#sorry for the rant its just really frustrating

[lemongooose]

why is being mean to people for no reason so normalized its really concerning

[3416]

just need to give a shoutout to all the people who interact w me or the things i make on here for the love and good vibes. twitter's been pissing me off the past couple days and i just think it reaffirms i'll never really leave tumblr bc the fandom culture here is just so much.. more lol

[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.

[ditch-lily]

personally at my limit with wanting to engage with people reacting/watching iwtv but seeing so much oh armand is soooo Evil evil and Did You Know Eating People is Wrong

like, yes. yes i did know. we all know. please stop spinning the moral outrage wheel and gain a thought about fiction and it being allowed to be complex

[doomedpuppetyuri]

wheeeee splatoon fandom stop making me want to leave it for good challenge impossible

[todayisafridaynight]

tbh I really wanted the 3jimas to win that fight, to have Kiryu realize that his actions have consequences and that maaayybeee the people he keeps disappearing on to only reappear briefly to make demands of are finally sick of it and the rose tinted glasses of admiration have come off

no absolutely i really needed kiryu to just. //shakes him//

another thing i really wish we got from IW was daigo going off on kiryu- like he STARTED to but i needed that Y4 shit RIGHT NOW. if Y4 did anything right, it definitely helped broaden daigo's character in how having the chairman title pushed onto him was stressing him out and having him express this to kiryu was SO cathartic, even if daigo's words ultimately mean nothing to kiryu (or at the very least, kiryu did a bad job on understanding daigo's grievances and helping him afterwards)

it really is agitating that the jimas ended up going to the tower anyway too. i get that saejima and majima are kiryu's ex-colleagues and daigo's practically his son, and the fight was supposed to be a 'wake up call' for them. but it just diminishes the anger we saw from daigo in that first scene (and as if i have to say it, daigo becoming angry is a rare thing so that when it does happen its so jarring and it's meant to be serious) and it continues to excuse kiryu's general disregard for others if it means he gets what he wants.

its unfathomable to me that after nearly two decades of holding a position daigo didnt want for the sake of his idol, he finally gets to break away from it. and now his idol's just waltzing back into his life- after acting like he was dead for three years- asking for ANOTHER favor. and daigo's just supposed to accept it. if kiryu wasnt literally dying i just know he'd keep doing this until his last breath and no one would punish him for it because despite how many times he claims to understand daigo's woes, it's evident he doesn't care enough to leave him out of things

[wilsonsmcgillsweatshirt]

Bro, I hate when actors are like, "Don't have gay ships involving my character because it's insult to actual gay relationships." Babe, it's more insulting to tell us we shouldn't ship a fiction man/woman with another fictional man/woman just because they aren't canonically gay. I promise we are well aware of the fact that the character is heterosexual in canon. But, we get so little representation that we're desperate for crumbs. Let gay people ship their stupid little fake characters with other stupid little fake characters and be happy. We rarely see actors talk about straight ships this way. How many times have you seen an actor say something like "Hey stop shipping this man and woman together because it would be an insult to actual heterosexuality." Exactly. What's actually insulting is how little representation we get. Let us be happy with the representation we have been forced to create on our own.

[kohakhearts]

ok wait theres a poll about student loans going around and i see a lot of people in the notes being like “yeah i needed loans because i was poor AND stupid :(” and i’m like.

but that’s the system??? like this “rags to riches” narrative about kids who grow up in poverty and then go to like harvard on full-rides or whatever - it’s a fucking myth, dude. american dream propaganda. has it actually happened? sure, probably. but that has nothing to do with unnaturally high IQ or genius genes or whatever the fuck. that’s not how it WORKS. if you’re poor, you’re “stupid” because no one invested the time and resources into making you smart. largely, probably, because they literally couldn’t. poor family = overworked, absent parents, no matter how hard they try to be there for their kids, and that’s just how it is and it fucking sucks but it doesn’t mean you’re unintelligent because your mom couldn’t read you bedtime stories because she had to work the evening shift every weeknight, it means that you were robbed of necessary emotional connection and forced into developmental delays as a result that unfortunately, yeah, stay with you for the rest of your life.

like SINCERELY there is no measure for intelligence that does not automatically demean the socially disadvantaged and it is so, so, so important that you unlearn the idea that intelligence CAN be measured, let alone compared; because actually how “smart” someone is has a lot to do with how much energy they have on a day-to-day basis, which has a lot to do with how society treats them, which has a lot to do with how much money they have.

think about it, right?? i mean, in a better system, merit-based scholarships would not exist, because funding would go to low-income students who do not have time to study or participate in extracurriculars because they have to cook and clean for themselves and work 20 hours a week at the same time as they’re a full-time student. do you ever notice how dean’s list scholarships are granted to students without them even needing to apply, but financial aid forms are 5+ pages long and require you to write letters that are essentially the text equivalent of getting on your hands and knees and begging? and even then, it’s got such a slim chance of doing anything for you. so much effort for such little reward when you leave home at 7am to go to school and return home from work at 11pm and wake up the next day to do it all again.

it’s all structural, dude. you’re not unintelligent. you just weren’t allowed to be smart. and no one wants to give you a second chance at it, either. and that fucking sucks. but you’ve gotta stop calling yourself stupid or the “stupid” kids of tomorrow are never going to get the chances you didn’t

[unforth]

Unpopular opinion: the heavy push toward anti-advertising on Tumblr does nothing to harm the advertisers you hate but is doing a huge amount of damage to small businesses who rely on reblogs to get the word out about their stuff.

[veritasrose]

The way people seem to think celebrity callout culture is actual activism baffles me. I see way more posts yelling at zionist celebrities than ones actually supporting Palestinian people. I can promise you, the folks being bombed in their homes do not give two shits about some comedian losing twitter followers or if you get an actor fired from a show. That’s like… not even real life. Who the fuck cares? Call your reps and go to protests. Ignore the fucking celebrities for once and center the everyday people instead.

[formulapisces]

shamelessly vagueing here and this sounds harsh but jesus some people really need to start realising not everything is about them.

not in a stuck up, the world revolves around me, arrogant way. but in a they’re not laughing about you, they’re not gossiping about you, you’re just insecure, reading into every little thing, hurt and need help type of way.

[sarcasticmirage]

I'm feeling my fma 03 obsession returning and just putting it out there that if you're a brotherhood prefer-er, who needs to tell 03 fans how much better it is:

don't

mainly please don't just say it follows the manga, I SWEAR that whoever was posting about it already knows that 03 doesn't and I'm also pretty sure that they don't care

[volfoss]

hi sorry im like. so so mad about media so im putting this silly rant abt the witcher under the cut <3 spoilers for ummm the books or smth but i dont think my mutuals are into this so 👍

So i just hit Blood of Elves (the 3rd book) and met Triss. so not only did she literally SA/take advantage of geralt (as is the fucking pattern in these books w women towards him and the author and the plot treating any time geralt gets in this position as haha funny so many hot women want him :/) but she is um. absolutely fucking horrible. it is so confusing to me how so many fans love her (because even if you've only played the 3rd game, she LITERALLY point blank jokes with him about how people will no longer take advantage of him since he no longer has memory issues, and when he asks who was taking advantage of him, she was just like me :3. like its never elaborated on its just a fucking joke because we <3 feminism in this series!!) but if you've read the books it just becomes more clear how shes treating him. its a really disgusting pattern of behavior where most of his lovers either treat him like a freak and a mutant (which is sure soooo funny when hes treated like that by normal citizens) or just like a sexual object for them to use, with no regards to his consent. and by god triss has embodied both of those so so badly, where shes just nonstop either lusting after him (when he shows literally NO interest in her at this point lmao) or just treating him like shit. shes constantly guilt tripping him about ciri which is so fucking frustrating bc all the stuff shes bringing up under the guise of haha epic feminism moment is handled SO badly. she basically forces femininity on ciri who is like. barely 12 or 13 by this point (if my math is right) and who literally asks if triss will turn her into a boy and who is more than happy with dressing in male clothes. but triss finds this an absolute travesty that ciri literally has a diy haircut (or one of the men did it for her bc its mega crooked) and takes it into her own hands to turn her into a super pretty polished girl like. adjacent to beauty pageants but fantasy medieval. it is um. incredibly frustrating to see all of this and how triss consistently tells geralt his parenting sucks and that ciri shouldnt be with him (despite the fact ciri only feels safe around him and he does a rly good job parenting in his own way. like its not traditional bc he IS a cringefail adoptive single dad but its also like it doesnt need to be and he cares about her safety so much but wtv) and that he just overall sucks as a person. but we r supposed to root for the two of them to get together as in most of the games, she's the primary/most fleshed out romance option. and its like i do NOT expect ppl just playing the games or watching the netflix series to read the books but its also like she is genuinely really bad to him a lot, just talking down to him and it is actually um. very interesting bc geralt as a character is very emotionless a lot of the time (some of this is due to him being a witcher but some of it is just his personality or the trauma hes endured) but the increase of him just being upset or silent and resigned has increased tenfold in just the first 100 pages of this book. its so so frustrating to see esp after seeing how bad yennefer was treated, i really hoped triss would be better. but in every single way she's been worse.

[phagodyke]

usually if I see posts I disagree with I just scroll past but this saddens me... first up there's tons of story based games out there that don't suck! you're just not looking hard enough for them. no one's making u play roguelites. secondly they're not "gobbling up" the indie game scene at all?? there are SOME popular rogues (like sure, everyone knows hades which I would argue is actually not a great representation of the genre anyway!) but there are SO MANY indie games out here on planet earth + rogues don't take up a disproportionate percentage of them at all. you either have a poor gauge of the gaming industry or haven't explored outside of your bubble enough. THIRDLY disregarding that a lot of rogues do have decent story for a sec - even if they didn't, the main feature of a roguelite is the gameplay!! I'm so tired of ppl having a go at rogues for not being story rich enough. GO PLAY AN RPG. GO PLAY A VISUAL NOVEL. YOU ARE IN THE WRONG GENRE. its like someone playing a dating sim + being like ugh its just reading and picking dialogue options when do I get to fight something 🙄 people who actually enjoy playing roguelites/likes (hi!) appreciate the permadeath/endless replayability + navigating random/unpredictable environments + the level of difficulty. they find that mentally stimulating. if you DON'T then you are playing the wrong type of game!! I promise there are other games out there that will interest you more!! if its specifically the procedural generation/permadeath that bugs you but you enjoy other elements in that genre then I would suggest getting into metroidvanias/souls-likes which have fixed maps + more exploration/story focus, popular examples being the souls games, hollow knight, ori series, blasphemous etc. also implying rogues have less value for not being "handcrafted" is such an odd thing to say... procedurally generated maps might not have been individually designed but there are often immensely complex algorithms behind map generation, its not simply whacking together some random rooms, and someone had to write that code + design all the individual sections to feed into it in the first place...? I think thats an unfair comment to make 🤷‍♀️

[3416]

the funniest thing about the leafs, when people try to diagnose problems with the way they play as if it’s some systemic thing, is like... if it came down to it.... wouldn’t you rather them play well against good teams and bad against bad teams than the alternative.............. like in the long run, isn’t that better??? in the whole championship goal and how most ppl frame it, isn’t that all you care about anyway (for the people who say only the playoffs matter)...... i get that it’s the frustration with the potential of them playing well against EVERY team bc they’re good enough (although.. no one in the league really does that except boston rn, BE REAL), but at this point you know what team this is (and i suspect if you were heavily invested in any other team, they also have their frustrating inconsistencies/lore/superstitions/whatever this is), but it’s like. this isn’t even a fair assessment of why they lose the playoff games you love to talk about because THEY DOn’T PLAY BAD TEAMS THEn. when are hockey fans going to admit just how much luck goes into the sequence of events that takes someone to the stanley cup like holy fuck. it’s like either people genuinely believe they’re cursed (as in experience extremely unlucky moments when it matters most) or you genuinely think the leafs suck even when they’re evenly matched all series and go toe to toe with former stanley cup champions.... WHICH IS IT

[samuraisharkie]

girl help I’m experiencing that common yet elusive late night motivation to get my life together knowing it will fall apart in the morning </3 girl fucking help me