#opinion rant

[aro-ace-choas]

holy hell are people unable to treat children with any amount of respect like I know it is hard for some people to believe but guess what kids are their own human beings who deserve to have their autonomy respected I am so sick of seeing people treat kids like the property of their legal guardian (the fact that the law sees it that way doesn't either) your child is not your property they are their own person who should have the right to be treated as such Like gods kids can have some very smart and well-thought ideas and people dismiss them because "Oh they are just X years old what do they know"

oh and for fuck sake stop posting kids online without consent especially if it is a public account

like is it really so hard for people to see kids are real fucking people

[k7l4d4]

Me Reviewing a Fic: QT Quarrel

Hello all! It’s me, k7l4d4, and today I plan to review a fanfic I read. Now, to summarize things, I’m basically going to list the name of the fic, the general premise, what I liked, and what I disliked. Take it how you will.

The fic, QT Quarrel, is a Loud House fic based on the idea that the numerous “QTs,” female background characters noticed for being particularly cute or physically appealing (as much as the art style allows at least), are in love with Lincoln and want to get with him, only to have been blocked repeatedly by Ronnie Anne, who thought they were creepy, and are now making their move now that RA’s moved away.

Things that I liked: One thing the fic did that I really liked was having Lynn drop her luck obsession. It’s just nonsensical how it’s portrayed in the show, and having it nearly alienate her younger brother is a good reason for dropping it.

The fic cut his butt-monkey status. Lincoln, rather infamously in at least two cases, has a habit of having things go wrong for him in the most embarrassing of ways. This fic downsized those traits without making him flawless or incapable of fault, and had him start taking exercise classes to get in better shape.

The fic keeps continuity. Like, the show had wonky continuity, and was very picky about what did or did not carry over between episodes, and while some might complain about the increasingly standard continuity of the show, I honestly prefer good continuity since it means we don’t have to endure stuff being retread as much.

The girls in love with Lincoln are in his age range. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no stranger to shipping someone with someone else who might not be compatible with them in some respect, such as age, but when you are trying to make a fic grounded in the canon material, things like keeping a character so that their only love interests are people within their age group, ESPECIALLY if they are underaged and thus shouldn’t be paired up with someone noticeably older then them anyway.

They aged up Haiku. I’m gonna be blunt, the show making it so that Haiku, just because she is in the Morticians’ Club with Lucy, is the same AGE as Lucy, always pissed me off, since it didn’t make much sense. The Club wasn’t age restricted as Lincoln was able to join easy enough, and all the members being in the same grade, and apparently the only Goths in the school period, pissed me off a lot.

That is the end of what I enjoyed. Here’s what I hated.

Firstly, the fic jumped the shark, and started up a creepy time travel subplot. Like, WHY?? The fic was supposed to be about Lincoln getting a relationship, so WHY is there anything to do with time travelers or a dystopian future included in the slightest? It makes no sense at all.

The Lubenny ship and Maggie’s intro. The canon ship between Luan and her distaff counterpart Benny always has annoyed me. Pairing up people because they basically have all the same interests is one of the shallowest things in the world, and while pairing up Luan with a girl she’s probably only met one time in canon might not be much better, it is still leagues better than a matched set. Maggie’s bemoaning Luan being straight just felt like a needless and slightly mean-spirited snub against all Luaggie shippers who read the fic. It was just obnoxious.

Lincoln’s combat prowess. Don’t get me wrong, I like the idea of Lincoln standing up for himself and becoming more self-sufficient. But he’s only been exercising and taking MMA training in the fic for a few months at most. Like HELL should he be able to beat people who’ve been doing it for far longer, especially Lynn, his freakishly strong sister who not only knows martial arts but has been seriously working out and doing sports for years. The implication that he’ll eventually become stronger and more skilled then her almost made me gag.

Pairing up Hugh with “Adora.” No, really, the fic has Adora from She-Ra in it, only she’s a retired MMA fighter and Gym Trainer. They paired her up with the hot college guy. Never mind that Adora is implied to be in her mid thirties to early forties, Hugh is a college student and a YOUNG one at that. Him having a significantly older girlfriend, no matter how attractive he apparently is, is insanely cringy.

The relations thing. The fic has a lot of random characters turn out to be related. It’s annoying as hell; people don’t NEED to be all related to each other in some capacity just because they live in a sleepy town, especially when Royal Woods is implied to be fairly big and prosperous for a town.

Warhmammer 40K. The fic has multiple MASSIVE 40K blurts in the fic, if only for a short time. It is the most obnoxious and condescending thing I have ever read. For those who don’t know, 40K is a tabletop game based on models, and the most popular faction, the Space Marines, are all male. The reason for this is because the company that makes them was unable to sell the originals (and is just plain BAD at making female models altogether), so they just dropped them and don’t make female models in the slightest aside from some Fanservice-y ones and the sole All Girl faction, and then gave some lore based reason that gatekeepers and jackasses tend to rant about whenever someone asks why there aren’t any female models. Just like in this fic. It’s a reason, and it’ll probably never get retconned unless some huge changes occur within the fanbase and the parent company, but listening to people go on these huge long-winded rants and then patronizingly point out to the all-female faction if you want to play the game using female models is one of the most annoying things in the world, and the fact that that LITERALLY HAPPENED IN EXACTLY THAT WAY in the fic has got to be one of the most moronic thing in the world.

On a much more minor note, I hate how the fic made Lori an obnoxious shipper on deck for Ronniecoln. Canonically, while she does ship them, she is nowhere near that obnoxious or obsessive about it, and the fic acting as if she was the ONLY one of her sisters to get like that when they first learned about Ronnie Anne or hasn’t tried to strongarm Lincoln into something romantic while ignoring his own thoughts on romance because “he’s a boy.” The fic plays it up to ridiculous degrees for Lori, despite her primary interest being that Lincoln finds someone he’s happy with and ultimately doesn’t care if he gets with someone other than Ronnie Anne as long as he’s happy with the person in question. I hate Ronniecoln, and see RA and Lincoln better as friends, something they are officially confirmed to be in the fic.

All in all... I officially hate this fic. I originally was interested in it, because I thought the premise was cool, but as the fic kept going on and on... it just soured to me, with the condescension, and the time travel subplot that adds NOTHING, and the flanderizing, and the little moments that make me feel as if the author just wanted to cram as many of their headcanons into one story as they could without remorse. I don’t like it. I don’t recommend it. But it was fun while it lasted.

[heres-the-marvel-tea]

Idk if this is an unpopular opinion, but there isn't some point you can reach where you've "done enough." You're not saving up your entire life so you can finally reach the part where you can "retire" from doing the right thing. We're not racking up rewards points so we can cash in at the end. You never stop having a responsibility to fight for other people and fight for what's right. And yes, you DO have a duty to the rest of humanity. That's why we have a duty to care for those in poverty, to get medical care to those who need it, to protect the oppressed. No one ever gets to stop fighting. The way our fight looks might change, but this doesn't make it any less of a responsibility. It's what makes us human.

[phantomthievesofthineheart]

So apparently people hate the fact that Kasumi's Persona is Cinderella but like... It makes sense to me?

Because, yes, Cinderella is not rebellious in the way Arsene or Captain Kidd or Zorro are. But she represents one's ability to hold steadfast to who you are even against adversity, and isn't that the very basis of rebellion?

Besides, each character's Persona symbolizes the way that character views a true rebel to be, and Kasumi very clearly doesn't agree with the more forward/aggressive methods of the Thieves. Her rebellion us more subtle, more based on persevering and waiting for the right opportunity to seize your freedom. In that way, I think Cinderella fits her amazingly well.

[xnami-chanx]

Oh my goddd ppl are so ??? Like?? What. OK so yeah fe14 kinda went super bizarre/fucking straight up weird with the whole petting thing. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't get it?? And some of the characters are over sexualized but that doesn't mean they're bad characters?? Idk for me it's all abt story so I guess I don't mind the designs. Plus most of the designs look amazingggg. I'm a little less exicted for this game bc it does look like some weird fe/harvest moon/ Pokemon/ animal crossing thing tbh. I still want to play it though. Nintendo usually pulls through when it comes to plot and gameplay. I just wish everyone would get the fuck over it.

[i-love-peter-pan-ouat]

So, my dad has agreed to let me to do a beauty pageant if it's okay with my mother. Now before you get all "BEAUTY PAGEANTS ARE EVIL AND SHOULD BE KILLED WITH FIRE" on me, let me just say I've been pretty smart about this. I decided I wanted to do beauty pageants in sixth grade, but I knew my parents wouldn't like that, so I waited a while to see if the idea stuck, and it has three years later. This is not like Toddlers & Tiaras: this is my choice. I asked my parents to let me do this, not the other way around. The reason I don't like child beauty pageants is because most of those children don't really have a say in the matter, but I'm controlling this, and I told my dad to pull me out if I ever start going over board like getting weekly spray tans and dropping a ton of weight for the sole purpose of impressing judges. So, I'm actually pretty excited about this. :)

And for those of you who believe beauty pageants are degrading, I understand what you mean, especially with child beauty pageants, but I'm just doing this for fun. I like dressing up in dresses and makeup etc. because I think it's fun, not so others see me as "pretty." I feel really sorry for girls who do this for the wrong reasons.

[meditations-of-a-madwoman]

"Life sucks and then you die" is a philosophy held by many cynics of this world. I would disagree, but that would make me a hypocrite. I'd say, Life only sucks because you want it to!- But then I'd sound like one of those annoyingly perky people would don't seem to have depth. You know, the ones that tend to give you a migraine. I generally think that it's true of course, but I've always liked to think, dangerous I know, of what I'd like to be the truth, what I want to believe, and so maybe it is. We decide what we do with our lives, we choose where to go. Anything is possible, because free will gives us the ability, and the right, to make our own decisions. 

Team Free Will all the way.

[phoskios]

Really random and out-there question time: You said you don't like when people change Lucifer's name in fanfics. That's something I kinda go back and forth on. When I finish the Destiel fic I'm writing, I plan on writing a pretty dark story featuring human!Lucifer,except I was going to change his name to Lucien. I've just always loved the name, and I think it's a good variation. What do you think? Are there any variations of Lucifer's name that you do like when they're used instead?

((ooc: I hope you don’t mind me posting this publicly as I would normally reply to something like this privately, but I feel like expressing my opinion on that subject more clearly.

I apologize if I offend anyone here- it is not my intention, it is not fact. It is my opinion and you may agree or disagree.What I mean to say is that I am very picky about what I read and the choices made by authors regarding preexisting material. In the supernatural fanbase, Lucifer is the only character that regularly is subjected to name changes by fanfiction writers. What I always find myself asking is WHY?The answer is simple. The name Lucifer holds a connotation in society. Lucifer is the devil. Lucifer is a fallen angel, the name has been disgraced, so it is a disgrace to use the name. It’s the reason why people don’t name their children Lucifer despite it’s literal translation. ��Light-bringer" is nothing less than lovely when considering bestowing a title on a person. But when the light bringer is actually the corrupter of humanity, suddenly people don’t want to use that name. This same fear seems deeply embedded in writers- particularly AU writers who give the impression that since next to no one in our society bears the name Lucifer, that a character in a story having the name Lucifer would be equally as unheard of. So surfaces the more commonly used “Luke."

Now, the way this sits in my stomach is the same way seeing any other character renamed would. Lucifer is a canon name in Supernatural, not just a biblical translation. The same way Dean and Sam’s names are canon. (this is not your Wikipedia Devil, this is THE SUPERNATURAL CHARACTER, LUCIFER.) No one says “Let’s use Dan instead of Dean because Dean has a connotation of being a womanizer, a substance abuser, and shows signs of severe self loathing and those aren’t characteristics I want my Dean to have." Who is going to be happy about reading a “Danstiel" fanfiction? Or maybe we’ll just change Sam’s name to Sal. It’s the same first two letters, and they’re both three letter names short for something else. that’s cool, right? Dan, Sal, and Luke. (I’m ready to write my au) Ok, But that’s not the only problem that I have with the changing of his name. Besides how little sense it makes when you look at it from any other character perspective, we can also discuss how it is the biggest writing cop-out and the most casually wasted use of a freely given character development point. Whether you’re writing an AU or anything else, there are SO many other options laid out for dealing with the connotations of Lucifer’s name.

You do the easiest thing, which is to pretend that the connotation does not exist in the world of your story. The characters won’t realize his name is any different from Michael, or Jo or Bobby.

You can let the characters comment on it, which is a great tool for story telling. You can very easily have a conversation that goes something like “Your name is Lucifer? Really?" “Is there a point you’re trying to make?" “Wow. Your father must not have liked you much." “I suppose he didn’t." "….." What have we learned from these four quotes? A) that this character is actually named Lucifer. B) He has a bad relationship with his father (without the author straight out saying “they have problems" and c) the air between these two is now charged with awkwardness and probably a fair amount of aggression and you don’t even need visual clues to understand that. 

You can say that Lucifer is a nickname and resort to using the canon name given to his body instead, Nick. I’ve seen quite a few authors handle this very successfully and it is my preferred choice of a socially acceptable name for Lucifer since chances are in an AU and some others, the body and being is the same character. 

Here is where I’d guess there are some people reading this and going "Fanfiction is about writing the characters however you want in your own stories! It’s about expressing your own ideas! Anyone should be able to write Lucifer however they want!" You’re right. By all means, go ahead. I’m not going to stop you. I’m not going to send hate mail or spam you with an interrogation about your choices. I’m not going to call you out by username or try to tell you that you’re wrong. Hell, you’re probably even great with metaphors and can stitch together a sentence with the precision of a heart surgeon, But I will exercise my right to scroll past your story for something that wants to be a little less affected and a little more true to SPN. "But I wrote him exactly like canon, I just changed his name!"Why? Who did that benefit?"I don’t like the name Lucifer." We’re back to the Dan and Sal thing… maybe we’ll change Gabriel to Gavin so it doesn’t feel so “holier than thou." Dan, Sal, Luke, Gavin. I’m pretty much writing an original story at this point since none of their relationships are canon either.

When it comes down to it, really, I don’t like variations of Lucifer’s name. And that’s my opinion, as a biased Lucifer roleplayer. (and I will admit, I have a lot of my own opinions on how Lucifer should be written, played, viewed and so on.) Despite all that, I encourage you to do what feels best to you- because whatever you write might be what someone else out there is looking for. If everyone spent all their time caring about what other people thought then I know that a lot of beautifully written “Lucifers" out in the great fanfiction world would not exist, and that would be painful.

The one and only point I want you to walk away from this with is:

Always have a reason for the creative choices you make, but never let that reason be “because it is not socially acceptable." I hope some of this makes sense.

[racyrenegade]

fuck you Ygritte, leave Jon Snow alone. I mean I love you a ton, BUT JON SNOW KNOWS A LOT. OKAY? JFC.

[meditations-of-a-madwoman]

Why Malifecent is Awesome

So the other day, I was watching a video on Youtube called Top Ten Disney Villains, made by Beyond the Trailer, that names Malificent as the top villain. I was looking through the comment, and I saw this:

"I have seen a couple of your reviews, and my biggest problem with your reviews is, that you go into the backstory of the characters you analyse. You don't look at the characters themselves and how they are played out. Sure maleficent is popular, but she is the most cliche villain ever, not complex, she just wants the kingdom for, reasons unknown, and she is just geniualy evil, and pretty boring."

  Now, I didn't agree with this, so I have decided to point out all the reasons they are wrong. (Oh, and they are talking in general to everyone, not me.)

  She doesn't necessarily want the kingdom, she just wants revenge for being seeeeriouslyyyyyyy scorned and spited, I mean, it doesn't seem that severe to us to not be invited to a babies christening, but it was a very important to the the people of that time, the premier social event of the season, a chance to show off and mingle. It would have made anyone who was not invited (who should have been) incredibly pissed off, which as we saw, it did. The King and Queen knew what they were doing when they decided not to invite her, and still inviting all the other fairies, and they did it anyway. The risks of not inviting her faaarrrr outweighed the risks of having an 'bad fairy' at their babies christening. Also, if she had been invited, she probably would have out shown all the other fairies, you know, upped the game. She is stubborn and patient, willing to wait years for her revenge to be completed, and boy, can she hold a grudge . So, I mean, she does have a personality, and she has reasons for what she is doing. So her anger may seem petty to us, but in the context of the approximate time this movie was set in, it was justified. And she didn't have to take it that far, but that's what villains do, they are not good people. Also, what do you mean by cliche? She is evil, but so are all the other Disney villains, and many of them in ways not as creative as she is. She puts a curse on the baby to punish to parents, and then waits 16 years to have her target cut herself on a spinning wheel (What?) and die. Also, she doesn't just kill the baby, she give her 16 years to live and make the most of it, which her parents actually are the ones who make it isolated and lonely (which Maleficent probably knew was going to happen as well), I'm not saying she's any less evil, it might make her more if you look at it a certain way, but her being 'genuinely evil' is not quite right. coughdoyourresearchcough Another thing, she transforms into a magnificent winged dragon beast! Do you see any other disney villains doing that? I don't think so!!!!

  So, Yeah, there's my rant, your welcome.

[glitteringworlds]

Oh no opinions time

I think my problem with Captain Swan shippers is not so much that they ship it, but that they take some really shitty scenes as fodder for their ship.

By all means, speculate about what might happen in the future if things get better, make AUs, or take the small, more positive bits (like Hook saving Aurora's heart). But please don't use things like him straddling her and making very disturbing, sexually agressive remarks as a sign that they could/should have any kind of healthy relationship. It is, frankly, disturbing and gross to do so, and perpetuates the shitty male entitlement that Hook often has.

So ship what you want to ship, but please, please don't use terrible scenes to try and prove that they are good together.

[herehereherehere]

that's just my opinion and it's 100% okay if you don't agree.

[beaskeleton]

Venting

So something really wound me up today. Someone on Facebook wrote something to this effect.. "why do people take drugs when they have the internets, tumblr and sweets. If you are addicted to Tumblr you shouldn't need to take drugs"

And ANYWAY.. drugs is an umbrella term. I highly doubt a crack head is going to be sitting on Tumblr when they're too blown out of their mind to do much.

**This is where I go off on a tangent by the way....

To me, it's like when someone who's never even smoked a cigarette says "don't do drugs they're bad and they'll kill you" to someone who smokes pot every day. The person DOING drugs is obviously going to disagree..they're too high to do anything but that. And they're not going to stop because it's too darn easy to get more.

Unless, like me, you wake up one day hating that fucking lifestyle and change for YOURSELF.

Please don't reblog just to disagree with me. I am only having a vent because I've not expressed my opinion on this matter for the six months I've been getting my head clean. Kthanxbye.