#THERE'S FUCK ALL EXPLAINING ONLINE

[blueskittlesart]

profs will set the due date for the final as april 24 and then STILL NOT HAVE THE FUCKING ASSIGNMENT UP TO SUBMIT THE PAPER BY 11PM ON APRIL TWENTY FUCKING THIRD

#ALEC. BESTIE. PLEASE. I AM BARELY PASSING YOUR CLASS AS IT IS I NEED YOU TO WORK WITH ME HERE #i feel the need to explain the level of bullshit that has been going on with this particular final actually because holy shit. #he first told us about it about 3 weeks ago which. fine. but all he said was 'you will have to pick a topic and write a paper' #like nothing about what the topic should relate to how the paper should be organized word count etc. literally nothing #radio silence for 2 weeks. we all forgot about it. then out of the blue 'btw your papers are due in a week lol!' #so we all scramble to figure out what the hell the assignment actually is #come to find out he never actually posted the assignment brief on canvas as an assignment. the only way we can access it is via a pdf #linked in ANOTHER UNRELATED ASSIGNMENT. #the project brief in question describes several in-class activities we straight up have not done. #no one actually knows if it's really due tomorrow or next week because he keeps pushing shit back and DOESNT ANSWER EMAILS #but the date on the syllabus is the 24th. and there is still nowhere online where we can submit our papers at all. #jesus fucking christ in heaven #personal #he is going to be getting a. shall we say INTERESTING professor review from me. lmao

[thelostgirl21]

I'm late to the party like you wouldn't believe, but I've got to say something, because I'm so upset!

Okay, unpopular opinion, I actually loved Jaskier's Season 3 hair!

Was it always perfectly styled? No. There were a few scenes where I personally thought it could have used a bit more volume, or a bit more volume in some places while a bit less in others; but, most or the time, I was more than fine with it, and thought it suited Jaskier well!

At times, I literally adored it!

Ex:

To me, those are moments where I thought Jaskier looked his best in the series! Loved the hair!

Then again, personally, I tend to prefer Joey's looks with his forehead cleared and his hair longer.

Like, this is I think one of the most gorgeous non-feral hairstyles I've ever seen on him:

(X)

This is an absolutely gorgeous man, and I personally prefer his hair styled like this than short.

(Note: I'm not saying he's not beautiful with short hair, too, simply stating personal preferences. Certain aesthetic choices are based on comfort, too, and he can 100% afford to sacrifice the "long haired look" for something that makes him feel more comfortable. He can rock plenty of different looks!)

Then, of course, there's the feral look that is just in its own category...

So why am I upset?

I've just found out that he didn't wear a wig in Season 3!

That Jaskier's Season 3 hair were simply Joey's own hair that he had decided to grow out.

And look, I'm fine with everyone having preferences!

That's not my issue. Having your own tastes and not being a fan of Joey's Season 3 hairstyle is not the issue at all!

There were posts simply mentioning that they hated that it looked so flat, when we could have been graced with something a bit more like this:

And I do get preferences when it comes to styling.

It's just that I recall how - since people assumed it was "an ugly wig" that had been forced on his head by the wig department, rather than what they considered "a bad hairstyle" - the comments on "Jaskier's hair" were at times downright nasty!

And I just gotta get out of my system that those of you that have been literally making fun of his "sudden 4-inches receeding hairline" (first I'll have you know I find receeding hairline pretty hot!), when it's kinda remained the same for 3 seasons (it's called BANGS people. Joey tends to wear those with his shorter haircuts! Look it up!), for example, really suck!

His hairline has always gone pretty far up on each side, even in some of his earlier work... Ex: Gopher in "Mount Pleasant" (2016):

Like he's got very thick hair that form a "V" shape at the top (my mom had that, but I didn't inherit it... And we've got tons of hair... Like, a lot! * ) and a pretty large forehead.

*

(That's me at 18, and then at 28 - before I brought them back to a lower back length - but my mom is the same in terms of thickness, she just has that V in the front I lack, and it never receeded any further in her life.)

And there would be no shame in having thin hair, or any form of baldness anyway!

So yeah! I remember sort of heavily ignoring all those "ugly wig" comments because I, too, had assumed it was a wig (turns out Joey's hair seem to be a bit like mine, and grow pretty fast), and at some point you choose your battles.

Did I think a bunch of you were immature assholes for needing to hate on that "ugly wig" so much? Yes. But you find those in any fandom!

Personally, I thought "the wig" was awesome!

But now, I kinda regret not having taken the time to be more supportive of Jaskier's Season's 3 hair given I actually like it...

Because that's just a (very sweet) human being's hair, that was styled in a way that a number of people didn't like.

Again, zero problem for those that thought it was badly styled, and that the look didn't suit Jaskier!

Critiquing what you find a "bad hairstyle" is no cause for shame!

But, for those of you that took it to the next level with all those "ugly wig" comments, you fucking suck, I sure hope you've since found out that you'd been openly ridiculing a fellow human being's real hair, that it makes you feel like complete pieces of shit, and that feeling like complete pieces of shit is going to help you learn from your mistakes, before you start attacking other people's personal physical features in the future!

"Well, I didn't know!"

Here's today's lesson:

When you don't know, please kindly shut up and assume the hair you see is the real thing!

Or critique the wig like you would a real hairstyle, asking yourself "Hmm... Is describing someone's real hair the way I do going to make me sound like a bully?"

Like I said, I'm aware I'm pretty late to the party, but the the kid in me that got heavily bullied in school over her own hair really needed to get it out of her system!

#Joey Batey #Jaskier #'s hair in Season 3 #I remember Joey mentioning in an interview that people just kept “asking about the hair” this season #And most of the time it wasn't really a question... #No wonder he went “People ask me all the time: Wow! Joey! You're so good at baking!” I his video #If people tend to ask him questions that are non questions... #But yeah I'm kinda sad about it... #Hope the fact that the “hair comments” left him confused was because he didn't read the online ones... #Just had interviewers go “Season 3 hair...” implying there was something odd about it and somehow waiting for Joey to elaborate. #I actually saw one of those interviews where the interviewer was kind of implying there was something wrong with it #without explaining what was wrong with it... #Like everyone assumes Joey didn't like his Season 3 hairstyle and gets why they are all getting stuck on the hair... #So anyway he just explained the intent behind the look. #But yeah it kinda sucks the way there was like this massive negative reaction to his hairstyle when I literally can't find anything wrong #with it... #It's not even that far from his usual look (just a bit more ironed)... #The fuck happened with the hair... #My Post #My Thoughts

[forestofsprites]

oh we are in full sobbing range folks. we are floods of tears not getting words out

#i can't begin to explain how much this means and changes things for me #everything the past 3 years #and i've beat myself up so hard for not doing this as an honours bc i had to be online bc y'know dying in bed #and now #not only have i got the smartest people i know telling me that i'm so capable they want me there and i can skip to a masters #but just that i can #y'know my health is so shit and it's so variable and i don't know how long this treatment plan will run for #before it fails #and #now i get to try #to do this #and fuck i didn't know if i'd be alive this semester w how bad things were in April #and this just doesn't even feel real #i'm happy to just to be alive #and all this on top is just #insanity #i just cant emphasize enough i thought id be dead #and im #ive veen so happy just to be here #just to be loving and living #and now this? this accolade? it doesnt feel real #its so much more than i could ever have hoped for myself

[yardsards]

living alone is all fun and games til you have a medical emergency and there's no one there to help you to the hospital

#eliot posts #im fine now it's just last week's Incident fucked me up a lil #a couple online friends offered to call me an uber #and i maybe could have woken my neighbors up (though i would have felt awful abt that) #but while i was figuring out how to get to the hospital and if i'd be able to like #verbally communicate to whoever was driving where to take me #and explain to the doctors what was wrong with me #and fill out the entrance paperwork #and find my wallet/insurance card and my housekeys before i left #...i had gone unconscious before i could make the decision to find someone to take me #luckily i was mostly fine after i woke up #i knew it wasn't an ''i'm gonna die if i don't go to the hospital'' type medical emergency so i didn't call an ambulance #bc i was not abt to bankrupt myself unless i was Literally Dying #but yeah. eugh. 0/10 do not recommend. #at the VERY LEAST i'm gonna need to have good friends that live very close in the future #i don't want this kind of thing happening to me again #i am gonna be roommates with a very good friend in a few months after i move to the city #and then i'm probably gonna be roommates with a different very good friend in a couple years when i leave the state #both mostly out of financial necessity for us all #but also i thiiink i want to go back to living alone eventually? #unless living with friends goes so great that it changes my mind #it's just like. for the most part i've loved living alone #not just in a ''yay i'm no longer living with my abusers!'' way but like. in general. #i can do whatever the fuck i want in my apartment without having to talk to anyone #chores get done when i want. food gets cooked and eaten when i want. i can take a 2 hour bath no problem. i don't have to close doors. #i can walk around late at night without having to worry about waking anyone up. #when my social battery is drained i know that no one will try to talk to me. when im overstimulated i don't have to tell anyone to be quiet #it's like. the thing with me is every social interaction has a timer where i start thinking #''GOD i cannot fucking wait to go be alone in my nice empty apartment again'' #that timer is much longer for some people and situations than others but it is always There even when i'm having a great time

[mejomonster]

:/

I think about a query and a cover letter and how i need to look up what theyre called because i dont even know. Let alone know how to write them well and which things are required for what, and how i heard publishers only expect emails during calls for wubmissions so I dont know where to look for those but i also need to learn that from Somewhere i can learn such info. And how i know how to format a book for print, with mirrored margins and all the rest of that specific spacing stuff, but i have no idea the formatting requirements for a manuscript sent to a publisher (although hopefully that will be on their site as a style guide requirement directions and formatting IS something thankfully i'll be able to easily Look Up and Follow Directions to do). But the letter you send to pitch a novel and the length of manuscript expected (1 page? 1 chapter?) Or what kind of summary blurb they want, or if they want a summary or a "marketing blurb" that keeps some parts mysterious and enticing. And what's most frustrating, the reason i'm complaining, is when I look these things up the articles with advice do not say WHAT they are, basic requirements and basic expectations, it is IMPLIED the reader has as much familiarity with the definitions of these terms and when these items are needed as adults are expected to be familiar with job Resumes and standard Good Practice Format out of the gate. But with Resumes, high school and parents did provide some basic guideline directions and basic informafion like "include X, do not include Y, summarize Z" and "use keywords found in job description" and "keep it short such as one page or you may give a bad impression" and "do it in basic X fonts, basic colors, unless the job is particularly creative with unusual expectations of your resume" with similar directions about cover letters such as "state job you're applying for, summarize your education and some relevant experience, say you'd like the job and say why if you'd like, end with your contact information, keep it under a page ideally." I do not know the expected lengths of query letters, font expectations in the emails, if its an email or attachment, if it's submitted only during calls for submissions (i assume yes), how to find submission calls, what the title of the email should be, what the blurb length shpuld be and what it should Contain (summary? Marketing keywords? Your writing style or more technical key point information? Length/word count minimun and max? Should a summary be the whole main plot in a few key point sentences or be only the premise with the ending a mystery? Should it be entertainingly stylistic, or technical?) I look up requirements for publishing submissions and its so often expected the readers know what all these specific requirements and Norms in Writing them already are, so all the advice in the article is specialized like "you already KNOW what to submit, what the requirement is, now here's how to be Noticed Better." So it amounts to an equivalent to advice articles that do not state what a cover letter must contain or how to format it, but instead only focuses on specific ways of sounding more Convincing or Unique in your cover letter. Which is not super helpful if you... do not even know what a cover letter should contain to BE a correctly made cover letter to begin with.

#rant #what this amounts to is. im going to have to do a ton of research. which in theory is fine #but its so FRUSTRATING that its so hard to find basic information on WHAT DOCUMENTS ARE REQUIRED AND EXPECTED #AND WHAT THEY SHOULD CONTAIN AND HOW #like. i literally have looked up WHAT ARE THESE like for 20 hours this week #and about every 6 months i look it up and research for 20-40 hours for a month and just #i still have no fucking clue 1 #WHAT it is i specifically need to make for resume equivalents for submitting to publishers #2 what those documents should SPECIFICALLY contain and the formatting (in email? as attachment? title? summary or marketing plug? expected #keywords?) #because if i were a publishet yeah id simply THROW OUT submissions that do not contain the basic submission required documents #if the documebts werent included or were but contained totally irrelevant information and not the correct expected information #3 i cant find any guides that explain BASICALLY what the fuck all thid stuff is #i imagine maybe they teach ppl in college pursuing creative writing #but the articles im finding online are all skipping basic info. and basic info is what i need

[simcardiac-arrested]

as a russian who doesn't talk to russian people online what the shit is happening there hello

look man i myself have put in the effort to Not talk to online russians for like (checks hand) 7 or so years (of course i’ve met some really great ones but this isn’t about them and they probably know it) but i’m sure the community didn’t change much. actually from the glimpses i see it seems to have gotten worse. don’t even get me startedddddd man

#Like okay first we have the misogynist dudebros. not a category exclusive to online russians but #there are so many it’s fucking crazy. homophobic to hell and back and Will hate on you for no reason #alpha male type mfs who hate women but will still harass them because of course they will #the second category of course is weird unironic fujoshis who are also usually proshippers #and they are either 12 (forgivable) or 25 and the thing is you can NEVER tell. But it’s kind of fucked how #acceptable it is to just straight up fetishize gay men (hell probably not only them) in online russian communities #and listen to me. the secret third category is that there is no third category. Both of these categories are racist #deer was right i have never seen a community more racist or xenophobic than fucking online russians #you draw a character one shade darker than their usual skintone and suddenly you got annoying as fuck russians in your comments going #BRO BURNT IN THE SUNNN 🤣🤣🤣 ENGLISH FANDOM LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE !!! <- in recent times they have taken to blaming the english fandom for #‘wokefying’ their sacred online russian spaces. Of course we can only be woke enough to fetishize gay men. god forbid black people exist #now the actual third category is the online russian tеrf/radfеm community. it seems recent to me but also as i said i have not really #interacted with russian comminity as a whole for a long while. But yea anyways they’re crazy i dont think i have to explain this one #but they’re somehow more evil and miserable than the ones you’re used to #another recent one is the russian twitterians … i’ve only seen glimpses of them as well as i dont use twitter #but you will not believe the shit these mfs try to pull. They try to get you to stop swearing at all bc they find a way to make every #russian swear word offensive. AND they speak fucking … englussian. rusglish. Half of their sentences are just english words written in #russian letters. all the same buzzwords english speaking twitter users like to say! #if you’ve never seen a russian talk about feminization or gatekeeping or being woke or yadda yadda. Well i have #it’s bad. they’re just very very terminally online #and don’t worry the last two categories will also always be racist/xenophobic even if the last one tries to seem Progressive #don’t know if i missed anytning but those are just the Specific Types of annoying asf online russians that i have noticed and have been #observing from a safe distance like a scientist #my point is keep not talking to russian people #cramswering #edit: I FORGOT BUT DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON HOW ONLINE RUSSIANS TREAT TRANS PEOPLE #YOU CANNOT IMAGINE THE WAY THEY REACT TO TRANS HEADCANONS IT’S LIKE THE END OF THE WORLD TO THEM. OR TRANS CHARACTERS #OR GOD FORBID ACTUAL REAL LIFE TRANS PEOPLE. it’s actually quite incredible how bigoted online russians are

[aropride2]

we have gottttt to start shaming people for saying shit like "fuck the police includes the identity/fandom/whatever police" like 😭 regardless of ur opinions on exclusionism or fandom discourse u have to be able to acknowledge that those are not even close to actual real life cops

#text #just my opinion ✌️ #also inb4 someone misinterprets this YES OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE WHO POLICE PPLS IDENTITIES ARE ASSHOLES #& it can have real life harmful consequences #but i just dont think it is on the same level as the state sanctioned violence committed daily and the enforcement of corrupt #policies that cops get paid and congratulated to engage in and etc. i cant possibly list all the things wrong with cops in tumblr tags sorr #youre gonna have to read a book for that one. POINT IS exclusionism and identity discourse absolutely does have lasting real life effects o #people even if it only takes place online (and sometimes is not in fact confined to the internet only). #but cops are like . an institution thatYOU GET WHAT I MEAN IM NOT EXPLAINING THIS ANY MORE #also if u put someone like. kicking u from a discord server for talking abt weird ships on the same level as the atrocities committed #by Actual Real Life Cops i dont even know what to say to u. 😭 get offline and read a fucking book. PLEASE. #discourse

[hofudlaus]

HOLY SHIT OMFG SPIDERVERSE WAS INSANE

#ALSO!!! FUCKINH GIGI CAVENAGOS ART IN MIGUELS COMIC FLASHBACK?!?!?!?! #like i couldnt find confirmation of it online BUT IT HAS TO BE GIGIS ART #it explains his deisgn... ghhhhhh #AND SPIDERPUNK MY LOVE #just ALL THE DEISGNS WERE SO FUCKING GOOD HOLY SHIT #dying #i NEED miguels comic art.... #THE ENDING ALSO OMFG #rambles #and just GWENS TRANS SHIT??? #i missed the flag on her wall but id seen screenshots

[evansbby]

I have a question

What happens if Chris evans openly supports Isnotreal?

Considering you are muslim and you support Palestine?

And Ari is a zionist.

You probably won’t answer this because you definitely don’t care.

Okay?

#I don’t need to prove anything to you 😂😂😂 #not me writing paragraphs and paragraphs explaining to the Zionist anons who kept trying me #not me speaking straight from the heart about all the atrocities I see daily online of the genocide #not me fighting Zionists in both my inbox and especially my dms #just for you to say ‘you don’t care’ #lmfaoooo okay ?? #bestie we’re on the same side here why must you be awful and insinuate things like a fucking weirdo? #anyways I already don’t like Chris Evan and everyone knows that #I’ve expressed on here my fear of him supporting isr*el #I even said why can’t he be more like mark ruffalo #you’re insinuating I’ve never spoken about this which is so confusing to me #bc I have…. #more than others anyways and that’s the truth #anyways to answer your question if Chris supported isr*el I would not be his fan anymore #ari is a character and we all recognise RSDR as a problematic movie #good thing Ari isn’t real right! #everyone likes him for his looks anyways #anon

[barkingangelbaby]

I feel like such a broken fucking person lol

I talked way too much in the tags don't read them

#fighting off the ideation like my life depends on it!! bc it does!!! #been good about not thinking certain phrases but F U C K am i feeling it. i want to turn into a pile of dust #i am so desperately trying to work on myself and change my patterns and bad habits and perspective but it feels like i always fall short #i try not to talk about it online but I'm just. having a very hard day with N because we experience our feelings in different ways #i isolate myself bc i struggle with regulating my reactions and tones when im having an episode but she needs me to talk through things and #i sometimes just. can't. bc I'm not done experiencing the negativity and am not in a place to have a productive convo bc shame spirals etc #we just spent a long time talking and being patient and i thought i was understanding and explaining myself well but i just. idk. #i don't know how to explain that of course i love her even if I'm isolating myself. of course i love her although I'm nonverbal today. i jus #t can't *make* myself talk when I'm like this i don't want to be nonverbal i don't want to isolate i don't want to be a distant partner i do #n't want to fall back into these patterns related to my grief i want to be better i am trying to be better i am working so fucking hard on #being better. i just feel so defeated bc this all spiraled from me not wanting to decide what to get for lunch n using a poor tone about it #I'm about to talk with her some more but I just. kinda don't want to exist right now. fuck dude. it feels so fucking awful when i upset her #like i love her so much she is so important to me and it breaks my heart that our entire day is shot bc i was tired and cranky #i just don't understand how that equates to me not loving her bc she is my whole world dude. I'm going to throw up #i also don't know how to explain to her that scrolling on tumblr is comfortable to me I'm not ignoring her it's just the SM that i scroll on #like we're hanging out watching tv together I'm gonna scroll a little bit. it's just not insta or anything #idk my mind is scrambled I'm crying I just want to be a better person who can calmly communicate my thoughts and emotions #today has just beat my fucking ass dude. i isolate so those feelings don't get translated into my interactions with others #i don't even know what i typed in these tags I just don't want to off myself or think about it I'm fighting myself so much 2day #rAMbles

[camgoloud]

today. i have experienced the HORRORS (opened laptop for morning meeting while seated between boss and coworker; was greeted with ao3 page i forgot to close last night)

#it’s fine it’s fine i THINK it’s fine. both of them were looking at their own computers and i closed that shit SO fast and i have no reason #to believe that either one of them is online enough to know anything about ao3 much less enough about what it looks like to recognize it #from peripheral vision/​during the quick glance they might have had the opportunity to get #fortunately my other coworker who i know IS quite online (the two of us literally had to team up to explain a meme to the other two people #that i was sitting between later during this VERY meeting. which i was so cool and normal during by the way) was sitting over on the #opposite side of the table. and i was cool about it externally. and they had no reaction of any kind. so #nevertheless. HORRORS. it wasn’t even like a story was open which would have been just a wall of text it was like. a search result. #displaying clearly and distinctly the site’s formatting #it doesn’t help that the rest of today has also been extremely stressful and the next few days will be much the same because there are #some Things i have to do that are fairly high-stakes and that i’m extremely stressed about. fun! fantastic! #i was literally only ON ao3 last night in the first place to try to pregame/destress ahead of having to come into work this week 😭 #and i already fucked up something important today that’s setting a bunch of things back for multiple people. and i feel like i’m going to #get my period in the next day or two which would make it a week early if it happens. super fun. amazing! #guess i’ll just keep riding the adrenaline-fueled train wreck that never stops all the way through friday! #caseyposting

[ssaalexblake]

the number of people who think they're entitled to your time bc you like 13 is Staggering.

#dw shit #the ego going on here truly is something #the shit i've put up with the past 5ish years Only on This site #the one Least likely to get shit on??? #absurd!!! #be it the ones who're rude with insults or the ones who just rudely think they're entitled to Anything bc they have conflicting opinions #to you and Obviously you have to explain personally to Them the center of the entire universe #it's so tiring #no wonder you see tons of irl 13 fans and barely any online #it's bc y'all are Insufferable in ways you'd never do irl bc it's so deeply rude #and it'd be attached to your faces #anyway my rule is that i'll only consent to respond to any of the above if i receive a 20000 word essay on rtd's treatment of women over th #age of 25 and a further essay on moffat's insidious and dangerous biphobia #then i might talk to you about what you hate abt 13's run #anyway i guess the long and the short of it is you're all goddamn insufferable and toxic and we're all grumpy as fuck #bc that environment Will do that to people exposed to it for long periods of time #none of us owe anybody jack all #and yes we are kind of crabby en masse as a group but if you want to know why look in the mirror

[mako-island-moon-pool]

I really do deserve a fucking apology for all the times my friends and family valued strangers on the internet and their opinions more than me

How am I supposed to be just fine with being ignored for years and years or bullied for openly liking what I like, only for those same fucking people to then turn around YEARS LATER, AFTER THE DAMAGE WAS ALREADY DONE, and be like "actually this is cool, so glad I found it" while still ignoring me. Why am I not allowed to be fucking pissed about it? Why is it considered ""gatekeepy"" when I get upset someone who deliberately ignored me for years and insulted the shit I enjoy when I asked them to get into it cuz I thought they'd like it suddenly finds interest in it because it got popular online, not because I'd been begging them to give it a chance and to listen to me for years???? Why is that not allowed????? THAT'S SUCH AN ASSHOLE MOVE, WHY IS IT 'NOT OKAY' TO BE MAD? WHY DON'T THEY GROW A SPINE AND APOLOGIZE FOR DISMISSING ME FIRST? HOW ABOUT THAT?????

#I fucking hate this it keeps fucking happening #I have a fucking LIST of all the times it's happened this is not a one time thing it's fucking reoccurring #Nothing I say will ever fucking matter to anyone not even the people who are 'supposed' to care about me #Grumble grumble #Literally showed my dad a song and he was like 'well I preferred the one that came on autoplay after' #And I was like 'oh that song? Oh you mean THAT song? OH YOU MEAN THE SONG I SHOWED YOU MONTHS AGO THAT YOU DISMISSED AND CRITICIZED?' #THAT ONE? YEAH? YEAH??? #Gee I wonder why you like it NOW and not when *I* showed it to you! #UGHHHHH #Begged my friend to get into OP and he would go 'no it's too long and the art style is kinda ugly' #GUESS WHO'S NOW ASKING ME TO GUIDE HIM THRU THE ANIME CUZ OP WAS TRENDING ON TWITTER OVER THE SUMMER #UGHHHHHHHHH #Begged friends to watch Trig/un for years it was always the first anime I'd recommend anyone when they asked and was always ignored #Guess what everyone did once stampede started *trending on Tumblr*? #They certainly didn't care when I asked or when I was hyping up the trailer for stampede or literally any point before then #Nobody would ever reply to me when I talked about it #But now that it's trending on Tumblr NOW they're interested. GJSGDHDJDJDK #Happened with Pe/rso/na and Ro/tm/nt too. #Begged my middle and high school friends to get into the per/sona series. Nooo never it's sooo lame #Get made fun of for being hyped for 5's release in Calc class #Man you'd never believe who I see on Twitter as the biggest fans nowadays!! #Same with ro/tm/nt begged my friends to watch it but was dismissed and the episode I showed them heavily criticized bc it wasn't 2012 #Then learn the same friend who criticized it so heavily bc he *hated it* WAS WATCHING VIDEO ESSAYS EXPLAINING WHY THE FINALE WAS SO GOOD #And there's NEVER any acknowledgement like 'hey sorry I made fun of/hated on this thing I see why you like it now' #Am I actually mental?! Would that not be the polite thing to do??? #I would do that if a friend begged me to watch something and I openly dismissed them or criticized it as my reason why #And then later on I saw something online and was like 'actually...' #I would GO TO THAT FRIEND AND BE LIKE 'hey sorry I dismissed you earlier man I get why you like it now' AND THEN WE COULD TALK ABOUT IT #This isn't even about like distant acquaintences some of these people are my best friends and my roommates and my own fucking parents #People I talk to daily or near-daily. You're just not going to acknowledge what happened before??? Just expecting me to be fine with it????

[4arconinoma]

i have such burning rage towards like most of the art tutorial youtubers out there i dont even know how to rant about it

#as in tutorial makers the online art tutorial space has always just been so shit #but the thing is this problem is so rampant and has affected me so much but i dont even know how to put into words what i mean its just #most art tutorials are so fucking bad and mostly just hold new artists back #a lot of the things i learned from them just halted my progress for years instead of anything else #they are so fucking rigid. they just do not teach well. i dont know how to explain it #and half of these popular art youtubers we have right now i do not like those guys at all ugh #again i dont even know how to explain it yet so just know yes this is about kooleen and also samdoesart #and also most of those deviantart youtubers as well #there is just so much wrong #txt

[hella1975]

my mum now knows what fanfiction is and thinks it's 'really cool' and that i should 'give it a go'

#:'))) #it was such a sweet conversation actually #basically ive just had this two days with bam of just being able to totally be myself re my writing and fic and all that #bc it's a HUGE part of my personality that im used to just keeping top secret at all costs #and specifically just our time in waterstones was so <333 #and i was like okay this is actually a good way to bring fic up to my mum actually #bam i used your dissertation as a convo opener actually lmao i was like 'oh so it's super interesting basically-' #and i explained what fanfic was to her! and she thinks it's so cool! #she literally was not weird about it at all and i kinda knew she wouldnt be bc im very much the problem #when it comes to limiting myself like IM the one who internalised all this shame around writing IM the one so scared of being 'cringe' #and my mum has always hated watching me do that to myself so i think she was really happy just seeing me talking about this stuff #she made a really good point actually she was like 'every sanditon adaption is fanfiction bc austen never actually finished it' #and 'kate bush's wuthering heights could also be a form of fanfiction' #i was like babygirl you're RIGHT and you're getting way more into this than i expected lmao #next step: tell her i accidentally started a cult and am weirdly popular in the online writing sphere #we're making progress folks this is huge for me and it only took me two fucking years LMAO

[gender-euphowrya]

i know y’all aren’t doing the exaggerated pearl-clutch with clouty snark and swearing reaction to straycatj for having a point of view influenced by living in a culture that’s fucking different from yours

#so the drama is : #artist reproduces picture of mr j and kofu as a painting. artist who's apparently renowned enough to be in museums #artist is found to Do This A Lot as in taking existing pictures of cats and replicating them #straycatj comments saying that he should not call himself an artist because there's no originality in just copying an existing picture #someone kindly explains that there may be a difference in how japanese and US cultures view art #as in in japan originality & creativity > skill level and the opposite in the US #so in the US reproducing something would still be art because it takes skills to be able to do it so accurately #The Rest Of Y'all are all like OMG HOW DARE YOU WHAT THE HELL THAT'S SO MEAN I'VE LOST RESPECT FOR YOU #and like. that's a prime example of how online culture makes people forget THEY NEED TO TALK TO OTHER PEOPLE IN A NICE FUCKING WAY #straycatj has One thought that's. again. A RESULT OF THE CULTURE THEY COME FROM #and y'all just jump to calling them names and whipping out the cancellinator 3000 #btw? they have a right to be upset about some artist profiting off a picture of their cats without their consent #isn't this the Xenophobia Is Bad website.