#seen a lot of that sentiment

[fandomfloozy]

I promise promise PROMISE you

that the Tumblr poll on the Tumblr website is not that fuckin serious 💀

Using my little blog privilege to be a little controversial (and gather data, I'm trying to prove a point)

Reblogs for sample size would be appreciated 👍

[dnpbeats]

“i’m not on marriage hill because dan said he’s scared of commitment” okay first of all this is just a little fun and whimsy it’s not that serious but also. dan who is scared of commitment yet committed to buying a house with phil before he was even ready to come out. dan who is scared of commitment yet committed to moving to london with essentially no plan. dan who committed to joint branding for years. dan who committed to going on four world tours, the most recent of which he said yes to when only being back on youtube for 3 months. dan who has explicitly used a dog as an example of something he is scared of committing to yet still obviously wants one and presumably plans to actually get one in the near future. dan who has been committed to phil for nearly half his life. if you don’t want to do something because you just plain don’t want to do it that’s fine and valid. but there is a difference between that and not wanting to do something because you are scared of it. and perpetually living in a state of fear is fucking exhausting and obviously there are times in dan’s life when he has said idc if im scared of this im going to do it anyway. if d&p really truly genuinely do not want to get married because they don’t see the point etc then that’s their prerogative and im not trying to stand up here and say that isn’t the case. but as long as they’re making jokes about/references to them being married im gonna be doing it along with them, dan’s commitment issues be damned

[thebeigelunatics]

this quote by eve best from an article in the standard (2017) is doing a lot for me tbh.

[welcometogrouchland]

I'm going to be so real I do not understand tim & steph shippers who feel that Steph dating Tim again would save her character. You can make an argument that giving Tim a more compelling love interest would be beneficial for him! And you can at least make an argument that the fujo mischaracterization of Steph would stop. However she'd still, inevitably, be treated as a prop character/extension for someone more popular 😭 it also wouldn't make her appear in more books! Tim doesn't have many frequent appearances at the moment either! You can just say you like the couple and want them back together without acting like you have some kind of moral stance

[sepulchral-pulchritude]

it really does seem like a lot of y'all don't want to dismantle the patriarchy so much as expand the definition of man.

and i'm sympathetic to "anyone can be a man" i really am (i am sort of man adjacent on occasion myself) but that's a personal goal not a liberatory one!!

"a woman can be a man if she wants" well what if she doesn't want? what if she would like to be a woman and only a woman AND receive equal rights? what if she would like to be a woman and not have her womanhood considered lesser by society? what if womanhood itself and everything associated wasn't considered definitionally inferior???? what if!

this goes double for trans women who might, i dunno, have a vested and emotional interest in not being considered a type of man. and perhaps might want to celebrate their hard-earned womanhood.

[planetaryaether]

[that0nebird]

“Chappell Roan isn’t ready for stardom” just say you want to stalk people and leave

[alienfailboy]

loki lovers, im gonna hold your hand when i say this, thor is NOT your enemy

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Being a Comic!Charles fan is like being a Reed Richards fan. People are always bound to hate em

you can say this about any character if im so tbh but i do know reed richards fans can get in the trenches as well sometimes

[oaxleaf]

i do feel like pulley makes a conscious choice, whilst she typically acknowledges the homophobia that would be present in a period setting, to not make it a significant plot point or to have too much angst surrounding it, which i very much appreciate. sometimes you can put queer people in fun historical settings and let them be miserable for reasons other than being queer. simultaneously, i’ve been thinking a lot lately about the themes of heteronormativity in thlovk. because those are not necessarily the same thing? i’m lucky enough to not have experienced much in-person homophobia, but by god does hetero- and cisnormativity prevail no matter how progressive of a place you live in.

so yeah, the way valery talks about things like marriage and family really resonates. the pretty much presumed loneliness, the notion that if you don’t settle down with your opposite-sex partner and have a bunch of kids then you’ll end up sad and uncared for. and whilst homophobia is mentioned and relevant (though more so when it comes to shenkov), heteronormativity is the real insidious attitude in the novel. how valery himself, throughout the entierty of the novel, keeps presuming that he’ll always lie farthest down on the list of people shenkov cares about, because the straight nuclear family promotes the idea that love and caring is a limited resource in a person when it really isn’t, and that a romantic, heterosexually married spouse will always take the automatic highest priority, followed by ones biological children, and that there even needs to be a hierarchy. valery’s insecurities are not about being queer, but it’s about the things everybody assumes you’ll never have just because of your queerness. and i appreciate an exploration of the struggles of queer identity that go deeper than the risk of hatred and homophobia

[karmaphone]

'oh nooo they're gonna cancel sandmannn' I hope with everything in me you understand that the real suffering of actual women is miles and miles more important than whining about your blorbos. I hope you know that speaking up in support of a show that a serial rapist made/is making instead of speaking up in support of the women he raped is like. A Thing That You Should Feel Bad For Doing And Also To Shut The Fuck Up For A Solid While

[circusk]

the c in cosmo stands for ceriagrion coromandelianum !

or coromandel marsh dart.... or yellow waxtail..... c stands for bug!

[seventh-district]

again and again i find myself lamenting that audio roleplay isn't taken more seriously by some people. like yeah, they often have a romantic element, and by nature they usually directly involve/address the listener- and i totally get that those things aren't to everyone's taste. no art or entertainment is universally appealing, and that's okay! but.. it still makes me a lil sad that the "cringe" reputation of asmr/audio rp precedes it. there's a whole lot of talent and creativity being poured into these audios by so many people that i feel goes unrecognized and/or disrespected simply due to the medium that the stories are being told through.

[dead-dove-dolly]

"Oh, Dubbed animes are the same as the dubbed animes! You can watch either one, you'll be watching the same thing!"

Newer anime MIGHT BE MORE ACCURATE in the dub, sure! But older anime? No. Some hot localized and mistranslated so bad, they are completely different.

Newer anime fans, I beg of you, WATCH YU-GI-OH. WATCH BOTH THE ENGLISH DUB AND THE ORIGINAL JAPANESE. OH, HOW ABOUT YOU WATCH THE SEASON THAT NEVER GOT AN ENGLISH DUB! SEASON 0! In which we see some pretty gruesome shit, especially those last few episodes with Bakura, where Yami Bakura literally stabs the sharper parts of the millennium ring into Bakura's chest! Oh, and stabs his hand on a DND castle.

I'm so serious, the dub of Yu-Gi-Oh took out SO MUCH. They cut at least 40 Episodes! The Shadow Realm wasn't even a fucking thing in the original! You just straight up died! Never forget that Marik developed DID from extreme trauma because his father carved a tattoo into his back with a burning knife! Amongst so much more.

How about Yu-Gi-Oh GX! Where 4!Kids literally took out the LGBT+ rep! And 40+ episodes to boot, an entire season that gave context to Yubel and Jaden's relationship! How about the fact the protag is bi or pan, is poly, and has a NONBINARY LOVE INTEREST AND A MALE LOVE INTEREST! Oh, don't forget, they made the nonbinary Duel Monster spirit a female in the English dub.

I'm begging you, PLEASE, if you're going to watch older anime, especially those dubbed by 4!Kids, just watch the original Japanese instead. It is NOT the same thing.

[ilgattopatata]

"baldur's gate 3 is good but i just wish we didn't have a silent protagonist, it would be better if it was voiced-" NO THE FUCK IT WOULDN'T. THE SILENT PROTAGONIST IS FINE. LOOK AT ME. IT'S FINE.

[bookwyrminspiration]

while the sentiment behind phrases like “find something that works for you” and “find a/talk to a doctor/professional/etc. you trust” are good, they’re thrown in so quickly in so many things and it’s like…that takes so much time. I’ve spent the past seven years trying to figure out a routine that makes it so I can consistently floss after I got retainers. just for flossing. and i only started to get something that kinda works a couple months ago. not to mention the million other things I’m trying to balance and find what works at the same time

i don’t really have a point, just. finding what works and reliable people takes a lot of time. so if you see that as part of advice like a side note (not saying it’s done intentionally) and it feels like a huge mountain. that’s because it is. it’s so difficult sometimes. you’re not alone in that