#tiny pet peeve of mine

[theladyregret]

You're allowed to like both things. Both things are allowed to be good and enjoyable. This isn't Highlander...there can be more than one.

there’s avatar and then there’s the blue people movie

[icewindandboringhorror]

examining a seemingly normal image only to slowly realize the clear signs of AI generated art.... i know what you are... you cannot hide your true nature from me... go back where you came from... out of my sight with haste, wretched and vile husk

[bylertruther]

i know that we all have our own headcanons and that's perfectly fine and i support it do what you want blah blah blah but. but. every time someone writes will as being scared of horror movies (in a bad way) and not liking them i wanna hurl myself out a fifth story window sorry peace n love tho or whatever but also maybe some biting and scratching .

[fluloa]

i absolutely cannot stand when authors make a character go “NGH!” during sexy time. like. i just… what? how do you make that noise? i ALWAYS picture it as that one anime girl noise that goes like NYEH really high pitched. do yk what i mean? like it’s such a major turn off and it hsyahauehsjsn it gives me the ick. but no judging i too would make that noise if jake sully was fucking me from behind with that fat blue cock x

[relmint]

Heyoo! I just want to ask ya something. Wukong was a souless/bad guy in the book? Or he had feelings too? Sorry if this spunds really ignorant, i'm new here and i still haven't read the book

Wukong was never a souless bad guy. He can be very violent but that's only when demons and gods would spite him. If someone hits him, he hits them back harder. He has a tendency to retaliate brutality but there are times he can be merciful too. It really depends on the situation and how wronged he feels. Of course, he has feelings as well! He loves his monkeys and Huagoshan and if anyone messes with them he'll make sure to smash anyone into meat patties! Sun Wukong is a very complex character with his own goals as well. He's not just some "haha chaos impulsive monkey". He's far more calculated than people give him credit for. There's a reason he's called the "intelligent stone monkey."

[bidokja]

me doing my damnedest to tell people that kim dokja gets isekai'd literally more times than you can count on one hand, and yet there's still people in the notes going UHMMM HE WASN'T TECHNICALLY ISEKAI'D like. man. they aren't even lying for the bit either, like. at least it'd be funny if they were, but nah they're just Wrong and confident about it sjhdgf

[came-out-of-the-coffin-desisted]

writing dragon age fanfiction is so so so so hard for me because every time i spot another historical inaccuracy that’s like “i don’t care that it’s fantasy they have the same level of technology this is WRONG” i have to have a moment of like. “kaed NO ONE ELSE will EVER care about this. you watch ‘ranking period dramas on corset accuracy both in construction and writing’ videos on youtube for entertainment normal people simply do not give a FUCK about medieval castle layouts!”

and yet this cycle continues, because the dragon age devs so so so so clearly DID research but they did BAD research and it HAUNTS me. like WHYYYYY is there only one courtyard that isn’t even really a courtyard in castle cousland WHY is the “main hall” huge with no furniture while the great hall “dining room” is tiny as fuck and in a horrible to access spot WHY are there no ovens in the kitchens where the FUCK do they bake the breaaaad!! like ok fine cool servants get beds in thedas i’ll bite. that fucks hard, actually! but WHY are there more servant rooms than rooms for visiting nobles do you honestly think anybody in the middle ages fucking had servant rooms???? they slept on the FLOOR in the GREAT HALL! and WHY is there a fucking library and a ‘treasury’ (which what the fuck is THAT there should be a DON-JON in there you locked your valuables in the TOWER at the TOP, not in ONE room centrally located on the first floor with TWO guards!!) like i KNOW it was for level design i KNOW it was but oh my fucking g-d it’s gonna KILL ME to write out creeping through corridors when there WERE NO CORRIDORS! like look at this. look at this.

castle cousland: stupid, awful design, honestly they kinda asked to be coup’ed with their garbage unsurvivable castle that supposedly nobody sieges regularly even though it’s literally a death trap. there is ONE main exit, no way to trap your enemies, and only one official guard post that i can see. fuck awful.

harlech castle in wales: it took 115 years for someone to successfully take this castle, and it’s withstood COUNTLESS sieges, you can go visit it right the hell now if you go to wales (not at all getting into the evilness of the english building castles in wales, that’s not the point i’m trying to make.) see how the outside makes it so that even if your enemies breach the walls, to actually reach anyone important they have to survive the volleys of arrows from the ramparts? and then presumably kill everyone ON the ramparts, or the minute you go to open a door or try to drag someone out, you’re going to get shot full of arrows. that’s after breaching TWO heavy doors (which would require a battering ram both times) which would wake up the entire castle LONG before they got anywhere NEAR the heir to the castle’s wife and child.

and before somebody says “oh well kaed maybe you just don’t know your castle building periods very well” think again. i know my castle building periods. that style above is concentric (harlech castle’s initial construction was finished in 1289 and was one of the first finished castles in england in this style,) which came after the keep and bailey style, which came after the motte-and-bailey style, which came after the burh (which arguably WASN’T a castle but whatever,) etc. there are no fortified castles in english history that look like castle cousland, because it’s fucking indefensible. now, this does lead to the question of “oh, well, what is the timeline for the game, maybe there’s something you missed!” so let’s examine the time period of origins:

at the very, very latest, origins could be based off of the BEGINNING of the british “wars of the roses” (the civil wars between the various members of the house plantagenet) which began in the 1450s— this is personally what /i/ think origins is based off of, for a couple reasons. 1) trevelyan was a real person— g.m. trevelyan was a british historian who wrote about the wars of the roses, and in one instance there’s a quote of his the devs almost verbatim used for the design of the free marches: “the Wars of the Roses were to a large extent a quarrel between Welsh Marcher Lords, who were also great English nobles, closely related to the English throne…” they ixnayed the part about the marcher lords being ferelden nobles, i imagine because it was too complicated, but trevelyan? marcher lords? a close relationship with this country? (i.e. like somewhere that might take in their refugees after a catastrophe?) cmon. 2) because ferelden is fucking huge and the histories are kinda weird, because they aren’t 1 for 1, i’m gonna say that we have to use the norman conquest of england as our unification date. in other contexts i wouldn’t try to argue this, but in this one, i’m saying 1066 is the unification date of the anglo-saxon kingdoms into england. calenhad gives us a hard unification date for ferelden— the first landsmeet was in 5:42 exalted, ergo origins is 388 years later. the wars of the roses started in 1455, 389 years after the norman conquest ended. 3) the wars of the roses happened because of a succession crisis— admittedly, these two succession crises are very, very different, but there are definitely parallels between loghain and henry vi and alistair and edward iv. henry vi was crowned at a young age (loghain largely ruled for maric at various points in his life, starting when he was very young,) and was very ineffectual— he suffered from an unknown mental illness which made him extremely unstable and unable to rule for large periods of time. loghain, on the other hand, ruled when the /theirins/ weren’t stable, so you argue he had the opposite— meanwhile, his policies WEREN’T sustainable, whatever you might think of him. loghain is too shaped by his own experiences to be a truly good leader, and by the time his rule/anora’s rule is threatened by cailan, he’s sacrificed enough of his principles that he’s willing to commit atrocities (notably, margaret of anjou ruled during the worst parts of her husband’s mental instability, which again could apply to loghain OR anora, as they ruled fairly jointly after a certain point.) edward iv was the son of richard of york, who was eligible for the throne at a very young age (18 to alistair’s 19) because his father was dead. he was coaxed and led into battle by his cousin, the earl of warwick (also known as the kingmaker— sound like a protagonist you might know?) that’s about where the similarities end, but that’s largely because alistair is a grey warden— if he weren’t, he’d probably be able to have kids and end the question of succession. but he can’t, which, assuming the devs eventually remember, WILL lead to another civil war. hence why i say this is at the BEGINNING of the wars of the roses.

another option that could be argued but makes much less sense and i have no evidence for is that alistair has similarities to edward ii (second son who only became king because his brother died, married a more powerful woman to consolidate power, not very good at ruling, no offense to alistair,) but that still puts origins at like 1307-1327. in either case, they would have been using concentric castles— and given what time period castle cousland was originally built in, it would have been built as a motte-and-bailey, which would NOT have lasted four hundred years. so the castle had to have been rebuilt, and bryce cousland would have had to update that rebuilt castle, because no one lived in it during the orlesian occupation. so where the hell does this winding, weird multi-level design come from?

i GUESS— and this is SO charitable— they could have designed castle cousland based off of a country house design from the mid 1500s, but none of them look like that, either. they’re exclusively rectangular, for one thing, and one of the huge bragging rights of owning one was that they weren’t fortified— they came into fashion during a period of relative stability under the tudor rule, when it was considered guache and maybe even treasonous to build a fortified castle. ferelden is NOWHERE NEAR a period of stability, if anything at the end of origins they’re entering their greatest period of INstability, given what happens in inquisition, and that no matter who ends up on the throne, there’s no way for them to have children. so there’s NO way this castle is a country house, or inspired by one.

leaving us with the final conclusion that a) the game devs definitely did do research into the time period because i can fairly directly trace a line between the event i think inspired origins and the plot, but they didn’t do enough research to figure out what the everloving fuck the BUILDINGS looked like. so these castles make no fucking sense and can’t possibly be called historically accurate even with the fantasy defense, and b) i care WAAAY too much about this for somebody who isn’t even a medieval historian. my area of expertise is the paleolithic, i have no clue why this bugs me so bad i spent four fucking hours writing this post.

[amicus-siderum]

The Knights are literally outside like constantly.

Like Amber is a literal outrider. Who flies. Outdoors. Constantly. And you're telling me she's aristocratically pale!??

I'm not saying that they should change her race (that's a separate problem entirely that hoyoverse needs to tackle) but like at least give her tan like she realistically would have!

And Eula! Reconnaissance captain? Don't seem like she's doing much reconnaissance with that fair snow white skin.

Jean I can slightly understand, grandmastering comes with paperwork, but girly canonically goes out to help people too.

Albedo who is constantly out of office on a mountain? Okay he's made of chalk. I don't know how that works in terms of reacting to the sun.

Unless you're telling me they all always put on SPF like 500 to not absorb a single ray of sun into their sEnSiTiVe KnIgHtLy sKiN.

[quiietjay]

I know not everyone looks super closely at blogs when they reblog stuff but it’s always kinda grahhhh for me when people reblog zooliminology and add horror as a tag lol. Like that’s literally the opposite of what it is or what it’s supposed to be. you just put the horror tag there because it’s a liminal space smh…..

[honourablefool]

Relistening to TAZ balance and boy howdy does Griffin like to say "vivisected" when he means "bisected"

[theladyregret]

This is what Drider feet look like

This has been a PSA

Tarantula feet, Selenocosmia sp. and Phormingochilus sp.

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[moistrodent]

Pisses me off when people base OCs off “snakes” or “spiders” SPECIFY THE FUCKING SPECIES YOU COWARD. “This OC was based on a cobra” AND IT’S. ALWAYS. FUCKING. BASED. ON. A. KING. COBRA. KIND COBRAS AREN’T COBRAS! RESEARCH THIS! ALSO COBRAS ARE AN ENTIRE FAMILY IN ELAPIDS, SCIENTIFICALLY KNOWN AS NAJA. I FUCKING BEG OF YOU RESEARCH. THIS. SHIT.

I’m also mainly talking about Vivziepop - characters such as Sir Pentious piss me off. He’s just “snake.” Should have been based on Boulengerina which are a species of water cobras. And Angel Dust being based on a jumping spider? THERE ARE OVER 5,000 SPECIES OF JUMPING SPIDERS OH MY FUCKING GOD PLEASE. Also Angel Dust being tall is kinda stupid, him being short would make a lot more sense. Jumping spiders are fucking tiny! And really cute.

Look at this little guy <3! Also this is a boulengerina.

Vivziepop has a lot of characters not looking what they’re based on, and people not specifying shit like that is a major pet peeve of mine.

BUT EITHER WAY SPECIFY YOUR OCs!

[pixlokita]

Honestly it's a personal pet peeve of mine when artists make Gregory too big, like he's tiny in canon, why does he look so big??? How is this boy meant to fit inside a robot? And what about the baby stroller?

But yeah, your tiny Gregory art tickles all my brainworms i love it.

Eh that’s fine everyone has their own way of drawing Greg :> but I always make sure he’s piñata sized fr xD

[dsmp-lainey]

let me be a hater this one time

i know this is nit-picky and if you disagree that’s perfectly okay i honestly expect no one will fully agree. however you wish to draw the characters is valid and i fully respect it, any creation you put time into deserves praise and respect. these are mostly things i now dislike about my own art i created of the characters in 2021 because that my character designs have shifted SO MUCH lol

[miraculous-floconfettis]

I know this is silly and that I'm being picky and way too focused on tiny details and all, but I can't help feeling a bit annoyed when I'm reading a fanfic that's culturally inaccurate. I know it can be hard to write something about a show that is set in a foreign country you know nothing about, but I've read a lot of Miraculous fanfictions and it shows.

For example, we don't have proms or graduation days in France. We don't have green cards either, or Pop Tarts or ceiling fans. Most people in Paris don't use their cars, they take the bus/metro/bike to go places. And we eat other food beside croissants and baguettes.

Another very specific pet peeve of mine regarding Miraculous fanfictions is when characters' names are spelled wrong. I've read too many fics about "Marionette / Marientte", "Chloè", "Adrian", and so on. Please people, it's not that hard to double check the names before posting your fic online.

I know these are tiny details that don't take away the amazing stories some of you write but it still rubs my neurospicy brain the wrong way.

(I like accuracy 🙈)

[bluestarjay]

Oooh I am so tired of the twinkification of haikyuu characterssss Istg if I see one more fanart of Ushijima where he looks like the love interest of a shoujou anime, and is lean/skinny I'm gonna actually scream wth guys he's beefy he's MUSCULAR he is a professional athlete and is like 6"4 I keep seeing fanarts where he has more of Tendou's physique and it bothers me sm like I always see fanart of him and I don't recognize its him cause he's so skinny and I'm like "Who is that? He's wearing the Shiratori- Oh my God, that's not Ushijima, is it????" And then I check the tags, and it is, and I'm like ???? Like, I'm all for drawing characters according to your headcanons, but Ushijima??? Lean??? And I'll go on Pinterest to get ship stuff bc it's less organized and lowkey easier to find stuff since it's just pictures, yk? But I'll look at it, and it's all that weird ass 2000s-2010s artstyle. Take Tsukihina, for example, and Hinata looks like a child. Like Tsukishima is HUGE, and Hinata is TINY!! Their height difference is not that big. And I feel like a lot of it is from comics or doujinshi, and the style just looks like it's from something R rated ykwim???? Like all of it is just helpless baby Hinata 🥺🥺 and his huge tall 'alpha' bf Tsukishima who hates everybody but him. Like they just take random characters and twinkify them; they make them overtly feminine for no reason and it makes me sooo madddd I am sick of fuckin Thumbelina Hinata and Levi Ackerman Ushijima make it stop!!!! OR THE OPPOSITE WHERE THEY MAKE RANDOM CHARACTERS SUPER DOMINANT AND SEXY AND WEIRD BC 1 THEY ALWAYS USE THE HIGH SCHOOL VERSIONS OF THEM AND 2 THEY ARE FUCKING LOSERS AND NERDS THEYRE NOT CALLING A GODDAMN SOUL "BABYGIRL 🫦😩" THEY ARE CALLING EACH OTHER MORONS AND INSULTINF THEIR HAIRCUTS **edit, I just wanted to add that all the fanarts I see of the popular characters, e.g ushijima, atsumu/osamu, oikawa, etc, all have the same exact face toooo, And I actually HATE the kind of art where people make them *so* buff they look like a Jojo or DBZ character,, someone who reblogged brought that up a bit and REALLL I hate it. And this is kinda irrelevant, but I think people also forget that people's body types change over time. Changing a characters body type (at least according to the character/source) should be fine, as that's what happens as you age. A character from an apocalypse show probably isn't gonna be super buff, but rather lean bc yes they are technically working out in the fact that they are traveling a lot and idk like killing zombies or whatever the basis for the show is, but there's also gonna be a loss of food yk, so they'd still be rather skinny. And that'd be the case for any body type. A high schooler isn't gonna have the same body as an adult, and people don't usually account for that, which is fine, I'm not saying anybody has to because it's such a small thing usually, but it's just a small pet peeve of mine. (I want a muscular post time skip Osamu with some chubbiness so bad he loves to eat, but he does still like working out. I just know that man has some chub on his stomach and I want it 😩😩)