#quite disgusting actually

[synthville]

nah star trek picard really looked me in the face and told me to take my gay ass to hell lmao. like you’re telling me after making it through a season while buckling under grief and immense trauma they choose each other, get one onscreen kiss and dassit? the most integral and stable parts (maybe. they could’ve broken up the second they left guinans bar in the s2 finale for all i know) of their entire relationship happened between seasons? off-fucking-screen?!? yeah this show ain’t fucking serious. at all. they were together (how long? no one fucking knows!) and i ain’t even get to see that? sick and twisted lmao. didn’t even try. didn’t even pretend to try. teased seven and raffi’s relationship for a season and a half only to wrap shit up in 30 seconds—what happened to privacy. why was worf even in that scene like he couldn’t take a step back? why were they trying to present it as a jokey joke too like star trek picard what’s funny? nothing exactly. they really said here damn scram lol?????

i just. an offscreen breakup that is still a mystery because ????? because nothing. it’s not like they care so why not just get it over with in episode 1? what was the goal here? a breakup which was telegraphed yet dragged out for no discernible reason. biggest waste of time since idk when. and all this fast tracking time jumping shit they keep doing with their relationship is so transparent and boring. just zero investment. why are they allergic to telling coherent stories! and also joy!

god. what even is there to say about this bullshit that hasn’t been said. what’s the takeaway here? what was gained.

[zehl0w]

Zenitsu agatsuma has got to be the biggest egg I have ever seen in my entire life

[michaelnotwheeler]

So what do you fellas on tumblr think about rarry??

aka i binged a few potter movies (with this one I had gof in mind) and it’s on my mind, also I really like this fanart I think it’s rad and it’s my best one yet I think

Also please keep in mind I obviously do not condone or support anything jk Rowling has said or continues to say about trans people, I hope that’s apparent because I am a trans person

[thirdlotusprince3]

Anger: HYDRATE OR DIE-DRATE!

Anger: *aggressively throws a water jug*

Disgust: Uh... what's up with him?

Envy: He’s trying to yell mental health and wellbeing into us.

Anger: I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU!

Joy, crying: It's working.

[mik3stuff]

Ugh I hate blond Apollo and I think the way Rick wrote him was pretty dirty. Tho I like his character, I still wish he was better writen

[zishuge]

+ bonus Lingling honest reaction:

My judgement is right after all. If her brother is like this, then Baijie must be even kinder and more compassionate than you. The Spirealm 致命游戏 (2024) | Ep. 27

[kandicon]

Okay I need to write something abt Ivy's brain overheating n starting to cook her head bc it overworks and there's no way there's enough space in her super computer brain for an efficient cooling system combined with Tim involuntarily salivating and feeling hungry when he smells burning flesh as a hold over from eating corpses during the Moon War. This is no longer a want it is a need.

[fallloverfic]

I love singNsong again reminding people in Side Story that Dokja wanted other people to read TWSA (he wrote reviews and comments! It was his first wish), and he only stopped bothering because people harassed him for it. He didn't gate-keep the story. When he's avoiding talking to Sangah about it at the beginning of ORV, it's because he knows what happens when he tells people about the story, not because he's gate-keeping it from her. He notes he's not proud of his hobby (likely because he's been bullied all through his life, including for reading the thing he loves): he finds it embarrassing to talk about, and better respects her studying Spanish in her free time (learning another language is a generally accepted thing in society). He assumes she won't care or will look at him funny (or worse) for when she learns about the novel he's into.

Basically anyone writing "let's gatekeep ORV" posts because of the anime announcement or because they dislike the manhwa or some other weirdness, y'all are the villains in the scenario.

The literal climax of the story is about sharing ORV with as many people as possible. What story were y'all reading?

[dennisboobs]

i think im preaching to the choir with this one but i am. really fucking mad. anyone who's on here and sunnytwt i am BEGGING you to stop being fucking weird. you can in fact. not do the same shit that these idiots are doing. it's ok.

[itspileofgoodthings]

School is going so great and also I am so exhausted and also I am having an existential crisis

[ongreenergrasses]

re; ask game

how do you feel about the sexualization of certain characters within the fandom, including some of the tributes or most vulnerable people (e.g, finnick, or katniss and peeta?)

so i do fully believe that anybody who wants to have one deserves a rich and fulfilling sex life, whatever that looks like for them. i have absolutely no qualms about people portraying trauma survivors and/or those who are seen as more vulnerable as having sex lives in their fanworks. i think that’s actually really good and very important to do.

however. if you specifically are sexualizing the characters, i think you’re so, so heavily missing the point. the point is that these characters have had their bodies and their sexuality weaponized and turned against them, and that is included in the story to show the severe effects that trauma and exploitation of that nature can have. a lot of them were getting trafficked (or in the case of Katniss and Peeta, only barely avoided it but were forced into another exploitative situation) while they were still children. it is meant to be disturbing. it is not meant to make you think they’re hot.

I’ve already talked about how Johanna and Finnick do act very flirty and promiscuous, but it’s because a trauma response. i think people take those character traits at face value and don’t really look at why they act like that (and it is very, very clearly spelled out in books that are YA level, so if you’ve read them and still are not getting it, that’s a little on you) and that really contributes to this. obviously the movies didn’t help. but what it really boils down to is that people are not understanding the role of the characters in the story at all, and they’re instead demonstrating how easy it is to exploit them that way. and honestly it’s really too bad because i like to think people have better comprehension than that but you know what? i’ve also literally seen someone say they would buy Finnick and i’m like yep we’re done here i got no words left to say.

AMA

[northern-passage]

i've been thinking a lot about the word "representation" and what it means and how it's changed over the last few years, particularly when it comes to the writing/publishing landscape but also in movies and tv shows… and i really don't like it anymore. to be clear, of course i think it's important to have diversity in your work, i'm not saying i hate the concept of representation. but i do really dislike the way it's used now, and i really just hate the word itself

in a broader sense it's just become a marketing tool. i'm not impressed by any publisher or author who just describes their book by listing all of the minorities/identities the characters represent as if that should be enough. it feels very gross, very exploitative and disingenuous. it also really bothers me because it's always marginalized identities- which i understand Why, but it feels very othering to me (and again. Very exploitative as an advertisement). you would never list out "cishet able-bodied white man" as a character description to pat yourself on the back over. so why do it to everyone else? why insinuate that one is the "default" and the other one is "special"? (and when i say this i'm mainly talking about advertisements/marketing. i understand why people would specify about characters in descriptions with the plot, but i don't like to see an ad that's just "this book has gay people!" with nothing else)

which then leads me to my other point, which is that a lot of people treat "representation" as if it's "too hard." like "oh i don't know enough to write about that, i don't have that experience, etc" which is a fair way to feel! however… it's weird that people only say this about writing trans characters or characters of color. i'm writing a story right now with a character who is really into motorcycles. i personally do not know that much about motorcycles, so i researched what parts are what & what different kinds of models there are & what basic bike care looks like. i guarantee Most people will have to google something at some point in their writing process. so what's the problem? it also, again, feels very othering when authors treat certain groups of people as "impossible" to write, "too hard" to understand. they are just.. people. you write them as a person. and then you figure out the rest later.

and i think part of the refusal or fear to write something outside of your experience is because of the way representation is treated as So Special. these characters are So Special that they aren't allowed to be anything other than "representation." they're Not allowed to be characters with complex emotions and interesting motivations, they have to just be Trans or Gay or Disabled or whatever. they're not allowed to be people. which means, at the end of the day, we loop right back around to where we were at the start….

there is bad representation. there are depictions of certain marginalized people that are harmful and that are damaging, i'm not trying to minimize that or argue against it at all, in fact we should all be mindful of that while writing and reading. but i also think it's possible to swing too far in the opposite direction as well and put certain groups of people on a pedestal and not allow them to do anything at all but be Perfect Representation, if that makes sense.

[oxymoronicdumbass]

if i have to sit through one more conversation in which i have to listen to someone chirp about the benefits of AI, i am going to stab someone

[wiremotherofficial]

i'm afraid i'm going to wake up like this tomorrow

[lo-fag]

kevan knew exactly what he was doing during the voice lines for the countdown ending. trust me, the sadistic pleasure of seeing someone who has wronged you suffer is a hard thing to fake.

[outlying-hyppocrate]

i hate being self-aware (i'm not, really, and i don't know why i'm saying this; or why suddenly i'm correcting myself and making an attempt at using proper punctuation; here, would you look at that, an oversaturation of semicolons; what a ciceronian sentence this has become; how so.)