#sorry for the tag rant i’m tired

[whatever-you-can-give-me]

rip wolfwood’s actual cross pendant, deemed not sexy enough, replaced with catholic regalia for the. hotness points i guess.

[duckiemimi]

my gojos

and my one geto

[theetwinkleboy]

and another member of the lov gets what they thought they wanted but at what cost. spinners has been the most interesting to me so far because it parallels so neatly with izuku’s. both of them feeling powerless and accepting a quirk because that’s what they thought they would need to be powerful and change things. both of them sitting across the table from each other, scarred and broken by the quirks that they accepted. spinner realizing too late that it wasn’t a quirk he needed to save his friend—it was just him. and maybe not accepting those quirks in the first place would have put him in a better position to save shigaraki (but all for one didn’t want him to save shigaraki, so). shigaraki’s murderer and his best friend. hm.

but also, to have it come back now, to have spinner say this now TO izuku, in the same chapter that izuku is like ‘how can we stop this from happening again (how can we stop the next person lashing out before they get past the point of no return)’ and tsukauchi is like ‘we can’t without more heroes’ like NO! that’s not the answer! spinner told him the answer. it’s not in a quirk or in more heroes. it’s being willing to reach out and see someone for who they are.

[starry-eyer]

When I see stuff like this I kinda want to bash my head into a wall:

To start off, I’m not sure whether this person was commenting on book or show Cersei, but honestly, it doesn’t even matter because she’s so much more than the ‘ambitious villain’ or the ‘murderous girlboss’ tropes in both the book and show.

(Of course, I do have my issues with the way Cersei was written in the show like most people but this is simply a rant post so I’m not going to go through the differences of Show vs Book Cersei)

Cersei is a female character who was shaped by her environment, who’s insecurities were created by her environment, and she’s a woman who’s idiotic mistakes can be traced back to how her environment shaped her. She’s much more than a murderous girlboss, she’s both a victim of the system and also a beneficiary of it, while also acting as an agent of it to keep the status quo while also desiring what the system denied her.

Cersei is NUANCED and complicated and even now people hate that about her and want her to have been a purely evil woman handcrafted in a vacuum, ignoring the context of her life because readers would rather not engage with Cersei’s victimhood and nuances because that ruins their idea of: She Was The Problem and Always The Problem. (People would rather say that she deserved her walk of shame instead of interacting meaningfully with the theme of systematic gender-based violence that is so prevalent in Cersei’s story. The exploration of patriarchal violence in Show Alicent’s story is done so horribly in comparison.)

And what really pissed me off about these tags is that this person has clearly decided that they don’t care to interact with the nuance of Cersei and are fine with flattening her, and yet they shit on others for not liking Alicent.

Because of the way Alicent is written in this show, she almost always has a ‘woe is me I can do no wrong’ attitude, which of course drives people away from the character (woe is me I deserve to take a child’s eye 🥺). However, what actually annoys me is how she’s made out to be stupid, foolish, ignorant, and inconsistent due to the horrible writing of this show, all of which are deviations from her book characterization. Also, I despise it when people want me to support writing decisions and changes made in adaptations that are downright misogynistic and are meant to attract the male gaze.

But what pisses many people, including myself, off is how the changes made negatively impacted many other characters. Alicent’s terrible characterization is like a black hole that distorts and warps the whole story! It’s annoying af!

So when people like this say: ‘She’s nuanced and people just can’t handle it 🙄;’ I say: No. She’s horribly written and a different character from the book and people have a right to be critical about these changes that stripped a female character of 1) her agency and 2) her intelligence!

And the thing is, there was little reason for the writers to have made all these changes to Alicent’s characterization! In the book she is an interesting character with clear motives and understandable reactions. She’s cunning and ambitious and acts the way a noble lady who became queen would. And despite her clear ambitions and dislike of Rhaenyra, she still makes a comment wondering about who would protect the Princess from Ser Criston, and yet she then takes Cole into her service after his falling out with Rhaenyra. That’s a perfect example of nuance! Show Alicent could never compare to book Alicent’s clear moral values and consistent disregard of said moral values in pursuit of power.

And because of this, Book Alicent isn’t easy to stomach. It’s hard for most people to come to terms with a character like her and it’s even harder for people to feel sympathetic for her at the end when she went mad with grief.

On the other hand, Show Alicent was designed in a way to garner pity, and when the writers felt like her current arc wouldn’t be enough to garner the specific reaction they wanted they would then throw in a time skip and suddenly she’s completely different and yet still Thee victim. She’s designed to be as sympathetic as fucking possible! The camera angles, the background music, and the lighting is set up in a way to make sure you the viewer feels pity or sympathy for her! Cause that’s her role in this series! She’s thee Ultimate Victim!

But too bad for the writers as many people are fed up with this kind of inconsistent writing. Even when the writers created a whole new challenge for Alicent where she’s shitted on by the green council and forced to face the beast she helped to raise, I and many others could never feel any satisfaction as it was clear that once again Alicent was being made to be Thee Ultimate Victim who was just led astray by the patriarchy and was a victim of it and was only just realizing it so don’t you pity her don’t you feel sad for her and now she’s trying to do the right thing so pls pls pls pity her 🥺~ So it shouldn’t be surprising that many people are annoyed by these eNLiGhtEnEd changes that have led to a complete deviation from the source material.

To summarize: Cersei is an excellent fucking character who’s by no means easy to stomach, and because she’s not easy to stomach she’s often reduced to annoying ass tropes by dumbasses who are reading above their comprehension level. But when you actually try to understand her, you can easily see why she turned out the way she did and you can feel sympathy for her while understanding that she’s both victim and perpetrator! On the other hand, Show Alicent is a mess and HOTD is trying to make her serve a different narrative role than she did in the books so ofc people are going to be unhappy with the changes as book readers are once again faced with the annoying reality that the writers don’t give a fuck about the source material.

[cupcake-bee-boy]

Someone told me today that masculinity is a prison. Like, just straight to my face. I’m so fucking tired of this. Just be normal about masculine people. It’s not hard.

Do you know why the term is “toxic masculinity”? Because normal masculinity isn’t fucking toxic!! It’s wonderful and amazing and freeing. It’s so fucking freeing. I feel like myself, something teenage and child me never got to have. I finally feel like myself. I finally feel HAPPY!! I feel ALIVE!!!

And it’s not like toxic femininity is fake. It’s real, and it’s out there. It’s trad wives. It’s terfs to an extent. It’s white women and their fucking tears. And I’m sure toxic androgyny and stuff like that exists too, even if it’s not widely known or talked about.

Just be normal. Treat people like normal human beings. Stop being so weird about masculine people. It doesn’t make you an ally or a good queer or a feminist or whatever. It just lets people know that you’re probably a dangerous person to be around, or at the very least have been brainwashed by dangerous people.

[chrollohearttags]

woke up with the intention to be productive and have a good week. unfortunately I just have the saddies now and I lack motivation to do anything

[artist-izzy]

One thing I don’t see people grasping very well in arcane s2 is the way they portray a lot of well beloved characters dying, so I wanted to ramble and give my take on it!

These are all my personal thoughts and takes, I just wanted to yap about my thoughts on arcane!

Please don’t come at me T_T

SPOILERS FOR ARCANE S2 UNDER THE CUT!!

Whether it be background or major characters one thing that I’ve noticed is people not particularly grasping that they are trying to portray the horrors of dying in war.

Take for example Loris, a character whose death I’ve seen complained about many times.

Loris is, while yes a minor character, he is also very well beloved by the main characters and parts of the fanbase. from what we see he’s a very protective character with a good sense of where his loyalties lie.

We see him bonding with Vi throughout a montage in season 2, we see him celebrating with her, helping her, and generally being a good friend and person to her. Helping after she falls into alcohol use, keeping her safe and even joining her. While we don’t see a lot of this bonding we get the implication.

And in the end he dies what is essentially a very meaningless death, treated as just another casualty of war.

That’s all these deaths are, that’s all they’re portrayed as.

When you die in war, you don’t die a hero. Not everyone gets the privilege of a proper send off or a glorious death.

We see this again with Gert

Gert is again a very minor character, who becomes even more tragic when we learn more about her.

In the main timeline we don’t know too much, she is a Jinxer we see first in episode 4 of season 2, Paint the town Blue.

She’s the first of the Jinxers and people taken into the custody of Stillwater to show her gratitude and comfort to Jinx after saving them which the others follow suit. She’s a strong willed person, driven by determination and a want for justice. Joining multiple rallies against Piltover and soon joining them in the fight against the Noxians. Seemingly being the one who got many Zaunites to join the fight.

Somewhere during this battle she is injured and Vi carries her to cover to which she dies. What I find saddest is that fact Gert is only in her 20s, and when she dies all she wants is a hand to hold.

What adds on to this tragedy is when we see her in the alternate universe.

In the alternate universe we see her potential. We see what she and many other characters could have been if things had gone right from the beginning.

We see that she works at the last drop and lives a happy and mundane life, also working as a DJ on the side.

We learn that Milo has a crush on her and it’s cute, but it’s also incredibly effective at giving you more of a connection towards a character who will be given an equally as sad death.

Gert much like Loris is treated as just another casualty and I understand why so many people are frustrated by that.

I also understand why it was done. Arcane is an incredibly well written and complex show and this is just my take on how things were done.

If you have any comments or additions to this, id love to hear them!!

[bittyfromquotev]

It’s not condescending it is genuinely trivializing why incest is actually wrong and concerning to hear when people throw the term around with any space-themed robot ship even if they have never actually called each other as family. Words have weight, incest shippers can be a serious problem in fandoms but we gotta stop using it with any weird ship ppl don’t like and treating people who don’t see the robots as family + ship them the same as people who intentionally romanticize incest (which does exist in the fandom and is a different thing entirely it is very obvious when it happens). We also gotta remember Solarmoon hadn’t even considered each other family too when people started shipping it and were accused of incest, and yes aus can be as simple as “they remained friends then became romantic instead” it’s very easy when you considered them just friends and not automatically related for being a DCA model. It just sucks okay, you saying it’s “kind of incest” does not lighten the blow of the accusation you’re throwing and I don’t even like the ship

Okay. I fully understand that. I’m sorry that I apparently hurt you guys. Genuinely.

But what am I supposed to say? I understand that it’s not really incest all the time. Many of these ships have characters that don’t consider each other family.

I was not trying to accuse anyone. I was not trying to be rude. Can we clear that up? Please? I’m not very good with tone. I don’t know how else to respond to this. I am fully aware that my words may have caused some harm in a way, and I’m sorry for that.

I don’t consider DCA models to be related. I think the only reason anyone has an issue with it is that TSAMS/TLAES is very family-centric.

I will say this once again:

While I could have definitely worded things better, I was just confused. Ship whatever you want. I literally do not care.

[dreamsb0u]

Sometimes I wish my “friends” or whatever who ghosted me would talk to me again just so I could bite their fucking heads off

[jumpy-buggy-33]

I drew a bunch of mes becahse I was tired..

Close ups..

[the-immortal-restless]

Does anybody know who to ask about Multiple personality disorder experiences because I don’t wanna go around asking people question that bug them like an annoying bigot but I’m also needing to double check if I’m just being weird or if I’m experiencing something

[bluejay-flies]

Sorry the next update is taking a while, life suddenly got super busy and I haven’t had time to really do anything I enjoy ;-;

I wish I could say it was almost done, but it’s more likely that it’ll be finished in a week or two, minimum. Trying not to beat myself up about it but it is disappointing, sorry guys :(

[iamthetruestrepairman]

I wish I just knew when/if I did something wrong

[bloodywonder1846]

Alrighty, guess I’m gonna take the risk and post this.

(Pls don’t get mad at me, y’all. I’m just stating an opinion & ranting about my frustrations, I don’t mean to sound rude.)

This is certainly gonna make people mad. If you disagree with me or are upset by this, that’s fine, I get that everyone has different opinions. Idc, just please leave me alone & don’t harass me over it.

I honestly have a lot of complaints similar to this, but then I saw this happen with my favorite song, and it just absolutely upset me, so yeah-

Can we PLEASE stop over-sexualizing Wait???

Yes, I know that at the end of the day, I’m always gonna have my asexual bias, but I swear that I have more complaints than just, “I’m a sex-repulsed ace who’s tired of everything being over-sexualized.”

I know that a lot of things are gonna vary depending on the production, but at least to me, that’s not what this song is supposed to be. I know the Broadway revival does the whole weird thing with his suspenders, idc what the Broadway revival does, this song is supposed to be a soft, sweet, and genuine moment. (This isn’t an insult to the Broadway revival, btw. I do still love that production despite it making some choices I disagree with.)

Let’s review the scene & context surrounding it:

Sweeney has been presented with the opportunity to off Beadle Bamford, but he’s impatient af and wants his revenge now. On top of that, he’s also stressing over how to get to Judge Turpin. Nellie basically tells him to chill out and be patient, but like, in a sweet and loving way. The whole song is her trying to help him calm down and feel less stressed, upset, and tense. She can see that he’s dealing with a lot, and she genuinely cares about him and wants to help him. By the end, he’s a lot more calm, even if he is still thinking about revenge deep down. You see the calming affect Nellie has on him, and she’s happy to see him okay again, even if it’s only for a moment. He even internalizes her words. During Epiphany, he says, “Why did I wait? You told me to wait!” Obviously he seems to have misunderstood her a little, but it shows he was at least paying attention.

At its very core, this scene is a man who’s gone through a lot and is stressed, a woman who cares about him and wants to comfort him, and him briefly being able to silence the noises in his head because he really does find comfort in her words and her presence.

This is supposed to be a calming type of song, sort of like a lullaby in a way. Maybe this really is just a me thing, but it was never meant to be sexy.

There’s a lot of things that annoy me about the over-sexualization of Nellie Lovett in general & this song in particular, but the main one is that it makes everything feel less sincere. Idc if you have your headcanons, or if you wanna talk about NSFW stuff regarding this show from time to time, but treating it like that’s the whole thing, especially regarding her, just… Idk.

Nellie truly loves Sweeney, and it’s always annoyed me when people say otherwise, and when people say that it was just lust. When people over-sexualize her & every moment between her and Sweeney, all that does is prove their point, and it makes her relationship with Sweeney feel a lot less genuine. When she’s not allowed to have genuine, emotional, and romantic moments without it either being sexualized or played for laughs (or both in some cases), it both erases her complexities as a character and cheapens the moment. (I have another rant regarding By the Sea too, but I’m specifically gonna focus on Wait here)

She truly cares about Sweeney and wants to help him, comfort him, and be there for him. When Wait is instead seen as just seduction, it makes her feelings for him seem a lot less genuine. I would think that none of us Nellie lovers or Sweenett fans would want that, and yet my fellow Sweenett shippers are the ones that are most guilty of this. Do you not also care about the emotional side of their relationship? The sweet side? The soft side? The romantic side? Their friendship? Does it only matter to you if it’s sexy? (I’m not saying this is all Sweenett shippers, or even the majority.)

Idk, I’m just tired of people trying to take away their actual adorable moments and make it all horny.

(Does it feel like nobody’s appreciating everything else about their relationship and is trying to make everything sexual, or am I just ace & losing it?)

Idc if you want to write smut about them, idc if you have differing opinions. I really don’t want to sound rude regarding people’s opinions & interpretations, and I don’t want to shame anyone. There are even people on here that I’m genuinely chill with & like that do this, and I don’t want it to sound like I’m mad at them or don’t like them or anything. I’m just so tired of it all.

Not everything has to be about sex, you guys.

(More stuff in the tags)

[princesskkfish]

A rant~

(be prepared for nonsense all over the place so sry)

Being a artist is really hard sometimes! (It’s hard just being a human too but I’d have a essay if I got into that, so staying to the artist side of things) anyways, it’s hard! Like yeah it’s a lot of peoples outlet and making art is super fun. And I’m not usually one to complain (for a number of reasons but whatever) but I want everyone to know their not alone and it really is hard sometimes

Being a artist has its ups and downs: art block, lack of motivation, lack of ideas, or being really inspired, or having tons of ideas and just goofing around. But the downside er hard part at least for me and others I know is the comparing and feeling of not good enough. Either not good enough in your art, feeling it not perfect enough, having to high of expectations and feeling terrible when it didn’t turn out the way you wanted. We all know this feeling in one way or another and I’ll be straight up it sucks, it really does

and this ruins it for some people and I hate that, the fact you can create something is amazing! No matter how good or bad you think you are. Everyone has the right to be creative and make the things they feel inspired to do! And no matter how far along you are in your art journey comparing can potentially crush that

and don’t get me wrong comparing isn’t inherently bad. Like you can compare your art to learn from it or see how someone else does this certain thing and how you can improve your art. What I’m trying to say is, don’t belittle yourself or your art because your going great and you are unique and no one else can make that art like you can! And it’s not fair to yourself to compare your artwork to another persons. That person might have years of practice or draws hours a day to improve.

And going right along with that last bit EVERYONE is always improving and at one point or another the person your comparing yourself too felt the same way you do. So be nice to yourself! Your doing great! And you shouldn’t make art just so you can “beat” or be “better” then this other person. Make art because you want too and because it makes you happy >:0

And that’s the end of my rant I would go on but my brain is fried and I still have homework to finish o7

[myrabbitistryingtokillme]

Ngl I kind of hate the term neurodivergent atp. Or at least as it’s being used. There needs to be some other a bit more specific term ppl can use so they don’t like exclude half the neuro divergent community when talking about neurodivergencies.

Like it’s genuinely gotten to the point where the term actually feels exclusive instead of inclusive.

I can look up the word neurodivergent on Pinterest and have to scroll through dozens of posts about autism+adhd before I find one that actually mentions other disorders.

That’s. Not great!

I know there’s audhd I think it is? But I rarely see ppl use it. It’s just like. Shitty to exclude an entire facet of neurodivergent ppl bc they don’t have either autism, adhd, or both. And I feel like that’s what’s happening here.

You can be neurodivergent and not be autistic. Or have adhd. They are not the gold standard of neurodivergence. They shouldn’t be the only things being talked about with a term that’s supposed to be inclusive.

It’s like saying “the lgbtq community” when your specifically addressing something related to sexual orientation. Sure the term technically works but your leaving people out and it’s just kind of shitty to gloss over an entire portion of a community.

It’s weird to generalize an entire spectrum of people so much. It also contributes a lot to people just slapping the word neurodivergent on something so they don’t have to further explain their claim. Which I don’t like. Posts will be like “yeah that’s a neurodivergent thing” and then proceed to not explain what they mean or what they’re specifically referencing and it leads to a lot of misinformation and it just. Is not good. Or inversely “neurotypicals do/don’t do xyz?” And stuff posts which are well meaning and I definitely fall into all of these traps but, like, I feel like they’re worse bc when ur saying neurotypicals do/don’t do xyz It is very specifically an exclusion.

Idk I feel like we should dial it back or just like come up with more specific terms or at the least just. Be more conscious of it? At the very least if people could be more aware of when they’re using neurotypical to mean “people I don’t like/understand” and I’d be happy lol.

(If u don’t agree or have any counter points or anything feel free to share. Not that I expect anyone to see this. This has kind of just been stuck in my head for a while now. And it’s been making me uncomfortable so I had to get it out.)