#honestly it's just less fun so far

[audible-smiles]

I finished season 14 of Drag Race and randomly started season 6, and the vibe is instantly different; for one thing everyone is much less comfortable with androgyny in drag. The opening line is "may the best woman win" instead of "may the best drag queen win". I can't parse the significance of that change yet but it Means Something. This season started airing in 2014, which is definitely after the start of the seismic change in trans women's visibility in American public life. Laverne Cox was on OITNB, and 2014 was the year she was on the cover of Time. Lana Wachowski and Laura Jane Grace had already come out. It was still a year before Caitlyn Jenner came out. I think this was the last season where they still called the video messages Ru Paul left for contestants "You've Got She-mail".

#drag racing #honestly it's just less fun so far #people seem to be having less fun #we'll see where it goes

[automatonknight]

id: a photo of a patch sewn onto a jean jacket. the patch is white with black lineart and it depicts gabriel from ultrakill-he is shown to his waist holding a spear, his wings are wrapped around him. below him, on a ribbon there is "patron saint of homos" written. end id

#art #fanart #gabriel ultrakill #made this one kind of as a joke but i'm honestly obsessed. i think it turned out great #i've just started decorating this jacket but :] its fun so far. the other side also has some patches already #its kind of good actually that i can't use my tablet bc otherwise i'd never get around to sweing this thing onto that damn jakcet and this #way it took like. maybe two hours if not less :3

[rewritingcanon]

no girl tell us what you think about jegulily!! im so here for it (tone is weird but I mean that genuinely, I don't ship them so I'm not here to be weird)

dw bae ur tone is fine ! (i’ve been waiting for an ask like this 💀) i think jegulily is... yeah its…. like usually as long as its legal idgaf as long as shippers portray their characters right but regulus fans are literally incapable 😭🙏 WHY WOULD U PAIR A MUGGLEBORN AND A BLOOD SUPREMACIST IM SO DONE WITH DIS FANDOMMMM!! that actually goes for a lot of lily ships like bartylily as well (no clue where that came from either but it’s equally as stupid lmfao).

and jegulily just feels like shoving in lily because people feel bad for ditching her, or shoving in regulus because some people like jily and jegulus and want them (for some reason) to coincide even though it makes zeroooo sense for it to. like, idk if i said this with jegulus before (i yap sm on this account i forget what i say), but like it, jegulily can be done well if a realistic dynamic is taken into account, but the marauders fandom is allergic to nuance and so just chalks up everything regulus does and believes to his neglectful homelife. hes not all-bad, sure, i do feel bad for him, but im nowhere close to shipping him with a woman whos part of the people hes trying to eradicate, or with her man who purposefully went against all pureblood tradition (which is such a large part of james’ character— he is a pureblood that chooses to be seperate from that culture hellooooo plz wake uppppp).

marauders fandom has a chronic “i can fix him” mentality when it comes to wizard neo nazis, i have never understood it. but thats a topic for another day.

jegulily should be filled with envy, toxicity and prejudice stop nerfing it to be some fluffy feel-good polyamorous stable marriage where they raise harry together. yall are looking over the potential. this ship has blood and guts in it plz act like it or else idk what to say 😭 if it doesnt end with at least one of them getting murdered i dont want it.

#imho ​it just feels willfully ignorant of all three characters to ship them #this goes with most the regulus ships tbh except like bartylus. bcuz barty is just terrible too LOL #just characterise ur characters right people. not to majority fanon interpretation but to who they are CANONLY #you may think its less fun but to me. that’s honestly what makes those three so appealing #+its generally important to understand the media u consume. and yes. that means harry potter as a book series if ur in the marauders fandom #u are not seperate from the hp books if u are attached to its characters (no matter how far youve spun their personalities away) #on a seperate note people are allowed to ship what they want and im being lowkey serious when i say im not gonna find someone weird if they- #-ship something as long as its legal #maybe some jegulily people follow me so let me just say i dont hate the shippers i just heavily dislike the ship 😭 #worse than jegulus but somehow less annoying idk how to explain it #harry potter #hp #marauders #marauders era #anti jegulus #anti jegulily #lily evans #jily #pro jily #james potter #lily potter #regulus black #anti regulus black #the marauders era #the marauders #ask #anon #rewriting #tyyyy anon for the ask i luv to yap 🫶🫶

[giulzart]

Velvet Solstice & Violet Rose

Template by @cozmiccore for @infamous-if

#infamous #infamous if #infamous mc #infamous oc #violet rose #infamous violet #changed violet style a bit cause certain things didn't fit anymore #honestly I just made her a bit less intense #that's on me cause I got carried away while drawing her haha #this was so fun #also i'm old and cringy sorry #go play infamous though #this is a threat #chapter two so far was *chef kiss* btw #okay bye

[rogersstevie]

i figure they’ll drop it in a few eps like they have with everything else but it would be a little funny if after all the barchie vs varchie shit that they just made beronica endgame

#like...idt i would like it bc honestly once it became all varchie/bughead all the time the friendships really suffered #though i guess it might've been a little better in seasons 5 and 6 #and i do love beronica and all it's what got me watching the show even while the internet was yelling queerbaiting #though i didn't stay loving it AS much especially as they got less interaction and i grew to love barchie more #but yeah like their relationship just became way less significant than it seemed to be at the start of the show #obvs ya know. the 50s is a brand new storyline and everything so the relationships are too #so at least they've given beronica a decent amount of focus so far #but also...people saying they're not gonna leave the 50s which is bad for many reasons #but specifically if it's gonna be the kind of thing where it's like the first six seasons didn't happen #i hate that shit soooooo much #that's what the vampire diaries books did and i was infuriated #basically what endgame did too #it's like what have i gone through this entire series for if you're just gonna be like AND NONE OF IT MATTERED #so yeah like i have been having fun with this season but i'm wary of everything #riverdale #riverdale 7x14 #riverdale spoilers

[thevillainsfangirl]

Stans who try to turn sadistic, cruel, violent, deranged characters into Poor traumatized little beans who were abused and/or never actually wanted to do those things when canon literally says otherwise are actually just so fucking BORING.

Not only are they delusional, but they’re also just so fucking boring. Like... why the fuck do they want them to be a totally different character? These are stans, not fans; they don’t actually like that character, they like some 100% AU version of them to project on. (Or to thirst over, but they’re so delusional that they believe liking a fictional villain disrupts their real life morals, so they have to make them into someone entirely different. 🙄)

#This was basically the 'Joker' movie but thankfully I don't see many people acting like this with J in general. #ethan landry #amber freeman #stu macher #quinn bailey #billy loomis #harley quinn #patrick hockstetter #slashers #(Just the slasher community as a whole. 😒) #I'm not going to go into an entire thesis but: Every single one of these characters I'm tagging CANONICALLY wanted to harm/kill people #and LOVED DOING IT. #Stu and Amber and Ethan are the most sadistic GFs so far. (Aside from super brutal Charlie.) #They all were CLEARLY having the most fun! #And the writers themselves have confirmed that the murders WERE AMBER'S IDEA! Richie didn't make her do shit! #That's honestly such an insult to Amber. I mean it's RICHIE ffs! 😩 #Sure he'd played Samantha like a fiddle but AMBER IS SMARTER THAN SAM! #The girl who started dating some random dude less than a year after her ex tried to kill her! 🥴 #(Okay so maybe I DID write a thesis! 🙃) #rant #text post

[francy-sketches]

It's so funny to me when hotd fans are like "wait you like [character]??? ummmm dont you know they're a problematic horrible person???? whats wrong with you 🤨" girl these are all horrible people what show do you think you're watching

#.txt #hotd #yes obviously some characters are less bad than others no shit #but are you really gonna watch this show only stanning he most pure uwu babies #have fun with um. the kids i guess? #woww jace is so interesting i love that i can almost tell him apart from luke 😍 #also this type of shit almost always comes from people who stan. idk daemon. so like morality really isnt that big of a concern lol #daemon is just an example btw like. ive seen this from team green too lol #yes obvously you're allowed to not like characters just dont act all superior about it lol #honestly i dont think theres any character i actively dislike so far lol i'm enjoying the shitshow #obligatory 'but i like them as characters uwu I dont condone their actions' no shit lol #watching hotd and shaking my head the whole time so people know i dont condone incest and murder

[leafpool-loves-ashfur]

calling it now people are going to ship Flipclaw and Podlight

#id ship it too honestly if it werent for Flipclaw and Feather already being so darn cute #also has anyone else realized that the chapters are like. filler filler filler we are just padding out things and making them longer to #fill space then BAM BIG DRAMATIC PLOT TO GET YOU HOOKED FOR THE NEXT BOOK! #like the fact that warriors has to stick to the whole 6 books per arc thing is what really kills them in my opinion #like there would be a lot less needless filler and it could focus on just telling the story instead of being like #'uh... how do we make this 3 book thing fit 6 books...? oh i know! more journey chapters!' #at least so far i feel like TBC and ASC have been better about it. like they actually go to new and fun places and do silly things #but cmon. didja really need to go on a journey rn. it also makes the drama in the clan feel less... impactful... #like ur telling me the clans just put their incoming war on pause for you? #also stop being afraid to kill the leaders you cowards #a leader/deputy should have died each book corresponding to the title #anyway i do like the set of villains for this arc #a starless clan #asc thunder #asc spoilers #podlight #flipclaw #warrior cats #warriors #warriors ocs

[craycraybluejay]

throwback to when I was in elementary- I think 4th grade- and at Halloween, I was in my standard princess getup and there was this really pretty fellow dressed as the phantom of the opera- my favorite musical. I went to say hi and shake his hand, and he brought it close and kissed the back of my hand with a wink.

It was then I realised the power of a loli/shota/kodo. I remember trying to flirt with more adults after that, but I'll always remember that first guy, even though I'm an adult now

I would've killed to have experienced that 😭 who r uu tell me more stories

although i think if that happened to me i would have been crazy over it n probably went overboard,, i was a surprisingly not a very forward kid bc i knew i was like a dog w a bone when it came to anything i wanted. flirting turned to "dating" and feeling each other up right quick, anger turned to bridge burning and actual burning and destruction,, etc. If someone made the dire mistake of imbuing me with any sort of want it would be their problem 😭😂. give me a slice and i will make it my sole mission to have the whole cake. I've learned well to control the impulses involved but I still have the ambition to eat the world.

(also i feel like people do that stuff for the sole purpose of flattering the subject. in a lot of cultures its pretty regular that if someones dressed like a princess you act like shes a princess,, i should've dressed like royalty more.) (but ofc people on the recieving end sometimes like u or i get excited about it lolz)

#anon response #bro imagine if i was as open as a kid as i am now i wouldve been a total nightmare #'YOUNG MAN GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY COWORKER THIS INSTANT' #'STOP TRYING TO KILL YOUR CLASSMATE' #🥰 people were mean to me anyway i should've had more fun if i was gonna be punished even for doing nothin wrong #oh well still had a way crazier childhood than anyone i know by far #delete later #if people start being weird ab this #honestly tho i'd prefer y'all shoot me a dm if you have something that may come off controversial #for me to respond to #that way i can be a little less 'is this PR friendly' and worry less ab annoying assholes claiming i said things i didnt say #ive had people send me things i genuinely cannot publicly respond to #and while i am intrigued and really hella appreciative that they choose to share and WANT TO respond #i cannot and yall should be aware that it takes a lot of work to balance being 'authentic' and staying mostly unharassed on this site #but i do love hearing everyones stories and feelings and unique stuff so please dont be afraid to talk :3 #just know i cannot always respond to some asks for my own peace but will always accept dms #and know that i do read them anyway so if u just want me to see it and not respond thats ok too #i just feel super bad when i have juicy asks in my inbox i cant post

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

trick to fun dialogue is just to make it a little hard to understand. maybe thats a cheap trick but i dont care

#or not even that hard necessarily just like it takes like 2 listens. it takes attention #and what 'harder' is is subjective depends on the type of dialogue you hear a lot and your vocabulary level #watching the nevers right #and im watching this scene and theres this character who exactly hits this spot for me #like 5........wait 5 years ago is not as far as i think it is.........7 years ago (ugh) i woudlnt have understood what she was saying #like i'd know all the words separately but iwouldnt have understood what she was saying at all #but rn im like oooh this is the exact balance between obscuring your meaning and substance #i think oftne in my writing i obscure more than there is substance #there usually /is/. /some/ substance #theres usually substance. just theres more complication than there is substance. here the balance is better #bc someone needs to say these words hfkghgj #the other day while reading scripts im making myself rewrite i was like 'i coudltn do this in a fic. iwouldnt get away with this' #lines that work in a script (bc they'll be acted) fall flat in fic bc we dont have the luxury (or limitation) of actors #but it really made me think abt like..what you need to do in a script for television vs in a fic based on that television you knwo what i #mean? different things you need to work for. WE need to work for that the characters sound like Them. that we can Hear them #tv gets that almost free. the words will be in the right voice in the right body that gets you like 60-70% of the way #less sometimes depending on the specificity of the character&circumstances i was mostly thinking abt the doctor who maybe has more leeway #and tv has the limitations of 1) needs to be sayable. but also 2) needs to be flatter i think #you cant put 5 meanings in every line bc theres plot that needs to keep going and sentences need to stay short #so you get a lot of character work for free i think but in return you need to rein yourself in in that way #anyway idk these observations were just based on like me rewriting the 14 specials and going 'this line fucking sucks in fic' fhgkjhgkjgh #not that it was a bad line! just. boring .meaningless. doesnt add. filler noise. i dont have TIME for that in fic. i lose people #idc if i lose readers i dont know abt that but i lose myself honestly very short attention span keep every word interesting #scripts are fluffy and repetitious. repetitive. but repetitious sounds funner #anyway its fun trying to match that tv need with my own lines that i add in #not too obscure. needs to be sayable. but with my own 'half the spices cabinet in my single cup of hot choccy' approach to writing #(and hot choccy)

[skrunksthatwunk]

finished dante's campaign of dmc2!! it was bad!!! <3 and i can't tell if it's anticlimactic or a surprising show of mercy that it only took around 4 hours

#and a notable amount of that was me bumblefucking around so #look i need to reiterate that i am not a hater for the most part. that's not who i am. However--- #i'm kind of surprised that it managed to have even less of a plot than dmc1 bc that's a low bar. neither game prioritized the story and i'm #honestly fine with that y'know? so long as the game's fun it doesn't matter that much to me #which is not a problem for dmc1!! the aesthetic the monster designs the general game feel is all there. dmc1 rules #dmc2 actually has some pretty good monster designs imo. like there's things to like about dmc2 it's just all the stuff that takes some extr #time to notice. as opposed to the blaring unavoidably shitty gameplay that you notice far faster and more often #anyway im about to go play lucia's campaign i guess. so. look forward to me complaining more probably #also the way i HOWLED when lucia started repeating trish's lines... YOU CAN'T JUST MAKE THE Devils Never Cry SCENE TWICE GUYS #IT'S REALLY OBVIOIUS #dmc #dmc2 #sigh. also i got blue eye stared by dante at least once and i thought that was funny. he kinda looks like a bald eagle head-on #like he's pretty but. screee

[mishtershpock]

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#okay i’m gonna try to keep this short and sweet. 30 tag maximum you are my nemesis lol #my main issue here is not necessarily that the karaoke and other bach party scenes have likely been cut #it’s more that they’re clearly buddie baiting for engagement #journalists were watching the episode as early as saturday. which means the ep was ready by at least this time last week #so they knew that the scenes had been cut. and they chose to continue including it in promotion and interviews #i KNOW that logically the reason they chose those scenes to cut was because they’re less important. and we’d already seen them #they technically already gave us the clips in the promo videos. right? so bye bye #but that’s bullshit. sorry #they used buddie best friendism content as a way to promote the ep and increase hype #and then they just pull it out from under us the day before it airs #this is a madney episode. madney are getting married. buddie having fun is not the most important thing here. i get it #so why did they not promote something else? you’re telling me there was NOTHING ELSE they could’ve used? #nothing else from the episode that was free of big spoilers? at all??? #it’s madney’s episode but they chose to promote one clip of buddie talking to maddie. one of chim crawling. and the bach party stuff #they must know that people would focus on the bach party. buddie is beloved buck and eddie are beloved #what were they expecting?? #they used buddie as a pairing as bait. not queer bait and not even ship bait i suppose as there was nothing ‘shippy’ shown #but they baited buddie content. that’s literally what’s happened #i would be more understanding if this wasn’t a regular occurrence. it’s normal sure. shows do this all the time with fan faves #but also it is a false reflection of the episode. even journalists are saying the episode is not what they expected from the promo #it honestly feels like they’ve made fools of us. maybe the episode will air and it’ll be better than expected #but i don’t have much hope not much hope for buddie. not much hope for madney getting what they deserve. ZERO hope for eddie’s 7b storyline #frankly i’m expecting b/t to be the main chat after this ep. which is……. anyway #i’m not really liking s7 so far and i feel gaslit when people say it’s great lol #IN MY OPINION it is choppy and too fast and a little ooc and doesn’t make a lot of sense #they didn’t even green light bi!buck until episode. what. 2/3?? #so presumably had to change everything from then on #i know that’s partly down to limited episode numbers but… 3 eps for the cruise (unnecessary) but 1 for madney wedding? ok #sigh. if anyone’s read this far pls don’t come for me ok. these are just my opinions #we’re all entitled to them. i’m sad for madney and i’m sad for buddie best friendism and i’m sad for s7 as a whole right now

[arcaneyouth]

being a moderator is an. enlightening experience

#queued post #this is just a customer service job rebranded i think #obviously i am not about to publicly call out some of the wilder things i've had to deal with that's a dick move #but it's just like. the fact that there is these wilder experiences is just so. it's. wow #you really gain an appreciation for other moderators and well they handle it once you yourself are a moderator #managing a community is not always a terrible job! i find it fun usually #i honestly haven't even had any particularly horrible experiences #but BAFFLING experiences? *absolutely* #you will be asked questions you couldn't have even dreamed of #and you're not allowed to tell them 'what? fucking what? what?' #like how did you even come up with this. what? #i feel lucky the place i'm modding is 1) a smaller community so these baffling experiences are few and far between #2) run by higher ups that generally agree with me on complex issues and know how to be lighthearted about it. #being a mod for a bigger community with less communicative upper staff would be HELLLLLL #everyone give your community mods some love and affection cause jesus christ dude #its wild out there

[hanzajesthanza]

i finished narrenturm, and strangely enough, it felt like i and the story were in sync. just when i was beginning to feel bored, it picked up. just when i was feeling overwhelmed with action, it slowed down. just as i felt i wished something magical would happen, it did, and just as when i felt a need to return to the mundane, it did. a “wish and you will receive” reading experience!

#i was literally going to make a post earlier that i wish there was more ‘down time’ with the characters to get inside their heads a little #and to take a breather from all the action #and lo and behold. The Prison Chapters. The Eponymous Narrenturm. #me: ‘i wish they’d sit down in one place and just talk’ | them: [spend chapters in prison awaiting torture] | me: oh. well that ‘solves’ it. #txt #it’s very thrilling and… wow this is underrated #or rather people treat it like ‘if you dont like history you won’t like this’ #i mean i like history but i am not educated in this particular section of it #but my theory was proven true: just read and have fun and thats all that matters #it’s also so funny because i feel like this series delivers on two Main Criticisms the witcher usually falls under: #‘not enough monsters/magic’ and ‘not enough action’ #because… oddly enough there is more magic in here than in a lot of the witcher. and a lot of action too — and blood! lots of blood! #i was honestly alarmed when i read ‘tighten the screw’ and we DID NOT fade to black. i was like ‘AN ACTUAL TORTURE SCENE?!’ #also there’s multiple decapitations and head trauma — #so again i say: this is making the witcher look like [dandelion’s voice] child’s play… #the one part in which the witcher has delivered stronger so far is female characters #but i know that in the witcher the female characters start to take better shape in the 2nd/3rd/4th books #i feel like nicolette at the moment has less character development and pagetime than yennefer did in the last wish #she’s not even on the same level as famously underdeveloped essi daven #so i hope she gets more time and embodiment in the future. i think she will. i trust she will #it’s fascinating to see the evolution of the style and interests though…

[paradife-loft]

truly, nothing gets me riled up about things I find in the books I'm reading like dubious claims about animal communication do 🙃🙃🙃🙃

#this week it's ''apes can't/don't kick out powerful asshole group members because they don't have language to tell each other about it!!'' #like honestly I'm as opposite of Team Ape as anyone's likely to get #but uhhhh to the claim that language is necessary to gang up on bullies..... #some behavior researchers in Seattle wearing scary masks would be just Fascinated to hear that #so idk if you Wanna throw your hat in on ''apes are substantially less socially capable than crows are'' but. ok sure have fun #James liveblogs books #(this particular book really has very little to do with nonhuman communication; this was just the first big WTF moment I've had so far)

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

netflix sandman............................ did not understand the assignment

#more later maybe i gotta work out #but i'll say for now #if you liked the show and haven't read the comics #you.... should #they are yes.more white and more male and more straight and more Obviously Written By A Straight White Dude In The 90s #but like. despite the visual changes nothing about the show thus far [a little over 5 episodes in] feels particularly less so on that point #and they are... just More #more twisted and more ambitious and more artistic but also purely more fun #honestly my biggest takeaway from the show is #that after avoiding it for more than a decade bc of the public embarrassingness of nl gmn #i think i gotta reread sandman now!