#rant tiiiime

[twotales]

There's something to be said about having a therapist in your age bracket. Not dissing on having older therapists or younger. But the fact we can rant together about things I rarely can with older generations, and she just gets it, is so good for me.

[navramanan]

The date of today jumpscare rn

[puddingcatbeans]

timkon; being sick sucks less when you can bug your best bud.

A knock on the door interrupts Tim's rapid typing. He glances up from his laptop to see one red-nosed, bleary-eyed Superboy, wrapped up in his comforter with only his face peeking out. He must be using his TTK to hold it all closed like that.

"Hi Kon," Tim says. "How are you feeling?"

Sniffling, Kon shuffles into the room. "Less like Bart's attempt at scrambled eggs."

"That's good then, that means you're pretty much out of the woods."

"Hnnnnrgh." The bed dips as Kon climbs onto it, waddling forwards on his knees, hands still refusing to leave the comforter. It has little spaceships on it. "Being sick is the worst. How do you do it, Rob?"

Tim rolls his eyes. "Sorry for my weak human immune system."

He doesn't tease the other boy further though. Being half Super, Kon rarely gets sick, but when he does, it hits him like a truck. Well, maybe forty trucks. With a few carrying Kryptonite. Anyway, he's spent the entire week either passed out or coughing miserably in the Tower, and the entire team is ready for their Superboy to be back in tip top shape. Big head and showing off and all.

"What are you working on?" Kon asks. He's managed to worm his way next to Tim, and he flops against Tim's side. Warmth emanates from him, even through the comforter.

"A report for WE. Putting out fires before they can start."

"Hm. Sounds boring. Tell me about it."

"Well, you know the law of supply and demand, right..." Tim launches into a spiel about economic growth and the delicate balance he has with the Board members and also the HR department.

It's all just logic, moving pieces back and forth, until he finds the result that makes everyone happy. Mostly everyone. Talking it through out loud is surprisingly helpful, though. Tim's always been told his mind works too fast to keep up, and they tells him he likes to lecture too much, but his team has always listened to him even when they groan and draw stick figures over his charts and diagrams. Kon, with his disinterest and downright contempt for the corporate world, has clocked in hours and hours of Tim ranting about work. That's honestly ridiculous, and Tim loves him for it.

He attaches the PDF to the email and hits send. "And that's it! Can't wait to see their faces when they read this, right, Kon?"

The only response he gets is a soft snore.

Tim looks over to find Kon asleep against his knee. His curls are frizzy from being wrapped inside the comforter. His brow is relaxed, his mouth slack. He's drooling a bit. Just looking at him makes Tim yawn.

Sliding his laptop over to the nightstand, Tim spares a moment to stretch his arms. He turns and rolls the Kon-comforter-burrito further up the bed. Kon stirs slightly. Tim runs a hand through his hair, shushing him quietly.

He's tugging at the covers on his side of the bed when he feels the familiar pressure of TTK pushing at his limbs. "Okay, okay," he says, "I'm coming."

Kon unravels slightly from his self-imposed cocoon. "Tiiiim."

Giving up on the covers, Tim lets himself be pulled into Kon's orbit. He shifts until he's comfortable in Kon's arms, nose pressed up against Kon's collarbone. He feels a little like a glorified teddy bear. Kon squeezes him slightly, snuffling at Tim's hair.

"If I get sick," Tim mumbles, yawning, "I'm blaming you."

"Okay," Kon murmurs back. "I'll take care of you."

[esta-elavaris]

Novel ranting ahead

I had to move a major plot point to a much later chapter, just for pacing, and obviously that means heavily rewriting a lot of what was ahead of that point because there have been passages where characters react to said major plot point etc etc that just needs to be altered now.

But like, this change comes like? Four chapters before the end of where I'm up to with this current draft, and at this point it's honestly just easier to go through, highlight can can still stay, and then just rewrite everything else from scratch.

And I've been trying so hard to avoid doing that because "it'll take so much tiiiime" but it's just the best way to go about it, and if I'd just done it when I first had the idea, it'd be done by now.

Still have soooo much like actual writing to do beyond this batch of edits, because I can't write the climax of the book until everything before it is really up to scratch (because every round of edits so far has changed things), but I'm really excited to get to that point and I'm finally in a place where I'm ABLE to get to that without worrying that I'll change something again, rendering it all pointless.

[fluorescentbrains]

we spent like 30 minutes today litigating what should have been included on someone’s progress slide AFTER interrupting like 45 seconds into the update so the presenter never actually got a chance to present their slide. and every step that’s made is immediately met with 50 suggestions for the next step in unclear order of priority. anything left out or slightly less than up to par will be subject to a 30 minute rant-lecture. atp my feelings aren’t even hurt it’s just SUCH a waste of TIIIIME PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MOVE ON !!!!

i go off on here for dumb petty reasons all the time but usually irl i’m pretty good at keeping it zipped. my boss is testing me so hard rn though i am on a knife’s edge of yelling at people in a lab meeting

[pageofheartdj]

Hmm how to differentiate people that geniunely like Hunter&Luz being siblings and antilunter/lumity shippers?

‘Annoying little sister’ Luz hcs. Another way to bully Hunter through Luz being a brat to him(see? she sooo doesn’t like him, she will constanly make fun of him and stress him) and Amity being Awesome Girlfriend(and constantly picking on Hunter because of the fact of his existance. Yeah, rub in his face how you date Luz and he is such a loser. Show me your amazing character development).

But they are all fake and mean-spirited. Cause Luz is actually nice to people she likes. She was bratty with Hunter because they were on opposing sides. And if Luz will still be bratty with him while being ‘siblings’, this means she never truly likes him.

[subsequentibis]

8, 10, 11 (if you want?)

8. do you prefer happy, bittersweet, or sad endings?

i already answered this one but i am gonna take this opportunity to say that in very specific circumstances i actually hate bittersweet endings. there was this comic on webtoons called dps only! that i liked but at the end [spoilers!!!] the main character lost the big gaming tournament and i hated that. same with hikaru no go, which i just finished. in both circumstances they juuuuust barely lose, and put up more of a fight than anyone ever expected, but it’s so unsatisfying for me. it’s more realistic, it’s setting up their future career and showing that a loss isn’t the end of the world and they’ve got great things ahead of them, but like, i don’t get to see that bc it’s post-canon! i want to see them win and be successful!! i get what the author is going for but I Do Not Like It.

10. characters that deserved worse? >:]

god seriously not to keep ragging on wolf 359 but j@c0bi didn’t deserve to go home with the main characters. fuck that guy. die.

11. do you mind sex scenes or do you skip over them?

depends on how it’s written, tbh. if it’s awkward or uses horrific euphemisms for genitals i’m out, but sex scenes aren’t inherently uncomfortable for me.

[solardee]

to my non-home owner followers

leaks suck. And are expensive. check ur plumbing when you buy a house oh my god

[superbattrash]

Hello, yes, God?

Could we maybe look at your timing for a moment? No? Ok, never mind then

[chewsdays]

x

[radiantroope]

🦋✨🧚🏼‍♀️c’s 1k celebration sleepover 🧚🏼‍♀️✨🦋

in honor of me hitting probably the biggest milestone that i ever will, i’m having a lil hockey team themed game night/sleepover! i’ll answer these throughout tonight (but i have work so it’ll be sporadic) and into tomorrow because i’m off. if you request a blurb, please be patient and i don’t usually finish them. okay, enough chit chat, lets have some fun!

FLAMES — roast the absolute shit out of me. flame me. make me cry.

STARS — send me your celeb crushes and i’ll rate them on a scale from 1-10.

HURRICANES — music rec — i’ll put my cluster fuck of a playlist on shuffle and give you a few songs.

FLYERS — games — cym, fmk, would you rather, this or that, smash or pass, top 3/5/10

ISLANDERS — blurbs! send me 1 or 2 numbers from my prompt list and a character/player (i don’t usually finish these so do with that what you will)

LIGHTNING — confession tiiiime! tell me a secret.. this is a safe space.

BLUES — story time bitch. i’ll give you a story from my hoodrat days.... if i can remember any... i blacked out.

LEAFS — send me your tumblr crushes & what you love about them — lets make someone’s day.

JETS — drop a rec — show/movie/song/band & we can talk about it.

AVALANCHE — lets talk about my fics! ask any question you want or rant about what you think of them.

SHARKS — ships! send me a description of yourself and i’ll ship you with an obx character. i’ve never done this before so uh — bye.

tagging some moots that i love to kick it off

@sortagaysortahigh @storiesbymads @stfukie @anxietyandtacos @shelbsays @bricksatanakinswindow @dmonchld @dreamypeaches @mathewbrzal @girlsru1eboysdroo1 @bestestbenn @starkeysdunn @celestialblae

[kur0m1-bxch-ch4n]

Rant tiiiime

People will literally believe anything on tiktok I can’t- people will try to tell you that something in offensive when it’s not. I like anime and there is so much going on with it like it’s literally pixels on a screen. It’s not real. I’m sorry but not everyone is going to agree with every little thing that comes out your mouth. Where did all the chill people go plz I want to be with y’all-

[fairyhaven13]

Just had to walk away from a conversation with my dad before it turned into an argument; he thinks that Marvel’s Infinity War and Endgame were great movies, and I think they’re crap. They tick me off, and because I can’t go on a rant about it to my dad without making him sad, I’m going to rant on here instead.

Spoilers. Under the cut if you’re interested.

First of all, after the first Avengers movie, we were given a distinct impression. This was a group of people who had their differences, who may never become good friends, but who would stick it together anyways to be a team. The classic “quirky characters bond out of fighting for the greater good.” This is what is known as a Found Family trope. It doesn’t mean that the characters would have seen eye to eye, or even necessarily liked each other, but they would have cared, because they’re family. Them eating shawarma together at the end was a good example of a stereotypical Found Family scene. 

I tried to explain this to my dad and brother, but they don’t understand. They think I mean we should get lots of Slice of Life scenes with them doing chores and playing hopscotch and “boring things.” They don’t understand that a good superhero team movie necessitates a sense of Found Family by the end of it, and doesn’t need “boring” Slice of Life in it at all. It just requires the team to want to stay a team, to want to defend each other and in general have that baseline of care towards each other. A funny quip in a fight scene, a moment of “No one picks on him but me!” 

Age of Ultron implied this even more strongly, with Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch hitting the team where it hurt: in the way they cared for each other, and made them afraid to lose one another. When the kids reformed, they were told that this heroic action was what it meant to be a team, to understand each other and fight for what’s right. This was emphasized with the team once again quipping and joking with each other during the fights, and showing how each one provides a specific strength to save the day.

After that, it was like the directors stopped caring. Team? What team? What Found Family? They all hate each other! What communication, what compromise? Steve goes hunting for his friend without telling his new family what he’s doing, and then leaves the team entirely when push comes to shove, also without talking it out with his new family. Tony is understandably hurt because, A) Steve knew Bucky killed his parents and never even bothered to talk this out with Tony, to give the guy time to mourn and decide what would be the right thing to do, and B) Tony wanted the Avengers initiative to work, he wanted to make it work, and seeing Steve leave tells him that Steve doesn’t care, that Steve wants to give up. And, Steve doesn’t bother to explain why this isn’t true, he just takes half the team and breaks Tony’s heart.

This is never fixed, never given any closure. The most we get is Steve and Tony going back in time to work together and get the Dragon Ball stone, and they don’t at all talk about what happened between them. Steve, the self-righteous hypocrite that he is, will never say sorry.

Steve goes on being selfish in Endgame, when he decides that, instead of stepping up to the plate when the team needed it--when Tony is literally dead--he’s going to abandon these people he’s worked with for years and be with the woman he knew for less than half that time. Dad thought this was sweet. I thought it was ridiculous. Steve was supposed to learn how to move on, how to be a part of this new world, and just like he did with the team before, he quit. He gave up and said it wasn’t worth it.

Second, we have the stupid plot of Endgame entirely. Time travel via Ant Man’s shrink machine. This. Is. Not. How. Quantum. Physics. Works.

You can’t just staple the word “quantum” onto something and go, “oh, it’s related to space displacement, but because it says quantum, it’s also tiiiime displacement!” That doesn’t work! Just because the darn machine can shrink and grow you, doesn’t mean it can magically shunt you through time! After Infinity War, this was the biggest theory everyone had, was that Scott was going to bring time travel into the mix in this exact way. I said, no, there’s no way they would be that stupid. Turns out, yeah. They were that stupid. They said “oooo quantum this, quantum that, poof, time travel!”

It would be one thing if this was a precedent for the series. If they used that sort of crappy, unbelievable reasoning all the time. But, they didn’t. They used much more understandable pseudoscience for everything else, and then they just... didn’t here. They pounded the idea of time travel into our heads because they couldn’t handle the idea that literally any other explanation might be better.

They don’t even bother to try making it make sense. Not at all. “Oh, we have to put the stones back so we don’t change the past!” What about Loki escaping? What about past Thanos and past Nebula being actually dead? And, you know, all of past Thanos’s other kids? His whole army? There’s a GIGANTIC paradox there and the directors do. not. care.

Third, we had so many characters that were cared for, developed carefully, just slaughtered. The worst offense was Loki. He had a whole movie dedicated to his reforming--yes, reforming, dad, stop trying to say he didn’t reform! He freaking reformed! He went from “BOW TO ME” with his fancy helmet and scepter, to “Asgard will rise again, brother!” and using that dumb, fancy helmet as a weapon because he didn’t care about how he looked anymore! That whole movie--Ragnarok--was specifically dedicated to finding Hulk, and reforming Loki to the point where he’d healed from so much of his madness in the previous movies. And, then what do they do?

They kill him like a dog. In about five seconds, with no attempt to defend himself with any of his large array of magical powers. All he does is poof up a knife. A knife. And, then he’s dead. No, I don’t care about the Loki show they’re making, that Loki show is using old Loki, the hurt one who didn’t get that chance to heal. They used an entire movie to heal the new Loki, and then they killed him.

The same goes for Vision and Gomorrah. Vision gets a whole movie where he’s born, and another movie where a chunk establishes his relationship with the Scarlet Witch, and then they kill him. Gomorrah gets two movies showing her growth and learning to love Peter, and then they kill her. What’s worse, is they bring her past version back and act like that’s okay! The past version, who doesn’t know Peter, who doesn’t even like Peter, who didn’t have a whole movie to teach Nebula how to love and be a sister again. The past version, who, according to their reasoning, should have stayed in the past to prevent a paradox! But, who cares about any of that??

Captain Marvel I can kind of get, the actor was only able to be there in the last few weeks of Engame’s production, and this was before her debut movie was made. But, it’s still very annoying how a character with so much buildup ended up with a measly couple punches on past Thanos, and it barely touches him. Why is past Thanos so much stronger than his older, wiser, supposedly more well prepared counterpart, huh?

The only thing this movie did well was Black Widow’s death. That scene was in direct contrast to Gomorrah’s death, and it was to show how, in reality, Thanos didn’t love Gomorrah at all. Clint fights Natasha viciously to stop her, tries to die in her stead, exactly the opposite of what Thanos does to his “daughter.” It was a scene made to show how horribly abusive Thanos was.

That’s it, that’s the only thing I appreciate about this movie. Well, that and squealing when Steve finally said, “Avengers, Assemble” again, when the portals all opened. That was nice.

All the rest of it sucks. I hate it, and I hate that this is where the MCU ended up after I had so much hope for it and its characters. It used to be so good. 

This is why I’m writing a gigantic freaking Fix-It Fic where Found Family happens and nobody dies and everyone is happy. This is why fanfiction even exists.

[plaguedghosts]

RANT TIIIIME ~~~~

So theres this dude at work right, lets call him Dick Wad since those re his initials. Well Dick Wad makes a lot of mistakes and tries to put all the blame on me, and deletes the evidence he makes the mistakes, so that I look like I'm losing my marbles. He enters the wrong data, and because of that the incorrect material gets ordered. He tried blaming me again today, and he refused to admit that he was in the wrong. Dick Wad is so misogynistic, but since he is a man, he gets worshipped at the place I work at no matter what he says (he has called me a silly little girl when he thought I wasn't listening), he can be blantantly outright racist, homophobic, sexist and he doesnt get in trouble for it. Well i stood up to him today, and he better back the fuck off before i go bat shit feral on him, he makes me go ballistic and I hate him so much because he makes me look like the idiot who doesnt know how to do their job. I will lose my job if necessary, especially if it means standing up to him. Once I get enough proof that he is in the wrong, and he doesnt get reprimanded, i will be reporting him to HR for his inappropriate behavior.

[chiyume]

I have 102 messagea in my Ao3 inbox and I seriously need to get a grip and answer them before people start thinking in avoiding them on purpose ;___;

[team-zoey-has-two-hands]

aight now that ive been sentimental tiiiime to RANT

FUCKING TOOTSIE, A TRANSPHOBIC FUCKING MUSICAL, GETS TO KEEP GOING WHILE THE ONLY 2 MUSICALS WITH CANON LGBT REP CLOSE ON THE SAME DAMN DAY

AM I SURPRISED, AFTER THAT SHITSHOW OF THE TONYS? NOT PARTICULARLY... BUT GODDAMN. IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE WHO ISN’T AN OLD WHITE GUY WHO LAUGHS AT THE TRANSPHOBIA AND GIVES IT TONYS OVER MUCH BETTER MUSICALS.

I STG IF THE PROM & BMC HAD WON AT LEAST ONE TONY THIS WOULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED, TICKET SALES WOULD’VE GONE UP AND IT WOULD’VE BEEN SAVED.

BUT NOOO. TWO MUSICALS WIN TONYS, EVERYONE ELSE GETS THIS SHIT.