#also I don't care if people react badly to this bc 1 I can block you and 2 I don't use tumblr anymore

[riacte]

Re: reddit. Warning, lot of yapping about stats. Yh i agree the reddit does shit even in the best players and their "golden boys" (what they did to purpled last season was weird af, and they adore purpled as one of the more competitive players), although i would argue that is part of their goddamn goat debates. With "players who are praised with just existing" I was more talking about players who are seen as incredible while other ccs of similar and better stats are regarded as far worse.

For example, Owen and Krinios have better average placements than Joel, but the reddit tends to forget about both of them while Joel is often predicted top 10 (and for the record, i love Joel, one of my fav povs and ccs in general, but his reddit fanboys irk me). Kratzy and Hannah are so underrated it s almost funny atp. Martyn is inconsistent so it s difficult to explain his case, but i felt it was weird how people s reaction to his top 4 in party was "well it is non canon", while Joel is still praised for his top 1 in scuffed (where the games were, well, scuffed) and his average is only 2 spots better. Grian is also regularly overrated, and weirdly enough I have seen that Gem is as well? People assume that she is far better than Pearl and False, while in reality they are all kinda similar statistically. Pete s case is so funny, bc he s not underrated individually but people always assume his teams will do badly. The second Jojo steps down of top 6 or 7 people stop considering her s tier, while sapnap or dirt block never had that issue, and people still bring up mcc 23, when she was 18th or so, to argue she s not that good?

So yeah, as you said, the reddit shits on everyone, but there are some big biases and 2 different types of shitting: disappointment in s tiers for not doing their absolute best (which puts lots of pressure on them and is toxic af), and certain players being systematically underrated (which obv pisses them off). Sorry for the rant, I like to analyse the mcc reddit as a social experiment. I think i could write a whole ass book

Ohhhhh yeah definitely. Your last paragraph is very true. Massive shitfest. There's also again, the popularity aspect and well-intentioned overrating which could lead to underrating of other people (I was frustrated at Reddit during S2 and the whole "Grian is good at BM so every hermit must be" thing but then I stopped caring lol). And their inability to acknowledge they might be subconsciously biased against women. No one is immune to accidental / subconscious sexism. Not me, not you.

Watching everyone scramble to include Joel in the hermits' stats was originally heartwarming but then it started to feel unintentionally dismissive of the 2020 hermit cohort? Like yeah, builders in general were underrated, and Joel + 2020 hermits share that similarity. But he did Orange10, not Blue9. He was part of Pink9, but it was Grian who did the iconic move. Joel (and Pearl) can be included but it somehow feels diminishing of what the others accomplished with the hermit identity. And I mention the hermit identity specifically because they teamed together as friends and hermits, and inter-team solidarity was displayed because they were hermits (Pink9 and Blue9). Not just "haha yeah xyz hermit achieved this on their own". They were moving forward as a group under the hermit banner. False, Ren, Cub, Grian.

I feel like False is in a weird spot on the Reddit because they clearly like her, more so than HC Reddit, False Supremacy memes, calling her queen, etc. But she's not really.... discussed at length? False may be quiet, but I've watched her and I know she's good at comms and has an excellent battle sense. She notices things and reacts quickly. But that depends on how well she meshes with a team, considering People Don't Listen To Her in SkB. Which leads to fluctuating morale and inconsistency and stuff. So I get why Reddit calls her both underrated and overrated? But I am a poor judge of skills but the fact that they mention her and congratulate her is already enough to make me happy lol. The bar is ten feet underground, I'm sorry but I'm a wee bit easy to appease post Demise 2 😭

#mcc #ask box #answered

[marisatomay]

Any very simple tips for taking care of your skin for people with bad depression/really low energy? I'd love to have nice skin, but most of the time I only just barely have the energy to even shower. I've never understood how anyone has the time or energy for complex beauty routines and/or fully applied make-up, and I'm so jealous. I don't want people to think I'm gross.

In terms of routine I’m a forgetful person by nature and I struggle with depression every day but I find that one of the best way to maintain healthy routines and self care is to just tack on washing and moisturizing my face after I brush my teeth as part of my bedtime routine so eventually washing and moisturizing is so habitual that I do it even when I’m exhausted and on autopilotAlso I find that doing those 3 things every night before going to bed trains my brain to associate those acts with sleeping which helps me maintain a regular sleep schedule which helps my mental health because like diet and exercise a regular and full sleep can help your mental state and when my brain is already fighting me I don’t want my body to already be at a deficit because i didn’t sleep enough

So taking care of your skin:1) wash your face at least once a day and always always always take off any make up before going to bed I know it’s tempting to just pass out without washing your face sometimes esp when you didn’t wear make up that day but your skin collects so much oil and dirt during the day that even just wiping your face with moist towelette is significantly better for your skin than just not washing it If you want to get fancy then get a toner and a moisturizer to put on after washing Make sure that they’re made for your skin type (dry/combination/oily) or else they could react poorly with your skin I would try to lean towards hypoallergenic products bc frankly most skin is more sensitive than people think it is

2) wear sunscreen every single day

Some facts for the class: - UV output has absolutely nothing to do with the temperature outside you are just as likely to get a sunburn in the winter as in the summer you just have less skin exposed in winter but the light reflecting off of snow can literally burn your eyes so protect yourself - cloud cover blocks about as much UV light as an SPF 2 sunscreen - you should always wear the highest SPF you can get your hands on because it lengthens the amount of time you can spend outside without getting sunburned or needing to reapply the whole idea that nothing above SPF 30 works is a lie - if you asked literally any doctor about sunscreen they will back me up on all of this but it’s late and I’m tired so google it - that being said talk to your doctor! talk to a dermatologist!If your skin is reacting badly to something talk to them If your acne isn’t getting better despite maintaining a routine talk to themTrust me I spent a good decade fighting my dermatologist on every piece of medical advice he gave me and when I finally started communicating to him and listening to his advice my skin cried out of joy

But anyway if life gets hard and you don’t wash or tone or whatever one day or a week or som thing don’t just give up foreverYour skin won’t just up and leave you because you didn’t shower for a week I mean it’ll rebel for sure but it’ll straighten out once you get back in your routine Anyway I’m tired so that’s enough for tonight

tl;dr wash ur damn face every night and put on sunscreen every day

#anyway I’m tired and this is a mess #skincare #also on the subject of makeup #if you’re gonna wear it then find something that works with your skin type #don’t just pick one because some insta mua rec’d it #test it first #be smart about it #take care of your skin and listen to it

[nooradeservedbetter]

Hey, how was Noora/ William exactly (emotionally?) abusive? I interpreted as as a difference of morals and of course, William is not completely mature (they're both teenagers) so he distanced himself from Noora emotionally bc of this one situation (I thought this was a misunderstanding?) But he does care about her, he is reasonable and he is able to learn? (btw I don't send this to you b/c I want to discuss, I just like to understand different perspectives; you don't have to answer) Thanks

Hi anon. I have a lot of opinions on noorhelm, and I’m gonna use @ernestine-scatterbrain‘s classification of s2 to give an opinion of it in all of its parts (since it’s the weakest season from a narrative pov, and it lacks continuity).

Episodes from 1 to 3: William le trouduc - William the asshole

Okay so literally, he’s messaging her while she’s ignoring him. Repeatedly. And not in a “oh that’s a game”. Games are fun, games are not you look freaking hot in that shirt and suddenly you cover yourself. If it were a game, a message like that would have mean a teasing smile to yourself, and adjusting the shirt probably. Not putting on your overcoat. So it’s not a game. It’s just William literally harassing her and her not knowing what the block function is (of course, or there wouldn’t have been a s2 but I’m digressing). He acts like she owes him a date (biNCH WHERE) and literally uses Vilde to get Noora to go to that date, calling her and getting her hopes up.

And she goes on a date with him! Because he blackmailed her into that! Amazing. And the date itself oooo boi, it resembles so much the kind of discussions I’ve had with my ex for fucking two years, and my ex was emotionally abusive.So, like. He acts like he doesn’t understand that blackmailing someone into a date is not something that good people do. How could little ole William understand that? And they have a discussion over that, of course, because she’s RIGHTFULLY pissed off and she calls him off on the fact that he thought that he could change her mind with a date (after three+ months of texting in which she did not reply to his avances bc she wasn’t interested). He treats her rage as something to laugh about–like the you’re cute when you’re angry kind of bullshit, and he acts like he didn’t blackmail her into going on a date with him. Of course she could refuse, like, Noora, were you the same girl I texted? Your perception of reality is all fucked up, of course I didn’t force you to do anything, here, let me fuck a bit with yout perception of reality and explain why it’s you who are guilty, and not me, the fucking blackmailer.

That amazing gaslight is what my ex did to me every single time we argued (and we argued a lot, and I wasn’t allowed to get angry at him but anyway). I know what it is, I know how to recognise it. I am fucking trained and with my hackles raised because I don’t fucking want another abusive relationship to happen to me, of course I would recognise his behaviour for what it is.

Then in ep 3 pls someone show me what’s the trigger that makes Noora want to stay at William’s, what happens. Nothing happens, it’s just bad storytelling. Anyway.

Episodes from 5 to 8: William and Noora ♥♥:

The harassment becomes truly a game this time. This is what a chasing game looks like, more or less. Not the shit of the first three episodes. Here she smiles at him, and she does want to be chased; she replies to his messages, she acts hard to get but she almost wants him (or, at least, she likes the attention he gives her). Why did things change? God only knows, but even if she can forget what he did to her for three+ months, I can’t. So I can’t enjoy the game knowing about what he did to her in the first three episodes. Anyway.

(She does tell him that he’s a manipulating egotistic asshole, and this is amazing, but they kiss afterwards. The het fics I used to write were more or less like this tbh lmao. But I was 14.)

He doesn’t talk to her about his brother and acts truly awful towards her in front of him, which sets things up for the date rape arc–he only got himself to blame. And when she tries to tell him he goes like “nothing to do w/ you” and that’s it. Not abusive per se, but it fits in a context of “you don’t have the right to know things” which, yikes. Toxic.

(And they don’t talk. At all. Like Isak and Even talk so much, and even Eva and Jonas talked more than Noora and William. It’s just him manipulating her, or them arguing, or them hooking up. Nothing else. Just an ensemble of images disconnected from one another, with the purpose of making us feel something. Like pornography for teen girls, I suppose.)

Here we also have William literally smashing a bottle on the head of someone else, and then talking her in circles and spouting off fake philosophy to justify himself. Things that could make sense in a vacuum, but since they’re used to literally justify a street brawl and not, like, class struggle, they’re trash. Just like him.

My real true problem with this segment is the conversation Noora has with Sana. It’s a realistic conversation, and I know if from rl experiences, but in the context of it meaning a growth moment for Noora/the show’s views behind the characters, I think it’s the worst part.Noora literally tells Sana–a person she greatly admires and treats a bit as if she were superior–that he fucks with her head, he talks her in circles, he manipulates her and she can’t think properly anymore. And Sana basically replies “it’s all on u bc u don’t accept ppl thinking differently than u do”, like lmao. L M A O. What the fuck. So the shows takes all the instance of manipulation and gaslighting, and tells us “it’s not what you see, it’s just that you don’t have the nurse complex enough, try to understand him and put yourself aside

Episodes from 9 to 12 - the date rape arc

This is my favourite part of s2 tbh. They treated Noora’s reaction and her aftermath with such tact that you wonder if it’s the same people who wrote her relationship with William. Because William is once again the one who ruins everything.

[A bit digressing but I’m fucking angry about the fact that they made the best objective advice for Noora in the whole season to fall from Niko’s lips. “Run for the fucking hills” is what she should have done, but it’s the worst character of the series to say it, because we’re not supposed to think that it makes sense :)))]

He only got himself to blame if he refused to tell nothing about Niko, and instead he blames her for how she acts after she thinks she was raped. From a storytelling pov, it doesn’t make sense that they have their resolution off-screen, via text, but anyway. Of course by now she’s learnt what does she have to do, so she sucks it up and says she’s sorry. About reacting badly to thinking he was raped. Of course, it’s her fault lmao. And he doesn’t even contradict her, it’s just all. Fucking. Horrible. Thinking about it makes me fucking sick to my stomach.

Annnd I’m finished with my long rant. No readmore, we die like men.

#anon! #replies #i rewatched part of s2 for you anon #christ noorhelm was so bad #do i tag it as #anti noorhelm #anti noora x william #yes i do #i'm ready to fight on this tbh lmao #long post-- #skam #s2 #i have opinions too