#this is actually not a vaguepost

[dollsahoy]

'tis better to vaguepost about something you don't agree with and get feedback from your mutuals, than to add to the post that annoys you and risk the wrath of thousands of uncaring strangers

[stuckinapril]

friend wanted to see my tumblr, and when i told him i can’t show it to him bc it’s basically my personal diary he went “oh so I can’t see it but a bunch of strangers on tumblr can??” he literally does not get me. no one will get me like the people in my phone get me

[reddpenn]

Something I love about writing fanfiction is that when canon drops an absolute dungheap of a writing decision, you do not have to just sit there and be disappointed about it. You have a whole world of interesting options.

1) Nothing here is salvageable. This plot point is a trash fire and it’s quickly setting the rest of the franchise ablaze. We as a fandom have elected to ignore it. It did not happen. I will write events as if they continued correctly.

2) Nothing here is salvageable, trashfire, etcetera, but let’s just play in the space for a moment. If we allow that fine, this incredibly stupid thing happened, can we mulch it down and grow something interesting from it? What led to things ending up so off the rails? Where do we go from here? What are the worldbuilding implications? I will dig deeply into this dungheap and make something worthwhile out of it.

3) There is the seed of a really good idea in here. The execution was garbage, but if it had been done differently, with better writing, with better pacing, with more thought and care and tact, it could have been golden. I will redo it, but better.

And there are many interesting combinations of correct/worthwhile/better! I love delving into this in my own writing, and seeing it in other people’s writing, because suddenly your fic is having a conversation with the original work. It’s transformative! It says something about what you personally loved and hated and took away from the story!

[sickly-sapphic]

apparently "include intersex people" is too high a standard for a lot of the queer community, but I don't think it should be optional anymore tbh. include intersex people or die by my sword 🤺

[ID: The intersex flag - a yellow background with a purple ring in centre. White, shadowed text reads; I will carve out COMMUNITY with my bare hands. End ID]

[lesbianralzarek]

"wyll shouldve been *insert class here* instead!" i mean, im glad you picked up on that, but thats kinda... the whole thing? he wouldve taken any hand before he resorted to mizora, but mizora was the only one who offered one. his line "the only thing a gods ever given me is a cold shoulder" is dropped casually, but crucial to his character. he shouldve been anything other than a fiend warlock. when he reunited with his father all those years ago, he shouldve been imbued with the power of fuckin, like, tyr or something. he shouldve been made a paladin or a cleric or even just a normal lvl 1 guy who got some greater power to do all that shit for him. the devs expected a target audience of d&d players, so him being a warlock at all was supposed to surprise players

[someonesomewheredown]

Being scared of bugs is fine and all but why do so many people have to be dicks about it. Like heights terrify me but you don't see me calling every photo looking over a cliffside disgusting and horrible.

And like this isn't nearly as much of an issue with other fears of animals either. Like if someone who was scared of dogs called them disgusting people would get upset but for some reason calling bugs disgusting is perfectly okay I guess??? You don't have to like them or anything but can you just keep your hatred to yourself please. That's not something that needs to be shared.

[goldkirk]

I don’t know how to explain any more clearly that it doesn’t MATTER if it seems legitimate to you. You have got to fact check every single headline and post and claim on the left just like you need to do on the right.

The left is NOT immune to misinformation and rushed reporting. And the more emotionally polarizing or shocking the talking points, sound bytes, and headlines are, the worse it is and more frequently it happens.

Learn to verify through multiple independent sources. If you can’t do that, you can’t trust it.

If you have to wait extra hours for the real information to come through vetted channels—NOT just one individual somewhere everyone links to, and not just one single media source either, EVEN if it’s a major news network—thats just how it has to be. What news outside of genuine local disasters near you TRULY needs your outrage and post-sharing in the next hour specifically?

Misinformation works best by not seeming like misinformation and by fitting in with the rest of what you already expect to see. It doesn’t help anyone to not be able to recognize and avoid the stuff.

[sollucets]

hook hottie ✨🪝

[thunderbottle]

"Hehe isnt it so funny that some of the most anti-gay anti-trans people are probably gay or trans themselves haha!!" No it actually makes me feel vaguely ill but it's whatever

[sybbi]

Oh, good. The people who can't read a linked article on a post they reblog, much less open a separate tab and look into something themselves, are gonna tell us what is and isn't legit

[betweenlands]

how we should be naming our minecraft builds, a helpful guide by Cait Machina

[the-way-astray]

i’m going to lose so many people’s trust and faith in me over this. but. keefe is hot and his hair is good. hollingsworth just can’t draw for shit. the new fitz portrait proves that even more.

laura’s keefe is ugly and sucks. absolutely. BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT HE ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE PLEASE JASON CHAN IS RIGHT THERE

[quiets-cradle]

love the use of first person perspectives to hide body horror, especially in video games. you can't even see what's wrong with you and then you look at yourself from an outside perspective and it's horrifying. that feeling of "how long have i looked like this without anybody telling me," except it's about an eldritch horror making itself from your human flesh instead of something like. i don't know. spinach in your teeth.

[calware]

(obviously there are more options than this irl im just curious what people think of these two)

[professionalowl]

this has been said before but ford pines is such a good character. to me. really stole the show in like eight episodes and all the supplementary material is great but you can still get to the core of what he's all about and what he means for the narrative and the pines dynamic in the comparatively very little screentime he has. and he's also very tasty for me specifically as someone with thoughts and opinions about the way we treat intelligence as a personal trait and the kinds of people that emphasis tends to produce. (NARRATOR: she's one of them)

[mea-trinitas-profana]

everytime a popular youtuber i dont like makes a video about a game ive been obsessed with for years and gets things wrong and it becomes accepted fanon for a new wave of fans i feel like christ being nailed to the cross