#swinging bat at hornets nest of a post i know i know

[padmestrilogy]

it does bother me how deeply people will mine obi-wan's child soldier trauma that comes from a dubiously-canon book and isn’t referenced at any point in the movies (or shows), but straight-up never talk about padme's child soldier/queen trauma, which is half the plot of tpm and while maybe clumsily followed-up on, is nonetheless a real genuine part of her character included from the start

[loveipromiseimnotinsane]

Just to throw this out there

[ganondoodle]

with every thing i learn about what the directors of totk said in interviews it all just gets worse huh?

the thing about the shiekah tech just vanishing and nobody caring enough to look into it was already rough and now i learn they said that -after botw zelda wondered if hyrule as a kingdom was still needed but then totk happens- just sounds like she wondered if hyrule as a kingdom still needed to exist in the way it had been (which would be an interesting change for once and also make sense for her character) and then they took her back into the distant past with the super good guy king of a godly race to teach her the lesson what her place is and that yes, their monarchy needed and good and really given to her by "gods" and what if big evil black man shows up again

i dont have the energy to get into it further but needed to say soemthing about it bc it keeps bothering me :(

[guiltyonsundays]

Incredible sequence of posts on the dash just now

[thenixkat]

Still fascinating to me that there's people who truly think their experiences are universal, that because something is popular in the circles they run in means that everyone should know it and will insult and treat people like stupid uncultured swine for even perceived differences in experiences. or if folks disagree with them when they make overly broad generalizations on what 'everyone' knows or thinks.

(b/c it's not like poor people, people from different cultures/subcultures, and people with fundamentally different interests exist.)

Like? That's complete asshat behavior.

[kostnyan]

Hetalia fans will be like " nooooo!! Don't ship those two characters they're brothers/ father and son!!!" And its about two land masses who were colonial empires who've done irreversible damage to the world or something. Objectively what I'm doing is way better comparatively and has little to no impact on society soooo

[fishsfailureson]

On my hands and knees begging fantasy authors to include other forms of government in their writing other than absolute hereditary monarchies because fantasy gives you the ability to experiment with literally any idea on how society functions and also I'm sick of seeing monarchies all the time, it gets boring.

Also they get glorified most of the time which is an even bigger problem

[possiblyawesometmblr]

if stranger things were set in 2016 eddie's big guitar solo would have been megalovania and it would have fucked just as hard send tweet

[pixlostinatos]

oh hey now that the well and bitter medicine have gotten official releases can i say it now? The Well is a nosy neighbors song and Bitter Medicine is sooooooo dl!pearl

[dyketennant]

the fact that i live in a society where i cannot avoid hazbin hotel or helluva boss within many queer spaces is truly a nightmare scenario.

[scare-ard--sleigh]

gotta be honest with you, i can't stand that post that's like "the t*rf accusations don't bother me bc i know that trans women are my sisters!" like , ,,, it should bother you. being accused of that should make you ask yourself what your knowledge gaps are and what you can be doing better to be loudly inclusive. if you’re an intersectional ally like you claim, it should absolutely bother you.

[jefferythejelly]

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[catboynutsack]

some of y'all hate minorities but are too scared to face the consequences of hating minorities so you hide behind nice sounding language while being discriminatory and it's actually really gross.

[roboticchibitan]

One of these days when I'm feeling spicy already and come across exactly the wrong idiot I'm going to swing a bat at a hornet's nest and go on my "my $5 monthly donation to the food bank is more punk than your 'both parties are the same' post" rant. So far I have kept this rant private because I just know it'll blow up and then I'll have people who think hating the goverment makes them punk in my inbox. That doesn't make you punk it makes you the average American.

I once got so incensed about this I went on a full redneck accent rant about this to multiple people. But I'm not stupid so I kept it in private. I've started unfollowing people who post that shit or post about encouraging people not to vote. I hate the government too but the only ones who profit from leftists not voting are the people trying to destroy any semblance of democracy we have left.

[dykesynthezoid]

Actually u know what swinging a bat at the hornets nest again but it’s extremely funny that this exact circle of people got over the n word controversy w Eric Bogosian in like five minutes (which! I agree that there was nuance there and I saw some great detailed takes from Black iwtv fans, and also I don’t think you have to agree with or endorse everything a famous person has ever done to post about them sometimes)

and yet I, a person those people have personally interacted and been in community with, someone with whom these people have had a much more intimate opportunity to actually observe my character, am persona non grata, everybody block this person, callout post look out for this dangerous propagandist!!! for saying that you should listen to Jewish people and not immediately baselessly assume they love genocide when they say something you don’t find immediately digestible.

As if I were the carrier of a social disease. As if I were contagious.

Literally the logic is that “zionist” propaganda is soooo powerful that if some poor unsuspecting person tried to actually consider the content of what I was saying from a stance that was curious and empathetic, they might somehow be tricked or brainwashed by my dastardly wiles. Better to ostracize and exile me completely where I can’t hurt anyone with my dangerous evil arguments (arguments that include “just please don’t be a dick to Jews”).

Idk man maybe the thing you’re so afraid to be infected with isn’t “zionist propaganda,” maybe it’s the fact that if you treat me like a human being, you might be the next one to face a campaign of sudden and exacting social rejection without any discussion or chance to defend yourself. But whatever

[iam93percentstardust]

i hate having to defend booktok as much as the next person on this site. and to be fair, i think that there's some valid criticism of that tiktok going around about the woman who hates long paragraphs. but, like. guys. it's not just that she hates long paragraphs. it's that she hates paragraphs that take up the entire page.

and maybe i'm swinging a bat at a hornet's nest here, but as someone who does read, and reads a lot, and reads, in particular, a lot of older works... i also will put down a book with singular paragraphs that take up the entire page.

because when i see one single paragraph that goes on for one full page (or, god forbid, multiple pages), i really only see a couple of possibilities.

possibility 1: the author is just someone who's very long-winded and can take a full page (or multiple pages) to cover one singular topic that would, in a less verbose author, be covered in a much shorter paragraph (i.e. talking for a full page about someone's dress as opposed to a few short sentences). and while that's a stylistic choice and the author is more than welcome to do that, i think it's also in a reader's prerogative to go "someone that wordy is not for me."

possibility 2: the author is not someone who's very long-winded and instead just kept adding more and more topics into one single paragraph when, instead, they should have been broken up into multiple paragraphs, each one covering a separate topic. now, maybe, this is another stylistic choice, but more likely, in my mind, one paragraph covering many topics is the result of poor editing. and, to be honest, i don't really want to read a poorly edited book because, odds are, overly long paragraphs are only the tip of the iceberg.

and given the sheer number of posts that go around this site on a monthly basis complaining about fic writers who post everything as a big wall of text instead of breaking it up into manageable paragraphs--i think you all know perfectly well that the majority of people don't want to read overly long paragraphs.

you just want to be mean to booktok.