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btw. omnichord OM-108 confirmed to have a Canadian release price of $999.99 CAD. coming from a guy who works at a music store. in case anyone else is curious
#roots#txt#like just. oh my GOD why does it cost SO MUCH !!#thats about 750USD btw#thats insane. thats insane. fuck companies forever#old omnichords were less than half that price AFTER inflation#its like they saw reseller selling stuff for 7-800$ bc of inflation and the fact they stopped making them and went#huh. lets charge even MORE#ok rant over haha#omnichord#om108
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it is beyond infuriating how anne rice seems to insist on marius being a positive force in anyone's life ever. like she can't fully commit to exploring the fact he groomed armand and has repeatedly taken away his consent for what marius thinks is best (take the end of TVA as an example) and just kind of flatly puts it in the narrative. there's not really much interest in how these horrific events make marius come across as the worst because EVERYONE loves him. for gods sake, lestat learns from armand exactly what marius did to him in TVL and then proceeds to go find marius and be super friendly to him in the same fucking book. even armand and pandora, two of the people who have MORE than enough right to hate him, do not. it doesnt feel like shes trying to explore the toxicity of the abusive dynamic he traps them in, it just is there. and like yeah ofc the toxic vampire romance series but i think that this should be handled with more care. and it is not ever really framed in a way that she is interested in exploring how marius should easily be one of the most horrific characters in this series because it kind of feels like sa/rape/grooming/other things of that sort are just put there to further plot and not to really get the respect that they deserve in a medium.
#twist rambles#vc posting#grooming mention#for blocklist sorry im on my im really mad about this fucking series soapbox again#to be fucking honest she treats slavery similar. like its just THERE and the characters doing it dont really feel bad about it (much like m#rius doesnt seem to.. feel much if any remorse for arm.and) and it is just like... ok heres another bad thing with no examination. this isn#a super coherent post but i went a bit forward to see how b&g was handling the arm.and stuff and oh my god. oh im so mad. like i just... i#wish so badly that arma.nds abuse was taken seriously other than haha its sooo quirky that mari.us is in a position of power over him and#provides housing money sex comfort etc for him and is abusing him but hes sooo happy with himmmm. like he fucking sold him into sex slavery#and we are supposed to root for him#ask to tag#sorry this is just. its a very triggering part of the books but its something that i kind of keep returning to to mull over because it is#handled really badly. like i think she was trying to go for a lo.lita vibe (iirc she did actually mention nabok.ov as an inspiration) but#didnt really care enough to examine WHY that is an interesting take on the subject matter. not even to get into pan.doras stuff bc its just#really bad but at least he waited until she was an adult i suppose. like i will give anne one thing that she has characters and (poorly han#led) writing that makes you really think and analyze. which i think is where i enjoy media that is like... this kind of sucks at points but#u can tell the authors viewpoints soo transparently. and u can examine it thru this. like i think thats why i find the gr.ell run of GA int#resting too bc u can telll that man is a libertarian and doesnt respect women. and then claims to do so. its interesting to me. anyways#did u guys know she defended bill clin.ton when the monica stuff came out and victim blamed her. just a funny coincidence.#sorry for the really long tag rant but i am sooo fed up with how she treats this topic forever and ever. bc its been this way forever.#anyways back to reading had to get that out. lmk if u need me to tag this bc its a lot of tws :)
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i see yalls asks but unfortunately i just got assigned a biiiiiig project at work at the start of this week. plus mid-year performance check is next month so obviously i really want to do well, and that means i'm probably going to do extra effort & focus on that... even tho i don't really want to lmao
anyway i'm probably going to be somewhat(?) inactive for the time being, sorry 🥲🙇🏻♀️
#a psa from rin#sigh i know everyone's tired of this and i'm tired of it too i just want to sit and draw or write all day haha#what a dream it is to just quit work and rest for like a year without it being detrimental to your cv the next time you look for work#and it's double the 'fun' for me bc to work overseas you need to have a working visa and it's... not a guarantee you can get it even if the-#-company wants you here#i love my manager and my team but sometimes we get ridiculous projects that shouldn't even come to our team (in my opinion) and it sucks#literally it should be a priority feature so product team should be the one doing this but noooooo it should go to us#bc no bandwith. even though it's a priority feature. we know how to prioritize so well#yep#sigh#ah well#sometimes it do be like that ;) ok rant over back to work i go#i hope everyone have a good rest of the week and had fun with the natlan livestream. idk when i'm gonna even watch that.
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not against the proliferation of pitch correction in the sense that i think it's somehow ""cheating"" or that i care if someone edits their vocals in any way but incredibly wary of the assumptions that seem to underlie its near ubiquitous use; that the perfectly pitched version of a song is necessarily the most beautiful version and that the most beautiful version is necessarily the artistically superior one. assumptions which i feel have terrible implications for both the quality of the art and the self-image of artists
#like. i don't care at all if someone wants to tweak their pitches. and the idea that that's somehow ungenuine or makes them somehow less#competent as an artist or as a vocalist is ridiculous#but i feel the ubiquity of pitch correction points towards an attitude towards vocals and art as a whole that i strongly disagree with#which is this idolization of a standardized and homogenized idea of beauty. and it's doubly frustrating when aimed at something#like singing where on an incredibly basic level the art form is characterized by the fact that every voice /is/ unique#completely off-topic post for this blog haha. this has just been on my mind a lot recently#bc i just. hear a lot of music that i feel is being held back by being pitch corrected. but so many critiques of pitch correction are#bullshit about artists not being ''''genuine'''' or ''''not /actually/ being able to sing'''' whatever that means#and i wanted to articulate the feeling that the issue isn't pitch correction in and of itself it's the undue value being placed on the fact#of a pitch being correct. ok sorry rant over
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it's weird how jhope is Right There and he's like the Most Talented Person but some armys just. don't see him. should be studied
#if you do see him i'm not talking about you obviously#but it does happen#like before i got into bts#my mom and sister didn't really notice jhope#he was just There#and when i said he was my bias they couldn't say anything about him except for 'he's a sunshine'#they liked him but didn't actually care#well now he's their fave haha#but i think many ''armys'' stop at that first phase#where they see him as this funny clown but they don't notice that he's actually insanely incredibly talented and cool#his rap verses are ALWAYS top tier#everything about him is just top tier#yes i'm biased but also how can you not see it when you already stan bts 😭#soooo many armys like him just because he's there but not because they like HIM#and it shows#oh they're missing out#they notice when he supports the other members#(which is often because he loves them so much :'))#but wow they have this Artist right under their noses and choose to only see his (admittedly beautiful) smile#even after jitb and all that it meant#ok rant over#chicken noodle soup thank you for making me a jhope bias and saving me from this fate amen#hobi#bts#my post#it is Very Late perhaps that's why i'm saying this lol#oh one more thing i've never watched these introduction to bts videos#but i just KNOW they are shit about hoseok and his contributions to the group#if you don't have something interesting to say about all the members maybe don't make an ot7 introductory video idk just a thought
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Tosuke (?) (Jujustu Kaisen)
My evil rein of everything-shibas returns!!!!!! Look I saw a shiba and caved and cried :( Tosuke deserves a spot here.
At first I was like "I love shibas but why is one inexplicably here???" but then the little story just crushed my heart cause its so real. Granted its of any dogs nature to be there for you when no one else is but it just reminded me so much of my Alphonse who was on my feet at the time 🥹 10/10, Tosuke has done no wrong!!!!!!!
#shiba inu#shiba#10/10#jjk#jujutsu kaisen#haha dont talk to me about it im just watching it while i get over my covid#its defintely not horrible??? but i dont...like it either?#this shouldnt be an anime rant blog but i already ran idv thru the dirt once here (rightfully) so#idk if its like translation problems but im left really confused by like the magic system almost constantly#the designs and personalities also keep tending to be a bit samey to me. . . or like just.. everyone is a gimmick?#and its. very. very. very. very expositiony.........#im fine with exposition! im not cinema sins but in jjk just makes me so tired sometimes...takes the cool out of it#i keep wondering if they had shorter time to make their seasons if id enjoy it more#but that seems like a cruel or rude thing to wish on animators#they should be allowed to make their art!!! even if that art is fight scenes that really bore me............#i guess (looks around for my safety) it could be dragonball >:) (is killed)#haha. jonk i havent even watched it in a hundred years. ok that concludes my rant
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how do people do little comic things. this shits impossible lmao
#im going to purposefully give up and come back to this tomorrow#maybe start over if im in a silly goofy mood#this stupid little thing is Kicking My Ass#ask *about my au*: hey what happened to barnabys arm#me: okay either i type out a boring answer or i give you over-complicated doodles that probably dont line up well#my visual library when it comes to like....#placement and angles and consistent line of movement (if that makes sense)#is absolute shite. like its terrible. i dont know what im doing haha#im still trying tho! still trying....#might have to thumbnail it first#its like any new art skill - start with all the steps and then later you can Skip them#im trying to skip them immediately and its getting me Nowhere#absolutely unprompted#looking longingly at the art blogs i follow that make wonderful little au comics that Visually Make Sense#someday ill be like them....#whew ok simple rant over. ill work on something else for now
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here's the thing about matthias: he isn't the honorable, reformed hero some of the fandom seems to see him as.
yes, he was raised by a tight-knit family of comrade soldiers and decides to betray them in the end. of course that took incredible strength. i don't deny that. but we also need to recognize that the drüskelle are not just some rogue cult. they are a core part of the fjerdan government, who is trying to wipe out the grisha because they are seen as dangerous. that's literally just genocide. however indoctrinated someone is, this is something that is evil from every angle, even if the character can't or won't see it.
and look, i love a good redemption arc, but matthias is such a passive actor in his. he falls in love with nina against his will. she changes his attitudes toward grisha because she's beautiful and kind so all grisha can't be bad, right? this a classic example of the trope of separating the "good ones" from the rest, where you cherry-pick specific individuals to point to as exceptions to a group's nature, which is still implied to be evil. you have to do a lot more than fall in love to truly unearth and address the roots of bigotry.
tbh, this is my biggest critique of the books as a whole. i loathe the "love conquers all" trope that pairs together a character from the oppressed group and one from the oppressors, letting the one show the other through the power of love that being bigoted is not nice. it puts all the responsibility on the former to prove their humanity, and gives all the credit to the latter's ability to be persuaded to recognize it. and then it inevitably leads to forgiveness, because the character has "earned" it by changing their views, once again making the victim seem like the villain if they don't absolve the oppressor of their past "mistakes". also, it's incredibly unrealistic for someone to fall in love with a person who actively hates them and considers them sub-human. in real life, people have to work on their bigotry before that happens, not use the relationship as a plot device for character development.
i think the idea of writing a character like matthias is neat. i think portraying someone's struggle to throw off the suffocating, hateful dogma they've been fed all their life is a story we need more of. i think personal growth of this variety should be celebrated, because otherwise people would never change. but i don't think the people, fictional or real, get to do this without facing profound consequences. it is not enough to feel sorry. it is not enough to apologize. it is definitely not enough to fall in love. and i think writing that lets people off the hook like this grossly oversimplifies power and oppression, and ends up being a feel-good way to romanticize people who cause a lot of harm.
a last note: my opinion is 100% influenced by my being bipoc. matthias is a classic aryan supremacist, even if being aryan isn't the thing he's being supremacist about. my gut reaction to that type of character is always going to be mistrust, both because people in real life have given me reason to be mistrustful and because characters like these are often written in a way that makes you sympathize with oppressors. i don't think matthias earns that trust, and i don't see why i owe him my affection as a reader.
#i know i'm usually a 'haha silly little textpost' blog (and don't get me wrong i still am) but this has been on my mind for a while#to be clear i don't think you have to hate him as a character to be a morally upstanding person#and there's nothing inherently wrong about relating to him either#but i do think we as a fandom (a very white one at that) need to acknowledge this#especially because it carries over beyond fiction#stories are powerful and the messages we take from them stick with us even after we close the book#plus even by the end he still is very bigoted#and i realize that he would have had more time to work on himself if he hadn't... y'know#but that's why i like fanon matthias a lot better#he's usually further along in his unlearning process or he actually has to experience that process in a realistically painful way#in fact i really *like* matthias fanon where he actually grapples with his hatred and comes out a better person for it when it's done well#i.e. when he isn't simply forgiven by everyone (especially nina) because he says sowwy#i am thankful to leigh bardugo for creating this universe AND i think she fumbled the matthias redemption arc#nuance!! it exists!!!#ok rant over#also absolutely NO calahan hate on this post#in this house we do not equate characters with their actors#soc#soc spinoff#matthias helvar#helnik#nina zenik#sab#six of crows#save six of crows#save shadow and bone#shadow and bone#crooked kingdom#grishaverse
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#minor health rant ok i'm sorry it's just. i've been debilitatingly ill on and off for this entire last year and it hasn't once let up#and i've had to deal with uni and grades and assignments and adjusting to living on my own for the first time#all while having an autoimmune disease that went undiagnosed for the first six months i was at uni.#and i've only just started to process how difficult this last year really was bc when i was in the thick of it#i just told myself i had to keep going. i had to get through it. and i DID i got through this entire year#and i did my exams and my labs and my assignments and i joined a sports club and a choir#and i balanced all of these things whilst i was actively iron deficient and malnourished and recovering from pneumonia#not to mention the literal Chronic Fatigue and Malnutrition Disease i didn't even know i HAD#AND YET. AND. YET. my family has turned this into a joke#i'm not even allowed to be that upset about it. they still expect great things from me bc that is who i am that is who i have ALWAYS been#and i don't know who i am anymore!! i don't know what i can do!! i spent ten months so sick i could barely function and i still DID IT.#it's no good telling me they're proud of how resilient i am!!! i don't want to have to be resilient i want to be WELL#i don't want to be told how strong i am i want the simple comfort of being allowed to REST#i don't know how many more times i have to remind them that i have an actual CHRONIC INCURABLE DISEASE before they listen to me#ANYWAY. complaining over lolol i'm sure i'll be fine!! haha#it's not like i'm ever NOT fine lmaoo#ok everyone back to scheduled posting. realness over !!#🙏🙏
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kicking my feet and giggling (<- just got apologised to)
#guys i have worth??? im actually a human being deserving of basic respect and SHOULD be apologised to if i am not given that??? holy shit#ok but like i actually was pretty mad and i just wasn't going to talk to them when the weekend ended but to think they'd actually apologise#guys i am a friend worth apologising to omg this is so nice#(<- was fuming over how i was a “friend” not even worthy of her basic decency and respect an hour ago)#LIKE IM STILL MAD#okay i actually cant vaguepost to save my life but basically this girl whos a friend i recently got close to and formed a friendgroup with#shes really fucking whiny and ive been tolerating it for so long but on friday she was extremely whiny and rude whenever i just asked a#simple question#and it's really draining and humiliating to be spoken to like poop on the sidewalk in front of other people#but anyway other than that i was really upset because during pe i wanted to show her my hip injury cuz i thought it was funny#(it wasn't diagnosed yet i just felt my joints moving weirdly)#and like that involves her putting her hand on my hip#so i asked her to do that then she started whining about how she doesn't want to touch me and that i'm weird for asking ppl to touch me#then she started telling like the 3 other ppl around us i was weird and wanted ppl to touch me#then this other cool girl overheard and looked at us funny i guess cuz then the friend said 'haha now [cool girls name] is also laughing'#i was so fucking embarrassed and humiliated i still want to tear up thinking about it#like are you actually my friend wtf i don't even need enemies w a friend like you#i wanted to cry so bad then#ugh i hate it#like you couldve just said no thanks bro what is ur problem#this just made me realise how much i hate how she talks to me sometimes#and i know i need to stop surrounding myself with negative vibes in order to feel happy#but its still so frustrating#we were doing so well the other day and google meeting everyday#then this happened and then she got mad and started ignoring me on the way home#bro idk i hate ts i should just stop making friends#rant
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there's a lot of aphoic "joke" posts that circle around from time to time and i don't trust ppl who reblog any of them bc even if they don't intend it to be aphobic the post was made as a way to make fun of us and de-legitimize our identities. like Why would u want to spread that around lol
#text#discourse#aphobia#'ace nicki minaj moodboard' and 'sephora asexual friendly makeup' are two that are so frustrating cuz u try telling someone who refuses#to even try to understand aro/ace ppl that it's aphobic and theyre like lol it's just a joke its funny bc [whatever] like. Those were expli#*explicitly made to make fun of aspec people. because they don't like us and don't want us in their community . fucking sick of it#like. use ur brain. just bc something doesnt explicitly say 'all aspec ppl should kys' or something doesnt make it not aphobic#it's the aspec version of those trumed comics with like . a trans man not binding with long hair and they go haha look at this#trender LOL so cringe !!1! And ppl who can get how thats transphobic but not how other stuff is aphobic drive me crazy like ru just trying#not to understand. OK SORRY. RANT OVER.
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My landlords are redoing their floors so my roommate and I got some birdy time!! They stayed with us for one night before being moved to someone else’s house.
The African grey would tell me goodnight, multiple times. And said see ya later, goodbye, when I left for work Monday morning. My roommate and I definitely miss having them around.
#ant rants#I also got to hold the African grey#she was on her dad’s knee then walked over to mine for a bit#then went on his hand and I put mine up to see if she’d come over#and she did!!!!!#she kept leaning towards my face so I brought her closer but there were like haha she might bite idk about that#and if she thinks I need to be bitten then that’s ok
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dunmeshi fans realise people can find fat characters (and real people too!!!) sexually attractive without it being "actually a joke" challenge
#not maintagging this yet but like. so sick of people talking about senshi as if him being drawn as sexy is meant to be A Joke#its not. hes just a person. and hes sexy!! its not a fucking gag!#the ONLY time senshis drawn as attractive as a joke or gag is the changeling arc when he turns into a bishie elf#(which also makes him uglier tbh. like half of his appeal is gone when hes a twink)#if you think senshis hotness is a haha joke or ryoko kui caving into pressure from her fans and not a conscious choice on her part?#well brother you can just explode severely#ok rant over good bye#johnposting
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#talking about violence against women with men is so exhausting#always having to reassure them no no haha not you of course or anyone we know haha just other men#like it isn't statistically likely that it's them or their friends or brothers or fathers#but mention that it might also be someone they know and like and watch how fast they do a 180#'Oh well that was a different situation' IT WAS STILL VIOLENCE#or even worse 'yeah well what am i supposed to do that's just how it is'#you know what. maybe truly everything is lost. I don't want to believe that but with how often i have now heard men be defeatist#or straight up claim it's not a problem at all idk what to do anymore.#Girls learn how to rip a man's testes off and how to break a nose I guess#and i'm not putting the usual disclaimers here bc i'm tired of it i put so many disclaimers for friends colleagues and family and in the en#it's all just so they can lean back and say 'but not me though' like ok cool wish that could be me but can't#anyway rant over and if i see a terf or Classical Radfem or political lesbian on this i block on sight this is just for me and my 5 followe
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as a young whippersnapper I was kind of glad shit books got published. like you could catch 12 year old me in the bookstore with my friends going "if twilight managed to get published I'll be published too".
lately I've been watching some read alongs and reviews of fucking tiktok sensation lightlark because I love engaging with trash media and the author sometimes crosses my fyp and like. usually it wouldn't bother me but something about this is just so discouraging?
like it's bad! it's so so bad! and it got traditionally published! the author is flexing on her tiktok that it's getting translated into like 18 languages! it has a movie deal! it's fucking horrendous!!!!
like why am I putting all this time and effort into polishing my timeline, editing, rereading everything thirty times to make sure it makes sense and everything flows nicely before I even really enter the beta stage when people can just throw up into a word document and get professionally published. girl literally help
#sorry rant over haha#just been bothering me. there's so many good writers out there who really care and put so much effort into their work#and who can't get published#and one rich lady on tiktok throws fifteen tropes into a blender and gets a book deal. ok#the absolute state of the publishing industry 🫠#rayrambles
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I wish there was a "Like" function on Tumblr because this is genuinely one of the best/cutest response I've ever received
@chemistryrabbit
#I HOPE IT WAS OK TO TAG YOU!! PLEASE TELL ME AND ILL DELETE THE POST!!!#but the message was so sweet i cant get over it#<3 /platonic#also no worries about it being an old post. you shold see the fandoms im in#theyve been dead for like 3 years and im scared to touch tiktok lol#but once again thank you so much for such a sweet message. familial f/os are so underrated#The I.nbetweeners are kind of a cultural icon over here - but i think im so close to Simon bc of his actor (Joe Thomas) whos a known -#trans ally. im sorry to rant so much but this wee comment just imspired me so much haha#like i said no worries if you need me to delete it. i 100% get it x /platonic#edit: i didnt mean to crop out for pfp that was legit a drunken mistake sorry x
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