#clearly i am an idiot

[ipxakachi]

Guilty Challenge but he also got stuck

#haha radio silence only to come back with Genshin oop #Hi I love Itto #He's rly rly fun to draw and im mad at myself for not drawing enough of him #I've been going through months of burnout and demotivation when it's come to art due to various things happening in life #only now am I feeling the desire to draw again #idk or maybe it's also coping with my last sem of school lol #Anyway I wanna draw things tht interest me again #It'll be nice to get back into the ease of uploading too...but man social media's daunting and tiring hghfgf #man does drawing Itto's canon body bnring me joy #his canon body that clearly not been nuked in game #canon buff idiot that's canon to me and you cant tell me otherwise #im not in denial shut #genshin impact #arataki itto #guilty challenge #redraw #10 points and a head pat to those who know where the 2nd pose comes from #taemin guilty

[antianakin]

There is exactly one criticism that I agree with my, very anti-Jedi, cousin on and that's the Jedi were TERRIBLE Generals. Generals may TRY to make sure their men mostly come back. But useless sacrifices are not only acceptable, but expected, the men are mostly expandable in war. The Jedi did not consider sacrifices like that acceptable or expected. Sure it did happen. It was WAR. But they tried their best to make sure it DIDN'T. The Jedi were terrible Generals. But they were the teachers and Leaders the CLONES NEEDED.

I'm not sure I'd ENTIRELY agree with that. I think I'd be willing to agree that the Jedi were perhaps less CONVENTIONAL Generals, and they definitely do seem to at least TRY to place the lives of their men above just tossing them away for an easy victory, but you can just as easily claim that keeping the men alive to keep fighting is a good strategy in and of itself.

The biggest piece of evidence I'd point to that the Jedi were actually perfectly good Generals is the Citadel arc and Tarkin's criticisms. The one real criticism he makes of the Jedi as military leaders is that they're occasionally too soft and will abandon a mission if it looks impossible to win without near total casualties (on either side). But he's generally fairly positive about the Jedi and if they were truly awful at their jobs, I don't think TARKIN of all people would hold back on saying so, even to the Jedi's faces.

And we DO see the Jedi willing to make sacrifices and accepting that this is a necessary part of war. The Citadel arc is, again, a perfectly good example of this. Obi-Wan and Anakin go in with like 3-4 men each I think and they come back with a grand total of 3 (Rex, Cody, and Fives). A LOT of clones die on this mission that they all KNEW was basically a suicide mission because the Jedi themselves decided that getting the information about the hyperspace lanes was vital enough to the war that it was worth losing multiple lives over (including their own).

So it's not that the Jedi don't understand that sacrifices are necessary in war or even that they avoid it entirely, they just avoid what they see as UNNECESSARY sacrifice for what might amount to a fairly minor victory. Keeping more of their men alive might, in the long run, be a better strategic choice than losing all of them on one campaign, especially if it's over like one uninhabited moon or something like that. There's nothing to say that the losses the Jedi deem acceptable are things that would've changed the entire tide of the war had they chosen to push forward instead.

The other good evidence that the Jedi acting this way would've been the WORSE choice is the Umbara arc. We are told and then see that Krell IS the kind of General who is willing to lose a lot of clones in order to gain victories in battle, and the clones do recognize that he has a lot of victories under his belt. But never once do they discuss whether those victories really MEANT anything or had a large impact on the war effort. It certainly never seems that the Republic is majorly pushing back the Separatists because of Krell's victories, nobody ever mentions that Krell gained them a major advantage with those victories or took out anyone of any consequence on the Separatist side with his strategies. And by the time he gets to Umbara, he's explicitly using this strategy to WEAKEN the Republic side and cause a loss. Several of his strategies WOULD'VE meant the Republic lost on Umbara and it's only the clones utilizing different strategies that put fewer of them at risk that they actually end up continuing to HAVE victories at all.

I'll also point out that the Jedi continuously getting their men killed en masse would've bankrupted the Republic a LOT earlier because they'd have to be paying for more clones a LOT more often than they did in canon and I can't imagine anyone would've considered that a particularly sound strategy and at some point I'm sure the Senate would've felt obligated to put a stop to it anyway and insisted on strategies that kept more clones alive for longer. So I'm not sure it's fair to claim the Jedi were utilizing BAD strategy by not just exclusively using tactics that meant most of their men were killed for every single victory.

So the ONLY criticism we EVER see of the Jedi's ability as military leaders is Tarkin claiming they're "too soft" and Tarkin is the kind of person who would likely say that until the Jedi started carpet bombing entire Separatist planets. Would it give them a victory? Yeah, sure, maybe, but that's the exact same strategy the Separatists are using and look how well that works out for THEM. Everything else we ever see seems to showcase that the Jedi are in fact perfectly good Generals, not just in that they're kind to the clones and are unwilling to carpet bomb Separatist planets, but also because they're just... good at this. They CAN be strategic, they CAN run wars if they want to. And I think that's the whole point of the Jedi in some ways is that yes, they CAN make war when they need to, they just actively choose NOT TO every time they can. THIS is why Qui-Gon tells Padme that he and Obi-Wan are there to protect her but that they can't win this war for her and they end up going off to fight off a Sith while Padme has to actually win the war with her own people and the Gungans instead. The Jedi don't WANT to be in the position of doing nothing but fighting, but they're absolutely capable of this kind of work.

That's the tragedy of the war in some ways, the Jedi ARE good at this no matter how much they wish they weren't sometimes. But being good at it means they can actually protect the Republic, their own men, and even the Separatist civilians better, so they're not going to just sit there and do things that will screw over a bunch of people. Yes, they're going to fight the war in such a way that they reduce casualties as much as possible, but reducing casualties also requires doing enough to not LOSE the damn war, too. It's a delicate balance they're trying to hold on to and I'd argue they manage it better than anybody else would've ever done in their position.

#star wars #jedi #pro jedi #clones #clone troopers #the clone wars #listen i am not a strategist #i CERTAINLY am not a military strategist #but just looking at what we're shown and told by tcw and the films i think it's fairly the clear the jedi were GOOD at being generals #regardless of whether they LIKED that or not #yes they wanted to protect the clones but they weren't idiots and they clearly weren't causing the republic to lose all the time either #there's a difference between strategically retreating from battles that can only be won by massive casualties with little to no reward #and prioritizing saving the clones OVER necessary victories in the war #the jedi are doing the former to my perspective #if they weren't i think the republic would've been a lot worse off just in general #unless we're about to start claiming that the clones and/or civilian officers were doing all of the real work instead of the jedi #which i personally would not #esp since we see the jedi sitting there going over battle plans and coming up with their own strategies quite often #tarkin's opinion on the matter is suspect - don't take his word for it when he says the jedi are too soft

[blujayonthewing]

it's weird to me that online content on foraging and camp/ bushcraft cooking never seem to overlap, at least not that I've ever found?? foraging recipes are always like 'wild mushroom risotto with chardonnay and arborio rice' and bushcraft cooking is always like 'first, unpack your ribeye you brought from home--' like what is going on here, surely 'guy who wants to camp out and cook over a fire' and 'guy who wants to eat some plants they found in the woods' cannot be completely separate venn diagram circles

#I mean it's clearly not because I Am The Guy #it's just weird that there's no content like this that I've ever seen #you get catch-and-cook for mostly just fishing but sometimes other animals #which is great but a) incomplete b) nearly useless to me as someone who doesn't hunt and is TERRIBLE at fishing #and like. yeah I am not an idiot I know I could blanch and saute greens over a fire without needing my hand held about it #but I would still enjoy it as content? if that makes sense? #one of the myriad ways that dungeon meshi appeals to me personally #is the (apparently EXTREMELY niche) fantasy of 'what if foraged survival cooking was also like. good.' #what can I make with cattails 'well you can take them home and--' what can I make WHERE I FOUND THEM #'you can dry and pound the roots into a starchy survival flour' you are killing me. I'm begging you to consider a midpoint #where I am not in my home kitchen but I'm also not starving to death and have a very small and basic pantry with me #this is one of those things that I'm 'be the change' levels of annoyed about #but I'm not confident in my ability to make good videos lol #about me

[clowningaroundmars]

a detail that totally sailed over my head even after watching this show 92759339 times: Mutt SHAKES her HEAD before mike peels out of the garage and lands the burners in hot water LMFAAAOOOO

#motorcity #mine #mutt really said “oh my god this fucken idiot” #“i am going to get completely wrecked in 5 minutes aint i. sigh.” #we only see her this one time in the 1st ep so ofc it went over my head #i thought they were showing her bc... idk? just to do a lil mutt fancam before mike zooms out like a bat out of hell #but shes REACTING to mikes bullshit LOL #cuz we see her “answer” julie when she fucks up big time in Off The Rack by clearly nodding #lmfao #sassy mutt.... i love her

[burinazar]

:( patheticposting

nearly literally reduced to tears rn by how overwhelmingly it feels like nobody cares what I make or like or think about and how meaningless any of my creativity and love and effort is

[glorious-mysteries]

One of my biggest pet peeves is people assuming I don't have common sense and/or that they have to explain basic things to me the same way you would to a five year old who is still learning how to exist in the world and unfortunately I am seeing more and more of this from people who are desperate to show off how informed and correct they are. I think the most anger that I experienced over the course of this very difficult academic year was when I had to do a group project on Huckleberry Finn for my American lit class and our topic was Twain's use of humour and whether this contributes to racism in the novel or deflects from it. I was disagreeing with someone else in my group over the ending--she thought it was very effective, I thought it took away from what Twain was doing in the first two sections. This is a debate that has been played out many times before by people way smarter than we are and tbh I do not care that she disagreed with me. What bothered me was that she made it clear that she thought I was stupid and that if she just spoke rudely and condescendingly to me she would not be proved right exactly but she would at least distance herself from my ignorance. She didn't care that I had read several articles about the ending of Huckleberry Finn and had been intrigued by one critic's theory that the burlesque at the end of the novel was meant to show that black and white relations at the time of its publications were a burlesque of what they should have been and had thought about this a lot before deciding that it ultimately did not change my opinion--she just assumed that I was basing my stance off of a surface-level reading and told me in an incredibly contemptuous tone that if I wanted the author to spell out the correct moral interpretation to go watch Dora the Explorer. I will be real I wanted to strangle her esp since this was in front of others. I told her she was being ridiculous but I wish I had told her not to speak to me like that. Makes my blood boil just thinking about it.

#sorry! #i'm not interested in showing off how smart i am i'm just going to state my opinion #and trust other people to assume that I did consider thoughtfully before arriving at that conclusion #i don't attach any great moral worth to being wrong as this girl clearly does always having to be the most unproblematic #and choosing to insult me with dialogue stolen straight from a tumblr post #found within an echo chamber of people who are also desperate to be seen as super intelligent and unproblematic #and feel the need to explain every step of their cognitive process lest they be accused of wrongthink #and assume that anyone who doesn't do this is an idiot. #anyway. not my problem anymore. this shall be my spring of peace and love. just had to get this out there first.

[chaoticbooklesbian]

We have reached the "over-analyzing innocuous interactions" part of the crush, everybody cheer!

A few weeks ago, they told me what they do for work, and I called it sexy in a way that could be interpreted as either flirting or friendly ribbing. (It was both, really.) Any time they've mentioned their job since, they've called it their sexy job, and we arrive at the bit that I'm over-analyzing: Are they flirting back or are they engaging with the friendly ribbing part????? Damn my compulsive plausible deniability! Damn it to hell!

#pedanticblah #dylan's stupid crush #this is the stage that always burns me of course #because i latch onto any little thing to be flirting #and convince myself the affection is mutual #and then it turns out i'm completely wrong #if it helps we were not talking one on one for either interaction #pro tip for anyone who wants to flirt with me: BE OBVIOUS #spell out your intentions clearly from the outset #i am how you say An Idiot about flirting #and will over analyze myself off a cliff #also i've become mildly paranoid that they actually ARE on tumblr #and are reading all of my embarrassing posts #and know i'm talking about them #but also i expect that they respect me enough to tell me if that's the case #so like. if it IS the case #please put me out of my misery #i promise i won't be weird if you don't feel the same way

[theflyingfeeling]

writing this to let y'all know I got home safely from the S & M Experience and that it was much funny very entertainment, and also to publicly shame Samy for apparently thinking up until the other day that 'calf' and 'cow' are different animals <3

#your honour he's an idiot #idk if samy and middy would’ve come out afterwards to chat with fans like samy did last time #(there were a couple of fans clearly waiting for them in the restaurant side of the bar) #but i was thirsty and hungry and just wanted to get the hell out of that place away from all the drunk ppl #so i didn’t stay to find out #i did see mirko though (but didn't want to bother him) #anyhow! look at me being a brave little grown-up doing stuff alone lol #(more like a friendless loser tbh) #i'll post some videos / pictures tomorrow 🖤 #(and also correct all the grammar errors in the tags lol let me live it's almost 2 am)

[crimeronan]

Imagining Willow adjacent to the crab bucket is very fun for my Lav Win enjoying heart.

it's also delighting me. i don't know how much of this will end up fully Canon canon bc this AU is a sandbox where everything is malleable but god i'm thinking so much about it. luz is so happy to know someone who's genuinely sweet and supportive without any apparent ulterior motive, willow is so happy to have a friend in luz while also pretty anxious about What If The Other Shoe Drops. willow also finds both luz and hunter extremely pretty in a way where theyve kind of, like, met in the middle as "royals who are clearly dead fucking tired but in a kinda compelling way" willow loves herself any sad sweet earnest tired loser. the first time amity sees willow in the castle, her life Visibly Flashes Before Her Eyes, and willow Very Visibly Has Bad History With Her. so naturally hunter's like wait omg willow. willow. do you ALSO hate blight. omg. willow you're my best friend now. come be a petty bitch with me rn i'm Begging you,

#and then all four of them end up in an eventual polycule. ideal. #toh #toh fambly #replies #princess luz au #lavender winter #huntlow #willuz #shitty idiot repression gang #hunter DOESNT EVEN HAVE A GOOD REASON TO DISLIKE AMITY #willow: [very clearly seething] oh i shouldnt speak badly of her over things that happened ages ago #hunter: [gripping her by the shoulders] No. Please Speak Badly Of Her. This Is The Best Day Of My Life #this is all DEEPLY silly. but i am so fond.

[b1mbodoll]

#gna rant real quick bc im so overwhelmed so ignore if u would like to 🩷 #but AGHHHHHHHHHEUGHEBWHA im screaming my little heart out right now #i feel so annoying 😭 like eughhhh #i always try so hard to be welcoming and loving and stuff but T_T it sucks when people clearly dont care for u #like i wish i wasnt so awkward bc im trying so hard to be friends but !!!!! it doesnt feel worth it when i feel this bad T_T i feel like an #idiot for waiting for a reply but i push thru bc i like making friends!!!!! i want to be friends!!!! but this isnt the first time ive been #ignored and it hurts T_T #this is why i keep to myself #idk what gappened i literally was working on drafts enjoying #my high and now im sad bc im overthinking #and its like… they probably dont even think abt me so why am i putting myself through this #i hate empty words #do not tell me one thing just to behave the complete opposite!!!!! givin me false hope for what :(

[unimportantweirdo]

tell me why i am wildly insecure about my intelligence when i've done several iq tests online and gotten over 130 every time

#this is the issue with growing up around smart adults #if i couldn't keep up with them at age 12 then clearly i was an idiot #i automatically assume everyone around me is more intelligent than me #bc my brother is technically smart like hes a software engineer and is incredibly good #i am. a burnt out uni student who got an okay degree and doesnt have a job bc it would kill me #i didn't get like a whole breakdown of my intelligence bc thats 14.95 i dont have #but it gave me my iq #and im confused as to how i always feel so dumb when im. actually kinda smart.

[reigningmax]

Anons I'm not going to do this every time Kelly posts pics with Max. Do I like her? No. Do I think what she said about 2016 is right? No. Do I support her political affiliations? No. Do I think she doesn't make sense with her views and how they counter each other? Yes. Do I want boyfriend Max content? Yes. Will I post what she posts cause she is the only source of bf Max content? Yes.

#she's an idiot and i dont care about her #but she's his gf and he clearly adores her so #i want the content and this is how we get it #but i am not and will never be a source for anyone to come and #spread hate just for funsies #kelly piquet #and last time I criticized her I got indirected 3920 times so #I tag everything she’s in #block the tag and go

[schnuffel-danny]

everyone thinks they are immune to the sins of their forefathers, that it is preposterous to think the things of before are superior to those of the current age, yet I truly believe, with my whole heart, that even fucking Happy Appy is better than whatever the fuck is going on with internet horror nowadays

#I'm like all those idiots screaming about 'calarts style' but I'm crying about whatever the fuck is happening w online horror #you all are so wrong you don't get it!!!!! #ESPECIALLY THE NOSTALGIA BASED STUFF #that parodies like old kid's sites or flash cartoons or whatever #and it all just sucks massive balls like I am so sorry #I'm never gonna namedrop or directly hate any of these projects #because they are very clearly made with love #but anytime I see them I just groan so loud like oh my goddddd #I can't even pretend to not be a hater sorry #this is the most toxic I will get about anything

[j-ellyfish]

I know it's probably an unpopular opinion, but I don't mind that Hima keeps introducing new micronations (like Aerican Empire in the last chapters), it's interesting to discover nations you've never heard of and to discover their super small dimensions of place and population.

I too would love Hima to introduce nations from Africa or South America, but I think it takes a long time for that, to create a good representation that makes more or less everyone satisfied, especially with the design

It probably is, but I don't mind it either! Micronations are a fun concept to explore and I mean, how many of us even knew what they were before Hetalia? They're not my favorite characters (although I'm quite fond of Sealand), but they're cool.

Himaruya making Micronations doesn't take away from any other Country "needing" a character, I do appreciate that Himaruya doesn't feel compelled to create characters for the audience like a printing machine but does what he feels like doing, when he feels confident and knowledgeable enough to do it.

And honestly, if he doesn't find himself interested enough in the history of certain areas of the world (which might also be more sensitive subjects than like, Western Europe), it's also fine, it means he learned from his mistakes with South Korea.

Learning from mistakes doesn't necessarily mean having to work your butt off to study stuff you aren't interested in to please an audience, sometimes learning from mistakes simply means admitting that you don't currently feel ready (if ever) to do certain things and focusing on stuff you are actually passionate about instead.

Himaruya doesn't really owe anyone any new character, I know it's probably frustrating to not have a canon character for your Country or focus on the parts of history you like the most, but Himaruya should do what he feels like doing, not what he thinks he owes to an audience.

I do believe that creativity kind of dies when you start to think about what the fans (or the editors//) want more than listening to your own feelings and drive as a creator (and of course, by this I do not mean you shouldn't listen to criticism, which Himaruya does listen to, or hide behind this statement to feel free to be offensive - it simply means that creators shouldn't kneel down to their audience and make anything exactly how they want it even if it goes beyond creator's skills, experience or comfort zone - otherwise what they make is no longer art with a soul, but a mere product of marketing and capitalism, not wanting to tell a story but wanting to sell an object).

So I think it's always unfair to expect creators to feed us exactly what we want and how we want it, whether it's Himaruya/Hetalia or anyone/anything else.

#ask #one thing is complaining half-playfully that you want some stuff because you're starving for content about blorbo and stuff like that #but there are way too many people in this fandom nowadays who seem to literally hate Himaruya for what he does and how he does it #and I don't understand how they are still here #if you think creator is an idiot maybe you should just ditch the series he created instead of leeching off it and being offensive #towards him simply for being a different person than you are and thus clearly doing things differently than you would #and yes I also have my pet peeves about canon like I think most people who know me at this point are aware of me not being very happy with #HWS in general despite liking some parts of it #but I would never feel entitled to call Himaruya stupid for taking choices I wouldn't have taken or do things in a way I personally wouldn' #do #because I AM NOT HIMARUYA I CANNOT EXPECT HIMARUYA TO DO WHAT I WOULD DO #I absolutely respect him as a creator and I believe he should be the first person satisfied with what he does because a happy creator makes #good art - a frustrated and unhappy creator ends up feeling like art has become a homework and quality tends to drop #do I think Himaruya is being put a bit on a leash with HWS? Yes but if anything I feel bad for him bc I suspect this #I would absolutely never insult him for it because as fans we only know a small part of his process and all the behind-the-scenes decisions #creative thinking workflow and Hima's private life stay behind the scenes where I rightfully can't see them #so I have no right to treat him like the village clown - NO ONE DOES

[toxictranny]

omg!!, do u hear that??it’s the sound of my identity falling into place..!!!!

#toxictranny #admitting im a lesbian aftee joking about it fr nearly 2 decades lol #i just didn’t want ppl to be like ‘oh so ur a girl!’ but as a society we seem to hav moved on #i use men to abuse myself lol but i love girls): and in a rly special way #part of th man stuff is that i felt like i was too feminine to go for femmes— which is insane th most fem thing about me is having long hair #i wanted to Look like them n it was less dysphoria for me to be seen as a dude next to a dudely-er dude #next to girls i look like AN IDIOT!!!! a pathetic WORM #i am so clearly a lesbian #took me way too long

[chadsuke]

Comics Read in 2023:

The Whole of Humanity Has Gone Yuri Except for Me Vol. 1 by Hiroki Haruse (2019)

The Whole of Humanity Has Gone Yuri Except for Me Vol. 2 by Hiroki Haruse (2020)

Ogi's Summer Break Vol. 1 by Koikawa (2021)

Ogi's Summer Break Vol. 2 by Koikawa (2021)

7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! Vol. 1 by Hinoki Kino, Touko Amekawa, & Hachipisu Wan (2021)

7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! Vol. 2 by Hinoki Kino, Touko Amekawa, & Hachipisu Wan (2021)

7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! Vol. 3 by Hinoki Kino, Touko Amekawa, & Hachipisu Wan (2022)

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Vol. 1 by Satoru Yamagachi & Nami Hidaka (2019)

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Vol. 2 by Satoru Yamagachi & Nami Hidaka (2019)

[ID: Covers of aforementioned books. End ID.]

#2023media #gonna start separating comics and other books #anyway whole of humanity has gone yuri was. bad. #i was expecting some silly lil ridic thing and it tried to do plot and it was just #bad #ogi's summer break i had hopes for but nope it was also bad #chapter 2 feels like a fever dream still. do not bother with it #7th time loop is fun! im enjoying the main girl a lot and her LI is like #man she is so weird. wtf. i am going to marry her #its abt a girl who keeps looping through time for like 5 years before dying and now she's on her 7th loop #next life as a villainess is a mindless read tbh its silly stuff and the mc is SUCH an idiot #but the manga and everyone in it are fully fully aware she has nothing going on #so its fine lmao #its one of those 'i isekai-d into an otome game and now everyone loves ME instead of the heroine' kind #including the women. bi rights ig even tho they're clearly not endgame #not a fan of the fact that her fucking... adopted brother is an LI... #anyway its brainless. its silly fun #if you expect anything other than mindlessness i think u will b very disappointed