#negativity warning

[leafmealoooone]

Full disrespect to the person going around the r/wheelchair sub reddit telling someone diagnosed with me/cfs that they shouldn't use that label, they should use long covid instead. Specifically, "I would encourage you to think of yourself having Long COVID instead of ME/CFS."

Absolutely full of hatred for this attitude where people are like, oh, plenty of people with long covid seem to have something identical to me/cfs? Well fuck everyone with me/cfs and fuck that diagnosis, you all can suffer and die, no one cares unless it's long covid, we're going to continue to totally ignore the (insufficient, yes, but not insignificant) existing body of research about this condition and continue to pretend it might be imaginary.

And if your legitimacy in the eyes of medical isntitutions as a person with chronic illness comes at the expense of others, if it's something you only have because you threw your fellow sick people under the bus, you are the problem. I know I should be glad for anyone for any bit of help and treatment they can get but if being taken seriously requires you to perpetuate the marginalization/deliegitimization/invisiblization of people who are dealing with the same and/or similar issues, please know that I may never forgive you.

[littleshysheep-at-da]

I keep having stuff I think about Drawing then just… not actually doing it… oops…. Brain just gone rip 🫠 am so eepy

[quincywillows]

as i reflect more, i have to say one of the biggest aspects that turned me away completely from traditional publishing is the social media prevalence. there was such a clear expectation, literally from the moment you submit your manuscript for consideration, that you either already had a following on insta/the-platform-formally-known-as-twitter or would be committed full throttle to creating one. there was no question about it. the idea that you would sell not just your book, but yourself, online was baked into the very potential of your manuscript seeing the light of day. and i remember lurking in those spaces and seeing every single aspiring author regurgitating the same plucky, quirky posts, and sharing the same "friends" on the platform, and justifying x y z aspect about themselves as an author rather than telling me anything substantive about their novel (no true synopses in sight here -- just a quippy, 240-character logline usually filled with tropes). it literally felt like being surrounded by clones, or generic-writer-bots, and i was supposed to be inclined to show interest in their writing because of their PRESENTATION on the-platform-formally-known-as-twitter, rather than the actual writing itself. it's even worse now with tik tok and "booktok."

every single book i have ever loved, have ever called a favorite, always grew from the book itself. not the author. most of the time, i didn't know who the author even was, and i rarely take the time to go investigate further. the value and heart of a book lies in the words on the page, the content inside the manuscript -- not the name printed onto the spine.

i just really hate this trend in publishing where the author has become more of a draw or more important than the story itself. we are writers, we're sharing our writing. the story is what it's supposed to be all about; if that isn't connecting with the readers, what else matters? certainly not that -- and it's simply not worth commodifying your literal personhood just to get another click.

[muffinrecord]

Yep especially since by that point in na unless you grinded you were unlikely to have alot of girls 5*Ed and max leveled

Yeah, which is an excellent point to bring up. Part of the issue is not only powercreep (which I mean is an issue but let's pretend it isn't for a second) but also that we just plain ol' have more girls at max level who are kitted out too.

It also makes me think that like-- does anyone even grind for material anymore? I used to spend long nights wasting SP to get rainbow orbs or Bunny Ear Cotton to help get a girls' magia and awakening up and ready.

I'm not gonna rail against quality of life changes, but they did have the unfortunate consequence of making some parts of the game matter much less.

[readbythestarlight]

Ngl I suuuper wish it wasn’t this guy he was nothing but annoying at the start. Hoping he’s a little better in actual play…

[mbrainspaz]

[⚠️ Negative Take Incoming]

Gotta say 'Adam, Check Please,' despite the usual techno-pop style I love, immediately became my least favorite Owl City song. The whole concept of a song about working a minimum wage job and being so happy and grateful about it because fame and success are right around the corner—yeesh. Ick. Obviously there are happy grocery store employees out there but all I could think about was that report from a few years ago about 1 in 7 Kroger workers struggling to afford housing. I have so many friends with beautiful creative souls who just can't escape the grind of minimum wage jobs. It's normal for celebrities to be tone-deaf about normal people struggles but I particularly hate that he threw in the 'just wait until your signature becomes an autograph' like that's just something that happens to your average grocery store employee, and not something he both worked very hard for and got exceedingly lucky with. Overall it was serving boostraps capitalist bullshit and not much else. It's depressing to get that from an artist I really love. Granted, I did fall in love with his music back when I was a privileged right wing christian brat who thought I could totally be a movie director if tried hard enough even though I couldn't afford a camera.

This is 100% a jaded chronically online leftist take but I hope I can find a lyric free version. And hey, maybe once I magically achieve success with my art and can finally leave the corporate job that refuses to pay me a living wage I'll revisit this song and not hate it so much.

[watatsumiis]

does anyone know of some good discords/networks out there for ppl over 18 in the community just to kind of vibe? :o (preferably one that's chill with people who like darker content ajdjskdjs)

[laurelwinchester]

wayched the fl*sh series finale. had no idea what was going on but it was a sweet well earned send off and i'm so happy w*stall*n got their baby n*ra.

.....crying laughing at how lazy and unrealistic the birth scene was though. she really gave birth in a single push without once smudging her full face of makeup or ruining her perfectly done hair and was immediately okay to lounge around her home in tight jeans and insane heels. like they truly did not put a single ounce of effort into that lol.

[mysticalsadgirl]

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what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?

Not fandom related but the last time I remember blocking someone it was because I realised they were a t*rf

you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

I guess it'd be Johnny's backstory as prescribed by CK writers. I just don't love the whole "he was actually poor and then his mum married a rich guy." I think it misses the point TKK was trying to make about class. Also Sid is such an offensive character imo

part of canon you think is overhyped

The tournaments. I think there are more interesting ways for karate elements of the show to play out (like the karate riot and Danie's death match in TKK2)

[kissesformonsters]

Sorry guys, I know I made this account to spread positivity, but it's been feeling really hard lately

[littleshysheep-at-da]

I don’t really care for Harems or Genderbends, but can understand those are appealing sometimes/to some people. But I really hate most Elitism and Extremism.

Updating this with the Biggest Example I have: Retro Elitism

The “back in my day” or “this used to be good” because like good stuff is still being made!!! Some of my favorite things are waaay more recent! Look it’s not the old stuff isn’t quality some of my favorite things are also retro!!! But it’s not that “good stuff isn’t being made anymore” it’s just waaay more stuff is being made so there’s more varying quality were I feel like older thing we either only had the resources to make/get less so everything tended to be over a certain quality!!! But it’s good there’s more availability for everyone to try and make stuff now even if not all of it turn out great!!!

If you’re wondering why I’m saying “stuff” and not specifying anything… it’s because it applies to waaaaaay too many things okay?

[quincywillows]

i actually don’t think y’all understand how disillusioned i am with tv these days... the industry is dead to me. not for the reasons most fandom people say that like oh my fave died my fave couple broke up etc etc no. i think tv is dead because it literally is DEAD. its become so oversaturated that there is literally no way to rake through the muck to find the gems of good story. media has always been profit driven but the evolution to let’s create as much content as possible to beat out our competitors but only give them 1.5 seasons if that and make sure they have record-breaking streaming numbers -- a meaningless, MEANINGLESS metric when it comes to the quality of the storytelling -- within two days or they get the axe guaranteed and every single thing being a cheap and soulless IP adaptation that fans are happy to gobble down just to say they have it rather than actually see it as a faithful interpretation bc money money money and i swear if i see one more gd star marvel wars piece of property i will lose it. in this essay i will,

[muffinrecord]

Arc two in general just? Is super easy to play? I was expecting it to start with level 50 or 70 enemies or at least build up like arc one did but I’m on chapter 9 and all the enemies are so simple. I am f2p and have mostly one slots but have no issue with a single battle. When you’re battling alina you know she’s powerful because she’s hard to beat. When you beat yuna in two hits and then it cuts back to the story where yuna nearly beats iroha to death (just making that up as an example) it doesn’t feel the same

Arc 2 fights are easier in general. There are a couple of places where the difficulty spikes but even the challenge modes aren't really that challenging.

I'm not entirely sure why they did it this way? Especially since Arc 2 came out with Spirit Enhancement, so if anything it should feel harder...?

I don't want to endlessly bitch about the game and all its flaws; I do love this game very much. But some things are just kinda questionable when you take another look at them.

I think we can all agree that the best thing arc 2 main story did is that you no longer need to connect once per battle.

[naive-petals]

FUCK OFF NOT WANTING TO GO TO A WEDDING FOR FAMILY YOU BARELY KNOW ISN’T BEING A JACKASS IT’S CALLED NOT WANTING TO BE MISERABLE!

[mbrainspaz]

Why does every glup shitto in the mandalorian s03 sound like they're reading their lines off a teleprompter? I don't remember it always being this bad.

[glittergroovy]