#bar babbles

[snowie130]

Oh my god, it feels like I wanted the "time travellers recognize each other because of a song that shouldn't be released yet" moment to happen since the dawn of time, who would have known I would actually find it in kdrama *happy tears*

#marry my husband #bar babbles

[bonefall]

Ooh, another based "Shellheart gets too much hype in canon" truther? Is it because he actually does shockingly little to stop or protest Rainflower's treatment of Crookedstar as a kit, or something else?

It's a few things honestly, all of them bug me just enough to make me pretty steadfast in feeling like Shellheart is overrated;

Crooked's renaming feels so preventable. Really, Dad Shellheart? You have no say in this? You can't protest this??

You too Hailstar, what the fuck. Leaders are theocratic dictators 90% of the time but TODAY you feel like just letting this woman involve your entire Clan in her emotional abuse?

So it feels like lip service, "Omg Rainflower's being so awful! Don't worry though us powerful men can still be likeable because we don't like this :( too bad our all-powerful hands are tied."

Shellheart wasn't very involved with his children BEFORE denouncing Rainflower, so he does this whole big show of it and theeeeen..... nothing changes.

I'm reminded of how deadbeat fathers will sometimes blow into town with a whirlwind of big talk about doing something big for their neglected family, only to be gone again before Christmas.

Or, worse, the idea that Shellheart ONLY stopped being official mates with Rainflower because he's deputy, and it would look awful if he did nothing at all in the face of such an unpopular situation. Washing his hands of it.

And listen. I know people will staunchly refuse to acknowledge that these aren't real people, they are WRITING CHOICES. But please. I'm begging everyone to stick with me for a goddamn second

Ask yourself these critical thinking questions:

Why have the writers chosen for the mother to be solely responsible for Crookedstar's childhood abuse, whilst portraying Shellheart's solitary big public denouncement as the pinnacle of fatherhood? As he's barely involved in his children's lives?

Do they functionally portray Shellheart as a father who helps his son through maternal neglect? Or are the scenes quite rare? If yes, then what did the author spend their time on instead?

Consider the narrative of Crookedstar's other main antagonist, Mapleshade. Does Mapleshade's backstory have any similarities to Rainflower? Consider the choice to give Crookedstar two cruel maternal figures who act on malice towards him as paternal figure Shellheart goes unexamined.

Is this a pattern that we have seen before? Are fathers typically held to a different standard in Warrior Cats?

I feel strongly that the answer is an obvious yes. So Shellheart, and all the praise and cooing he gets, bothers me immensely.

#and it's extremely common #Gray Wankposting again but he's an awful parent to everyone except Pebble. For like 3 scenes #and not even considered a Real Dad by those children #but he's incredibly popular and it frustrates me #Bramble too. Bramble gets lauded as an Amazing Dad when even before the reveal he was just better than crow #which is a low ass bar #He was still flattered into ALLOWING ASH TO THRASH HIS SON... #meanwhile poor squilf and leaf do absolutely nothing wrong besides try to not let the kittens grow up with halfclan stigma #and get treated like the antichrist for it #bone babble #warrior cats analysis

[enden-k]

her: rambling abt her idol dori

me: omg kaveh

#RATTLES THE BARS OF MY CAGE #RAAAAAAH KAVEH #babbles #genshin tag #tbd

[almea]

lmao every time Miles talks about RWBY it's the most validating experience ever for me because it's always "wow, this is literally what I spent years saying."

#Annie babbles about RWBY #He did a cameo where someone asked if he had any behind the scenes stuff to share about the Bees #And he talked about how Blake and Sun was always meant to be a teenage crush #And the Bees were a slowburn about two friends realizing they had feelings for each other #So it's all very validating #He also said if they did it again he didn't know if they'd go as hard with the Sun stuff because it just made people so mad lmao #I still don't think the Sun stuff was the worst decision ever in a vacuum but the bar is too low for m/f ships and too high for f/f ships #And some people are just incapable of admitting they're wrong so yeah that probably would have been for the best #He also mentioned everyone being in love with Blake was a deliberate choice and that's always so funny to me

[blinkpen]

oh boy at the point of writing where i can just Imagine the gaslight gatekeep girlboss memes instantly curdling into rock solid cheese bc grimstone is in fact literally gaslighting. like just straight up traditional definition of the word gaslighting.

"telling the rapidly decompensating schizophrenic with PTSD, who has chosen to trust that you would not lie about anything serious, that she definitely did Not see you do a thing you totally did do, no, she's just hallucinating again because she's been awfully extra paranoid lately! and now she continues to question their own senses more and more, making her increasingly isolated and easy to manipulate (which really wasn't your goal with that initial lie, but you're not really rushing to mitigate its effects, either)" kinda gaslighting.

#oc babble #grimstone #demersa #when the toxic yuri is Not in silly time mode anymore #bc i include these things to explore and tackle them properly #que half of dem's friends gnawing at the bars in impotent frustration #'we know Something is up but we aren't even sure What and we can't prove a What we don't even know; Fuck what are the options even'

[blastlight]

There are a lot of words I already knew when I first read A Series of Unfortunate Events, but I never forget specifically which ones I did learn from it

#aka whenever i see/think the word 'penultimate' #((because the words 'the Penultimate Starwalker' entered my brain)) #and it's also married to the word 'denouement' #did i use the keyboard suggestion bar to spell that word correctly? yes. do i remember what it means? nope #but it was most definitely a hotel #a series of unfortunate events #asoue #lemony snicket #blast babbles #brain mix

[simlit]

random dialogue tag.

tagged by: @nectar-cellar

Share a random line of text from your current WIP or a line or two of dialogue from one of your characters. Do not give any explanation or context, and see what your followers think.

Age of Arcanai / “If you wish to serve me, Your Majesty, then serve.” “All that pain you endured because of me. I have much to repent for. So lay still, and let me atone.”

tagging: @amuhav | @amuhav | @amuhav | @thesimperiuscurse | @amuhav

#jade babbles #tag game #I already did it but I'll go again cuz fun #plus it gives me an excuse to harass aymay #who has yet to do hers or learn how to read a notification #anyways I play to the player #literally nothing discreet here #somewhere around page 200 Taryn just hits full simp stride no holds barred #in my defense there was nothing I could do #the quotes aren't in direct response to each other #though they're from the same scene #just two separate instances of the simpening

[roseverdict]

running low on soap in multiple bottles so i combined them into Gay Soap

THIS POST BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE BATH AND BODY WORKS BOTTLES MY DAD KEEPS BUYING FOR MY MOM, WHICH SHE THEN PASSES DOWN TO ME BECAUSE IT'S TOO MANY FOR ONE PERSON

#rosie babbles #id in alt text #planning to reuse these bottles and make my own liquid soap out of a bunch of bars i got a while back to hopefully curb the #'oh well rosiell use em even if nobody else does bc i instilled a fear response in them over wasting things so i can get this' #line of thinking tho. #once i finish w/ my preexisting obligations to the rephanimated project im planning on launching the crafters4palestine interest check form #so uh. hopefully i can at least cancel out the dmg my parents' buying choices do

[obessivedork]

It's just how gameplay shook out for me but I reached max affinity with MacCready helping a ghoul kid find out what happened to his family and MAN sometimes things that work out so perfect that you WISH you'd wrote it or done it on purpose 😭🖤 Two very sad Dads doing the best for their sons helping ANOTHER lost kid find home because they can't be with their own kids right now but they can help Billy, dammit!

#fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #kat plays fo4 #Also oh my GOD Mac's lines with a successful flirt are sooooo 😭😭😭😭🖤🖤🖤🖤 THE LITTLE SOLDIER TOO OH MAN 😭🖤 #That's my BOY <3 <3!!!! #Two very sad Dads bonding over their iced wives and love for their sons. Also they're uncles for Billy now IDC how things shake out #(and I don't know how things end yet either) #I literally had to exit the game and pace around after Mac's soft ass romance lines MY BOY 😭 #Anyways Uncle Sam and Uncle Butch are looking after Duncan I LOVE the HC that the Lone Wanderer looks after Duncan #And while Mac went back to give Duncan the medicine Michael did a bunch of stuff building up settlements n stuff #And got to the bottom of whatever the hell is going on with Eddie Winter #it didn't happen in game but it happened in cannon. TO ME. #anyways back to playing but I NEEDED to IMMEDIATELY pace around the house after hearing Mac's lines in addition to BILLY #There should be more kid ghouls in Fallout cannon what a TRAGIC thing to be. Frozen at 10(ish) years old forever. MAN. poor kid. #(yes I did have Mac's story spoiled for me but like. it's fine I'm fine I'm not someone who SUPER cares about spoilers) #I would say I'm gnawing on the bars of my enclosure about this but I'm actually physically tearing them apart about this #AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #anyways this has been a babble

[anghraine]

I was just searching for posts about one of my old faves and accidentally ran over an incredibly nice comment about an incredibly (and deliberately) sketchy fic I wrote back in the day. <3

#doubly nice finding it today bc i've gotten some extremely off-putting responses in my activity bar today #anghraine babbles #nice things people say to me #fic talk

[snowie130]

3x08, Claire already fighting for detty rights!

#ugly betty #detty #daniel x betty #claire meade #bar babbles

[bonefall]

I do think the whole concept of cats reliving/remembering formative parts of their lives (whether positive or negative) during their leader ceremony that was introduced in Blackfoot’s Reckoning is a very compelling concept. The leader ceremony always involved physical and emotional sensations when lives were granted, but they were also more detached from the leader’s actual experiences. Cats actually being confronted with their past actions that are related to the lives being given (especially if the life given is meant to say “you must strive towards this quality”) makes the ceremony a bit more personally meaningful.

I dunno dude, it strikes me as a recap with extra steps.

It is at least a shake-up of the formula, and it makes a fine framing device for the story they're telling in BFR (much as I don't like the story, I can say it is told competently)... but imo if you have to inject several pages worth of flashbacks into the lives then the character's story wasn't told very well.

(or in BFR's case, was untold until that moment)

And maybe the concept could hypothetically work well, but BFR is in the same vein as Onestar's Concussion where we go back to a scene we know about and get subjected to Blackfoot's Very Reasonable Thoughts because god forbid he ever do something bad out of malice, contempt, or control. It strips away what could be interesting about his POV in favor of making him "more sympathetic."

We didn't need to go back to the moment that Blackstar killed Stonefur to know that getting a life from a person he famously killed is meaningful.

#It Could probably work in theory #also unrelated but BFR gives blackstar two goddamn dotc cameos and I'm gonna be petty #The quality of the ceremony is inverse to how many DOTC cameos there are #The more cats the leader doesn't know giving lives the worse the entire thing is #Bramble's is THE Worst for that reason bar none #bone babble

[pudgybun]

just ate soo much takeout from a buffet and my lil shorts are struggling so hard to stay on my big bloated belly 😵‍💫

#i ate popcorn shrimp and won ton soup and fried rice and beef and broccoli and white rice #and two chocolate bars that were so crunchy and yum #im breathing hard but i wanna finish the very last of the shrimp #im so bloated and full and i just want my blubber held and rubbed while i lay back and eat more #i want some donuts or something now 😩 #babbles

[jewishvitya]

My daughter settled on calling herself a lesbian, while understanding that she's small and a different term might fit her better later.

My son: "I'd be proud to have a lesbian sister. Proud, get it? Because Pride??"

I did something good with these two.

#riki babbles #An anon asked for their ages #I'm not entirely comfortable sharing #But they're not bar/bat mitzvah yet

[beannary]

your art tastes like lemon bars

oh this is fantastic news! i absolutely LOVE lemon bars they are so good

#bean babbles #answered asks #gayest-squrrel #mmmm lemon bars #lemon bars my beloved

[fischotterkunst]

our ambassador Barred Owl, Cookie, has had a suitor hanging around lately, and we got lucky enough to spot him out in the open! my colleague grabbed a spotting scope and i used it to help me get this photo :D

12/20/22

#my photos #rivers and roads #river babbles #barred owl #owls #raptors #birds