#the gifset you reblogged is the first i've seen of it and i'm not taken by it :T

[astrxd]

TUMBLR/AO3 USER ASTRXD IS ALIVE? I MISSED YOU! 😭WELCOME BACK OLD FRIEND

heeeY what's UP!!! <3 how're you taking care of yourself these days :) the live action hath stoked the dead forge (my friend sent me the trailer and i refused to watch it because i'm still processing the fact that it's happening... and also my old fics are receiving new kudos which makes me go O_O because that writing is over half a decade old now and i'm shy about it)

[wannab-urs]

Gin's 2023 sappy post

It's hard for me to believe that at the beginning of this year, I didn't know a single one of my best friends in the world existed. But it's true!

How we got here

I'm not quite sure exactly when I started looking up Pedro Pascal on Tumblr, but it was sometime after February. I'd watched Game of Thrones and Oberyn was my favorite character, but I was in one of my periods of not being on Tumblr (I've had this account for about 10 years, but it's seen many fandoms and I haven't always been active).

I watched the first few episodes of The Last of Us that had come out - I was 3 episodes behind I think - and immediately looked up Joel Miller on Tumblr. How could I not? Anyway, give me ten minutes on this hellsite and a middle aged man with a huge imdb and watch me develop a hyperfixation.

So then I looked up interviews. I watched basically every interview this man ever did, but I remember that the Lie Detector interview and his appearance on the Talk Easy podcast are really what did me in. I went from admiring this man as an actor and thinking he's pretty to basically being in love with him.

Anyways....

I didn't mean to start reading fanfic? I come from the world of Destiel on AO3. I never wrote it, I just read copious amounts of it. I'd never read reader insert, much less straight reader insert, and I'd never written a word of anything even resembling a fanfiction.

But I found @prolix-yuy, @frannyzooey, @joelscruff, @fuckyeahdindjarin, and @ezrasbirdie (check the spreadsheet, y'all are at the very top!) and I was hooked.

Then I read Psychomanteum by @whatsnewalycat and Celestial Navigation by @write-and-buried and was inspired to parade my trauma around in a Dieter shaped trench coat: AGOY was born.

@beskarandblasters is the first person I really talked to on here. In fact, Kel is the one who introduced me to most of my friends on here. And we've been harassing each other on the daily since. I hope to 🦵 her in real life someday soon ❤️. I love you, bitch. You mean the world to me.

I could never ever ever list all of my dear friends I've made on here. Seriously, there are so many of you that mean the world to me. But I'm gonna list a few.

My cannibal crew @pr0ximamidnight and @atinylittlepain, without whom Love as Violence Dave (starving season), Head up his Ass Javi (in the a.m.), and the later editions of loser druggie Dieter (AGOY) would not exist - or at least they wouldn't be as good as they are.

My darling soup snake, the loml, my spider twin, my forever partner in making bitches cry (it's us, we're bitches, making each other cry in an endless loop) @ramblers-lets-get-ramblin. #1 AGOY stan forever, you may love my own magnum opus more than I love it. Thanks for listening to me scream about every pedro boy on the planet and thanks for screaming right back at me. I love you.

The random college student I found by accident, decided to take under my wing, and then was subsequently taken under their wing bc it turns out they have more fandom experience and life advice than I can ever hope to have @idolatrybarbie. Bea, my darling, thanks for always letting me bitch, for showing me fics I never thought I'd be into (The Santa Claus AU Frankie Morales Free Use Kink, anyone) but that I often was into, for encouraging my writing, and for being fucking real with me.

The pedrostories crew, but especially @pedrorascal - I love screaming about Pedro with you at... 2:30 in the morning my time (we love time zones!). Thanks for letting me be a terrible mod for your fic archive blog and never getting mad at me for not doing my job. And for being a wonderful, kind, amazing person all the fucking time.

I'm being so serious when I say I could list at least 20 more people. People who brightened my day with a reblog or a message. Or who wrote a fic I still think about at least once a week. Or who made a gifset that is permanently etched into my brain. People I talked to in discords and most likely trauma dumped on and they listened and they cared and they let me hold their trauma in return. I love you guys so fucking much.

Conclusion

I never could have imagined I'd be a writer and run a fic rec blog at 24. Especially not for Pedro Pascal Characters. But here we are -- and I can honestly say it has been the highlight of my year. And I bought a house this year.

I have so many new friends and a new hobby (I never wrote at all before this) just because I wanted to Fuck That Old Man. Incredible.

[missmungoe]

Ahh it makes me happy seeing you reblog those old gifsets of mine ❤️🥹 and gosh, while I didn't hate the LA version of them (I liked Shanks more than Makino, they wrote her as too serious!) we could have gotten so much more... so I share your disappointment 😢

Your gifsets from those episodes are my favourite!! Thank you so much for making them<3

And oh same, and I honestly didn't mind Shanks that much, but as for Makino, she just felt like a completely different character. That's not saying it's a bad character; it's just not the Makino I love.

(More under the cut, for those who are avoiding spoilers - or who'd rather not read my thoughts, as I unfortunately still have a few!)

One thing that was missing from the live action version of her, at least for me, was her innocence. I've always imagined her as similar to Luffy in that respect - or she embodies the same kind of naivete, at least at the beginning of the series. One example: I've always liked the idea of Dawn Island as being so far removed from the Grand Line that it really is a mythical ocean to them, and for whom devil fruits might as well be fairy tales, but the live action's choice of providing exposition about the nature of the devil fruits via Makino completely changes this. And I've been trying to figure out why this scene felt so off to me, and I think that's the reason: it's delivered with a wary kind of knowledge that just...doesn't translate to the vision I have of her in my head, of the fiercely practical but still easily-enthralled barmaid who's as charmed by Shanks' outrageous stories as Luffy is.

And this isn't me advocating for a version of Makino who's oblivious to what's happening beyond her own shores. The fact that she does know and makes an active point of keeping herself informed is an established part of Shanties canon, and to a greater extent than what's even suggested in OP canon - the wife of the Emperor who keeps detailed ledgers with all her husband's enemies that would put his first mate's to shame; who's part of his inner circle, and who knows more about what's going on in the New World than many of those who sail it. I love a Makino who's informed, but the greatest difference between my own interpretation and Netflix's version of her is that even when she knows all these things about the world - hell, even in the fics where she's seen it, and lived it - she still retains parts of her innocence, like her prevailing belief in mercy, her easily-inspired wonder, and (at least some of) her naivety. And that's my own interpretation, where I've taken my share of creative liberties with her character, but nothing that I feel is at odds with her portrayal in canon, where even when she's older and more mature, there are still moments where her innocence shines through (see: her stand-off with Dadan after Ace's death, or her reaction to the news about Sabo during the Reverie). It doesn't make her weak - if anything, my prevailing belief is that it takes strength to look at the world and all its unfairness and horrors and not let it make you jaded. And I wish we could have gotten that Makino.

(And a different wig, my god, I'm going to include an extra description of her beautiful hair in my next fic just to make up for that godawful wig)

All my beef with her Netflix characterisation aside though, her motherly moments with Luffy were lovely, and I loved that they made her physically try to stop Higuma from hurting him, so there were some things about her live action version I enjoyed<3

[kitconnor]

idk if you made a post already about it but can you please explain a bit more about track tags and how to use it? your blog is such a big help thank you for taking the time to make tutorials

hey there ! i'm so sorry for the late reply, i've been away for 10 days 😭 i don't have a post about it but i'm more than happy to help you out !

what are tracking tags? in order for gifmakers to gain exposure on their gifsets, they will often use a tracking tag. in creating a user unique tag, they will follow it and then reblog things they are tagged in.

how do you create one? a 'tracked tag' is just a regular tag. common formats are: '#userx', '#tuserx' and '#userrx' or someone's username. they typically use the user's name (in place of where the Xs are on my above examples) but depending on whether or not someone already tracks that tag is whether or not you choose to use it yourself. once it's created, it's always good to follow the tag, simply because it makes it so much quicker to find in your tumblr search bar as a shortcut to quickly see if you've been tagged.

how do i determine whether that tag is taken/how do i know if someone uses that tag? to find out if a tag you wish to use is already in use, go to the search bar on tumblr, type in 'userx' and then click on the search that also has the hashtag beside it (you want to search the tag, not the words) and then it'll show whether or not it's being used. if there's no results and that tag is empty, great !! you can start using that yourself. if you search it up and posts are already there, you're best to check the dates on the post. if the dates are recent, someone is likely still actively using it. if the dates are old, that means the person who has used it has likely gone inactive and people stopped tagging them. if you try a few different variations and all of them are in use (this can happen with common names), often people will just use their username. there's no problem with it, but it's less common because people change their urls. some people even do '#user[username]', but you still need to account for changing of urls.

how do i get people to tag me? make sure you've got your tracked tag somewhere on your blog, and if you just decided to start tracking one, make a quick post letting people know ! then they'll know to tag you in things you like.

how do i tag a gifset? apart from single user tags, there are also source blog tags (i'll refer to them as SB tags). gifmakers will typically tag these source blogs depending on the content of the gif and what that blog says they will reblog, ie. #usermusic <- reblogs music content/musicians, #usergay <- reblogs lgbtq+ content from tv/film/celebs, etc. user tags are the '#userx' ones i've already talked about. users will tag people who share common interests or whoever asks to be tagged, (usually a discord thing) as they know that can be a guaranteed reblog. keeping in mind you now have space for 30 working tags, you can tag heaps of people and get more exposure !!

help - i've tagged a SB/user and they still haven't reblogged my work? there can be a few explanations for that. the first one and most likely one is that the blog runs on a queue. almost all SBs do so, in order to keep the blog constantly running. users do it for the same reason, but some will like your post once they've added it to their queue, to let you know they've seen it. it's less common for single users. the second possibility is you've tagged them in something they don't like/don't know/don't reblog. some users have content they don't want to be tagged in listed (often in 'about' pages, on their web theme or a mobile navi.) on their blogs, so you know. it's also often that people only reblog what they actually know; if you tag a user who is predominately sci-fi/fantasy media in your post about a rom-com, and you've never seen they reblog rom-coms or that rom-com before, then they chances of them reblogging your post are lower.

what's the point in tracking tags? exposure !! if you tag blogs that get more attention than yours, or blogs that are a well-known source in a particular fandom, and they reblog your work, they you will get more reblogs as a result.

let me know if you need anymore help :)

[tuiyla]

Just saw a gifset you reblogged and the gears in my head started turning and I remembered some stuff from when I was googling timelines and the like and frok watching stuff, you get it. So here's some things that I find kinda fun

Season 1 btvs aired in March and in the same month Scream 2 was also greenlit. Scream 2 started filming in June, the month season 1 btvs finished airing. Which is fun to me because Sarah Michelle Gellar is in both btvs and Scream 2 (apparently she signed onto Scream 2 without reading the script because of the success of the first scream film but I've not seen the interview so can't confirm). She also stars in 2 live action scooby-Doo films (Scooby-Doo (2002) and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)) along with Matthew Lillard who played Stuart in the first scream film. In Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Seth Green plays plays Patrick; Seth also played oz in btvs. And this is all very fun to me you see.

Also, only tangibly related, in Scream (2021) (AKA scream 5) and Scream 6 Jasmin Savoy Brown plays Mindy. In Yellowjackets Jasmin plays Tai and Christina Ricci plays Misty. Christina played Wednesday Adams in 2 Adams family films (The Addams Family and Addams Family Values). She was also in netflix's Wednesday where the tituler character (who is the same Wednesday that Christina played in the 2 previously mention Addams family movies) is played by Jenna Ortaga. Jenner Ortaga stars alongside Jasmin in scream 5 and 6. Again this is just very fun to me.

Also also in a previous ask you said how you kinda enjoy monster of the week and me too!!! like some times an all-consuming overarching plot is just a headach and sometimes it's nice just to have a different random dude doing a kinda different thing each week while still getting a bit of character development for the main girlys.

Also also also I've only seen a few early episodes of btvs (it's been on my 'to watch' list for like a decade now) but I couldn't remember who Xander was until I saw you calling him annoying and then I instantly remembered, which isn't great for his character in the first, and maybe quite possibly second, season I don't think...

Anyways sorry this is long as shit and may not make sense, love ya xoxo💖

Heya bestie, sorry it took me a while to get to this. I loved reading your message! These sort of thought trains are exactly my kind of deal haha. Very fun to me too. I started thinking about how to tie Buffy and Glee together and the best I could come up with was through Veronica Mars because Alyson Hannigan and Charisma Carpenter were both recurring on there and Jane Lynch and Dianna Agron guest starred. Boom!

Now that I'm further along with BtVS I do think its overaching stories are done well and make for better episodes than the Monster of the Week formula but I'm glad they don't completely abandon it because it is fun. I see what people say about s1 in terms of it being different than the rest of the series but I still look back on it as entertaining and I don't find the episodes people consider to be tedious bad. I actually really liked The Pack and even the puppet one. The character development is overall strong on BtVS so as long as we have that I don't mind if a lot of episodes aren't about the given Big Bad of the season. So yeah that is to say I think Buffy is probably up your alley! It was on my to watch list for a looooong while too but I'm very glad I finally got around to it.

And yeah Xander lmao, well to be fair I think people expected me to loathe him and I kinda don't? I have a well overdue ask about him but being halfway through the series I maintain that he is annoying but have gotten better and I can appreciate aspects of his ch. If anything I think his douchebagery peaked (so far) in late s2/very early s3 and now he's rightfully taken his place as Just Some Guy. I might eat my words later on if he becomes Finn Hudson levels of annoying. I doubt it though. (Unless he outs Willow and acts as the hero afterward in which case I hope he perishes <3)

[tentacle-stylograph]

WOOOOOOO! finally watched The Sea Beast on Netflix! the first thing i saw of it, other than it being in my Netflix scroll, was this gifset, specifically the first two gifs and the bottom quote 'cause after i went "oHP THAT'S A MOVIE I'M WATCHING" from the first gif, i purposefully didn't look at the others. and HOOOOOOH BOY do i love reptilian sea monsters. -looks at my url- -corrects:- sea monsters. boy do i love sea monsters. so i was hyped to watch the movie only to see that design, but an artist i follow was reblogging a bunch about the movie and saying how much they loved it, so, hey! if it's a good movie too, that's a bonus!!

^this is the beauty that had me go “WELLP. THAT’S A MOVIE I’M DEFINITELY GOING TO WATCH”

anyhow.

non-spoiler review: FUN. I LIKED IT. THE ACTION WAS -CHEF'S KIIIIIISS-, THE DESIGNS WERE CHEF'S KISS, IT'S GOT ITS NICE CORNY MORALS FOR AN ANIMATED FAMILY FILM, AND I LIKE PRETTY MUCH ALL THE CHARACTERS. i've got some nitpicks i'll go into in the spoiler part of this review, as it is unfortunately a movie i'd have to force myself to watch again, but, for the most part, that's just 'cause of my own personal stuff / distractibility.

from the caps lock there, obviously i recommend the movie for most people. the most non-spoiler i can get on one of my bigger nitpicks is "character inconsistency. one of the characters seems to have certain traits to service the story's theme, and they inexplicably lose those traits at a certain point to service the story's theme / plot, instead of acting consistent to themself the whole time."

spoilers under cut!

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so.

-upset exhale-

Jacob Holland.

he’s the inconsistent character i mentioned above. he’s the “hyper-competent” character, which was done super fun with the action, but then... he... just... falls apart when he’s taken away from his ship. for comedy, kinda. also to show he doesn’t know what he’s doing, sure, ‘cause that’s the point: he DOESN’T know what’s going on with these creatures. so, the writers could have kept that concept, sure -- that he loses some of his competence once he metaphorically loses his footing -- but there could have been a better balance ‘cause that was distracting.

i took some notes after watching the movie and i said “story-servicing abilities rather than character-serving abilities”: his level of competency is hinged to the story and to the writers, not to himself. again, there’s not inherently anything wrong with that -- storytelling is about communication, after all -- but the drastic dip was unbelievable.

another thing that--ugh. UUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHH. it’s a much smaller deal, but it’s the thing that makes the movie a “i have to force myself to rewatch it” movie.

the... ugh. really? the female-coded EYESHADOW on Red? really???? you have to give the sea monster eyeshadow?????

i would have accepted it if Maisie said her “I think she’s a girl” line or however that went. i would’ve been like “huh. um, okay sure” and that would've been fine. but the kid’s show Bluey and webcomic BACKLASH have spoiled me in regards to female designs. like, look at this wonderfulness:

everyone here is female except for the dad in back! no dumb cartoon eyelashes to tell them apart! you just gotta listen to the pronouns characters call each other. (with a few exceptions through the show, but they're the exception, not the rule, and i have no complaints about those characters)

and look at this! both female! (okay, the first one's from BACKLASH and the second is from a one-shot by the same artist.) no dumb exaggerated eyelashes or eye-shadow-that-doesn’t-actually-exist-because-you-need-to-know-the-character-is-female! wonderful! makes my heart so happy!

so anyway. that aspect of The Sea Beast isn't something that's going to stop me from recommending the movie. it's just a character design thing that irks me, like giving hair only to female stick figures or otherwise-genderless figures. and now that i've seen it's not strictly necessary, it irks me even more, especially on inhuman characters, especially since, usually, inhuman characters would have the males with those features.

anywho.

like i said, good movie, good characters.

i liked the transition of Captain Crow from murky protagonist to CLEAR antagonist, yet nothing he did seemed out of character from how he was introduced, and he was still an empathetic character the whole time. i'd need to rewatch the last scene to fully remember / grasp how his arc resolves, 'cause i do remember going during the credits, "hm, but his crew and ship got away, right? so he didn't have to give that witch 'everything,' right?"

but it seems likely his mental world was shattered and he lost the legacy he'd been working for and living in his whole life. so, neat. there are probably some really good lines and emotional moments around that which will seem even cooler with that in mind.

i liked that Maisie was smart and not just the-kid-in-the-way who has to be constantly saved, and the transition from her being gung-ho to scared and uncertain of the situation when Red first showed up was fast but believable.

and, i'll admit i was getting annoyed with "oh but everything's harmless. we've just been attacking first" oversimplified idea 'cause i've spent some time in places with literal mountain lions, and you gotta be on the lookout, especially if you have dogs, other pets, or kids, so i was grateful for the moment when Maisie, sitting in the gigantic conch shell, heard a roar in the forest and still grabbed a knife. i know it was early in the development of the "question whether something or someone is actually harmful / tradition isn't always right" theme, but i still relaxed

overall, the movie's theme is a bit oversimplified (and i know if i started comparing some of the movie's lines to certain real life idealogical movements, like history-deniers, that i'd be missing the actual points, but some of those lines distracted me too. but, at the same time, i also found the touch about propaganda at the end neat, with the royal family logo and how that was done), and i think How to Train Your Dragon probably went about its concepts more successfully from an animal behavior point of view, but it's a good movie that i'll happily recommend to others. (and i could never really get into the HTTYD movies, either, but that's another personal nitpicky thing, where i suspect i just don't like the more realistic animated movements and physics and a few other minor things lol, so i'm happy to have this movie now 'cause i like it a lot more)

as always, comments welcome, especially comments that disagree or that mention things i skipped over! (yeah, i unfortunately don't have much to say about Sarah Sharpe other than SHE'S SO COOL.) or just someone mutually happily screaming about the movie! remember, i did have happy caps locking at the start of this posts 'cause there's a lot of awesome stuff in this movie!! i appreciate comments and always find them interesting

edit: almost added these to the tags but i didn't want to spoil the creature's tentacles lol 'cause those were DOOOOOOPE

EDIT 2:

RIGHT

YEAH THIS MOMENT. THIS MOMENT WINS FOREVER AND EVER THIS WAS SO COOL YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

[illgiveyouahint]

I watched Disclosure and I just.. had a think for a moment. Think about how media portrayal carries over (also internationally), how it enforces each other, and how in Germany, for example, we are so far away from even those positive stories MOST of the time. So much work to be done, indeed. Thank you for reblogging this gifset and watched the documentary immediately ❤

Hello darling,

yeah the way media influences how we think about others, especially minorities, is something that I have focused on for years, both academically and privately. I remember reading once this psychologist talking about how your brain makes these connections between synopses to simplify information and that's how stereotypes happen and how things like George Zimmerman shooting Trayvon Martin can sort of be directly linked to black men being portrayed in popular media only as dangerous gangsters (of course the psychologist was making a very sophisticated argument while I'm making a poor reinterpretation and of course that is not the only reason Trayvon was murdered).

what I'm trying to say is that media and popular culture has a huge influence on society. which is why shows like Pose or When They See Us or hell even Skam are so important. Because they're challenging all those stereotypes that people, perhaps unintentionally, create in their heads. 

I loved Disclosure. I know all these actors and actresses and know a bit of the recent transgender history on screen but to see it from the very beginnings, to see all the variants of it and how one bad portrayal can create a ripple effect of decades of stereotypes was really fascinating, sad, angering and uncomfortable to watch.

And I know what you mean about Germany being so far away. Now imagine that you are actually still doing better than us. 

[warning: mentions of transphobia] I already spoke about it before but we recently had the first trans character on tv. It was a trans woman played by a very attractive cis woman and the joke was that all the men were attracted to her but couldn't get over her being [deadname]. Also, she was dubbed by a man so that people would know that she's trans. Her storylines was filled with deadnaming from everyone including her own brother, people calling her freak etc. There was a scene where she went and taken her clothes off to prove to someone that she really is a woman. And the most bothering thing is that the actress who played her actually has a trans actress friend who could have easily played that character but of course the Czech society is not ready for that.

So that's how we're doing when it comes to representation. The few gay characters, we do get are usually very stereotypical drama queens etc., the -romani characters are usually thieves and rapists if they are even represented which they almost never are, I don't think I've ever heard or seen a Muslim character on Czech tv, the Vietnamese community is also not represented despite being one of the largest ethnic groups in my country, mentally ill characters are also usually bad guys. It's scraps. It's bad scraps. It's very disheartening.

Anyway this got long and I don't even know if I'm making sense but I'm glad you enjoyed the documentary and I hope more people will watch it <3 

[thehollowprince]

Wanda Maximoff - Here We Go Again

I reblogged a post about a week or so ago that was a series of tweets regarding Wanda Maximoff and her "being directly responsible" for the deaths of Africans whenever she visited the continent. I added my own minute commentary and reblogged it and left it at that, but ever since then it's been festering in my brain and I've been debating on whether or not to make a post about it. But then I thought to myself, "Dude, when have you ever shied away from sharing your opinion?", and after thinking about it, I was right and decided to make this.

With all that out of the way, here's the first tweet

There are a lot of things to dissect in just this tweet alone, such as the term "directly responsible", which I'm assuming the Tweeter doesn't actually understand. If they did, they'd know that "directly" means that Wanda went to Africa in her various missions with the sole intent of killing people. Anyone who actually watched the movies knows that's not even remotely true, because out of all the Avengers she's the one who emotes the most how horrible she thinks those deaths are. The one who beats up Wanda the most for any collateral damage she causes is Wanda herself.

Then there's the whole "Wanda's (body count) is entirely black" bullshit. Once again ignoring that they seem to think that Wanda went there on those missions with the sole intent of killing people, but then the fact that they're trying to turn the entire population of Africa into just black people, as if its not a multi-ethnic continent or that black persons don't live all over the globe.

I know I am not the best person, or the person at all, to be speaking about that particular topic, but that bugged me and it bared mentioning.

Moving on.

This is a tricky one, because Wanda was responsible for setting off the Hulk, which led to that rampage, but this just smacks of the same attitude that wants to put the whole of Ultron and his crimes on her shoulders. Just her, I would like to point out, not her brother, who is hardly ever mentioned and who was shown to be more bloodthirsty and vengeful than his sister. But I refuse to hold Wanda accountable for the Hulk's rampage, especially when we've seen that he's totally capable of being civil, as evidenced in Ragnarok. I mean, the very fact that the Avengers brought him to the conflict at all and just left him off the field was stupid and part of the circumstances that led to what happened in Johannesburg. Why bring a weapon like the Hulk to the battlefield if you're not planning on using it? Because them sidelining him is what allowed Wanda and Pietro to get the drop on him.

An excellent takedown of this argument is here, but just be warned, @chirpingtiger is a master at proving their points and their arguments are long and thought out.

The main point you should take away from that examination is this image

The fight with Ultron and the Twins took place at a shipyard on the South African coast, where as Johannesburg is very clearly landlocked and quite a distance away from the coast. There's also the fact that she hit the other Avengers with her mind whammy and they were all down for the count, engulfed with their traumas of various natures. Ther was literally nothing to suggest that the Hulk would react the way he did to her mojo when everyone else was rendered into a fugue state.

Next,

Once again I have to fall back on my age old question of "Did you actually watch the movies?" Its sad that I have to ask that so much, but this is Tumblr and we have gifsets and metas all around and so many people thinking that counts as canon.

If this person had actually watched the movies, they'd know that the entire body count in Lagos lies solely on Rumlow's shoulders. He was the one who attacked the laboratory, the one who attacked Cap and the one who set off the bomb that took the lives of several Nigerians and Wakandans. Wanda did not set off that grenade. Wanda contained the blast as best she good, with powers that no one truly understands at this point, which otherwise would have had a much bigger fatality rate if it had gone off in that crowded marketplace.

And all of that is completely ignoring that if she hadn't been there there's a good chance that Rumlow or his men would have gotten away with a biological weapon that could have caused untold damage.

The sad fact is that collateral damage happens when in the field and it's horrible, but trying to put that blame on one of those trying to stop the carnage as opposed to the actual person responsible is not only reprehensible, but boring. I never see anyone blaming one of the other members of the Avengers, or the Wakandans or whomever for the collateral damage their action or inaction causes.

(There also the thing that I think the whole Rumlow situation in Lagos was a plan by Hydra to contain and control enhanced individuals for their own purposes, but that's a conversation for another time.)

This was the one where I seriously considered the person tweeting to be a troll. I can't imagine how anyone who sat through that movie could blame the genocide committed by a delusional grape to be Wanda's fault. I mean that in all seriousness, because once again, it's all right there in the movie.

The very fact that Thanos claimed the Time Stone, arguable the most powerful of the Infinity Stones, and probably the one thing that could have stopped him but wasn't used, before he came for the Mind Stone means that it didn't matter when, or even if, Wanda destroyed the stone. The very presence of the Time Stone rendered all that irrelevant because he now controlled the very fabric of time itself. He could have gone back to any moment in time and taken the Mind Stone, whether it had been destroyed or not.

And the Battle of Wakanda itself. I feel like I'm on repeat here, because how is she responsible for Proxima Midnight's attack on the Wakandans? Did she tell her to attack? Did she command the Outriders to try and kill everything in sight? No, of course she didn't, because ad powerful as she is, she's not so powerful as to make others do things against their will. And that's all completely ignoring how this troll just completely stole the Wakandans own agency in this fight. Or T'Challa's choice to have the battle there in the first place. He did what he could with what he had in the little time he was given, but at no point was Wanda responsible for any of the deaths of the Wakandans during that battle.

In point of fact, Wanda actually jumped into the battle because she was witnessing the death and carnage and knew she could stop that. How was she, or anyone for that matter, to know that the whole attack was a distraction to get her on the field so that they (the Black Order) could take the stone for Thanos? Answer: they couldn't. Especially when they were under the impression that Corvus Glaive was already dead.

Also the fact that these people who hate Wanda are so okay with her killing someone she loves (which she did! That does need pointing out, because so many people like to ignore that) to end the conflict. No one demanded that Gamora should have let Nebula die or that Loki should have let Thor die in order to protect their respective stones. So why is Wanda singled out?

I don't feel like these even bares a mention, but the very fact that this dumbass thinks that Wanda is responsible for the dustings that Thanos committed is so ridiculous that its hysterical. Especially when you factor in that WANDA HERSELF WAS DUSTED!!!!

My suggestion is that this person take off whatever rose-tinged glasses they're wearing when they watch these movies and actually pay attention to what's happening on the screen. Its totally okay to not want to overanalyze these movies, because as I can state from personal experience, it does take some of the joy out of watching them, but if that's the decision you make, you don't get to take and state them so wildly out of context and present that as canon. It doesn't work that way.

[dresupi]

So i don't really reblog I'm more of a lurker. I have zero things on my dash, barely even set up the page and I've been around for about 6 months. So if i was going to start reblogging, what do I do? what's the deal with hashtags? I know where the buttons are to actually do it, I'm just not sure on how to hashtag (like what to use) or comment with it when I send it to give credit etc. hope that makes sense.

I’m by no means an expert, but I can tell you what I do when I reblog things.  

Set up a queue - (just so you’re not bombarding everyone with your reblogs all at once, this spreads things out a bit so you’re posting things all the time rather than in little bursts) You can do this on a browser by simply sending something to your queue instead of reblogging it, and then by clicking the little person icon and going to your queue to set it up to post a certain number of times.  I have mine set to post 25 times a day (about once per hour).  I use the queue to reblog posts that aren’t as time sensitive.  So like, shitposts or fandom reblogs or gifsets or whatever?  I send those to my queue.  That way, when I’m reblogging fics and art, I can just reblog them immediately and get those creators their stats asap.  

Hashtags- the way the tags work on tumblr (and someone please correct me if I’m wrong), but the first five tags are searchable.  In that the post will show up in the search under those first five tags.  But only the first five tags are searchable.  SO, when I tag, I put the stuff I’d search for in the tags.  If you’re reblogging fic, you’ll want to tag the characters and/or ships in those first five tags. You can also put a rating in those tags as well if you’d like.  Only the first five are searchable, so anything you tag after that will be for your use or the use of your followers, ie trigger warnings, organizational tags, general fannish comments, etc. 

Commenting-  As a writer, I know that I love getting comments and reaction gifs on reblogs, but sometimes as a reader, you’re just tapped out and you don’t know what to say, and that’s perfectly fine.  Don’t think you have to comment on every single reblog.  Even some # or #love this in the tags is lovely to see when someone reblogs. Leaving love in the tags is just as wonderful as a comment or reaction gif on your reblog. 

Credit - Tumblr kind of takes care of that for you with the source thing at the bottom.  I’ve seen in a few of the reblogs of my post that some people have had authors get upset with them for taking credit for their work when they reblog it and I honestly have never heard of this happening to anyone before, but so many people have said something about it that I realize it MUST be a thing.  (No matter how mind boggling).  But anyway, I will go over the difference in reblogging and reposting.  

Reblogging is not the same as reposting.  Reblogging is hitting the reblog button at the bottom of a post that the author posted, and reposting is copy/pasting content and posting a NEW POST from your account.  Reposting is NOT GOOD, do not repost someone else’s work, reposting can be taken by the author as you trying to take credit, do not repost.  Reblogging is GOOD, yes reblog.  If you reblog, the source of the content is right there, so everyone knows who wrote it.  Another thing you can do if you’re worried about an author’s reaction is to tag it #not my work, and maybe tag with the author’s name?  If you’re unsure if the author wants their stuff reblogged, then you can always ask them.  Send them a message or an ask or even reply to the post and just see if they’re okay with things being reblogged.  I know for me and for most of my author friends, we love having our stuff reblogged.  But not everyone does, so if you’re unsure, or if they don’t have a lot of reblogs of stuff, go ahead and ask them to see if they’re okay with things being reblogged.   

I mean, like I said, I’m no expert.  But this is what I know about reblogging fics and art on here.  If any of my followers or mutuals have anything to add, please do it! 

[hyraeth]

Tagged by @prewar-james (and happy birthdaaay!) *throws confetti*

It's been a while since I've seen these around, come back 2012 tumblr days

Tag game under the cut!

why did you choose your url?

When I was a wee teen and started getting into celtic languages, I found out about Hiraeth in welsh and I loved it to death, it sort of reminded me of saudade in my language. But hiraeth was taken so I just switched the i for y (let's ignore how it'd change the pronunciation shhh). Other word inspired url would have been fernweh. See a pattern there? Yeah.

any side-blogs? If you have them, name them and why you have them:

eeheheh yeeeaah, I have an art blog that I barely ever used because I ended up posting here. And a fic rec blog that I just use as personal fic rec collection.

how long have you been on tumblr?

I joined in my first year of uni, so 2011 and I've been using it pretty consistently ever since

do you have a queue tag?

ah I do! It's massive 10k queue of Liked Posts from hell because for a solid couple of years I just liked stuff on mobile where it went to die in the Likes.I began doing it back when talking over here and sending asks was pretty common so people would know that I wasn't online. And I prefer tagging everything at once instead of as I go, so I prefer doing it this way.

why did you start your blog in the first place?

Hold your pants kids, because it was because of Doctor Who and Sherlock. Eventually Hobbit and Merlin, but it's always been a mess of a blog with a mix of fandom stuff and gifsets and then art/photography/etc.

Even though I'd been reading fanfic for years by then it was the first time I experienced "being" in the same place and interacting with other fans. But I've always kept to my own lane so nothing changed much tbh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Made some online friends though! (●'◡'●)

why did you choose your icon/pfp?

because the moment I found out there was a ball joint doll of Michelangelo's David I started laughing, but when I saw photos of the phoses and there was one with David doing a thumbs up I lost it. I've been using thumbs up David ever since

why did you choose your header?

uuuuh I don't have one, and I can't recall if I ever had? I do miss the days when I spent hours fiddling with themes to put snow falling for winter.

what’s your post with the most notes?

I thiiink some Merlin fanart of a Silmarillion shit post? Or maybe the most recent post about the heartbreak of finding out a bookmarked fic had been deleted.

how many people do you follow?

499 but honestly, most of these are probably deactivated and I haven't seen anything by them since like.. 2015. I need to clean up, oops

how often do you use tumblr?

everyday, even if just for a quick scroll on my phone. I've been more on twitter even though I really don't like it, but that's where most content is at nowadays T_T

did you have a fight/argument with a blog once? who won?

oh there was something back in the first months of creating a tumblr and it was mega random, bc I was replying to a portuguese mutual and replying in portuguese in the tags, but apparently on of the words offended a random american so that was fun. I had fun replying, I'm pretty sure they didn't enjoy reading it.

how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this post’?

nothing makes me scroll past faster, my eyes roll so hard I almost astral project and the Spite rises in me.

do you like tag games?

yes, they're fun! And those asks games too!

which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

Nowadays no clue because tumblr engagement and usage changed so much and I just have no clue how it goes in their blogs. But I'm mutuals with some artists and writers that are pretty popular, so maybe they are! I just don't know ^^'

do you have a crush on a mutual?

No crushes in anyone, I miss having crushes :(

my phone bg and lockscreen:

I'm one of those people that haaaaate people in backgrounds, so I usually just use photos I took.

Currently it's a photo of the Baptistery of Saint John in Florence in the lock screen, and a detail from the Church of S. Tiago (romanesque church) in Coimbra. Going for that high contrast with some golden/yellows.

last song i listened to:

Doom Days by Bastille and Dragon Age Inquisition intro because it s l a p s

tagging but no pressure, consider it a tumblr virtual hi & hug ╰(*°▽°*)╯

@mushroomtale @deheerkonijn @rootingformephistopheles @herebehunters @thedaughterofkings