#sorry for more ranting and venting

[honeypleasejustkillme]

i thought i was at my lowest but holy shit it gets lower

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

The fans: Ugh Sonic was just so preachy. I mean obviously he's supposed to be the good guy, so any uncomfortableness I feel here and any way I feel like Sonic's choices are framed as being why some other people have shitty lives is just bad writing because he is obviously supposed to be right always, but this characterization makes no sense. Isn't he right for the things he did?

Ian Flynn, using Kitsunami to say the (barely even at this point) quiet part even louder: Hey it's almost like ever since the Mr. Tinker event we've been purposely running with the critique of Sonic as being more selfish than he appears. Sonic is upholding a system of Eggman v Sonic that currently benefits him and shuts down talk of how to improve the current system because he likes his own personal enjoyment and he's attached enough to Eggman that he'd rather Eggman pretend to be a good person than be stuck in prison for life. He doesn't even quite practice what he preaches. We are trying to show that the current hero v villain system and Sonic's recklessness currently affects some people poorly and that Sonic isn't a perfect hero.

[oceanwithouthermoon]

maybe its just me but i cant stand when people are like "it just doesn't sit right with me how teruhashi thought about aiura 🥺" like yes... its not supposed to ??? because her thinking badly of other girls and prioritizing male validation over everything is one of her main flaws ??? can we talk about that WITHOUT making it seem like shes not allowed to have a single actual flaw without suddenly becoming an awful person? nobody can handle complex female characters at all and its so fucking annoying

[scummy-writes]

If I have you blocked, please do not message me on other accounts. If you know I have you blocked on one place, please do not try to reach out to me if you find out i didn't block you on another place.

It is very frustrating knowing that some people, not everyone, will see that I have them blocked and will go through different accounts to send me anons or dms. I know that when it gets to that point, it is a bit pointless to try and publicly ask someone like that to just leave me alone, but you know! I still wanna like. Ask you. To leave me alone if I have made it clear multiple times that I don't want to interact with you. I don't really care if you believe its unfair that I have you blocked. Unfortunately, in the world of online spaces, if I decide that I don't want to talk to you because i felt so uncomfortable that I decided to block you, thats me expressing a boundry. That's me saying 'please leave me alone'.

I'm some weirdo online who writes mid smut of traumatized guys. I should not be so important to you that you want to try and contact me through alt accounts or get upset when I continue to block you. I am uncomfortable. You reaching out knowing this, does not make that uncomfortable go away. It makes me more defensive, less willing to talk, and more prone to snapping and popping off if it does happen. I know it hurts when someone blocks you, but you need to understand that pushing for yourself to be unblocked through friends or anons, only makes the situation worse. There are so many other people to befriend who are so much nicer than I'll ever be, please leave me alone.

[ping-ski]

TW RANT/VENT ab work + LOTSA SWEARING kinda closer to how i talk irl sorry

(scroll along for your safety/comfort and i hope yall are doin alright <3 hopefully i'll post art soon!)

i dont give a fuck if sound like a little bitch for this but 8+ hour shifts are too fucking long for a human being to work ever (same opinion on school btw)

like what the fuck dym i was at work from 2pm-10pm yesterday then im back here from 8am-4:30pm to open?? there's some serious fuckery about here. some grade A bullshit- cause what the hell?? (often times im at work from 2pm-11pm like what the sfvisje)

nothing you could say could justify why anyone should HAVE TO work this long?? to work this damn much?? i work in retail as a second job and work as a caregiver as a main job (respite, hab, attn.) tell me why i should have 2 fucking jobs to survive bro??

cause girl how the fuck am i supposed to fit sleep and free time for myself or the shit i wanna do?? i got a life to live bro 😭 aight rant over my lunch ends soon

[motorclit]

Forgot to add: the republicans are getting mighty close to 100% being completely honest and blunt with their views and what they intend to do, and because their support base has adapted to agreeing with them over time, by the time they just come out and say it, their supporters will go from "nuh-uh, they aren't actually wanting to do/doing that" to eventually outright going "well what's wrong with that?"

I've watched my parents over the course of a DECADE going from being kind of prudish on some topics to outright supporting shooting immigrants crossing the southern border. I've watched them hear me talk about masks reducing the flu and cold spread ALMOST NINE YEARS AGO AND AGREEING WITH ME to being extremely anti-mask. They have listened to me talk about antifascist movements of the past, using that actual term as well as "antifa" as a term, to suddenly never hearing about them before until that festering cheetoh took office.

The brainwashing is frighteningly real. The thing I wonder is if they are lying about always supposedly having these views or if they genuinely believe they have no memory of me talking about certain topics they found harmless in the past that suddenly makes them foam at the mouth now.

They have been emotionally manipulated to where it has affected their thought patterns over time. This legit started in my household when 9/11 happened and suddenly faux news became available to them. It only EVER got worse since then.

My parents will interrupt and ignore ANY parallels between what's going on now and what happened in Germany decades ago with the exception of my dad almost hinting that the n*zis weren't all that bad by saying "we should have allied with them to fight communist Russia to prevent the USSR from coming into existence" because the Red Scare propaganda ran mighty fucking deep in this country and marinated in the minds of my parents' generation.

The only time I don't get much of an offensive pushback in conversation is when I talk to my parents about book banning. My mom thinks they're largely silly. But my dad was like, "Maybe if you read them, you'd realize why they should be banned!" To which I immediately went, "I ACTUALLY OWN ONE AND READ IT ON THAT LIST YOURE TALKING ABOUT. HAVE YOU?"

He suddenly wants to drop the subject. The book in question was "How To Be Anti-Racist" by Ibram X. Kendi. This wasn't too long after I had finished reading it.

My parents are their own echo-chamber to one another, with the exception of my uncle visiting to hunt (food reasons, not trophy hunting). Mom is on FB in her online echo chamber, and dad legit doesn't know how to look anything up online and REFUSES to learn how, watching things on YouTube that supports his bias only and taking comments he agrees with at face value. Btw, he does NOT have an account and refuses for whatever reason. The only sites he visits are YouTube and whatever I think that MSN-looking site is. (He has NO IDEA how to communicate what he does on his computer, he is so anti-technology until it supports his bias.)

My parents don't know how to hold their own in an argument because they parrot responses and talking points. They don't have the mental cue cards when they're met with someone who has, referring to my last example, someone who not only has the book but has also read it. As in, they legit panic when you offer to open the book to a particular page to disprove what they parrot, like it's a magic tome or the fucking Necronomicon.

Oh, and no... as of the last couple of decades, they don't read books (and my mom is oddly proud of that? For some reason?) My dad has a Glenn B*ck book but I don't think he read much of it. Most he reads is really old pulp fiction paperbacks from back in his day when he's on the toilet. And he's read it a million times.

They don't socialize outside of some family visiting or my mom occasionally visiting her sister. My mom's "regular socializing" is with her boss and sometimes customers at the retail store she works in (it's a small business store so it never gets crowded or anything).

They live in their bubble and refuse to talk to anyone outside the family that thinks or acts differently to them.

This is a glimpse as to what some cheetoh supporters tend to be like. We live on a farm in the middle of nowhere. They don't have cheetoh flags and banners and shit because they fear local democrats will attack them or something DESPITE THAT THIS ENTIRE AREA IS LARGELY CHEETOH COUNTRY, ESPECIALLY THE SUPER-RURAL SPOTS OF THIS RURAL AREA.

My parents have this victim mentality they adopted since they started watching faux news after 9/11. I swear, if either they didn't watch faux news or 9/11 didn't happen, it might not be this bad. There might have been hope for them.

They're beyond help, now. Nothing but their own free will (if they have any left) will make them change even slightly.

I don't get some people in the west here... all this talk about supporting Israel because they're Jewish, which of course, absolutely nothing wrong with being Jewish...

But these same people who support Israel here in the US don't seem to be as adamant in protecting Jewish people in the US who are catching all sorts of shit from antisemitic dipshits like neo-n*zis and the lizard people conspiracy theorists and shit.

I'm sure these same Americans who have these hypocritical views either aren't aware that the US turned away Jewish refugees during World War II, or they've heard about it but won't say anything about it to avoid either looking bad or tainting the "America is Great" narrative.

These also tend to be the same people who support politicians who excuse antisemitic actions that take place in the US and somehow ends up as the democrats' fault, so there's that.

They're also the kind who fear kid-touchers in the LGBTQ+ community but are "mysteriously" silent when catholic priests commit the same horrible acts.

Anybody else getting the whole doublethink/doublespeak vibes that George Orwell wrote about in his novel 1984?

[ace-geographer]

Well Questies a lot has happened this week, and I finally have free time, so please enjoy these long overdue Willow text post memes

Part 18/?

Credit to cap-that.com for the images (it's only just occurring to me that I haven't included a credit tag whoops)

[qcomicsy]

Lately I've only been wishing to grab a comic about my favorite character and just have a genuinely good time reading it.

[solei-eclipse]

okay. hello guys. my bad for not responding to stuff or being as active recently, had a lot of work to be done and other stuff to focus on that took a lot of my time. I wanted to make more art, but I unfortunately had to put that energy into other things (which got to the point where I could not put them off any longer and had to stay working on it). I know I missed a lot of stuff and I'm sorry for it

[galaxywhump]

Not to start anything but if people stop writing what they like it doesn't mean they'll start writing what you like.

[liesmultixxx]

Of course I’m an afterthought.

Thanks to my friends for making plans without me and then being like “you’re invited as well!!!!!!”

Haha. Thank you. Glad to know I’m that important to you.

Gonna kms

[shirleyjacksonism]

"student life" this "student life" that. girl I haven't been to a club in a year. haven't spoken to another student for longer than 10 minutes since the beginning of uni. haven't made plans with ABSOLUTELY ANYONE. everyone seems to get on well with each other and hang out together and everything and I have only spoken to 3 of my classmates in total. I'm living in my childhood home with my mom. thank you but I think I'll skip this "student life"

[garwicbreb]

I'm so fucking sick of ai.

I don't want ai to write my stories for me. I don't want a robot telling me how to make a scene more emotional with stolen words it cannot feel and robbing it of its complexities with forced grammar and nonsensical musings. I don't want it to correct or rewrite anything for me.

I don't want ai to tell me information when I look something up and for it to be the first thing that's shoved in my face spouting false information. I don't want an 'overview' taking over the other pages of information written from heart and interest whether it be a small Wikipedia contribution or a whole blog from 2009 with comic sans and poorly formatted images.

I don't want it there and the very fact that it's pretty much impossible to disable, not even giving me the option of removing it is frankly quite harrowing. The very fact its there slurping up a power grid to steal website headings and make words that have no substance does nothing for my anxieties about the future of the world and don't get me started on ai 'art'. Its not surprising that these big corporate companies are so keen on it, but it doesn't make me any less angry.

[portrait-of-a-moron]

Kk I’m venting to hell about this probably so I’ll do it under a break I can feel the paragraph already jfc

Comparing yourself in art is so weird, and staring at your own art and the things you’ve created and just tearing yourself apart over it feels like I’m never actually making anything good. Like even if I’m proud of a piece, after a few days, even after a few hours sometimes, I see things that could be better, or things I messed up that seem so obvious, and I end up fucking hating it.

I’m not an artist. I don’t devote all my time and skill into drawing, I write. I’m supposed to be a writer. But I’ve been drawing more, and creating more than just words, and sometimes I wish I never picked it back up In January. I wish I just kept it in the back of my mind as some silly little thing I could barely do.

I shouldn’t uphold myself to this standard, but I do. I’ve noticed it more lately, I’ve been fucking picking and tearing everything I make apart like I need to dissect it and hate myself for every little thing that’s wrong. I miss being proud of my art. I miss doing something and feeling so happy that it looked right the first time I drew it. But it’s just like, impossible anymore. I don’t really have an art style. I can’t fucking shade or render or whatever the hell it’s called, I don’t know a lot about art stuff because I’m not an artist. I’m not and I never have been. I don’t know why I think I can be one. It’s been working against me for so long too. I can’t see half the colours I need to to be able to create anything good, and that’s why I rely on words, not images, to be able to make things. I don’t need to know how to pick up an art pen to write, or to be able to see half of the colours in the world to make a story.

I’m!!!! So just? Disappointed in myself. Because I don’t know why I can’t feel proud anymore. I can’t call myself bad, because I know I’m not, but I hesitate to call myself good. It’s subjective, I know that, but I wish there was a line I could understand, a line I could force myself to see and give myself a definitive answer on if I even deserve it or not.

[sugarsweetvirgo]

Eve: Bottling up negative emotions is bad for your health, so you shouldn't do it.

Seto: I know, that's why I bottle up all my emotions, both positive and negative, so it cancels out.

Eve: Th-that's not how that works-

Actually, the two are pretty open with each other.

[flutt3rb4tz]

i hate when people who dont have marfans make/headcanon characters with marfans as some quirky trait. i really do, i've seen it a lot in my life as someone who was diagnosed at 3 with the condition and it honestly grinds my gears they always do the most stereotype-y traits, or ignore how much of a struggle it is to live with marfans, or how marfans can fuck up your body further by just how much shit it causes.

to put it into perspective, i got tagged like a fucking animal at school because they didnt want to take too much care into explaining that i needed extra care if something happened, or that people should be gentle with me because i could die on school grounds. ive sat cooped up in my home most of my life, i've only been on a fair ride once because getting on a roller coaster could harm me as well. i need help walking or getting around because my body cant always handle it, i have other problems due to marfans that have hurt me greatly for my entire life.

i'm slowly going blind from marfans and theres nothing a doctor can do that will stick. i risk aortic dissection simply by being hit in the chest, i used to be afraid of going to bed because if anything hit my chest too hard i could literally fucking die then and there, because my heart would fucking collapse on itself and theres a decent chance that i wouldnt make it to the emergency room.

it's not just some trait, it is a disability. and it's not quirky!! it was never fucking quirky!!! getting discriminated against for being disabled by the age of 4 wasnt fun! it wasnt silly! it was traumatizing!!!!

if you're going to make a character or headcanon a character with marfans take into account how much of a stereotype you're making them. there are short people with marfans, fat people with marfans (like myself), poc with marfans, there are people who cannot walk or function because of marfans, people with marfans arent scary or shy or weak all the time. we're human people! we vary!

talk to actual people with marfans. look up posts about the condition from people with the condition. dont confuse marfans with EDS. just have common sense!! its exhausting trying to look at content from people like me and either seeing headcanons, EDS posts, or people telling everyone with marfans that they have no hope (this ones common on reddit, but it applies).

people with marfans dont immediately die either, btw. i saw a post recently that was just "haha this character better have had amazing doctors or his marfans would kill him in 2 seconds!!!" and that's not how it works. of course it can be fatal thats with all things, but dont act like its an immediate death sentence, please. i'm sure a lot of us have heard it enough already