#personal opinion

[transexualpirate]

this might be slightly controversial but i really hate how bioessentialism has dug it's claws in trans spaces. we used to prioritize individual identity but now it's like afab and amab are the new mbti. yall put it in your fucking bios

[redrosebug]

The batfam is too full of detectives to not realize that Alfred is the worst enabler of them all.

[vlada12r4322]

Just to be raw and honest here's a truth about Book Sirius and James , they were rich classist bastards the only reason they are seen as good people is because they are praised by EXTREMELY biased people who are telling an orphaned child about his parents. The book is from Harry's point of view, so as long as he is stating an opinion and not a visual fact , it is a biased opinion.

James Potter was Draco Malfoy of the marauders era , he was rich , he was perverted , he treated people lower than him like shit and yes he treated Lily like shit too. And no, the only people who said James matured up were the two most biased best friends of James Potter telling an orphan child about his father. The only difference between Draco and James is that the Potters were fighting alongside Dumbledore and raised a spoiled bastard brat . The Malfoy were fighting alongside Voldemort and raised a spoiled bastard brat.

Sirius black was canonically not a purist only because he hated his parents. He was raised in an abusive household where he was always jealous of his younger brother. There is no proof that Regulas ever did anything against him, and the only thing he ever stated was that Regulas was considered a much better son.

Sirius Black is repulsive and always took his anger out on random people hexing and torturing them.

No, there is no canon mention of a death eaters Slytherin gang that the marauders used to fight against only Sirius' very much biased words. The people Sirius does refer to are Lucius, Avery , Mulciber, and Snape mainly . Lucius is 5 years older than Snape and even though the age group of Avery and the rest are not mentioned, it is only canon that Lily mentions them as Slytherins, there is no canon gang possible given their age groups and even if there was, Snape has got to be the young boy they were grooming.

There is no mention of Snape ever attacking the marauders until after James molested him, and that is also a biased opinion about Snape fighting back to James and Sirius.

He may have been a very loyal friend to James, but literally, everyone, including Remus, was ready to believe he betrayed the Potters. Do you see the kind of reputation he had for everyone ?

Also, Sirius black tried to murder Snape using Remus as a murder weapon, and there's not a single person that ever mentions the fact that Sirius wanted the person he always tormented to be mauled by a werewolf and he chose his own friend to be the one comiting the murder.

[loudemic]

how I stay productive & motivated during university

Location stacking: intentionally planning activities around where they are in order to reduce travel time

Create a productive and clean/non-distractive environment: applies to digital and physical spaces

Second-brain (principle): reduce mental load/memory by noting down tasks, deadlines, plans, notes/ideas, etc.

Understand your productive time: morning vs night vs afternoon vs a mix – try it out

Hobbies & exercise: for balance, enjoyment, & different brain stimulation

Sleep: have a solid sleep rhythm and enough sleep

Planning study days in advance (discipline principle): reduces mental efforts & you can get started right away

Focus on the joy and gratitude for being able to study: avoid feeling guilty, pressured or stressed

Take meaningful breaks: Go for a walk, stretch, quick yoga, make a drink, stare outside, stand in the sun, etc.

Accept that your energy is not the same every day: do your best every day & be proud of showing up

❃ Videos that helped me ❃

how to *ACTUALLY* stay productive (and motivated!) | 10 tips to build healthy habits & stay focused

How I Can Easily Study 10 Hours A Day: Sustainable Productivity.

My Second Brain in Notion - Full Setup

How to Reset After Exam Season (not just an aesthetic)

[rayfishandchips]

That cowl literally aged him 30 years. It is admittedly one of the few actually practical gear choices but seriously.

This costume looks 10 times better after he let his hair down, and that mask is still reasonably practical (personal opinion)

from the comic Red Robin

[or3oartz]

hey so why are people suddenly feeling bad forJax?? Have we just forgotten the past few episodes??

"he didn't deserve it" YES HE DID!

Have whatever opinion you want, but Jax has been nothing but a TERRIBLE person and needed to be humbled SO bad. Don't get me wrong, I love him- he's my third favourite tied with gangle. But he's a terrible person. How did we go from hating him after episode 2, to now suddenly thinking he didn't deserve his treatment? 😭 mind you, he's been torturing the others for years! He had it coming.

Also the new Gangle and Ragatha hate also confuses me? Let me start with Ragatha.

From what I'm aware of, the hate is from what she said to Gangle. And I get that it wasn't nice, but as soon as she says it, she does point it out herself.

Just a reminder she's literally high out of her mind with no filter. There's no thoughts in that head, because they're all coming out. that's her thought in the moment, and people think unpleasant things all the time. We're just usually able to control what we say.

Ragatha like this also makes her feel more human- she has faults just like all of us do. She's not a completely good person all the time, but who is? People love Jax for being an asshole(me included) , so why hate on Ragatha? This also applies to the Gangle hate.

People tend to hate gangle in this episode because of how she acts, but personally I love seeing her being more than sad and pathetic all the time. She's doing a job that she has experience with. Yes, she gets a little carried away sometimes, but she's also a struggling person that's already not taken seriously by her fellow circus members.

By the end of the episode she seems like she's about to lose it if it weren't for Pomni being there to take the rest of the adventure for her (take the closing shift, which I really liked.) Hell, even then it's hard to tell if she did or didn't purposely fall into traffic. and she still took the responsibility for her actions at the end in the office with Caine.

You can disagree with me if you want, I don't really care. But I feel like people are so desperate to put characters into a black and white boxes of "good" and "bad". People aren't even like that, it's really hard to be an OBJECTIVELY good or bad person, because imo, that's subjective. one person's good is another's bad, and there's also some things that aren't good nor bad.

Sorry this post is so long, I'm just very passionate about this show and the concept of a good and bad person. But honestly, good on gooseworx because you know you're doing something right when you can evoke such strong feelings from people people. Props to her 👏

[sonicasura]

You know what we need? An M-Rated animated series on Venom specifically a unique take like Tom Hardy's iteration. There is more experimentation to go around with a version of the Lethal Protector who isn't influenced by Spiderman.

An M Rating means writers and animators have extra room to work. It is Venom after all so we could actually get some gorey body horror that the live action movies were unable to show. Plus I know a good chunk of the fandom want a deeper dive into the Symbrock relationship.

The Mature Rating opens up the potential conflicts, topics, and scenarios the cast has to deal with. Plus it would be good for the adult cartoon genre. Most animations are either comedy oriented or rely too much on swearing.

A M Rated Venom cartoon could revolutionize the genre if done right. Especially in the right hands as Tom Hardy's movies show that Spiderman doesn't have to be involved all the time. Let the Lethal Protector carve his own path without his archival.

[elfdragon12]

I think a major part of the Prowl Problem™️ is that there is a portion of fans who are less interested in the Transformers franchise and more interested in the Transformers fandom.

Some folks watch or read one Transformers stories, maybe two or three if they're ambitious, and then spend the rest of the time reading fanfiction. This isn't strictly a bad thing. I enjoy some fanfiction, write it myself, and think there are some really insightful writers out there. However, there is a lot of fanfiction that isn't particularly good and has a lot of mischaracterizations. Fanfiction writers are hobbyists and often teenagers or young adults without a whole lot of writing experience. Because of this inexperience, nuanced characters with a lot of depth get flattened to caricatures or basic tropes, some of which having little to do with the original character. I started writing stories when I was about 13. That's how it goes. The problem comes up though that a certain portion then become so caught up in fanfiction that they start taking it for canon. Prowl is often written by fans as an angry table-flipping prick, so it must be canon that Prowl is always an angry table-flipping prick.

This is something we see a lot with young Optimus Prime, Orion Pax, a lot. Even before Transformers One, fandom has commonly depicted Orion Pax as a clueless ingenue in comparison to Megatron's more worldly nature... Except that's... Not really been true. The closest to that was Orion Pax in the G1 cartoon, but, even then, the guy wasn't some little waif. He was a blue collar dock worker. Young Optimus of TFA may have believed the propaganda, but wasn't depicted as especially naive otherwise, usually he was pretty intelligent. Aligned/TFP Orion Pax, during his amnesia, suspected that his "friend" wasn't telling him the truth after a fairly short time. TF1 Orion Pax may have been headstrong and reckless, but he was intelligent and curious. He knew something was wrong while D-16 was satisfied with the status quo.

Fanfiction is not canon. It can be fun and sometimes pretty insightful. However, it's written by fans and often does not reflect canon material.

Fandom Prowl does not speak for all 40 years of Prowl within the Transformers franchise.

[childotkw]

My dad and I always talk about a re-do of The Princess Bride - all the other things people say. Fred Savage should come back and read the book to his grandkid. Certain pieces should be scene-for-scene like the original, others should be completely different. The absolute batshit energy must remain.

But we were talking this morning about another possibility that I think would enhance all of the above.

Everything remains the same, except Buttercup and Westley swap roles. Not swap genders. Swap roles. Buttercup is the 'farm girl', Westley is the asshole that pulls her pigtails. They fall in love. Buttercup goes off to find fortune on the sea, 'dies', and Westley mourns.

No other character changes anything about themselves.

Westley gets picked to marry Prince Humperdinck (it's imperative that no reason is ever given as to why), Buttercup becomes the Dread Pirate Roberts (the one before her, Ryan, was a chaos gremlin and thought she'd be an excellent, if hilarious, replacement). Buttercup comes to rescue Westley from his upcoming nuptials.

They bicker. They argue. They reunite.

No one acknowledges the fact that the Dread Pirate Roberts is apparently a young woman. No one cares that Prince Humperdinck is set to marry a man.

Just...pure, unfiltered, batshit insanity.

Just a grandfather slightly changing a story to read to his granddaughter.

[moonyswarmsweaters]

Marauders era things I will take no criticism for

Minerva McGonagall is a QUEEN

Remus is incredibly tall but has the most fucked up posture

Sirius Black had the best eyeliner game ever

Marlene McKinnon was a raging lesbian and would take offense to being called straight

If your last name is or was at some point ‘Black’ you are automatically a dramatic little shit

Mary and Regulus would share curly hair-care tips.

James’ soul is red (crimson)

Sirius’ is purple

Euphemia Potter is an amazing mother in every universe

Regulus had summer freckles

BARTY WAS SMART!!!

And I’m not sure why, but Evan LOVES oranges (the fruit)

James has a degrading kink

Pandora would sometimes lie and tell people she had fake visions to get them to fuck off or psych them out and only the skittles knew her tell for when she’s lying.

Thank you for listening to mu ted talk

[mikailakay]

Personal ranking of HP characters based on who did the most to least shitty things during their school years:

1. Tom Riddle: murders, student endangerment, using a deadly creature as a weapon, framing an innocent for his crimes, manipulation of others, encouraging delinquency, school rule breaking and creating a horcrux.

2. Sirius Black: attempted murder, frequent harrasment and bullying of a vulnerable student, intimidation, school rule-breaking, illegal animagi transformation, unauthorized surveillance of staff and students, using an illegal spell, risking his friend's future, belittling his friend.

3. James Potter: attempted sexual assault, frequent bullying and harrassment of a socially vulnerable student, hexing of other students, coercion, threatening, school rule-breaking, illegall animagi transformation, unauthorized surveillance of staff and students, using an illegal spell.

4. Draco Malfoy: multiple attempted murders, affiliation with a terrorist group, repeated use of hate speech, abuse of power, use of an unforgivable curse, school rule-breaking, bullying and intimidation of others, assisting malicious prosecution of an innocent animal.

5. Peter Pettigrew: enabling and participation in rule breaking and unethical behavior, bullying, illegal animagi transformation, unauthorized surveillance of staff and students.

6. Severus Snape: school rule-breaking, use of hate speech against his best friend, affiliation with an extremist group that hates his best friend and practices dark magic on students, invention of a dark spell, ignoring Lily's valid concerns about the company he kept.

7. Hermione Granger: kidnapping and blackmailing of Rita Skeeter, assisting identity fraud, illegal brewing of a potion, theft of ingrediences, school rule-breaking, arson, assisting a prison break, disfigurement of another student, physical assault, unlawful entry of the Ministry, emotional neglect in favor of appeasing Dumbledore.

8. Harry Potter: attempted involuntary manslaughter, physical assault, identity fraud, school rule-breaking, international law violations, aiding a fugitive's escape, theft of ingrediences, invasion of privacy, spying and stalking, unauthorized surveillance of staff and students, unlawful entry of the Ministry.

9. Remus Lupin: continuous enabling of rule breaking and unethical activities, avoidance of responsibilities and duties, unauthorized surveillance of staff and students, allowing a student be harrassed.

10. Fred & George: endangering of students through reckless behavior, unethical experimentation on underage students, school rule-breaking, unauthorized surveillance of staff and students.

11. Ron Weasley: international law violation, identity fraud, assisting illegal brewing, theft of ingrediences, school rule-breaking, emotional neglect in favor of appeasing Dumbledore, betrayal of trust, unlawful entry of the Ministry, enabling of reckless behavior.

12. Lily Evans: dismissing her friend’s struggles, classist behavior towards a vulnerable student, close association with individuals known for illegal behavior and immoral actions towards her ex friend.

The reason some individuals who committed more crimes than others are ranked lower is that I took intent and ethical justifications into consideration, as well as my personal feelings about their actions. Hopefully, I haven't missed anything important.

[missmagicalelf]

You’re all gonna be mad at me for this but I’m just gonna point it out:

Richter going with Annette and leaving Maria behind after he promised to always stand by her and her mother was a pretty crappy move on his part.

[crazycatsiren]

Love spells are baneful magic.

Love spells being used as punishments and for revenge aren't without precedents, because it's long been known that love can be used to destroy as easily and as much as it can be used to bless.

Love spells are their own curses.

[meghnaww]

I do not care what the SessRin shippers have to say about this.

Taking a strong and magnificent character like Sesshoumaru, making him go through ALL that character development, and turning him into what is essentially a groomer and pedo is on the same level as GoT's final season for me. Taking art and turning it into trash.

Imagine taking one of the most GOATed characters of all time, showing him start off as an implacable teen with a temper tantrum, slowly gain more understanding about the world around him, change his views, go through so much, and then be able to not only regenerate a whole lost limb but also a freaking sword from his own body (unlike his father's fangs that had to be forged into weapons) and truly surpass his sire, have him aid in the destruction of one of the most evil villains - only to have him fall in love with the girl he took in when she was 8 years old, and go as far as to have children with her. I have not come across a single Fanfic/fanart of that ship that hasn't made me feel absolutely sick.

I have always and will continue to treat the sequel as just another SessRin Fanfic that had the budget and backing to turn it into an anime. Never anything else. It's not a sequel, to me.

P.S: I have my own issues with the InuKag ship and hence believe Inuyasha and Kagome would have been better off as friends and SessKag could have been a real thing in a real sequel.

[scrapyardwings]

How I imagine Auston Matthews feels being the be captain of the Tkachuk brothers