#this was a random rant

[shoyoackerman]

no hate to op, but sirens aren’t water succubus. They’ve actually been twisted over the course of media, specifically by Hollywood and men who think with their dicks. And also general misinformation.

People can pick and choose for whatever they want sirens to mean, but as fictional creatures they never were sexualized creatures.

That’s just how people depict them as. They aren’t succubus whose literally depiction is “demon female lover who approaches males in their dreams to have sex” like that’s so far off from what Sirens are.

Sirens aren’t even depicted as mermaids, either. They’ve never been. They were half women and half bird.

Y’all can check out this short thread on Reddit as well that explains pretty easily the whole spiel I’m trying to point out https://www.reddit.com/r/mythology/comments/wls9b5/today_i_learned_that_the_sirens_in_greek/

anyway again no hate to op, they can draw whatever they want. It’s just I’ve seen so many posts where people seem to compare sirens and succubus to each other when they’re not the same at all.

and personally, I don’t think theirs anything wrong with drawing them as sirens or mermaids, you don’t have to depict them doing anything sexually nor implying anything nsfw. but again each to their own

[theemporium]

do you ever just feel really 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

[redhoodsleftkneecap]

I need to rant about genshin for a second

Genshin should not be praised for diversity, it is not a diverse game in any meaning of the word.

“Oh fat characters would lose weight if they were in genshin”

ITS A WORK OF FICTION

Genshin characters should be purely muscle if they were swinging around weapons all the time

But they aren’t.

Fat people exist. Fat strong and fit people exist, that just doesn’t fit into your nice little narrative you’ve created in your head where everyone who doesn’t look like you must be lazy.

this is how i feel when ppl say genshin has diverse body types sorry

[xnoworneverr]

There’s a reason why we feel lonely even though we aren’t alone. It’s because loneliness is not about how many friends we have or how many people are in the room with us. It’s a disconnection from others. Being social doesn’t cure loneliness, loneliness comes when there is not a single person close enough to see past the illusion to who we really are and what we really feel inside.

[magnusbae]

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

[jupiterslifelessmoons]

The reason Goncharov was fun and worked well is because Tumblr didn’t plan for it, we just “yes and” it, everyone went with it and added to it with no planning while TikTok people with Zepotha are trying to recreate that by deciding to start a trend and tell people this movie existed, there isn’t even much more than “you look like this character” and sometimes people saying it was actually them.

[ghostlyfroggy]

Why would I care if other people my age are dating? Other people my age are in jail.

Stop pushing your heteronormative ideals on me, I just want to watch silly cartoons and cuddle with my cats.

[nightmare-chaser]

Ive seen multiple posts from reddit refuges that go like "im queer and its so welcoming here!" Or "im nonbinary and dont get quized on my gender here!" Or "im autistic and i can be weird here and yall like it!" And its so fuckin cute its like yes hi hello welcome this is the gay ass autistic website we love special interests we love weird genders we love just saying random shit and the just happy surprised tone of those posts is so wholesome to me like yes! hi! you are in fact the target audience! welcome home

[existennialmemes]

Oh no, my wonder is not "childlike." My whimsy is old. My frivolity is steeped in ancient wisdom.

My silliness is battle worn. My awe at the world has been long forged through trial & tribulation.

I have earned this wonderment. I have protected it for decades against a society that tells me constantly that it should not belong to me.

I was born with wonder, and I have carried it, against all odds, with me through adulthood.

It is not "childlike" by now it is Older than me.

[bluerosefox]

BREAKING NEWS! Youngest Wayne's Secret Lovechild?!

Teenage Ellie taking care of deaged Danny and moving to Gotham to hide from Vlad because Lady Gotham offered them sanctuary and will keep Vlad out.

BUT

Chaos is set into motion when during a Rogue attack, Damian Wayne (not as Robin at the moment) saves him and returns Danny to Ellie...

The internet/news happen because of course it did.

And people mistake Danny as his kid and Ellie his baby mama.

[lionmythflower]

alr imma do one of those uhhh things that ppl do where they promise to do sm shit if the post gets to a certain amount of notes

50- I'll clean my room and actually make an effort to make it stay clean

150- I'll go on a walk or do sm exercise

250- I'll stop skipping meals

500- I'll stop sh and throw away the blade that I use

1000- I'll actually open up to someone abt my mental health

[sirenesolace]

wtf is a “casual” relationship??🤨 all i know is soul crushing deep love and devotion

#yes i have scorpio and 8th house placement

[golden--goofball]

i love dnis like this because tell me why these people think they're normal when their list of people they are literally instructing to stay away from them go like:

-nazis!! (*≧∪≦)

-hitler reincarnates!!! (≧∇≦)b

-PEOPLE WHO HAVE OPINIONS ON FICTION THAT I DON'T LIKE OR AGREE WITH FUCK OFF AND DIE I HOPE YOU ALL GET FUCKED BY CHAINSAWS AND YOUR BODIES ARE FED TO THE DEVIL HIMSELF ON A SILVER FUCKING PLATTER /SRS /NEG /KYS /DIE

-terrorists!!!! (≧ω≦)/

[the-shipper-center]

Common misconceptions about proshipping:

Proship means "problematic shipping"

All proshippers shipp something

All proshipper spaces are NSFW

All proshippers cope using proshipping

All proshippers enjoy all tropes

All proshippers are lolisho

To be a proshipper, you need to engage with and enjoy dark media

Proshipping is just a way to cope. People grow out of that

What really is true:

Proshipping always meant "pro—shipping"

Proshipping means being anti harassment

There are plenty SFW spaces for proshippers. Proshipping can not be summarized as simply being just r34 of south park

Not all proshippers use it as a way to cope with something. There are people that just believe that censoship over fiction content and harassment over it is unnecessary.

You don't need to like every trope and every ship to be a proshipper. You can like one, you can like two, you can like NONE! you just need to be respectful.

You don't need to be a lolishocon to be a proshipper.

You can be a proshipper and dislike incest/age gape. You are still a proshipper since you don't go to ppl that enjoy those things and starts harrasing them.

Proshipping is a belief that in fandom spaces, you are free to enjoy fiction that you or other ppl made without the fear of being doxed or getting rape/death threats from random strangers. Respect is the base.

[thatstolenpayal]

ngl but if i were a boy i would have been the best boyfriend

[msbarrows]

Argh... so I've been reading in Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (SVSSS) fandom recently. And it's given me a new pet peeve about formatting and TTS. A bunch of the authors in that fandom are using black lens brackets to indicate the 'system' voice, 【like this】, because the original novels do, and, yeah... unfortunately that's not always compatible with TTS (definitely not with google's TTS engine, and testing with various other online TTS engines gives mixed results).

Guess how I know they're called black lens brackets.

…

Go on, guess.

…

YUP! They get read aloud! Every. Single. Time. They. Appear. Open black lens bracket like this close black lens bracket.

Please resist using the novel's formatting and just use regular square brackets instead! Which do not get read aloud unless there's a space in a bad position, [ like this ]. If you want to be fancy, maybe use <tt>...</tt> formatting or a monospaced font such as courier to make it stand out more as something mechanical.

[Like this]

Which reminds me, another bad formatting choice I've bumped into multiple times (and I can't remember if I've mentioned this one before) is where authors use something <like this> to indicate things like speaking mind-to-mind, or that someone is speaking a foreign language (despite the actual text still being in English). Cool. Neat. Also not TTS compatible, unless you like repeatedly hearing less than and greater than mixed into the text. But guess what - there are already perfectly serviceable ‹single› and «double» angled quotation marks that could be used instead - and since they're recognized as actual quotation marks, they don't get read aloud! Shocking, I know.

Those angled quotation marks could also be another decent option for indication of things like the system voice, obviously.

«Like this»

Thanks to everyone who is already using more TTS-compatible formatting, and to anyone who decides to make some changes to theirs after reading this :)