#am I salty?

[trentsnrobbos]

Why get a £115 million 19 year old Brummie lad when you can buy a World Cup winner & Messi’s bestie for a bargain 😌

#am i salty? #yes #but my point still stands #now need a username change

[silverpiwon]

Being a piwon stan really is a challenge for me because I HATE when there’s one person in a group who’s more popular than other members and there are people who only care about this one person…

And the thing with Keeho is that the people who only like him don’t actually care about him as a person because they treat him like a cartoon version of himself

#p1harmony #keeho #I said what I said #I try to ignore it most of the time but sometimes I see some things and get mad #I would actually call it a pet peeve of mine #am I salty? #yes

[0nelittlebirdtoldme]

Lmao I just realized one of my posts *did* in fact get published in the book by Matt..... What a cool thing that, living in Germany, I cannot pre-order it and get the goodies

#dracula daily #dracula daily book #am I salty? #possibly #vent of the day

[rogue205]

Why does it seem that whenever the “Buckley-Diaz family” tag comes up in 911’s fandom here on tumblr and on ao3, that part of the people using it want it to mean only Buck and Christopher?

Looking at the poll I found, a double digits freaking percentage thinks Eddie will die in the finale for gods sake.

(If he does, I’m freaking done with The Buckleys- uh, I mean 911.)

#am I salty? #hell yes I am #stop invalidating Eddie! #and stop trying to will him into getting killed off! #911 discourse #my rants

[spacebagfullofstars]

That one episode of Rescue Bots is so unrealistic. Hasbro would never allow any toys, especially the show-accurate ones with no visible kibble and perfect transformation sequences, being sold for less than one's entire allowance and their parent's house

#am i salty? #yes #yes i am #transformers #rescue bots #the wonder of transformers toys #maccadams

[thegreenleavesofspring]

A POX on FedEx. May they go spectacularly bankrupt and go out of business

FOREVER.

#Did they lose YET ANOTHER one of my packages? #Yes. #Am I salty? #Also yes. #How salty you ask. #YES.

[blazestarre]

I finished Scarlet Blaze last week and currently on Ch 11 of Azure Gleam. Keeping with the theme of my other 3Hopes post, I’m once again focusing on Claude and his...interesting depiction, this time on SB.

Why did I mention where I am in AG? Because the route made me realize something: GW is just a copy-paste of SB’s story. I thought the routes would all be similar stories, just with slight variations based on which route you choose. Nope! The events on AG, while they start the same as SB and GW, takes a huge swerve at the end of part 1, completely changing the story. AG is unique, SB is unique, GW is not. Once again, Claude doesn’t get his own unique route and has to settle with Black Eagles leftovers. I don’t think VW suffers all too much from it, because the story still works - Claude just doesn’t get as much of a spotlight as Edelgard and Dimitri do in their routes and has to share the lead with Byleth. Since Byleth’s presentation is lackluster (I love Byleth, but the devs really did not balance their role as avatar AND main character very well), SS suffers from the lack of a strong lead. VW just takes SS and gives it that strong lead in Claude. So it works.

GW, on the other hand...oh boy. The biggest weakness of GW is that the story does not support Claude’s actions and so they had to have Claude use troll-logic to make any sense of it. I’ve mentioned before that I think I know what direction they were trying to take Claude - desperate and stressed enough to take actions that he normally wouldn’t consider. He lacks the character development he had in WC, never got to know Edelgard and Dimitri, never realizes there’s something more going on with the Church. I get all that and I actually think GW has some really interesting ideas for how Claude could negatively develop as a character. The bits that are good are really good. Everything up to Ch 8 is excellent and there are even pieces of Ch 9 and 10 that work, too (mainly the GD calling out Claude).

Here’s the problem: GW Part 1 has the Alliance winning. They drive out the Empire, stay united, and even beat Count Bergliez. Then there’s the Almyra invasion, which was also excellent. Claude’s moment at the end of the chapter, refusing to participate in a post-battle feast because he just killed his brother? Beautiful. But none of this sets up Claude teaming up with Edelgard. He’s not in a situation to be desperate. The Alliance is united AND they have the support of Nader and Almyra. There’s no reason they can’t ally with the Kingdom like they do on AG.

But SB? Claude’s decision to ally with the Empire makes sense. Here, Claude IS desperate, and in the cutscenes where he appears, they make that very clear. Shahid doesn’t attack on SB (for some reason), so Holst and his troops have to remain at the Locket in case he does attack. Meaning Almyra is a very real threat to the Alliance’s eastern border. Count Gloucester and Count Ordelia both defect to the Empire, along with Margrave Edmund (or he at least shows his support, but he doesn’t have all that many troops anyway). This leaves Riegan and Goneril troops, and the latter are defending the Locket. So really, Claude’s the only Great Lord who can do anything against the Empire. And considering when all 5 Great Lords combined have the smallest army in Fodlan, Claude’s not in a good position.

The Kingdom and Church are not in a strong position, either. They fail to take back Arianrhod and still have to deal with their own civil war. At this point, without WC to learn more about the other leaders in Fodlan, Claude has to take choose which side to take based on what will give the Alliance the best chance possible (he also never forms the Federation here). From his position, joining the Empire is the logical choice, but not one that he’s happy about.

Claude’s rhetoric about the Kingdom and Church are absent in SB. When talking with his allies, he makes it clear that the only reason they are attacking the Kingdom is because the Empire is requiring them to based on the pact. No insane troll-logic about taking down Rhea so Edelgard loses her justification for war. Instead, it’s clear he’s backed into a corner and does what he can to help Leicester survive the war. Hell, he might even be thinking along the same lines as CF!Claude - try to keep the Alliance around, but if that’s impossible, make the transition to the Empire as peaceful as possible.

What makes it clear to me that Claude allied with the Empire because he felt he had no choice is how easy it is for him to be convinced to betray Edelgard. Now, I recruited Byleth so I didn’t get this scene, but I have watched it online. Byleth seems to give him another option, one he didn’t consider before, and that convinces him to turn against the Empire. His speech to the Alliance army is much more in character than his various excuses in GW. Yes, he also declares war on the Kingdom and Church, but I don’t really blame him here. He’s been the aggressor against them already, and again, he doesn’t know Dimitri here. It might just be Claude trying to show that the Alliance is tired of being the third-wheel in Fodlan. Again, he’s been through a lot in SB, losing most of his battles with the Empire and then having them walk all over the Alliance. To me, this is a glimpse of what a negative character arc for Claude could have looked like. 

Now, Claude still isn’t portrayed as an upstanding person here, but I can give that a pass since you’re playing from the Empire’s POV and Edelgard has never had a high opinion of Claude. But despite that, the story still gives solid logic to his choices. This truly is a Claude who is desperate and stressed enough to take actions that he normally wouldn’t consider.

It’s like the developers wrote AG and SB, but when they got to GW, the were just like, ‘Ah fuck, another one? Let’s just slap together something from the other stories. Claude sided with Dimitri and the Church in 3H? Well, have him team up with Edelgard this time for something different.’ Then they did, added some Almyra and gave Claude some lines to justify things without actually rewriting the story, and BAM! GW! 

GW could have been a great Claude story, but instead they plucked Claude from Edelgard’s route and tried to shove him in a route where he’s winning. Now he doesn’t know what to do with himself and the other characters don’t understand what’s going on either.

#am i salty? #yes #yes i am #listen i don't care about bad stories #those i typically ignore #why put time and effort into caring about something like that? #but stories that waste their potential on the other hand #especially when using pre-existing characters? #that gets me going everytime #and gw is the epitome of wasted potential #the pieces are all there! #they just needed to write a story tailored to claude to justify those actions #instead they copy-pasted sb but because now you're playing the alliance #well it's no fun to play on the side that's always losing #except now all of claude's problems from sb are gone #but they kept his character development and decisions the same #even though now they make no sense in context #so glad i saved ag for last #it's so good and the characters are consistent #fire emblem #few3h #fe3h

[thingsmysplattershotjrtoldme]

Squid bagging in the lobby seems to guarantee a reasonably tough battle with people not taking turf war too seriously.

If they don't, 87% of the time they'll just keep you in spawn and shark until you walk by trying to get to mid

#Splatoon 3 #Am I salty? #Nah what gave you that idea 😑 #I just wanna have fun and catch up leveling my catalog #Not constantly stay in base because that's the other team's ONLY strategy #I've started leaving those rooms and taking my chances with other groups #Idk if that makes me a weaker gamer or not #I just wanna have fun man😥 #Long narrow maps are the worst for this sort of thing #Because they can just bunch up in the choke point and mess you over #And you can't do jack about it

[starlite-sin]

Non-Essential being like food service, retail, casino, etc. Basically if the world doesn't end if a store closes for a single day then there's no reason to make Christmas a mandatory day

#am I salty? #yes

[roz-ani]

You guys are really lucky it's so easy to believe that

#yes I am being salty #THIS SHOW DESERVED MORE DAMN IT #GIVE THEM MORE EPISODES NEXT SEASON YOU COWARDS #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel spoilers #alastor #mine

[ikayblythe]

A new transliteration of the Rain World scripts

An update to this. I am the original creator of that interpretation, and to be fair I'm a little tired of not getting proper credit for it.

The entirety of this was done by comparing the 'alphabets' to our own, and assigning phonetic values from there. The logographs were interpreted similarly, but with Mandarin 'etymology' instead. I wrote...quite a bit! About it! You can read the individual interpretations for each symbol in the doc below:

#rain world #rw #rain world art #worldbuilding #i guess??? #rw sunshower #i am honestly quite upset by the folks who used the older one letter-to-letter without acknowledging me #especially bigger rw artists #you know who you are #not to be salty but im salty about it #i wouldnt be surprised if it was shared around though so people wouldnt have known #but this isnt canon #this is my interpretation and i think i deserve acknowledgement for it! #okay rant over

[bluismie]

the category is hurt/comfort

#im not that too deep in the game’s plot yet #but hc that nemesis is salty that melinoë has to carry the burden on her own #but she can’t do anything about it because of the fates??? #and all she wants is to protect mel from all the pain #‘i am willing to become your foe if it means you’ll be safe’ #hades game #hades 2 #nemesis #melinoë #melnem #sketch #fanart #myart #drawing #procreate

[river-bottom-nightmare]

hmmm okay i’m seeing the “dick grayson is a ray of sunshine” tag increase in popularity and i feel as though i may need to clarify that whenever EYE use it, the “dick grayson is a ray of sunshine” tag is not adorable harmless smiley optimistic ball of sunshine dick. to ME dick grayson is a ray of sunshine (brilliant and brutal and furious in a way that is impossible to dream of being until you meet him) (he is simmering and sharp and too bright to look at head on, raise a hand to shade your eyes) (he burns the skin of your arms and your shoulders and your cheeks until your flesh is blistered and red from prodding, in pain and glad for it, or darker and bronzed, grateful to be touched by him at all)

#or something like that. anyway. that's just me #i am mayhaps a bit in love with him #and have read too many harmless sweet little ball of sunlight dick fics and am salty about it #immovable object (me who has never gotten a sunburn and just keeps tanning) #vs unstoppable force (my roommate who burns the minute the sun gets within a 10 foot radius of her) #dick grayson #nightwing #dc

[iooiu]

sister of four younger brothers = violence at every corner

#the day i stop projecting my karai propaganda is the day i die fighting nick for my crossover episode #seriously is that too much to ask??? is it RLLY THAT HARD TO DELIVER smh i am throwing SUCH a tantrum over this #anyway have i mentioned i simply love karai my beloved #i was robbed of a lot of things and this family dynamic was one of them #will forever be salty and bitter and all things unpleasant ab this #tmnt #tmnt2k12 #tmnt 2k12 #tmnt karai #mikey #leo #raphael #raph #leonardo #michelangelo #donnie #donatello #hehe look at me tagging all their nicknames too absolutely NO ONE is escaping my karai propaganda #nick u better watch out i am so ready to throw hands for that rottmnt cross over #kk im done #eldest of five

[heartburiedingreece]

Reject modernity

Embrace tradition

#this is no hate to sewis landoscar or their fans #though i am a little salty how sewis fans get to be happy and i just sob day and night about brocedes #but that's not their fault #and i do genuinely love all these drivers and duos #but i do like brocedes more than i have liked anything in my life ever #:) #sewis #landoscar #brocedes #simi #carlando #loscar #sebastian vettel #lewis hamilton #oscar piastri #lando norris #nico rosberg #kimi raikkonen #kimi räikkonën #carlos sainz #logan sargeant #formula 1 #formula one #f1

[relaxxattack]

okay because of the differing opinions on @calware's post i had to go and check for myself. after all, we've all heard info passed down the fanon grapevine over the years. so, here it is:

is dave strider right or left handed?

obviously, this being homestuck, character sprites flip like every half a second, so i'm trying to take that into account here. alright, let's plow through an entire comic's worth of dave panels.

in his very first appearance, dave uses a katana from his wall to slash through his name command left-handedly.

he proceeds to use his left hand for many actions he takes in his apartment, including typing.

he then uses his right hand to fistbump cal, open the attic, pick up a sword, and escape the puppet pile. his computer is also set up for his right hand.

so already we've got a lot of switching going on, as to be expected with homestuck. i'm going to just try and focus on "main" shots now and not minute sprite details, since those seem to switch constantly.

dave climbs the staircase after picking up the sword with his right hand. however, when beginning the strife with bro he switches it to his left.

during that fight his sprite (and dominant hand) flips many times. while he is laying on the floor beaten he texts john with his right. once he gets up, he resumes typing with his left. [EDIT: he pretty much always uses his left hand when texting; there are very few panels where this sprite is flipped.]

during the [s] enter, dave is famously seen drawing a sbahj panel with his mouse right-handedly. he does this again talking to tavros later. his computer setup seems pretty consistent in this way.

during [s] accelerate, dave flips his sword between hands multiple times both in sprite and hero mode.

then, for no apparent reason except for that he probably hates me and wants me to suffer, dave switches his main hand back and forth repeatedly for the entire rest of the comic.

he frequently carries his sword in his right hand, except for stray panels where, when actually using the sword, he favors his left (panels 5 and 8 above). however, this isn’t a case of him only carrying with his right and then using his left to actually wield— because as you can see in panel 9 above, he also uses it right-handedly.

he uses his left hand during the entire fight with jade and bec, but then, switches back to his right during cascade.

during meteorstuck he seems to use his right hand for most activities, including drawing and writing, except for the penis ouija scene, in which he uses his left.

he takes all his selfies with his right hand, then confronts jade with his left hand. his watch is also positioned on his left wrist, which is traditionally an indicator of right-handedness; and he holds his sword in his right again as he absconds.

during the dogfight he makes most of his attacks with his right hand, and switches to his left to parry bec. when he dies in game over, he's holding his sword in his left.

he's using his right hand in essentially all of the non-sprite shots in collide, except for this last big red one.

that's all i've got.

conclusion: ????

in all honesty, he seems to switch between either hand frequently enough that you could make an argument for almost anything. hooray, everyone's headcanons are valid!

though i will say that he definitely uses his right hand more frequently in panels. if you only count panels where he's actually using his sword, it's closer to an even split, but i'd still tentatively say that he favors right more often than not.

the widespread fanon concept that he canonically only uses his right hand while drawing and otherwise uses his left, is unfortunately mostly cheryypicked in terms on panels. but that's not to say it's necessarily wrong. there's too little consistency in the art to definitely call it false

considering he's been seen both writing and swordfighting with his left, you can headcanon whatever the fuck you want! (and let's be honest, he has leftie vibes).

that's all! hopefully this helps someone. this took way too long to do help

#did i just spend hours scouring the entire webcomic for every instance of dave holding something ever? yes. what are you gonna do #homestuck #dave strider #hsmeta #op #am i perhaps salty that the popular headcanon i believed for years isn't true...? who's to say... *eye twitching*