#type: rant

[artsekey]

I keep seeing AI shit in student work. I can't take it, sarge. Can't take it.

Why. Are you. Pursuing higher education in visual art. If you're just going to throw AI at your assignments.

It's not hard to tell. You know why it's not hard to tell? Because I've been studying this for almost a decade now. Yeah, the image looks 'complete', but it's not informed. There're weird artifacts that aren't from the creative process. Small details a real artist pays attention to, or overworks, or underworks? They're absent.

If it doesn't look bad to you, it's because you don't have enough knowledge about art to see that it's bad, which means that you REALLY should not be skimping on your assignments.

[lexyscross]

God, those kind of people are so fucking stupid. And gross. But they think they're Progressive and ✨️ inclusive ✨️. Or they believe they're be shitty and hateful because OPPRESSION. Like, no. You're not. Them and the homophobes are 2 sides of the same moronic coin.

And then these mfs will gush over the most boring and self-righteous LGBTQ media to ever exist, like Heartstopper. 🙄

"how can m/f ships be good-" first of all through the power of bisexuality anything is possible so write that down. second of all if we start othering ships based on gender and nothing else we're no better than the opposition. third of all you need to watch more addams family

[dongoverlord]

this has got to be one of the most horseshit posts I've seen circulating around holy fuck. thanks for demonizing tens of thousands of artists online and immediately painting us all as relying on sweatshop labor and then IMMEDIATELY ADMITTING YOU'RE NOT AN EXPERT AND NEVER ACTUALLY MADE MERCH YOURSELF BEFORE?

fuck off for real. this fucking website is full of fake ass leftists who do no goddamn research before posting.

[giglio-nero-e-bianco]

I'm not that much into the mouthwashing fandom, but I find it kinda funny that the only JimCurly shippers I've seen at this point always fall in one of these two categories

And honestly, my take on the ship falls exactly in-between

Like, yeah, Jimmy IS an abuser towards Curly now that he can't defend himself, he takes his frustration out on him, he mutilates him, he feeds him his own goddam leg, Curly is a victim of Jimmy

But saying that Curly is 100% innocent here is not quite right, Curly always seemed to forgive what Jimmy did and was a total enabler to his actions, not wanting to take sides when problems came up but subconsciously taking Jimmy's side, as seen when Anya asked for help

Anya told Curly of what he did to her but we never see Curly actually confront Jimmy on what he did, he only tells her "we'll go to him together", ok? You can still talk to him about it by yourself?? and when he does talk to him directly it's more like "sorry that happened, how does that make you feel?"

So JimCurly is kinda like "yeah, you kinda half brought this upon yourself by not stopping the monster before it finished opening it's mouth and now everyone is paying for it, including you"

Don't kill me, this is my own interpretation of the ship 👐

I still prefer Jimmy pretty much dead and the rest of the crew happy and alive, even Curly for that matter

[cursedeclipse]

people might “it’s not that deep” this but i think it’s concerning the amount of hate feyre has been getting in the last few years.

it used to be really popular to criticize tamlin, now new readers wont allow folks to say fuck tamlin without ten of his annoying fans being like “but rhys did this” “but feyre was mean :(“ “he deserves a redemption arc”

the rise of misogyny and victim blaming in this fandom normalizes this behavior irl. would you see an abused woman who talks back to her abuser, he shows physical violence towards her, and tell her “well you knew he would react that way. why would you provoke him?? YOU’RE THE MANIPULATIVE ONE.”

especially with the rise of alt-right talking points on tiktok, conservatism, and misogyny. you can’t convince me there isn’t a problem with the way people hate on feyre to prop up her abuser.

acotar and acomaf chronicle feyre’s journey through being a lonely girl who falls in love with a man that promises her safety when she’s never known that, and then becomes controlling and wants to hide her from the world and disempower her. it’s not up for debate. it’s not subtle, it’s very on the nose for an abusive relationship. tamlin didn’t just change over night, you were viewing him through feyre’s rose colored glasses.

when i re-read acotar, i was struck by the fact that feyre and tamlin had maybe two serious conversations where they got to know each other before they were in love. feyre has more serious conversations with rhys in acotar and is able to be herself way more with him, and she notes that herself.

it’s scary to see how misogynistic female dominated spaces in book fandoms can really get, especially with misogyny on the rise in young men. does thinking that eris or tamlin are interesting mean you hate women? no, but when you hate on their victims and treat them noticeably more charitable than you do for female characters it does!

[narratorstrash]

Ninjago confession;

While I don’t like Misako as a character, it is largely due to the early 2010s writing & NOT bc she’s some completely unforgivable villain.

Even though I don’t really like her, I’m EXTREMELY wary of people who absolutely despise her just on the basis of ‘she was a terrible mother to Lloyd’ when Garmadon was just as bad (if not worse in some aspects).

[gregoryhousedefender]

House was the only one in the show to not get a happy ending, and that will eat me up inside until the day I die

• Thirteen's traveling the world with her girlfriend

• Cameron has a husband and a kid

• Foreman is running the hospital

• Chase now is in charge of the diagnostics department

• Taub has seemingly sort of made up with his wife and is caring for his daughters

• Wilson only has 5 months left to live; but he's spending it with his best friend and gets to fulfill anything he's ever wanted to do.

The entire show revolves around everyone around House, wanting him to change and get better. Eventually, it comes to House wanting that, too. And he does change, and he does get better to an extent. But he can never truly be happy, and I think his ending really showed that. He got the best ending he could possibly get: being him.

It just accentuates that even when everything was on the line, he couldn't live up to those expectations, and he couldn't really change. But he changed enough, and he was the happiest he could be.

[fanofstuff01]

Okay this post was originally supposed to be longer and going into more depths of the subject but I decided to separate it in parts. Because I cannot write that long of an essay in one day lmao

But anyway here's part one

Wohoo

Why Adam from Hazbin Hotel Not Coming Back In Future Seasons Doesn't Make Sense (To Me)

Part One: Logical Problems

Now this section, even though it is still my favorite in the parts, can be fixed easily if Vivienne just gives a logical answer to all of it. But it is just my perspective and what I saw from this show.

Let's get started yippie

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A: Him not coming back contradicts the show in my opinion.

-You see, when Sir Pentious died to Adam's holy light, all the other characters react like they think he's one hundred percent gone. And it was previously stated by Vivziepop that sinners cannot die unless it's from an angelic weapon, otherwise they just respawn somewhere else in Pride hence why the exterminations exist.

So this implies that Sir Pentious died permanently here, from an angelic attack and then became a winner, in other words respawned in Heaven.

Then.. Why can’t Adam, someone who we know (for now) that died to a weapon designed to kill souls permanently, come back exactly Vivzie? This doesn't make any cucking sense for me. Why are you showing us that a soul can rise after being perma killed, but then treat as if the other Alex Brightman died permanently and now there's no way for him to come back?

-"But maybe they didn't know that Sir Pentious could come back, they just learnt that angels could be harmed. (Yes someone literally said this)"

Oh you mean these characters, who include the Princess of Hell and a literal ex exorcist, don't know about one of the core reasons why exterminations are held in the first place?

Suure.

-"You wouldn't be sad and attack the person who did it if someone killed your friend even though you knew they'd be back? Their reactions don't essentially translate to them not knowing about the permanent death thing."

I would and I can definitely understand them still being incredibly devastated and going feral about his death even though it’s temporary, but then why does the show treat Pentious' death like something these characters think is permanent? Why does Charlie refer to his death as “Ultimate sacrifice”? Hell, this entirely contradicts the sense of finality and sorrow his sacrifice had. 

And to add to both questions, why would Adam come to the exterminations with a weapon that doesn’t kill sinners permanently? Specifically one where he knows that there’ll be folks that will try to fight them and folks he would be more than pleased to wipe out permanently? 

-I know I sidetracked to talking about Sir Pentious more than Adam here, but since he is the only soul we know that changed the place he was in afterlife he is the most relevant character when it comes to this discussion about Adam in my opinion.-

-”We don’t know if angel souls are equal to sinner souls when it comes to this. Maybe the angels simply cannot be killed unless it is permanent, and the show actually hints at this given everyone thought that the angels were invincible.”

This is the only argument I can get behind actually. But it is not because it’s a valid one for the right reasons, it is the only one that makes sense to me because the writers were lazy on this too. 

Then what happens when an angel is harmed with a non-angelic weapon? -Also maybe off topic but what makes something an angelic weapon? We see Cherri Bomb throw bombs at them or okay maybe angelic bombs are a thing, but Charlie shoot-kills the exorcists with the fireworks that come out of her fingers?- Do they just.. Respawn? Or it just doesn’t hurt them? Then wouldn’t a character as smart as Vaggie would’ve figured out that they can very well be killed permanently if they are able to get hurt? 

Not answered. And it’s not helped by how the show openly portrays winners, which may I remind you Adam is one no matter how powerful he is, as the complete opposite of sinners, which would take you to assuming the angelic steel works like it does on sinners for demons. It just doesn't make sense to me.

And it wouldn’t make sense in the next section either.

B: Him not coming back doesn’t make sense in the story or the worldbuilding in my opinion

Just a little disclaimer, I’m not all means a professional media critic and do not say what I say here comes from that distinction. It's just me sharing myself lol.

Also I may use the terms incorrectly due to my broken English skills.

-Okay. So what is Hazbin about? Demons getting redeemed and therefore getting into Heaven for becoming better people, right? Also showing us that everyone can change and they shouldn't be seen as who they are at the moment and they all deserve a second chance.

At least that's what I get from the show. Now..

Why isn't the previously good now bad, being punished at the same level the previously bad now good is being rewarded? Why are you saying that becoming bad would give you an easy escape through death, while becoming good can get you to somewhere better?

Being on Hell is a PERFECT way to punish corrupted holy souls. Because you often become corrupted in the way of arrogance in Heaven, and now you're humored by the universe and by the people you used to mock and see yourself above as but this world's ways don't allow that.. Okay?

Speaking of, this also frustrates me on the world's mechanics and how they work. Sure, it can be that way, but.. Sorry if thinking about a "Divine Judgement" that makes you rise for being good but doesn't make you fall for being bad doesn't make sense in my book..

I can't express my point in this one quite well like I did with the other one but it just melts my brain dude. Like on one hand, on the positive hand, you're saying that if you're on the bad side you can change for the better and that's what matters, but you can't change from good to bad and have the same levels just negative and simply.. Die??

I just.. Can't. Sorry if this part is messier.

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So this is it.

Will be multiple parts stay tuned ig

@things-arent-what-they-seem66 @beef-brisket

yea im delulu sue me

[wemlygust]

People will often say something like, "Evil Maximus deserves to suffer and die horribly, because he [list of unforgivable atrocities].” But, 1) it is VERY possible to be 100% convinced someone did something and be wrong. Any system with extreme punishments WILL, INEVITABLY inflict that punishment on innocent people. There is no way to design a system that won't do this to multiple, even many, innocents, EXCEPT by not allowing the extreme punishments for anyone at all. Because human judgement is and will always be imperfect, no matter how certain you feel, and no matter how angry, and no matter how justified you are in your rage. 2) what do people mean when they say "deserves"? What is the definition of "to deserve"? I do not think there is any way to define this that does not boil down to either A) the person is fundamentally evil according to some absolute morality system of the universe, aka a God, aka this is religion affecting the legal system, or B) "he deserves to die" literally just means "I want him to die," and is a way of expressing that wish in a passive-voice way that abdicates the speaker's responsibility for the wish. And no matter how badly you may want someone to suffer and die, we are humans, we are flawed, we fuck up. We ESPECIALLY fuck up when we are angry. And we know from studies that people tend to be, to one degree or another, racist and/or sexist (including the tendency to see men as more violent or less deserving of kindness), even we they are sure that they are unbiased. So we'll end up killing or tormenting people who could have been redeemed, or who were 100% innocent, or who were guilty but actually they grew up in an environment that prevented them from ever learning any better, etc. I don't think revenge ever actually makes anything better, especially not state/government/beaurocratic-driven, no-take-backs revenge. And ESPECIALLY not when there is, as in America, strong profit motives to fill prisons. This post is longer than I meant it to be, but the point I am getting at is, even if you on a personal level would quite like to see someone dead or hurting (which is what "they deserve [xyz]" probably means), that doesn't mean it is a good or just idea to try to actually incorporate that feeling into the law to be carried out in a systematic way which WILL also hurt people you do not want to hurt. And if you say, "I will not help so-and-so when they are poor or seriously injured, because they deserve their suffering," and you incorporate that idea into the law, that will absolutely hurt many more innocents, or at least regular, doing their best imperfectly within their circumstances, human beings, than it will people like whoever the wretched person you know or imagine in your head (maybe both) is. Basically, sometimes, in order for the law to be just, protect as many people as possible from harm and do as little harm as possible, it is necessary that sometimes a bad action, or a bad person, be punished less and suffer less than we or those they harm would like to see them suffer (than people say they "deserve" to suffer). Tldr: the word "deserve" is kinda bullshit and unhelpful but very hard to stop using but still also bullshit anyway /good lord why am I on tumblr right now

some of yall don't understand what human rights mean and it is legitimately worrying how some of you think that if a person is 'bad' enough they should have their human rights taken away

[gert-the-disaster]

content farms suck so bad. imagine making something for the internet and suddenly it’s ENTIRE reputation is tarnished—not by you— but by people who exploit children.

most of the stuff ive seen content farms for have been innocent?? fnaf, sprunki (which i am FURIOUS about??? isn’t the creator like?? 15??) and tadc to name a few.

those have no intentions of using kids to get views, yet they’re frowned down upon because they’re associated with that.

god this must be a horrible way to go.

[quiescentem-puella]

among all the panels from the soul-crushing Till's comic, I think the one that gets me the most is this one

bc...we already knew that Till was the more sensitive and emotional of the cast, but this frame really puts in perspective how he was just a kid desperately craving affection. He knew what it was like to be loved and that's what he wanted. I think Mizi, with her innocence and her detachment from reality (she was the only one unaware of what being a participant of alien stage really meant), was the closest thing he had to the time when he also was like that. When he was with Io, he had no idea about the cruelty of the aliens... he was just happy to sing and have his mom smile at him. HE WAS LIKE MIZI TOO!!! but at some point, he was torn away from his home and his innocence.

Mizi... she is the "before". When he was warm and taken care of and loved and singing didn't mean dying. Imo Mizi is very similar to child Till and that's why he longs for her with such fierce passion.

(there's also much to say about how Till only knew that love was warm and kind, while the hateful aliens were harsh and cruel... and how Ivan, unable to express love in the way Till knew and understood, ended up behaving more like the aliens than anything else, at least in till's pov. how could Till ever begin to think Ivan loved him, when he was nothing like the love he knew?)

it isn't just that Till was loved. It's that he knew he was loved and basked in that. And that stayed with him until the very end, because even if the other kids in the anakt garden called him a friendless loser...

the love his mother had for him stayed with him. forever.

[translation by WhataFruit on twitter link here]

[ghosting-plural-userboxes]

Perisex people listen to and respect intersex folk challenge FAILED IMMEDIATELY.

Intergender is a INTERSEX EXCLUSIVE TERM. If your Perisex DONT USE IT. THERE ARE SO MANY OTHER TERMS FOR YOU TO USE BUT NOOOOOOO YOU JUST HAVE TO USE THE ONE THATS EXCLUSIVE !! And IGNORE all CORRECTIONS intersex folks GIVE YOU.

fuck this shit man .

-Link

[iturastwordblog-youdidntseethis]

Not a tk post. Despite what a loud critter they are, I always did and do find them very fun to find, especially during the summer and fall seasons. I always liked going outside, wandering aimlessly around forests or tree populated areas, circling trees and looking for cicada larvae molts. It's fun finding their molts, and even more fun finding a cicada mid-molt.

Here are some pics of last year when I was exploring last summer. I lifted up an old tree trunk and found a live cicada larvae! On my way home, I gave it a place to molt and at there for 2 hours watching and taking pictures of the process of a cicada's molt as well as it's darkened exoskeleton color after being freshly molted!

Following images could be a bit triggering seeing as a live adult cicada leaving its old skin.

Please be wary if this triggers you! I don't want anyone to feel uncomfortable by my own images!

First image: Living nymph before molt climbing up my arm. (These little things do kind of pinch when climbing on skin, but it doesn't hurt at all!)

Second image: starting to poke out!

Third image: wriggling out. Look at those big buy eyes 🌘=🌒

Fourth image: halfway!

Fifth image: getting legs out, wings are finally free and start the drying process.

Sixth image: Almost there! Leaning backwards, wings are starting to unfurl!

Seventh image: wings are unfurling are unfurling and drying. Eventually, cicada does a sit-up and now finishes drying wings on the molt.

Eighth image: Cicada climbs off of the molt. (The metal grate wasn't very suitable so I held the cicada until it's wings stiffened and dried.)

Ninth image: Put the cicada on a branch on a walnut tree in my backyard. The exoskeleton and the cicada are still soft.

Final image! Came back some time later. Cicada is finally dry and ready!

Just a cicada rant today. Idk, I saw this post on my feed and wanted to rant as well as flex on my cicada images. (Now I wanna make a cicada oc)

Freshly molted cicadas are unreal

[grungekitty-77]

Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.

It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.

Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.

Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.

Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)

Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!

You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!

If you want it in a simple phrase:

You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.

[bendgineer]

I think one of the reasons the Harris / Walz ticket has so much momentum is because the campaign is genuinely trying to put out this vibe of fun. Like that's all the "brat" thing is, the coconut jokes, just being kind of silly and fun.

And I think it's working, because let's be real, we are all exhausted. It's been all about preserving democracy, defeating fascism, the past eight years. The message has been "vote for us because the country is literally on the line". The vibes are not good when we are stuck back at that fight, and not even discussing trying to make progress on things like housing, healthcare, education, etc. And the fight to just stop fascism? All still true. Project 2025 is real and is extremely scary. We can't let that man back into office.

But the vibe was "vote for us otherwise we're all fucked :(" and now has shifted to "get in, we're making popcorn and then bullying fascists." Like a lot of the issues conservatives bring up, the Harris / Walz is just not engaging them in good faith, as they shouldn't. Republicans bring up abortion, and the Dems are just like, "you want 14 year old to give birth? Weirdo" and just leave it at that. Like YES, that's what you should do. Because it SHOULDNT be a debate. And it's working. This is how you defeat the identify politics thing Republicans have been trying to push for a while. Just mocking them for the stupidity of it all. "Like seriously? You think a book can make someone gay??? Hahaha." None of the Republicans are reacting well. They can't stand it. Vance even complained about bullying!!! Like do you KNOW who picked you as vp??? It's actually laughable, because they have no room to stand on when it comes to bullying.

And a huge part of the mocking and dismissing of Republicans is that the message is clear - were done debating all this stupid stuff. We've won the last two elections' popular vote - most Americans do NOT want christo-facism. It's time to move on. And that's what gives me hope, and the feeling of hope I think a lot of people have picked up on. It's time to address all the issues we've all wished we've been addressing the past decade. It's important we move onto that, and that's the message I'm getting from this campaign (We're not going back). I think it will resonate with a lot of people, because plainly, we're all just sick of this same old news cycle and fake rage bait over things like "should women have rights?", "Should gay people be allowed to exist?" The general populace have answered YES to both these multiple times, and it is time to move on. Maybe I'm being naive, but I am genuinely excited at the idea of putting to bed these debates (it's exhausting trying to fend your very existence) and moving on to actual economic and social policies that could fix a lot of deterioration over the last 2 decades.