#and like that they're doing it for their career. or whatever.

[velvet-vexations]

The thing about comparing Kipperlilly's grudge to hating DEI and affirmative action is that those things are exactly what she's advocating for. The Bad Kids are not receiving accommodation for anything - and in fact Aguefort seems like the type to despise things like accommodations and would tell disabled people to pick themselves up by their bootstraps, but I digress -rather, they have direct connections to massive save-the-world plots three years in a row now that puts them way ahead of everyone else. Though they put in hard work, that doesn't change the fact that no one else working as hard as they can will ever equal being told to go stop a god from coming back and coincidentally your dad (a) worked directly with that dead god's primary agent in the past and (b) is now a super cool angel secret agent who will directly assist you in the task. Oh, and also, your teammate's parents are the dead god's primary mortal agents. And also they kidnapped your other teammate's dad because he's a powerful demon lord so now she's involved too. And you all happen to end up on Leviathan, where Fabian is an instant celebrity who immediately gets a cult worshiping the planks he walks on because they all work for his rich undead infernal dad.

The issue is that people keep mapping it to the real world and seeing "tragic backstory" like it would be IRL, which is a mistake. It's not a disability. They don't go to normal school to become accountants or NASA engineers, they are there to be doing exactly that shit that their backstories rope them into. Like, this isn't Buffy, they aren't saving the world incidentally, this is school for saving the world to pursue a career in saving the world. Spyre functions so differently from IRL that everyone is dramatically failing to comprehend the actual situation everyone is in.

And the thing about hating affirmative action is that it presumes someone only got into whatever not because they have skill, but because of their race or something like that. That's manifestly different from what's going on here. Kipperlilly has no doubt the Bad Kids are incredibly powerful and skilled - but their backstories gave them opportunities to use that power and skill that no one else will ever have regardless of effort or even luck. The Bad Kids can't go five seconds without tripping over the revelation that the BBEG for the year is one of their second cousins. That just doesn't happen to other people, period. The world revolves around the BK's in ways it will never revolve around anyone else so the Bad Kids will always get the massive adventures to save the world and be the top of their class because they're personally connected to the narrative.

Remember, Brennan has confirmed that other AA students do not do shit like that. They do exactly the sort of missions you'd expect them to - go in dungeon, fight monsters, come back. It's not "uh, the Rat Grinders should have just gone out and saved the world too", that's not how it works. AA students are not usually expected to, their rat grinding is just a more tedious and efficient version of what they would be doing otherwise. The BK's don't get involved with these plots simply because they're the most heroic heroes ever who seek wrongs to right, they do it because every single time everyone but Gorgug (who is for the most part absent major narrative stakes) was born someone that would get those in's, feats reproducible by no one else.

"Ah, but the Seven-"

The Seven prove the tragedy of it. Because Kipperlilly is right, but she's also wrong. The brilliance of BLeeM this season is that he's crafted a narrative inseparable from the meta of how the game works. In a very real way this is like the Dungeons & Dragons versions of Tron. The fact that it's a series of fictional TTRPG sessions is essential to the universe and it's story, in a Twin Peaks-ian way.

Because, see, it's not actually, technically magical trauma that gives out those narrative advantages. Magical trauma is just the most obviously visible side-effect. What the issue actually is is that, as everyone has noted over and over again, the Rat Grinders are NPCs, and it is therefore impossible for the world to ever bend itself around them the way it does for the PCs. Except, most are just saying that as a funny haha joke.

No, like, literally, that's the issue. They will always be in the shadow of the handful of people that the people constructing their world, their timeline, their very existence, has decided matter. They are doomed by narrative causality to be "boring". And I'm going to take a moment to say here, isn't it crazy no one is talking about this when we just got done with Neverafter which was all about this exact thing????? Like, literally the BBEG was the Authors. That is the situation here, more or less.

Anyway, there will never be a demon attacking that due to a curse is only vulnerable to hot licks from Ruben's guitar passed down from the first gnomish rocker. Mary Ann will never be the prophesized liberator of kobolds enslaved in dragon dens. Ivy will never find out her father was secretly a super-soldier for the Council of Chosen who before he was assassinated left her notes detailing a sinister plot within the government of Solace.

People keep having a hard time with this because it intuitively doesn't feel right to ever classify something like losing a father in any context to have some kind of bright side. But if you take nothing else away from this post, let it be this: Adventuring as it's done in Spyre is not something done in the real world. Adventuring is something everyone chose to go to AA to learn and put into practice as their long-term career. And in that, absolutely these things give the PCs a completely one hundred percent insurmountable leg-up on the thing they're all in competition for.

And it being completely insurmountable in that way further goes to show the difference between hating that situation and hating affirmative action. Even AA is not a guarantee that a specific member of the majority will lose out on something and a specific member of the minority will get it instead. As soon as the character sheets were rolled everyone else at Aguefort may as well have just gone home and started studying to be accountants because the main characters had been chosen. Or they could keep going and hope they get a spin-off, I guess.

But Kipperlilly does keep trying, for she doesn't really comprehend the true eldritch horror beyond her existence shackled to the bits of a bunch of comedians, and her solution is to adjust for those unfair advantages.

Which is affirmative action.

How is that not obvious.

#dimension 20 #kipperlilly copperkettle

[not-goldy]

Hey Goldy! How are you? This is just super random, but someone shared a clip of Rosebowl Jikook, and can I just say how surreal it still feels that it actually happened? People were scrambling to explain that it was completely platonic, that it was an edit, that JK didn't suck JM's ear, that it was completely normal 🙄

I've heard about a certain clip where you could see a string of saliva, and yes, I saw it. Apparently, the big screen during the concert show you front and center when that happened and how you could literally see the string of saliva from JK's mouth to JM's ear. You could even see the sucking movement.

Imagine if Jikook have partners? Imagine seeing that and being okay w/ it?? And mind you, he did after towards the end of the concert, when they're sweaty and all.

People left and right, 24/7 camping on Jikook accounts writing long-ass essays and novels to say Jikook hate each other or whatever. You don't see us camping out on say tkk/yoonmin accounts to prove they're not real, don't you? I mean, sure, we correct misinformation when you're posting lies or manipulated clips for your non-existent ships (tkk/yoonmin/etc).

Even the companion system in the military still haunts these people until now. Suddenly, everyone is a fucking expert on Korean military?? If it was any other ship, I'm pretty sure we won't be hearing a thesis on why they're not together right now, how they're doing their things away from each other? Like, what happened to critical thinking and common sense? You'd think if Jimin and Jungkook didn't want to do their enlistment together, they wouldn't go through those damn hoops, including selecting the harshest division. They'd just do what everyone else did 😩

Do you think these uncultured and unloved people (haters/antis/toxic solos/tkkrs etc) would lose their mind even more once the Jikook travel show drops? Hope it drops this June 😭

If Jikook have partners they are the most non territorial non concerned non bothered group of people on the planet cos of if Jimin or Jungkook were mine I would have them quit their careers 😩

Like you can't be stressing me out with the constant dating rumors talking bout we just friends but you coming home every night with a hickey embarrassing me on the internet begging for a man's attention a man who looks like this by the way

Like where do I even begin to compete his ass is fatter than mine😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩

You just friends but you out here having panick attacks when he puts you on voice mail

Boy didn't even eat the dinner I made him cos he's out there cooking for another man

He doesn't laugh at my jokes the way he does his and his jokes are not even funny 😤

In his spare time he's watching vlives of him with his fans and I swear I heard him call me Jimin one time when we were making love

I need a divorce. This is not working out

It's either me or him 😩

Mother fucker chose him 😩

I don't want to over sell the travel blog I'm very very curious about it but I know it won't disappoint.

And the way Jungkook had to come out here and tell us about the one moment makes it feel all the more sus to me

Feels like a preemptive strive so fans don't make a big deal out of them sharing a bed but baby boy WE WILL

It's jikook they send antis with into a frenzy with the barest minimum 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

I won't expect anything less from those numbnuts

[trans-axolotl]

What is harm reduction outreach? I saw you mention it in a post.

Sure!

So I do outreach through an org in my city that provides harm reduction services to people who use drugs and sex workers. We have specific areas of the city that we go to on specific days, and also do deliveries. We also do at least one overnight shift a week to be able to better provide services to sex workers. For outreach, we hand out safer use supplies including needles, sharps bins, tourniquets, cookers, sterile water, stems, Narcan, fentanyl test strips, condoms, lube, bad date sheets, wound care supplies, food, water, etc. We also try to help provide people referrals to services like HIV and Hep C care, share what resources in the city are trans friendly and how to navigate social services with the least bullshit, and also provide peer support and harm reduction education to help people have all the information they need to make choices, and help reduce risk.

It's really important to us that we are not acting like exploitative nonprofits that come in, hoard resources, and expect people to be grateful. outreach is pretty much done entirely by people who are also drug users and sex workers. We are also really involved in local advocacy--we participate in a decriminalization campaign, a drug users union, and a sex work advocacy coalition. and i think nonprofits and government attempts to coopt harm reduction are so fucked up and actively harmful--you can't do harm reduction without also fighting to abolish the oppressive systems that are targeting drug users and sex workers. we have a lot of ties to the community that we're doing harm reduction in--for most of us it just is our community + neighborhoods lmao, and we make sure that we're always getting feedback, respecting autonomy and consent, and building mutual relationships. we've been around for a while and do have a lot of community trust, but we always want to be making sure we're respecting what people want and need instead of coming in with ideas about what services + supplies they want.

anyway. harm reduction is so fucking important to me and it's not just like, something i do to like, build my resume or to try to "save people." i'm a former sex worker and when i first started doing sex work, i didn't have any information, community, or access to anything that would have helped me to be able to work safer. it fucked me up pretty bad and i survived a lot of violence. i wish so fucking badly i had all those things, and it's super important to me to try to build community, care for each other, resist fucked up systems and protect each other.

#asks #harm reduction #can you tell how annoyed i am rn at like. people calling things 'harm reduction that isn't fucking harm reduction #gov and nonprofits are so into trying to like. coopt harm reduction and use harm reduction language #but are so fuckign coercive. so cruel. only into providing services on their terms #and not into actually meeting people where they're at. #i'm soooo fucking done with it! i'm done!!!! #sw #there's been a lot of people who want to get involved bc they come in with a mindset that they're saving people #and like that they're doing it for their career. or whatever. #and it has been happening more lately and i'm so annoyed #like i've met some ppl who are involved in harm reductiona nd don't have any lived experience who r great. who really listen and #we trust them! but so many ppl don't give enough of a fuck to learn first. and come in and expect to be treated like an expert

[utilitycaster]

I just want to say, that I agree with almost all of your Critical Role takes and you have 1000% better and more nuanced takes than all of Twitter and I greatly appreciate it! The takes over there regarding Liliana and the gods are just wild and you bring some much needed sanity to the content I see

Thanks! I hope you don't mind because I've been thinking about this re: the Twitter takes but the thing about Twitter and Liliana specifically that I've seen is that there's this really bizarre fetishization of like, the fact that she is a (white) southerner (this also weirdly happened for Birdie though to a much lesser extent, and the person who spearheaded that wasn't even American so I have to assume this is a specific corner of Twitter Culture At Large). And like, here's the thing. It's true that fantasy tends to be very British in its accents, and it's also true that accents in a fantasy world are used to convey the same things we'd assume in our world - RP British for educated, southern American for rural, Cockney for rougher types, etc.

It's also true that laying the exact socioeconomic parallels from our world onto, say, Liliana and Orym (who reads to me as non-regional but I, like Liam, am from the Northeast originally) is a recipe for disaster. Or rather, it's not, but it is going to reaffirm your own biases, some of which are dangerous to reaffirm.

There was a popular post on Tumblr a while back, probably not long after Trump was elected, of someone talking about how they were convincing a relative with the confederate flag towards socialism by appealing to the idea of "isn't in unfair how uneven wealth distribution is and how a small group has so much control" and a number of people were rightfully like "uh, maybe you should focus on the racism" or "hey OP ask your relative who they think that small group in control is because I'm getting a really bad feeling they're going to say it's The Jews." And I feel that a lot of the empathy for Liliana from those spaces feels like that OP. Or in other words: I get that you see your relatives in Liliana. Unfortunately, I cannot help but see me and mine in Orym.

You see someone trapped by circumstance and desperation in a dangerous ideology. I see the fact that I haven't gone to a synagogue in easily 6-7 years without there being a security guard present and usually, the doors locked with someone looking through the window to let you in, and then in the sanctuary there's been an installation so that you can quickly bar all the doors in case an alarm goes off or you hear shots in the lobby.

I think there's a great case for seeing yourself in Imogen, who is in a painful struggle with the fact that her mother does love her very much but is in dangerously deep and has done a number of incredibly terrible and harmful things. That latter point is important, incidentally; I get that cult members sometimes rise through the ranks but all but the leader are being manipulated. But the fact remains that a brainwashed person can still commit atrocities, and in this story, they have, many times over. It's especially true because like...sure, plenty of people are like "I lost my relative to a cult and I just want them back and I couldn't harm them," but also, as we've seen, this cult can and will harm Imogen! Plenty of people are also like "yeah I gotta cut them off, it hurts but unfortunately my horribly bigoted and violent relative, while a victim of brainwashing, is a threat to me too." It's not even the full picture of the Temult side of things, let alone the picture that includes the Vanguard's victims.

I also think the Southern gatekeeping is unhinged because it's like. guys there's QAnon members and other cults across the country; the Confederate flag example above was actually notable in that OP wasn't even Southern so you couldn't even write the flag off as deeply misguided heritage but rather was explicitly being used as a hate symbol. It's awfully presumptive to assume all southerners have the same experience (especially since the Temults are portrayed, physically and in accents, as white southerners, not that the experiences of white southerners aren't also incredibly varied). It's awfully presumptive to assume that people find Liliana threatening because they have no personal experience with people like her; often, it's because they have all too real experience with people like her, and it says something even worse about you if you can say "but you guys, I see me and my family in Liliana" when people are telling you that they see them and their families in Orym. I would not, personally, publicly admit that one's empathy extends to the people who remind you of your family but runs out before it reaches their victims. Nor would I publicly admit that I assume everyone who disagrees with me clearly has never had personal experience with this topic.

I should also note that, as I've noted a number of times before, that these are fictional characters and not real people. Twitter seems to be really fucking bad at grasping that. Like, yes, this is the other thing; I do not think that OP should kill their Confederate flag-toting relative, whereas if Imogen did so to Liliana I'd be like "hell yeah." The former is a real person who I do hope gets deprogrammed, just, you know, maybe adjust those priorities; the latter is a fictional character in a story.

#answered #anonymous #if steel had a southern accent do you think people would feel differently about her? sound off in the comments i guess. #cr spoilers #it really is like. with the people who can't separate characters from real people...there's this assumption #that everyone who doesn't agree with them lacks the same experiences or is bigoted #don't like liliana? well it's because you're not southern. don't like laudna? it's because you're neurotypical and straight and hate women. #notice how none of these carry within them any argument within the text? notice how they just rely on the assumption #that you can only understand things through direct personal experience and not like...thought and empathy? #that if you fit certain demographics you obviously Will hold these exact opinions bc clearly all nd people or wlw are a monolith? #it's like. yeah man i see why you have more sympathy for the vanguard than their victims...you think like a cultist even if you're not one #you say There's Those Who Understand And Have The Mandate of Heaven Because We're (southern or nd or queer or whatever) #and then there's Them The Ones Who Don't Get It And Never Will Bc They're Not Like Us (even though plenty of times...they are) #anyway. as always i am sorry that twitter sucking hurts the careers of countless creatives #but i think it does foster this sort of no-nuance no-argument Me First thinking so. can't be too sorry. #long post

[icewindandboringhorror]

I have found a beautiful perfect humble rock specimen that is light yellow with a weird dark yellowy brown lining, somewhat resembling a chunk of smoked gouda cheese... effervescent

#I am still very into trash collecting at the moment and even went out and got one of those grabby sticks for cheap and a little #bucket I can carry around and put trash in. so I am going on walks in nature a bit more (not really to enjoy nature but more to play the #very fun Real Life Hidden Object Point And Click Game that is 'hunt for bottle caps and cans' .. but eh.. whatever gets me out of the #house lol).. anyway.. some nature places near water will have cool rocks #Which I know you're not supposed to take them and I MOSTLY dont.. but every once in a while it's like... when else will I ever find a #gouda rock... I have cleaned up 4 buckets of trash today.. I have helped the environment.. mayhaps.. i could take a One Single Rocke as a #treate... ANYWAY. but yeah. I don't know the names of rocks but there's a rock that's a matte muted marigold yellow sort of #color and I call them 'cheese rock'. I'm pretty sure this one is of the 'cheese rock' species but it just has weird brown coloration #like maybe it got stained or something on one side of it. Most of the other cheese rocks have no markings. though sometimes there will be a #auburn reddish sort of hue on a corner or something.. hrmm.. curious. I also got a Beginner's Hobby rock tumbler and some supplies #so I might try polishing some of the rocks from my enormous rock collection. even though they're all street rocks I picked up from sidewalk #and stuff. I saw a video where someone put random gravel and stuff in a rock tumbler and none of them were Stunning Gems or whatver #but some still turned out cool enough that I would be pleased with the result... OUgh.. I want to post more I need to like do costumes and #sculptures and stuff and be Active On Social Media and think about my Future and Career and how it always benefits artists to keep an #active social media or etc. but I just feel so tired and bad lately. I think the summer heat waves have really exhausted me. I also have #been trying to make new friends + on a weird schedule so I've been socializing and also watching media too much. I notice I always start #to feel this kind of unsettled stress of not making any forward progress in my life if I do that for too long. like 'Okay this week I've #done nothing but meet up with two friends & watch like 10 episodes of tv and only worked on a few projects on the side.. this is HORRIBLE!' #(ppl who follow me here that I talk to on discord: this isn't about you! Im specifically just referencing being tired of introductory talks #with a new round of random strangers during my Friend Hunt. Just clarifying so it couldn't be misinterpreted as vaguepost implying that I'm #secretly bothered by talking to you or etc. lol.. anyway) . Which I know to MOST people 'I talked to a lot of friends and watched some cool #stuff!' sounds like a GOOD relaxing time but.. to me it is not ghhj.. Those are 'external' focuses on things outside myself which bothers #me if not moderated. Like.. i MUST retreat internally to work on my worldbuilding and my own thoughts and etc. at very regular intervals or #it will really start to bear on me too much. Brain Mandated Hermit Isolation lol. Just being too detached from my world and stuff for #too long feels increasingly bad. PLUS. every day I don't make tangible progress towards my goals is a day wasted that I could have been #investing in my future by working on novels/games/sculptures/actual career relevant stuff. Not even in a Capitalism way i just genuinely #enjoy Completing Tasks & feel miserable if I don't for too long. EVEN the media I'm watching I turn into A Task since I rank in a detailed #google doc list after viewing lol.. Like EW movie too boring on it's own. NEED to turn it into something I can categorize and analyze ghghj #LOVE to make things more complicated than they need to be. like YAAAY organizational tasks! yaay meticulous sorting!! BOO ''mindless fun''!

[dawningfairytale]

i think a bit of a loss from a deleted scene in the first hunger games film is in the tribute interviews where marvel says to caesar "if you apply yourself and you focus then all your dreams can come true". like that boy was really on the alpha male grindset culture and it's a shame that wasn't included because it's real. because, especially 11 years down the track, it is a valid critique of hustle culture. marvel was from district 1, he had privileges that kids from the outlying districts didn't have. so when he says "just apply yourself", it won't just happen in that way for the people he's talking to across panem, because even their dreams of surviving the day may not come true, no matter how hard they work. that said, he's still perpetuating this ideal when he's under the oppressive thumb of the capitol. not only is he a district pleb, but his entire life has been in service of being a sacrifice for the capitol's entertainment. sure, he could win, but he's seen the games. he's seen the victors. he would know, even if it's just on the smallest and most hidden level, that a victor's riches pale in comparison to the trauma they must cope with for the rest of their life. even in this interview, where he's playing up that 'he always dreamed of killing people', even if he won his games, the ideal of being treated as an equal, or simply seen as human, cannot come true, no matter how much he focusses on that goal. sure he says he's always wanted to volunteer for these games (which may be true in part, but he's almost definitely putting on an act for the camera. most of the tributes probably are. we talk about the physical training careers must have gone through but in katniss' narration it's made clear that the hunger games is a reality show, first and foremost), but even if you take that at face value, even if you go "this kid just really liked torturing other kids", there's no guarantee of winning. just a promise that you'll come back in a box or riddled with mental scars. he could work as hard as he wanted to, try as hard as he could, but there are so many variables that would block him from winning. i don't know if he would know this or not; the careers are all children, some arrogant, some fearful, many both. but he spreads this rhetoric, as though it were true, as though it were true for him, just like "alpha male" commentators do today, just like mlm promoters. he very partially benefits from this system, yes, but it costs his life. and not just from the moment he entered the arena. people today say "get up your ass and work" or "it's not that hard, Just Do It" or "elongated muskrat did it, so i'll be able to too", ignorant of or unwilling to mention the privilege of those who succeeded, not discussing those who applied themselves and focussed and came up short because the odds weren't in their favour.

#thg #the hunger games #is this a late night rambling? yes. is it good? no. will we cope? yes. #i think the careers are interesting because they are traumatised like the other tributes. and. just as dead. #yeah it's a bit of a shame this got cut because doesn't it reek of modern elon musk fanboy #marvel hunger games #and no im not a career apologist (fully) because they do appear to take pleasure and pride in killing. #but i say not fully because. well. they're kids. kids with an awareness of their actions but kids. #to what extent were they brainwashed into thinking this was the only option. or the best option. or whatever else

[torgawl]

everyone here was soooo excited because a national channel was going to bring back this iconic tv series, directed specifically to the youth, from our childhood and adolescence that we are so nostalgic about after 11 years for them to disappoint us all with the trailer because it looks like elite 2.0

#they ruined morangos com açúcar i dont think you guys understand #this was supposed to be a cliché show with bad acting about students and dramas at school not a fucking disappearing mystery show #with parties and sex and whatnot 😭 #they're making it release in 10 episode seasons like streaming shows too.... that's not morangos!!!!! anfngngnbg #the vibe is so different that it actually makes no sense why they would try to tie it with the other seasons plot and actors shsjshs #yes morangos had your occasional topics of teenage pregnancy and queerness and all that jazz but it was actually explored well #the way they're making girls kiss and parties happening and everything of those sorts in the new season is literally like any of those #spanish teenage shows with too much sex scenes and it's embarrassing actually. #the essence of our national tv is getting lost because they want to do stuff that 'sells' except morangos never sold because it was trendy #or even good because the acting was honestly not great. it was literally our company and part of our routine all year around almost #it was the show we would arrive from school to watch before dinner every day #we watched them experience the school year at the same time we did and on holidays there was a special summer edition #it was a whole thing that this new version isn't. #it was a novela directed for the youth and not whatever show they're trying to make and i'm so mad #i actually wanted to see it. morangos was special to so many of us everybody knows the songs everybody loves the artists that came from #that generation we all grew up watching it.... literally. #and capitalism strikes again 👍 #the auditions were a joke too. they announced auditions for anyone who would like to because another thing about morangos is that it was #a talent factory it gave opportunity to newbie actors and pushed their careers and the new season has a bunch of already renown actors and #actresses and they didn't even care to hide how fake and rigged the public auditons were lol #anyways never building expectations about anything ever again this actually broke my heart man agjshs #i'm gonna mourn this listening to d'zrt 4taste and just girls ✊

[tow-bees]

Have you ever wanted to draw something but you fought due to your skill level at the time you decide not to do it

I think this used to happen to me more when I was younger haha, but now I've sort of adopted a "fuck it, we ball" mindset where I will just draw things the best I can at the moment and whatever happens happens lol

Although I do sort of still have this mindset for projects moreso than individual drawings...like I may want to make a bazillion page long graphic novel or a feature length film, but there is no way I would be able to do that on my own right now lmao

but rather than just not do it, I figure out how to do it in a manner that I can achieve at the moment, like by making a 20 page comic or a short film instead!

it's sort of all about compromise...if there's something out of your level at the moment, find a way to bring it to your level and then just try your best with it! After all, in the end, the only way to get to the level to draw the thing you want to draw is to give it a go anyway and do it a million times shittily with joy in your heart haha, at least that's what I think!

#and like I just wanna say that I think it's okay if you never even get to the magical mind level as long as you're having fun #the main reason I'm trying to improve is because I'm literally going to college for art and want to do this as a career so I kind of... #...have to lmao #but like #even if I wasn't #letting the fear of not being able to live up to what's in my mind would probably stop me from drawing ever again #which would be sad and no fun #so instead I've vowed to just draw whatever I want all the time at whatever level I can #art gets so much more fun with this mindset imo haha #and like lets be real #no matter how good anyone gets they're still never gonna be able to achieve what is in their head that's just like how it works haha #so it's easier for me at least to find joy in just sucking sometimes haha

[watermelinoe]

also like. in an ideal world everyone would be an artist

#you don't need specialized skills to help w most chores #making art is human nature. you do your work and then you make art #i'm v tired of this surge of anti-intellectualism that's indistinguishable from right-wing contempt for art and literature #posts like that are always framed as if you would only do ur One Thing + nothing else bc that's how careers are structured under capitalism #but like. no one would have a ''career'' if capitalism no longer existed. you'd do all sorts of things. whatever needed doing. #ironically enough the only ''careers'' that would need to exist would be skilled craftsmanship #i mean i find those posts annoying anyway bc the majority of people are perfectly capable of contributing even without specialized skills #and if they're not capable i guess we just kill them? it's not like our ancestors cared for the disabled and elderly or anything

[foxxsong]

Not to be a prick, but your art is gonna have to be Real Damn Good to get me to interact with it if you slap something like "Don't even bother if you're not gonna reblog" on the end of the post. I'm not enough of one to like and scroll out of spite (though I'm not above thinking about it). I am, however, perfectly willing to ignore something I wouldn't have otherwise. If you're fine with a lower note count in the long run as long as it's more equal, if you think less interaction isn't gonna fuck with you worse than uneven likes-to-reblogs, then sure. Show some attitude. But if you're relying on commissions and dumb enough to think saying that sort of thing isn't gonna have consequences, I Do Not Feel Sorry For You.

#if it cuts your overall notes in half that's on you #don't whine about how people must really hate artists because you're getting even LESS engagement now #as if you're not literally throwing a rude comment in the direction of everyone that sees your art as their final impression of it #as if that's not gonna fuck with the amount of people that want that post on their blog to show their followers now #as if that's not gonna make people who want to pay for commission think twice about dealing with someone who doesn't care or doesn't notice #when they're being rude to the people they rely on for their career #like don't get me wrong you do not HAVE to be nice #but you're lying to yourself if you think that's ONLY going to deter people that 'wouldn't have reblogged anyway' #or that it won't deter potential customers #when you're freelance you rely on reputation and seeming approachable as much as skill #no one wants to interact with someone that makes it look like they think they can be mean if things don't go their way #you don't need to fucking beg for reblogs instead of just likes and i think we're all getting used to 'likes < reblogs' on art posts #but straight up saying you don't want interaction AT ALL if it's not to your standards? in a very accusatory way? as a default? #as the LAST THING PEOPLE SEE BEFORE DECIDING WHETHER TO SCROLL ON OR NOT? #idiot behaviour #i think even all the reblogs with tags saying they almost ignored because of that comment but decided against it are still too encouraging #gonna make these people think their art is so uniquely good they can say or do whatever they want #it isn't #anyway i wouldn't usually go on about something like this but I'm stressed so I'm irritable and i hate seeing newbies fuck themselves over #in a very obvious and preventable way #but eventually if they don't give up they'll probably notice that their stuff without that shit on the end does better so whatever #their career funeral #rant over

[bylertruther]

i almost wish tht the whole 8flix stuff never blew up the way it did so tht we could've gotten the actual real details n shit lol. like obviously the writers aren't going to release actual screenshots of the real final script but it's like. ndfjshbdkjfhbd. just dialogue....? ok... thanks, i guess... could've just googled the transcript if i wanted that, but okay thank you nonetheless... it's almost like they learned their lesson from the first byler script drop and decided they needed to super sanitize it lmao. 🙄

#srry to be tht guy but i don't think nick ruined his credibility n contacts n career for the giggles. be serious lol. #i don't think he'd release 38478373987493 other real scripts but then suddenly this one time it's fake. #this one time when it contains spoilers for s5 n trends globally all of a sudden it's fake? ok. sure. uh huh. #and stranger things is too big and too serious and made with too much love for their scripts to just be dialogue. #do u think ppl win awards bc they write scripts like the ones they're posting? cmon. #look at any other script for literally anything else that's out there. they're clearly leaving only the dialogue. #which is fine. it's their scripts. their content. they can release whatever it is that they want to release. #and we're not entitled to anything. but it's like ... girl if i wanted a transcript i'd just google it. BKHDBFKJHSB???? like.. ok.. #and on 8's site they added that the script is unofficial/unconfirmed but that really just means that #there was no confirmation either way. no direct statement from the authors that it's fake. essentially responded with 'no comment'. #so they're refusing to give an actual legal answer on its authenticity. #if it was fake they could just say that. but they won't. #golly gee i wonder why? #and now who knows when we'll get episode nine... or if we'll ever get it.. :( #including the other episodes but like. sigh.

[sanstropfremir]

Honestly it is a much needed move for them. They should have done it a couple of years ago but whatever better late than never. Hopefully the fandom can finally stop being incredibly toxic. I'm just wondering what took the company so long to decide this? Or the boys??

yea i 1000% agree, the last two-three years at this point have been a slow cry for help. and i don't think it was a company decision, i think it was the members themselves. judging from the snippets of stuff that i've seen (i'm not watching the announcement video why would i do that to myself) but it sounds like they're all insanely burnt out and struggling with persona/professional identity crises. i suspect they likely were also not pleased about the constant english singles push to the western market. i think something probably finally reached a breaking point personally amongst all of them and they went to the company with some kind of negotiation. it's weird to think that we've become used to this cycle that boy groups have of career-service-return, but it really did feel like they've been around past their prime. tbh the system that's been in place for boy groups of solo projects/enlistment rotation has been proven to work at this point so i don't really understand why hybe didn't try to implement it. i mean i do, because they knew that they'd passed the point of no return and that solo projects would cause a ton of fandom infighting and some other reasons, but they fundamentally have an apparatus that could have taken the hit. if they had let the members put some serious groundwork into solo stuff in 2018-19 while the older members were getting ready to enlist and just done the standard rotation they could have prevented having to do a hiatus announcement in the first place and the declining professional health of everyone in one fell swoop. yea obviously boy group popularity declines as the years go on but the sheer size of the fandom imo kind of negates any real issues about it. the company should have just sucked it up and done the thing that worked but nooooooo they had to do it their own way because there was so much money coming in and "we're making different kpop"

#like exo is literally doing fine rn and theyve been in their enlistment era for like three years! #theyre still making sm money!! they're still extremely popular!! #plus all of got7 has successfully had solo careers AND done a group comeback after leaving their label so like. the evidence is all there #plus thats not even covering the second gen renaissance and also a bit of a first gen renaissance! #like rain and hyori have both had huge pickups in domestic popularity in the last year!! #there's literally so much evidence that they would have been fine lmao #text #answers #875 #tbh they could have even all enlisted at the same time and that would have been fine too #they could have 'set another record' or whatever and been the first group to enlist together but onf did it first #tbh the way this was handled makes me think that there's unlikely to be any music from them as a group for at least the next five years #and its basically a soft disbandment bc a formal announcement would be a pr DISASTER #idk im just speculating and i dont know the full story but this approach does not scream of future longevity planning imo

[trainwreckweather]

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#I'm about to talk shit about fam stuff so like is this going to give me bad luck maybe #i try so HARD to be a good person I deserve a little fam gossip/shit talk as a treat ajsjdjdjfjfj okok #i will keep all names out any my older sister is a weirdo narcissist racist (she thinks she's black) #and she scammed my old ass dementia-y gram outta well over 15k and owes everything she knows money #even though she posts all about her scams online and used to sell fake covid cards and flaunts stacks of cash and her posh life in Miami #and she has an open federal case against her #and she feeds all her little sometimes MINOR sisters hard drugs and alcohol #i am saying all of this to make what I am about to say seems way less shitty bc I don't usually make fun of people doing things they enjoy #but uh anyway! she goes to the 'stu'to record songs for her 'rap' career and #and #LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO WAIT LMFAO YOU COULD NOT PAY ME ENOUGH #YOU COULD NOT PAY ME E-FUCKING-NOUGH TO POST ANY OF HER SONGS #SHE THINKS THEY'RE GOOD TOO #EVEN WITH THE HELP OF THE AUTO WHATEVER THE FUCK OH NO OH GOD NO #SHE PUTS THAT SHIT ON HER STORY TOO LIKE OH MY GOD PLS I GET SECOND HAND EMBARRASSMENT SO HARD #i want so badly to like... share a clip to prove I'm noy being dramatic but I won't go that far #please just believe me when I say it sounds like a kids bop rapper was given a mic unsupervised and told they could swear #and maybe say some slurs #as a treat #ok that's all I needed to do it #I'll once again return to my godly non-judgment human activities ajsjdjfnfjdjd

[spiltcandycoatedpunkblood]

We can throw around the word 'monster' because it definitely describes so many fucking people, but we gotta understand to not separate ourselves from it or it means NOTHING. They don't just come out of nothing. We can fucking enable them and do exactly what they want. Use the word monster but if we don't understand that we can encourage and help their behaviour thrive, the word 'monster' will always feel so fucking worthless and empty.

#vent #rant #like we gotta understand how we encourage this shit #they're monstrous because they know we'll enable their behaviour #for so long even celebrities get given so much power to do whatever they want #and people will vehemently defend their vile behaviour #this is how people get away with even the worst shit #why'd you think woody allen and roman polanski are still managing their careers??? #ok to reblog

[jimkirkachu]

just when I think I can't possibly despise myself more than I already did

#i go and watch some new show and get emotionally attached to one of the actors because they look like they could be Crush's fucking TWIN #then find out they're in a very serious-looking relationship with a gorgeous woman #i mean BESIDES living in NYC having a successful career and being so beautiful themself that i want to gouge my own eyes out #aka *1701% INACCESSIBLE TO JTKCHU EVEN IN YOUR DREAMS* #& *FORGET it you unfathomable jackass you're the exact opposite of eye candy you're unemployed you're depressed & a gigantic nuisance* #my pathetic jobless hopeless androgynous-not-in-an-endearing-way demi/virgin/prude trash can self is never but N-E-V-E-R gonna have romance #why do i keep getting my hopes up? why do i keep letting it surprise me when i'm rejected or find out i Need Not Apply? #WHY do i keep DOING THIS to my OWN DAMN SELF??? #i'm in my fucking THIRTIES i should know better by now than to even start to let myself daydream or fantasize or whatever the fuck #but NOooOOOOooooo i have to go and be a stupid shit again and again and aGAIN and AGAIN AND AGAIN #somebody punch me in the fucking face #not trek #personal log #romance = 😣 #unrequited crush #i don't want to human anymore #self loathing #self hatred #heartsick #soul sick #jtkchu's brain #jtkchu is toxic #stfu jtkchu #i want to hurt myself #SO. FUCKING. BADLY. right now #please take away my keys to this brain/body/meat suit i am unfit to exist #i am truly the most phenomenal loser ever to walk the earth. observe my idiocy be amazed & be grateful you're not even half as pitiful as i #Crush do you have a twin who's ~85% as gorgeous as you but wears glasses? CUT my Goddamn HEART out You In Glasses would literally kill me #cut my damn heart out anyway i don't fucking WANT IT anymore #and if you're wondering *wow why can't jtkchu ever care about anyone besides their own fucking SELF for a change?* i'm wondering that too

[itsvs]

woahhh can yall believe i took a year drop because of this specific entrance exam yet my preparations were fucking shitty now im considering i should change my courses and go for something else but idk if I'll be good enough at that even. is it okay if i just disappear from the face of earth because im THAT unworthy??

#i mean... this is clearly not a big deal it's not like i HAVE to study engineering to be successful or stuff #and i keep telling myself that other courses are good too it's not like they're not getting decent jobs too but idk im always so.. #..conflicted about my feelings for my career i just.. dont want to regret anything #like im totally not regretting not studying hard enough for this exam haha and now i cant tell what im gonna do #i just hope whatever happens... i'll be fine. that's all man i cant think straight anymore #I MEAN IM STILL YOUNG I HAVE A LOT AHEAD OF MYSELF WHY AM I SUDDENLY FRETTING ABOUT MY LIFE CHOICES #i wasted my time doing absolutely nothing and that's on me. i wish i did literally anything better than what i did back then #but it doesn't matter anymore. so maybe i shouldn't think about it. whatever i do.. i just want to be good at it. and that's all it matters #man idk what im even saying anymore so guys just ignore me <333