#ok rant over haha

[sheepory]

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

[volfoss]

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.

[fredoesque]

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

[ihamtmus]

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

[videogameshibas]

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!!!!!!!

[five-of-cr]

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.

[saintcarrionn]

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[my-thirteenth-reason]

kicking my feet and giggling (<- just got apologised to)

[lapdogchase]

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

[daddymikeyway]

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.

[guiltycrunch]

dunmeshi fans realise people can find fat characters (and real people too!!!) sexually attractive without it being "actually a joke" challenge

[binch-i-might-be]

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

[sunflowers-and-sweetviolets]

I wish there was a "Like" function on Tumblr because this is genuinely one of the best/cutest response I've ever received

@chemistryrabbit

[apeirophobiafox]

Queer liberal "groomers": Yeah of course it's okay if you're gay, love is love and it shouldn't matter who you're attracted to

Christian conservatives who "totally aren't groomers": youneedtomarryamanwhenyou'reolderandstartafamilyorelseyourlifehasnomeaningdoyouhaveaboyfriendyetyoushouldhaveaboyfriendbynowyouneedtomarryoungwhilethere'stimeleftnoyoucan'tdancewithoneofyourfemalefriendsyouneedtogodancewithaboyyou'reaprettygirldon'tyouthinkyou'reprettywellalltheboysthinkyourprettytoogodancewiththemlookthere'sdylangodancewithdylanhe'saboysogodancewithhim. Dancewiththeoppositesexsoyoucandateandmarrytheoppositesexorelseyourlifehasnopurpose.

[skrunksthatwunk]

pulled aside by my father to watch a homophobic k&p sketch and just had to sit there like 😬 and then when i explained it was homophobic he was like "i fear for your sense of humor". christ alive

[jpasionr]

forever glaring at the person who got my brother sick with co/vid because it turns out

I’m positive for it <////3