#I can respect your choice

[abirddogmoment]

sometimes i hang out with a herding breed dog and it really makes me go damn girl you live like this?? ://

#dogblr #do you know you could have a sporting dog? #do you know you can have a dog that doesnt stare at you 24/7? #do you know you can have a dog that sleeps through the night instead of pacing for eight hours? #anyway yet again i am made aware that herding breeds are not for me #in general i feel like people really overuse the place cue #but then i spend time with a herding dog and im like oh.... you do actually need to be on a cued place.... #so so so not for me sorry #(this is me just being a hater i love and respect all of your dog breed choices)

[thirdtimed]

so which characters do you personally headcanon to be winged avians?

this is a fun question! i'm still getting acquainted with all the life series/hermitcraft adjacent members so take what i say as subject to change + about them as characters + all mostly for fun :D

soo.. my grian design isn't actually an avian! or, maybe partially? i like drawing him with the little ear wings (it's a personal favorite design trope of mine) but i'd like to think he doesn't actually have functional/naturally grown wings; he has to manually equip them with a harness

this is mostly due to the fact that i'm watching through his s6 hermitcraft lets play right now. i find his initial aversion/reluctance to rely on an elytra really funny paired with how rapidly he eventually learns how to fly with it. "i don't want to be that guy who uses their elytra everywhere" LOL. i also like the added dimension of him having to really fight to learn how to fly + the general concept that faux/mechanical wings bring to the table

jimmy on the other hand is a canary angel thing to me!

he has wings, but they're much smaller & he can't fly with them (yet, maybe). i like to think that he didn't start out the life series with wings at first, but after the repeated deaths + establishment of the canary curse he gets little wings sprouting. just to Really rub the curse in his face LOL. but who knows, with the curse being broken + his angelfication maybe he can really learn how to fly after all.. time will tell...

#i like to think they lord each other's respective shortcomings over one another LOL #''imagine having fake wings'' ''says the one who cant fly'' etc. #i dont have time to draw them in a sibling style quarrel but you can imagine it in your lovely mind #anyways.. most of my little headcanons and design choices are heavily influenced by what the rest of the fandom has already established! #its really fun going through and learning why certain characters are drawn w certain features :D #ty for the ask!! #my art

[taz-writes]

here's a hot take for today

the narrative function of sex is the same as the narrative function of fight scenes is the same as the narrative function of songs in a musical

no i will not explain

#taz talks #writing #actually i WILL explain but i'll do it in the tags #these each serve the same function within their respective appropriate genres #each one is a kind of revelation #they heighten the connection between 2+ characters and highlight relationships and feelings and needs #they are out of place in genres where they do not belong and/or as curveballs when the narrative did not provoke them from the start #but they have the same sort of emotional/dramatic build-up #talk -> sing -> dance (talk -> yell -> stab) ((talk -> flirt -> You Know)) #and they are all expressions of intense physicality and intimacy through physical gesture and interaction #they are fundamentally empty and boring if there is not a deeper purpose or drive behind them #although they can still occasionally be entertaining on their own if your audience is specifically seeking that experience out #people who do not like them will be very unhappy to encounter one where it isn't supposed to be #it is very easy to ruin the mood with poor word choice #many people have an inherent sense for terrible ones but it's often difficult or complicated to explain precisely why a bad one fails #when executed properly they are a very raw and intimate expression of a character's most fundamental needs and desires #the fluff is stripped away and there is nothing left but a series of needs. conflicting or cooperating. #and even when you're lying during one it's still a form of truth #none of these things are remotely necessary to tell a powerful or compelling story but if you're going to use them you need to do it right #also all 3 of these things are difficult if not impossible to write if you are not both interested in them and personally invested #this post brought to you by me trying to write smut about my dnd characters and failing because i generally hate /reading/ smut #so i have none of the vocabulary or instinct for it that i do for. say. graphic violence (or lyrical poetry)

[zeb-z]

At a surface level, Gillion always putting himself between danger and his friends just makes sense, because he’s noble like that, isn’t he? Gillion Tidestrider, Champion of the Undersea, Hero of the Deep, Riptide Pirate - he can tank a hit, or two, or three, and swing back just as hard. He’s protective, and he’s sturdy, and he’s stubborn. Then just a little deeper, Gillion would without question sacrifice himself for the greater good. For a friend in need, for a good hearted citizen, for the net positive - he’s noble, with a heart of gold, who’s courage knows no bounds, right? And then just a little deeper, Gillion would actively harm himself just to make someone feel better. Just to take the edge off of someone else’s misery. He’d take their own pain, or even unnecessary pain, so they might have some sort of relief. Even if it isn’t guaranteed, he’s so ready, so eager, to jump at the chance.

Gillion Tidestrider is someone born to meet impossible standards, constantly told he’s not good enough, taught that his suffering is necessary and through this his people will survive. He’s all these things, kind and courageous and chivalrous, with a heart that beats to help others in need - but he’s also self sacrificial. Dangerously so. He takes personal risks without second thought, he pushes his limits for even the little things, he helps to the point of his own detriment. He will bleed himself dry on the off chance it might help a good soul who needs it. He will do worse for his loved ones. And it isn’t just from the all encompassing need to help at any cost, but also this feeling deep down inside that he deserves it. It’s his destiny to save people, no matter the personal cost.

It’s pushed to the extreme with Felipe after the Feywilds. Gillion, still off center, freshly traumatized from his time in that god forsaken orb, still awaiting the verdict on if he’s guilty in the eyes of the council while fully convinced he is, finds out it’s technically his fault his new friend is filled with insatiable bloodlust and wants to stab him to death. Of course he encourages the stabbing. Of course he’ll mind control to keep the peace. And when all is said and done, and it hurts and it doesn’t help, he still wonders about pushing it further - fully behind this idea of him dying and being brought back, even if it’s not sure to work. Even if it’s not sure to bring him back.

And I just keep thinking, that for all the healing Gillion does - all those sick people from Joaldo, Chip and Jay countless times in their battles, members of the crew, various people hurting and in need of aid - he’s never once used lay on hands on himself. It’s a pattern, made noticeable in Edison Kingdom, where he heals Alphonse for half of a joke instead of his own 1 hp - which subsequently downs him on the way down - and it’s continues to the end of the Feywilds, where Jay and even Felipe heal the stab wounds he bleeds out from. He’s a healer with the power just at his fingertips, so easily within reach, and he doesn’t heal himself.

So it does beg the question - when will the line between ‘selfless’ and ‘self sacrificing’ be drawn?

#I hope the line will be drawn swiftly and sternly now that jay and chip are truly catching on #I just. I noticed the healing thing in Edison kingdom and haven’t been able to let go of it since. he’d sooner risk death than heal himself #and now (now as in ep 84 where I’m at in the campaign) this self sacrificial behavior is exacerbated by the retraumatizing council shit #made much more obvious by the training sequences with both caspian and chip respectively. he’s bleeding himself dry to try and help everyon #to protect everyone. but he can’t. and then there’s the guilt part of it because yeah. is this a choice made out of friendship or a guilty #sense of obligation? #and like. his whole thing that’s like ‘no I don’t want to die but I’m not afraid and I will do what I must’ it’s just. it’s so concerning #so ridiculously concerning and it’s like with his upbringing of course he thinks like this. freshly traumatized of course it’s worsened #but god #I just. he still hasn’t healed himself as far as I can remember. and that’s all I can think about #seize your destiny gillion tidestrider. shape it to be your own. and for the love of god treat yourself kindly along the way #jrwi riptide 84 #jrwi #jrwi riptide #gillion tidestrider #jrwi gillion #z speaks

[procrastinatorproject]

Fuck it, I'm gonna start posting my own shouty thoughts on season 3 of Picard rather than just commenting on other people's stuff.

I'll keep taggin everything "#picard spoilers" (assume I'm talking about everything up to the most recent ep, I'll warn seperately for leaked/promo stuff about ep 10) and "#picard saltiness" so you know what to blacklist (or look for, I'm not telling you how to internet 😋).

I'm sorry/get ready.

Here's the thing. I would like to watch season 3 of Picard and think "Oh well, this wasn't made for me, the same way season 1 wasn't made for the type of TNG fan who is in heaven right now. And I'm sad my favourite characters and main reasons I liked the show in the first place got written off, but I'm glad these other fans are having the time of their lives. Good on them, I'll just mentally file this away as a season/new show that I don't connect with as much as I'd hoped." I really, really want to be able to think that and approach season 3 this way.

But the writers won't let me.

At every turn, and I mean every turn, the writers have gone out of their way to not just pretend the previous two seasons didn't happen, but to remind us they happened and they were stupid and you're stupid to ever have enjoyed them.

It's not just that Picard, in the middle of his disillusioned identity crisis, when he has been holed up on his vinyard for over a decade, talking to nobody, and feeling deeply disappointed by Starfleet, gives an impassioned speech to a bunch of young people about how Starfleet is the only family you'll ever need.

That's a type of discontinuity/soft retcon I don't particularly enjoy, but if it were just that, I wouldn't be writing this way too long screed.

It's not even just the implicit "we will do it right this time" on display e.g. when Picard "flies" the Titan out of the labouring nebula. In that scene, Picard walks up to the captain's chair to take the conn, the TNG theme swells, he sits down, the music becomes bombastic, and he gets to be the Heroic Captain We All Remember. That scene is, in my opinion, something of a parallel to the season 1 scene where Picard tries to hijack La Sirena to take Soji to her people. In the season 1 scene, he sits in the captain's chair, the TNG-inspired music swells, he is about to be the Heroic Captain We All Remember -- except then the music fizzles out and the moment deflates because Picard has been retired for a decade and a half and has no idea what he's doing (and is certainly not the most qualified to do it on an unfamiliar ship).

That parallel in season 3 rubbed me the wrong way, because it felt too close to a refutation of season 1. Too close to "See? This is how that scene should have played out!" But that is a me problem. If the writers were remotely aware of the parallel (and I honestly doubt it, because I'm not sure they know season 1 well enough), it's just as likely they wrote it as a tongue-in-cheek reference, more than a rebuttal. Assuming the worst would have been on me and my unwillingness to give this season a fair shake. And if that sort of scene were the worst of it, I wouldn't be happy about it, but I wouldn't make it everybody else's problem.

Except the writers didn't stop there.

I would (eventually) be okay with it if the writers had just quietly abandoned, ignored, or even outright retconned some characters, history, themes, and plots from season 1 and 2 they disliked. But instead, they repeatedly acknowledge the existence of these elements only to then dismiss them in frankly viscious ways.

It's not enough to ignore the Jurati-Borg in all their Eggness glory and how they would be incredibly relevant to this story season 3 is trying to tell. It's not enough to pretend that storyline never happened and move on. Instead, the writers acknowledge the existence of the new collective, but the only sentence where it's mentioned is a character talking about "That weird shit on the Stargazer."

Yes, Shaw is a dick, yes it fits his character, yes Watsonian reasons. But it was still an active choice by the writers to only bring up one of the major plot developments of season 2 in the most derisive way possible.

Another example: The writers apparently felt that the Troi-Rikers didn't belong on Nepenthe. But it's not enough to have them move somewhere else between seasons, or even to let them have a discussion about how Nepenthe is steeped in loss and grief and they want to move somewhere else and start over.

Instead, the writers have to take time out of their already shoddily paced season to have these two characters extensively shit-talk one of the brightest momenst of season 1 (figuratively and literally). It's not just "they don't like it on Nepenthe anymore", it's "they never liked it, everything about it is terrible, everything season 1 showed you about their life there is a lie, and it has always been shitty and cringey and stupid, and you were stupid to like it!"

It's not just "we dumped our diverse characters, challenging themes, and relatively fresh view on the Trek universe from outside Starfleet for starship porn, great (white) men, and more Starfleet nostalgia than you can even comprehend". It's not just "we're going to ignore the existence of season 1 (and to a degree season 2), because it's not doing the things we want to do." It's not just "we're making this show, knowing (and not caring) that it will alienate a large chunk of the people who enjoyed season 1".

It's "we see what previous seasons were trying to do, and we need you to understand, really understand, how much contempt we have for these seasons and the people who enjoyed them."

I know some people felt this way about season 1 and the way it deconstructed Picard's image as the Great Heroic Captain and laid open his flaws and the flaws of the Federation. And I now empathize with them more than I ever thought I would. But I think there is a big qualitative difference in there.

In season 1, Picard gets put in his place. He has women people telling him when he's wrong, where he has failed, where he should have stepped up and needed to do better. But the show is still deeply sympathetic towards him. By the end of the season, Elnor has forgiven him, Raffi has forgiven him (without ever getting an apology), and he gets to save the day [whether the end to this particular arc is well done (it's not) is a rant for another day].

The failures Picard is being reproached for in season 1 pretty much exclusively happen between TNG and PIC. They tie in to patterns and tendencies the character has always had and attempt to deconstruct some of them. But there's no direct evisceration of specific things that happened on TNG.

At no point does Picard get out his Ressikan flute to make a glib comment about what a useless trinket it is, and how he should have thrown it out years ago. At no point does he turn to Riker and say: "Man, do you remember that Darmok and Jalad shit? What a waste of time! I wish we'd blown up that ship when we encountered it."

Season 1 is critical of Picard's character, yes, and it might feel crass or unfair at times (not least because we're still not used to seeing Great (White) Heroic Men Of Our Childhood get deconstructed that way). But any reproach the season 1 writers levelled at Picard pales in comparison to the petty contempt the season 3 writers regularly display towards the show they've ostensibly taken stewardship of.

Season 1 might have been a bit glib or inconsiderate of the legacy they inherited. Season 3 is viscious. And I am so, so tired of it.

#star trek picard #star trek picard season 3 #picard spoilers #picard saltiness #and to head this off at the pass: 'the writers aren't trying to be mean they're just making jokes' #doesn't really make the situation better. #if you don't understand the material you inherited and your own writing well enough to realize your being a petty dick #that doesn't say anything good about you as a writer or the people who let you be in charge #last week i was incandescent with rage #this week i am just so so SO very tired #just make it stop #please #can it please be over? #i have deep respect for all the people who decided not to watch this season #you are stronger than me and you have made the right choice

[mejomonster]

On a serious note, I do feel mysterious case lotusbook has a lot of sincere themes about getting older, realities of responsibility and dreams realized, how it's difficult to succeed and not always the direct path one expects, how there's value in little aspects of life. Almost every li lianhua scene seems to be about that to some degree. The murder cases aren't particularly deep as far as super complicated to figure out or Able to be predicted super well (since they don't always give all the details in the initial setup), but the themes about who was killed and why do connect to li lianhuas situation.

#mysterious lotus casebook #lb #by all this i mean: a lot of the positive things li lianhua AND di feisheng say are fairly good advice tbh #like a fei? hes like you need to be fair in your decisions for your actions to be worthwhile and earned #li lianhua: sometimes being the one taking all responsibility was bad for you and the people you led who felt burdened #by You taking the burden. and stepping back can be a respectable choice. #cooking is more difficult than fighting. keeping yourself alive is Hard and its the hardest thing we do #and its admirable even when youll never be a hero never be able to achieve what those around you might #your peers are worthwhile if they choose diffetently than you (qian wanmian isnt lesser for not choosing to lead a sect and instrad #dissolving it. di feisheng doesnt think li lianhua is no longef worth his time even though hes weaker now. li lianhua is still someonr he #wants to see alive see brlieve in himself see passionate about things. the monks think its never too late to #reconnect to people again. that people who love you will want you and accept you even when you fail. #even fang duobing by knowing li lianhua gets the experience of someone who wants him alive #and fondly smiles and Is proud of him. evrn if hes learning and fails and moody #fond of him in a way his family wasnt that strangers lied about due to his status #in a way that he clung to li xianyi for ALSO seeing value in him when he felt he didnt live up to expectstions of the world #its the Kindness of little moments of acceptance. of being kind to yourself and kind to others (even down to #not wantjng to kill suspects but take them to trial. not wanting scapegoats blamed. which arent usually done in wuxia) #its the fact this show is quite about gentleness and healing (i see the Love and Redemption screen writing ismilarities) #rather than about power struggles. do you know what i mean?

[rpfisfine]

after 2 hours of deciding teddy @basterdly voted alex this is me and the rest of the world rn:

#THANK YOU TEDDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i respect your choice so much more when i know how much time and sweat went into it...you will always have a seat at my table #mp #join me and teddy guys...take my hand...we can make great things happen together

[softle0]

the sims twitter community is so funny to me… specially vanilla players… I see the same tweet everyday about them complaining about people who uses cc and mods and how they feel superior for playing vanilla.

It just takes one person saying “we have that in cc” to them get so fucking angry about it and start talking shit about cc players and how “we don’t enjoy” the game as they do because we use mods. Bruh shut the fuck and let people enjoy their games however they want, stop being a pretentious shit lol 🤣🤣

#as a cc players yeah I can’t understand how can ppl enjoy the game vanilla SOMETIMES cause I feel there’s very useful mods I can’t live #without but I still respect their choice of playing vanilla and I don’t care about it #so why they care so much about ppl playing with mods or to much cc #bro just enjoy your game and leave the other players alone is not like fucking ea is paying you to suck their balls lmaoo

[sheliesshattered]

10 minutes left before I turn a year older and what did I do?

I ordered myself a lightsaber. ah yiss

#about me #2024 mood #Batuu Bounding #I've been planning on doing Savi's on our Batuu trip but I'm just not feeling the saber hilts themselves #I want something sleek and fairly smooth and relatively light that I can spin with #that is so not what's going on with the Savi's sabers #so just as we're getting down to the wire here I thought why not look online and see what's out there that more matches my vision #and I found one on Amazon. that can arrive on Sunday. that checks all the boxes of what I was looking for #and it's like. a quarter the price of Savi's #I have heard only wonderful things about the Savi's *experience* but mixed things on the sabers themselves #when I started out on this plan to Batuu-bound for my birthday Savi's sounded like a fun addition to the day #but since then I've come up with a whole Star Wars character with a backstory and a personality and a LIFE #and Savi's is not her path. absolute respect and love to everyone (including my family members) for whom Savi's was the right choice #but I am E X C I T E about the saber I picked out #not sure if I'll take the blade to Disney with me but I'm going to try to rig up the hilt to attach to my belt at least #see kids? getting older is really just about being able to buy yourself the toys you wanted as a kid #with no one to tell you no #and if you're lucky a supportive spouse who yells DO IT! when you doublecheck your instincts lol #hey one minute to go until b i r t h d a y

[somer-writes]

you terrible person I just spent an hour through your ao3 catalogue and now I have to read LIKE 80 ONE SHOTS

and then you have the audacity to follow me back >:(

i live to be a villain bestie <3

also thank you for your commitment to suffering through my works thats very kind of you and ily

you are valued and appreciated eva <3

#somer answers #haha you fool you fell for my trap #kind of #not really #bc you can stop at any time but i would love if you didnt #but its your choice and i will respect it

[captainsparklefingers]

LAUDNA NO!!

I mean I respect you leaning into these darker aspects of yourself but we do NOT NEED TO DEAL WITH DELILAH (AGAIN) AT THIS EXACT MOMENT.

WE GOT MOON SHIT TO DEAL WITH WE AIN'T GOT TIME FOR THE CONTINUING BULLSHIT SHENANIGANS OF ONE DELILAH BRIARWOOD.

#critical role #cr spoilers #HEY REMEMBER WHEN YOUR FORM OF DREAD WAS A SPOOKY TREE #AND NOT YOU SLOWLY TURNING INTO AN INFAMOUSLY UNKILLABE NECROMANCY ARCHMAGE OF ANTIQUITY #THAT WAS FUN WASN'T IT? WANNA GO BACK TO THAT? #I respect the character choices being made and what went down with bor'dor having long term consequences #but also GOD DAMMIT DELILAH CAN YOU JUST STAY DEAD AND GONE #FOR FIVE MINUTES?? #Christ Sylas is probably waiting in hell for you to show up and you're just up there doing shit #you broke the world for him but you just ditched him to do all of this shit? FOR SHAME. #(laudna hon I'm sorry you have to deal with this again)

[pizzazz-party]

trying to formulate my opinions on The Spot by holding my sister as a captive audience while i loudly rant around her apartment

#it is a cold fucking day in hell when i let a middleaged white man take credit for a black teenager’s accomplishments and choices. #i don’t care if he’s fictional #i can’t believe some of you are eating what he’s saying. if we’re rejecting miguel o’haras idea of destiny then why are we accepting #this monologue from a dumbass who can’t accept that he’s the way that he is because of his own fucking choices #you CHOSE to work for those labs YOU CHOSE not to evacuate sooner #he couldn’t have predicted what happened next. but don’t pretend you didn’t choose this #anyone can be spiderman but miles had to CHOOSE this #your fake ass had nothing to do with his leap of faith in the first movie… #miles is made of everyone he has ever loved and respected #fuck this destiny nonsense. the spot sees Miles spark and CHOOSES to mold himself into its shadow in a desperate bid #to feel like his miserable life has any meaning #he’s a threat he’s a narrative foil he’s got the insane visuals to mirror miles. but he is NOT destiny incarnate. #the next movie is going to be about Miles rejecting The Spot as much as he rejects O’haras rules #he said it himself he’s sick of other people telling him what his story’s supposed to be about #damn what is it about writing in the tags that makes things more cohesive. #across the spiderverse spoilers #atsv spoilers #spiderverse spoilers #pizzazz meta #edit: for the record i think The Spot is a great villain and i do appreciate what he does for the narrative #but i dont believe him like i believe in miles

[crybaby-bkg]

I love you storytelling I love you world building I love you carefully crafted works I love you time spent into doing what you love I love you pieces embedded into stories that reflect the author I love you detailed backgrounds I love you clear imagery I love you creative writing I love you descriptive scenes I love you tiny details just to have I love you run on sentences for dramatic effect I love you full expression through writing I love you

#and if u just like writing without certain intent and purely for the fun of it #I love u too #bc I do the same w my pwp’s LOL #and that’s totally fine #but it’s all about choice and respecting how people create their craft #and respecting how they want their craft to be handled #my pwp’s can be handled Willy nilly bc im just here for the smut lmao #but my carefully thought out works that have had years of dedicated enveloped into them? #I would like for that to be handled with appreciation and care and that’s okay for me to want to #anyway tonight was very stressful #which says something bc I just planned out all my future classes surprisingly very calmly LOL #and then boom I’m on here stressed lmfao #time for a break!!! I might make more banners bc that was so fun #okay gn everyone!! remember to relax your shoulders and take a deep breath 😮‍💨 #stupid ass emoji just ruined my message 🤨 LMFAO #—in store chit chat! 🍫 #DEDICATION not dedicated -_-

[dokidokistart]

#the manifesting worked guys😭 #i had to go crazy speed mode to prepare charms take pics etc but yeah! tomorrow it will be open!! #I will send early orders on wednesday! #carlando xmas decorations will also be available again #and you can get them separately if you'd like (not sure why you want to separate a marriage but i will respect your choice) #shop tag #doki doki start

[12-million-bees]

Are you guys aware that I can just delete your asks, you know that’s a thing I can do

#I can also just like turn off the ask feature #your choices and actions affect the whole class #starting to actually thing about straight up deactivating the blog #get your shit together #parasocial relationships go crazy #respect people’s lives

[feartheoldblog]

if another person tells me that vegetarians/vegans can eat fish it will be ON SIGHT

#it’s literally animal flesh bruh #don’t try and sneak it onto my plate #respect people’s dietary needs #latest person was someone that complained about me making vegan sausage rolls #like eat it or don’t eat it it’s your choice #difference is you can eat it but i cannot eat meat sausage rolls #this is not hate @ ppl that eat meat btw #it’s just @ ppl that don’t respect other ppl’s choices #which can go both ways