#end rant

[frownyalfred]

hello. this is a PSA. ao3 is NOT releasing your browsing history, despite what you may have heard on tiktok.

if you’re signed into ao3, your history is viewable in the dashboard tab. it always has been, nothing is changing. please don’t believe everything you hear on tiktok.

no one is able to view your browsing history unless they are signed into your account.

#end rant #sorry it’s just there’s so many of those videos #and it’s blatant misinformation #and it makes me wonder if it’s on purpose to malign ao3 #ao3 #archive of our own #fic #fanfic #fanfiction #tiktok #also you can clear that history at any time #or read fics without signing in

[thatrandomblogsays]

Me: *reading a post that makes the joke “Peeta dropped the baby bomb, Gale drops bombs on babies”* haha good one

Also me: you’re missing the point! You’re missing the point! YOURE MISSING THE POINT! He grew up starving. His best friend almost died of hunger. Most of his people live in poverty. He watched children die in a bloodbath every year for the capital’s entertainment. The girl he loved went into the games. Was tortured by the capitol. His district was bombed out of existence. Nearly everyone he knew was killed. Their only crime was being fed up of being hungry and oppressed and sharing the same district as Katniss. All those innocent people. Murdered. He had to take refuge in a district that was bombed out of existence and forced to live underground. Of course he joined the war effort. Of course he designed unethical bombs and battle tactics. He wanted revenge. He wanted the capitol to have a taste of their own medicine. He wanted the rebellion to succeed. And tell me you could live through what he did, and that no part of you would be screaming for Justice and vengeance. Gale is you. You are Gale. He represents a part of feelings and actions that reside within us, even if you don’t act on it.

“But he killed prim!” Exactly! Gale loved prim. She was a second family to her. He looked after Katniss’ family. He saved them from the district 12 bombings. He loved her. He never would’ve put her in danger. He never would’ve put in order for a bombing if it would kill Prim. But coin would. And did. She took what was meant to be a tool of Gale’s righteous revenge for all the suffering he and his people suffered through, only for someone in power to take it and use it to kill someone he loved.

There’s some many lessons to take. We can’t control the things we create. War spares no one. Even justifiable rage and actions can end up rebounding and hurting those you love instead of your targets.

“He drops bombs on babies” is too simplistic of a takeaway and does a disservice to the story and Gale.

#end rant #the first few times I laughed #now I’m getting tired of seeing the same joke again and again and again #i get it #Peeta is the best boy and you’ve been shipping everlark since the books came out #but please stop ignoring the themes and messages I beg you #Gale didn’t even order the bombing 😭 #the hunger games #thg #thg series #thg analysis #thg gale #gale #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #gale hawthorne #mine #primrose everdeen #everlark #abosas #the capitol #district 12 #district 13 #president coin #president snow #hunger games

[coreene]

The amount of people who are salty because Gortash doesn't look like a 20yo twink in reddit is killing me.

They say that Ketheric describes him as young and etc like do you people ever take a look at Ketheric? The man is a fucking fossil ofc he describes Gortash as young ffs

Gortash sent Karlach to hell 10 years ago, and by then he was an established man considering the amount of respect Karlach had for him. He is human and is at least 35. He is most likely much older I don't know the exact timeline. He spent his childhood in fucking hell ofc it took a toll on this man's looks and he still looks better than the pale reddittors I bet.

#End rant #Fucking hate reddit #Bg3 #bg3 spoilers #Enver gortash #lord enver gortash #Bg3 gortash #Gortash #bg3 enver gortash

[humanerrers]

12.16.23 in Tel Aviv

(via @AmiDar on X)

#i am sick of the antisemitism-inflected ceasefire posts #that you see on this site #(obligatory Not All Posts) #I have been posting less about particulars #bc I could feel my posts descending into Good Jew territory #yes these are my beliefs but I am tired of being called fascist #for voicing hope for a political solution #rather than a bloody revolution #which wouldn’t fucking work anyway #just create more suffering and death #so anyway let’s amplify Israelis #who are fighting for their shared future #end rant

[summersblood]

SCREAM 3 (2000) dir. Wes Craven

#filmedit #horroredit #screamedit #dailyflicks #scream franchise #scream 3 #moviegifs #filmgifs #filmtv #horrorgifs #roman is sidney's foil and represents the resentment she has for her mom for putting her in these situations and killing him was her way #of letting go of that toxic feeling #anyway roman is my fav killer and he gets paid dust by the fans and the franchise #billy's costume shouldn't have been in the glass case in the 6th it should've been romans since he started it!!!!!! #end rant

[riewiggles]

No One Owes You

I saw a post in the AO3 group on FB saying someone commented on their fanfic saying that they shouldn't promise something when they can't deliver because the author had been having a hard time updating their fic.

It sucks when you have to wait on a new chapter and you're really invested in a story but NO. ONE. IN. THE. FANFIC. COMMUNITY. OWES. YOU. THEIR. TIME.

It's hard juggling fics when there are other things in life. Work, school, obligations that require an author to do as such (may it be if they are a caretaker, parent, etc), and mental health is a huge factor. No one can anticipate 100% when something can be updated if it's 1: a hobby, and 2: they have lives.

Not everyone lives in a basement constantly reading and typing all day.

Mental health is a HUGE thing here and it's additionally hard when motivation is a struggle, especially for those with say, ADHD and depression. A LOT of authors deal with mental health and writing is their outlet, but struggling with motivation happens.

TLDR; LIFE HAPPENS AND IT DOES NOT REVOLVE AROUND YOU!

So just don't be a shallow jack-off to the authors. People are trying their best.

It just sort of rustled my jimmies because I saw a few posts by that point of authors receiving crap comments like those. Like, your life, mental health, and wellbeing is so important and much more important than a fic. Most of the time, people don't even get paid for it; they do it because it's fun, comforting, and/or they look to hone in and improve on their skill. It's entertainment for the reader; no one is saving lives here.

#Ao3 #archive of our own #End rant

[nightskyye]

no but lucy's little 'sarge im gonna die on this list,' had me genuinely tearing up, like she deserves that promotion more than anyone at that station, but its always everyone else who moves up

while im mad abt it, i appreciate them showing the reality of a woman in a proffesion like hers, they are misogynistic towards her, they're overly critical of her, they severely underestimate her and its not gonna come easy, i just hope they follow through and show lucy fighting for what she rightly deserves.

#end rant #chenford #the rookie #the rookie spoilers #lucy chen

[showtoonzfan]

I’m about to share a very hot take regarding the writing of Stolas’s character, mainly Vivziepop’s gay characters so I hope people bear with me on this. I thing the biggest issue regarding characters like Stolas and Blitz is just how sensitive the writers and fandom are, and this has to do with the fact that most of them are part of the LGBTQ+ community. Representation is especially important to the people of that community, so when they see a character in media that is part of said community but is portrayed as “bad”, that’s not a good thing to them, because nobody wants to see a gay character being painted in a negative light right?

Remember when some fans immediately thought Angel Dust was offensive because they assumed he was in hell for being gay, therefore thinking Vivzie was problematic because of that? It’s like that. The writers of Helluva Boss and the fandom are exactly like that, they’re sensitive. They can’t fathom the fact or EMBRACE the fact that you make gay characters problematic. You can make gay characters awful people. You can make gay characters unapologetic and you shouldn’t be afraid to or scared of ruffling some feathers or getting cancelled. That’s why Viv and the Helluva writers insist on making Blitz and Stolas good deep down because we can’t have gay characters be bad! God forbid or someone might get the wrong message! That’s why Blitz and Stolas always feel like they’re never in the wrong, and the fandom applauds them every time, because they’re gay icons to this community. That’s why Striker to Viv is a masculine bigot apparently because he’s straight, that’s why Stella is evil because she’s discriminative, and we need to have our powerful “go girl” LGBTQ+ themes!

And this is why I never act like I have respect for the Helluva writers because they’re just…….cowards. They play it safe. They’re SO scared of going all the way, going that extra mile and actually making these characters the BAD FLAWED PEOPLE they’re claimed to be, and the fandom never helps because god forbid you call these “flawed” characters actually flawed and then you’re suddenly homophobic. Got it. Some of y’all need to grow a pair, Viv needs to grow a pair, her writing team needs to grow a pair, and some of y’all in the LGBTQ+ community need to grow a pair, because I want the representation too, but that doesn’t mean we need to portray all gay characters as uwu babies. In the words of this twitter user:

#end rant #fill free to disagree with me but these are my opinions #vivziepop critical #spindlehorse critical #helluva boss critical #hazbin hotel critical #helluva boss critique #helluva boss criticism #helluva critical #Hazbin hotel #helluva boss #vivziepop #writing #lgbtq

[blorbosinmyheadcentral]

Really curious to know where in the heck people got this "Caine is an old man" thing from

#rambles #Really. Where is this information from. I know gooseworx revealed all of the humans' ages but there is nothing on Caine or any of the AIs #It makes sense why that is because he's a frickin BOT. Are you going to tell me chatGPT is a middle aged man?? #But sure he has a “coded age” or whatever; let's entertain the thought. #He clearly reads as an adult. But OLD??? #What supports this???? We don't know how much time people have been in the Digital Circus or how long it has existed #“Years” is too damn vague. There is no specific sense for the passage of time #There's no way to determine his age that way #He could very well be younger than everyone in that place #Then is it his mannerisms??? HE'S A FREAKIN RINGMASTER #Are people just collectively assuming Caine is old just because???? #I haven't found ANY basis for this ANYWHERE. GODDD #And it's annoying especially when people use this to justify antagonizing shippers #end rant #*hits edit button* AND ANOTHER THING #Look. Even if Caine IS old. That's okay #Everyone in the show is canonically an adult #I'm just baffled at this because people assume it's an absolute truth when we just. don't know.

[whenthewallfell]

Something that really bothers me with The Hunger Games is how readily some people dismiss the fact that there's romance in the books at all in some weird attempt to make it sound better. The old 'oh it's really a story about revolution, shame ppl focus on the boring love triangle' 'oh it gets dismissed bc of the love story but it's actually really deep.'

Y'know, as if admitting that one of the core themes is love and human connections somehow makes it a lesser thing. As if it's not the whole point of the books that our lives can't just be about surviving from one day to the next, that we need to live for more than just rebellion and anger and trying to put food on the table. As if our entire human race can't even EXIST without relationships in one form or another.

Can we just not pls k thnx

(This isn't limited to THG, it's just something I see happen a lot with this series in particular.)

#the hunger games #hate when people do this #frankly it's misogynistic #'oh nooo not the girly feeeeelings' #'they'll give me cooties!' #end rant #rambles

[frownyalfred]

the truth is…..so many new ao3 users want ao3 to be something it isn’t.

just use tumblr, babes. stop trying to blog and create “algorithms” on what is essentially a library catalog.

#end rant #sorry #just #it’s an ARCHIVE #it’s in the NAME #it’s not a social media platform #and smart creators use social media platforms to link to their works #ao3 #archive of our own #fandom #writing #reading

[ramblingoak]

I get so frustrated when you deal with "oh you can't take a joke" type of people. If it was funny I would laugh. Most of the time they just want to be rude and they try calling it a joke to make it ok.

It's not ok. You're just being a dick.

#end rant #i deal with people like this at my job alllll the time #but the resting bitch face helps keep them away most of the time thankfully #oakie ramble

[piracytheorist]

The fact that of all instruments, Loid chose to see Anya's potential in music through a violin drives me insane. The violin is one of the hardest instruments to learn, and even harder to master a good sound for beginners. Among my co-students we had a joke that went something like "When a child is on their first year on the violin, their entire family suffers" because most first-year violin students (unless they're like, prodigies or something) need about a year to achieve a sound that sounds like music and not like nails on a chalkboard. Even people who eventually become professional violinists are pretty terrible on their first year.

And aside from the difficulty of producing a good sound, there's the thing about the violin (along with the other string instruments of that section, viola, cello and double bass) being a fretless instrument. There are no frets separating the neck in "notes". That means that you only learn where each note is by practice and muscle memory.

In comparison, guitars - also string instruments, but of a different classification since they don't use bows - have frets.

(that doesn't mean that the guitar is a much easier instrument to learn or play. But you can clearly tell where each note is - though you still have to practice a lot before you can confidently play without counting the frets each time)

WHAT I'M SAYING IS, when introducing children of that age into playing music you usually start with percussion instruments to give them the hands-on experience of "I hit this and it makes a sound. I hit it differently and it makes a different sound". If the child wants to pick up a more demanding instrument... at least you need some patience as a caretaker and an instructor. My boi Loid gave up after a few minutes of Anya simply exploring the instrument.

Now, I understand this was done for humorous purposes, Anya did overdramatically break the strings after all, and to show that Twilight was so stressed for time that he forgot that kids need time to learn and develop a skill. He has the same reaction with Anya being normal for her age at drawing and gymnastics, too. Especially with the gymnastics thing - just like he gave her a violin and expected her to play fucking Paganini or whatever, he had her try jumping on a vault, then Yor came and suggested something more appropriate and achievable for a beginner her age, jumping rope.

Still, I'm going to raise my snooty nose and take this as a headcanon that, finally, we were shown something Twilight genuinely doesn't know shit about. He knows to take the family to the opera to make them appear upper-class, but he doesn't know how one learns music. I mean, that's okay. He's perfect in pretty much all other specialties, he can afford being shitty at one.

#Spy x Family #no that's definitely not my insecurities talking #I'm just more EquippedTM at this than Twilight ok #lemme have my satisfaction lmao #like look I can buy him being smart af and very physically skilled #but if he's ever shown being proficient at an instrument out of nowhere I'm going to FUCKING RIOT #end rant

[cryoverkiltmilk]

I hate Reels.

I hate TikTok.

I hate Shorts.

I hate the amputation of visuals for some perceived notion of a better more marketable perspective.

Stop butchering video.

#old person rant #video #audio video #presentation #visuals #film #filming #perspective #tiktok #reels #shorts #this post brought to you by the ATLA live-action series #the straw that broke this camel's back #end rant

[flymmsy]

People reposting my stuff all over twitter without credit drives me insane. Absolutely insane.

#this is the part of fandom that just makes me want to stop making things #because people with larger followings just take the things anyway #nowadays it feels like that’s just how it works #and you need to just let go of it #but damn it really shouldn’t be hard to just post a link #it’s just happened to me so many times because I don’t have as much of a following on twitter #but it’s still not okay!!!! #my twitter is literally the same as my tumblr!!!! #im not hard to find!!!! #sad #end rant

[poizonandpillz]

not my usual flavour of posting, but I'm getting really pissed off at the amount of people taking Kurt Cobain quotes wildly out of context and going "if not secretly trans woman, why he wear dress???"

hey uh please dont "headcanon" or speculate on dead peoples' genders or sexualities, especially celebrities. it's disrespectful. they're not alive to say what they were. don't speak for them. because hey??? if you forcibly "out" someone on false pretenses (aka you don't actually fucking know) you're a shitty person!

it doesn't make you an "ally," it makes you a fucking weirdo fetishist. and i guarantee you that your LGBTQ2S+ friends don't actually feel safer around you with you doing that!! if you're like that about dead people, you are absolutely that way about living people too.

It's different for instances like Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, and Oscar Wilde because people academic scholars have actually found proof of same-sex affairs and relationships held by these people and people like them.

It's also different for people like David Bowie (who admitted openly in interviews his sexuality), a lot of members of The Runaways were also not straight, Freddie Mercury was bisexual!!!!

STOP. SPECULATING. THEY ARE DEAD! Get off the internet and touch some fucking grass.

#kurt cobain #nirvana #transgender #queer #trans and sick of people fetishizing trans people #guess what? imagining kurt as being trans is not going to suddenly make him relevant to your generation #just enjoy the fucking music without frothing at the mouth wondering if kurt wanted to live as a woman you fucking weirdos #IF HE WANTED TO HE WOULD HAVE!!! He didn't care what people thought!!! He did things to shock people! #“I wish I was homosexual to piss off the homophobes” that was said to shock people. not because he wanted to suck hella dick and transition #GOD you guys are more obsessed with dicks and vags than conservatives #end rant