#wank/rants

[russilton]

Wait what did Lance do that almost cost George his career?

So its more about Lawrence than Lance himself, If you look in this article it’s covered with quotes from George to back it up as a source, and here, and George has been outspoken about lance’s money causing unfair orders for his teammates, but in short, in 2014 before a run at the BRDC F4 championship and FRECA, George was signed to compete in FRECA with PREMA, but 10 days before the season began he was unceremoniously dumped due to a veto by Lawrence stroll, who held stakes in the team.

Lance and George weren’t even racing in the same series at the time, as Lance was competing in the Florida winter series and Italian F4.

The reason this is notable in the case of George’s career is that during podcast interviews George has divulged that in 2013/14 he was given the ultimatum by his parents that next year either he needed to be securing additional sponsors, or he wouldn’t be able to race anymore, because they just didn’t have the funding for single seater series. George’s dad had sold their family business, his brother had stopped karting, they were travelling and sleeping in a tiny camping van to and from his races. His dad even reportedly slept in a horse box once, money was that tight. The poor kid was fifteen/sixteen at the time, he’d just left school the year before. It was a lot to put on him.

George credits this season as his make or break season in the second article, if he hadn’t won the f4 championship, he thinks that he might not have received funding to enter into the f3 seasons he did because his record would have only shown his okay but not great season at Koiranen, the team that he was forced to go to with only a weeks notice after losing his PREMA seat. While arguably he could have won there, it was nyck in a koiranen that won the season, that short notice change could have ended even worse. He doesn’t say it explicitly above, but this was the same year around the end of this season he reached out to Toto for financial help and thus would explain the comment about CV’s and needing to impress. The next season he went to Carlin after Toto told him not to, but still did well enough he’d been ‘unofficially’ signed as a merc junior by the end of 2016, made official the following year. Having that 2014 season go well was vital for George.

This is a lot of ramble ramble driver history, and its not Lances fault that his dad did that and put George in a risky place- but it DOES show how one easy swipe of Lawrences hand to move George from a seat he earned, could have ended his racing career. George is far from the only driver its happened to, both Ben Barnicoat and LANDO were blocked from PREMA seats. It’s one thing to buy your kid a seat. It’s another to pick their teammates.

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There's something I need this fandom to understand about Martin Kartin Blackwood.

IS he an expert manipulator? Yes. Does he have some serious skills in using people pleasing and framing and psychology to his advantage? ABSOLUTELY. He is gaslight, gatekeep, girlbossing his way through the first 3 seasons and we LOVE him for it.

On the other hand, though, I feel like we don't acknowledge enough as a fandom how isolating people pleasing can be in itself. I ranted about this in the tags of another Martin post, but basically, the person you create to be palatable to as many people as possible becomes a wall. A barrier between you and the outside world. Yes, everyone likes you, but that comes at the cost of no one knowing you in your entirety because you don't let them see the parts of you that are harder to swallow.

Martin effectively trapped himself in his own web of lies, suspended 30 feet away from his own life. He's dissociated from it all from the beginning, which is what made him the candidate Peter chose in the first place. He was always slated for The Lonely as much as he was The Web.

That leads me into my next point, which is that MARTIN PRE-LONELY WAS NOT ENTIRELY DISINGENUOUS. I see so many people implying that Martin straight-up wasn't anything like he said he was in the beginning. Common fandom reading comprehension L. He really does like people, and he really does want to be nice. It just also happens that you don't end up people pleasing to those lengths without it having developed as a defense mechanism!

Take the wall I introduced earlier. You surround yourself in this persona and swallow your teeth to protect yourself from other people. Realistically, it probably started with his mother, who is implied in Canon to not have been kind to him. There's a 3rd partner to Fight or Flight that doesn't get discussed very often, and it is "Fawn." This is the people-pleasing response that we see him exhibit. Ultimately, what he fears is rejection, and therefore, he fears being alone. He's nice and kind and polite and swallows his teeth in order to keep people around.

Post-Lonely Martin is the other extreme. He has no energy to please anyone anymore, and it doesn't serve him. He is tired and angry and constantly stressed. He doesn't bother hiding his teeth anymore, and he's prone to lashing out. Post-Lonely Martin is when he's surpassed his limit. Post-Lonely Martin is burnout.

As someone who relates to Martin Blackwood very much, I can tell you that the quiet moments where he's not deeply distressed either way is where we see the real Martin. He still loves and cares in private, and we see that over and over. The love is real. He just doesn't believe he deserves it in return, so he tries very hard to be someone who does. To "make up" for it.

Thank you and goodnight.

[prince-geo]

literally pleased with almost all of the new atla trailer except as per usual, Zuko's scar, idk why studios are so scared to commit to the intensity of the thing, its supposed to be shocking and obvious and textured and the first thing you see... that's the point, Zuko is supposed to struggle with feeling like it defines and brands him before finally coming to the point in his journey where he defines it.

Hollywood/big studios are known to hesitate or straight up avoid properly and honestly and unapologetically showing people with disfigurements/disabilities/facial differences etc. with the realism they deserve. Which is a shame in general for representation and humanization but ESPECIALLY in this case as its minimization actively harms it's narrative purpose as well

I promise making the scar more intense (shrivel up the ear a bit, make it intrude in his hairline, make his eye in a permanent squint due to nerve damage, for god sake REMOVE THE EYEBROW IT WAS BURNED OFF) will not make Zuko "ugly", (the actor is incapable of looking ugly and also the implication that scars make people too unappealing? yikes) but will actually do the character and his journey justice, not to mention really show Ozai's brutality, another essential narrative tool. Especially when he's bald like hello??? It should be even more stark and intense when he doesn't have hair to distract from it and cover his ear!!!

When transitioning from 2D to live action, of course some visuals are up for interpretation but that usually involved ADDING detail because the constraints of having to stay on modeling frame to frame is gone, not minimizing, removing or airbrushing. Doing Zuko's scar right to me is absolutely essential and I'm disappointed they seem just as as scared to go there as I thought they might. It doesn't have to be gory, if you've ever seen burn victims in real life or in pictures or even cosplayers/artists who are skilled in realistic burn makeup you'd know its possible to balance realism with humanity. It's possible especially with their resources to avoid the "scary Halloween makeup" route while not holding back on the brutality of the original injury.

Budget is definitely not an issue, or "scaring the kids" considering this remake is likely aiming to go a lil darker in tone than the cartoon (which was already super dark with its target audience of nickelodeon 7 year olds so no excuses) Audiences SHOULD be unsettled and upset when they see him but not because he's hard/disturbing to look at but because we are human and do not want to imagine someone doing that to a child.

It's a deliberate choice out of the all too common fear/hesitation to allow someone who is destined to eventually become a protagonist and is meant to be sympathized with to be "too ugly" while this hesitation is very rarely applied to straight up villains (again we come back to media's historic villainization of facial deformity). It's a trend that's always ticked me off in fanart too. The boy's face was melted, for gods sake. Zuko was always portrayed as an attractive boy in the cartoon (fire nation girls fawn over him) even with the intensity of his scar which is something I've always admired! People exist with scars similar to Zuko's in real life, and should not only be permitted to be represented as good guys and/or as attractive when their scars are toned down to be "palatable"

Like I said there's more that I loved than didn't love about the trailer, that can be a whole essay on it's own but I needed to get this very specific vent off my chest because it missed the mark so hard and stands out like a sore thumb in comparison to all the other visuals that hit the nail on the head to me

[sh00kspeared]

“Johnny loves female V way more than he loves male V”

“Johnny isn’t bi; he had flings with men but truly can only fall in love with women”

“Johnny and V’s dynamic is less interesting with two men”

“Johnny and V are based off of [X classic literature dynamic], and that’s a story about a man and a woman. It could never work with two men.”

“Johnny is the poster child for a tough male archetype; it wouldn’t make sense for him to have a boyfriend.”

I don’t think people who say these things realize what they’re really doing (all of the comments above are things that I have seen more than one person say, by the way, so this isn’t a passive aggressive callout post for a one or two select people or anything).

As someone with a beloved male V x Johnny ship that I’ve spent hours pouring my heart and soul into— writing lore, doing VP, making art— imagine, guys, how it feels for me to read these comments. For others with the same ship dynamic as me to read these comments. Imagine how it would feel if I went to YOUR fem V X Johnny ship and went ‘ackchully, that could never be canon! Johnny loves men more!” Not good, right?

There are times in the past where people have written literal ESSAYS in comments sections about why my ship is bad. And I’m not gonna sugarcoat it: if you say these things to people who are just trying to share art and headcanons, I’m sorry, but you’ve got some issues to work out with yourself. If you have the time to be so worked up about Johnny holding hands with someone who has a dick that you write a long paragraph about how much better fem V is, then I’m not the problem.

And, by the way, I don’t think I’ve mentioned it till this point, but Johnny is canonically bisexual; I’m not just headcanoning here. He’s made comments about wanting to fuck men, more than once have certain devs + the official Cyberpunk Twitter account liked and reposted images of him with male V, his character was based off of David Bowie (a bisexual person), and the official game guide says that Johnny slept with Kerry and Henry. I am not criticizing people who don’t know this information, think Johnny is straight, and are politely concerned about people disrespecting his sexuality— I’ve met plenty of people who don’t know Johnny’s sexuality and nicely go, “oh, I didn’t know that!” when I tell them. No, I’m referring to the people who know this information and choose to ignore it because they don’t like the idea of Johnny being bisexual, or to the people who don’t know Johnny’s sexuality and instantly lash out at male V x Johnny ships because they assume he’s straight.

It also does a disservice to bi people in general to make so many assumptions about Johnny’s sexuality. I’ve seen people assume that Johnny is too ‘manly’ or doesn’t have enough gay mannerisms to be into men, which is very much stereotyping. It also assumes that him preferring women but still liking men means he’s still straight because he talked about sleeping with women more than sleeping with men (ever heard of the Kinsey scale)? Him having two canon girlfriends does not mean he couldn’t have had a boyfriend in the past or that he wouldn’t fall in love with a man (remember him saying he wished he’d fucked Kerry?).

If you’re uncomfortable with the idea of your female V being with a man who finds men attractive, then I’d recommend finding a different character to ship your V with.

Now, to conclude, I’m not denying that Johnny is likely female leaning, and I’m not saying you can’t think your specific female character is the most compatible match for Johnny. I am simply asking that the ship that I and many others have poured hours of our lives into be respected and treated with dignity, and that Johnny’s sexuality be treated with dignity.

[loucifersbitch]

the very first rule of rpf is YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT RPF TO THE RP'S BEING F'D!!!! ffs. have you no shame? are you not embarrassed? do you enjoy making people uncomfortable? people who - by the way - are doing their fucking JOBS. jfc. grow up, learn some decency and tact, and most importantly, stop stalking

ship responsibly

[wincestwhispers]

“You are and will never be welcome here” so i hate to tell you this but we’ve actually been here since the beginning. Welcome here? Brother this fandom was built on wincesties’ backs.

and telling people to kill themselves over a fictional ship is embarrassing. get a grip

[cilil]

Ok, really not tryna vague or be shady, but I just gotta say: I do not and will never understand why there's so much drama around ships becoming canon or not.

Seriously, why do you care. Is your ship game that weak? Do you need a stamp of approval from other people for what you like and how you creatively express yourself? Because, sorry, but that's technically what that is and you don't need it.

C'mere. Come to auntie. Listen. I multiship like crazy and lots of weird and niche rare pairs too. Whenever any of my ships become canon that's pretty much an accident and a statistical outlier and because I just happened to like what the creators like for once. And then I usually think "oh that's nice" and go on with my madness. No getting smug and using it to put others down either!

I'm telling you this because I simply can't stress enough how much more chill and fun shipping is if you become deeply unbothered by what's canon, what the creators think and what other people approve of. Again, you need nobody's stamp of approval. And if people nag and bully you about what you like then these people suck and they have no right to demand explanations from you.

Make your case not to justify yourself to bullies - they won't be convinced anyway - but to get other people interested. Make your case through your art, your writing, your headcanons, your conversations with other fans. Make your case through passion.

And stop letting others tell you what you can and can't ship. Which goes both ways, just saying.

Ok, that's it, bye

[marginofthought]

I don’t know what’s happening lately, but I keeping seeing posts that saying “oh, the spn fandom is dominated with bottom!sam/top!dean” or “there’s so little bottom!dean around” or “why is the fandom so obsessed with bottom!sam?” Is this opposite week or what? What’s going on? It’s so funny seeing these posts and knowing that none of that are true.😂 Unfortunately.😔 I wish there was more bottom!sam.

I'll just add my draft here' cos it fits:

I think people are complaining about bottom!sam because we actually tag it and make it obvious at first sight.

Since it's not the most popular (in numbers) option I think it's much more likely that we tag it since they don't need to and will still find what they are looking for.

But yeah I don't know why they're complaining really since we tag it and they could just block the tag or us if they don't want to see it, which is much more difficult for us since they usually don't

[saitoakirachan-fangirls]

I 90% blame the few la/bru BNF (Big name fans, aka fandom accounts with a big following) for the way Mithrun is being talked about in the fandom right now. Prior to the airing of the anime, and before those accounts were made/got popular, Mithrun was seen as a tragic but still intimidating and funny character. Or a babygirl, depending.

Now, he's an ugly senile dog with permanent eye stains who is too old and decrepit to function.

Making fun of his eyes is insanely ableist. No need to elaborate tbh.

He is unable to function because of severe trauma, not because of his age. He is the elven equivalent of 37, not 79. If we calculate the half-foot/tallmen age according to their average lifespan, then Chilchuck is about 35. Literally nobody treats Chilchuck like a grandpa, because he is not dysfunctional. Because he is not disabled.

He is incredibly competent at his job. He needs assistance to live, but he is one of, if not the, strongest fighters in the whole series. Reducing him to his disabilities while simultaneously degrading said disabilities is incredibly telling of the posters' character.

Mithrun is being dehumanized and people are uncritically repeating these jokes because it's funny in the moment. It's one thing to poke fun at your faves, it's another to be so unbelievably callous about a character's trauma by reducing it to only jokes.

Chief, I'm gonna level with ya; I'm not going to believe you actually like him when all you ever do is call him a dog that needs to be put down, or act super excited when someone agree with you on how ugly he is, or say that he's fundamentally unsuited for relationships because his disability will always burden his partner.

Just be honest and say you hate him

[russilton]

Alright I’m putting my big artist boots on for a PSA:

If you see art posted that seems like it’s been taken from another site — check that person had permission to post it BEFORE you reblog it

When I saw one of Foudreikas works floating around I got a feeling and sent them a message to check- no one asked them first and I shouldn’t have to tell you how rude that is

We don’t need this to become Instagram, please make your best effort not to proliferate the spread of stolen work. It’s not okay to post someone’s work here because they don’t have an account to do it themselves- it’s only okay IF YOU ASK FIRST

If you’ve been around here long enough you know I’ve had my work stolen and posted to Instagram. It’s horrible, it’s violating, and it’s frustrating as shit. Tumblr as a reblog site is supposed to be a place that doesn’t flourish- so do your diligence when you reblog, and if something feels wrong, CHECK

(Reblogs appreciated)

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

The fans: Ugh Sonic was just so preachy. I mean obviously he's supposed to be the good guy, so any uncomfortableness I feel here and any way I feel like Sonic's choices are framed as being why some other people have shitty lives is just bad writing because he is obviously supposed to be right always, but this characterization makes no sense. Isn't he right for the things he did?

Ian Flynn, using Kitsunami to say the (barely even at this point) quiet part even louder: Hey it's almost like ever since the Mr. Tinker event we've been purposely running with the critique of Sonic as being more selfish than he appears. Sonic is upholding a system of Eggman v Sonic that currently benefits him and shuts down talk of how to improve the current system because he likes his own personal enjoyment and he's attached enough to Eggman that he'd rather Eggman pretend to be a good person than be stuck in prison for life. He doesn't even quite practice what he preaches. We are trying to show that the current hero v villain system and Sonic's recklessness currently affects some people poorly and that Sonic isn't a perfect hero.

[breezycheezyart]

I’ve shipped shallura since s1, I was here when the damn tag name was being decided on. I’ve scrolled to the end of it before. And I’ve watched it grow into one of the top ships on here.

I’ve also went through the hell of fandom bullshit and even shittier writing choices and interview comments. I’ve seen folks turn vile and hypocritical about their stances depending on what they ship.

Idc what you ship, I will not bother you. It’s been years and my black ass is quite frankly too tired to “argue/defend” my ship.

Nothing I draw changes canon, never will. And I meticulously tag my art for everyone else’s blacklisting benefit.

So, even if you’re being genuine and asking why I ship “despite canon”, I’m deleting replies and asks for it. I’ve had enough. Maybe watch the first two seasons and look at my art and you’ll get why I have the perspective I do.

Or don’t. Idfc. Alternate realities exist in canon, take that pill and look at my art idc lol.

I’m gonna draw them kissing now ✌🏽

[meowmeowmeowmeow4x]

kris gender

OK FOR THE LOVE OF GOD IF I SEE ONE MORE YOUTUBE COMMENT CALLING KRIS A BOY IM GOING TO

WARNING FOR RANT AND MILD CHAPTER 4 SPOILERS

Ok look I know in Undertale Frisk's personality, age, gender, really pretty much everything about them is left in the air and many people interpret them as a kind of player insert and while they do definitely have their own moments it's all very understated and tbh thats its own whole debate

But Kris? KRIS?! Kris is the absolute last person to be anything other than non-binary and the game refers to kris as they not because their gender is uP To INtErpRetaTiOn like Frisk's might be, but because that's actually how they identify

Kris is deliberately written to be the total opposite of your bog standard faceless voiceless silent protagonist in that they have opinions and history and a total gremlin personality. Kris is an actual character with actual established traits. They are a prankster, they love their brother, they have hangups about the divorce, they're deeply unnerved by whatever Spamton has going on, they're lowkey terrified of Carol, they adore Susie, they love playing the piano and they hate the fact that hte Soul sucks at it and is making them look bad. They have a personality that is actually pretty hard for a lot of people to relate to, being a 'creepy child' who loves knives, the occult and pranking. At certain points they will OPENLY DEFY THE SOUL'S COMMANDS, LIKE IF YOU CHOOSE CERTAIN EXTREMELY CRUEL DIALOGUE OPTIONS, KRIS WILL DO EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER TO INTERRUPT THEMSELVES BEFORE SAYING THEM. If you try to see shit that Kris doesn't want to see (or doesn't want you to see) then you're absolutley not seeing it. Kris will walk into Asriel's room in the Pandora Palace with their eyes closed. They will turn the church door knob but not open it.

When Susie asks Kris who theyd like to take to the festival, you can make Kris say a bunch of different people, but the only person they truly want to bring is Susie. This is their opinion that cannot be changed, no matter what you have them say or do.

Why in the EVER LOVING FUCK WOULD ALL THAT BE CLEARLY ESTABLISHED AND CONCRETE, BUT SOMEHOW THEIR GENDER IS JUST UP TO THE PLAYER'S INTEPRETATION

Kris is so adamant about being their own person and not jiving with whatever the Soul is doing, why should their gender break the pattern of everything and suddenly be up to the Soul's decision, when absolutely nothing else has been? The player has had exactly zero control over Kris' name, backstory, relationships, likes, dislikes, skills, personal angst and trauma. Why should their gender not be the same?

addendum: ive seem some ppl saying that Toby not saying outright that Kris is nb means kris isn't nb, which is ridiculous to me. Try searching for the word lesbian, homosexual or gay in all of undertale or deltarune. Spoiler: ITS NOT GOING TO WORK. Does this mean that lesbians, homosexuals and gays dont exist in either game? UNLIKELY!

[princessfanonanona]

Hey.

It happened again.

Someone tagged my dp fic as if it's a crossover. When it's not.

I'm sorry but dpxdc people need to calm down. I'm very much not tagging the person who did it because I don't want to start hate I'm just so so soooooo tired of this shit.

Not everything Danny Phantom is a fucking crossover. And I've seen it on other ppls posts where it's just a phandom idea or whatever being tagged as the crossover.

Look I get it. You're having fun. And I don't want to say you can't enjoy it. I'm just saying to please separate the two.

Please.

I am begging yall to stop tagging solo fandoms as a crossover when it's not.

[wincestwhispers]

(certain) spn fans will be like “ugh dean’s so bad at showing emotion he just bottles it up then explodes in anger! there’s NO excuse for it” and then every time he expresses emotions non-violently he is mocked or pays dearly for it

[carl1ghts]

does anyone randomly just get a flashback to that clip of matty mouthing 'open up' then spitting on he camera lens or am i just a pervert?