#END RANT.

[arrowsperpetualcringe]

They don't wanna go back.

#from my self indulgent au where everyone lives together in peace #and the Collector gets to have a childhood #though they do have moments of trauma #this poor kid has been trapped in a disk for god knows how long #and has been told to kill and slaughter when theu just wanna make friends #god. #they're just a lil baby man who— doesn't know how mortal beings work!!! #they deadass do not know!!! what they are doing!!! #it makes me so sad bc everyone thought they were so evil #and they're!!! not!!! #are they doing fucked up shit? sure. but they don't know better #and considering where they came from... #the fact they wanna make friends is a /good/ thing. #i hope things are resolved and they are taught how to make friends without causing people harm. #anyway.... #end rant. #toh #the owl house #owl house #the collector #the collector toh #toh collector #toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers #owl house spoilers #my art #sketch #rambling

[dead--pretty]

the problem with redemption arcs is not that they exist but that they are so pervasive. it's created a culture wide belief that we must focus on healing and peace and forgiveness first and foremost. as an abuse survivor, I simply do not agree that this should be the focus for anyone but especially for survivors of abuse.

the truth is, you can't get to 'healing' (and honestly the assumption that I want to get there is kind of gross in and of itself but that’s a different rabbit hole) without fully processing your pain and anger first. and in the context of fiction (which is assumptive but the words' redemption arc' demand this assumption) you should be allowed the fantasy of indulging your anger, of absolutely no peace for those who have hurt you, of absolutely no forgiveness.

I know that abuse is not always inherent in a villain's arc but people who identify with a fictional villain's actions often are indulging in violent fantasies about their abusers.

all I'm saying is, keep this is mind, because people who do not want to see redemption arcs in fiction should be heard too and the majority of fictional stories DO include a redemption arc so trust fam, you're not the ones who need to be heard.

#end rant.

[midastouches]

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#i hate that I'm the person who always sends to be the villain #I'm always the one who leaves #relationships friendships doesn't matter #i walk away first #i think i hope they chase after me but at the same time the only reason i leave is because i can't take it anymore #idk #i haven't been able to keep a boyfriend longer than three months because i always lose feelings #i still think about the guy who i loved and then we both ruined either #i just wanna be loved and feel the love back and love them and i don't understand what's wrong with me #end rant. #kylie talks!

[thelovelybitten]

“Why? What’s the point of living when the only girl I’ll ever love is gone?”

“No dude, i feel worse.”

“Dude, i don’t have time to start over with other girls. I’m nine years old, dude. If i don’t work things out with Wendy, I could be alone my whole life.”

“I can’t let Wendy go. This whole time, I’ve been having my friends do all the talking for me. It’s time i took control.”

“Tell her i love her.”

“I can’t believe it. She’s in love with someone else.”

“There’s nothing else i can do. She was my whole life.”

And antis really think Stan doesn’t care about Wendy. Weird.

#otp: i cant do it alone #south park #stendy #stan x wendy #viv speaks #LIKE BE SO FUCKING FOR REAL PEOPLE #season 7 ep 14 ended me. brought me back to life. and killed me again. #friendly reminder that i still haven’t watched all the episodes yet ad I’m still learning about the characters. #SO WHEN I WATCHED THIS. I DIED ON THE INSIDE #it’s the audacity of antis to really say that Stan hates her or Wendy doesn’t care abt him—delusional. #Wendy wasn’t treated properly so she left. Stan noticed after the fact and he was lost without her. LIKE HE CARES. but he’s fucking 9. #he doesn’t know shit abt feelings ok #tbh what wendy did was underhanded by dating Tolkien but she just wanted someone who’d actually give her attention #they’re fucking children but from an adults’ perspective—yeah. it’s a dick move #anyways live laugh love stendy #i know they’ll come around I’m just mad this happened #like WHY TREY AND MATT WHY #THIS WAS SO UNCALLED FOR ??? #all I’m asking is for happy stendy okay thanks #END RANT.

[chiisana-lion]

#duck rants about something #im so fecked #thank u @iwantmorelife for the image id !!! #edit before you tell me ''this isnt even relatable'' its not meant to be. i made this to complain about sleeping in before class and ending #up late every time. peace and love

[willgrahamsipodnano]

i shouldn’t be this sad that bereal didn’t save my post from yesterday

#my friend took me out to dinner bc i was sad #my cousin died and he helped me articulate how i was feeling and we had a long convo about loss and grief and #how we appreciate the people in our lives and how to let go of regret over how we did things #and idk it was just such a lovely time #i took the photo when we were already drunk and talking about profound losses we have experienced #but the server interrupted us and spent like 5 mins describing the dessert menu and we ended up ordering it lmao #like at first we were like excuse me we’re baring our souls here but then we were like hmm that sounds really good actually #anyway the bereal def captured that energy of taking a break from the intense stuff to be a lil silly goofy #and also a third emotion #which was just like this gesture of inviting me out coming from a place of love and then opening up in a way we haven’t before #and now it’s gone and sheesh i should take actual photos more and not rely on an app to save everything for me #End Rant. #txt

[sameboot]

Simon petrikov coping FAIL compilation

#HNNNGGGNNN!! SO MANY THOUGHTS ABOUT EPISODE 2…… #my art #adventure time #fionna and cake #simon petrikov #Fionna and cake spoilers #<- kind of??? maybe not really #I’m so glad ep 2 gave us some insight to that scene in obsidian #it’s such a shift from Simon saying he’d literally rather DIE than be the ice king again #BUT IT MAKES SENSE! #nostalgia can twist your perception of the past #and then mix that in with a metric ton of trauma ! #‘things were simpler back then’ #SIMON 99.5% OF YOUR LIFE AS ICE KING WAS AWFUL…. #I mean in the later seasons he does gradually gain acceptance and fit in with the others #but that just makes the CURRENT simons situation so much sadder it’s like he’s back at square 1 in some ways #WILL THE ISOLATION EVER END? #OK IM DONE RANTING IN THE TAGS

[megamindsupremacy]

a random child asks Batman “How many times a day do you think about the Roman Empire?” for the meme and accidentally unlocks a 45 minute unskippable cutscene that only ends when Superman physically picks Batman up and flies him away from the enthralled history nerd child

#mads posts #Batman #dc comics #Superman #Bruce starts off with ‘what’ and ends with a long rant about Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

[frownyalfred]

hello. this is a PSA. ao3 is NOT releasing your browsing history, despite what you may have heard on tiktok.

if you’re signed into ao3, your history is viewable in the dashboard tab. it always has been, nothing is changing. please don’t believe everything you hear on tiktok.

no one is able to view your browsing history unless they are signed into your account.

#end rant #sorry it’s just there’s so many of those videos #and it’s blatant misinformation #and it makes me wonder if it’s on purpose to malign ao3 #ao3 #archive of our own #fic #fanfic #fanfiction #tiktok #also you can clear that history at any time #or read fics without signing in

[fleapit]

can we pleasee please please stop fucking fearmongering and blaming trans men for the predstrogen situation. please god. posts about "trans men teaming up with terfs to get trans women banned!" with zero sources all over my dash. blaming "transandrophobia truthers" for all the transmisogyny. have you all lost your fucking minds?? what the fuck happened to t4t??? what the fuck happened to trans solidarity??? why is "transfem separatism" even a subject worth entertaining????

anyone who says other trans people are the enemy is a fucking fed. jesus christ

#my blood is fucking boiling right now and my heart is breaking #i keep seeing people go off the deep end with 'trans men arent oppressed! trans men face no discrimination because they have male privilege #its the fucking 2010 “trans men are betraying their female gender!” shit all over again! #transandrophobia #fleapit's patented rants #sorry im just. so sick of it. #saw it from a fucking FORCE-MASC BLOG like are you serious???

[77dekiru]

It’s honestly so upsetting to see that the majority of people just don’t understand that Tomura doesn’t actually get enjoyment from killing people.

Tomura has literally felt so sick to his stomach that he has thrown up when he has killed people before.

The difference between all of the times Tomura has felt physically ill from killing people and all of the times that Tomura has gotten “enjoyment” from it (Tomura doesn’t feel enjoyment, he feels relief.) is that each time the person he killed had hurt him first.

Killing the people that hurt him is just genuinely the only thing that Tomura can think of to get them to finally stop so that they won’t hurt him anymore.

Tenko had originally reached out to his father for help, only for him to be struck by him with a gardening tool… and only then Tenko killed (with purpose) his father to stop him from hurting him again:

Tomura only wanted to kill the two drunk men after they had hurt him for literally just walking down the street:

Tomura wanting to kill the heroes that had hurt him (with the intention of killing him):

Tomura still doesn’t get enjoyment from killing people who hurt him, but he does experience relief from it…

((Edit: I would just like to clarify that the relief that Tomura feels from killing people that hurt him comes from knowing that they can’t hurt him anymore (relief that he is safe, even if temporarily) It does not come from him getting rid of the “itch” that he experiences (it always comes back, even after killing), like AFO groomed him into believing. I saw someone add that in the tags, and I realized that I never fully explained my thoughts on it. LOL.))

Not to mention, Tomura was literally GROOMED by All For One (which is something that people just like to ignore for some reason…) to even have this desire to kill people in the first place.

And even then Tomura doesn’t have the desire to kill people in the way that AFO wants!

His want for destruction stems from his inherent empathy for others, and his inability to understand how people are able to ignore the suffering of others. Not what All For One has groomed him into believing. (That Tomura’s want for destruction is an impulse that’s something inherent to him.)

Tomura has continued to have empathy for others despite AFO’s grooming, and has showed genuine kindness to the league on many occasions…

All of this is such an important aspect of Tomura’s character and being able to actually understand him, and it’s so disheartening constantly seeing people completely overlook this part of him.

#im just frustrated at seeing the constant mischaracterization (mostly on mhatwt) #im not sure how to end this rant but. yeah. #mha #my hero academia #bnha #boku no hero academia #shigaraki tomura #shimura tenko #meta

[lostmf]

#sadnees #tw depressing thoughts #depressing shit #i'm sad #childhood trauma #depressing life #childhood #quotes #tw depressing stuff #poetic #tw ptsd #tw self destruction #tw eating issues #tw: sucidal thoughts #tw ed rant #tw disordered eating #childhood ptsd #complex ptsd #emotional abuse #end it already #disordered eating thoughts #disordered eating mention #eating disoder trigger warning #disordered eating in tags #body dysmorphic disorder #i hate my body #sorry for being depressing #generational truama #tw truama #truama

[thottybrucewayne]

I think what I want to get into with the "Anyone can do harm." thing that I keep beating yall over the head with is that literally anyone, anyone at all can do harm it's not "in your DNA" to be an abuser or written in the stars that you'll be a predator. Whatever image you have of an abuser in your head, drop it and replace it with your favorite person in the world and you'll probably be closer to the truth than you realize. It's easy to address harm when it's coming from someone you already hate. I see it happen all the time. Someone you couldn't stand for no real reason does something heinous then all of a sudden here comes the avalanche of "I always knew they were a fucked up individual." No, you didn't. There is no possible way you could have known, you just already didn't fuck with them before they started doing something you could use to justify your hatred of them. I'm guilty of it too! I'm petty, mean, vindictive, and yes! I'm way quicker to believe something bad about someone I hate versus someone I love because I'm human. Still, y all gotta learn to move past that initial "Well, they were always nice to me!" gut feeling and understand that nobody truly knows anyone and anyone can be capable of anything. Even victims. Even you.

#thotty speaks #thotty rants #I was thinking about that Christine chan post and its like yeah yall really don't know how bad it got for her before she did what she did #It reminded me of that thing on tiktok where people take 'cringy' cosplayers videos (most of whom are literal children) and put racist or #bigoted text over it then reupload it to call them out then the og creator gets a flood of harassment mostly from people who hated them for #the crime of being weird on the internet but now they can use 'oh but they're a bigot!' as an excuse to tear them down until they come out #and say 'hey i didn't say this someone stole my shit' and nobody takes their vids down nor apologizes because they didn't fuck with them #anyway so wash rinse repeat #idk I just wish that people had the same smoke for people they actually like #mostly cause I'm tired of being accused of 'switching up' every time I cut people off or stop fuckin with an artist #like this is what we should be doing!!!! ACG ANYBODY CAN GET IT! #It should be smoke for ANYONE who does harm every your fave people! #otherwise you create this world where taking people to task for the harm they've done is less about the harm #and more about justifying our own actions #anyway keep that same energy across the board that's all I'm saying #cause if it comes out tomorrow that somebody close to me did some fucked up shit I'm out of there period #aint no talkin bout shit and that's on me growing up as a child told that certain grown folks can't be alone with me #but they allowed in my house... #Idk about yall but i'm ending that generational curse with me

[thatrandomblogsays]

Me: *reading a post that makes the joke “Peeta dropped the baby bomb, Gale drops bombs on babies”* haha good one

Also me: you’re missing the point! You’re missing the point! YOURE MISSING THE POINT! He grew up starving. His best friend almost died of hunger. Most of his people live in poverty. He watched children die in a bloodbath every year for the capital’s entertainment. The girl he loved went into the games. Was tortured by the capitol. His district was bombed out of existence. Nearly everyone he knew was killed. Their only crime was being fed up of being hungry and oppressed and sharing the same district as Katniss. All those innocent people. Murdered. He had to take refuge in a district that was bombed out of existence and forced to live underground. Of course he joined the war effort. Of course he designed unethical bombs and battle tactics. He wanted revenge. He wanted the capitol to have a taste of their own medicine. He wanted the rebellion to succeed. And tell me you could live through what he did, and that no part of you would be screaming for Justice and vengeance. Gale is you. You are Gale. He represents a part of feelings and actions that reside within us, even if you don’t act on it.

“But he killed prim!” Exactly! Gale loved prim. She was a second family to her. He looked after Katniss’ family. He saved them from the district 12 bombings. He loved her. He never would’ve put her in danger. He never would’ve put in order for a bombing if it would kill Prim. But coin would. And did. She took what was meant to be a tool of Gale’s righteous revenge for all the suffering he and his people suffered through, only for someone in power to take it and use it to kill someone he loved.

There’s some many lessons to take. We can’t control the things we create. War spares no one. Even justifiable rage and actions can end up rebounding and hurting those you love instead of your targets.

“He drops bombs on babies” is too simplistic of a takeaway and does a disservice to the story and Gale.

#end rant #the first few times I laughed #now I’m getting tired of seeing the same joke again and again and again #i get it #Peeta is the best boy and you’ve been shipping everlark since the books came out #but please stop ignoring the themes and messages I beg you #Gale didn’t even order the bombing 😭 #the hunger games #thg #thg series #thg analysis #thg gale #gale #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #gale hawthorne #mine #primrose everdeen #everlark #abosas #the capitol #district 12 #district 13 #president coin #president snow #hunger games

[100jewels-between-teeth]

So many saying:

"Oh! Why do all the other romances in the epilogue get kisses while Astarion gets just hugs! Where is our kiss?!?!"

I think you're missing the point...

For non-ascended Astarion, nothing is more fitting or more perfect than that hug. Why?

This is a man that had been abused for over 200 years. A man who was forced to use his body to lure people against his will. A man who tells you that he has used his body sexually and otherwise that just the act of sexual intimacy has been tainted for him.

In Act 2, as he tells you all this, allowing an extremely vulnerable side of himself to be shown to you. Asking for reassurance that he was more than a cheap tool. What does Tav/Durge do?

They hug him. Hold him tightly. And the Vampire has no clue what to do because he, in 200 years, has never been touched like that unless it had sexual implications. For the first time, he is being touched for pure, vulnerable intimacy and love. And in that moment, he accepts the safety of your arms, and holds you. Craving not a touch of lust, but love.

So yes, a hug is far better than a kiss in my regard. At the end of the day, no matter what, he wants to feel that safe feeling of your arms. No expectations, just pure love.

#bg3 #bg3 rant #astarion #patch 5 #astarion x tav #astarion x durge #astarion x you #bg3 astarion #bg3 romance #bg3 analysis #baldurs gate 3 #baldurs gate astarion #baldurs gate 3 astarion #at the end of the day i would hold him in my arms for eternity #because he is a cinnamon roll #and i love him

[lyndentree63]

Oohhhhhhh. So far, all of Aabria's Dimension 20 seasons are intensely literary Misfits and Magic - Harry Potter ACOFAF - Jane Austen, Bridgerton Burrow's End - Watership Down, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Animal Farm, 1984, etc.

There's something delightful hearing her talk about not coming to TTRPGs through high fantasy like Lord of the Rings and Wheel of Time, but yet there's so much bookish influence on her GMing work. Diversify the literary influences!

#thoughts inspired by Aabria's Burrow's End screen rant interview #aabria iyengar #dimension 20 #acofaf #a court of fey and flowers #burrow's end #burrow's end spoilers #misfits and magic #books books books #literary influences #also possibly ACOTAR is an influence for ACOFAF but I don't know enough about the ACOTAR books to comment on that intelligently