#and this is an outright attack

[exoflash]

a concerning amount of witchblr will be like "um actually new years was stolen by europeans from the ancient god scroobus mcdoobus" and then you actually try to research scroobus mcdoobus and it turns out he was invented in the 1940s by a conspiracy theorist who powdered every meal with ketamine and thinks that queer people are reincarnated fish

#brightts ramblings #BEFORE I GET ATTACKED: THIS IS NOT AN ANTI-WITCH OR ANTI-PAGAN POST #im just literally begging witchblr and paganblr(?) to study history from proper sources #so you don't accidentally end up repeating misinfo or even outright bigoted info without realizing #you are not immune to propaganda! #this post is specifically ab new agey stuff like starseeds #but a lot of other stuff fits into this as well ie 'blessed be' #for further context i am not a witch or pagan myself but i DO study the occult/occult history #religion #spirituality #history

[sapphic-agent]

Meanwhile:

We big chillin

#anti kataang #anti kataang shippers #zutara friendly #kataang shippers don't LISTEN #and then attack you when you disagree with them #you can give them direct contextual evidence #and they'll still refuse to accept that canon kataang screwed over katara massively #and aang for that matter #for mfs who claim to love aang so much kataang shippers are keen on the canon choices that stopped him from growing maturing and healing #and let's not talk about the mfs who claim to love katara and outright deny her established character traits to fit the kataang natrative #katara deserved better #harutara

[semisolidmind]

if the question bothers you then please ignore it ;; but I wanted to ask what you thought of “shadow peach” cuz it’s a pretty dominant ship in the lmk fandom. Again, if you don’t wanna answer questions like this then please ignore this ask😭

hooh boy, ok. figured id get this eventually.

alright. so. shadowpeach.

here's the thing. if you ship it, cool. i get why you would. it's sorta easy to see that dynamic between them in lego monkie kid. if you ship it , have at it! you should enjoy making or consuming content for whatever you like. personally, i see the mystic monkeys as having a familial or platonic type of bond between them (pre-betrayal). their relationship isn't much more than a short-lived rivalry and a murder in the book, so it's free to interpret as you will.

however.

there's a pervasive issue in the lmk fandom when it comes to tagging this ship. i think that because shadowpeach is such a dominant ship, some people think they dont need to tag it. because everybody likes shadowpeach, right? 🙄 now, ive done my fandom curation. i don't like the ship, i block the tags associated with it, and that's as far as my interactions with that tag and the folks in it goes.

the thing is, ill be scrolling through the general lmk tag, and ill see art for shadowpeach completely untagged. sometimes it's just suggesting the ship, other times it's full-on ship art. again, ship what you want, that freedom is what fandom is for.

but please, please don't assume that just because a ship is ultra popular that you don't have to tag it.

i know this is a problem a lot of fandoms have; one ship gets super popular, and then it's assumed that everyone ships it; any other points of view get steamrolled in favor of the big ship. and then the issue of people bashing anyone who doesn't ship it eventually comes up. in the course of my relatively short time in the lmk fandom, ive received more toxic anons than I have in any other fandom ive been in. ive gotten reblogs that just say "no" on my posts and then i go and see that the blog that reblogged it was full of shadowpeach.

it's just...tagging things correctly is the least you can do on tumblr. it's there for curation. please don't assume that everyone is going to agree with you just because you're on the biggest boat.

and shadowpeach is the only lmk ship ive had this issue with? every other thing that can be shipped is tagged fairly well, though i don't have anything else blocked.

anyways, long story short; please tag your ships.

#ive noticed that people in this fandom get kinda defensive of their character hcs #and have a hard time accepting other points of view #if someone isnt outright attacking you you dont need to hit them back #sorry this got kinda long

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

LOVING your fantasy au, has Home tried to attack or steal the soul of anyone in the party without Wally's permission? What happens then?

not really! i think when Wally first joined there must've been at least One instance where a Neighbor went down, and Home was automatically like "oh cool free snack" and Wally had to shut that shit down quick

but after a nice explanation of "these are our friends / they're off limits" then Home (begrudgingly) backed off. at this point in time Wally & Home are already close enough that Home somewhat respects Wally's wishes

#they don't like Wally's friends very much tho lol #it takes them a veeeeryyyy long time to warm up to the neighborhood #and it isn't until after the Reveal that home outright starts liking some of them #i like to think that home finds sally & frank amusing #doesn't like barnaby tho due to how barnaby keeps saying 'MY best friend or MY little buddy-' #and acts like there is no one who understands / knows / is as close to wally as barn is #home just... gets a little territorial! and lowkey views wally as their uh... not property but its a similar vibe #there's a bit of an ownership thing going on which is understandable! home is wally's patron! thats Their lil warlock! #like even in the big 'wally is a warlock and hey home exists' Reveal #when home is eating just. So many people and wally's friends attack them #home pretty much ignores the neighborhood. it's watching them soooo unimpressed and vaguely annoyed #but it doesnt eat them and tries not to hurt them! wally asked home not to so home won't! #wally loves and cares for them so home has to put up with it! #rambles from the bog #wh fantasy au #home when wally decided to stick around: NOOOOOO NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO #hard cut to home seething as wally sits at a campfire listening to terrible singing and laughter & tries to chime in #they had a good run of just the two of them on the road. seeing the sights #wally spending most nights curled up on home's (house-form) floor instead of in a tent #sighhhhh those were the times... OH WELL-

[antidiluvianobservatory]

Is it just me or are the sisters being naughty here? I don't mean sexy, I don't mean evil, I mean naughty like little children. This is a game, they're being sneaky. Jonathan discovers them mid-plot and they scatter, giggling all the way. They run away. They don't turn into mist or bats or hypnotise Jonathan or any other typically vampire method. They run giggling away like a small child you've just caught trying to steal a biscuit.

#dracula daily #jonathan harker #the brides of dracula #the weird sisters #this is kind of more unnerving than if they'd outright attacked Jonathan #like tomorrow he's going to be drained dry by a bunch of toddlers #comedy twist: Jonathan successfully fends them off by putting them in time out

[amoebeau]

as a kid i never really Got the hints of mettatons whole "human killer robot" shtick being completely made up and its also embarrassing that it took me THIS long to finally play undertale myself. but every scene with mettaton and alphys is genuinely so entertaining!! those guys are literally just acting and alphys forgets and stutters her lines

#woke up way too early and started thinking about undertale.... hmmmm #ik he outright says its all fake but he still attacked you for the final time #and i guess 10 year old me didnt get it i guess #srry the entirety of ut is very fresh in my mind rn

[adobe-outdesign]

Great news! Not only does Kadabra get to return to the TCG after 20 years, but it’s getting this absolutely GORGEOUS card illustrated by the always amazing Mitsuhiro Arita

#pokemon #pkmn #pokemon cards #pokemon tcg #kadabra #outdesign posts things #the illustration also references its silver 'dex entry #'If it uses its abilities it emits special alpha waves that cause machines to malfunction' #it's just uncommon and the actual attack isn't particularly strong or useful so hopefully this will be cheap enough to buy outright

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

nah but like

they're "seiros lapdogs" because they're fighting back against the people who attacked them completely unprovoked??? also because it so happens that thales is at garreg mach so they have to go there to reclaim the area to defeat him???

i just hate this because it's just perpetuating things about faerghus and its people that just aren't true. it frames it like they jumped into the war willingly for the church and that they're only here for the church. like nah buddy, it's not faerghus' fault you're out here fighting to protect thales and ludwig.

it also is batshit to me how he and leopold are fighting to stop faerghus from advancing but like... they know what's happening to the empire and that edelgard isn't even calling the shots anymore, yet they still stupidly fight for the very person who is literally razing their country and burning their villages. they know the empire is in shambles and that the kingdom isn't targeting them and is specifically aiming for gm to get it back from who? thales; who, mind, at this point is in his real form and not posing as arundel anymore. everything is laid out plainly, but they still act like faerghus is the bad guy.

but yeah, okay. faerghus BaD for defending themselves, fighting back, finding out who is behind all the puppeteering and heading to take him out. sure, that makes them seiros lapdogs. like what are you, an agarthan mouthpiece??? may as well be like yeah you go retreat and leave you agarthan lapdog. if they don't realize it's Someone Else in charge of course, then ludwig lapdog works fine too.

and it sucks because other than this shit, i like waldemar just fine as a character. it's just like, it feels like they forced someone to have to stick in that final faerghus BaD insult before the grand finale so they just randomly picked someone to remind us that faerghus is Always Wrong as long as they continue to fight back and prevent being attacked in the future.

waldemar here is just basically ag caspar. fighting and risking his life for thales, who is destroying the empire and basically holding the emperor hostage. if the writing here had any decent plot points, they would've all stopped and have been like hey wait, shouldn't we be fighting to get our emperor back? why are we stopping these guys from killing the people who are destroying this country?

and like, they literally went from siding with ludwig during the insurrection to siding with edelgard in this timeline to... jumping immediately back to ludwig as soon as he was at the top of the food chain (thales notwithstanding). as soon as the person in charge changes, they jump ship immediately; then of course get mad that the people they attacked are coming after them... and fighting them as they defend the very people who are letting adrestia become a literal, physical ruin.

it really just tells me that these people don't care about adrestia itself, but status, power and wealth. they don't care about the country itself as long as they're doing well. that's like, the only thing i can get from still fighting with/for ludwig/thales. the fact that they just fight for ludwig again as soon as edelgard is out of commission is also pretty gross to me. they have no loyalty at all.

and it's like, i want to like waldermar and leopold, but they come across as just selfish, entitled and only there for their own asses to be covered. and i get that - that is a realistic take on politicians, but the fact that the game regularly loops back around to faerghus BaD despite that and despite portraying these people as opportunistically selfish is like... what are they even trying to write??

#DCB Three Hopes Run #ah yes. the hours i wait for to post this stuff. #it's like whenever i finally find an adrestian character i like they have them spew some bs like this #or in ferdie's case i loved him and hopes made him another edelgard simp instead of like #the one person around her who contested her views and BLATANTLY OUTRIGHT told her "you're wrong'' #but ofc yes edelgardwash him bc that's too extreme in a fodlan game #and in this case with waldemar it's not EVEN edelgard. it's just ''faerghus evil for trying to retake gm'' #''we attacked gm and won so it's OURS now the ppl who lived there first don't matter anymore'' #''what do you mean it's being held by a threat to all of us? no such thing only you are a threat'' #literally like they either killed off the adrestians offscreen or made them stupid as fuck just to have you #fight named characters. like if leopold KNOWS all of this then why is he STILL fighting and acting like it's for adrestia #when his actions in that moment were actively HARMING adrestia? #but yet somehow it like I said loops back to faerghus bad... but yet the writing in general #does portray faerghus as doing the right thing... and then has other characters insist they're bad #and so much so like they're purposely shoving it in your face TO believe it #it's like saying someone helped save a village from destruction and protected all the children in a safe shelter #but a bunch of characters say those ppl are evil and it keeps pressing and pushing that statement OVER and over #like rly what are you trying to write with this? i love ag but the last few chapters are just like #wow how dare you try to kill ludwig the one true future of adrestia who is being puppeteered by thales. like. okay.

[perenlop]

i think its always worth thinking about how women are portrayed in certain stories, from fictional narratives to reddit posts presenting themselves as true stories. is every woman in the narrative either antagonistic or shallow? are most or all of the men portrayed as sympathetic and competent, moreso than the women, even if they commit the same crimes?

#i read reddit stories bc i love rotting my brain apparently and this is SO constant in those #one literally ended like ''i have concluded that i cant trust women bc theyre all lying cunts unlike the men who helped me here'' #and the comments were like ''wow.... makes you think....'' #like wc is a good litmus test. why are only the women in crookedstar's story held accountable while the men in power are shrugged off #why do all of the women get twisted into shrill harpies for nightheart's arc while all the men who commit the same pressure on him #get idealized and held up as fantastic and awesome and sympathetic #why is the man in this story calm and collected while being horrible while the woman is hysterical and emotional and loud #how come the fat woman in hh is seen as annoying and terrible and a danger to their cause bc ''she brought danger to them'' #while the snake guy outright attacks the place twice and tries to hurt them but is an uwu cinnamon roll who deserves a chance #echoed voice #like... an antagonistic woman isnt a bad thing. women can be horrible irl. absolutely but its important to try and see when this is a patte #pattern #when theres just straight up a double standard

[queerbauten]

It’s supremely weird that the Tally Hall fandom sent Ross hate for apparently posting pro-Israel things (things he has taken down, mind you) but is just… staying silent on Andrew continuing to like pro-Israel (and outrightly anti-Palestinian) content

#like I still see people to this day saying ‘fuck Ross’ #(and I have no idea what he said or posted because it’s gone!!) #but like. Andrew can outright like a tweet saying Gaza isn’t being ethnically cleansed… and that’s fine? #(also as I’ve said before: that Andrew let Ross take all the hate alone is disgusting) #(like I would personally stand up for my friends if they were being attacked for beliefs I hold) #(but that’s just me) #Ross Federman #Andrew Horowitz #Tally Hall #(once again: the impression I get from Ross’ situation is that he reacted badly to a tragedy) #(if I’m wrong do let me know) #(but like. if nothing else he doesn’t seem to be as ardently pro-Israel as Andrew) #Israel #Palestine #genocide tw #death tw #murder tw #war tw #violence tw #racism tw #swearing tw

[ink--theory]

test of patience

#ah waiting til they get greedy and impatient and try to attack me outright..works almost every time LOL #I would say I was as a cool as a cucumber throughout all this but that would be a lie #I was very much in fact holding my breath and silently panicking while I hearing my friends screech and cuss at eachother in vc lkdsjfk #splatoon #splatoon 3 #rainmaker #video

[findafight]

Reading a fic where Robin and Steve are not completely on each other's sides against other people 100% always: you don't get them like I do.

#as though they arent each other's little attack dogs. #stobin #stop making robin be mean to steve in fics she wouldnt do that he is literally the other have of her blob person!! #like yeah interpersonal conflict but not outright beig mean!! stop!!!!! #they are otters holding hands to not drift away!! fishes swimming in circles to confuse predators! trees with interwoven root systems!! #stranger things #finda's rambles

[movedtodykedvonte]

my biggest issues with ways Spamton and Jevil are depicted is how people depict the manic aspect of their characters.

Like yes they are objectively insane but that’s not just them being feral. Yes, Spamton makes confusing choices and has asinine reasoning behind it but he has reasoning skills. He’s incoherent to us but he is coherent to himself. He may be partially winging it but he knows how to manipulate and play up his schtick until he gets his payout. The guy is capable and determined. 

Same thing with Jevil. I get he’s goofy and doesn’t take things seriously but I feel like people underplay his maliciousness compared to Spam. Like his joke about playing a simple numbers game with the lighteners was a death threat, he acknowledged their hp and intended to get it to 0. I see people acknowledge his love for violence but Jevil weirdly sensible, the only rules he abides by are that to the games rather than just making them up, he’s a lot more conditional than given credit.

#like spam is more or less having a nervous break #hes very aware of what hes doing and how to get it done and can be down right terrifyling persistent about it #and it happens to get glossed over to make him more comcially desperate and pathetic #which he is in a sense but he still refuses to back down #i dont think hes a coward just a pragmatist #jevil is like a weird mix of doctor felicer the cheshire cat and the bat man joker #like he does shit for the hell of it but it needs to be done in a perimeter to actually be enjoyable within his philosophies you get it? #like he wouldn't outright attack you less you agreed to a game in someway and if you won by his ruling or whatever he goes by ur free #ironically for a business man Spamton breaks a lot of rules and deals while Jevil seems to have a guideline even if it is his own. #i could talk about how these characters contridict themselves all day #jevil deltarune #spamton #jevil #spamton g spamton #utdr #undertale #deltarune #deltarune analysis

[autumnwoodsdreamer]

“maybe people don’t like Mandalorian season 3 because they read too many fanfics” is kind of a nasty take actually

#the mandalorian #the mandalorian critical #mando critical #(not outright but gotta tag that or risk the toxic positivity attacks)

[not-poignant]

did I hear it right? Is Ao3 currently under "attack"..??

You don't even need to put it in inverted quotation marks anon, it's straight up under attack by very likely Russian terrorists. It's both trending on Twitter, or if you don't use Twitter (don't blame you at all there), the Wikipedia page on Archive of Our Own has a whole section on it already.

There's also quite a few news articles out about it already!

#asks and answers #it's not an 'attack' it's an outright attack #complete with ransom asking for money #it's not great

[krikeymate]

I just thought of an alternate version of the apartment scene where it diverts when Sam, mindy and Anika are in Quinn’s room and Tara is pounding on the door. Upon hearing Tara at the door and her desperate pleas for Sam and chad saying he was going to get help Ghostface opens the apartment door suddenly dragging Tara in with him and locking Chad out. Idk the logistics if this tbh but shhh….. ghostface then uses Tara to threaten Sam, knowing she’d do anything for Tara. Idk how it would exactly continue for there but it would be interesting to see how Sam would cope. Andthen it can get all angsty with Sam’s constant guilt and her prioritising Tara over everyone and people getting hurt and Tara feeling guilty.

Chad says he's going to get help, and begins leaping back down the stairs. Tara's resorted to trying to kick the door down at this point, and switches to preparing to shoulder it. Just as she hits the door, it flies open and she goes crashing to the floor. By the time she's flipped herself over, it's to the sight of Ghostface towering above her and hands reaching down. One covers her mouth and the other digs a knife into her shoulder.

Inside the bedroom, the other 3 are catching their breath, cautious of the sudden silence and not ready to let their guard down. The ladder is across the window, and Sam's about to try and send Anika across when she hears a voice call out from the other side of the door.

"Samaaanntthhhaa..."

Oh good, Ghostface is still here, in case they were worried it would be that easy. Sam nods to the ladder and mouths at them to go, quickly.

"You really should keep your guard dog on a leash. You know what they do to dogs that bite? They put them down."

Ghostface removes their gloved hand from Tara's mouth and stabs down again, cutting across the existing wound. Sam hears a scream that is distinctly Tara, and doesn't even think twice, reaching for the door.

Mindy surges forward to grab her around her middle and try to hold her back. "You can't! You can't, Sam!" Sam struggles against Mindy's arms, "Tara's out there, he's got Tara!"

"Do you think I'm not worried for Chad?! This is what Ghostface wants, he wants you to open the door, what if it's a trap?"

"Then it's a fucking trap," Sam declares, escaping Mindy's grasp. She rips open the door to see her sister on the floor with a knife in her shoulder. Ghostface has one knee on her chest and a hand around her throat, Tara's hands are latched onto his wrists in an effort to remove him.

"How nice of you to finally join us, Samantha. Where are your friends?"

The banging against the bathroom door begins again.

"Oh, I invited a friend over too, I hope that's ok?"

Mindy throws herself back against the drawers holding back the bathroom door, Sam is frozen in front of the open bedroom door, and Anika is crying on the bed.

"Sam, please," Mindy cries out as the door opens wider and wider with every push. The Ghostface in front of her puts a single finger on the knife in Tara and tilts it. Her sister's pained groan has her leaping forward at Ghostface, who throws themself backwards, yanking the knife out in the same movement.

Mindy begs Anika to go, Danny is yelling from across the window. Anika stands, but she doesn't head for the window, she slumps across the drawers next to Mindy and tells her she needs to go, that she's not gonna make it, she's lost too much blood. Please, Anika begs, please go. "I don't want you to die," Mindy cries. "I don't want to die either," Anika whispers, "I love you." Mindy surges forward to kiss her and repeats it back to her. "Promise you'll try to follow me," she begs. "I will," Anika answers.

Mindy crosses, Anika tries, Ghostface flips the ladder.

Sam fights with Ghostface, and the pained scream from nearby gives Ghostface the upper hand, knife slicing across her arm. Sam trips back and then Ghostface is thrown to the side as Tara barrels into them. Sam scrambles up from the floor, grabbing at Tara's hand and they run for the door.

#/mp #ask box #Scream #Sam Carpenter #Tara Carpenter #scream canon divergence #my writing tag #-apartment attack #tara is a tiny little ferocious guard dog yes she is #anyway quinn is the other ghostface here nobody notices her body is missing in all the chaos and she had a costume in her bag which #is just chilling in the hallway i guess #did i make the anika thing extra tragic? please say yes. #anyway sam blames herself for anika's death even more and she hates that she doesn't regret it. she hates that she knows there's no one she #wouldn't sacrifice if it meant saving tara. mindy doesn't outright blame sam. but they feel it.