#rant/ramble

[something-cleaver]

When did the voltron fandom resurface? It feels like years since I've seen anything about it, and suddenly, it's everyone's favorite red and blue ship. I'm being taunted by a past hyper-fixation that I know if I try to chase will not bring me back those feelings of first discovering it. I am simply Eve being tempted to bite into the apple, knowing where it will lead me.

[king-of-gay5000]

Days since Tumblr updated the sites UI: 0

Tumblr please stop updating the user Interface.

For the love of everything good on this hellsite, Please just leave it alone! I don't want UI changes I want a functional video player.

Like look at this shit.

No not the birds, look closer.

What the fuck is this??! Why dose it look like this? Why did you feel the need to change it?

What happened to me being able to see the original poster, who reblogged it from them, who reblogged that, and the person who reblogged it onto my dash? I liked being able to see how it ended up on my dash with the last two or three people who reblogged it. It was like seeing a note being passed a few rows ahead of you in class.

Now it feels like I'm reading a work email that got forwarded to me from my boss or something. I don't like it.

[jz08]

Ok I saw on twitter about people complaining about the voice acting on the amazing digital circus so I wanted to my own little opinion.

To start this off just know that I am visually impaired so I feel like I can make good judgment on atleast the voice acting. Tbh I actually really loved TADC because I can tell it has high quality so after my surgery I’m definitely gonna watch it again for more details but I mainly want to talk about the voice acting. In my opinion the voice acting is actually really good. For most videos or shows I can never really make out what emotions the characters are feeling or really feel what’s going on in the scene, but with TDAC I can feel the emotions the characters are feeling and I feel I can really connect with them. TDAC’s voice acting accurately conveys the emotion, intention, and personality of the characters for example, pomni’s voice acting. I’ve seen so many complaints about this but I feel her shrill voice and the way she speaks and how it’s “annoying” to others but to me it highlights her descent into madness, fear, and anxiety so well. I can tell what kind of personality she has and just what kind of person she is just from listening to her voice. And then there’s Jax. From the tone of his voice alone I was able to tell how sassy he was and how much of a jerk/prankster he is. Of course if their voice lines were just read to me by a robot then yes I would be able to guess their personalities with time, but the voice acting is what really brings it all together and make it feel like these are actual people I’m listening to and not just a group of silly characters on a screen.

This is really all I can think of rn I’ll add on later if I can’t think of anything. Also this isn’t proofread.

[romeoeatzkorn]

If Nami x Zoro/Sanji isn’t Girl yaoi or boy yuri

I DON’T WANT IT!!!!

Also fans who say they “respect” queer people but “NoT eVeRyOnE iS gAy” are losers

It’s a hc it does not affect the canon asshole

[waywardsou2]

Some idiot: "Why are you reading your own fic, that's shallow and stupid"

All fanfic writers and writers everywhere: "Who the fuck do you think I wrote it for?!"

[lionofchaeronea]

Please forgive me for ranting, but...I am so tired of AI. Just so tired. I don't want Microsoft Copilot, or Google Gemini, or Meta AI, or whatever other energy-sucking, water-wasting, mediocrity-spewing LLM is currently being thrust upon me. I just want to be left alone to create in peace.

[lifeofafangirl1]

gl on the boyfriend thing!

Thank you 🫶

I low-key have never done this before and he’s had a long term girlfriend before me so I’m kinda hoping I don’t mess it up.

[aphelionsabyss]

I started reading the webtoon Señorita Cometa by the amazing artista known as Arechan!!!

Something that's begging me rn though is looking through the comments and seeing some of them call The body of one of the characters oversexualized and disproportionate "gooner shit" and it's pissing me off so bad. BECAUSE it's not. It's actually pretty proportional. She's just got a large bust and a slightly large rear. But she looks like many women I have met. It just feels like to me they've never seen a fucking woman of color in their goddamn life.

It's so fucking crazy they're saying that on a webtoon about the violence against and disappearing of women in Latin America and specifically the 8M and Niunuamenos movement.

This is part of the fucking problem. Seeing women who look like that and immediately sexualizing them. And they're being so dense 😮‍💨

I feel like this comments like that kinda just happens a lot on art of women that look like that in general because of the actual oversexualization of them in media that happens.

it feels so gross and insideous idk how to really express. Uhg

Anyways

Amazing story I'm begging you to read

[cptapathy]

UK supreme court has ruled in law that trans women are not to be considered women

"The UK Supreme Court has unanimously decided that the definition of sex under the Equality Act 2010 refers solely to biological sex, and does not include people with a Gender Recognition Certificate." - Jess O'Thompson

Trans women are no longer protected under sex based protections against discrimination

GRCs are now functionally harmful

A post op trans woman with a GRC is now banned from "women only spaces" like a women's toilet.

I'm gonna build a bomb

[mistatruth]

I was going to keep my comments just in the tags, but I had way too much I wanted to say to try and fit it in there.

I honestly believe that being computer literate is an urgent matter of civic health - like being able to read and write and think critically. The decline in that over the 2010s is just a microcosm of the general trend towards a loss of individual and common ownership and agency - of knowledge, of what we "buy", of what we enjoy. It used to be more feasible for people to repair their own appliances and devices (or at least get someone else who isn't an employee of the company to repair it). There used to be more than five massive websites on which all content ended up, where being able to get that content out wasn't determined by some asshole's algorithm. People used to actually have physical copies of what they watched or listened to or read!

Society has effectively ceded that ownership, both individual and cooperative, to large corporations and private entities for the sake of convenience, leaving us completely at the mercy of actors who are driven by short-term self-interest. The less we are able to do independently (or at least without the help of the commons), the easier it is for us to be exploited.

Telling young zoomers to "just switch to linux" is nuts some of these ipad kids have never even heard of a cmd.exe or BIOS you're throwing them to the wolves

[musashi]

posts about the alt-right pipeline being compassionate towards young men while radical leftists shun and shame them are not fucking saying "the men are becoming violent because feminists are too mean!" and if that is your takeaway you need to get off tumblr until you've better honed your critical thinking skills.

those posts are talking about how effective the language and approach you take in your activism can be. this is literally cult deprogramming 101. if someone is being taken in by a violent or dangerous group, that violent or dangerous group is usually offering them compassion and solace while working hard to convince them everyone else in the world is their enemy. you are under no obligation to coddle or act compassionate toward these men and their violent ideologies, but if you have the means to try, it is something that you can do to make a tangible difference.

radicalized people are often only one loving friend or family member or external voice away from being de-radicalized. of course that is not always the case, but it very often is. a lot of y'all rightfully understand that you do not carry the burden of being that voice, but a lot of y'all also have a lot of internalized ideas about morals and punitive justice and have simply written off these people as deserving of only the worst and not worth saving.

ten years ago, my grandmother was a fox news watching republican who voted red in every election and very well could have fallen down the qanon rabbit hole if not for me and her daughter challenging her compassionately, walking her through hypotheticals that validated her feelings & proving why they were false, & being patient with her despite our extreme division in political ideology. it was frustrating fucking work! but i decided i wanted to do it, because i could see the horizon and i could see me making a difference!

"misogynists have been saying feminists are too mean for years, get new material" that is not the fucking POINT. the point is that you, feminist, can be the compassionate voice that guides your brother, your father, your cousin, your grandfather away from fucking becoming or staying a nazi. you can show them compassion and companionship. you can be the woman they think of when their alt-right bros try to convince them that women are the enemy. and you can choose to crystallize that image of yourself so wholly in their mind's eye as worth protecting that they may very well choose to reject those harmful ideas.

it's not saying you HAVE to do it! it's saying you CAN do it! don't you 'firebomb a walmart' people all love taking change into your own hands? where the fuck is that energy right now, huh?

[suddenlymicah]

every time someone refers to trigger happy havoc/goodbye despair as v1/v2 a little oart kf my dies. did you FORGET??? THE POINT??? OF THE V??? it literally said. IN THE GAME. that it was 53. not version 3. LITERALLY YOU COULD JUST USE DR1 DR2 DRV3.

anyways guys! uhm how is everyone today

[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

[sketchtastrophee]

old art again!! this time a rough animation of sawyer and yarnaby 😎 (looks better if u click to view 😭)

im working on a short ppt animation rn. im thinking i should post it to my youtube channel, though im not sure if people here would see it. i think i can link videos on here?? idk

okay I'm gonna talk abt more chapter 4 stuff.. this time about prototype's previous identity.. ch4 spoilers and also a theory below..

hiding the solo yarnaby under here LOL

people theorized 1006 was elliot, which was recently disproven in the chapter 4 tape where poppy refers to elliot as her dad and wishes he were there. in the same tape she addresses prototype as a completely different person. also recall that elliot died in the 90s, meanwhile prototype met theo in 1989. so yeah, they aren't the same person

I've also seen people say rich is prototype, which cannot be true either. in a ch4 tape he speaks to one of the employees under his supervision. the kid mentions his coworkers joking about him going missing. before the bbi, it would not make sense for this to be a common rumor at the company, which means this tape had to happen after harley was hired in 1990; at a time when the company would have a reason to silence people

prototype existed in 1989 at the minimum, but considering he says "it's always been about you and me" to poppy, he's likely the prototype of HER. she's elliots daughter, she died in the 60s, meaning prototype was probably created around that time as well.

this means that rich can't be the prototype because he was human long after prototype was made

if you want my take on who prototype truly is, i'd say his identity doesn't necessarily matter. i don't mean to say his origins aren't important, just that his name and specific role in the past probably doesn't mean anything in the long run. i've never believed he was elliot or rich, and maybe in the future i'll be proven wrong but for now i'll tell you the theory i've had since june of last year

elliot's daughter dies in the 60s. he divorced his wife in 1930, so his daughter is probably in her 30s when she dies. she gets sick or injured, maybe she's actively dying or already dead by the time elliot begins his research. he looks for ways to bring her back, but it doesn't work on the rats (as he mentioned a note in the 2nd chapter)

so what does he do? he tries it on something bigger as he said he would: a human. of course he's not going to try this experimental method on his own daughter, even if she's already dead, so he finds someone else to use it on. we know that elliot wasn't evil or anything, so it's unlikely he killed anybody to use for the experiment. considering the orphanage isn't open yet (it opened in the 70s, not the 60s), prototype probably wasn't an orphan child either. if i run with my simple version of the theory, elliot may have dug up a body in a graveyard and used that. maybe a fresh one, who knows. he tried it, it worked, then he revived his daughter with the same method.

this is likely what harley wanted to know about in the chapter 3 tape (the "i learn something new about you every day" one), and also what prototype is asking harley to figure out in the ch4 tape they're both in. in that case, sawyer never actually figured out how to revive people with the poppy substance. sure, he can transfer people into the toys, but he can't bring anybody back to life

more reason to believe prototype and poppy are of the same "batch" is because it seems they are the only two who don't need food. it's outright stated about him in the ch1 trailer, and insinuated with her saying the "toys will starve otherwise" when she's talking about how nasty them eating humans is. she refers to them, not herself. her and prototype are probably the only 2 who were ever brought back from the dead, which circles back around to his monologue and gives meaning to the "it's always been about you and me, poppy. what we are". when i heard him say that i felt like my theory was lowk confirmed 😭😭

no guarantee this is right, but it's been my guess for a long time

[king-of-gay5000]

I know this isnt what I normally post but I feel like it needs to be said.

So I checked my inbox for the first time in a while on my Tumblr and these are the only things in it. Idk how long ago they were sent but like.. Bro if you don't want me to talk to you, JUST SAY SO.

Also why the fuck would you go anonymous when asking this?? Like if you don't want me to talk to you the least you could do is not go anonymous, cause I have no idea who you are. So I'm probably going keep sending you shit when you don't want me to talk to you bro.

Also my love language is sending people shit I think they'll like or enjoy, if you want me to cool it on the posts just say so, I won't be mad or anything. I get it I can send a lot of posts and it can be annoying, but just tell me that bro. Don't go and send it through asks because I NEVER check those man.

Also just turned off anonymous asks. If you want to call me names or insult me, you don't have the option of hiding behind an anonymous name. If you want to send me hate and shit gotta be prepared to have your blog's name attacked and for me to block your blog man.

Hiding your username by going "Anonymous" and sending asks is cowardly behavior as well man, if you gotta say something, say it to me.