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helenvader · 3 days ago

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I think there would be much less drama if people could do this:

1. Be both invested into a show and, at the same time, be able to not take themselves 100% seriously.

I'm both forever analysing Mairon and at the same time mercilessly poke fun at him, and enjoy both serious and hilarious takes of others. I would actually be very disappointed if there was no unhinged humour.

2. Take distance from their own takes. I love Mairon, I even feel sorry for him, but I do not pretend he's not a horrible bastard who's hurting people in inexcusable ways. Hence, I'm not going to rage when somebody is not in love with him as I am (which is, to be honest, an approach that makes much more sense, but I don't choose my blorbos, they choose me).

3. Understand that the show is not just about their blorbo / ship.

Mairon would surely agree. Or not.

#this could have been phrased better #but i hope it makes some sense #the rings of power #rop musings #fandom wank

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pixiesnooze · 8 months ago

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me understanding content from 3 groups within a fandom cause i’m trilingual

#pixietxt #this could have been phrased better

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mudstoneabyss · 1 year ago

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actually. the specific phrasing that boy Kevin wants to kill older Kevin with "I must disassemble him, piece by piece, so that everything inside of the Old Kevin comes out. Only then can the New Kevin truly begin." is so incredibly the idea that to heal from trauma and "improve" you have to destroy every "wrong" part of yourself, that everything "tainted" by it has to somehow be replaced by something untouched (which isn't possible)

#reading back that phrasing I do think that'll be the way brinknor takes it #this arcs seeming like it'll be so. breaking the cycle of abuse and violence and coming to terms with yourself #and maybe understanding that you can never remove the parts of you impacted by trauma and start again completely ''pure''#but you can treat yourself with the kindness you should've been given #which i hope it is that because. and understand i am biased. but i'd love that direction for Kevin #it feels much more satisfying than any more. angsty way this arc could go imo #like he's been through enough!#because of the way Kevin is portrayed in fanon. not as frequently anymore but still pretty common. I worry about coming off as woobifying #by saying I want him to heal I want him to have nice things I think he deserves them #when he's also simultaneously Not A Good Person #yknow the poor little innocent cinnamon roll baby etc etc fanon #but. well for one im Not Like That about him. but my main point of bringing that up is. him not being a good person is why I want to see hi #get better and generally have a good life. why does someone have to be good to deserve to heal from trauma #especially when trauma is a big reason for the way they are #like its fiction yeah yeah i'm still tired of mentally ill people having to be ''good'' to ''deserve'' to get better yknow #i mean especially in fiction you tend to either see mental illness as the poor traumatized one who's allowed recovery because they're nice #or the insane psychopath who cant be ''fixed'' so ''deserves'' bad things-up to deserving to die!- for it #i didnt mean for this to be a rant erm. oops #wtnv #wtnv spoilers #joyousposting

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my-thoughts-and-junk · 3 months ago

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finished hazbin hotel and what the fuck it's actually kind of??? good???

#random thoughts #i like it at least #the finale is SO GOOOOOOOD OH MY GOD #sir pentious going to heaven? alastor's solo? LILITH DROP???#like there are A LOT of things that could have been done better #like how vaggie as a character is very one-note and how angel's abuse is handled could DEFINITELY be better #especially considering how they handle pentious's gang rape (like tf)#but to be fair that joke was more a play on pentious's cowardice. the joke was more about how him bowing out of flirting escalated #rule of three's and all that #but god. when adam's mask cracked it DEFINITELY made me realize i thought that was just his face #'you only live because i let you' is such a petty way to phrase mercy #i DEFINITELY need to watch some analysis videos because am i missing stuff??? is it secretly bad???#yknow besides all the stuff with the creator which like. idr everything she did that was a shitshow #but like even the rape jokes are pretty mild for an adult comedy? they got rid of most of the offensive jokes pretty fast huh #most adult cartoons the first season or so is dedicated to the most offensive jokes before The Plot takes over #vaggie being an angel btw. not sure how to feel about that #i like how they handled it because it leans into the whole 'redemption' theming but like. feels very 'we need a conflict!'#which like i do appreciate because vaggie and charlie's relationship is too smooth sailing. throw some rocks in there #also 'i named you after the best thing: vaginas' is. hilarious actually. was that planned? or was that retconned in?#sir pentious as a character wasn't really. there enough in the latter half of the season for me to really feel anything about his death #like i liked him! very pathetic man. love his character design. but i think they should have alternated episodes #instead of just making the first few all about him #also his death was too sudden for me to feel particularly bad about. was convinced it was a fake out death #LOVE the ship callback tho. love me some chekhov's gun #btw i knew. literally nothing about hazbin hotel going into this. was watching the pilot like 'wait is this a musical'#bitsy. thingy. whatever her name is. fucking love her. PLEASE give her more knives.#fucking LOVE lucifer are you kidding? all that set-up for him to be a typical adult cartoon neglectful father and he's???#he fucking LOVES charlie holy shit. someone get this man some better communication skills stat #also? love his design. the prevalence of white really makes you remember he was the light bringer #hell

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iphigeniacomplex · 6 months ago

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the cultural figure of the clown in post-wwii america is relevant to consider when discussing the themes of IT. following the family separation and civic duty foisted onto children during the war, there's something to be said for the way clowns (representing a sort of carefree silliness) were pushed increasingly toward child audiences, popping up in advertising and children's television quite a bit during the post-war economic boom. when georgie denbrough encounters the monster in the storm drain, he's able to draw from these associations (bozo the clown and clarabelle from howdy-doody are both referenced by name) to assure himself that the situation is a safe one, despite his fear. this is safe, because clowns are everywhere. this is safe, because adults say it is. the clown is obviously an uncanny figure, but at this point in pop culture young children around georgie's age don't really have language to justify any discomfort. so the way that IT as a novel looks back on the 50s as a simultaneously nostalgic and anti-nostalgia work, openly considering various forms of abuse protected by social structure of that era, ultimately comes back to this first confrontation in a gutter swollen with rain.

#it speaks!#UGH i could phrase this way better but its just like. i think it appearing as a clown really works.#i also think this would have been a great time for an it adaptation if there hadn't already been one in 2017-2019 ->#<- considering how 50s aesthetics are being used #clowntown 4 #stephen king’s it #it 1986 #OH AND #the barrens

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foxstens · 6 months ago

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i think it's a fucking tragedy how we get two versions of the last ravens vs foxes game

but neither of them has a single line about kevin after he scores the winning shot

#my posts #my aftg posts #aftg #kevin day #ig i could phrase this better but rn im annoyed #yes yes not everything is about kevin #and andrew saving neil's life is probably more interesting blah blah blah #but considering how much the books revolve around kevin #how important that moment must've been to him #(plus how important riko is to his story)#i just think there could have been /something/

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callmehere-iwillappear · 11 months ago

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yall i got my first ever 'update when' comment today whats up. am i part of the cool kids club now

#talk tag #they were a guest so idk if they follow me here but if so uhh. im sure the intent was good and im not like. mad at all #but as a general rule its considered kind of rude to say that kinda stuff? just. for future reference #again. not mad if anything its almost a badge of honor lajfkldjsklfjds but just to keep in mind in future comments to ppl in general #also for the record...... cmh is very much not abandoned i have just been really fucking stuck on the next chapter #im working on it ok. its getting there. we will get there when we get there hope this helps #(ideally soon but i dont. wanna make promises idk if i can keep alfjdlksjfkdls)#. u know i will also say. my opinion on comments like that is probably . kinda weird #because like i very much dont love the phrasing Duh Obviously #+ nobody is *entitled* to updates im literally doing this for fun #but it is still also nice to know ppl still look forward to updates #and havent like. forgotten abt a fic just bc its been a while since i updated it #even though i think that commenter was a new reader that binged the whole thing but still #like. phrasing could be better but the intent Does actually make me kinda happy

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aroace-poly-show · 10 months ago

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ummm revamped showtime at 25 mafuyu thoughts. smth smth her mom was a struggling actress who gave up on it and i am debating on whether she immediately pushes mafuyu to do acting as a way of living vicariously through mafuyu’s future success or her initially not allowing mafuyu to act bc she believes its a pointless and worthless thing to pursue from her own experience but then she sees actual potential in mafuyu and the way people praise her and decides to let her act. either way bc of her past failure she really pressures mafuyu into aiming for fame and stardom and performing on big famous stages when mafuyu originally only wanted to make people smile with shows. mafuyu then loses this true passion for shows and forgets why she wanted to do them at all like her whole thing in canon. yeah

#mono’s stuff #mm i need a new tag though #wonderland n25 #<- using this for now until i have a good name like for hollow wonderland #anyway. debating on how mafuyu meets everyone #maybe like an audition? smth smth she sees how much they all love shows and wishes she could be like them and remember why she #liked shows #maybe asks them smth. “how are u so passionate” “why do you do shows?”#or like. a meaner way of being like “you won’t succeed with that kind of attitude” or wtv bc thats how shes been conditioned to think abt i #idk theres a better way pf phrasing it i just don’t know how rn #or like. meeting kanade at a music shop. talking abt shows for a bit. idk

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perilegs · 3 months ago

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#can i be honest. krem for 2014 felt more respectful than taash does for 2024 #taash could have been handled so much better i'm gnawing at the walls. they could have been so fucking good. there is so much potential #but this. i don't know how to phrase it but it feels bad to me as a trans person. like ''oh. this is how they see us''#dragon age #Youtube

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always-a-slut-4-ghouls · 3 months ago

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I don’t get why people feel like the Duolingo owl is threatening, if I ever feel like he is I just get mad at him. I could fight an owl. I don’t know if I’d win, but I don’t think I’d lose (two things that can apparently coexist). I think I’d survive at least and that’s not really winning but also not losing.

You wanna be so threatening? Da bør du drepe meg!

#emma posts #I used google translate for help because they haven’t taught me the phrase ‘kill me’ yet #taught me the word for beer øle but not the more important words like ‘kill’#as far as I can tell everything else in that sentence checks out so I figured the translation was good enough #not sure if it’s in the right order or if you use better that way in Norwegian. but good enough for a tumblr flop post #Emma’s adventures in using Duolingo #I should honestly use that as a tag for it #I post enough venting about that app #until I find out if I’m dyslexic for sure and there’s a way to help that with other languages. I’m not going to pay for Babbel yet #Babbel has Icelandic lessons too I think and that is my final boss tbh #I’ve been going from easiest for English speakers to hardest as my plan #and it turns out that I forgot how much some of my issues affect learning new languages #last time I learned another language it was Spanish and I’m not fluent but I’ve had classes and been around it for so long #that i kinda forgot what it’s like to start from scratch #I didn’t start trying to learn Norwegian until I was 26 #or was it my 27th birthday? I could check my streak #I was like ‘psh. it will be harder with my disabilities. but I should be able to read. my top priority with this language’#and then I realized I had been somehow adapting to the other two languages since childhood and forgot how much I had to work around #I mean. I knew I was worse at language arts in school than I was in literature and writing. but still #I also already knew I was worse at making new sentences in other languages than I was figuring out ones that someone else made #but I thought that was just because I hadn’t used Spanish much for several years now #every time I try to re-learn Spanish it just ends up with me being able to figure out what someone said to me but not how to answer #if i brushed up on it again i could probably have a conversation with someone who understood English but better spoke Spanish #someone with the same problem as me but reversed language wise #please don’t take this as me saying I could currently have an entire conversation with someone speaking Spanish #I’m better than someone who never learned it and didn’t encounter it’s use a lot. but I really don’t think I could have a real conversation #not at the moment at least #I have been meaning to brush up on Spanish again too. there are at least real classes in my area for it and not just an app #the last time there were Norwegian classes around here my dad was in college and old people still spoke it #no one around here speaks it anymore

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spyglassrealms · 27 days ago

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@ominous-signs was just reminded of this ominous sign spotted on the Chicago metro in 2021. (photo taken by @kagansune and shared with permission)

#apparently the streets are named for states but like. this could have been phrased better

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ceramicbeetle · 1 month ago

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kind of astounding how innocuous conversations with my younger siblings can make me feel like dogshit... what are the good things about being the oldest kid supposed to be again??

#N posts stuff #two of my siblings are currently in college and they both talk about it in ways that. hm.#my sister did an accelerated program to graduate high school and go to college Early so she's got kind of an...#'i am the most put together teenager on the planet' attitude a lot at the moment. so. she talks shit about her peers like #'if she'd stop spending money on Product and just Grow UP nd get an apartment and move out of her parents' house already'#and she's like. ragging on a kid who's only Maybe 20 years old and i'm sitting at the table at almost 30 still here like '......'#and my brother has been picking my brain lately about the shit i did in college and how the classes benefitted me and all #bc i went to art school for illustration and he's getting a music degree so it makes sense #but he's like 'was college challenging for you?' and i'm like. trying to figure out how to talk around the fact that i didn't necessarily #have trouble with the Classes but was trying really hard to juggle like. being in so much pain i couldn't walk or like..#trying to do homework while in the midst of a psychotic break or having meltdowns in public restaurants like. that kind of stuff #i don't really like talking about that stuff explicitly bc. idk. it doesn't really go anywhere good. not Bad necessarily #or no worse than overhearing my mom talking to them about the validity of my autism DX behind my back at least.#but i don't talk about it. no one really takes me seriously already so. no need to exacerbate that.#i might crack jokes about it in passing but i don't Talk About It. idk what any of them think about like. any of it. or about Me i guess #idk it's weird. it's Weird bc like.. in a very general sense i feel liek i'm Doing Good. not Fantastic but better than i used to.#and like. OK w the day to day of my life; like i could Keep doing it and have A Future even if i still can't figure out what it'd BE exactl #but then idk. sometimes i hear them talk and it feels like it's just. highlighting everything that i Can't do and it just. feels ugly.#like idk where to put it. idk how to reconcile feeling stupid and small for how i live my life with the fact i otherwise feel like #generally pretty Good about my life. i spent my whole life from elementary school to like. 24 thinking i'd be dead by 18.#and it's like Just Recently i'm like 'oh i actually have a Whole Life ahead of me and thats a Good Thing' but.#like idk how to phrase it. i don't feel Bad about it but it's like i guess i'm stuck wondering if i Should be. is it Bad that i'm content?#like i can't ask the question 'is there something wrong with me' in earnest bc Yes there is but. idk #it all feels like puzzle pieces that don't fit together. 'lets see you take a crack at it wise guy' idk what i'm doing or feeling rn lmao

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fa-i-ze · 1 month ago

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Oh, I understand it now

#for years I've met people who mourn over not being someones favorite #how strange #ive never exactly felt like i could pull away from all socials and feel disproportionately... alone ?#im unsure hpw to phrase it #i could stwp back #and im not sure folks would continue to reach out? its not even necessarily a negative thought #but everyone is busy or has their own people #im too late in the game to forge lasting friendships/relationships woth folks #it isnt bad! its nice not to be Needed for once #but its strange to realize the difference between being needed and wanted #its a weird feeling of being alone #im still slowly trying to reach back out to the connections i have who have been patient and waiting for me #its just strange to look around at the folks i prioritize and go 'ah #i'm not necessary here. i have Nothing tying me to these people'#faize faints #everyone is busy i dont blame yhem ofc!! im glad folks have their own people #its just. interesting to take a step back and look at the friendships i prioritized and realize i prioritized wrong #i probably shouldn't be chasing new friendships. i should probably be nurturing those that i have. and im sorry.#anyone waiting on replies im sorry #ill better manage my energy #(nobody here)#edit; well #the people waiting for replies are here #the folks who ive been fixated on are not #alden if u see this youre exempt youre Special /lh #but no i recently started pouring my time and energy into places that dont need it. they have their own people. i am simply a fill in for #when their people are not present #and thats okay!#i am happy my friends are happy #i think i yearn for the mutual feeling of best friends

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totheidiot · 2 months ago

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L CLOCKED KIRA AS AN EXHIBITIONIST I AM CRYING ??????

#🍂 arian's shit #death note #death note jdrama #I KNOW THIS IS LIKE A SYNONYM FOR SHOW OFF BUT COME ON.#the subtitles could have phrased it a little better????#i have been laughing for minutes cryingggg #dn jdrama liveblog

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lameow-l · 1 year ago

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so wait… furina is the name of the archon role that “furina” had to play

wouldn’t make more sense narrative wise to give her a name of her own?? like scara gets his own epic chapter about him ridding himself of his past and adopting a new name then proceed to ignore said name in favor of “hat guy” but the actress playing “furina” doesn’t get to be known for her own name?

like people of fontain (partly maybe) know the truth so why not let her free? let her enjoy the simple human life she so so longed for? even the other furina wouldn’t want this

#i think her story is a better use of the (give character name) mechanic that wasn’t really needed in scara’s arc imo #like yeah it’s cool and all but we literally saw him throw the actual physical manifestation of his past into the fucking void!!!#i personally think it was kind of wasted on him on top of me thinking that idea was entirely stupid to begin with and hyv keeps proving tha #no one actually refers to him as wanderer or by the name they choose online.. its just scara #thats both bad marketing and confusing burying the character away from new players #and like the amount of shit u have to go through as a new player just to name ur weird huge hat angry little dude is just..#but imagine how impactful such a mechanic would be for ‘furina’ who spent all her live acting a role she wasn’t #at the end of all that agony do u think she could endure hearing people call her by that name??#unlike scara she did that for the people every moment of those 500 years knowing that the fate of every person is mere a breakdown away #there was nothing in that for her or for a reward she thought deserved.. just suffering on her own #it just makes more sense for her to want a different name a different identity that has nothing to do with that role #and again i think that mechanic is stupid anyway but if it had to happen i’d loved it more with ‘furina’#or idk give her like a clueless friend she gets to meet that keeps calling her a different name for reasons and her liking the name or smth #maybe give her a different role she gets to play.. or have neuvillette give her a name #same with scara i think it would have been a lot better if he went by a name he choose when all his previous names were chosen for him #i dont see how the entirety of genshin writers and devs agreed to this mechanic being implemented honestly #like traveler is literally there waiting for a single soul to address them by their actual name (the one we choose) but every time it’s jus #traveler traveler.. even their most beloved companion calls them traveler #like that alone should've changed the writers minds bc such a name would 1. either not ever be used or replaced by a nickname #2. the hell devs had to go through to not allow certain phrases and names and 3. the hell both teams will suffer should they add a new char #tl;dr stupid dumb mechanic but they should still give furina a new name #genshin impact #furina #fontaine archon quest #scaramouche

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tokitooth · 1 year ago

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medical websites love to be like “how to stop having physical stress symptoms: 1. be in less stressful situations 2. don’t be stressed”

#oliver.mp3 #girl for one i have anxiety for two stressful things continue to happen #sorry but taking deep breaths and going for walks will not fix my moms broken leg or get me another job #or get me back the $6000 i just spent on my cat’s er vet bill #meditation doesn’t pay the rent #i still haven’t done anything creative since the year started pretty much #bc i feel like i shouldn’t be focusing on anything but how to fix my situation #time spent drawing is time i could be spending applying for jobs. why would i spend time writing when it’s not making me money #i’m sick of living like this like truly it has been the last whole fucking year and it just keeps getting worse #what did i do to deserve this like truly why me #why do these events feel so specifically calculated and timed to drain our bank accounts and stress me out further #i think abt that phrase it has to get worse before it gets better. so every time something happens i’m like ok it’s gonna get better now #but somehow it continues to get worse #i feel like i’m watching my entire life crumble away right before my eyes everything me and my mom have worked for is just dwindling #and i’m only fucking 20

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