#sorry this turned into a rant

[etherealspacejelly]

What haircut is your LEAST favourite

probably that time when i asked my hairdresser to cut my hair short because i had just come out as trans and wanted short hair and she said short hair wouldnt look good with my hairline and convinced me to get a bob instead, and then proceeded to give me the most karen ass haircut ever. thank god i dont go to her for haircuts anymore because she did this to me a lot. i had a lot of shit haircuts in that era of my life, and all of them were her fault because she just refused to give me what i wanted

[wildkratt-quotes]

Can i ask your opinion on people smexualizing the show, shipping the kratts... i just found your blog and want to make sure i'm not going to follow anyone weird who likes Corn of the Kratts

I don't think I want you to follow my blog... It is not my job to maintain your boundaries.

and I am an incorrect quotes blog that is purely safe for work. It says so in the pinned post.

I'm personally not a fan of Krattsest but I'm not going to be policing others, just block and move on.

rule 34 of the internet, if there can be porn, there will be porn made. if you don't like something, don't read something.

I love this fandom, but man some of you guys are leaning way too hard into purity culture. Yes it's a kids show. but people make what they make. and you can't control that.

If you focus on the bad you'll just end up feeling worse.

Block and move on when/if something you dislike pops up.

[just-another-miserable-prick]

Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone. This isn't the type of post I would normally make but please bear with me.

TL;DR: If you're thinking about sending me an ask to help get your fundraiser out there, please don't. I literally can not help you, I'm sorry.

The world's kinda really shit right now, I get it. We're all suffering and miserable. But if you're thinking about sending me an ask, asking for financial support, I'd like you to know that I don't have neither the reach nor the funds to help you. I wish I could help, I really do.

This is a small, dumb blog I made on a whim when I was a troubled 16-year-old. I never intended for it to get anywhere or accomplish anything. It's just my silly thoughts and the sillier things I make and do and the occasional Thing that happens to me. My blog is a space for those who want a haven away from the harsh reality of this shitty world we live in. So please, for the love of all the gods out there:

Don't. Send. Me. Your fundraisers in my ask box, submissions or DMs. Please.

I'm keeping them open for now but I will consider closing them if this keeps happening. Sorry for this rather bleak post, I hope you all understand.

[pupstim]

POP OFF KING! Tell them! The conflict is the interesting thing of the RP, I will never understand why people say stop being a villain let him play! They're trying to tell a story and sometimes the story needs a villain to keep momentum going. With purgatory and the removal of a Federation and not much known about the Eye guy there is not many options for conflict. Yea they could all grind and ignore one another but that would get old quick.

Yesterday it was so frustrating BBH was first being chased 2v1 and then in the 4v1 but it was also so interesting, I was on the edge of my seat the entire time! It was such good content! I bet his friends all enjoyed it too especially Etoiles and he lasted so so long! It was incredible!

I completely understand getting to passionate and upset when it seems like the team you're rooting for is getting unfairly punished or picked on by the other teams or the person you're watching is getting ganged up on.

But that means it's time to take a step back. I've had to do that several times over the course of the Purgatory, recently even when it was Foolish and Roier chasing BBH and not letting him get away, it wasn't fun to watch so I closed the stream and came back when I was feeling better and it was over. It's not bad if you need to step away for a bit for your own mental health but also to avoid going to the CC's and trying to make them change because you're upset with them doing xyz.

Idk man it just really sucks to hear how Bad's not having fun because people keep on sending him hate or being toxic in his chat because he wants to be the villain and he's giving Red team good conflict. I trust the CC's to discuss things together if anything really bothers them and work it out behind the scenes. So everything in the server is just friends playing with friends. And sometimes those friends need to be evil.

[bat-gwuck]

yk a lot of people say that toothless/night furies have the best dragon design and like yeah he’s cool n adorable and all but I prefer whatever these got going on

[thecandlesticksfromlesmis]

Are you currently a working screenwriter right now? If so what’s that like? And is the salary is enough to live off of, or does one have to get an extra job

I’ve actually ended up as an editor! Editing was the other discipline I was considering going my masters for, but decided my writing skills were the thing I wanted to work on the most. The salary of my editing job is enough to live on and my hours are super flexible!

I’m gonna be real with you—it’s very hard to get a full on job as a tv writer. And I say TV writer because it is actually impossible to get a job as a film writer. You have a little bit of a better chance getting staffed in a writers room for TV, but still it’s a slim chance of that even happening. And then, if you do get staffed, more than likely the show you’d be working on will get cancelled after one or two seasons and then you are completely out of a job. Literally. You have to start from square one again.

It’s a bad time to be a new screenwriter in the industry. Not only do you get treated like shit if you’re a reader or a writers assistant, but they simply to not promote from within anymore. My time getting my masters was super eye opening. I had some pretty shit experiences with professionals who work in the industry. Either they were telling us we’d not make enough to live on for most of our career, or they were super transphobic towards me. I’m not interested in being treated like shit on the off chance my writing might be put on television. Not only that, but the stories I want to write aren’t ones the industry is willing to tell right now.

So anyway, my advice to you is this—

Decide what is the most important thing to you. If you wanna brave the industry on the hope that one day you’ll get to show your work to millions and millions of people, do it. Absolutely go for it. Just know you will have to push through a lot of shit to try and get to that point. When I sat down and had a word with myself about what was the most important thing to me, it was that I had time in my life to create my own projects and stories with people that I love. I was told by some folks who worked in a writers room that by the time they got back home for their crazy work hours, they didn’t want to work on their own stories. That idea honestly broke my heart. I figured out by the time I graduated AFI, that I was not willing to sacrifice my own creative energy for capitalism’s idea of entertainment.

Now just to be clear—I do not regret getting my masters in screenwriting. In fact, I think going to film school is the absolute best way to practice your craft. I am 100x the writer now that I was a few years ago. I got exactly what I needed from school, and that was the confidence to go out and create my own stuff with exactly the people I want to create it with.

[ashxxgyu]

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[mxtxfanatic]

I hate that 7seas is "the eng danmei" publisher now because they fucking suck. They've always taken a heavy editorial hand with their works and have even censored a queer relationship before. Tor almost got the publishing rights and I mourn every damn day for that.

I’m new to reading danmei translations from official publishers like this, but my stake is just the complete disrespect of authors that happens when translators take liberties with others’ writings, especially Black creators and creators of color.

I’m remembering how it came out that a lot of Rumi’s poems translated into English were actually translated by a someone who only pretended to know the language. So it was mostly made up sayings now ingrained in a lot of English-speaking readers’ minds. I’m remembering how poet M. NourbeSe Phillip had to put up a petition to have a butchered translation of her Zong collection removed because the Italian translators erased the intentions behind her forms to create gibberish. I’ve seen people speak fondly of old fan translations before anime became big where translators would just throw anything in without knowledge or care for the language, which really isn’t cute. And this doesn’t even account for how if something isn’t popular enough, no one thinks to even translate it, let alone translate it faithfully.

Translation is so hard, but the way I rarely see these problems pop up for mainstream white creators with a ton of money behind them but I can list and list and list this happening to nonwhite creators of all walks of life, across all mediums and popularity, officially published or fan-run is absolutely a problem that 7seas is only a part of. And the way that there are translators who care for the works and creators, who would have translated faithfully, who I can list at least five of them who would have done better for mdzs just from tumblr, but none of them are getting paid to do this? This is an industry problem and a cultural problem around translations.

I’m not giving money to 7seas for shoddy translations; they are not the only avenue in which I can monetarily support mxtx. But the bigger problem is lack of respect shown to certain creators and the works that they put into the world when it’s time to translate them.

[cellsshapedlikestars]

How’s the supervisor gig going?

I'm tired haha

Basically what happened is that a supervisor stepped down and they called me and "asked" if I wanted the position and it all got dumped on me really quick after that. There's a reason I've never applied for supervisor before, because I'm not a "work is life" person and I've only recently learned how to really manage my anxiety/depression and didn't want added stress. But here I am.

Honestly the job itself is easy enough, except that ex-supervisor left me with a huge mess to clean up, a brand new person to train, and a person who has been here for six months, but it turns out she basically gave up on him like 2 weeks in and didn't give him a fair shot so I have to retrain him. She's also causing problems by never coming into the office and I've had to go in every day this week because of it. I've got a 45 minute drive each way and I'm learning new things and fixing old messes and my brain hurts.

The good news is I've managed in a week to clear up a lot of her work and even started helping the other supervisor with his (which he was behind on because it turns out he was doing the ex-supervisors work on top of his). So far he has offered to drive out to PA to hug me because I'm actually working, and our department manager told a different super that X stepping down & me taking the job was "like second Christmas", so that feels very validating. And I got a really good raise, which also helps of course.

Anyway. I haven't had much time for anything this week (I haven't gone grocery shopping & you should see the amount of take out I've ordered), but I promise I'm working on the next chapter of tmg. Maybe this weekend?

I just got home and am going to take a nap now lol

[bloodravensarecommies]

Yeah this is probably the lesbianism talking but like. I'm really struggling to give more than a surface-level shit about 9S. Like. I'm here for a story about women bro, get this fucking twink out of my sight

[cheolism]

omg I saw you’re going to be a teacher??? I’m a teacher too n I’ve always been ashamed of writing smut because like it would be frowned upon by my work 😭 but I’m glad there are other people who are also teachers on here 🫶

yes!! i’m finishing my associates in english next semester and then i will be joining a uni to get my bachelors in english and minor in history and join the teaching program. so i’d hopefully graduate in 2028??? and i’ll be getting a late start compared to others (i’ll be 26), but bff said it might be in my favor as i’d be more mature and smskksksks have ten years seniority over the kids i’m teaching

BUT!!!! writing smut!!!! okay so: they can’t tell you what to do outside of contract hours. they literally can’t. teachers are supposed to be moral authorities while school is in session; examples to the kids about how to behave and interact. teachers teach more than their chosen subjects after all!!! but outside of school??? they can’t tell you what to do. they can’t tell you that wearing fucking jeans or keeping your nose ring in is unprofessional and you have to dress in business casual outside of school hours, they can’t tell you to cover your tattoo, to not go out with friends and drink. they can’t!! they also can’t tell you not to write smut. and there are so many worse things a teacher could be doing with their free time. like it may be frowned upon, but it’s definitely not the fucking worst thing a teacher could be doing. i think, as with all things in a teacher’s personal life, it should be kept separate. for obvious reasons of teachers being with minors, but also bc it’s your personal business and students take up so much of your life already. but ultimately if a person wants to express themselves through writing smut, that’s their freedom!!

and if parents are disturbed by the idea of a teacher writing smut then they shouldn’t go prying into teacher’s lives. they could learn that the person teaching their child economics likes to be chained to her bed and called puppy. (which is also!! her fucking freedom!!)

[sweet-herba-mystica-archive]

I want so bad to talk about things I'm thinking while playing pkmn sv but I'm afraid people are going to spoil it for me.

Even a "do they know 👀" type comment implies something is going to happen

Spoilers don't ruin the experience entirely for me but I would like to finish the game while also figuring everything out for myself

I know my friends wouldn't spoil it but I'm afraid if they reblog my stuff and it reaches people outside my mutual circle that they will. I don't want to turn off reblogs either though

[hiyaluronic]

Just started playing Gotham Knights and my first thought is how good this would be as a Batman movie.

This is why DCEU is so far behind Marvel in terms of a cinematic universe. It doesn’t really expand their heroes. Batman is great as a solo character but his kids and the extended batfam are where he really shines. (even when he’s not present physically. Bat!dad!bruce is best.☺️Just look at Wayne Family Adventures) imho I think we’re all collectively tired of the repeated origin story films. Throw us right in the middle of Cataclysm, follow it up with No Man’s Land. Or, Court of Owls was a great story line and a pretty recent one that new fans would be able to find and read up on. Give us Under the Redhood, even with Jensen being out of the age range to play Jason now I would still love to see that story brought to the big screen. Just stop rebooting and recasting and STOP the origin stories, unless it’s a lesser known DC character that most people will need some background info on.

I have hope James Gunn knows how to turn the DCEU around because I have been a DC fan girl since I was a teenager and have been sorely disappointed in the movies as of late.

[meremere21]

Just saw and read a Times article about how 70% of men die within a year of being widowed…and it just made me realize that it’s almost the 10 year anniversary of my Grandma’s death, which was devastating because it came out of almost nowhere (she caught C. Diff when she was at the hospital for a different matter), and how my PawPaw only lived until the following January. He had extenuating circumstances in the fact that he had Parkinson’s, but my whole family’s of the opinion that he only held on for as long as he did because he wanted to have one last Christmas with all of us.

Sometimes the sadness of losing loved ones hits you really hard. They were such a huge part of my life, we’d see them at least 2-3 times a month and outside of my parents and sister they were my most important people. Grandma was the one who taught me how to bake and play the piano and PawPaw was the one who taught me how to fish and play dominos. Grandma’s death hit us hardest because, while we’d been slowly preparing ourselves to lose PawPaw to his Parkinson’s for years, we weren’t prepared at all to lose her so soon. Looking back on it, losing both of them in such a short amount of time and no longer having either of them to call or rely on probably contributed to the depressive episode I spiraled into my senior year of college.

And now I’m even sadder because thinking of my grandparents and the relationship my sister and I had with them is reminding me that so far and probably for a long time to come…my nieces aren’t going to have that kind of relationship with my parents, because my sister’s husband is an emotionally, mentally, and psychologically abusive bastard who absolutely hates our parents, especially mom because she doesn’t tow his line and agree with everything he says like his own mother does, and has done everything he can to separate and isolate my sister from our family. He only tolerates me because he doesn’t see me as a ‘threat’. He gets mad at her for even TALKING to our parents outside of their therapy sessions and our parents can count on one hand how many times they’ve seen their grandchildren since they’ve been born (…and honestly so can I, but even though I’m allowed in their home…I’m not comfortable being in his space knowing what he’s doing to my sister and our family). The girls are turning one this week.

And until my sister is truly ready to admit that her husband is abusing her and either ask for help or just pack up the girls and leave herself…I fear that my nieces will NEVER have the kind of relationship with their grandparents that my sister and I did…

[amyriadfthings]

Yesterday I read comments on twitter regarding Omar’s Q/A being like: he answers a question per hour, max. 🙄

And then your tags: „The way he just keeps going and going <3“ That warmed my heart, ngl.

Aw, well, that´s actually my new busy boy omar tag, especially after this amazing compilation, so it was more about what he was saying in his answers about new projects and another album than the speed or number of q´s he was replying to. But you know what, keep reading it that way, because I��m firmly on team he can reply to however many questions at whatever speed and frequency he likes and we´re not entitled to shit, especially considering the nonsense or worse he probably has to wade through to pick out what he wants to answer.

EDIT: and just saw he answered some more today. I personally like getting his replies a little drawn-out like that. Very much for slowing down. (And not to sound too much like your elderly neighbor you chat with over the garden hedge, but I do wish people would learn to be less impatient and entitled and more grateful for what they are getting. Complaining and whining about stuff you can´t influence does nothing for you except make you more grumpy. Maybe that insight comes with more life idk)

[ashxxgyu]

Why does this class always kill my mood I stg.