#or at the very least clearly genuine

[onthehighwaytomel]

So...is Taylor Swift paying more talented musicians' PR agents to advertise for her new music/tour? It pains me to see actually exceptional talents like Phoebe Bridgers and Hayley Williams and Muna touting her around on social media...like I promise you, she has enough goddamn publicity.

And it reeks of that whole "girl squad" thing from a few years back...opportunistic, artificial, exclusively with conventionally attractive white musicians (from what I've seen), and not as good as disguising those motivations as other famous people crossovers are.

I genuinely do not understand the magnitude of her appeal at all. It will be real nice when this promotion cycle is over. I prefer to filter tags and ignore her mediocre, immature, intensely self-obsessed, all-decisions-made-by-a-boardroom-of-investors music and 'personality.'

[transmascutena]

thinking about how akio sees his younger self in utena and wondering if there's any fondness there. doesn't change the horror of what he does to her obviously but i do wonder

[i3utterflyeffect]

sc might actually try to push away from Alan and start trying to hit Dark, but because they are so tiny it does nothing and then of course Alan panics and picks them up and tries to reassure them and calm them down because he's terrified they'll get hurt.

honestly Dark might actually kind of find it cute aside from the fact that this thing busted their eardrums a day ago and the fact that this child is trying to protect ALAN of all people

[moghedien]

ok fine so like preface just wanna say this isn't really a critique on Wyll specifically. his patron and whatnot at least has some contextual reasons to make sense in this game on the sorta devil side of the plot and I'm also like only barely starting act 2 of the game so I have not seen where his whole story is going. this isn't a Wyll specific thing and more just like the general way Warlocks are handled in dnd media that I've experienced

because when it comes to dnd I am absolutely a warlock apologist. Its my favorite fucking class and I will fight anyone to the death who argues that it's only good as a multiclass option because it is one the classes that has the MOST rp fodder built into it and its so versatile. if you're a minmaxer who just wants to make the biggest explosion or do the most damage yeah you're probably not gonna like it. but if you wanna be forced to fuck around with magic in creative ways (and even use weapons while being a caster) and have your backstory be important to everything about your character, then its warlock all fucking day baby.

but I find fiend warlocks just so fucking boring.

not because they have to be inherently boring but because that's for whatever reason the only kind of warlock that exists to everyone involved in making dnd related media. like I swear every time its just "someone made a deal with a devil and it turned out to be bad!" like come oooon. Doctor Faustus was written in the 1500s, we can be more creative than that.

and yes, examining the fucked up power dynamics between a warlock and their patron is great! but we know a devil is bad when we make a deal with them! there's arch fey, eldritch beings, even fucking celestials as patron options in dnd that are at the very least morally indiscernible and sometimes outright good that are like much more interesting moral and ethical storylines to go down. for instance, why a morally good celestial might turn to some freak willing to make a deal with them to get something accomplished rather than, say, a cleric.

like I love warlocks. the potential to get messy and fucked up with it is just soooo ripe no matter which direction you go. but GOD. why do we just always go down the same "deals with devils are bad!" storyline over and over again.

[thevagabondexpress]

Okay this is a little late but I wanna say something about that new KitTy Cassanda Jean art that's been going around.

It doesn't really look to me like they're in a bed together. It looks like they're in sleeping bags, on the floor, on a mat. They're on a mat on the floor together.

Which.

Considering that they are also clearly indoors.

Is making me think some interesting things.

Where are they that they're sleeping indoors on the floor? Will this be something like we had in Chain of Thorns where they're all camping out together to keep safe, possibly while under seige? Is this a trek to the mirror universe and they're holed up in the abandoned shell of [insert here] for the night? Is this a "we're going to have a sleepover because this is a normal teenager thing neither of us got to experience" moment? Are they in a part of the world where it's common to sleep on mats/not off the ground (say, Japan)? Have the gays been arrested again?

How is it that they are sleeping on the floor on a mat. That is the question that I have.

[rouge-fauna]

I think you’re talking about these posts [here & here], I don’t know if there have been others.

I'm not gonna say what I did was right, you are correct I should probably just not respond to asks getting me to talk about other people. I will say for these two posts those people had already blocked me I’m pretty sure, so it’s kinda hard to talk directly to them in that case. And I was not doing so anonymously and had not blocked them so I wasn’t hiding what I was saying. I did not follow them, I am not part of the innitor community, and not that that makes it right but I do think it is kinda different. Though you make a good point, perhaps we should stop this pattern of responding to asks about other blogs and such.

Still, the biggest thing to me I realized, back in elementary school when I first dealt with this, was that honestly all the time we talk about people behind their back. Talking about people when they aren’t always in the room is kinda just inevitable and part of socializing, however I think the important part is how you are talking about other people. It’s when you are insulting them, talking negatively about them to people they know, spreading false information and so on that it becomes not okay. Hopefully that makes sense.

In these cases I merely focused on the lore. I didn’t insult them or talk shit about them, as a person, as a blog or say their takes were stupid or they are stupid or speculate about their trauma or mental history. I just talked about reasons why I disagreed, or saw things differently and why we might see things differently. They were also not the only ones I saw to say similar things so I think in my mind I was making more of a general discussion, not trying to target them specifically. I didn’t post beyond that about them. But you are right, regardless it was probably not the right way to go about things.

But just to be clear, if I am a hypocrite it is not my intention. I haven’t vague blog anyone or meant to vague reblog anyone. I think this week is pretty much the first time I’ve ever been not naming, passive aggressively talking about blogs, and even then I’m not trying to insult them, trying to cancel them. I’m just expressing that before you go off about how I’m stupid and unable to have a discussion about it, the very least you could’ve done was give me an opportunity to try.

[lovelyrotter]

yknow i love transmasc/tboy dirk always and forever but the way some ppl treat transmascness vs transfemmeness in HS's narrative........kinda sucks. like the whole thing about how being transfeminine is a literal transient experience and lets the character in question (any character) truly escape the oppression of HS's narrative-as-a-character which is patriarchal and toxic (lord english, hussie-the-character to an extent. i guess. idk ive seen a lotta ppl lump SI-hussie in w/ this), which is great and does hold weight as an analytical lens esp with how hussie irl is nonbinary. but where does this leave transmasc characters. why are we treating (headcanoned) transfemme HS characters like this and then tbh gleefully dooming (headcanoned) transmasc characters to eternal narrative suffering brought by LE and then mocking them for being ''gross tboys'' full of ''icky testorerone'' so its their fault theyre in this perpetual torment really? because they ''''chose to be a man''''? dunno man its starting to feel bad. especially since some bnf's who are really into this fan theory do actually kinda treat the general idea of transmasculinity like somthing to hold with tongs at arms length away from them. as if its alien or infectous or something and then get really mad when equally dysphoric transmascs do the same with feminity. why are we dooming dirk strider to eternal toxic-masculine suffering and what does that say about how we treat real life transmasc folks both in and outside of the fandom

[bacchuschucklefuck]

would you like to elaborate on any gender analysis or headcanons for the bad kids?

I love th way this is worded. what if I wouldn't like to where would we be

[ask-ursa-tonypeter]

[fic: double-blind] Question for extremis!Tony: so Peter clearly prefers the version of you before/without the extremis, to the point of doing everything he can to bring that person back. How does that make you feel? Hurt, angry, jealous? Or do you just think it's Peter being silly/mistaken and it doesn't bother you at all?

There is no person to bring back. He can't see it right now; he's... confused. But when I make things up to him, he'll realize I've been the same dad he's always known the whole time.

[coolcattime]

Playing Until Dawn got the first time where I'm actually the one holding the controller because I wanna play the full game and get my personal favourite ending before the movie and the remaster/remake comes out:

On one hand despite my typical shaking hand problems, I literally got no moment whatsoever in the first Don't Move, so I think playing that weird meditation minigame from Wii Fit Plus years ago has actually given me some benefit.

On the other hand, it had been so long since I have used a PlayStation controller and am struggling so hard to remember which button is which. I am very worried for the quick time events as this game progresses.

[bookwyrminspiration]

“she had gathered up the matter of Ortus Nigenad’s soul and not been able to choke him all the way down” “there had been another girl who grew up alongside Harrow—but she had died before Harrow was born”

[anaalnathrakhs]

my parents aren't abusive in any way, but living with them is like... letting your kid cousin play with a prized collection, gritting your teeth and hoping for them to be done with it soon, knowing any second something could be broken, and anyway you'll have to put the whole thing back together right afterwards. and like the kid cousin, you gotta not necessarily keep an eye on them, but always be on call, thinking about WHAT the kid might be doing and WHERE they are, so you don't make them feel too unsuported or unheard

[famewolf]

the group also found out that Foxglove has a brother named Kieran that he can barely speak about for one reason or another. they picked up that there's some sort of magical pact keeping him from saying certain things ... and the rest of it is just because he might be a freak

[turbocao]

Yo I've started Hunter x Hunter (idk why) and I'm actually enjoying it quite a lot? (also idk why)

[cherrysnax]

was just talking to a good friend of mine abt this but growing up my parents had to constantly tell me “not everybody wants to be ur friend” and it took years for that to stick.

as an adult I think that lesson is now “not everyone is genuinely looking to grow and understand”

[roboraindrop]

Trying to talk to someone irl abt Grima bc they're familiar with him and they're just being. So rude about him. It's making me very protective >:/