#this is such a lazy copout oh my god

[confusion-est]

So abom dlc came out like yesterday and I dislike everything about the choices they made so to cope i made this (also for some reason preview quality is ass, click to see this thing in it's full cringy glory) (A lot of bitching in the tags also)

[demeterdefence]

oh my GODDD come ONNN

just - bear with me here. the gods are the authority on their realms, they are the authority on that which THEY RULE. there can be overlap, of course, but one god cannot preform the function of another, or interfere in their realm. that’s a crucial law of greek godhood and mythology. there are numerous myths where zeus is asked, as king of the gods, to change a spell or curse another god has bestowed, and he refuses to do so because it is not his realm or right.

gaia is the titan of earth and creation. she can CREATE new life, but she cannot bring the dead back to life - they are of the underworld, beyond even hades. gaia can’t just wave her hand and say “everyone is fixed now!” that’s a lazy fucking copout to COMPLETELY remove any blame from persephone. there are now ZERO consequences for persephone, she’s learned nothing, and rachel needs to go to jail.

[aizawas-upper-left-wisdom-tooth]

Guess I can't do worse than the last guy...

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Tags: Comedy, Crack, Crack taken seriously.

Summary:

Death was not on the agenda, neither was reincarnation, and yet here we are.

When a random no named woman dies the second she got off her lazy ass she's more than a little perturbed to be alive again. She's even more perturbed to find her new body has a dick.

Oh boy! Wait until she finds out who that dick belongs to! (Spoiler alert: It's Peter Pettigrew)

The fic:

The…Fuck?!?!?! The- ow- what?? What is??? What???

These are my first thoughts as I wake up… after having died… Yeah, no… I’m remembering that right. I…died. What?

I KNOW that I died. That is a definite FACT in my brain. I don’t know why there’s no doubt about me possibly having been knocked out or something, all I know is that I was definitely DEAD… and now I’m not…

Most stories I’ve read that had someone come back to life, frequently made some bullshit excuse for not having the character remember much(if anything) about dying. That, as I have just figured out personally, is a bullshit copout tactic for people who know nothing about post death existence…. I guess no shade to those people though seeing as how, up until a few minutes ago, I was one of them.

Every last memory of death is etched into my brain with the clarity of one of those 4k ultra HD TVs. The pure sharp quality of the memory almost physically hurts me at just the passing featherlight touch of remembrance. I can’t decide what is worse, the almost physical clarity and sharpness of the memories etched into my brain; or the damned memories themselves of how I died….Fucking cops.

The world was burning, figuratively and literally, and I just HAD to get too fed up with it. My first rally, GOD! MY FIRST RALLY! AND I JUST HAD TO GET GOT BY THE FUCKING POPO?!?!?!!! MOTHER FUCKERS HIT ME IN THE HEAD WITH A TEAR GAS CANISTER!! WHOM THE FUCK SHOT THAT FUCKER SO BADLY?!?!! AND THAT DAMED PIG HAD THE AUDACITY TO YELL AT ME TO “Clear the area!” AND HIT ME WHILE I LITTLERLY WAS DYING FROM THE HEAD TRAUMA??!?! BITCH I HOPE THEY GEORGE FLOYDED ME SO HARD AFTER THAT, THAT IS SHUNTS AMERICA INTO THE NEXT CIVIL WAR AND MAYBE YOU GET SOME HEAD TRAUMA YOU FAT FUC-

It is at this moment I realize my scream crying is being interrupted by giant ass hands reaching down and scooping me up like a baby. I stiffen for a second before thinking Fuck you! I’m having a mental breakdown over here bitch! and proceed to angry scream cry at the blurry giant lifting me up. The giant mother fucker has the nerve to patronizingly rock and shush me! I am just about to bite them when a few things become frighteningly clear in a short amount of time.

First, I feel so incredibly heavy and weak. Every ounce of energy is gone in a flash with every minute movement. A general bruised feeling all over has me feeling vaguely disoriented and the horrible blurred vision is giving me a headache. Second, I am stark naked and sticky. The air is freezing in a deep bone chilling way-andoHMYGOD!!! THIRD!!! THIRD IS THAT I AM NOW A BABY!!! A BABY! WHAT THE FUCK! NO! No… wait… That… that actually makes some sense. Okay, rebirth…. I think… yeah, I have no idea how I feel about thi-

My internal monologue is once again interrupted by the feeling of the freezing cold air around me suddenly turning warm with a light breeze. The stickiness of the blood(ew) and fluids(double ew) dissipates from by body as if it had never been there in the first place…. Nani??? The Fuck??? All my thoughts grind to a halt as I’m laid on, my presumed, new mothers chest. I try not to think too much about how I’m instantly comforted by this as I grapple with what just happened.

The sound of others talking and cooing over me doesn’t fully process as I rewind myself by a few seconds. Was that… a hair dryer??? But there was no high-pitched sound of the motor? Also, where the frick frack paddy whack did all of the gore(ew) go?? It just.. disappeared?? Almost like magic? Just gone! POOF! What kind of abracadabra bull shi-

This time…I’m the one to cut off my own thoughts, as I suddenly have a hopeful realization that I might want to pay closer attention to the world around me. For the first time in what feels like forever I try and take in my surroundings best as I can. The task is much harder than one would expect it to be, seeing as how I have exactly no neck muscles and they’ve positioned me to be looking at, what I can only assume to be, the wall of the hospital room….Damn… I really hope this is just shitty baby vison and not my permanent eye sight. I allow myself to actually listen to the conversation around me and see if I can pick up anything that might help explain the new predicament I’ve found myself in.

“-rfectly healthy! And with those lungs on him, I wouldn’t be surprised if you got yourself a little song bird in the making!” A mans voice was saying from somewhere behind me, more than likely positioned at the bottom of the hospital bed. He sounded kind, if not a bit exasperated. I wonder if he’s the one who picked me up? The doctor perhaps?

“A Fwooper I should think.” My, Presumed, mother replies. Having my head on her chest causes my whole body to be filled with the reverberation of her voice. My mind instantly travels back to my childhood and laying on my fathers chest while his deep voice echoes though my very being while he read bedtime stories to my sisters and I. My new mothers voice is much too high and pinched to bring me the same comfort, but I relax into her all the same. The doctor catches himself in a bark of laughter before his voice gets too loud and tappers off in clearing his throat. I pick up on some muffled laughter elsewhere in the room, though it’s too general for me to tell who else is in here with us. My mother only lightly huffs with a bit of a strain in her voice.

“I’m glad he’s settled in well enough. I should think we’ve all had enough excitement for one day.” I can practically feel the exhaustion dripping from her words, poor gals been though it- hold the phone!... They’re talking about me….HE???

I’m suddenly VERY AWARE of a CERTAIN little member between my legs. I audibly gasp as my mind blares one thing loud and clear!

A PENIS!

I let out a choked noise as my mother clumsily starts shushing me and lightly bouncing back and forth as well as she can while laying down. The rocking might as well not be happening, as it does nothing to stop the stuttered thought in my head. Like a skipping CD, my brain only keeps repeating one thing.

A penis. A penis. A penis. A penis. A penis. A penis. A penis. A penis. A penis. A penis. A penis. A penis. A penis. A pe-

I have no idea what to feel at the moment. What do I-? Do I just accept it? Am I a boy now? Is this how that new fangled Trans Youth™ feel?? Am I trans now? Do I get a sex change? Will new mom disown me? Do I care? It’s just a body. Does it matter? I’ve never thought too hard on my gender before this! Are there steps I need to take? Oh yEaH, HoW tO gEt OvEr SuDdEnLy gAiNiNg A pEnIs aNd LoOsInG yOuR UtErUs iN FiVe eAsY sTe-HOLD UP!! No uterus… means… no periods… no periods…. Means no babies….I…. I can work with this… okay… yeah… we'll just… put that one in the vault…aaannndddd…. It’s gone!.... I said to myself, you know… like a liar.

I force myself to focus on literally anything else while deliberately NOT thinking about my newest forced recruit laying under my tiny baby thigh. Right! Okay! Didn’t new mom make a joke, I didn’t quite process it when she said it. Said I was a Fwooper? Like Hogwarts Legacy? Alright, I’ll give her that one. Nice one mom! Good to know your such a nerd! I think well get along… hopefully. Also, good for you having some cool nurses and a doctor who got the joke! Ya’ll friends or something?..... Nnnnnaaaahhhhhhhh…. Come on, don’t let you do this to yourself…. You’re letting yourself do your whole cringy wishful thinking bullshit again. Remember that time when we were having severe back pain in middle school and your Chūnibyō ass convinced yourself that we were growing wings? Got a whole lot of medical bills that say otherwise nimrod!

“We will be sure to have someone come and check up on you regularly for the next few hours in case you will be needing anything; and if you should need anything between rotations, you’ll only need to rub your thumb over this right here and it will alert us right away! Now then, Mr. Thoroughbottle here has a few questions for you before we leave you to finish getting settled in!”

New mom perks up and gives her thanks to the doctor while I hear some people shuffling about. I realize that it’s not just the doctor that has an English accent, but my mom as well. Here’s hopping that the political climate will be better here than the hell hole I just crawled out of. I don’t want a repeat of my dumb demise if I can help it… note to self, wear a helmet if there’s a next time…

“Alright Miss Pettigrew.” A younger voice starts. I stiffen and my eyes practically bulge out of my head. No… waitwaitwaitwai-“This is just some quick official paperwork for the ministry, nothing too laborious! Now tell me, have we decided on a name for the little gent?”

“Yes, I’ve decided to name him after his father,” there’s a heaviness to her words as I feel my new mom shift under me as she tries to get a better look at my face. I instinctually try to lock eyes, though even straining myself I can only get a partial view of her right side of her face.

“His name is Peter.”

….AW HELL NAW!!

[loumandliker]

Hey, asking you this as nicely as I can but can you give the immediate victim blaming a break. The absolute lack of respect you have for the people tmc abused is genuinely disheartening. Yes, he’s a shitty person, you’re entitled to hate him but immediately going “well you should’ve seen it coming earlier lol we’ve been saying this” is just ASTONISHINGLY shortsighted and cruel. Have your opinions about him and the situation all you want I would just ask that you please keep it to yourself due to the many many people he’s hurt that are still on here and can see you disparaging them.

ok, that is not what i have been saying. "well you should've known" is not an accurate summary of my feelings on this matter but apologies if thats how it came across. i have been in an abusive relationship where the person did a lot of the same things and i, too, defended that person without considering how it impacted other people. i almost lost my best friend because of how i acted as a result of keeping him in my life while people around me kept telling me to get tf out. i know.

what i am is im frustrated and annoyed by how long people were willing to publicly and passionately defend this guy while apparently fully aware what kind of shit he was doing to other people, many of which is detailed in the callout itself, and how this is now being framed as news. before the document itself was published all me (or anyone) had to go off of was vague posts that amounted to a "callout trailer" and almost all of the information on it was shit that was 100% completely public knowledge. 20+ people being aware of all that goddamn stuff and not one of them publicly stopping associating with him is frustrating. it comes across as spineless and yes, like one anon told GD, gaslighty (although i have my own issues with this being used on a large scale instead of in interpersonal relationships but i understand where they were coming from). his lesbophobia, transphobia (strange that none of the transphobia towards trans men was mentioned?), and panphobia/aphobia/biphobia were widely documented and seeing that on a callout post as if it were news was extremely tiring.

ive since read the callout. the interpersonal actions seem to have been horrible but sadly im not surprised (by which i dont mean "and neither should you" but rather. my spidey senses for this sort of behavior are pretty accurate most of the time and i did see this coming. this isnt me saying im Better than these people or that they shouldve as well but rather that i have learned to identify people of this genre.) by any of them.

also im 75% sure this is tumblr user GD. hello. if not then apologies, its just that the typing here is very similar. if it is, i think you trying to both take accountability for this and process whatever it is youre processing at the same time on tumblr is a bad idea and going to just lead to people feeling hurt and betrayed because while i truly do see where the reaction is coming from (like, truly, i understand, believe me), if you say "i take responsibility for how i acted while being manipulated" but then when people voice their negative feelings you tell them theyre victim blaming you it is going to reflect poorly on you. i dont think you understand how many people were absolutely hurt by the enabling you and your large, massively popular group of friends did for him, including the MASSIVE defense rant you typed up in defense of him when someone sent an ask to the bi jon event about him being panphobic and aphobic. whether its fair for people to expect you to immediately go into depth about it is questionable but dont invite people to do this when you obviously cannot handle it (i dont mean this in a bad way like "oh you should handle it". i mean genuinely this is how you get burnt out and possibly worsen possible future trauma. by trying to immediately placate people without having the mental resources to do so.)

i think the "we dont condone these views and never did!" without ever specifying what they were or doing any other work there is a lazy fucking cop-out. your circle was/is massively popular and a lot of people took all of you as authorities on stuff like headcanons and respectful portrayals of certain characters or identities to the point of accepting your meta as canon (something you havent really dissuaded ever), and associating publicly with someone who would constantly do this kind of shit and then defending him publicly while also positing yourself as an authority isnt something you can just "oops! we never agreed with him!" yourself out of. GD & TF specifically, you are massive blogs. you are babys first TMA blog. people in your askbox hurt and betrayed by this shit are not necessarily there to victim blame you. they are there because they trusted your word when they said "hey seraf reblogged anti pan and anti ace and weird transphobic posts" and you said "seraf is one of my dearest friends and would never do any of those things and im personally offended youd even imply that." i think you dont understand the real life consequences of the massively popular posts and sentiments he made & published and that you helped spread (despite apparently knowing that he was being a massive hypocrite and bigoted towards those groups or identities in his personal life). obviously interpersonal abuse/conflict is going to be "worse" but dear god i hope you collectively understand that "oh btw we never endorsed his views" is a massive copout and a shit apology for the hurt this association and endorsement caused. tmc has been terrorizing this fucking fandom for months with his bullshit and bigotry and you have not been passive bystandars but active enablers.

anyways, hope everyone involved gets to uh, heal i suppose, but i think expecting the people who seraf suicide baited, the groups of trans men he misgendered, the people who he targeted and harassed, the genuine fucking long lasting dysphoria he caused real people to have over his shitty takes re: transness and dysphoria, and the general shit behavior he was allowed to keep up with zero pushback from anyone in his circle of the fandom to drop all the anger or frustration they have for the people who enabled him and defended him aggressively is... unrealistic. and makes you look bad. especially when the doc doesnt even clarify which opinions you still support.

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I was tagged by @alienfuckeronmain, thanks, friend!

nickname: Jiffy or Jilf, if you’re stretching, but truly Jen or JJ are the most typical

zodiac: Pisces, bb

height: 5'8″ and shrinking

last movie I saw: Black Widow

last thing I googled: “what time is it right now in CEST time” because someone wanted to schedule a call with me at 7 pm CEST, and I swear I’ve not heard it put that way before?? Every day’s a school day, eh?

favourite musician: Oh, man, this is way too hard, I love way too many, way too much, gonna pass! It truly depends on mood, too, tbh

song stuck in my head: Style (that podcast, man....I was just looking up the photoshoot, and yeah, okay, I’m seein’ it!)

other blogs: I’ve let a few go fallow, like my fic moodboard one (god, I really gotta get back into it and expand it) and my photography one (same thing), ditto some random fandom ones that I just don’t tend to as much anymore, but I’ve also got a couple of sides that are way bigger than this one ( @momrry, @1dzodiac) and some that will never be huge even though I *do* tend to them ( @dogladies) and some that I shall never reveal (mwuh ha ha)

blogs following: Just shy of 350, but a lot of them are dead, I should probably clean house!

amount of sleep: Seven is my sweet spot, the goal, but it tends to be around six

lucky number: Three

what am I wearing: Green stripey socks, black stretchie jeans, and a blue graphic tee that says “I love you” with a 60s cartoon girl on it

dream job: Well, the dream is to not have to work, to be able to travel when I want to, being able to volunteer my time so that I’m not bored or lazy, but if that copout doesn’t work, then I’m pretty much doing it, I just wish it paid more

dream trip: Tokyo dreaming

languages: English, with some fading French, Italian, and German

favourite food: Cheese

play an instrument: I used to be able to play bass guitar following basic tab, but I haven’t touched any of that in forever

favourite song: See above for artist, no can do! It literally changes daily, usually depending on how much I’ve listened to my song du jour and what’s goin’ on. 

random fact: I installed most of the desk phones in the offices of the university I attended as one of my many part-time jobs there (I also learned just how easy it is to tap ‘em!)

I’ll tag @sir-transcelot, @kerasines, @harrysvoice, @grey1444, @cobraking, @bobakick, @clothlog, @wskysour, @hereforlou, @jenesuispastonchien, @homosociallyyours and anyone else who wants to!

[lady-griffin]

Avatar both Korra and Aang legends?

001 | Send me a fandom and I will tell you my -- 

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Favorite character: Aang, Katara, Toph, or Zuko (I can’t decide)

Least Favorite character: Pakku (his sexism was only really “solved” by Katarina being the granddaughter of the women he was once betrothed too – it felt forced and weak. I also didn’t like him letting Katara call him grandfather (or a version of that), but not Sokka. 

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): Zutara, Kataang, Zuko x Mai, Sokka x Suki, Mai x Ty Lee

Character I find most attractive: Katara, also definitely June

Character I would marry: Sokka or Suki

Character I would be best friends with: Katara or Suki

a random thought: Are the combo animals their own unique species or are the animals in the Avatar world able to reproduce with different animals and just over time, those half babies were able reproduce as well, and thus becoming their own species. 

That would explain the existence of both Solo Animals and Combo Animals. Example: Bears (Solo), Armadillo Bears and Platypus Bears (Combo) 

If that’s the case does that mean, the interspecies mixing happened millions and millions maybe a billion years ago, if so, is that why solo animals (cats, bears) are so rare while combo animals are the majority? 

Solo animals are super rare, which makes me think Bosco was like a super expensive/valuable gift to the King - showing his status as King. 

Turtle Ducks are the greatest thing ever.

An unpopular opinion: I never really thought “The Great Divide” was as awful as people make it out to be. It’s certainly not my favorite, but I was surprised when I learned how much people truly hated it.

My Canon OTP: Kataang

My Non-canon OTP: Zutara

Most Badass Character: Azula, also Kyoshi 

Most Epic Villain: Azula and Ozai

Pairing I am not a fan of: Azula x Ty Lee (I don’t hate it, but given how toxic their relationship was, I can’t say I’m a big fan)

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): 

Not a character, but I thought that having Fire Lord Sozin banned homosexuality (in the comics) felt very weird to me and not in line with the Fire Nation. Out of the three remaining nations, the Fire Nations seemed the most “progressive” in terms of equality for women or more accurately for the goal of world domination they were willing to used everything and everyone they had.

It’s also interesting see how each nation and their relative status in terms of morality and their relation to female warriors/fighters/ 

The Fire Nation (Bad) has the most female fighters. We see actual women in the army, female prison guards, as well as the most individual named fighters/characters – Azula, Ty Lee, Mai, June, Lo and Li. Azula’s teachers must have been on an entirely different level than everyone else, as neither one was a fire-bender, but yet they were charged with being Azula’s mentors and teachers in regards to fighting and fire bending.

The Northern and Southern Tribes (Good) have pretty sexist views. Sokka is pretty sexist in the beginning (he had to learn that from somewhere), in Katara’s introduction all the men left (not all that were capable) and Sokka felt as the only teenaged male it was his duty to be in charge/protect everyone.

We literally have episodes that explored the sexism of The Northern Tribe and it literally takes Katara throwing down with an old man from them to start to change. And to my knowledge, there are only two named female water benders – Katara and Hama, maybe the healer in the northern tribe had a name(?), but the fact that I would have to look up her name, if she has one (proves my point). Her name is Yugoda. We don’t have any non-bender female fighters for the Water Tribes. 

The Earth Kingdom (Neutral) has Suki, Avatar Kyoshi and the Kyoshi warriors (unnamed), June, and the girl from Jet’s gang, but the only living female earth bender we ever see is Toph, aside from her we only ever see male earth benders.

The Air Nomads (Strive For/Good) seem to treat everyone as equals, but women and men lived and were raised separately.

So, it just felt lazy to say oh the fire nation is ruled by an oppressive regime and the regime is bad and banning/outlawing same-sex couple is also bad – so there.

When I think you could’ve had a very interesting story, when the Water Tribes who we’ve seen have the most backwards views on women, being the nation to ban same-sex marriages/relationships.

Avatar was very good on the whole – “It’s not that simple” and “Oh god, it’s so much more complicated -  so, I think it would’ve been a very interesting storyline to have The Water Nations have been the ones to ban same-sex relations, while maybe the Fire Nation maybe took after some ancient (Greece/Roman societies) where some thought a soldier would fight harder if they were fighting and protecting their lover/love.

Also, maybe in the recovery period. The Fire Nation wants to have same-sex be legal, but as they were were literally trying to take over the world and systematically tried to destroy other nations and colonize,  the Water Tribes don’t want their traditions and customs being dictated by those of the Fire Nation. I don’t know, that could’ve been very complicated and nuance story. 

It just seemed lazy to me and sort of ignoring what they’ve already set up in their canon universe, on purpose or not. 

 Favorite Friendship: Momo and Appa, Aang and Sokka, Aang and Zuko, Aang and Toph… Aang with anyone really

Character I most identify with: I don’t think I really identify with anyone, but when it came out, definitely Mai.

Character I wish I could be: Mai or Ty Lee

Avatar: The Legend of Korra

Favorite character: Korra 

Least Favorite character: Varrick, Unalaq (weak villain), Mako (at times)

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): Korrasami, Bolin x Opal, Korralin, Kai x Jinora, Makorralin (…I’ve read a lot good smut of these guys, so yeah...)

Character I find most attractive: Asami

Character I would marry: Asami

Character I would be best friends with: Jinora

a random thought: Why did they have Korra sleeping on her bed with shoes on in season one… that will forever bother me.

An unpopular opinion: I’m have no idea if this is unpopular, but I think Bumi getting air-bending was such a copout. There was something very interesting about the child of two of the most powerful benders (literally his dad is the avatar and his mother was the avatar’s water bender teacher) being a non-bender and that really could’ve been explored. It felt “cheap” to give him air-bending…I was never a fan of that

Also, it bothered me that the Tenzin, Kya, and Bumi all had skin tones that matched perfectly with their respected powers/lack of powers and also they all dress with that same mind set. As one of the first mixed families we really get to see, It would’ve been nice, if their styles of clothing were different or combos of Air Nomad, Water Nation and Earth Kingdom (given where they lived). 

Having only Tenzin be the only we see dress as an Air Nomad and later Bumi (when he gets air-bending) definitely gives credence to the idea that Bumi definitely had a reason for thinking he didn’t truly belong in the Air Nation.

I think Legend of Korra loss a good opportunity of introducing the first mixed families/kids, but still had them dress in regards to their respected element 

It felt weird that Bolin and Mako, dressed with their specific element color. 

Especially since Republic City was this huge diverse city, with influences and people from across the four nations. 

My Canon OTP: Korrasami

My Non-canon OTP: Korralin/Gender-Reverse Korralin

Most Badass Character: Korra

Most Epic Villain: The Red Lotus

Pairing I am not a fan of: Makorra, I was a huge fan of them when it started, but honestly as the show continued and looking back at it, their chemistry was off after the second episode. They had such a great set-up with the gazing end and music, but after that it was downhill.

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): Not so much a character, but Aang and Katara and their relationship with their children never felt right to me. 

In general, though, I think the creators struggled in finding the right groove for many of the characters if not all of them, at one point or another. 

Favorite Friendship: Korra and Asami, Korra and the Airbending Kids

Character I most identify with: Jinora and Ikki

Character I wish I could be: Asami

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A dev’s insight to tumblr’s updates

Alright guys. I’m sorry to make this long-ass discourse post when I’d really much rather just be doing my art reblogs and basking in my warm community, but I feel this needs to happen, because a lot of you may not be aware of what goes into updates like this.

To be clear - I’m not making any comment about the color change itself. It doesn’t actually bother me, seems kind of silly to flip a lid about when there’s plenty of extensions to fix it if you don’t like it, but I get the annoyance of having something familiar change into something that makes you uncomfortable, especially with no warning.

But then I started to see a bunch of rants on how shitty this update is when there were so many bugs that needed to be fixed instead, and I just need to take a moment to address app development in general, because y’all seem fairly misinformed about the whole thing.

So let’s get one thing straight - bug fixing is not easy.

Yeah, that sounds like a copout, doesn’t it?

But let’s talk about how bug fixing works, alright? Because there’s a couple of things we gotta look at when considering changes like this.

How much code is needed to fix the bug? Yeah, this one’s pretty straight forward, right? How many lines of code do the devs have to write to fix whatever’s broken? Except you’re forgetting the time it takes to find the bug in the first place. And this isn’t about popping into one file and looking through the lines until you see what’s broken. Bugs aren’t just typos. Bugs are NOT easy to find. Generally, if I’m working on a bug, and it takes me 4 days to fix, 3 of those days were probably spent just defining exactly where the bug came from and the places it exists. And that’s with me being super familiar with the codebase. If I didn’t already know that the core value displayed on the groupings page was coming from the hciReplacements inspector (out of 30-some inspectors), which is pulling data from the hagi, which is pulling and calculating data from the clip model, of which I know the exact layout, it probably would have taken me double or triple that time. And now, on top of that, what if the bug is an extreme edge case no one thought about when they built the core code? I might have to rewrite the entire functionality of the thing that pulls all that data, and holy hot hell is that gonna take some time.

How much QA effort is required? Contrary to popular belief, no, developers don’t just make bug fixes and immediately push them out to the app. It’s gotta be tested, usually by some sort of QA/QC team. And, fun fact, QA can take longer than the development did. Because the QA team is looking for EVERY POSSIBLE USE CASE of the exact thing you’re working on. Every single possible way a user might interact with that. That takes a skilled worker to think of all of those possible use cases (and spoiler alert, they’re human, so they still fuck up sometimes), and it takes them time to find them all.

But ON TOP of that, you also have a LOT of unexpected consequences to code changes. Maybe you just needed to update to cores count so that it’s the total cores on a node instead of total cores per processor, but you didn’t realize that another part of the code was assuming that value was cores per processor, and congrats, you’ve screwed the values all through the rest of the app.

And that’s just a data example. You can make critical errors if, say, you rename a value, and miss one of the places that value’s used, so now that value doesn’t exist in that specific scenario, and congratulations, you’ve actually caused your app to crash if the user follows a specific series of actions, and oops, looks like that set of actions wasn’t one QA thought of, so now users get to find it instead. You were just trying to fix a little data bug, and you’ve now broken the entire app. Good job.

How old is the codebase? Why is this important, you ask? Well, if you’re not in the industry, you may have never been introduced to the idea of “legacy code”. Legacy code is, to over-simplify, old code. It’s code that’s been around for a while. It’s code that dozens of people have had their hands in and is therefor a bit of a mess, no matter how hard you try to keep it clean, or how well organized your team is. Because maybe Eric built that one file really well to start with, and Suzy made some great additions to it, and Tom just made a few bug fixes, but he names variables a little differently, so Jason didn’t realize that the function he needed already existed when he went to build it a few months down the line, so now there’s two versions of the same thing, one used in one place, one used in another, and when Meredith goes to fix a bug related to it, she doesn’t realize she has to fix it both places, and wow, that is a bit of a mess, isn’t it?

The codebase I’m working in currently is about a year and a half old now, maybe a little more. When our first version was released, our codebase was 51,714 lines of code long. As of today, it is 357,932 lines long. With new features on the horizon, it will continue to grow, and the web of dependencies tangled through the codebase will get bigger and more complex. This is just a fact.

So keep in mind that that’s an app that’s about 1.5 years old. Tumblr was launched in, what, 2007 or something? That’s 11 years. 11 fucking years of coding, of dozens, if not hundreds, of people contributing to the codebase, in their own coding style, with their own knowledge levels. This is like if a team of 100 writers was working on a fic series for 11 years, and they didn’t all get to work together, and not everyone took notes. You’re gonna have plot holes. You’re gonna have inconsistencies. Shit’s gonna be messy.

And then there’s the pinnacle question. 

How much do the devs care? How much you wanna bet a lot of the devs on this site started out with a genuine passion for it? How many do you think worked long past the hours they were getting paid for just to make sure they were making something they could be proud of? How excited do you think it used to make them to release new features, and get to see it make people’s lives better?

When you care about a project, you think beyond the exact task you were given. You think about the impact every line of code you write is going to have. on the users. Because you want the users to enjoy the app. You want them to be happy with it. You want all the work you put into it to mean something.

When you care, you make less bugs. When you care, you don’t get lazy and just make temporary fixes. When you care, you put your heart and soul into your work.

How much heart and soul do you think the Tumblr devs want to put into this site at this point? When every single update, every single effort they put in, is met with criticism and hatred? When they’re told that nothing they do is ever good enough? How much do you think the devs care about getting everything perfect and on time and working themselves to tears on this site when they know damn well that the second they release an update, it’s going to be met with nothing but hatred and ignorant people treating them as if their hundred of hours of effort were stupid?

If I was a dev for this site, I’d hate my fucking job.

So let’s review. When you ask for bug fixes, I promise, there is someone on that team very concerned about addressing that bug fix. When you complain that tags are borked, or searching is shit, or whatever you get frustrated with that day, I promise, some dev is already working their tits off trying to find exactly what it’s going to take to fix that for you.

But understand that, that ask? That ask that might seem super simple and straight-forward to you from your comfortable couch? But it might take a team of devs working ungodly hours for months to be able to do. It might carry risks as high as accidentally deleting posts or banning blogs or breaking the entire bloody site. So they wanna spend some time and get that shit right so that you’re not stuck with something even worse than the bug they were fixing.

The people working on these bug fixes are human beings. We seem to remember that about everyone else in the goddamn world, but not the people who work tirelessly to give us the very site that we’re having these conversations on right now.

This update? Yeah, it might seem trivial to you. It might seem like they’re “wasting their time” with “stupid bullshit” when they could be fixing bugs.

But let me make it very clear. They’re trying to fix the bugs. They’re trying to stop the porn bots (and oh, fucking boy, I could make an entire post just about how insanely difficult that is, because some of you people seem to think the devs are fucking GODS or something). And maybe this update is stupid to you, but I can tell you right now, having this update right here is not the reason these things are not going to be fixed tomorrow. This is the frontend team making an aesthetic change - I promise it didn’t stop the backend team from their tireless work to fix the tags.

so tl;dr Fixing Tumblr’s bugs is not some simple, do-it-in-a-month, just-get-more-devs fix. And tearing into this release is doing nothing but reminding the probably very tired dev team that their work means absolutely dick to a large portion of ungrateful fucks on this site.

Complain about bugs. Tell Tumblr about their bugs. Make sure they know. And then sit the fuck down and wait - they’re fucking trying.

[rametarin]

Complaints about Castlevania. There aren’t many, but they do exist.

Spoilers. Just, spoilers everywhere.

I’m going to be disappointed if they don’t at least address that Isaac in the game was a white dude. The whole basis for Isaac’s character in Curse of Darkness was that he was inspired by a European vampire story featuring a clan of redheaded vampires.

Isaac needs red hair. He just does. And I feel like if they don’t address this, they just singled Isaac out to be the Black Guy, with no deeper thought put into his character than that.

Which is just offensively lazy. They could’ve ADDED a black Devil Forgemaster. A mentor, an apprentice. Another support character like the vampire bitches and Godbrand. They certainly add in vampires from other cultures that weren’t in the games. So there’s no reason they couldn’t just add more black support characters.

So I suspect by the end of the animated Castlevania series, there’ll be 3 possible outcomes.

1.) It was all just for Diversity. They didn’t put any thought into Isaac’s race beyond, “lets have a main antagonist be a black guy.”

Which I’m not 100% against. Like.. how often is it that the Forced-Diversity makes the character a well written, memorable antagonist/villain? Not often. So, even this suck ending has some redeeming features. Usually it’s just screaming and crying about how the protagonists should be black and the antagonists should be evil white men. Isaac is legitimately a villainous asshole, so. Even this has some redemption as a decision.

2.) Isaac uses Godbrand’s ashes in a ritual. It either makes him just redheaded (which will be a great big copout since he shaves his head, conveniently) and possibly gives his skin Isaac’s deathly white palor.

3.) Isaac uses some desperate last-ditch ritual to get out of hell and possess some redheaded white kid’s body.

There needs to be SOMETHING... SOMETHING, there, that allows Hector to meet Isaac’s sister and be like, “Oh my god, you’re the spitting image of my late wife.” So far, we haven’t seen if Isaac HAS a sister, much less if she’s mixed race or white-passing. Hector’s late-wife being almost identical to Isaac’s sister was a plot point in Curse of Darkness.

So either Hector meets, settles down with and marries a black woman that mysteriously looks like Isaac’s sister for no reason, or that whole plot point has been dropped.

Just. Give us SOMETHING, Netflix. Even a retcon involving the Infinite Corridor would be fine. Something beyond, “we decided to make Isaac black because too many whiteys in a European historical-period fantasy fiction setting.”

Everything else was handled creatively and with positive embellishments that really pay heed to Castlevania influences and lore and even manages to smoothe out lore discrepancies and translation errors between Japanese audience and Western audiences.

Oh. And I rolled my eyes about them making Alucard bisexual, but eh. fine.