#this is a shitty rant

[redheadlesbianfreak]

Yes, people do need to take accountability for the partners they choose to date, at least to some extent. And no, this doesn't apply to abusive relationships, that situation is entirely different.

I'm talking about white people who date other white people who are openly racist. I'm talking about "allies" who date other people who are openly homophobic and transphobic. I'm talking about liberal women who date very conservative men. And seeing bigotry as nothing more than a "political issue."

Of course, it's different if your partner lies and actively hides their political views from you. But if your partner is openly voting for people like Trump, openly supporting conservative politicians, openly hating/harming minority groups, then you should leave them. And you should be held accountable if you to choose to stay with someone like that.

[hajihiko]

💕

[shittysawtraps]

hello customer. before you is a empty shelf where the store made tortillas would usually be, an "out of stock" sign, several clearly posted signs saying the bakery is under construction, and a conspicuously covered tortilla machine.

your task is to read the sign, understand the tortillas are not in stock due to construction, and go about your day without asking an employee if the tortillas are out of stock. If you decide to "just double check" or ask if we have any hiding "in the back", a large anvil will be dropped on your head, flattening you. much like a tortilla.

you are the 12th customer put into this trap today please for the love of god we dont have enough anvils for this

[basilpaste]

ive been trying very hard to formulate a way to say this that doesnt make me sound like an asshole but honestly ive like. given up.

youre gonna drive yourselves fucking nuts with all the doom posting. and all the "its gonna be okay, you have to live" posting isnt any less doom posting. its all the same song to a different tune.

its shitty and terrible and youre allowed to feel shitty and terrible. but its not like. gonna change because you feel shitty about it. and constantly thinking about how shitty you feel about it is just gonna make you feel worse.

go like. eat a snack or something. play a game you like. i dunno. its shitty! but dont spend your time catastrophizing. drink some fuckin water or whatever other cheesy bullshit keeps you occupied while you process.

[frownyalfred]

here friend, I'll help you: when you realize the characterization isn't to your liking, go ahead and do me a favor -- scroll up to the top right of your screen and hit that big red X button. there, problem solved.

also don't bookmark it. I'm so freaking tired of having this conversation.

[themadcapmathematician]

[ID in alt.]

[tagzpite]

Hey to Percy Jackson fans who feel bad for the odyssey/epic calypso for being cursed

As someone who loves Percy Jackson

Calypso was not cursed in the Odyssey. Or any other myth. That’s a Percy Jackson ONLY version!!!

CALYPSO IS DOING EVERYTHING OF HER OWN FREE WILL.

[hikaaa-bi]

i feel like the fandom underestimates lena way too much.

when she first gave gwen the job, i saw people talking about how "pathetic and stupid" she was to allow herself to be blackmailed, when i'm pretty sure she knew what she was doing, especially considering how calmly she responded to gwen's attempts at blackmail. she would NOT be that nonchalant if she actually feared getting her secret exposed.

similarly, after the new episode, people are acting like lena knows nothing about what gwen did when i'm pretty sure she does. i may be wrong but lena definitely seems to know a lot more than she lets on and she's two steps ahead of everyone. i think she's just playing dumb so that people won't suspect anything.

i mean, come on. she's dealt with externals, many of which were likely normal human beings or worse, rich assholes (see: lady mowbray). not to mention, she already knows how much gwen despises her. she's seen how petty (and incompetent) gwen is. do y'all really think she's dumb enough to trust gwen after all that?

[emloafs]

we may watch the same show but i watch it gayer

[f4t-tr4nny]

Going to do this to the best of my ability (esp as my moms been getting suspicious)

[rollercoasterwords]

like yeah obviously legality does not correlate to morality and i personally do not think ip laws should exist. however the reason i find it relevant to emphasize that selling fanfiction is illegal is not to make some moral stand about the sanctity of ip so much as to be like. hey this is the way it fucking is and if u break the law by selling fic u run the risk of creating larger legal troubles for entire communities of fic writers who just want to share their work for free. also more to the point the reason selling fic is so shitty is that it is a question of labor exploitation. i spent hundreds of hours creating something which you are now packaging and selling to make a profit without compensating me for my labor, which is not only exploitative but spits in the face of the spirit in which this fanfiction was shared—as a labor of love, meant to be free to anyone who wanted to read it. and the gag is that if u did want to fairly compensate me for my labor it would literally be thousands of dollars (assuming i’m charging even minimum wage for time spent writing & editing) which is why it isn’t fucking possible to sell fanfiction for a fair price!! all that on top of the fact that i (and many other fic writers) explicitly say “don’t sell or buy bound copies of my fic” just makes it flat-out undeniable that this is a fucking shitty thing to do, and i genuinely have no sympathy for people who go “wait what i’m not supposed to sell or buy fanfiction 🥺🥺🥺” like shut the fuck up i hate u

[blueskittlesart]

*sigh* thoughts on Nintendo's botw/totk timeline shenanigans and tomfoolery?

tbh. my maybe-unpopular opinion is that the timeline is only important when a game's place on the timeline seriously informs the way their narrative progresses. the problem is that before botw we almost NEVER got games where it didn't matter. it matters for skyward sword because it's the beginning, and it matters for tp/ww/alttp (and their respective sequels) because the choices the hero of time makes explicitly inform the narrative of those games in one way or another. it matters which timeline we're in for those games because these cycles we're seeing are close enough to oot's cycle that they're still feeling the effects of his choices. botw, however, takes place at minimum 10 thousand years after oot, so its place on the timeline actually functionally means nothing. botw is completely divorced from the hero of time & his story, so what he does is a nonissue in the context of botw link and zelda's story. thus, which timeline botw happens in is a nonissue. honestly I kind of liked the idea that it happened in all of them. i think there's a cool idea of inevitability that can be played with there. but the point is that the timeline exists to enhance and fill in the lore of games that need it, and botw/totk don't really need it because the devs finally realized they could make a game without the hero of time in it.

[tippenfunkaport]

That viral post that's going around about how people who write "book quality" mlm fic are too "normal" to publish and have real jobs so only "weird" people publish their "shitty" fanfic is so completely out of touch with reality and I am giving a massive side eye to everyone reblogging it.

Not only is it completely, easily verifiably untrue (you cannot enter any professional writing space without tripping over a dozen grizzled scifi writers who got their start by filing off the serial numbers and publishing their Star Trek fanfic even going back decades ago??? it's a whole thing?? plus how can you look at the mlm category on Amazon right now and say with a straight face that people aren't publishing shitty Spirk and Stucky fanfic??? Oh, honey...) it's also the perfect example of this kind of sneering elitism that true artists would never sully themselves by seeking profit, they do it only for the purity of the thing that always somehow leads back to, "no one should be paid to make art, actually."

The only reason you're seeing more published fanfic right now has nothing to do with the idealistic purity of your hypothetical government employee written smut of the past vs the debased scribbles of those awful straights of today and everything to do with the fact that a) self-publishing has created a voracious readership that wants a ton of content so it's become a viable, flexible income stream for many, especially disabled people b) anyone can publish now with self-publishing tools so there are less gatekeepers and c) lockdown got a lot of people into fandom and therefore writing who never tried it before.

And if you really think there's no "shitty" published mlm and no "book-quality" m/f writing out there that started as fanfic, then you are clearly not a reader so why are you even talking about this?

[justyoursicanon]

Sad poolverine time

When Logan and Wade got together and started dating, Logan memorized or just knows the sound of Wade's heartbeat. He can distinguish and recognize it from miles away or from within other heartbeats

So imagine Logan was seconds away from saving Wade after he found out Wade got captured and tracked him down

Imagine he was so so very close to breaking in and finally saving Wade, the sound of his slow heartbeat guiding him

And imagine it suddenly stops, when he finally finds Wade, its no longer beating

He was too late

And he heard it before he could see it

[jackmanifold-daily]

I& know this is less than 2 lines into the song so it's a very unsatisfying clip but at this point I&'m realizing I& am never going to finish this animatic so y'all can have the 7 seconds of shitty sketches. praying emoji. Please imagine the rest in your mind yourself pls and thank you

song is I Don't Get Sleep by Naethan Apollo

[frownyalfred]

"you're ruining this fandom by posting [headcanon/fic idea]!"

yeah okay. sure. I'm the big bad wolf leading away innocent fans into my den of fanon and OOCness. by posting my silly little fanfic, I am absolutely doing real, actual harm to people online. and I have a...responsibility to....not do that? like, what? do people actually read what they're typing on here?