#i am not trying to be an asshole

[aadmelioraa]

all respect to the people posting devastated takes about aldhelm in the tag, i see you, i love you, but i find it truly wild that as a person who has written literally 300k of fic involving him i had next to no emotional reaction as i watched it happen...that's how badly done it was...

#i just...can't be invested in the way they handled it #it was...bad #i cried for two weeks after aethelflaed's death #i knew going into s5 she was going to die and i knew going into skmd that aldhelm was going to die #i am VERY glad that they gave her final arc the care they did #it was beautifully handled and what she deserved #particularly after her lackluster treatment in s4 #if i had to choose i would say hands down i would prefer her death be given more care than his #but like...come ON #anyway i know not everyone agrees with me here #i am not trying to be an asshole #i just truly cannot wrap my head around how shoddily thrown together that 2 hours of footage was #on more counts than this to be clear #but i have my particular interests obviously #ANYWAY #seven kings must die spoilers #aldhelm #to be clear james was GREAT #i just could not take the context seriously #tlk spoilers #the last kingdom spoilers #salt post

[wifegideonnav]

at the risk of stirring up controversy… some of you are getting a little too comfortable saying “all sexuality is fluid” :/ like yeah sexuality in general is fluid, sure, of course, but some of you are really out here preaching that no one is fully gay. which is. homophobic. like you guys get that right. if what you’re saying can be boiled down to “maybe you just haven’t met the right man yet” but dressed up in woke language, that’s just straight up classic homophobia. some people are 100% gay (or straight). and if that’s incompatible with your worldview… maybe you should re-examine some things.

#like… I’m a lesbian. i am not attracted to men even a little bit ever #even if that changes in the future (highly highly doubtful) RIGHT NOW I am 100% gay #and if your instinct is to argue with that or try to find a loophole you’re both a homophobe and an asshole #op

[mymainwastoocluttered]

If some other magicless person got stuck in Twisted Wonderland and tried to take my place, I'd simply let them. Yeah, bitch, now you take care of these motherfuckers and deal with Crowley's bullshit, see if I fuckin care. Have fun babysitting a bunch of sunovabitches who barely even remember you exist half the time.

I love the angst of "they pushed the Prefect away and replaced them only to miss them when they finally leave", but, also, if I were Yuu, I'd absolutely just let it happen. Call me a pushover, but I ain't shedding a tear for friends who left for the newest shiny thing. And it would relieve me from all the trouble. Guess who's not fighting Overblots anymore? This bastard, that's who.

#twisted wonderland #I'm not salty however yes I am #I'd not fight for people willing to replace me just like that #«but you'd be lonely» being accompanied by fake assholes is 10x lonelier #though that gives me an idea #how fun would it be if NRC started trying to replace Yuu and instead of going to RSA‚ Yuu goes to FUCKIN ROLLO #just knocks on NBC and «heeeeey» and Rollo is foaming at the mouth because «they kicked out a MAGICLESS PERSON??» #Rollo: You called me a monster when I lighted that fire‚ but can you call yourselves *men* after abandoning the Prefect #Bells of Notre Dame but instead it's Yuu running to NBC and Rollo taking her in #wait that also means I could make the others get obsessed with bringing Yuu back #so they'd have Hellfire. meanwhile‚ Rollo has a repentance arc through his relationship with Yuu‚ Heaven's Light #... I'm rambling #devaneios de bellee

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

WIBTA for heavily researching trans topics for my girlfriend?

I (cis guy) am dating a trans girl. I fully love and support her and do not see her as anything but a girl, but there's some aspects I'm just genuinely not informed enough on to give support on occasion, which makes me feel like I'm not doing enough. I want to be able to help her better, so I had the idea of researching elements of being MtF so that I could better understand some of her struggles and be there for her in even more ways. Is this a weird thing to do, though? I'm a cis man, as stated, I don't know if it's really my place to act as if I can ever 100% understand and don't want to come off as obsessive. WIBTA?

What are these acronyms?

#aita #am i the asshole #occasionally we get a genuinely sweet and heartwarming one and i gotta post it to balance out the vibe #you are never the asshole for trying to educate yourself to support someone you love btw

[burnyourtrains]

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This means reposting without permission. Feeding into ai. Taking as your own. Not giving credit to the artist. Posting things that aren't yours in the first place. Etc.

This goes for fanart, original pieces from the artist, writing, gifsets - anything someone took the time to make.

Stop stealing art

#stop stealing art #stop reposting others art #art #anti ai #anti assholes #i thought tumblr understood it better than other platforms. but apparently fucking not #if i see one more piece of art that i think is beautiful. only to scroll down and see taken from so and so on Instagram. #i am going to Throttle someone #i am looking at the acotar fandom specifically rn. I'm just trying to enjoy more about the books. only to find that everything has been #reposted from somewhere else. most of the time they at least credit the artist. but dude it isn't Yours to repost #my post #clearly i feel strongly and passionately about this topic

[asmo-cosmetics]

so far the thing i like best about nu: carnival is that eiden is genuinely lovely and i completely understand why all these dudes are just dropping everything to follow him around

#HOWEVER i wish he would slap kuya just once #am i the only one who finds that motherfucker insufferable #i get that that's supposed to be his trait but i don't find it cute so far he's just genuinely incredibly mean #it's actually making me feel more affectionate towards eiden because stfu leave him alone #and the fact that he has enough patience to put up with that and try to interpret what he actually means instead of just #calling him an asshole. which i think he is entitled to! but he doesn't #makes me really love him and hope he doesn't believe any of that and isn't too hard on himself #i think this is gonna be another game where my favorite character is the protag lol #(although i do really love some of them especially olivine) #nu: carnival #nu carnival #yes i'm supposed to be doing work shut up

[thetarttfuldickhead]

From the 2020 Ted Lasso Emmy FYC campaign, or, the only thing that can make season 1 Roy stop insulting Trent:

"'It's because of pricks like you,' he explained to me after Richmond's last-gasp win against Watford on Saturday, reprising his prior description of yours truly -- to my face -- as a colossal prick."

"When I asked him hypothetically, what he would think of not featuring in the first team, Kent replied, 'Hypothetically, if I punched both of your eyes out and stuffed them up your arse, and then told you to walk on your hands, hypothetically, what would you think of that?'"

and actually answer a question is the chance to talk shit about Jamie:

”He doesn’t understand the word ’team’,” said Kent after the match. “For him it’s a dirty word. Whearas dirty words for me are ‘Jamie Tartt’.”

"[...] star striker Jamie Tartt -- who Kent also characterized as 'a f*&$ing prick, even worse than you'."

"[...] if you want to work your way into my 'eart you take, you take Jamie Tartt off the pitch before 'alf time."

"People say fans are there for Tartt, which I find a very depressing thing to hear."

#old news yes but i wanted it on my blog #and don't expect i'll ever find the old posts with it that must exist #and i figure that maybe other newcomeers like me might have missed it? #for lack of new tl stuff i'll go digging up the old #there's some really great stuff down the mines #i am extremely here for roy kent being unable to shut up about jamie tartt #but also being mean to poor (or not so poor) trent trying to do his job #i mean trent was a smug asshole #they were all such messes in season one it was fun! #but there's a bunch of other fun and cute stuff in there #i am exceedingly weak for this sort of tie-in advertising i cannot lie #and generally adore how tl has worked with social media and whatnot #ted lasso social media #trent crimm #roy & jamie #season 1 #old stuff #jamle tartt #roy kent

[scificrows]

I scrolled through a reddit AMA with Martha Wells and someone asked what show from our world Murderbot would re-watch to calm down and she said The Great British Baking Show!!!!!

Now I am in desperate need of art of Murderbot with a chef's hat and a silly apron in ART's galley covered in flour and cursing next to a failure of a Tarte Tatin or whatever, because turns out that when you have never even touched a food item in your life, baking is WAY less relaxing than watching a show about baking.

#i'm CRYING i want to watch bake off with murderbot!!!! #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #asshole research transport #𓄿 #idek #at least I often catch myself thinking “well that can't be THAT difficult can it” watching Bake Off #when in reality i HATE baking because you have to follow the stupid recipe so meitculously #no room for creativity or a little Fun #and I am careless and IMPATIENT #so i feel like murderbot might foolishly think it should try it too?? #still thinking about ART and cooking so I wonder if ART would be able to help? #making sure the oven is at the PERFECT temperature or whatever? #but like #doesn't #and if it was either told VERY explicitly to shut up and let Murderbot do its thing #or if it just thinks its funnier to watch #idkkkkkk #would any of the crew try to console murderbot by taking a bite of its horrid creation #and insisting that it's really not THAT bad?? #until ART puts a stop to it #worried about its crew member's life or something #god #i really have murderbot brainrot rn

[tenowls]

family portrait

#murderbot #murderbot diaries #iris #seth #martyn #asshole research transport #perihelion #fanart #read some good fic lately and am in an ART mood #a family can be a girl her 2 dads and her super advanced hyper intelligent experimental university research transport bot pilot sibling #also drawing ART (ship) was too hard i had to make a 3d model reference im going back to drawing ART (AI) as disembodied squares HAHAHAH #me screaming internally whenever i try to draw something out of my comfort zone #but i did it. i did it for ART

[unspuncreature]

AITA for peeing on my dad’s hand?

this happened just today and i’m not sure how i feel about it.

i was just smelling and tasting and exploring my carrier because it seemed a little different than i last remember. i couldn’t really tell what was up with that, so i crawled inside to better investigate.

before i could even get a good sniff in, the door zipped up behind me, the ground fell out from under me, and i was moving through the air! obviously, this was very distressing, as i was not previously aware that my carrier had flight capabilities.

luckily, the trip was short. when i was finally able to scramble out of there, i smelled my blanket and my dad, but nothing else seemed familiar. once again, my investigation attempts were thwarted. dad scooped me up and tucked my face into the crook of his elbow, so i couldn’t even smell all the new stuff. i was ready to be scared and pissed off, but he was giving me pats on my head and ears just how i like, so it was actually pretty okay.

… until i saw some gleaming metal torture device from the corner of my eye swooping in towards me and heard the most horrible sound, probably some monster about to snatch me up. there was just no way my dad would be able to save us both from that.

you can probably imagine how terrifying this situation was. so, yeah. okay. i peed a little. right on my dad’s hand. i couldn’t even help it! i thought we were going to die :(

right as it was happening, my dad yelled “oh!” and let go of me! just like that!

luckily, between my peeing and his yelling, the monster seemed to have been scared off. i was so shaken by the whole experience that i didn’t even mind going for a short flight back home.

since being home, things have been pretty normal, except my dad didn’t even give me an extra apple stick for being so brave…? and he keeps trying to shove a giant sack of warm beans at me but won’t even let me chew it… :/ i think i made him upset and i’m not even sure what to do. he was the one who let me go right as the monster was closing in!

(btw here’s me. m, 11 weeks old, mini rex if it matters)

#trying to bring finnegan to the bedroom to clip his nails in the middle of a wind storm. fail #he’s a very good boy he did not mean to pee :(( he just got scared lol #aita #am i the asshole #bunny #rabbit #bunblr #finnegan tag #🐇 #scout.txt

[midzilla]

hello again, my new old friend

#final fantasy xiv #endwalker spoilers #hythlodaeus #daily doodling #I'm going to try for a bit to see if I can make my art tag literal and do some daily doodles #I'm saying this in the tags so that no one expects anything I guess #this is something I've been wanting to do for a while but I am in my heart of hearts a very lazy asshole

[momochiiee-reblogs]

I am so sorry for the Kavetham / Haikaveh I've turned my social medias into since newyear

It will get worse overtime

#genshin impact #kavetham #haikaveh #I'm still figuring out how to draw them cuz genshin characters are way to hard for my poor braincell #but I am constantly itching to try so my art will eventually be filled with Dendro gays #I'm so sorry Dilbraig I will take a time away from you. it's not you. it's me. I've been enabled to gremlin over other gay disasters 😔 #I'll be back eventually or juggle both brainrots #I am actually absolutely not sorry #kaveh is my babygirl and Alhaitham the asshole I kin now #momochiiee mussings

[metukika]

ill say it before and ill say it again. hc that teru doesnt like serizawa at all.

#im gonna go into it here cuz im not confident in my hcs hi hello #so actually not cuz of the whole claw thing. i think that seri wanting to be a better person is like the one thing teru respects about him #and thats the thing. hes like !!! hes kinda like me!!! so he lowkey tries to make a connection thru that like haha we were both assholes an #arent perfect but trying! but see heres the thing. serizawa is an adult. he wants to act like an adult. so he treats teru like a child. not #in a bad way. normal adult to child. he respects him and all but see teru acts and maybe feels that he feels like an adult. so he sees that #as disrespectful. finally someone whos kinda ignorant like him... but hes treating teru like hes a child?! maybe legally serizawa is an #adult but after staying inside his room for years and then all that manipulation at claw.. mentally teru considers them the same. except #that seri wont act like it cuz reigen told him how to treat regular teenagers but teru isnt a regular teenager get what im sayin #ok and. then teru is kinda mean to him like ok man get outta my way but seri respects him and gives him more chances which makes teru feel #guilty which makes him dislike seri even more and try to push him away by being mean and its this hopeless cycle until one day teru snaps a #him and they have an actual conversation and he can see that hes actually the one treating serizawa like a child. and that hes like a shitt #adult in this scenario am i making any sense is anyone even listening #anyways sorry this is in the tags if u thought it was good and wanted to rb. hope i made u consider some dynamics

[druidonity2]

Dragon Noodle Soup :3

#world of warcraft #dragonflight #dragons #I both adore the kalimdor racing event and also am highly frustrated cuz advanced gold is always 1-3 seconds off #most fun ive ever had in WoW #also worst time ever #maybe second to the mage tower cuz that shit was NOT MADE for my ADHD ass #im joking the worst times in this game is trying to convince strangers to let you join endgame content #and then get bullied by them #i dont do dungeons anymore #seriously tho the dragon racing is some of the most fun and engaging wow content ever give me moreeeee #I need more single player content that feels like this #that is highly rewarding and i dont need to suck up to assholes to achieve #((desperatly begging for a solo story version of dungeons and raids so i can experience the story without getting abused by other players)) #i DID THE MONK DMG MAGE TOWER IN LEGION. I HAVE TRIED THE NEW VER 100 FUCKING TIMES #AND ITS HARDER THIS TIME SO I FUCKING CAN'T #ASLDKHADOIHADIA #I have to be on top of every fucking thing for like 12 minutes straight due to my dmg output and following guides dont help me #I got him down to 20-30 percent and then ditched the game to play FFXIV for a full ass year #this was jan 2022 #I havn't attempted since i probably should. #sorry forgot what this post was about

[ibis-gt]

hey, a genuine plea from someone who used to love this space: please learn to treat artists & writers as human beings and not factories.

part of what drove me away was the absolutely constant push to be making new things. i’d post a piece of art or a comic or a fic and get tons of people asking for what was going to happen next, just more more more nonstop, and it was overwhelming and so discouraging. it didn’t matter how long the thing i’d just posted was, people just wanted more. when i went on my hiatus because i felt totally tapped out, i got asks & requests STILL asking me to make more things, telling what of my stuff they missed, keeping that pressure on, and it SUCKED. i couldn’t even rest on my break because of that and along with other huge problems in the community, it made me quit this place for good.

just, please learn some etiquette about how to engage with art and writing, please stop asking for more all the time. if you want something you need to either learn to make it yourself or put your money where your mouth is and pay for it. if artists or writers ask for requests then it’s okay to ask for things for free, but don’t assume that’s the case for every single creator out there. for the love of god don’t read someone’s fic and then say ‘what if you wrote this again, but with this different thing that i like more’, because you sound like an entitled child.

PLEASE remember we’re human beings with lives and other circumstances, we need to make money to live or we need to go to school or take care of ourselves and our families. we are more than the drawings or stories we create and if you treat us like factories, you’re just going to burn us out. we are not ‘content creators’. we are PEOPLE.

and hey! for any other creatives out there who feel this way, feel like your audience is draining you dry or a community isn’t treating you with the respect you deserve? there is nothing wrong with dropping that space and moving on to something else, something better. sometimes things can’t be fixed or reformed or shaped up. sometimes the rot is so deep that it’s not worth breaking your back trying to pull it out. If a space isn’t good for you, save your mental and physical health and leave. i’ve been in a much better place in almost every aspect of my life after getting out of this community. you don’t have to stick around if you don’t feel valued. anyone telling you otherwise is thinking more about themself than about you, so fuck ‘em.

#literally the you can leave skeleton meme you CAN leave and it is sometimes the best option! #lol i saw someone a while ago saying that you shouldn't leave a community just bc of bad behavior #that you should stick around and try to reform it. um. no! #that is a very privileged position to hold and especially rankles after a lot of people of color left bc of racist harrassment. #or like. a friend of mine who left bc her boundaries were repeatedly violated and ignored in favor of Popular Artist. #like. that's not something you fix by blocking people. that's something you Get Away from bc it's so deeply ingrained and normalized #like yeah in some situations you can shape the community you want to make by blocking assholes and cultivating a following of cool people #i did that and then i LEFT the broader community bc it SUCKS. and i am far happier with my little circle of friends. #you are not beholden to stick around and stew in a space that treats you badly. ever.

[corfisers]

two weird things that happen to me more often than i'd like and feel like they are on the opposite ends of the same spectrum: forgetting that i do actually speak two languages and forgetting that some people who post here in english speak only english

#the latter is usually when there's some post on linguistics or just like?? a thing with eng being passed as universal??? #don't have any examples off the top of my head unfortunately #but sometimes you read a post and get this “oh you never had to grapple with concepts that are not applicable to your first language” feel #this isn't me trying to shame anyone who speaks one language btw you're fine as long as you're not being an asshole #to people who's eng isn't perfect or have some weirdly strong opinions on translation or languages in general #while not having any actual knowledge you know? #whatever idk how much sense i'm making #forgetting that i speak rus has more to do with how used i am to using eng. to the point that i mostly think in it #kinda sucks if i'm being honest? i'm rereading idiot and went to look up eng translation for a chapter because i wanted to post something #and augh it's not the same! it's not the same. might be just not the best translation fuck if i know but still #but yeah i barely use rus outside of talking to someone irl (rarely happens) or reading a book. it's weird #benvey tag