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POINT AND LAUGH

#mandela effect moment i thought this bloke was already dead

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what i hate aboht being on tumblr is there are certain characters you can never look up because no one can appreciate them just on their own as a single thing, they exist as just one half of a pair because everyone on here has shipping brainrot

#I've been guilty of shipping brainrot but i also know how to appreciate my faves on their own #i can't get attached to a ship in the first place if i don't truly love characters on their own y'know? #if i don't even care for them individually then i just get bored #but the worst part is when ONE character in general is never EVER talked about outside of their Popular Ship™ #and they're always seen as an accessory to the other one #always. ALWAYS makes me dislike not just the ship itself but the other character in question. makes me angry #(redacted) you deserve so much better

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#nobody cares about the ñ

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marrying the same character each save ?? i prefer to call it finding my soulmate in every universe

#yeah.....

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Are people with large beds not afraid of a ghost crawling in with them? I would be

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Wow bro, cool post criticising imperialism! Just to be clear, you're applying this criticism to all empires, right? You're not going to unironically resort to the exact kind of apologism you mock here when someone criticises an empire you approve of, right?

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fics that are like 500 to 1200 words or so often have a particular kind of energy to me - like the author sat bolt upright in bed, struck by the most brilliant inspiration of their entire lives, and then typed as fast as their fingers would allow them to in order to capture it all before it left.

oneshots that are just a straight, clear shot from the brain to the page with no real filter in between? that's good stuff right there.

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yall do realize just because something has been a target of misogynistic criticism, that doesn't make stanning it completely uncritically in response some kind of revolutionary feminist praxis. right.

#important

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I wish people would stop criticizing things I don't like for the wrong reasons.

#mfw I have to defend my notps from people who hate them for the stupidest reason 😔 #you can just say it sucks! it's ok! you don't need to make it into a moral thing lmao

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Wind Waker is such a good game I need to write an essay about it and just how underappreciated the writing is and how it was so ahead of its time...

#nonsense #i think every single zelda fan should play it and I'm tired of nintendo gatekeeping it ugh #can we please get that switch port already

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if you like a piece of media that is good eventually youll more or less run out of things to say about how good it is but if you like a piece of media that is objectively pretty mediocre but also somehow deeply compelling thats how the demons get you

#:(

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Hades 2 I need you

#melinoe #hades 2

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At the risk of coming across as controversial, I’d like to give my opinion on some Ao3 discourse.

Ao3 was founded by a ThorKi shipper. Yes, someone who ships Marvel’s Thor and Loki, who are (albeit adopted) brothers. According to some data mining, it’s very likely the first fic on the site was a Wincest one as well. There’s no censorship on the site, and there’s a filtering system to compensate (that I use every time I’m looking through a tag I enjoy).

You’re going to see things you don’t like. And when you come across a tag or a warning or a rating you don’t want to see, you can simply add it to the “exclude” part of the filtering system.

A lot of younger users are coming onto Ao3 from sites like TikTok and Wattpad, and they’re bringing a few of their bad habits over. I’m not talking about placeholder fics or using it like a social media site — that’s a post for another time. I’m talking about bringing hate and bigotry into comment sections and harassing authors over their works and preferences. This shouldn’t be happening.

Ao3 is a website founded by a proshipper, made for proshippers. It’s a free website, and no one is allowed to profit off of it (looking at you, people who bind and sell fanfiction on eBay. Not cool.). The lack of censorship is the price every user must pay for that.

If content you consider problematic is a dealbreaker for you, then maybe you should find another website.

#important #can don't like don't read please make a comeback. thanks

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worst part about getting angry is how much it makes you want to be mean

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Up to you guys to determine what is apology-worthy, just tryna see something

#only because i confronted them about it not because they genuinely came to the conclusion that they needed to apologize #and only in adulthood #and not for everything they should have apologized for.

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"why can't they just be friends" not in the homophobic way but in the "their platonic relationship in the source material is far more dynamic and complex than the sanitized personalities they gain as a result of shipping" way