#rant ////

[xxbrightshadowxx]

The reason why I give Caitvi more crap for when Caitlyn hit Vi with the rifle then when Ekko beat up Jinx on the bridge and how they tried to kill each other is because of the couple’s circumstances.

Ekko and Jinx were on opposite sides of a conflict. Jinx worked for Silco and Ekko was trying to takedown shimmer. They were enemies. Jinx was already known at that time to kill firelights, why would they not like each other? And with the situation at the bridge, Jinx killed a lot of enforcers. They were already in a situation of violence so when those two devolved into violence, it makes sense. They weren’t in a romantic relationship, they weren’t on good terms with each other the last time they interacted(the shimmer blimp), and it was of a violent circumstance that lead to them fighting. This wasn’t a portrayal of them if they were romantically involved with each other. We even actually do see this in season two ep 7

Then there is Caitvi. Before season 2 one could argue their relationship is still platonical cause they don’t actually do anything physical. While, yeah, that excuse is bull but they were in a sorta-situation-ship at the end of season 1. Nothing to get them in trouble with China. It wasn’t until season 2 ep 3 that we see their first physically romantic action. They kiss which basically establish that they like each other a lot. They were on good terms with each other and were allies. They were working together to take down Jinx. The circumstance that led to Caitlyn hitting Vi is first, Vi stops Caitlyn from shooting at Jinx when there was a moving child on top of her because shooting a weapon when there is a child nearby especially if said shooter is not in the best mindset is not a good idea. They(Sevika, Caitlyn, and Isha) escape. Caitlyn insults Vi by saying she’s just like the rest of Zaun and isn’t different(which is also very ignorant by implying that the norm is bad and evil zaunties and Vi is some exception to this norm) also saying it’s her(Jinx) blood in your veins. She walks away and Vi grabs Caitlyn and asks why are you the one acting like her. Eight seconds pass before Caitlyn hits Vi in the stomach with her gun before leaving her alone.

Caitlyn and Vi were on good terms with each before this incident. Hell, before they even attack Jinx they fucking kiss. The violence had already wound down, Sevika, Jinx, and Isha had already left, there was no need for violence. It wasn’t a life or death situation. Caitlyn had no need to hit Vi in the gut. Vi wasn’t going to attack her. And if you say, oh you don’t know that, then you do not understand Vi as a character. This wasn’t them fighting, this was assault(since Vi didn’t hit her back). To add the sicken cherry on top of all of this, the show never once acknowledges this. They brush it under the rug and ignore it. Caitlyn never apologizes for hitting Vi or leaving her. They just move straight to sex.

You see why this leaves a bad impression?

[nostalgicfun]

So, I got a new job recently, and it is INSTANTLY miserable. Not at all what it was advertised as.

Worse, the days are ten hours long and my office is (literally, not being hyperbolic) a windowless supply closet. I'm legitimately sitting with the holiday decorations and wholesale bags of Cheetos as I write this.

Of course, I've been miserable since starting, and rightfully so. I bawled the first day when I realized how bad it's going to be and the regret of leaving the department and classroom I loved settled in.

As I was talking to my partner, I was telling him how I took this job because my position was supposed to be eliminated, and this job would pay really well while getting to stay on campus, even if I'd be a little busier. But the thing is, I've never been the sort to care about money, so a big fancy job...it's nice, but ultimately not necessary for my happiness/actualization at all. As long as my bills are paid, I genuinely don't care about anything outside of that, and I feel like I lost out on something wonderful--my free time, work friends, and eBay--because I made too quick of a decision.

I was talking about how I'm going to have to close my eBay because I can no longer get to the post office, and through the tears I laughed and said, "Maybe I can go back in time and convince myself to become a puppet-maker like I always wanted to be, and in that timeline I can keep being NostalgicFun."

Today, as I was loading my car, I looked down through my puffy, swollen eyes and saw something sitting on the floorboard of my backseat. I reached back and picked it up, and, what, of all things, should I discover...

A vintage puppet pattern. I have no memory of buying this. I mean, obviously I had to have purchased it at some point? But where? And why don't I remember it? And how have I used my car every day for the last *gestures vaguely* years and now it's just randomly in my back seat?

I guess it's a sign things will be okay. I guess, maybe, in a campus supply closet, hidden beneath the party-packs of Doritos and cases of water, there will be, now, a little blue box, and in that little blue box there will be googly eyes, and pieces of felt, and spools of thread, and a sewing needle. And a little bit of fun.

[morallysuperiorlips]

PLEASE Write Your Book!

I'm serious. Please write it. If you need a sign to start, continue, or whatever is inbetween, this is it. Go do it.

I spent the past couple weeks indulging myself in some BookTok recommendations. While some were indeed good (Kings of Sin, my beloved), some were just...I don't need to finish my sentence there.

I DNF'd some books for the first time since I read Lord of the Flies (sorry Golding, you put me to sleep with your descriptions) and I powered through others in hopes that they would eventually get better. The general consensus I ended up getting was that I could not understand for the fucking life of me how these books got published. The writing in some of them was no better than that of a 2010s teen writing Maximum Ride fic on Wattpad for the first time, with the characterization abysmal enough to match.

I don't want to knock any specific author or book here, because I will concede one thing: they finished their books. They got them published. They're successful. For that, I commend them, because I'm still on my way there myself and I can't take that away from them. Jolly good show.

But that brings me to my point: if they can do it, YOU absolutely can do it too.

If some of these Amazon and NYT bestsellers can have prose on a Wattpad level with characters that have enough poorly-written cognitive dissonance to make Deadpool or Walter White jealous, your fleshed out, deeply intuitive, and remarkably creative epic can sit right alongside them no problem. Whether you're writing the next GoT or a romantic slice-of-life, there is a not a goddamn thing on this planet stopping you from rolling up with the big dogs.

If these guys can do it, so can you.

So, stop telling yourself you can't. Stop letting other people tell you you can't. Stop comparing yourself to these authors who, respectfully and bluntly, can't write for shit (or at least need to fire their fucking editors, good lord).

WRITE YOUR DAMN BOOK. PLEASE. WE NEED IT.

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[super-hero-confessions]

[happybirthdaydarling]

actually insane that the Blake Lively case is really just becoming “how mean does a woman have to be before it becomes socially acceptable to sexually harass and assault her” and not shockingly she only has to be slightly bossy before everyone decides she deserved it

[lateiii]

Most of the time I love elder women, and come along well with them, but as an autistic adult I absolutely loathe the "condescending touch".

It's when you've misinterpreted a social cue, or misunderstood something, and they put their hand on your shoulder, and start to talk like you're five. Followed by something like "Oh, you!"

I mean! Just because I don’t get everything, doesn't mean I'm dumb, OR that you could touch me. Or that you could talk to me like that.

This happened to me a lot as a child, and I hated it back then as well. Because I was a relatively "mature" child, it felt humiliating. Just because I didn’t get one aspect of a situation, the whole thing was being explained to me like I lacked all capasity to reason, and think for myself - AND it came with that fucking shoulder grab / hand on the back.

So yeah. I hate it now even more, but only one (1) person over 40 (who isn’t part of my family) has taken it seriously, when I say that that shit sucks. :^V

You should be able to say “don’t touch me” to anyone ever in any context and not have it be considered in the realm of surprising or insulting imho if we ever needed to normalize something it’s this

[starlingflight]

Stop asking telling fic writers to update.

Last night, just before I went to sleep @merlinsbudgiesmugglers forwarded me a post from Rebecca Yarros’ instagram, in which she talks about the anxiety she’s been feeling when opening a doc to write.

This was my response:

This morning, I woke up to this:

I don’t want to call out the specific commenter because this is just the latest in a long string of comments and messages I’ve had with a common theme of pressuring me for an update, most of which are in regards to a fic that literally has this in the author’s notes:

Now, even without that A/N I still don’t think nagging people to update FREE writing for you is cool but I put that note there for a reason.

I know that I’m not updating to anyone’s ideal schedule right now, including mine.

Believe me, there is nothing I would like more than to open a doc and escape into my writing rather than having a really unpleasant mental and physical response every time I try, but pressure, from myself and others, is really not helpful in this situation.

I’m not posting this for sympathy or well wishes.

I’m posting this because I know if I just said ‘stop pestering for updates’ some people would immediately think ‘oh well, it’s only people telling you how much they like your writing/They’re showing their appreciation/It’s a nice thing.’

And to that I say no. Just no.

You can tell someone how much you like/appreciate their writing by telling them exactly that.

You can appreciate what someone has already given without demanding more.

You have no idea why someone has stopped updating. Maybe they’re dealing with trauma, maybe something wonderful has happened and they don’t have time for writing right now, or maybe they just want a break to relax or pursue other things. All of these are valid reasons and fic writers don’t owe you an explanation.

Maybe, comments like this, far from encouraging an update, make me want to delete every fic I’ve ever posted and never write publicly again.

[bixels]

As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

[yrrtyrrtwhenihrrthrrt]

In light of Brian Thompson being shot dead on my birthday (🎉🥳🎂) I'd like to share a personal story about UnitedHealthcare.

During the peak of COVID, my family all got sick. I couldn't be on my parents' insurance because they were both older and on Medicare. So, I had insurance through my University: UnitedHealthcare.

For some reason, rather than roll-over each year, I got a new plan each year that ended after May and didn't start until August, so I was uninsured for the summer months, but it was a weird situation that the university denied, and told us we were supposed to be insured year-round, it was messy.

Both of my parents went to the hospital, and I got sick too. I had to take care of my pets, and myself, and try to stay alive and keep my pets alive when I was so weak I could hardly move. When my parents came home, my condition got dramatically worse (I think my body knew it couldn't give out, because there was nobody to take care of me, so once my parents were okay, it completely crashed and failed.)

I started experiencing emergency symptoms. It was a bit hard to breathe, my chest hurt, and I was extremely delirious. I wanted to call my insurance to see if I was covered (this was during the summer) and I was connected to some nice person, probably making minimum wage, who told me with caution in her voice that my plan was expired. I had no active insurance, but she urged me to go to an emergency room. I remember saying something to the effect of "You just told me I don't have insurance, I can't go to the hospital, I can't afford it."

She sounded so genuinely worried and scared. I remember she said "You really don't sound good, you sound really sick, please call 9-1-1" and I think I just said "I can't afford it without insurance, don't worry, I think I'll be okay."

And she paused and said "I don't want to hang up the phone with you like this." And it sounded like she was holding back tears. And I don't remember what I said, I think that I would be okay, and I hung up.

I still think about her. I wonder if that phone call haunted her, or if she had dozens of calls like that a day. I wonder if she thinks about it at all, if she wonders if I died after she told me I didn't have insurance and therefore couldn't go to the hospital without incurring a tremendous financial burden. I wonder if she feels guilt or blame-- of course she shouldn't, it wouldn't have been her fault if anything had happened to me. Maybe it's self-centered to wonder if she thinks about it. I'm not the main character and it was just her job. But, still.

I think about how evil it was that we were put in that situation. Because offering year-long continuous coverage through the university plan would maybe cut into profits, maybe not benefit shareholders enough, maybe cut into Thompson's $10 million salary. While his minimum wage administrators have to feel afraid to hang up the phone, because on the other line someone might be dying, and they wouldn't know. While his patients hang up and decide to take their chances rather than put their family through that trauma.

This is UnitedHealthcare. This is Brian Thompson's legacy. This is why, understandably, an entire nation is jubilant that he was gunned down like the vermin he was. I don't care about his widow. I feel pity for his children, despite the fact that they will inherit millions, but I feel more pity for the children of his victims patients who are gone because they didn't want THEIR children to inherit crippling debt. Brian Thompson got what he fucking deserved. I pray that he not be the only one. I pray for continued safety, peace , and anonymity for his killer.

American healthcare is a disease.

[ericson-derekson]

Warning: literally just a long train of thought rant

[Ooc: hate that it feels like I'm protraying him as small baby doesn't even know ABC's BUT I HC HIM HAVING SEVERE SOCIAL ANXIETY AND BEING THE KINDA GUY THAT TRIES TO SEE THE GOOD IN EVERYONE AND DOESN'T WANT ANYONE TO GET HURT LIKE "YOU CAN'T FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE OR EVERYONE WILL GET BURNED" BUT ON TOP OF THAT LIKE NO HE ISN'T A VIRGIN YES HE'S HAD A HANGOVER BUT HE DOESN'T CUSS BECAUSE HIS DAD WOULD RIDICULE HIM FOR IT BECAUSE "FOUL LANGUAGE IS UNPOLITE AND DIRTY AND NOT ONE WILL WANT YOU IF" LIKE IT'S A SURVIVAL THING MUSCLE MEMORY IF YOU WILL HE DOESN'T LIKE VIOLENCE OR WHEPONS BECAUSE OF HIS CHILDHOOD AND BEING ABUSED HE DOESN'T LIKE WHEN PEOPLE YELL AGAIN BECAUSE OF HIS CHILDHOOD NOT BECAUSE HE IS A CHILD AND HE WILL ALWAYS TRY TO HELP BECAUSE HE SPENT HIS ENTIRE LIFE BEING TOLD AND THINKING HE'S USELESS- thank you for coming to my TedTalk.

sucks so bad when a character you love is heavily infantilized. that is a grown man he knows what a cigarette is. intimately

[everythingwasnormalhere]

Ok so, I just remembered how people in the comments of a tiktok video were being assholes, and I want to rant now :3

The video showed two wheelchair users at a train(?), who had just arrived to their stop to find nobody was there with a ramp so they could leave the train. One of them blocked the door so it wouldn't close, and this lasted for 15 minutes. The train was stopped for said 15 minutes. There was a button by the door, that said that it'd contact the driver when pressed. It didn't. People offered to go find the driver, and they came back with the news that there were no people in the platform to put the ramp. In the end, passengers had to go out, and place the ramp themselves, before the train could carry on. The wheelchair users had warned they were coming, and asked to have the ramp put there so they could get down. The platform turned out to have workers, they all just ran away because they'd never encountered the situation in which they needed to do this simple task.

Because of the workers' negligence, the train was forced to stop for 15 minutes.

Everyone's comments?

"Why did they block the doors and stop the train? So selfish" Selfish were workers who refused to do their job.

"What if someone had needed to get to their stop urgently? They shouldn't have stopped the train" It wasn't the disabled people's fault, it was the workers who were negligent.

"Why didn't they just wheel themselves down those steps?" They shouldn't have to risk their (expensive) chairs just because people didn't do what they were paid to do.

"If I had been in that train I would've been pissed, how dare you stop it" And you probably wouldn't have even thought about fixing the problem yourself, would you?

"Entitled assholes" Ok I'll leave you stranded in a train with everyone who could help you get down outright refusing to. Let's see who's an entitled asshole now.

If someone fights for accessibility, as much as it might be a bother for you, you do not have the right to be mad at them. If someone fights for accessibility, it is exclusively the fault of a world catered exclusively for able-bodied people.

So next time you think, "hey the consequences of these disabled people fighting for their rights bother me", instead of blaming them for this, help them solve the issue. This way, next time they will not have to fight at all.

Able bodied people, go out and fight for a fucking accessible world if you're not an asshole.

[ Able-bodied people are encouraged to reblog this post, but try not to derail ]

[grungekitty-77]

Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.

It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.

Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.

Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.

Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)

Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!

You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!

If you want it in a simple phrase:

You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.

[mr-craig-gone-outside]

Was scrolling through my tumbler when I saw this shit, The amount of careless psychopaths on this app is absolutely disgusting and I can't wait to get my feed to some semblance of normal.

so you'll condone cannibalism?

sure why not

[bendgineer]

I think one of the reasons the Harris / Walz ticket has so much momentum is because the campaign is genuinely trying to put out this vibe of fun. Like that's all the "brat" thing is, the coconut jokes, just being kind of silly and fun.

And I think it's working, because let's be real, we are all exhausted. It's been all about preserving democracy, defeating fascism, the past eight years. The message has been "vote for us because the country is literally on the line". The vibes are not good when we are stuck back at that fight, and not even discussing trying to make progress on things like housing, healthcare, education, etc. And the fight to just stop fascism? All still true. Project 2025 is real and is extremely scary. We can't let that man back into office.

But the vibe was "vote for us otherwise we're all fucked :(" and now has shifted to "get in, we're making popcorn and then bullying fascists." Like a lot of the issues conservatives bring up, the Harris / Walz is just not engaging them in good faith, as they shouldn't. Republicans bring up abortion, and some of the Dems are just like, "you want 14 year old to give birth? Weirdo" and just leave it at that. Like YES, that's what you should do. Because it SHOULDNT be a debate. And it's working. This is how you defeat the identity politics thing Republicans have been trying to push for a while. Just mocking them for the stupidity of it all. "Like seriously? You think a book can make someone gay??? Hahaha." None of the Republicans are reacting well. They can't stand it. Vance even complained about bullying!!! Like do you KNOW who picked you as vp??? It's actually laughable, because they have no room to stand on when it comes to bullying.

And a huge part of the mocking and dismissing of Republicans is that the message is clear - we are done debating all this stupid stuff. We've won the last two elections' popular vote - most Americans do NOT want christo-facism. It's time to move on. And that's what gives me hope, and the feeling of hope I think a lot of people have picked up on. It's time to address all the issues we've all wished we've been addressing the past decade. It's important we move onto that, and that's the message I'm getting from this campaign (We're not going back). I think it will resonate with a lot of people, because plainly, we're all just sick of this same old news cycle and fake rage bait over things like "should women have rights?", "Should gay people be allowed to exist?" The general populace have answered YES to both these multiple times, and it is time to move on. Maybe I'm being naive, but I am genuinely excited at the idea of putting to bed these debates (it's exhausting trying to fend someone's very existence ) and moving on to actual economic and social policies that could fix a lot of deterioration over the last 2 decades.

[miitopia-cake]

me looking for ace/aro characters: lets go gambling!

[character's sex repulsion is used for jokes] aw dang it

[character is put in sexual situations despite disliking it] aw dang it

[character's identity is ignored by fandom] aw dang it

[characters creators sexualize them] aw dang it

[aro character gets 'fixed' by true love] aw dang it

[aro/ace character is literally an animal] aw dang it

[creator messes up definition of asexuality] aw dang it

[characters asexuality is never brought up in media] aw dang it