#passive rant

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

Maedhros built up a high pain resistance from Angband; particularly to the burning sensation. Considering how low he thinks of himself, it’s likely he expected the Silmaril to burn him. He didn’t think he was redemptive, he thought I can take it.

Part of why Maedhros acts so viciously is because that’s how life treated him. I can take it if my brothers die. I can take it if I’m damned for eternity. I can take it if everybody thinks I’m a monster.

He’s proud, and he’s suffering. He won’t back down, he will succeed or be martyred.

[bossthebicon]

no but more seriously, although we are all (rightfully) hyped for burnout syndrome, I have to say comments like "omg finally offgun are doing something else than lame plots" MUST be pushed against. first of all, cooking crush & the trainee were NOT lame plots! cooking crush is legit the funniest & most wholesome romcom ever, and the trainee had good life lessons & offgun were adorable in it. I get it that more mature shows get more popular, especially one by the director of offgun's most beloved & popular show, and there's also the fact that offgun fans tend to skew slightly older since they've been in the industry for so long. HOWEVER, I NEVER see other ships have their other works discredited like that. lame plots? half of pondphuwin's shows are basic af & no one complains. no one complained about the basic ass geminifourth kieta hatsukoi remake. I'm not seeing people complain about firstkhao's cat for cash after a streak of more mature shows... and btw these are all shows I like/am gonna watch lol so I'm just using these as an example, no hate to these ships. what I mean to say is that these kinds of comments seem unique to offgun bc they come from their fans directly, and I need it to stop. if every offgun show since not me had been more mature, y'all be bored by the time burnout syndrome would've come out. offgun have proved time and time AGAIN that they can play in anything, and their filmography displays their ability to merge into any character & genre. so watch your mouth bc I'll forever be a cooking crush & the trainee defender <3

[penumbralwoods]

lays down and stares at the ceiling. really wish it was as easy for me to ignore casual exorsexism as it seems to be for so many of you

[yourhighness6]

Can I Talk About How Much I Love Willow Park for a Moment?

I've talked before about how Hunter and Luz are my favorite characters in toh but she's probably my third favorite and sometimes I literally want to worship the ground her little animated boots walk on. For one, she's Asian-coded and plus-sized, which is rare enough (the only other example I can think of is Glimmer from She-ra, who I also love), but she's actually well-written and complex in the way a lot of diverse characters aren't. She's canonically pansexual, which is a community that gets so little representation its heartbreaking. On top of that, she's in a healthy relationship with someone of the opposite gender, which isn't often seen with bi and pan characters. She's an extremely powerful witch but she struggles with self-esteem issues. She's allowed to be stressed and exceed her limits and break down and have emotions. She's strong and independent without putting other people down. She's kind and compassionate without being a pushover. She's reliable and tough but has limits. She's cute and girly but also a little gremlin. She has an absolutely wonderful character arc and helps save the world. I love her so much I can't even express it.

[nemo-of-house-hamartia]

If there is something that I ABSOLUTELY cannot stand is passive aggressivness.

You want to say something?

Then be straight and direct, so that the person can just answer right back to your face.

I hate it.

It's cowardice to its finest.

It's a vile behaviour.

If one has the balls to say what they want to say, they need to be ready to actually say it to the person's face, simple and clear, and the be ready for the person to answer.

And this is not restricted to just passive aggressive talk. It's also passive aggressive behaviours in general.

It's honestly one of the few things that makes my blood boil, especially when I see adults behaving like this.

[boxofwaspss]

angst time :D

[0w0rlordsyaptopia]

To the people saying "Oh why are people freaking out abt Castorice's passive it's not that big of a deal yasss slay girl make the meta slaves weep" on Twitter

I don't want to see ANY OF YOU cry later when a future character gives crit rate and crit damage buffs as a global passive. If you support this passive going online, that's what you are setting the scene for.

This isn't some stupid Castorice hate, no one gives a flying fuck about hating the character. The devs have been ruining the game with powercreep for a long time already. If they add global passives it means some accounts will be more superior than others. This isn't some "oh I got this op character". It will be so that some people will essentially purchase buffs for their account now.

And no you can't wait and see if she gets nerfed. Changing released gacha character kits is illegal in China because it's practically scamming.

Not only that, this might fuck all gacha gaming as we know it. A lot of gacha games use Hoyoverse as an example and copy them because they are the most popular company in the field.

[loveanime321]

I hate it when people are like

Oh dream is a bland character

Have they ever considered that they do not know anything about the character then the form they chose to use to prop other characters up ?

Dream is a genocide survivor with ptsd

He overworks himself and is naive , not stupid

He cannot fully trust anyone and isolated himself due to the fear that people only love hime for his aura

The guardian of positivity cannot be positive most of the time to keep the fragile balance

He supports the balance canonically

Nightmare died when he was six

Corrupted is an amalgation of the man who killed their mother with a few of nightmares memories

All he wants to do is spread negativity and does not care about the balance

Dream killing corrupted will restore the balance

There are so many people in dreamtale's story that are ignored-

Nim

Neil

Lanny

Quatzcoatl

Reaper sans ( Yes that reaper is a part of the story)

Killer sans

Please , Dust and Horror joining the ' bad guys squad while is a lovely fanon idea it will not work canonically

Dust only cares about his timeline

Horror is a neutral character, not an evil one

90 % of the times their stories are treated like shit and their traits are ignored to prop just corrupted as a character

All of dust's intelligence is ignored in favor of showing him as just crazy

Horror , a genius of a skeleton is depicted as someone who can barely function outside of cooking and playing the big burly caretaker

Hell, even killer is shown just as a comedic killer , fanfics rarely mention his and character relationship amd stage 2 and 3

Love your characters , but love all of them .

Don't ruin one to prop others

If you wanna prop them, make original characters

I know people can easily make amazing i es

You want to make corrupted look good , have him save someone from bullying, it will be accurate.

[staronet]

Watching Andrew Garfield play a Mormon is so wild to me. Him quoting D&C 42:22 I screamed.

[stellarremnantsau]

It's not strange that I message some of my followers, right? I just think you all are cool, and I want to chat. My stuff is not big enough for me to be like "I'm the creator of this stuff, you can talk to me but I am not your friend." WRONG I am your friend! We can be friends! I want to be friends! Who's your favorite Undertale character? Do you like art??? Look at this meme I made! Did you know I have 40+ Undertale character song parodies in my google docs?? Here's a random song I used to inspire half of this character's personality! You want me to draw you?- give me 3 hours. Did you know I have game ideas I want to make? I have two cats, two dogs and two bearded dragon lizards, do you have any pets????- Hey- why are you walking away???

[sunsetovertheocean]

Someone should invent parents that don’t fight 24/7 because I’m sick of having to constantly live on a minefield

[rigelmejo]

Something that always annoys me is the idea only 1 language learning method works. Which is not true. While it may be possible that, for a particular individual, only a few out of many study methods may work well enough for That Individual to make progress and stay motivated... that doesn't mean all the other study methods won't work for anyone else out there, or that those few methods will work for every other given person.

Obviously if you've been studying a while, then you already figured out what kinds of things work for you and don't. If you're a beginner, just wading into studying?

I would suggest you simply look for study methods that: 1. Teach you new things regularly, 2. Review and practice things you've learned, 3. Include studying things you need for your particular goals (for example if your goal is to read X book then the study materials at some point should involve reading practice and some words the book contains, if your goal is to talk about Y then the study materials should include some information about pronunciation and words you'll need to be able to say).

As you can imagine, a TON of study materials will meet these requirements. And you can study a given skill in a LOT of ways.

(Reading is my focus lol so just for reading, a beginner might: do vocabulary study with lists or conversations with native speakers or watching shows and looking words up or listening to dialogues with a transcript like in a textbook or graded readers or a picture book with word labels in the target language or a video game with labelled objects in target language, all of those things as long as your vocabulary is improving or reading practice is happening would help you make progress). So to improve reading skill as a beginner: you could study with a textbook, a podcast with transcript, a classroom or tutor with words written down in target language (like TPRS), a video game, a TV show and a translate app on your phone, a friend you talk with (who either writes words down or you look up words you hear with a translate app), a friend you text with, srs flashcards like anki (provided there's text) etc. As long as there's new words, and/or you're practicing reading, the study method may work. If it works will come down to if you can stay motivated doing it regularly, and make sure you regularly learn some new things and review/practice things you've already studied.

So consider those things when you see people selling a study method as a product (especially when it's costing you money). Consider if it teaches you NEW things, and are those new things related to your goals, and how MUCH new stuff will it teach you before you finish it? Consider if it provides review or practice, or if you can use it's materials to review on your own making up your own method, or if you'll need to do separate review/practice.

So examples:

LingQ. Can it teach you many new words? Yes, thousands, since you can import any texts you want when you get done with their provided material (I have no idea how much their beginner material covers though in terms of words... I would hope 1000-3000 words but that can be researched). Is your goal reading? It's suited to reading, so you will practice and review often with it. Cost? I think it was $12 a month when I last had it, and the price may have increased. Is it worth it? Depends on a learner's needs. I found it was wasting my money, so I chose to use free tools like Pleco and Readibu apps - since those apps are suited for Chinese learners and have better translations, Pleco has better paid graded reader material if I was going to spend money, and both Pleco and Readibu let me import texts so I can learn thousands of new words just like LingQ but free. Now that I'm not a beginner, I often use Microsoft Edge to read chinese... since I can still click-translate words easily (all my web browsers have that tool free), and Edge's TTS voice is helpful for pronunciation and sounds quite good. I read webnovels online so Edge works well. But it's translations aren't as good as Pleco or Readibu, so if I still needed translations more I would use them. So... is LingQ a good study method? Its certainly a study method marketed to buy. Well... the method is suited to improving reading skill, at least. It costs money, which is a negative, but it does offer a lot. However: everything it does regarding reading can be done free with other apps or sites or web browsers on their own. So if paying money motivates you to read... sure. LingQ does have a few word tracking features a learner may find worth the money, keeping in mind the actual read-to-learn method can be done free without lingq. (Also... while LingQ is a valid option for improving reading, if the learners goal is speaking then it would be important to think of what study activities the learner will do OUTSIDE of LingQ to improve speaking... because I've seen how LingQ is marketed as "how to learn a language" but it's only focused on some skills. It has vocabulary and grammar in some sense, since you'll read a lot and encounter new words and structures. But it doesnt have speaking or writing practice at least last time I was on it. Those activities would need to be worked on, on your own).

You can do that kind of cost/benefit contemplating with any study method material you see being sold. Amother example: there's a beginner Mandarin course called Mandarin Blueprint. It teaches like 800 words. Thats all. It may be worthwhile for a beginner... who still needs to learn 800 common words. But if you already know a few hundred words, the benefit of the course is less, you'll need to find a new material to teach you more new stuff soon. And the price was like a few hundred for the course... which for me personally was too much to spend, when I had already learned 800 hanzi from a book that cost me 12 dollars and 2000 words from a free user made memrise deck. The course claimed to get a person speaking, competent, but anyone not a beginner would say speaking basically with 800 words is nowhere near the level of working in Chinese or just doing a lot of daily life stuff, or reading/listening to media. (Although for the motivated beginner if you're learning 800 words on your own like I was, its definitely close to the point of jumping to learn more words and start reading kids and teenager books, and watching easier shows if you're willing to look new words up). So to me... Mandarin Blueprint felt like overselling some basic beginner materials. (Again when I know several other things that teach beginner stuff either more in depth so HSK test prep classes, and college courses, or that teach beginner stuff to the same depth as Mandarin Blueprint but free).

Some study materials aren't going to act like they teach everything. I've seen chinese courses just for learning to speak tones better and general pronunciation - probably worthwhile if your goal is to improve speaking and a teacher could help improve the issues your having. But a learner needs to be aware for that course that they'll need to study vocabulary on their own, its JUST a pronunciation improvement course.

[circusk]

the number one worst thing in the world is when you have an unpopular fave and keep a lot of your thoughts and headcanons and theories to yourself cause like. who cares but you yk? and then like. a month later suddenly the character has a decent amount of fans and you have to see other people either get the character extremely wrong OR some people are right on the money but everything is stuff you already thought of but only shared to a couple people or not at all and now you just have to sit in silence so you don't look like the worlds most evil toxic hater ever put in a fandom. no one gets it ohmygodddd no one gets itt

[gikijet]

Mhmgmmm lesbian shajdjet,,,,,

[mvost]

sometimes I think that I somehow bait ppl into following me whenever I draw fanart for my not-main fandoms one or two times and never again (or once every three months), but then I remember that I'm happy and my little interests make me happy and suddenly people's poor investments in their free time don't matter that much🫶

[buubonita]

I like Killermare but their relationship is hard to establish as romantic. They have a weird relationship that ends in violence. They have a very strong dependency, I would say. There is no love. And if there was, I think it wouldn't change things too much because Nightmare's love can be destructive (remember that post I made about flowers and Nightmare?)

Well, all of Killer's relationships are hard to categorize because he is someone who doesn't feel and I really like his ambiguity towards things haha.

I like to think that the best scenario of this kind of relationship ends with Nightmare abandoning Killer and they never see each other again after that. A last and only, perhaps, demonstration of mercy!

I know how horrible the canon is, but my interpretation deviates a bit from that because I can and like to dig deeper. Although I also know that there are guys who don't like them together and I don't blame them for that. You are all valid!