#that should be the bare minimum expectation

[grunge-mermaid]

cräm o'ber

volovonts

the CBC subtitles on bake off are killing me why are they so bad

[starcurtain]

I know I've talked a lot about Alhaitham actually being one of the funniest characters in Genshin Impact, but every time I think about him, I find something new to laugh at.

Alhaitham's character stories and personal criticisms of Kaveh largely hinge on one specific point: That Kaveh's genius intellect and artistic abilities are incongruous with his idealism. Kaveh possesses more talent than a selfless person should reasonably have, leaving him vulnerable to constantly being taken advantage of.

However, Alhaitham states these complaints about Kaveh's personality while having the exact same problem himself.

Alhaitham is literally the definition of "personality and talents do not match." Sir, you are the pot calling the kettle black.

It's a given: Alhaitham is exceedingly competent. He is intelligent, rational, and capable of being impartial when needed. Despite being a slacker as the Akademiya's scribe, during his stint as the Acting Grand Sage, the game goes out of its way to note--in several places--that Alhaitham was actually going above and beyond what was expected of him, taking the position very seriously, uncovering and fixing major issues in the Akademiya, and demonstrating a deep care for the sanctity and future of the Akademiya as a whole when Sumeru's people's will to research and learn declined after the collapse of the Akasha.

By all accounts, Alhaitham is (was) a fantastic Grand Sage. Compared to Azar, who is shown as inherently self-aggrandizing and unconcerned with Sumeru's well-being, Alhaitham genuinely did his best during his brief time as Sumeru's leader, protecting students' research, concerning himself with how to address the people's problems, and even diving in to solve mysteries that normally would have been left for the matra. As Acting Grand Sage, we're told his behavior and judgments were fair, and he addressed problems immediately and with his full effort.

In short, there is literally no one else more qualified to be Grand Sage than Alhaitham.

And yet, despite possessing every talent needed to be the leader of a nation, Alhaitham doesn't have the personality for it. He has every single trait a good leader requires... And yet he refuses to be a leader. His own talent vastly exceeds the slow-paced life his personality leads him to seek, making his particular abilities more incongruous with his values than Kaveh's--by a mile. People keep trying to promote him into positions of leadership because his talents are so obvious, and yet he does everything in his power to deny his own abilities and instead fly under the radar--and under the level of his full potential too.

Awful hypocritical for you to claim Kaveh's talents don't match his personality when yours match even less, Alhaitham...

[strawberrycamel]

hey psst c'mere... no a little closer... a little closer- there we go

Loop lips are part of a racist caricature of Black people. Stop drawing Black characters with loop lips. I don't care how they look in canon, it's racist.

okay that's all you can go

[yuridovewing]

honestly feel like i wouldnt care as much about fernsong and his lack of an actual followup to that throwaway line if people didn't start being asshats to people who still hc'd ivypool as a lesbian and going "omg if you think about it its still queer though bc fernsong has a feminine name and its sooooo gnc for men to babysit their kids <3" very easy way to get me to hate an inoffensive character actually.

[ukulelegodparent]

Just went to uni and instead of doing anything spent 3h agonising about ending my relationship. I'm sure this is good and normal

[californiaquail]

12 hour shifts should be illegal under any circumstances

[snowddeong]

ITZY videos............

[bbael]

Since I got the job the other day I've been thinking about how bad my rejection sensitivity is in professional settings, I am really just anxious about everything and assume people are gonna think I'm stupid or something and that makes me look even more stupid...

[panaeolus-fimicola]

keeping spirits high is not so easy when antisemitism is inescapable. im still going to try but it reeaalllly sucks, going to follow an art blog and then seeing that they actually Fucking Hate jews (usually feminists and homosexuals too). like. okay! cool. i am so glad that a significant portion of people my age think the holocaust was a myth. socializing outside of other jews or people i know are normal about us seems so super appealing. so appealing in fact i think i will avoid it almost entirely.

[vorareromantic]

silly little vent in the tags

[mistystarshine]

I really enjoy the way you've portrayed Adam and Lute's relationship in Three Years Time and Northern Star, as well as the interactions between Charlie/Vaggie and Lute! How would you write an interaction between Adam and Lucifer in that storyline?

Thank you! And maaaaybe? I'm not sure if I'm going to continue writing in that universe. In theory, I'd like to, and LOVE to do a scene with Adam and Lucifer, but in practice, I'm having some really horrible anxieties about my writing and if people hate it/me when I talk about my writing rn, so I may be taking a step back for a bit in general. Not sure.

[girlbob-boypants]

It's just video game salt

People REALLY make the character designs in Big Game 3 seem like they're groundbreaking for doing the bare minimum of being slightly more grounded than how other games are about women.

And yeah sure it IS exciting that you can have a woman who looks like a woman instead of a sex object. So long as that woman still has perfect skin, is thin, and does stray too far from being pretty.

And praising that while the barbarian tiefling and the cleric are in full faces of makeup from the start is so....

Thank god for the new AAA standard huh

[daz4i]

a bit insane to know there's people out there who think i'm hot shit tbh. you know i'm a pathetic cringefail loser who literally can't do anything, right?? please raise your standards 😔💔

[chamerionwrites]

I'm usually quite nice about it because I understand not being able to afford things (in fact I have a scripted tension-relieving joke response if the person isn't excessively rude), but why is there always that one person at a craft fair who feels compelled to tell you that they're not going to pay X price for something that represents hours of careful labor (not to mention many more hours of developing the skills to make the thing in the first place!). Like it's fine if you can't afford something but you can just NOT BUY THE THING and keep your entitled mouth shut

[flippedorbit]

do you want me to fucking go off on you? do you truly fucking want that mother?

[rocksalt-and-pie]

rant about How My Family Don't Even Leave Kudos under the cut because I tend to gaslight myself in hindsight and I really need to document how unsupportive they are

feedback to this year's Christmas horror short story that i wrote for my close relatives:

- "it was about time you wrote another one!" [this was during the unwrapping so before they had read it; I know how it's supposed to be meant but frankly I just don't like that tone]

- "the disclaimer that any resemblance to living persons is purely coincidental was a blatant lie this time hahahaha" [yes I know that's the whole point, I put the disclaimer for humorous effects, it's sarcasm, you are supposed to recognize the family member that it's written about]

- "you copied from Kafka though didn't you, well I didn't read that one but isn't that one book of his about an insect man too?" [a lot of stories are about humanoid insect monsters and I'm sure there are a few that are even closer to what i wrote, like, it really wasn't my brightest most original idea and it was a pretty common horror trope actually. It's not plagiarism though just because it's a similar theme and Kafka didn't even occur to me because my short story's plot has absolutely nothing to do with Metamorphosis and couldn't be further off actually? That's why I never even made the connection while writing (and I'm VERY paranoid about accidental plagiarism, probably due to frequent comments like these). Which you would probably see yourself if you had... read that Kafka book you're comparing it to....?! ]

- no comment thus far, utter silence in fact [honestly I have a feeling it wasn't perceived well by this particular household and probably taken as an affront and I don't even wanna hear anything about it because if you don't have anything nice to say just keep it to yourself but sometimes faking a friendly comment is actually the decent thing to do lol.]

Why can't they just say "thanks, I had fun reading it" and keep it at that like why is that too much to ask. I don't even expect the highest praise or a long ass personalized story analysis with a detailed list of what you thought was good, I don't expect that from anyone (which is why it means so much to me whenever someone comments even just a little heart emoji under my fics), but that's my family and they can't even come up with the bare minimum.

Like, posting something anonymously for strangers online and not getting kudos from every single reader is a very different thing (it's FINE! you don't owe me shit! I didn't write it for you specifically, i literally wrote it for myself and then decided to share it with others and it's awesome if you happened to like it enough to click the kudos button or even write a comment, you, a complete stranger that i wouldn't even know had read it otherwise) than sitting down three days in a row and writing a short story catered to my family's personal interests and preferences, editing and correcting and setting and printing it and giving it to them to read as a Christmas gift (additionally to the "real gifts" that cost me money of course) and not getting even ONE word of approval or support for it. that's just. Honestly that's just a little pathetic lmfao?