#weird pet peeve but

[notherpuppet]

it's my pet peeve when someone comments something rude on artists' posts so it's an instant block for me :)

[cnl0400]

Beelzebub keeping the long-family tradition of almost crushing little kids (Started by Lucifer ofc)

[wickjump]

will never understand how people get genuinely angry over people’s views on fictional skeletons (primarily on aspects that don’t matter). cause like. that’s basically just someone’s oc. that oc’s creator has drawn that oc doing what you’re upset other people are drawing them doing. you are defending someone’s oc from something that does not matter. i can bet you a billion bucks if you went to the creator of your blorbo they would not get mad at whatever you’re upset about. they’d go “such is life” and go smoke a cigarette or something. depending on who you’re thinking about there’s a chance they’ve literally said before that they really don’t care. and neither should you

[papercutslut]

Headcanon that Ford can work phones and computers perfectly fine. In fact, his main frustration with them is that they're actually much more primitive then he's used to. He's been in the multiverse guys, he knows what a tablet is. He knows how to text.

If you're wondering about his line towards the government agents, Ford has no idea how far technology has advanced in his home dimension. He asks about floppy disks and 8-tracks because last he recalled, those were the best forms of information storage that existed in 46'\. Because he's been gone for 30 years.

[massiveladycat]

me watching another aroace character gets erased and forced into dating

[cheesecakeislazy]

Hot take- Your OC’s should have negative traits. Or strange quirks that can be viewed as negative. Cool, your OC is a mafia boss with a heart of gold; seen that a million times. Show me the OC’s that are REAL PEOPLE!

Someone who is so insecure that it gets in the way of their life and goals! Or something small like your OC being a sore loser or someone that likes to brag all the time!

Add small little quirks please!! An OC that bites their nails? Small but relatable!! An OC that loves stealing itty bitty things as souvenirs? Funny!! My OC bottles up her emotions, but instead of putting up a smile- she has a stone cold face. Very few things break through her hard exterior. ADD STUFF TO YOUR OC THAT MAKES THEM HUMAN, I BEG YOU.

[goatyuuji]

Everytime someone writes Gojo and Sukuna as jocks, an angel loses its wings…THEY ARE BOTH MASSIVE NERDS LEAVE THEM ALONE 😭😭😭

[alspacedout]

weird ass couple

[fallingsatellive]

Pet peeve is when the facial hair options in Picrews are like this

[kineticallyanywhere]

Matt "I can and will remind everyone that Link is REALLY wierd about Normal with like no real explination at this point" Arnold out here like "let me see if I can underminine my entire point in this character arc defining interaction" and I unironically love him for it Link is SUCH a messy b word rn

(this turned into a long response, let's talk Fascinating Character Flaws!)

I dont think it's so much that he's weird about Normal, if I'm understanding what you mean by 'weird', especially in this episode. I feel like it circles back to what I keep thinking about, which is his newest teen fact. the one where he-- does this count as poisoning? he made other children ill in a fit of jealousy for anyone having any time with his dads.

listen, I've had many homeschooled friends. At one point in college I was the "actually went to public school" member of the friend group. People can go in and out of homeschooling and be... not whatever the heck Link has going on. I was excited for him when that fact started, like, "oh he was part of a cohort!" until uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh!

(the following are thoughts that I'm still developing in my head as I type and probably after I post)

whether it's due to the overprotective parenting or just Link's nature or a Symptom of a Condition (op has their own Condition but is not a psychologist) Link's got an issue with like. not getting what he wants? not usually in super obvious ways, it's not spelled out, he doesn't throw tantrums or anything. unless you count the thing at Normal about Normal not wanting to do "cool plans." and most of the time he doesn't want anything complicated, his wants have been pretty straight forward and in line with what anyone would want in these circumstances. he wants people to not die is the big major one, he wants to not feel betrayed again, he wants his friends to stop fighting, he wants to get this over with NOW. and he's been going through so much of not getting what he wants (COMPLETELY REASONABLE THINGS TO WANT, IN THIS CASE. TRAUMATIC THINGS TO NOT GET) that he seems to not know what he wants at all anymore.

like, his understanding of the world has been rocked so bad that he's pretty sure all those things I just listed just aren't things he can have. in the past whenever he needled his parents or acted out or did certain things he'd get what he wanted. not to say that he's spoiled but uh... okay yeah I am saying that a bit. but mostly in the ways that it keeps him from developing the coping mechanisms for when you ask something from life and it punches you in the teeth instead.

So in a world where he doesn't know how to get what he wants and maybe he isn't sure what he even can want, he's kinda just shutting down internally. In the mean time, he may as well make sure his friends get what they want, and then maybe at some point he'll want something again. so, in a way, what he wants is to feel and want something, so that "wants what he wants" part of him snapped out again at Normal with "well at least you're feeling something." in other words, "you have the thing that I want right now, and I'm gonna sound pretty bitter about not having it myself" which is an effed up thing to say when that thing he's having is a mental breakdown.

Link. Buddy. Bud. Kiddo. Pal. you need Help.

tl;dr and conclusion: imo for their mental health the party should split into Link & Taylor and Scary & Normal again for an episode or two. Norm and Scary for hopefully obvious reasons; and Link and Taylor because while Taylor is unquestionably a rich kid spoiled for material goods who is very good at wanting things, he is also a kid who's mom knows how to say "No. Absolutely Not. Give me the knife right now I don't care what seppuku is" and who's dad left an emotional void for over a decade that he is clearly adept in coping with and he could give Link some pointers.

also because it would be a cool callback and parallel to early episodes to do those pairs again. see how they've changed and stuff

[dreamerinsilico]

LYING

goddamnit the word you want is LYING

not LAYING

I am lying (myself) down

I am laying down my burdens

LYING is INTRANSITIVE

LAYING is TRANSITIVE

to lie:

lie (I lie down. I am lying down on the couch now.)

lay (I lay down on the couch yesterday)

have lain (I have lain on this couch before)

to lay:

lay (I lay the book down on the table right now)

laid (I laid the book down on the table yesterday)

have laid (the book down on the table before)

yes, it is stupid. English is stupid. But this is how it currently works.

[lady-morrigen]

just as a general note, bc it’s been killing me lately -

SUBCONSCIOUS

- adjective: of or concerning the part of the mind of which one is not fully aware but which influences one's actions and feelings

UNCONSCIOUS

- adjective: not conscious

they are similar, to be certain. but i have always been under the impression that they are not to be used interchangeably as adjectives.

so when you write: She twirled her hair subconsciously - it’s clear to me that you mean the character is not fully aware of her actions, the instinct coming from the brain’s subconscious.

but when you write: She twirled her hair unconsciously - i’m picturing your character twirling her hair while passed out cold on the floor.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Fallen Thorns

dark urban fantasy coming-of-age

follows a boy settling into university, when after a date (that he didn’t even want to go on) turns bad he’s made into a vampire

as he settles into his new existence and the local vampire community - while they try to find who’s been leaving bodies across the city - he discovers that there’s something different and darker within him

aroace neurodivergent MC

[dogrocks]

“he would not fucking say that” but it’s “he would not fucking text like that”

[beatx-mavie-archangelx]

Unpopular? Problematic? Opinion

I'm kinda new in Arda so maybe it's just me? It's something I haven't found out yet in the fandom? I'm honestly not sure because I'm the only one having a problem (not really a problem, just a pet peeve, I think?) with it, but...

(forgive my English, it's past midnight here and I'm eepy)

what is it that the fandom has with genderbending(or revealing they were the opposite gender all along) specific characters? and I mean Bilbo Baggins and dwarves specifically. I haven't seen a genderbent elf or human yet, but again I may be wrong.

It feels really weird because I've mostly (almost always) seen it happen when one of those characters was to be shipped with someone(of the same gender). And also I've actually only seen it with Bilbo, Ori, and Narvi (but, once more, I'm new so this might be inaccurate). I genuinely don't understand why? It doesn't bring anything to the plot except perhaps implying that dwarves can't tell dwarrow and dwarrowdams apart which actually only applies to literally all the other races. It feels so wrong to cancel mlm relationships by changing a character's canon gender.

I also don't like using non-canon pronouns(/gender) for characters in general because it feels like I'm misgendering them but that's a personal opinion.

But perhaps I'm just imagining things. So I'm genuinely asking if I've missed something or if it's just me not really understanding fanfictions/fandoms. Especially since I've only seen this happen with those specific characters, maybe someone can tell me whether it's true or not.

Idk if this makes sense, hopefully I wasn't disrespectful and didn't offend anyone.

Pls be nice I'm just a confused newcomer

[swaps55]

I have been thinking about two things all day.

That post I saw this morning very confidently believing that a $130k salary is "comfortably middle class" in Los Angeles, which made me laugh, then have a mild existential crisis.

Sam Shepard absolutely slaying it at karaoke to "Walking On Broken Glass."

So. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯