#not looking to argue

[okayigetitifuckedup]

I hate the pomegranate poetry trend going around on tiktok right now because every video I see is comparing the way men and women love to the way they eat a pomegranate- saying that men make a mess of them, destroy the fruit, while women carefully peel it and save every piece with delicate fingers that won’t be stained by juice.

I hate it because once again it steals from me the humanity of making a mess of things. I am not gentle simply because I am a woman. I am not a gentle breeze or a soft wave, I am not a carefully peeled pomegranate. Why are men the only ones ever given the grace to be uncouth?

“It’s in their nature!” I hear them cry.

It’s in my nature too! Can it be so evil if that is true?

Why must I be subservient and clean to be loved?

Why is it so wrong to love messily when you’re going to devour all of them either way?

Is it really so wrong to love with so much enthusiasm it hurts?

Either way I will savor every bite, but this is a rare treat, and my hands shake when I am excited.

I know it is a shame the mess I make. I know the stains on my fingers should make me sad, but they only remind me of the experience.

I’m sorry.

I do not mean to be rough.

[massiveladycat]

guys im new to alien stage (havent even heard all theories yet) and just finished the finale and i have a LOT going through my head rn but one thing keeps coming up in round 6, ivan kissed till. till obviously didn't like it and the kiss was OBVIOUSLY uncomfortable and, in my eyes, not meant to be romanticized HOWEVER the theory i believe is that ivan had done it not to be selfish but because he wanted to bring his score down and get himself killed with an act of violence. the kiss wasn't enough, so he went to acting like he was choking him. what does the fandom agree on?? why didn't ivan just skip to choking?? edit: big emphasis on theory im not saying it was true but i am saying thats what i interpreted it as

[hinamie]

post-graduation trip airport looks

[nouverx]

*proceeds to drink the whole bottle*

Yeah Alastor you're gonna be loved and appreciated wether you want it or not :)

[hansoeii]

head empty, no thoughts. just turtleneck crowley

[flurmitcraff]

Mumbo, desperate to feel normal for once, releases dirt on his fellow hermits and asks the community to rank their weirdness.

[notasocialismjoke]

might finally be feeling an urge to return to ffxiv? maybe?

(this post is kind of vent-y. haven't played meaningfully since ~6.2)

thing is like... i hear that endwalker has not only not gotten better, but if anything the story's been subpar so it has actually gotten worse. between wanting to verify this firsthand and the fact that i really don't wanna die with chaributt being the only two fish stopping me from being a big fish, kind of? maybe? feeling some desire?

the thing is, endgame fucking sucks. dungeons are boring and jobs are boring to play in dungeons but i still have to do it to be able to keep up bc otherwise i'm not going to be able to go fishing in the rio de janeiro in 6.6. and it's hard for me to get excited about the other parts of the game when everything so thoroughly revolves around endgame and/or the combat, and i'm not interested in savage raiding bc fucking avoidance issues.

(i'm in a static actually but it's been inactive for a while so w/e)

honestly part of me's hoping that donch rail's story sucks, like at least enough that there's backlash over it. something to wake the team up and make them realize that they've slowly been making every other part of final fantasy xiv: the actual game part increasingly unfun over time, too, and that they need to fucking... change something. i dunno.

i suppose i'm kind of happy we're getting corsair and fucking green mage instead of mystic knight and geomancer. at this point, after dancer especially, i don't trust the job team to not fuck them up.

[seancefemme]

yeah well you want to fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid

[punkgemjasper]

One thing I have noticed in my 26 years of gaming (Sonic the Hedgehog 2 when I was like 4 was my first game) is that people can no longer just have fun with games. We can't be surprised by a sudden release anymore.

It's like there are people who expect that the games being made HAVE to be what THEY PERSONALLY think that game should be. These types complain. A lot. Over every little detail.

Gave devs are not given time anymore to polish games, work out bugs ect. And these people will complain about day one oatches, when it's their fault for wanting that game NOW rather than wait.

Everything has to have leaks now. It used to be that, using Pokemon as an example, you didn't know what the next-gen looked like. All we got was the starters, maybe. But now a new game is announced and....you know most of the next gens unique Pokemon before it's out. Ruining the surprise. Ruining the fun of discovery. Because people can't just wait anymore.

I just saw an article talking about some spanner, with an incomplete, leaked version of a game, 'review it'. You can't do that. Why fucking do that? Just to be a prick? What enjoyment do you get from being a manchild brat?

Review bombing too. Just fuck off with that pointless shit.

Games are an escape from the grind and boring daily life. Why would you want to bring that grind and that misery into games like that? If you don't like a game, fine, but to actively try to ruin other people's fun, even before it is out, via leaks, review bombing and harassing people who do like the game is just pathetic.

And you can say that it's the big corp's fault and I am right there with you but who do they listen to? The loudest voices and what do the loudest voices want? That new game those corporations are working on that still has a few months of work left on it so the corps will throw it out to make a profit. Quantity over quality. 'Who cares if its got massive bugs, fuck the dev teams, we want our money.'

[drrav3nb]

AYO EDEBIRI as Sydney Adamu WILL POULTER as Luca THE BEAR SEASON 3 | Episode 10 - Forever

Are you close? Yeah. Kind of best friends and kind of lost touch, so. It's nice to reconnect. Yeah, especially when it literally is like a best friend that you saw every day of your life and you kinda went through this sort of battle together.

Bonus:

[doberbutts]

I always think it's funny whenever I post about an issue that directly affects me and someone responds with "you're an idiot that doesn't know what you're talking about" and I have to be like. Hello. This is my demographic. Do you see this label here? Guess who falls under it OH RIGHT it's me. Maybe I like. Have some amount of idea of what I'm talking about considering this is sampled directly from my life experiences. Just a thought.

[tenderjock]

spike thinking buffy should break up with angel in lovers walk is SO funny to me because he didnt even realize he was in love with buffy at the time he was actually just going around like "your boyfriend kind of blows and you could definitely do better. not that i CARE because i dont. in fact, i hope you DIE. in fact, i hope i KILL YOU. in fact, the only thing i want MORE than to kill you is to see you BREAK UP with your loser boyfriend whom i hate and to get back together with my girlfriend who DUMPED ME specifically because i am so entirely OBSESSED with you. this is normal btw"

and buffy thought this was normal, also.

[hinamie]

...........slips gege ¥2000

[viwifey]

ARCANE 2.06 - “THE MESSAGE HIDDEN WITHIN THE PATTERN”

[sansculottides]

pisses me off to no end when people on reddit or whatever complain that the show wouldve been better off without the tuunbaq.....did we watch the same show? the tuunbaq is everything, it held everything together. the tuunbaq is the main transformative element of the terror. the tuunbaq elevates the text beyond mere historical fact and lets it say something about the expedition's broader context of imperialism. it hunted the british men who were trampling on its home as a mere stopover, a side casualty, to finding the northwest passage (for, you know, "trade with china" after britain beat china into submission after the imperialist opium war). silna couldnt complete a proper ritual with it because of the british men - just as british colonizers have historically intruded and disrupted the practice of indigenous culture. and in the end the tuunbaq dies, after all the injuries it's taken from the british over the course of 10 episodes and finally chokes to death on the worst of them. because there's no escaping the reality of colonial history, and there is especially no fantastical escape for the colonizer. there's no proper way for us to move forward otherwise.

good historical fiction doesnt have to limit itself to accuracy - it needs empathy to draw out meanings in history using literary craft. thats what the tuunbaq means to me.... if you wanted a straight depiction of historical record, just go watch a documentary.. TUUNBAQ DENIERS DNI

[lucabyte]

thinking about travelling-with-the-party loop doing things habitually without realising how deeply suspicious they are