's dying off later down the line.

I dunno, maybe I'm too naive and patient or whatever. But if people are entering your -punk spaces without knowing The Rundown of what you feel they need to know, maybe being nice about it and informing people instead of immediately assuming stupidity and malicious intent could help you make a new friend. Even the loudest voices in a space had to learn from somewhere, and not everyone has the luxury of being in the space as the History was Happening--whether it's an age thing or a not being aware of the space thing. Or maybe I just don't see what the big deal is behind people hating people who like the aesthetic of something and don't know the behind the scenes history about it yet.

Because I believe in the word 'yet.' No one comes into this world knowing everything about everything, and we're all constantly learning new things. I'm not gonna degrade someone and call them a poser for not knowing what I know. Because if it were me, interested in a scene but getting chased out and called a poser? I wouldn't hit the books and study up, I'd go 'that fuckin sucks, those people sucked' and then avoid anyone and anything having to do with it.

So chase people off and call them posers if you want. But if your community starts dwindling, don't be fucking shocked.

[daydreamerwonderkid]

Apparently my shit post broke containment and got reposted to Instagram 🙃😩

[celtrist]

I just vented out a whole rant about how aromantisim is treated within Hazbin/helluva. I'm not really sure if I should post it for multiple reasons, one of which being I don't want anyone to feel targeted about it or take it the wrong way (like I honestly dont have beef with Al shippers. Gripes, but no beef as I also ship him on occasion).

There was just a sudden burst of frustration I had with it that I think was in part just came from built up frustration from other things. There's things I'd like to have out there, but I don't really think it'd get far or, again, be just taken the wrong way. I don't see a point in posting if people are gonna ignore it, plus it wouldn't change how things are now. If anyone has any thoughts or are curious let me know, but I don't wanna make anyone feel like shit or put a pointless rant out there no one wanted to see. I also wanna keep rants to a minimum as I know people aren't always into that sort of stuff, especially if you don't follow someone for that and you just get an influx of posts of them complaining. And I still want to keep things relatively light hearted around here, at best maybe just some critiques on things here and there.

It's late, I'm on my phone when I should probably just sleep it off, so sleep it off I will.

[cecilscribbles]

one shitpost wasn't enough apparently . do you think that the way ford and bill's relationship got a little more intimate was bill ruffling ford's hair or something and ford being unable to think or speak for the next twenty minutes because he's touch starved as fuck and that kind of power over someone is intoxicating and so on but here's the key thing bill takes his gloves off beforehand. i think he wears gloves but his limbs are still black underneath, point cat style, so it's a subtle change. and then after he does this enough bill without his gloves becomes associated with attention and praise . fast forward a couple months and bill rocks up to the dreamscape without his gloves, gesturing with his hands and claws and ford gets really flustered and needy for reasons he can't place

[heartcircus]

not to be a super complainer mid-liveblogging but i feel like having a faction draft is just such a bad idea. a lot of people are Very concrete in their ideals and each faction has their own agenda so i can't imagine it playing out well in the long run. not to mention that it'd create a lot of conflicting and confusing lore. i mean, green and yellow almost immediately chose to oppose one another (honestly mainly because of bad and foolish but i digress), it wouldn't make sense "in-lore" to have them all suddenly be jumbled up in patchwork factions?

if balancing is the issue then why not disband the factions and move on to the next thing. the primary excuse for "balancing" them that i could understand would be the fact that yellow has the strongest and most grind-y members so Physical conflicts would seem like an uphill battle to other teams. but then again, red and green have been successfully killing Yellow Faction Members every week and more ? there's other ways of dealing with problems than just hand-to-hand combat? quests are scaled per team and boss fights are supposedly scaled per-player so there's not really an issue there? i just don't really see the point in a draft lmao

[lawshearttattos]

hear me out: dabihawks shadowhunters au!

childhood friends Keigo and Touya. Both grew up in the Musutafu institute and trained to be shadowhunters together.

Everyone has big expectations of Touya bc he's Endeavor son but it's Keigo who always stands out.

Keigo, prodigy at a young age, strong, smart, all the things Touya can only dream to be

but Touya doesn't care. Because Keigo is his, his best friend, his person, the only reason he doesn't give up

Natsuo, Shoto and Fuyumi see Keigo as a brother, but Keigo and Touya relationship is different, more complex. if soulmates exist, they would be the living proof of it. everyone can see how much they mean to each other.

So they're each other's most special person so why not be parabatai?

when Keigo turns 18 and Touya is 19 they become parabatai.

and it's great, because there's no one they could trust more than each other. They're so in sync when they fight together, Keigo trusts Touya to have his back, Touya would rather die than let someone hurt Keigo.

it happens at some point when Touya is around 23. It starts with random thoughts of Keigo; the way he smiles, the way he looks so smug after beating Touya's ass in training, it's the way his hair always looks so perfect and fluffy. He starts noticing Keigo is attractive, very attractive.

and he knows he's fucked when his heart starts to beat faster around Keigo.

That's his best friend, his parabatai. Romantic relationships between parabatai are forbidden.

So if it's so wrong why does loving Keigo feels so right? why does it feel like he was born to love Keigo?

and the clave is so against homosexuality, he knows that. He knows he could lose everything.

He starts to feel like his runes are more powerful.

and then he dies.

and Keigo feels it. He feels his parabatai dying and it's like someone ripped his heart out.

Touya is dead and a piece of Keigo died too.

flashfoward and Keigo goes by Hawks now, and he's the Clave's favorite toy, anything they ask, he'll do.

He lives in Alicante now. No longer speaks to Natsu and Fuyumi, only shouto and only when it's work related.

and then one day there's a report about someone killing shadowhunters,

and Keigo is send to investigate.

and he could feel something is weird, a gut feeling, something deep inside him, an alarm going off in his brain.

if the information he gets is right, it's someone who is working with the League of Villains and goes by the name Dabi

and then he sees him, black hair, burn scars all over his body, and Hawks knows -He could recognize those eyes anywhere.

it's dabi, it's Touya, it's is parabatai.

it's the guy Keigo loved at age 15, the guy Keigo loved at age 18, the guy Keigo loved at age 22. It's the guy Hawks was send to kill.

[needlefail]

Someone put Eddsworld on Suicide Watch

[wickmitz]

big believer in rocky being an extremely angry person actually! so much of it is internalized and he very much channels it into specific things ( like wick, or more recently, marigold ) but this doesn’t negate the fact that he is angry and resentful. sometimes being mad is more than just punching people and threats of violence! sometimes it’s quiet seething and forced joy. sometimes awful things happen to you and you letting them happen doesn’t mean you won’t become angry about it. sometimes your anger is fear, and sometimes it’s another thing, and actually maybe it’s always coming from some other emotion but it feels like anger and that’s what sticks. and i’ll also just say that his head trauma won’t be helping him with any of these problems in the future either <3

[itsallaboutbl]

🎵 I know you don't like if I call you my boo 🎵

[murderofsomeone]

guys i know it's fun to engage with polls but there is such thing as sharing Too Much information and sometimes these things are just fishing for personal information and you HAVE to be careful about that

[moonlume]

tumblr said draw something bad so I did but I'm mad I still didn't feel anything