#and this ain't even half of them!!

[astrovian]

I think my issue with The Rings of Power is that I just wanted it to have really good writing (even if that meant deviating from Tolkien) so badly

What I mean by that is that I wanted us as the audience to be intentionally mis-led and deceived and double-bluffed... especially the Tolkien fans. While yes, they're trying to attract casual viewers, they also knew they'd have a big Tolkien audience and didn't cater to us at all in terms of giving us anything interesting/exciting re: plot

Like yes, it's awesome to see Númenor & Khazad-Dûm & all these 'unseen' things visually but for Tolkien fans there's not a lot plot-wise that's as exciting as the visual interpretations

I almost didn't care how much they changed up lore, if the trade-off was good TV writing... then I could accept that because we all went into this knowing it would be a bit of a bastardization of Tolkien's works

But this season finale was just so bland it's actually a little sad

The Mt. Doom reveal a couple of episodes ago was much more interesting and shocking than either the Sauron or The Stranger reveal which is pretty sad given they based the entire season upon the premise of "who is Sauron/The Stranger???"

Like if the reveals shocked you then great, but honestly both identity reveals were seen coming a mile away by pretty much anyone with a passing knowledge of Tolkien's works

They were basically hitting us hard on the head with a hammer in regards to the clues they left each episode which I was basically fine with because I expected the finale to be a be a big "gotcha! we were tricking you the entire time! It's actually not them at all!" rather than what it actually turned out to be which was just "why yes... it was exactly what you thought/predicted 6 or 7 episodes ago"

As a pretty die-hard Tolkien fan, I'm not as down on and harsh about the show as some others are and have enjoyed it for the most part but like... this episode broke me simply because the major plot twists they've been hinting at all season weren't twists at all by the end

I wanted it to be a big shock and that moment you get with good writing where all the puzzle pieces suddenly click into place and you're like "how did I not see this coming??" rather than reading the clues and knowing where you're going before you've even really left for the destination

In fact, I much preferred other theories we ourselves came up with while watching the first two episodes. If they had ended the series with the Mt. Doom eruption reveal (or something as suprising like it) it would have been a great cliffhanger shock ending. This ending just felt really weak

Really this big disappointment made me reflect on what bugs me the most about the series as a whole:

1) the fight in the Southlands that was like a bad tribute/homage to the battle of Helms Deep. It made it really obvious that the writers were struggling to find Tolkien's voice in the script and that they don't know how to come up with an original battle that still feels like a Tolkien battle

I feel like this is a good summary for the series - a wink and a nod to Tolkien's work with some referential dialogue or a visual scene or a specific important item scattered through-out episodes here or there to mask the fact that coming up with a Tolkien show when you can't write like Tolkien and haven't really captured his voice is hard

It's a very superficial and almost like... surface-level/lazy way of writing a Tolkien-based show imo

2) the whole 'mithril has special Silmaril powers now'/dying Elves plot is just SO BAD AND DUMB. Why would you change mithril like this???

The only good or interesting part about this plot is the tension it creates between Durin/King Durin and the Elves & Dwarves as a result. The actual idea of the plot itself made me laugh because I thought it was a genuine joke in the first few eps but now that it's not it just makes me angry

3) the fact that it was so obvious like 4 episodes ago (if that) who Sauron/The Stranger are lmao

4) there was literally nothing impactful in this entire season finale that made me go "I need more now!!" which is literally the exact opposite thing you want to do when you make a season finale of a TV show

5) the pacing and weird time-skips depending on which group of characters we're following is really weird through-out the entire season which I can mostly ignore but like... you're also just gonna have Celebrimbor make the elven rings overnight like that? alright lol

Theories we came up with early on in the season which would have been so much more interesting:

a) make Halbrand the King of the Dead

b) tbh I don't really care who The Stranger is just don't make him Gandalf because that was obvious the second we met him

they won't do it but even if it was Saruman I'd be like well... at least this makes for an interesting juxtaposition to his treatment of Hobbits in LotR/makes his corruption much more heartbreaking

my personal faves that were so unlikely but were thrown around in this category have been Tom Bombadil, a Blue Wizard or like a pre-Balrog Maiar(??)

c) have Gil-Galad think that the Elves are dying and mithril will save them (and in turn make Elrond etc. and us the audience think so) but have it all turn out to be a massive mis-direct where Gil-Galad has been unknowingly tricked by Sauron into getting mithril from the dwarves

d) I can't remember the episode number but a personal favourite theory early on that emerged during the ep where Elrond finds out Durin is mining mithril is that Sauron is actually in disguise as Elrond all along in order to gain access to mithril/Celebrimbor (though what that means for real Elrond in terms of his whereabouts I dunno). it only made sense during that episode really and look, it practically doesn't really work at all... but you can't say that wouldn't have been an exciting plot twist

TL;DR Yes, Amazon needs to cater to casual viewers who don't know much Tolkien, but the way that they have done so has made the plot immensely boring/predictable for anyone with a decent knowledge of (or background in) Tolkien's work

They demonstrate a basic understanding of some of the core central themes of Tolkien but their inability to cater to Tolkien fans beyond referential moments shows that they have a very shallow understanding of how to build alongside Tolkien's work/story-crafting style (or perhaps an innate inability to do so)

e.g. if you're gonna bastardize something at least make sure it's not extremely predictable and boring for a good 1/2 to 2/3 of your audience - you may as well just go all in

#sorry to take a break from the usual but look i just need to vent #look i am still not super against it and enjoyed in as equal measure as i hated it #but that being said there are major issues lmao #and this ain't even half of them!! #the rings of power #rings of power #trop #spoilers #trop spoilers #the rings of power spoilers

[dollypopup]

y'all can all cancel me (again) for this, but if there's even a SHRED of 'who should I pick?' from Penelope in season 3, I am tuning out SO fast because like. . .sorry not sorry, there IS no choice. Debling is some crusty OC suitor she barely even knows and Colin is a man who she has been so supposedly in love with to the point where she'd ruin her entire family's reputation to have a potential love story with him. Penelope and Colin have background, years of knowing each other, intimacy that few people in the Ton can boast of having (letters, conversations about purpose, fights and arguments and makeups) and her and Debling have. . .a dance or two at a ball because he's a rebound for Penelope's broken heart. he means nothing. he has no nuance, he has no weight to the story, he is such an afterthought to me. either I wanna see Penelope going 'you know what? I don't even LIKE this dude. he's. . .fine, but I don't care about him even a shred as much as I care about Colin' or the INSTANT Colin's like 'you know what? we should get married' if it's not an immediate 'say less, you're already my husband, try returning me without the receipt, Debling whomst?' then I don't want it!

like. . .it's just so frustrating to see all the 'I hope Debling sweeps her off her feet and she rejects Colin's proposal and she makes him work for it and and and-' nonsense from the fandom and it's always tagged and no matter how many times I block it, it just keeps popping up. I go into the Polin tag for POLIN. I don't give a SHIT about a male love interest other than Colin. Not one. Not a shred. Not an iota.

and also. . .Debling has the 'benefit' of not having depth, or character traits, or HISTORY, so peeps can project onto him however they want, but I'm calling it now, there is NOTHING he could do or be that would make me like him more than Colin. Colin will always hit different, and I will always love him more. and if Pen's not on that same page? lol bye

you want me to believe Penelope and Colin are soulmates and it's romance for her to hem and haw about how difficult a decision it is for her to marry a stranger who knows barely anything about her. . .

when Marina was out here dropping banger lines like 'You were the only man with which I could see myself being happy' and 'I do not care about any of these men, where is Colin?'? like hello??? and she wasn't even fully in love with him!!!! but we'll demonize her until the cows come home in our fandom and make her the villain in Polin's love story for DARING to get in between Polin, yet Debling, a white man, is a darling dear perfect prince for getting in between Polin? existing in our fandom solely so Penelope can be like 'lol, Colin ain't shit, let me entertain any and everyone else'?

if that's the direction it goes then, ten toes down and on my mama, she doesn't deserve Colin and she can move because I'm on my way to court him my damn self

and that's that on that

#you know what? lol it's been a bit since i've posted a controversial opinion #tagging it #polin #sorry not sorry i ship polin. . .so i wanna see. . .polin. . .and i'm getting damn sick and tired #of all the bullshit pen/oc pen/other dude theories and stories in the polin tag #and i don't want polin to lose screentime over a frankly bleh male oc #you can't change my mind #if i don't see at least marina's 'you've seen him with the little bridgertons!' level of squee and 'i only want to talk to colin' #levels of devotion then i don't fucking WANT IT!!!!! #yeah definitely try out the marriage market #realize that NO ONE has a good time on the marriage market #try to get over him w/ whomstever #but then be like 'i don't even LIKE this dude where's colin i miss him' about it!!!!! #because otherwise i am not here #i am asleep #and i am courting colin in your place pen #i'm coming for your man #anti debling #if debling has 100 haters i am one of them if he has 10 haters i'm one of them if he has 1 hater i am the hater if he has 0 haters i'm dead #it's incredibly obvious that 'pebling' is half rooted in a revenge storyline fueled by anger at Colin and his complexity #and half a projection of wanting Penelope to have 'choices' because she is a representation and manifestation of the fans themselves #and so people think an OC that can be 'perfect' for them- whoops I mean Pen (because he doesn't have any real depth or interest) #he's a cardboard cutout we can throw whatever you want onto #so we can make him 'perfect' instead of the much more meaningful storyline of pen and colin both being messy and loving each other more #and part of it is bitterness over Polin not being insta-love #which. . .if it was i wouldn't like them as much as i do #anyways y'all ain't slick #and it's fucking WEIRD to be in a fandom that's like 'i ship this couple but i hope she gets with ANYONE else' #maybe you. . .don't ship the couple?? #like. . .to the point of wanting her necklace to be from debling. . .and her wearing it everywhere??? WHAT??

[fatherentropy]

I've been having fun with Yorick's playthrough of Skyrim

also been relistening to The Magnus Archives which is probably influencing my brain when it comes to Hermaeus and Yorick. Good? Bad? idk

#CWart #The Elder Scrolls #Nebarra #Varrick Veil #tES Yorick #Serana Laury Miraak and BadEnd!Laury are also here but...y'know #this ain't about them #I've had Nebarra for like not even two days and I am deeply fond of him in a way I did not think I would be when I first looked at him #lower right hand corner on the last one is because I stopped being able to draw half way through #and Youtube keeps reccomending me songs from Shamanic Princess and I click them every time because that anime is a bop #tw: eye trauma

[musemelodies]

i'm living for timon's getups in this show.

he probably definitely had it down in his contract that he got to keep them all.

#it means no worries! (timon) #(what an icon) #(this ain't even half of them)

[melit0n]

"The more that I grow, the more that I've come to know; it's hard to be someone and it hurts to be nobody."

#I'm thinking about making a personal tag for all the music I post #something like 'Mel's Mixtape'? I feel like I've already seen that somewhere though so I don't wanna be copying anyone #if anybody has any ideas let me know! #+ that lyric gutter punched me when I first listened to COAP #(bit of a vent/rant incoming so nobody feel pressured to read) #I've spent the majority of my life with anxiety (especially social anxiety) and depression #so I got stuck on the idea of being a 'nobody'; a person you never even notice just drifting through It All #but then I got jealous (per say) of people who had big friendgroups and were 'popular' etc and wanted to become 'somebody' #a person maybe even in the public eye #so I spent years trying to make myself into someone I wasn't and spent the whole time suffering #and eventually people realised I was not what I wanted to be (I wasn't like *them* in that sense) and they spent their days making sure -> #I knew it #so yeah #it is hard to be someone but it hurts to be nobody #even so I've found myself a good middle spot with a few friends who know me for *me* a good major and a lot of lovely moots #I ain't someone but I ain't nobody either <3 #mel's thoughs #spotify #half•alive #half alive #conditions of a punk #coap #nobody (song) #melitunes

[krysmcscience]

Saw this prompt for incorrect OC quotes and couldn't resist with a bunch of my Breach goobers. Some of them would absolutely say these things word for word in canon if I gave them half the chance to, though. XD

They're in order of when they showed up in person - Qīng, Ghost, Red, Marisol, Shio, Cam, Daruk, Tawoos, and Alondra - as well as some important honorable mentions who have only been mentioned or gotten dialogue - Star, Blake, and Creation.

Star's design is a slight spoiler, I suppose, but it doesn't reveal if they're human or impostor, so it's all good. Creation's "design" also isn't a spoiler at all, because They can look however They want, LOL. As for Shio...some of you who have seen the body horror I've done of them may be wondering why they look so normal here, but I promise there are Reasons. :3c

In other news, will I be making a liar out of Shio in an upcoming Breach canon divergence? ..........Maybe~ >:3c

#original characters #breach #among us #(technically lol) #look i even revealed what their colors would be - as if it wasn't already patently obvious #aside from creation but - uh - ignore them (trust me it's better this way) #meanwhile qīng's color isn't even available which is a Damn Shame #there needs to be a sky blue already ffs #cyan ain't cutting it #if it were an actual lobby qīng would waffle so hard between blue and cyan and would miss his chance to pick either XD #the closest quote to canon is cam's because she REALLY wants a different job and she'll take yours in a fucking HEARTBEAT #meanwhile the closest quote to BECOMING canon is creation's and it is taking all of my willpower to resist their insistence that i allow it #the most incorrect quote of all is definitely blake's - he is so mad at me for drawing this and calling out how he feels about his old job #the biggest lie here is red's - he absolutely thinks about breaking rules and does it a lot more than he'd like to admit #someone give poor tawoos a fucking break - they didn't ask for this #i promise that marisol is more than The Bitchy Sunflower Girl - just give her some time - i promise #alondra has other aspects too but she would be weirdly offended if you tried to assure her that she's more than just Squeaky Mouse Girl #if daruk ever had to go to anger management he would accidentally incite a rage riot just like dan did in that episode of dan vs #ghost i'm sorry but your fashion sense is incomprehensible and i don't even know how i come up with half the stuff i put you in #did blake steal the jacket off of crinklytinfoil's pink/chase from the skeld? absolutely not - he borrowed it cuz those two would be BUDS #these tags are ridiculous #ok im done now

[zooterscooter]

thank you for asking @expensive-muscle i will be doing that for sure

i had this sitting in my drafts for a while so here we go hehe. it'll be quite a bit so i do apologize in advance

original post with the tags

the guy with the mask will be first :) his name is mars (legally his name is micah, but he doesn't go by it anymore, not a deadname or anything he just doesn't like it. not terribly important but yknow) he's part of a group of four... outlaws... i guess ? the group consists of him, his sister, the other girl in the drawing (who's also the one in the fifth drawing) and one other guy (when you look a bit closer on the 8th drawing, he's the one in the speech bubble they're talking about. their names are cecil, finch and karman, in order of being mentioned

he was unfortunately caught in a warehouse fire a few years back (story wise) and was pretty badly scarred bc of it. he wears the mask so he doesn't have to walk around with his scarred face and blind eye showing. he really only wears it out in public and around strangers because it is quite uncomfortable

i'm still working on a group name for the four of them, and nothings really sticking. but since we're on the topic of them i'll talk about finch a bit :)

she's a hitman, late 20s. she's been employed by a bunch of higher power people in the city where she lives, so she's kinda sorta untouchable by law. she's been taken in a few times but is always bailed out by someone somehow. money can buy anything i suppose

the other two mentioned, karman and cecil, are kind of a team... as someone who has no clue how sports betting works (yet) i don't really know how to explain, but cecil is like... this worlds equivalent of a nascar driver kinda ? kinda not really. anyways. betting is legal in this city, but for karman and cecil it's like an inside job, if that makes any sense at all. i haven't thought about this group as a whole much if i'm being honest, but it'll come in time i hope

moving on !!

onto the "mf in the beanie" :3 her name is lilith and she's a screenwriter. her dad kinda sorta skipped town when she was younger, but she is super close with her mom, and they're so awesome. her mom gets a bit sick at one point, spending a lot of time at various hospitals, but she ultimately turns out fine

lilith wanted to peruse comedy as a career at one point, but she didn't really get as into it as she thought she would, so she just sticks to the behind the scenes by writing :)

the "homosexual friendship" is about her now girlfriend, who was an alchemist at one point a few years ago but i've changed her career a bit and don't know the exact word to describe it 😭 her name is ophelia, very smart, very pretty, younger sister.

i'm going to be honest with you, dear readers. lilith was a danganronpa self insert at one point. she comes from a simpler time. her and her girlfriend, tho said gf wasn't a self insert, just a dangan oc. not anymore tho....

the more i rack my brain for info the more i realize i just. don't have the descriptors for anything that they do. questions welcome and encouraged

now onto the rest of the people in the drawings, i'll attempt keep them short and simple hehe

1st drawing- ophelia/her sisters moms, vada medea (left) and sage (right) both are biological. i took inspo from how the "making babies from bone marrow" stuff that's kinda sorta happening in the science scene. the timeline for all this takes place about a hundred years from now, so i think they'd be figuring out how to do it with little complication. i am not a scientist myself, so i have plenty research to do to get the specifics down

2nd drawing- ophelia's sister, rue, and some 180 year old freak scientist. the freak is the one in the sewer. he had a grand time fucking up a bunch of people and giving them what appear to be lizard scales, and then was told to get the hell out of the city lest he causes more chaos. unfortunately the scales get passed down, but they really have no impact on the lives of the people who have them. rue is nurse who lowkey gets corrupted by the freak (his name is emrys) after her girlfriend passes from a long battle with various medical complications. she takes her grief to the wrong person and starts to lose her mind.

3rd drawing- their names are kaleo (left) and Non (right) not quite sure what their deal is exactly if i'm being honest. kaleo is a boxer, and Non just... exists really. he's alive to be pals with kaleo so far 😭 he's one of the people who had the scales passed down to him, which is silly and fun. kaleo is related to the person in the 6th drawing, which i will get to

4th drawing- zephyr (left) and kairos (right). detective and cop due respectively. sometimes they're tasked with keeping up with finch and her little gang of criminals but they can't really do much.

5th drawing- that's finch. love her

6th drawing- her name is desdemona and she's a spirit freak. she's been alive for hundreds of years or maybe she was just willed into being alive yesterday. she's got a bunch of weird spiritual abilities, like time travel (sounds cheesy) and communicating with the dead. she also eats people sometimes but that's a minor thing don't worry about it. she's the "wrong person" rue went to after her girlfriend died... oopsie. kaleos relative somehow also. the body on the floor is her ""human disguise"" because she can't really walk around town with a skull on her head. said skull isn't hers btw

7th drawing- holt (welding the sandwich) and caspien (watching him weld) they're just a little duo of gays tbh. it would take a while for me to explain it all so lmk if anyone wants to hear about it. holt is a mechanic, early 20s, and caspien is legally dead but he's fine. has wicked nightmares a lot but other than that he's fine. caspien and zephyr are brothers.

8th drawing- finch and mars :)

9th drawing- lilith (explained above) and her pal alaric. alaric is the guy that knows everyone and everything about the city they're in. somehow related to emrys (sewer freak) but neither of them are exactly sure how. emrys shouldn't even be alive but here he is, corrupting the youth

10th drawing- eve and varden :) (varden is @yaffles-world 's oc, shoutout to you) eve is sage's sister, making him ophelia and rues uncle. one of the only guys in the family which is lowkey funny bc he's a trans guy. someone had to attempt to balance the scales i guess. varden is his secret partner he hid from everyone for like 15 years because he was scared of being made fun of for some reason. i dunno. he's my main projection oc and even i don't get it. his full legal first name is evening btw. he's named this because i was like "hey wouldn't this be funny ?" and then it stuck. eve is an astrophysicist (which is why his name is funny to me) and varden is a mechanic :) lots of mechanics in the city

and with that im gonna cut it off or else i'd just keep yapping on in a single post about everything. thanks for taking the time to read this all if you did, please PLEASE ask questions i obviously love talking. asks are encouraged

#god who the fuck let me talk about these clowns bro this ain't even half of them #or half of their stories tbh. #there are a tonnnn of things i need to keep looking into if it wasn't obvious LMAO #anyways. shutting up now 🫶 #lee oc posting

[soulsxng]

Last but not least, a height chart for the demon princes (which includes one of the second gen princes, with Mei)! Or half of them, anyway. Again, the other half are @feraecor's...which is also where most of the height variation is too sldkfna--

This doesn't include horn height at all, and...probably very obviously, doesn't reflect their height in their true forms. Those are significantly bigger/taller...except for Belial's, which is made purely of shadow, and has a variable size. I have a post with examples of their true forms somewhere, so I'll reblog that if I find it later!

Also, regardless of the height of the others, Abby is still the tallest out of them. Definitely the most built, too. I'm always joking that he could probably manage to carry around all 9 of his siblings at once-- hinging, of course, on all of them behaving long enough to pull it off, while being that close to each other. Which they couldn't.

#[Pythius -appearance-] #[Pythius -headcanons-] #See I always do the angel fam stuff first because there's a million and a half of them #and then sigh in relief while working on the Princes #because even if they're also a big family #it feels much smaller and more manageable after *gestures at the Elohim* #I got other families/groups I could do as well #but ya ain't gonna see me doing them now sorry y'all alkdfna

[warystares]

✘ CLOSED / ft. grey laurier ( @gildcdglory ) on the faceless ship / the fourth level

if he had it in him to be even slightly more self-aware, angel might've wondered exactly how inclined grey laurier might be to lend a portion of his time to him this evening ; after all, anyone could be forgiven for thinking that, at a SOIREÉ of this size, either of them might prefer to seek out the company of a face they DIDN'T already see at work half a dozen times this week ! but that's the thing about angel and gravity, isn't it ? there's not a single staff member on payroll ― excluding the other dancers, a few of whom they've taken to view as COMPETITION in a platform pleaser sprint toward a check ― for whom angel hasn't developed bit of a soft spot ; his vulnerability, his unprotected underbelly, comes in the form of those he surrounds himself with most often. the musicians, the bartenders ― and, last but most certainly not least, the SECURITY. in a city where very few look after anything but their own asses, angel is endeared to anyone willing to look out for HER.

now don't get her wrong, though, angel is PERFECTLY capable of looking after herself ; even if her stature alone isn't enough to INTIMIDATE away any potential threats ― standing well over six feet when she's in heels tends to have that effect ― she didn't get her nickname tonight ( THE SPITFIRE, baby ! ) without being a little VOLATILE. but grey ? well, he makes sure she doesn't even have to worry, at least when she's within the walls of the club. so of COURSE she's going to seek him out when she's not, too. angel currently strides beside him, the ice of her cocktail clinking against the confines of a glass as she swishes it about in animated conversation.

❝ ―within earshot of at least a dozen people, grey ! thundercunt ! ❞ angel is in the midst of recounting her night thus far, glancing over every so often to make sure he's KEEPING UP. ❝ the little SHIT ― it's like, just because you're eye level, do you really need to address her directly ? and he is, by the way, he'd be like, here on you― ❞ they go to make a ( rather exaggerated ) comparison but pause when their gaze lands on a balloon dart game set up a few yards away. ❝ oh my god, shut up ! i forgot there were games. how's your aim ? ❞

#✘ angel cardona | conversation #✘ angel / grey 001 #✘ event | the faceless ship #i wasn't even going to use this gif bc of those two random ass shirtless guys at the start but like ykw ?? #i know from the character aesthetics channel alone that there are Too Many Men out here walkin around on this ship half naked rn #like it ain't december in new york on the fucking water #one of them belonging to me even #so they stay #anyway idk what this is honestly ?? but i'm gonna shut up now before the tags get longer than the starter

[oh-cool-a-burning-sword]

it's May and about a week away from the next story banner, you know what that means!

Who do y'all hope'll get a Fallen Alt this year?

#For me I know we JUST got a Houses Banner but I'd love Fallen Shez/Arval or Fallen Byleth #I am also one of the people who want Risen King Chrom to come home already #Please I need Fallen Chrobin in Feh #and since we got Gustav last year it'd be cool to have Fallen Fafnir #I'd mention Alear or someone from engage but seeing as the game came out not even half a year ago and we've only gotten one banner #I don't think it's TOO likely #could be wrong but there's like 40 potential Fallen Characters in Engage #you just know that once we start getting Fallen Engage character they ain't gonna stop so let's have one last year without them #Oh and Scarlet #not because I'd pull for her #but there was someone who counted the days until she gets added into Feh so It'd be funny to see their reaction #Like that one guy on twitter who saved up to 16k in orbs for Pelleas #only for him to be a Grail unit #I also kinda wonder if we'll get an Rearmed/Ascended hero on the Fallen Banner #I know we didn't get an Ascended on last year's banner #yet sometime afterwards we got Rearmed Female Fallen Robin so... the possibility's there #ONLY if they get a new outfit tho #not like Alfred who's came into the game as a Rearmed unit #or Ingrid and Hilda who's respective Rearmed and Ascended alts are their Hopes counterparts #feh #fire emblem heroes

[leechinfestedheart]

dude me and my freind are so fucking different yet alike it's crazy, we don't share a single interest but I would die for that bitch. Anyways we named the series were making steve. His full legal name is Steve Sineater. I'm apparently the hardworking single mother while my freind is the dead beat dad who still pays child support but it's always late

#I love them half to death tho #They like phoebe bridgers and won't shut the fuck up about her tho #I ain't ever even listened to boypenis or wtv the name is #(That's a lie their music slaps) #Anyways I'm losing my mind #I want to draw but I can't waahhh

[sheepwasfound]

after a few days have passed now, it was interesting to read through a transcript of the instagram dm’s which dream confirmed he believed were real. seeing them just on their own like that with nothing around it is a valuable experience i feel like

#watch out though the reddit post and most of the comments under it are very biased #make your own decision on how you feel! #cw discourse #and dream just completely did not address the snapchat stuff which is what i find to be the issue #and him not addressing it does not sound good for him at all #but i am waiting to hear more detail about that and get to the truth behind it #but as for the dm's? i know there's people who are very vehemently against them #i can't bring myself to feel that way and these are the types of messages we've known over the years that dream sends #he replied to her messages a total of 19 times over a year and a half #i don't know where i feel like the limit is for what is too much to message a fan #but 19 times in a year and a half ain't past that limit for me #not to mention how short and dry his messages are #and it was essentially on 6 different occasions over the year and a half (when they were within a couple days and continuing the same topic) #that's not enough to make someone depend on you or mistake it for friendship #HOWEVER even if a cc sends only like two messages but they're flirty or otherwise inappopriate that's not ok #and i also don't find it ok to send many messages back and forth regularly in a friend-like way #but i just can't read that from this interaction y'know #and for the ppl condemning any dming with fans i don't know why they didn't find it a problem the gajillion times we knew about it before #but at the same time i know the other allegations even if they turn out to be fake they just sour the whole thing #it can make you realize that in your mind even just dm'ing fans is a red flag now even though it wasn't that for you before #and that is completely ok and i hope everyone makes their own conclusions based on their own morals and feelings #but for me? i don't find these dm's wrong certainly not to the point where i feel like he should be deplatformed #BUT if the snapchat stuff is real that's a whole different thing that's where i think the problem lies #i'm waiting for more confirmation on that side of things

[vampiromano]

why the fuck is it called the mystery of aaravos if aaravos ain't gonna appear at all

#tdp spoilers #they spend entire episodes jus fucking around instead of spendin them doing ANYTHING related to the TITULAR CHARACTER #it's frustrating #i love the characters as much as the next guy but man these days i think i just love what they could be #I'm sure there's an interesting story to be told w the sun elves but for the past two seasons they've been nothin but a drag to watch #maybe it has something to do with them taking away from the main antagonist with petty conflicts that ain't even resolved right #but oh who knows #sigh #unorganized thoughts #oh also the mains do useless shit half the time and i couldn't even get interested in the rayllum conflict these past two seasons #i am going insane i think #especially since i loved the first three seasons so much #and love the characters in theory #Also Also what the FUCK is up with rhe animation i am foaming at the mouth #unrelated: EL DOBLAJE EN ESPAÑOL ES UNA PORONGA HABLAN COMO NENES DE 2 AÑOS

[piracytheorist]

My vegan boss: You have to learn about how eating meat pollutes the environment and pass that on to your students

Me: I don't have to do jackshit in fact the more you talk about how I "have to" do that the more I want to go get some very meaty yeero once I'm on my way home tonight

#like. I understand where she's coming from #and I know I like the taste of certain meat foods too much to go vegan #plus I'm broke af and vegan diets ain't cheap chief #BUT STFU MAYBE??? #this type of people being vegan is why meat eaters hate vegans #plus she does not understand. CHILDREN HAVE NO CONTROL OVER WHAT FOODS THEY EAT #even if they want to be vegan half of them won't be able to bc their parents will go like #''sure sweetie you want to protect the environment now est your beef meatballs'' #why. why are people like her becoming educators. why. #nette speaks

[moghedien]

so don't take this as me like defending mcu movies because I'm not, but what really gets me is when people who are criticizing mcu movies do so by holding them against the comics in a way that suggests that the comics are like pinnacles of culture and representation which are good at doing things like, portraying character development and telling coherent stories

because like, as someone who has read hundreds of marvel comics and continues to read them.....what?

#like ok ok there are comics that are actually very good #but like there are a whole lot more pretty bad ones then there are actually good ones #literally like half of the superhero conflicts are just them having a brief misunderstanding #which could be handled if they just stopped and asked 'hey what's going on?' #and instead of doing that the superheros just try to murder each other #like that's half the stories #like half of them #and like I say this as a comic enjoyer #like I'm fucking subscribed to marvel unlimited #I like these things and I know that the majority of this is garbage #why are you acting like the comics were universally high literature #and that's like not even going into how like problematic and racist the comics have been and still are #like can we criticize marvel movies without acting like the comics weren't also problematic as fuck #like there are ways to use the comics in a way to criticize how things are portrayed in the movies #but yall idolizing and straight up lying about the comics ain't it

[saintedbythestorm]

Sure gotta love when people try to guilt trip you into seeing them.

Imma be honest, it just makes me want to see them less.

#yes manipulation tactics that the toxic half of the family would use all the time is absolutely going to change my mind #you'd think when this tactic has worked for years they'd realise it isn't working. but no. #maybe actually talk to me instead of just telling me who died or is sick every damn time and i want to talk?? #nooooo gotta just sit and talk about how horrible everything is EVERY SINGLE TIME. #which is a great idea when the person you're talking to is already depressed and barely holding together 🙃 #and if i do see them they get bored of me within like 20 minutes anyway and just walk off to watch tv #very worth all my energy for a few days as you can tell. 🙄 #i just saw that the hasn't worked for years turned into has... too lazy to change it now. ty phone #like ffs i can't even be up on the right side of the day now a days ... just try and work with me instead?? #maybe if you stop pushing and trying to make me feel bad all the time I'd called ages ago? #like I'm sorry but i ain't no therapist and you sure af ain't paying me so no i won't spend the little grain of energy i have on it #i hear enough of sickness death and misery every single fucking day... i do not need someone to put theirs on me too #and then expect me to constantly make them feel better about it. like i can't even describe how exhausting it is #and we tell em.... and they don't give a shit . #sorry for the rant but i just... i already felt so shit rn and now i get this too #like the past months stress that has ruined my brain ain't enough...or the super bad body ache ain't enough #or the super bad stomach isn't enough... or the lack of sleep and effed up day night cycle ain't enough #it's just.. i do not need this right now please stop... please stop.. #i just stopped going 150% and pure survival the past 2 months.. don't start this shit now i literally cannot... #i am exhausted to a point I never thought possible... and it keeps going down cause it never let's up. #... i need a hug... #rant #ryder speaking