#unprompted rant sorry

[messrsrarchives]

i try not to be annoying but last year my kitchen stuff was used by another flatmate without telling me and i got really sick (reckon it was the plastic cutting boards init)

so i told everyone this year "oh pls don't use my stuff!! i haven't had meat and dairy in years and i get really sick from it" (plus just ew shared utensils gives me the ick) which i know might be annoying but we did GET move in packs with the flat, yall have your own.

WHERE DID ALL MY THINGS GO!? GONE.

but i've now learnt this week that if i say "contamination allergies" instead? all my stuff is fine.

which is probably a very minor thing to complain about but :((( guys :(((

[jamisonwritestf2trash]

Totally off topic, but the fact that people still use McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit as an example of a "frivolous lawsuit" instead of a blatant example of corporate greed and negleance boils my blood in ways I can't comprehend.

[hyperrealisticblood]

apparently the way the packaging for the wally and barnaby pins is designed makes the spoons behind the pins look like eyes once the pins are removed. its possible that it was unintentional but! interesting!! very interesting!!!

(credit to r/Purplefox135 on reddit for the image)

[betty-bourgeoisie]

You jest, but Alfred would make a decent candidate for Temperance if reversed (if you even use reversed card meanings; some don’t, I’m usually one of them).

Oh I think he would be great for Temperance reversed.

Actually I think Alfred really does represent a duality that would work well for temperance - The idea of temperance has heavily influenced American culture through various religious groups (Quakers, Shakers, Puritans - I won't list every itty bitty Protestant sect that hates fun, but there are/were a LOT of them in the U.S. The Temperance movement itself had religious roots too). Even the more generic flavors of American protestantism tend to emphasize not being too flashy or tacky.

And then on the other hand you have the conspicuous consumption, bigger is better attitude that is so heavily associated with American capitalism and the American entertainment industry.

These values are supposedly antithetical to each other, but they're both corner stones of the American over culture, and the tension between the two is ever present - in fashion, in foodways, in home decor, in language- the need to show off your wealth while still appearing humble and reserved (ie: godly) is always there.

As a personification of the United States I think Alfred's character could be uniquely positioned to represent both temperance and temperance reversed in a tarot deck for exactly this reason.

[darklight-owl]

I will never forgive Pokemon Sword and Shield for whatever the fuck the fossil pokemon were. Like that's body horror. You can't tell me that isn't body horror. You look at Arctozolt and try to convince me it isn't in pain every day of its miserable life. I'm going to take all galarian scientists and tie them to a chair with their eyes held open like in clockwork orange and force them to watch Jurassic Park over and over again until they learn to not do that.

[nephriteknight]

random pet peeve of mine: if you're going to write text messages in your story, write them like texts, not dialogue! there is a whole other system of expression and convention and potential characterization that people use while texting, and you're probably very familiar with it, and its so interesting! but if you write it like dialogue, with ellipses for hesitation or interrupting yourself mid sentence bc you regretted what you were saying (rather than either taking the time to edit or sending too quickly and regretting it), you're breaking the realism of your writing and sacrificing the unique interesting things that come with texting.

[yandere-daze]

I downloaded the Ensemble Training app. I can't believe that a game with anime boys in it got me to exercise. And boy, it made me realize that my body desperately needs it, because on the first day with the warmup stretches, my entire spine, lower back and hips just popped. Now I'm on my 15th day streak, and my motivation is to get better arm strength (because my upper body is like a wet paper bag in terms of strength) to be able to do a handstand like Midori-kun one day 💪. (Which btw. Why have we never seen him do a handstand, what's up with that?)

-midori enjoyer

Omg the enstars exercise app! I haven't tried it out myself but I've heard that apparently it's actually not that bad? Like the actual exercises themselves are legit? And that's just so fascinating to me.

I'm honestly tempted to try it out myself for shits and giggles but I'm always worried that I won't understand what they're saying because it's in Japanese and that my little phone screen will be too small for me to be able to tell what I'm supposed to do.

My stamina and general fitness level are terrible, I really need to do more (read: any exercise at all) but I'm so lazy and tired and I procrastinate even doing the things I actually like doing. I can never seen to motivate myself long term 😔

[lemongrass13]

me after watching people discredit a show's worth just because it's animated

it just doesn't make sense to me, to discredit a movie or show and consider it suddenly less serious/impactful or worthy of attention because it's animated.

Even if the show is directed towards a younger audience, there have been many animated shows and films in the past which tackle serious topics in ways that are digestible for their audience (ie ATLA). Outside of that, despite the current state of adult animation, there are some really fascinating shows and movies out there that don't get as much attention as they probably deserve on the crux of it being animated.

basically tldr: just because something is animated doesn't make it undeserving of praise or whatever sorry if this made no sense

[beachesgetpeaches]

I was in Ft Worth, and at the end just thought...well can't wait for that to get taken out of context and twisted to make him some sort of phob when he was on fucking point.

uhm first of all whats it like being gods favourite? like getting to hear the speech live must have been so so so amazing.

but also yes, the moment I read it, the moment I watched the videos... I just immediately thought "how will this one be taken out of context to make him the villain?"

(and honestly after such a well written speech it's going to require fucking mental mental gymnastics so kudos to people who actually manage to completely misinterpret and twist his words in bad faith. at least their brains and thoughts are bendy and hypocritical as fuck ✨💖)

But then I realised those people will never ever change their mindset, they will just forget about him when they find another person to make into a villain in order to paint themselves as some virtuous modern-day heroes. And Matty will can never win that game unfortunately bcs those are not reasonable, rational people 🤷🏻‍♀️ What he does have is us, the fandom, the people willing to listen and think and like accept him as the flawed human being he is.

Anyway - uh how was it being at the concert? COWBOY MATTY?? Like you got so many iconic moments, Im jealous bcs 1) I have to wait till March to see them, and 2) again cowboyyyy

[drvwing]

had to change my profile pic because the amount of m*n who message me unprovoked is diabolical & frankly made me uncomfortable & want to not use this site. this is a girl blog for the girls gays and theys ONLY!! im always open to talking to new people & starting new moots but horny men can leave me all the way alone!!!

[housederiva]

Is it just me or is there way less fanart being made for this game than the previous ones? Kind of makes me sad, I remember with dai I could check the tags every few hours and find something new weeks after launch, now I only can get away with only looking a few times and week and miss nothing.

I don't think that's Veilguard exclusive.

Things I and my mutuals draw now are getting less notes/reblogs than they did even one year ago, regardless of the fandom. Fanfiction is getting less comments and kudos on ao3 too (not that they were getting many comments in the first place) Less gifs are being made because gif makers weren't getting reblogs. Hell, most of the post I make have a huge discrepancy between likes and reblogs and add polls into that? A thousand people voted on something and only a dozen people reblog it. It's a hollowing feeling when you realise you're calling out to an empty void, I don't blame people for creating less art because of that.

I don't see a vast majority of the people who follow me in my notes because I have likes disabled. Multiple times someone has sent me an ask apologizing for spamming me with likes and I don't understand it? That is not a bad thing And unless you reblogged anything along the way, I didn't even realise you were doing it in the first place. And the people whose notes I do see are not annoying in the slightest, I love the tags you add and I'm sure the original poster does even more so

I'm not trying to shame anyone Into interacting with the fandom spaces they're in but the whole point of Tumblr and what makes it a blogging platform and not social media is that this is a show and tell website. You're supposed to look at something you think is cool and then wave it around for your followers to see and then they pick it up and do the same regardless of how old it is

When you reblog an ask game from someone it used to be common courtesy to send that person one of the asks from it. Folks used to leave comments analysing paragraphs from stories people wrote and theorising about what would happen next on every chapter. We used to send each other asks just asking about our ocs unprompted

If there's no interaction or community when you create something, then what's the point of creating it? It sucks that fandom is morphing into something to be consumed and thrown away the second it's more than a week old unless you're one of a handful of blogs that got lucky and picked up traction at just the right moment

I'm sorry for the rant but I get emotional when I think about the decay of fandom spaces for too long. And this goes without saying, but you guys can reblog anything on my dash if the button isn't disabled on it

[mortimermcmirestinks]

for fuck's sake, can we start being nicer about spiders?

every time I want to talk about cute or cool or badass spiders I get at least one fucking japester who's like "oh I bet it won't be tiresome and irritating if I write trite and unprompted flash fiction about murdering innocent and harmless animals with fire (a particularly torturous form of death) THIS time", and they're wrong every single fucking time.

I would rather have ten people telling me they are horny for spiders every time I mention an arachnid from now until the day I die than have to continue living in a world where one of my favourite animals is most well-known on the internet for being the centre of a quote-unquote "joke" about extreme and pointlessly cruel animal abuse.

jesus christ, guys. spiders are just animals. they're not even, like, pests, or invasive, or anything. the vast overwhelming majority of them can't even hurt humans, and the ones that can don't want to.

like, shit, sorry for the graphic image, but how would you feel if every time you posted a picture of a cute cat you got replies saying "if I saw that in my house I'd put it in a fucking beartrap"? because that's how I'm starting to feel about the "burn the house down when you see a spider" joke.

and before you get on my ass about arachnophobia, I am arachnophobic, being in the immediate IRL presence of spiders gives me an uncontrollable physical fear response, but the existence of arachnophobes does not give you free reign to jack off to the idea of being able to freely torture and murder animals that "give you the ick". you cannot trot out arachnophobia here as an excuse. there are tons of people who are scared of dogs. doesn't mean you gotta be a dick about dogs. same with spiders.

one of the most popular superheroes in the world is spider-themed and you still got fuckers out here thinking they're the funniest man alive for making jokes about killing spiders holy shit

anyway, rant over. picture of a cute spider under the cut ->

just a little guy! hello! if he was a character in a video game he'd have a squeaky little voice and ask you to help him find his buttons!

[fungusgnat444]

König tropes I want to burn with hell fire

sorry for this unprompted rant but some of you guys are starting to ruin my favourite comfort character (CW mentions of noncon/r*pe, mentions of xenophobia, mentions of n*zis, general problematic behaviour, mentions of bad disability/mental health representation)

-1. Casual xenophobia- I’ve lost count of the amount of content that depicts König as a n*zi and I kinda feel like I shouldn’t have to tell you why that’s not ok. These things should not be fetishised and doing this is overall just super ignorant. That’s probably the worst instance of this kind of things but there are a ton of examples. Like a lot of people seem to think that every German speaking country is exactly the same. And to codify him as a German speaker everyone seems to think they can just slap on whatever offensive stereotype they want. As someone who has visited German speaking countries multiple times and knows native German speakers personally, believe it or not not all German men are rude, humourless, cruel, alcoholic perverts who treat women like shit and have a bunch of super fucked up kinks and no understanding of consent. If any of you had ever met someone from this part of the world you’d know that in general they are very polite and friendly people. If you want to use a stereotype there are plenty that aren’t offensive and ignorant that could be fun character quirks (eg. Germans always having to have the windows open, having a sweet tooth, having three different drinks with breakfast (water for hydration, coffee for energy, juice for nutrition. Trust me it’s a whole thing lol), being obsessed with always being on time (also works because he’s in the military) etc.). Like please at least try to be a little respectful. And if you’re going to show him speaking German at least learn the basics. Duolingo is free lol.

2 mental health/disabilities- as someone who actually has autism I think it’s kinda cool that some people have written him as autistic or having adhd etc. but if you’re going to do this can you please just do a little research so you get the symptoms right and not over generalise. Like autistic people can in fact understand humour and sarcasm most of the time we’re not robots. It’s 2024 like can we stop this trope please. A lot of people write him having anxiety or ptsd, which again I think is super cool but it’s often used as an excuse for him being aggressive/violent. Like this isn’t cute, if someone is treating you like this regardless of if they struggle with mental health or not there’s never an excuse for violence.

3 r*pe/non con- this point is kinda about fanfic in general but I see it a lot with könig especially. People need to understand the difference between a cnc kink and just plain assault. Cnc is a consensual agreement with safe words and boundaries and aftercare and mutual enjoyment. What most of these fics say is cnc is literally just him being a sexual predator. For a lot of people this is super triggering and romanticising r*pe is just disgusting.

again sorry for the rant guys but I really just needed to get this off my chest. Like this stuff has gotten in the way of my own writing and is really starting to ruin the appeal of his character. Like I beg of you can someone please write something where he’s just a sweet anxious Austrian guy who’s kind and respectful despite his reputation? Like I really don’t think I’m asking for much.

[gluttenousgoddess]

Hey everyone just a heads up. Theres a weird guy by the name of Lonewolf42 on here. He messaged me and it started as pretty normal. Just asking how I was doing.

he saw that I was in a relationship he said that he was sorry for bothering me and he was going to leave. When I assured him he wasn’t a bother and I chat with all kinds of folks here and I like to make new friends he then became like insane?

He went on a big thing about how he can’t help it but girls always leave their partners for him and stuff and how he’s better than my man in every way? I was more confused than anything because this rant was unprompted. Then he was like

“I’m telling your man you’re trying to talk to other men you nymph” and I informed him that my bf and I were reading the messages together and when he saw that he blocked me and never actually messaged my bf. So I’m not sure if this was some sort of manipulation trick or something but it was for sure odd and a little funny, just please watch out for this guy

Here’s the screenshots

[lover-of-mine]

I think part of the problem is the actor creating headcanon and if it were just that I would ignore it but no, he already said that we should leave Buddie aside and apparently what he says everyone should follow, he said this after 7x04 and I thought it was very wrong, he's just a guest, he doesn't have to say anything, everyone does that about the headcanons and it's fun, but as soon as someone tries to force that headcanon on you, the fun is lost. We're not making it up, we're not haters, but the show showed that Tommy abandoned Buck, made a joke, manipulated him a little to come out of the closet, it's not an invention, it's canon, it happened, it's more important than an actor's headcanon. I'm honestly muting everything on this subject because it's exhausting, it's horrible to hear that you're homophobic, it's horrible to doubt yourself, I'm a part of the community just because an actor decided to make up a story and say what people should do and create an army of people who bully virtually, No wonder Oliver doesn't participate in anything, it's a lack of respect for the fans who have been here for years and for his co-workers.

Sorry for my little rant but yeah

No, seriously, people are taking what Lou is saying too seriously. And the dude said T is someone for Buck to work out the kinks when it comes to liking men to get ready for Eddie too. Completely unprompted. Like? Of course the guy is gonna go nuts with the way people are reacting to bt, if bt is popular he might get to stay in the role longer, that means exposure, money, and the way he's doing the cameos, the guy is literally getting paid to feed into this madness, he's gonna say anything, but that doesn't mean it's what the show planned for him. The writers could wake up and decide to do anything with any character and to expect me to take what an actor is saying as canon is absolutely insane. T is a plot device. That's a fact. And I gotta be honest, dude is kinda mean to Buck and I don't see the effort people keep saying he's putting? He flew Eddie to Vegas for ringside seats for a sold out fight but he couldn't be bothered to put on a colorful shirt to pretend he was on the 80s theme for Buck. That's an actual thing that happened in canon. Like? Hello? Are we watching the same relationship unfold? Like, seriously, ship what you ship, write what you want, fanfic away, but people seriously need to stop trying to force people to accept this stuff as canon. Because the only thing that actually counts is what's happening on the show. And honestly, I have so many tags filtered but I am still getting the madness, and there's also the shit people send to me directly. It's hard to get away because the fandom went crazy.

[three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat]

It's 3 am so I am allowing myself one (1) rant about skyward sword. Sorry.

1) it's literally not lol

The hero mentioned in the legend is just stated, I believe, to be gifted the sailcloth by Hylia. No context as to why or when she did (also considering the thousands of years of Skyloft's (SPECIFICALLY the floating island) history you really cannot rely on THIS of all things for accurate information)

2) why would she Do That

Link doesn't need a backstory! What he actually did was not actually Hylia's plan! He was just supposed to gather the triforce! No fighting Demise! Fighting the Imprisoned was secondary, at most!

3) oh my god. oh my goooooooood.

Sksw's timeline is already unstable and confusing. There is no possible way to explain it that will satisfy everything. But listen. Listen to me. If Link had already fought Demise and killed him, establishing the legend with HIM as the hero that received the sailcloth, there would be no need for Link to fight Demise, thus no need for his existence

It's the grandfather paradox, kinda. Go back in time, kill your grandfather before he has kids. But then you won't exist, so you can't kill him, so he's alive, but no since he's alive he's actually dead-- you get it.

4) who's even telling the legend, man

Skyloft is already in the sky by the time Zelda and Link go to the past. Who would inform them of this guy that killed Demise? Impa??? It has to either a) be made completely up (very likely considering Skyloft's long history) or b) some other guy LONG before Skyloft was raised.

5) Also.

In favor of the "completely made up no basis in fact" angle. It's a sailcloth. Used to slow the descent of one who is skydiving (or just falling I guess) Presumably, the surface dwelling Hylians of the pre-Demise era did not have loftwings, and thus had no need for sailcloths

It's very likely over the thousands of years of Skyloft's history (I am not kidding, this is stated in game, it is at least two thousand years between Zelda getting crystal'd (shortly after Skyloft's raising) and the present time) that someone made up a story about the origins of the sailcloth, and it eventually became a, if not considered true, well known legend

In conclusion: Please I am so so tired. I cannot explain it in depth because as mentioned earlier it is 3 am (now 345) but believe me: even if you stretch the limits of what you can accept as far as you can, with Skyward Sword's already messed up timeline (basically: at the end of the game, the only conclusion that perfectly fits it is that it's two timelines in a trenchcoat), there is no way possible for the hero who received the sailcloth (if he even existed) to be the Link we know and love.

Like seriously it can't even be a story that HYLIA HERSELF made up and spread because there's no reason for her to do that (link never even uses his sailcloth in the battle with Demise why would THAT be the thing she decided was important)

I just noticed something in SS... Zelda gives the Sailcloth to Link, saying that the Goddess gave it an Ancient Hero from the era of Hylia, but says its not the same one.

They go back in time... Link goes back in time to defeat Demise and by the time of the present (the start of SS and the ceremony) the hero who faught Demise and had the Sailcloth has become a legend. ZELDA TOLD LINK OF HIS OWN LEGEND BECAUSE HE TRAVELED THROUGH TIME!! (Link started the tradition of the Sailcloth) My mind has been blown!

I love the Manga idea of First and Hylia, but I just fell more in love with Sky!

Hope you had a great day.

This is what I adore about Skyward Sword, and is also why, while I’m sure that First manga is fun and all, I don’t really utilize it for storytelling or anything. Like, sure, have fun with First and the possibilities that come with him and his story but guys. The story of Skyward Sword is way more interesting and fun when you realize that Hylia herself fought in the war against Demise, she did it to protect her people, she didn’t rely on a hero, didn’t have a lover, she was her own hero until she couldn’t fight any longer. She’s a goddess of time, of course she can manipulate time to create a backstory for her chosen hero who hasn’t even been born yet. Sky simultaneously had a destiny written for him and wrote it himself, and I find that way more interesting than just being another Hero in a line of heroes.

You’re absolutely right, Zelda told Link about his own legend before he’d ever been on it, and isn’t that ironic coming from the lips of Hylia while she is simultaneously completely ignorant of it. Skyward Sword has so many fascinating storytelling angles!