#this really bothers me

[regaliasonata]

Like this is just wild to me…you’re selling EVERYTHING instead of making a museum or preserving it? Hasbro sucks fr

Like what exactly will happen if PR comes back, no props at all for cameos or callbacks. You could at least give out the suits to their actors, feels so weird to just have them waiting to be sold out though I guarantee you they got a bunch of mmpr spandex waiting to be green-lit into a new project though 😒

[morisbasement]

can people stop taking 20 minute hall passes bc it's so fucking inconsiderate to everyone else esp when there's only one to go around...

like if there's an emergency or you're gonna throw up or something i get it but it's so normalized to just take the hall pass to go use your phone, do your makeup, get out of a lecture, etc. or even just to take a ridiculously long shit /hj and it pisses me off because you're literally holding everyone else back from using it.

plus most schools after elementary/primary school only give you like 5 minutes between classes which is NOT enough to use the bathroom if you needed to in class and couldn't and STILL be on time to your next class.

tldr if you're in middle/high school and there's only one hall pass/only one person can use it at a time, STOP FUCKING USING THE HALL PASS FOR SHIT LIKE YOUR PHONE OR MAKEUP. be fucking considerate to other people.

[compotemkin]

There are missing conjugations in Finnish, and it actually limits (slightly) the things you can say in the vernacular speech. For an example, saying: "We got sunburned." or "We are melting!" are both "impossible". Details ->

First, in the Finnish vernacular, the passive form is used instead of the first plural form. So me syödään instead of me syömme. The first plural carries a strange emphasis and is practically never used in everyday speech.

Secondly, there are a bunch of verbs for which the passive form is not used – e.g. palaa (to burn), sulaa (to melt), and sataa (to rain) – on the basis that they don't typically have a human subject or that they describe a transformation, which obviously requires a subject that transforms.

And it keeps going! Third, as a native speaker, most of the time, you can just conjugate verbs without thinking: The correct conjugations feel good and obvious. But for some of the verbs that are not typically used in passive form, the passive conjugations feel strange and icky: they break some underlying phonotactic rules most speakers are not even aware of. At least to me, the passive conjugations me palettiin or me suletaan sound egriegously wrong.

And this is a really specific and strange feeling: Following my intuitive conjugation creates words that are obviously wrong. I did everything "right" but came up with a wrong answer. It really strikes you dumb.

From the point of view of the standard language there is no issue, as you will never use them in passive -> the forms are just not supported. So the options are:

Weirdly formal standard conjugation (me paloimme)

Icky-feeling vernacular conjugation (me palettiin)

Circumvent the expression somehow (Aurinko poltti meidät, me kärähdettiin etc.)

Just avoid speaking to others

[bethanydelleman]

The Jealousy Trope in Romance and Fan Fiction

No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. - Henry Tilney, Northanger Abbey

No one is offended by another's admiration of the person they love, it is only the partner who can make it a torment

As I recently wrote while reviewing Everingham by Katherine T, there is an extremely problematic trope that I still see in Romance fiction today and very frequently in Fan Fiction (especially with Darcy), where jealousy, to the point of rage, is considered good, sexy, or appropriate in a long term relationship.

It is not.

Now that is not to say that people shouldn’t experience jealousy at all. There are very normal, healthy kinds that just go along with being in love. It is common for a person with a crush to be jealous of the person their crush likes. That’s normal and basically unavoidable. The important thing is that it needs to stay internal. At that point, you don’t have the right to command that person’s attention.

In a relationship, you might find yourself getting jealous of how much time your partner spends on a hobby, with a friend (same gender or not), or with a pet. Again, that is normal, but it is something to talk about with your significant other and work out together. It’s very normal to have discussions about how much couple time you need to feel appreciated and there are reasonable limits.

But unhealthy jealousy is part of coercive control abuse and it’s really, really bad. Like Arthur Huntington in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte bad, where he accuses Helen of loving their son too much because it is stealing love from him.

Everingham is not alone in using this trope, but it actually displays a whole bunch of the unhealthy jealous behaviours:

Expected to Spend All Your Time with Them 

Required to Check-In

Rules About Who You Can Talk To

Suspicious without cause

Possessive

Quick Temper

Emotionally Intense

That is the beginning of an unhealthy and abusive relationship! Of restricting contact with friends and family. Because in this story, the accused partner (Fanny) did not give their SO (Henry) any real reason to be jealous. In fact, he gave her reasons to be jealous and then was told she was wrong. It’s now creeping me out how extremely problematic that relationship is being portrayed. And again, I’m not specifically calling out the author, as this is a common trope, but this FF is widely recommended to fans of Mansfield Park and it has this major issue.

Because Henry Tilney is right when it comes to jealousy. In Northanger Abbey, Isabella was not just being admired as a beautiful woman, she was encouraging flirtation in the hopes to “trade-up” to a better man than James Morland. That is proper jealousy, but James also does the healthy thing, he leaves. Because the point is, Isabella is not faithful, the relationship is doomed.

So to sum up, if your partner flies into a jealous rage because you talk to an important person in your life and you have given absolutely no cause for your partner to be jealous, then get out of that relationship.

[lilyletham]

Bit of a rant but if I could just stop making food for myself, preparing the ingredients, cooking the whole thing, then after taking 2 bites getting immediately nauseated and uninterested in what I made that would be great. LET ME EATTTTTT

[hazzabeeforlou]

Well Irving Azoff signed an open letter in support of Israel. He is undoubtedly a Zionist. It doesn't seem like much of a stretch to think that Jeffrey would also be a Zionist. As is Ben Winston. I feel like Harry's knowledge of the history between Israel and Palestine would be very one sided being surrounded by those people. When Anne and Gemma were criticised for not showing support for Palenstine they liked a post saying something along the lines that it's a delicate situation and siding with one side would hurt the feelings of family and friends. I don't blame people for being iffy about the people around Harry and even Harry himself at this point.

But it’s all supposition. And inference. Harry has a Jewish ‘boss’ who signed a letter (I’m assuming it’s the one tons of people signed after the initial attack) and it’s assumed his Jewish friends gave him a one sided opinion and that Harry himself is funding Zionism by proxy by simply making music. That’s a smidge too close to “it’s all about the Benjamin’s” for me. By that logic republicans are right to fear that every Taylor Swift song streamed contributes to Biden’s reelection campaign. Critique Harry’s silence on the issue if you will, or any celebrities’, that’s valid. But to make up a money conspiracy without any hard facts and entirely due to his Jewish friends and business connections? A bridge too far imo.

[saltielena]

you know what horrifies me. jrwi ao3.

like yes i do project my own trauma on these characters but i do that in. private. without glorification of any kind

without getting into detail theres 5 works that Cross A Discernable Line and 4/5 have gillion tidestrider involved and that. eugh?

i dont know but it bothers me so much. its five works but still its Five Works??

not to mention acephobia towards gill on twt. im. not gonna get into it but jrwitwt is a hellscape cesspool ill never touch with a ten foot pole!

also i gensrs do not endorse looking into these fics. i am only telling you about their existence because they ick me to my core and you Should Stay Away From Them.

and im gonna say it! if you have to/wish to share your work projecting your trauma onto a character, you god damn better do it carefully, respectfully, and without glorification! you do that shit in a controlled environment and cover your ass because this is a serious matter.

[tiodolma]

Nimueh’s death was murder bruh. She really didnt have to die. She was just following the rules. She couldnt even take merlin’s life ffs. She wasnt allowed to do that. The universe wont allow it coz he wasnt human. She was telling the truth. Gaius paid his price fairly too. At least Gaius still had a little bit of respect for the Old Ways.

So i dont get why people insist that merlin was just protecting his loved ones. No he wasnt! He was imposing his will on a system that treated him fairly just because he could!

At that moment he proved that the rules and traditions of the Old Religion meant nothing to him. He was never on their side.

[asthma-michael-myers]

I’m certainly not done talking about Du’Met (7/???)

There are heavy influences of other serial killers I see in Du’Met. (Not H.H.Holmes, because that guy never did what they say he did in the game. He didn’t even have a „Murder Castle. Did he kill people in his hotel? Yes, probably. But not to the extent that the game [and some other media] wants to make us believe.)

So, what real murderer could have been an inspiration for Du’Met/Hector Munday (for the sake of understandability I treat them as one single person)?

First and foremost I would say, Ed Kemper. Kemper had an abusive (alcohol – addicted) mother who blamed him for her problems, and let him live in the boiler room in the cellar because his appearance was „unbearable“ for her and his sisters additionally they felt unsave and sexually molested by Kemper.

It is assumed (a fandom theory) that Hector Munday was also insulted for his looks by his mother.

While Kempers violent fantasies intensified, he also developed an affinity for justice and police work. Kemper is known for his cooperativity with the police and helping to lay the foundation for criminal profiling (with the FBI-Agenten Ressler und Douglas). His knowledge about psychology was attained during his stay in the Atascadero State Hospital after he killed his grandparents, where he was allowed to help and listen to sessions with other criminals. Also he developed own psychological tests with the corresponding items. Later Kemper used his knowledge to manipulate his victims.

Munday was an FBI profiler. About why he chose that career path can only be speculated. Although he took another way than Kemper, Munday specialized in psychology; and seeing his success, he understood that subject well. So well he used it later to analyze his victims and use the information against them.

During the first murders, Kemper described that he wanted the girls to trust him, that it was not bearable for him that one girls knew that he had just killed her friend. At moments he was not even able to look at her face. All in all Kemper was, well, bashful. When he accidentally touched the breast of his (assumed) third victim, he apologized. Like he was not going to kill and rape her. Kemper reflected on that, that if he had met her earlier in his life, this all might have not happened. It is questionable how true that is since Kemper was convinced that no one could ever love him (,again. Once he was in a relationship but that was spoiled by his mother). So, he wanted complete control over the situation and his partner (also seen by other serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Dean Corll, etc.).

This is more going into the fandom theories, that while Du’Met is dominant and determined while killing people, he is sexually quite inexperienced. But in almost every situation, he wants control over his partner (mostly based on other people's headcanons, personally I see it differently). However, he canoncally wants to control every situation during his hunting.

The last similarity I want to point out is, the murders Kemper did regarding his own family. As mentioned before, Kemper killed his grandparents. His grandmother had to die because she reminded him so much of his mother and he couldn’t handle all her nagging anymore (about shooting birds and such). The same day Kemper killed his grandfather, this time however it was out of mercy so his demented grandfather didn’t have to see his dead wife. Last but not least, Kemper finally killed his mother. 

Munday also killed his mother, in contrast to Kemper, not out of hate, but out of mercy (like Kemper did with his grandfather), so she wouldn’t have to suffer from the effects of cancer.

That’s it with Ed Kemper, On to the next. Ed Gein. This one is less about his murders, and more about his other crimes and relationship to his mother. Geins father was an alcohol addict who would beat up his wife and Geins mother only mocked her husband for that. It was her, who made the decisions in the family. Furthermore his mother saw sexuality as a sin and impure. 

There is not much told about Hectors father. Only that he left Lucinda when Hector was not born yet or very young. So it could be that Clarence also was an alcoholic, or Lucinda scared him off. Also it is just speculation what Lucinda thought about sexuality, but going along with headcanons, Du’Met seems timid regarding his own sexual needs.

Despite her behaviour of his mother towards Gein, he loved her idolatrously. Which may stem from his mothers indoctrination that every woman was a whore and not to be looked at or even noticed, so Geins desire and love were directed at his mother. The relationship only strengthened when Geins mother suffered a stroke after the death of Geins brother and she became dependent on his help. 

Mundays mother was also abusive. However, instead of leaving her, he visited her regularly and supervised her transfer to the senior home. Even there he came to visit her, more or less, regularly. Before that, she might have been dependent on Hectors help. After Lucinda was diagnosed with cancer, Munday did kill her (as mentioned above out of mercy, it was an act out of love). Furthermore, Munday mourned her death, so it even affected his work as a profiler.

As I said, this is less about Geins murders and more about his other crimes. Gein exhumed bodies (he confessed to 40) and built furniture and made clothes out of them. 

Du’Met exhumed the bodies of his mother and Sherman to build animatronics out of them. That reminds me more of Anatoly Yuryevich Moskvin and his corpse dolls.

[a-victorian-girl]

'in a minute'???🔥

S4. Unbelievable.

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[connorthevgfan78]

WORK RANT, FEEL FREE TO IGNORE THIS POST!!

I Uber drive and don't have many complaints about it, but the way the ratings system is implemented has been bothering me.

Today's complaint: I can no longer see individual ratings.

On the left is the view I used to have. The right, the view I have now.

It's important for drivers like me to have detailed information on ratings. The fact that this detailed view has been removed troubles me. Just having an average and the occasional pre-set comments does not help at all.

Also, when someone leaves a poor rating, leaving more detailed feedback should be a requirement. If nothing obvious went wrong during the ride and someone leaves a 1 or 2-star rating, I should know what specific complaint they had so I can fix it.

And yes, I do acknowledge that the specific feedback can be abused. I once got a complaint that my car was severely malfunctioning and my license plate was listed wrong, all because my passenger left their Prime bottle in the car and they "wanted to get my immediate attention."

[wiltingg4rden]

I'm so afraid of being unloved my entire life. I don't want to be alone forever.

[arthropooda]

Anybody know a good resource to look up whether a website is a scam? I can usually figure it out but this morning I did an hour and a half interview before I could tell

[wtfforged]

my campaign hiatus has gone on for too long so to cope ive combined my interests at their maximum potency and had some dnd-strawhats thoughts

thoughts in depth under read more... :)!

this is SO self indulgent. their designs literally did not change. but i am a firm believer that dnd doesnt have to be european high fantasy. and also one piece literally IS fantasy. no changes are necessary to fit into dnd. ive already imagined plenty of campaign/oneshot ideas inspired by one piece. so this was basically just an exercise of trying to replicate their canon abilities in dnd 5e as much as possible without totally homebrewing everything. well. aside from luffy. you just cant take away or change his stretching.

LUFFY: (human monk. drunken master subclass. outlander)

the only plain human of the crew to balance out with the fact that he still has rubber powers. obviously a monk. but drunken master subclass specifically because i think the flavor(not the fact that its about being a drunkard) and abilities both fit him really well. this line in the subclass' flavortext especially fits him: "A drunken master often enjoys playing the fool to bring gladness to the despondent or to demonstrate humility to the arrogant, but when battle is joined, the drunken master can be a maddening, masterful foe."

ZORO: (tiefling fighter. samurai subclass. bounty hunter)

a fighter with the samurai subclass is so very incredibly obvious... but i actually had a lot of fun geeking out while comparing the abilities to what he can do in canon; Fighting Spirit, Rapid Strike, and Strength Before Death especially! tiefling is also pretty on the nose for his demon pirate hunter shtick and asura form, but i thought he'd be really human-passing for a tiefling and theorized about his tail getting cut off at some point or another before joining the strawhats. initially wasnt gonna give him a feat, but i gave sanji a feat so i thought itd be unfair to not give him one as well, so sentinel fits the bill pretty well i think!

NAMI: (tabaxi rogue. arcane trickster subclass. criminal)

cat burglar -> full grown literal humanoid cat. this one is INCREDIBLY self indulgent... i love... cats... theres nothing deeper to this and no other reasoning. i took cat burglar and ran with it. can you tell that i love izutsumi dungeon meshi? rogue for the aforementioned burglar-ing as well, and the arcane trickster subclass for when she picks up climatact! the mage hand will be very useful for her pickpocketing. in the future as she levels up with timeskip, i can totally see her multiclassing into wizard as well! weather wizard!

USOPP: (lightfoot halfling artificer. artillerist subclass. urchin)

I HAD SO MUCH FUN THINKING ABOUT HIS CHARACTER SHEET. halfling's Naturally Stealthy ability lets him hide behind his crewmates since theyre (almost) all bigger than him, so its perfect for hiding behind zoro or sanji all the time. Lucky is also perfect for him, and I think Brave fits pretty well too when he puts on the sogeking mask. artillerist artificer is also very fun! tinkering and making magic items for his crew, and i think Eldritch Canon or Arcane Firearm could both be easily reflavored as kabuto or any of his inventions. for emphasizing his sniper-ness, the spell sniper feat was also necessary. i think hes my favorite of all the concepts. big ears and long nose combo is so cute to me.

SANJI: (half-elf monk. drunken master subclass. guild artisan (cook!))

race was mostly based on vibes i wont lie. squints. and that vinsmoke balogna or whatever too ig. but mostly vibes. along with the idea that i think a dwarf zeff raising him would be really funny and cute. monk is also obvious, and same subclass as luffy for mostly the same reasons. though the flavor fits him much less, i think the abilities still fit him perfectly, and this blurb specifically; "Your martial arts technique mixes combat training with the precision of a dancer." i really wanted to give him a different subclass from luffy, but i dislike all the other monk subclasses a lot and i found none of them fit him as well anyways, so to try and give them SOME differences, i gave him the crusher feat.

CHOPPER: (awakened deer(shifter statblock) cleric. life subclass. hermit)

this ones definitely a mouthful im sorry. awakened deer for obvious reasons, but due to magic instead of devil fruit stuff. when i was struggling with his race, i looked a lot at shifter because of his forms, but it occurred to me that itd be super cool if he could shift between all of the different shifter options instead of being stuck with just one to replicate his rumble balls. something like heavy point/guard point=beasthide, horn point/arm point(?maybe?)=longtooth, walk point/jumping point=swiftstride, and brain point=wildhunt. hed definitely need some kind of nerf though to balance out that homebrew... and cleric for class. duh.

ROBIN: (high elf wizard. order of scribes subclass. criminal)

robin is definitely the one i struggled the most with just because of her class. elf came pretty easily- shes very elegant and i think shed look cute with super long ears- and i landed on high elf instead of wood elf for the int-based abilities. i was really on the fence between sorcerer and wizard for her because i knew shed be a full spellcaster, but i didnt feel that any of the subclasses really fit her. i ended up going with wizard for order of the scribes since it focuses on texts and knowing everything. but also because robin with a flying talking sentient book would be crazy cool. it could also be similar to how she spawns mouths and eyes places to talk to or watch people. my "fuck it, why not. this would be rad. its my house" mindset kicked in with her i will admit. also the One with the Word ability made me cackle out loud when i read it. thats the funniest ability ever. anyways, i cant really think of a way to replicate her powers, but maybe we could just reflavor a bunch of spells to be her limbs or clutch; hold person, maximillian's earthen grasp, or evard's black tentacles. thatd probably work okay, and theres a handful of spells to replicate her ability to spawn eyes or mouths. unrelated, but i imagine nico olvia to be a drow. why? her hair is white. i am a simple man!

[sofiaruelle]

❄️☃️The SDV Girlies in their winter garb!☃️❄️

One side how i interpreted their lil avatars and then the other side is just me playing dress up lmao.

“Bois when?” Dunno. 🤷🏽‍♀️ I will if anyone donates screenshots.

[cleffalover173]

God, the fact that Wing Kirby’s hat hasn’t gotten completely redesigned bothers me…

Wing Kirby Kirby Trophies ‘Super Smash Bros. Brawl’