apparently my partners 19 year old sisters told him that fireflies by owl city is "embarrassing" and that young people don't like it
I just want to establish right now that this is a pro fireflies by owl city blog and if you don't want to get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs with Adam Young then you're fucking dead to me and you should just block me right now
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I just want to let people know about my games and have some gentle chat with the people who play them or are interested in them, and learn about other games and books I might like without my words getting scraped or being bombarded with hate or bots every time I open it up, how is this too much to ask
I'm planning to stick around here for the moment but if you're planning not to do Tumblr anymore please follow me on itch, subscribe for free to my Patreon, or follow my Honor Bound thread on the CoG forum to keep up with what I'm up to. I hope to keep on doing this writing thing, but if no one knows what I'm making that possibility will fade out very fast!
Mostly due to panic, I'm very vaguely considering doing a free devlog newsletter, possibly folding my £1 Patreon newsflashes into it (they include more detail about what I've been writing, the writing process, and small previews), but have no idea about logistics or how much it costs - do you think you'd be interested in that?
to be clear, the newsletter would be free not paid!
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Hey, Tolkien fandom!
Do you guys ever just sit there, as peaceful as a hobbit in the Shire, lost in your own thoughts in a beautiful place, thinking about how blessed we all are to have read J.R.R Tolkien's writing, to have received the blessing of Christopher Tolkien's continuation of his father's work, and to have seen Peter Jackson's glorious adaptation of it all? Your chest expands whenever you think about the Battles of Beleriand (for good or ill), Beren and Lúthien's journey and how their love changed the course of Middle-earth, Theoden's speech when they were about to save Minas Tirith. Right?
But then...
You remember that Rings of Power exists. That it's a thing that's been made.
That's just sad. And an outright desecration.
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no y'know what i am going to be a little hater about cooking actually. particularly how i see people handling raw meat. I have seen too many Professional Chefs fucking touch raw meat bare handed and then just wipe their hands on a towel before touching something else. fucker you WASH YOUR HANDS. BEFORE AND AFTER TOUCHING RAW MEAT. DO YOU HEAR ME. SOAP AND HOT WATER. and that TOWEL is contaminated too now. you're just going to put it down to let other people touch that? sling it over your shoulder and get it on your clothes?? and then also I'll see people wear gloves and touch raw meat and put it on a plate and then TOUCH the OUTSIDE OF THE PLATE to hold it and move it like to the fridge or whatever. YOU'RE JUST GOING TO TOUCH THE PLATE AGAIN LATER. POSSIBLY WITHOUT THE GLOVES? those germs on the outside of the plate aren't going to die. but you will I'm going to fucking kill you over this
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sorry to harp on this but i think long video essays have become this thing that people decide that they don't like personally, and like that's alright, but for some reason they have to justify that dislike by making it a moral discussion rather than something that just comes down to preference and not all of those videos being well made. like you can't just say "i don't like quinton reviews or hbomberguy cause their vids are too long and that's just not for me" you gotta say "quinton reviews and hbomberguy are DISGUSTING people for forcing their audience to watch HALF ASSED CONTENT and oh they just want your MONEY and they're not ARTISTS they don't CARE about you and they're scammers and-"
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As a fellow Dovewing lover, it's frustrating how the fandom watered her down into a whiny brat who never cared about Ivypool. I mean, seriously? Not only did Dovewing care about her sister (reacting in horror when Lionblaze, her own mentor and Jayfeather are willing to potentially sacrifice Ivypool's safety by employing her as her spy instead of trying to get her out of the Dark Forest's clutches, hiding a thorn in her nest to cover for her scarring from her training).
Heck, even the scene where she tries to feed Ivypool her catch during a hunting patrol was demonized because 'she was trying to make Ivypool break the code like SHE does, as if it doesn't matter' and because she got upset when Ivypool started arguing with her! But you guys said she didn't care, right? Plus, people act like being forced into a prophecy is something you should be grateful for, as if it didn't irreparably change her close relationship with her sister? As if Lionblaze and Jayfeather didn't still keep her out of the loop (and for all the fussing they made about keeping it a secret, Lionblaze confesses his power to Cinderheart and Jayfeather doesn't even care).
Meanwhile Nightheart is angry he isn't orange and hates his mom for being exiled and the whole world has to stop for him. 🤪 And Bramblestar is simply so tortured by having an evil father, the only choice is to train with him and his evil half-brother and hide this from his wife! (But remember, it's bad when that witch Squirrelflight hides the parentage of the three from him, even when Blackstar and Leopardstar were still around after being complicit in the torture and killing of halfclan cats.) Why are these male characters sympathized with, even when they actively harm people (Nightheart forcing himself into Sunbeam's life by lying to everyone about being her mate without even asking her if she would be fine with that beforehand), Bramblestar (we all know what he does), but when Dovewing or any other female character is upset, people freak out and call them whiny brats or abusive for (checks notes) asking her partner if he loves her anymore after they argued multiple times in a book. Really makes you think! (Sorry this is so long, you just have based opinions!)
dovewing being characterized as this flighty airheaded vain popular girl stereotype in fanon is like. one of those biggest "we didnt actually read the books" things in the fandom. like theres so much fanart where shes grinning and giggling over the prophecy and shes besties with the trio and shes got preferential treatment, and then in the actual books shes basically the autistic kid no one actually likes. people really, REALLY overexaggerate that one scene where she snaps at ivypaw and brags. (and i dont wanna shit on amvs but i am forever side eying how the animation community handled dove back in the day. more than one person animated her getting murdered. normal.)
i do think its gotten better recently at least. but wow does it feel like at least one person on the writing team has a bone to pick
(also awww thank you <3 no need to be sorry i love getting stuff in my inbox)
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sorry I know I said I don't do discourse but this has bothered me So Much since this whole catastrophe has started
the original statement was worded so vaguely yet precisely enough to get a very different image across to the listeners. like the wording was vague in a sense that made it sound like what went down was much, much more sinister and in a way that would resonate with victims of SA who were actually touched in areas around their genitals or other places on their bodies that are generally considered very sexual. the whole thing was worded in a way that made it hard to listen to for people who went through SA so they would fill out the blanks with things they experienced. and it makes me so very angry that something like this was used against an innocent man and against all the victims that wanted to support her.
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oh my god i walked to get something from a drawer & it's dark but i didn't bother turning a light on because it's two steps in my bedroom what could possibly go wrong?? well i stood on something soft-ish & cold, i jumped back in shock/horror/surprise & turned my torch on to see the withering tail (& ONLY the tail) of the gecko that lives in my room. so that's great i feel fine & not like throwing up at all
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can i pls move out can i pls move out can i pls move out im so tired of living with my mom it's the way she hates humanities it's the way she has disgusting habits it's the way she doesn't even try to understand any sort of nuance it's the way she sees any type of nudity as pornographic it's the way I'll never be free if she's here with me
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