#sorry for the addition op

[megabuild]

it's actually so weird how people react with such vitriol to the slightest mention of minecraft youtubers like i used to be sympathetic about it because of the whole association with dream and so on but it's gotten to the point where if you've been made aware it's a rich and varied community and you still have that knee jerk reaction of "well they're lame, they're cringe, they're all ugly racist white boys" you are actually just a fucking idiot. i'm sorry. like if you cannot do that most basic level of separation like that there is something fundamentally unformed in your brain you should probably work on

[beaulesbian]

One Piece ep. 1103 || "Oh, somebody was guarding the ship."

vs. manga chapter 1071

[ambigiousorganfailure]

i swore my next post would be a continuation of the previous about adler/bell and harrow/case parallels. but i have thoughts rattling away.

bell’s faded, half-baked image of adler and his memories, what makes him as a person, and the fact their cover was as his protégé strikes a cord in me. it isn’t just that they’re comprised entirely of adler’s thoughts and ideas, but the fact that they were suppose to be a successor to him. they’re supposed to surpass him in the ways he’s failed-his aloofness and emphasis on authority creating a vacuum for human connection, to genuine human trust, that gut-wrenching level of manipulation and power. his brute force, persona, and implied penchant for violence being a downfall for any advantageous long-term relationships that he could use.

and i just get a sick kick out of thinking of classical “bell didn’t really die at solovetsky” and adler being haunted by this piece of him he’s killed, marred, destroyed by his own hand that has left such a large hole in him he can’t even lie about how he feels, he can’t even say anything at all, all cottonmouth and overwhelmed by that foreign swell in his chest that he doesn’t recognize (regret? guilt? affection, even?) haunted by it, them, for the last decade.

and here comes bell, wandering in, a ghost once fizzled in his vision and dreams now upright and full of life. and what’s a kick to the stomach, a real “fuck you” to the person who made them out of his own marrow and memory, is that they’re better. their facade of concern, apathy, anger, all these fronts to worm their way into damn whoever they please comes so naturally, a simple coin flip and it’s done. their methods are precise, subtly, stealthy in a way he isn’t. it seems their awareness is tenfold, always noticing the way adler seems to fidget with his lighter or how he keeps turning his head ever-so-slightly to their direction. the piece off of his chopping block, his shadow, made better. a greater strategist and soldier than he ever thought they would be, seemingly fine without him, not needing the one person who has been yearning for them for what feels to be an eternity.

(but bell can only hide so well, even if they’re snarling teeth at him, always trying to stay on opposite sides of the room, because there’s always going to be a pull, magnetic-“i know you, better than anyone else could or can, better than anyone you’ll ever let in. and you get me in the same way i just can’t shake.” it hurts, in those private moments, because bell still yearns for the other half they’ve tried so hard to reject, that their body twists and turns for in the night in hopes of someone to comfort them, someone who knows them. left hand and right hand, severed, always trying to find each other even if they don’t know it, aren’t willing to ever say it.)

[anti-dazai-blog]

I don't understand why fans in general are always so against critical analysis & always try to defend characters whenever someone points out bad writing. Bsd fans have huge issue like that I'm glad you're so vocal about dazai character writing tho cause lots of people just avoid it due to his fans taking it so personal

I think it’s mainly an issue of people not properly tagging their posts, so that when people search their favorite characters, they find negativity instead of the positive content they were hoping for. It makes sense why that would be annoying— but in the end of the day it’s everyone’s job to curate their own internet experience.

I tag all of my negative posts with #anti dazai, so it’s pretty easy for a person to just block that tag (or block this account), and so most people don’t have a problem with me. I’ve only run into any sort of problem with two separate tumblr users in the past (one of which is pretty infamous in these bsd tumblr circles)— so from my end of things, I don’t really see all the people getting angry about character-critical content. I know it’s out there, I personally just don’t come across it very often.

I also block very liberally, so that might be a contributing factor to why I don’t see that side of the fandom. But either way.

I’m glad you’re enjoying this blog!! For any given piece of media there will be positive aspects and negative aspects, and everyone can and should feel free to talk as much as they want about both sides. There also isn’t a single right answer— meaning one person could find a character to be written in a very compelling way and someone else can find the character writing shallow— neither person is wrong, so long as they can justify their opinions with textual evidence.

The only time a media interpretation is wrong is when it’s entirely made up. And I don’t mean “this person read the text and came away with a different conclusion than me,” I mean “this person is directly contradicting the text and is giving no reasons for why they might think the text is lying.” There’s always the concept of an unreliable narrator, but on tumblr, the website that’s infamous for lacking any sort of Reading Comprehension… yeah you’re not gonna get the brilliant literary debates everyone’s hoping for.

[dennisboobs]

extremely underrated method of tumblr communication is liking someone else's reblog/tags on your own post (like HEY... I SEE YOU, GOOD SHIT) but then i realize you guys probably can't see when i do it because dennisboobs isn't my main

[coffinkissez]

sometimes I block ppl and for literally no reason????

[nostalgia-tblr]

i've been trying to Do Tumblr Correctly and only Like posts so I can return later and Reblog them but I don't remember to do the Reblogging and some of the Likes were just in case I did so my Likes page is as unhelpful as it was before but now I also feel the loss of Liking things just to show whoever posted it that that I saw it.

Also I must say I am, in general, not a fan of the Tumblr Use Rules that you only find out about when people tell you off for not following them.

[sodafrog13]

if you followed me bc of my addition to that dunmeshi post i hope you know that dunmeshi is NOT the main thing i have going on here

[goddamnshinyrock]

Saw a post of yours reposted to Pinterest about your footprints in the base of your childhood home. Do you have any pictures? That sounds adorable!

oh good lord that thing sure has traveled, first facebook and now pinterest.

I don't have a pic as my parents' basement is a) dark and b) messy lol. The area with the footprints mostly has shelving/water heater/potting bench/etc over it now.

[doctordragon]

Censored the op's URL because I agree with them and I don't think they did or said anything bad other than hopping on a trend that's been on Tumblr since I started using it

I hate this kind of mentality though. That a post made about minority a to have comments only about minority a or else it's "derailing" and "off topic." You have made a post on a public platform. People are going to say things and relate to your post and go on tangents. That is literally the entire point of comments on the internet. I understand getting upset with people being bigoted or rude on your post, but talking about how minority b experiences something similar to minority a is neither of those things. In fact, it is the opposite, as it constructively adds into the conversation.

If you want to have a conversation that isn't "derailed" or has people comment "off topic" things, don't make a Tumblr post. Have an actual conversation with real people who you can reasonably expect to stay on topic when you ask. You cannot expect the same from internet strangers.

If I ever make a post about being a trans man or autistic or whatever, and you can relate despite not being the thing the post is about, PLEASE comment and share your experiences!!! This mentality that minorities aren't allowed to talk to each other and relate to our forms of oppression only serves to divide us.

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

i would never survive tiktok i get WAY too annoyed when people are annoying in my notes on here

[sanctifiedtongues]

people putting shit about 'reading comprehension website' in the tags on that post when the original post was very easy to misinterpret...yet another phrase long due to put on the shelf.

[camgoloud]

i mean like. okay fair. but you do realize what website you’re saying these words on right

[ambigiousorganfailure]

ONE MORE THOUGHT I PROMISE, i can’t really speak on this but this is slightly based around my last post;

i feel that in a “bell lives” au in bo6, there’s almost a superiority/inferiority complex with bell and harrow. not only speaking on their positions both being mentored by adler at different times, but pantheon’s work for super soliders (ie. case) was already said to be directly themed and based on MK ultra-and if bell were a real, human being, they would be the poster child, the greatest example of what memory implanting and a cocktail of drugs can do-even if it was rushed. harrow wasn’t only chasing the ghost of what adler had done, but bell’s success, trying to replicate it on a higher level.

and look what happened; even until the end, bell can’t lie to adler, can’t bring it in themself not to follow him and that faux connection, while harrow’s science project feels a hatred that digs its way into his nightmares, a betrayal so heavy he can’t fathom trying to see her as a person anymore, let alone someone who used to be his friend. the fact case was partially retired from pantheon means that harrow failed, not even to say that she couldn’t keep him bound to her enough to be useful or work as leverage against anyone else.

i feel bell and case would connect very well, but harrow and bell leaves a feeling of power on bell’s side of the line-“look what you’ve done,” the shadow of adler, emulating everything she’s ever strived to be, who does it so effortlessly it’s like breathing, “i’m almost flattered i was your role model. almost.”

i’m a bit surprised that i haven’t seen people exploring their relationship more, as strange as it is to have to position. they have a decent deal of parallels where my brain slots them together just fine.

[mathswizard]

[poppy-in-the-woods]

Sorry for the interjection, but this is too long to put it in the tags, so here it goes:

I don't think you are a pedophile, however, I think we as a society would like to think teens and preteens Don't Do That, and maybe some don't, but some do.

Kids are starting puberty earlier now (I started mine at 13/14, which was considered pretty standard back then, but it would be pretty late considering the average now). And I don't know if y'all remember what it was, but I remember developing an interest in kissing before I got my first period, and I remember having a questions about what sex actually was after getting my period. And I wasn't getting any, but some of my classmates were having sex at 15/16. Bottom line is: teens and preteens are going to develop an interest in this stuff, and if we don't teach them sex ed, they will turn to the internet (which has some good sources for sex ed but also a lot of misinformation) and porn, and then we're going to have another generation who doesn't know about consent, or safe sex, and STIs and teenage pregancies numbers are going to raise again.

Lots of parents don't want strangers to be teaching their kids sex ed because they feel that's their job, but then they don't ever have those kinds of conversations with their kids because they're very uncomfortable conversations. And then it's too late, they're already watching porn behind their parents backs and thinking that rough sex is what everyone likes, that consent is a mood killer and that each and every woman likes (or should like) to be choked without a warning. And this is just for cishet kids, queer kids have it harder to find any resources that cater to them.

Also, we, as former kids, have internalised that any adult that talks about sex with kids must be trying to groom them, so we cannot longer differentiate between actual sex ed and grooming. The things is, all the studies say that little kids that have received sex ed (and at that ages it's mostly about the correct names of body parts and general consent), they're less vulnerable to pedophiles because then can communicate better that they're being abused earlier after it happens.

If forbidding kids as young as 12 from doing stuff with each other doesn't work (and experience tell us it doesn't), we better make sure they have the resources to do it in a way they are safe, so they don't grow up with the same gaps in their sex education as we did.

PS: As a smut writer I know I can put "minors DNI" all I want, but they're going to read it anyway. The least I can do is trying to make it clear that what you can read in the stories is a fictionalised and stylised version of what sex is in real life (I also try to include that consent can actually be very sexy, and general tools to communicate, but I am not an expert by any means).

I'm not like Mad at anyone who does this and I'm obviously not in charge of how anyone else tags shit on their own blogs, whatever, but it's always bummed me out when my sex Ed posts get reblogged and tagged with 18+, minors dni, etc. personally I actually very much want teenagers to learn about their bodies and safer sex but I guess I'm just the guy who wrote the thing.