#i know i sound like a weirdo

[markscherz]

The eye of Uroplatus garamaso, the new gecko species my colleagues and I described yesterday. Check out that weird pupil! Four little diamonds in a chain.

#gecko #lizard #animals #eye #herpetology #wildlife #Uroplatus #Uroplatus garamaso #I have always loved the eyes of these weirdos #why would you want four separate images on your retina? #while you are at least ostensibly asleep? #sounds like orc mischief to me #also I don't know if you guys are aware that we named another one of these geckos after Treebeard #Uroplatus fangorn #so happy about that one #it's the only species I've named after something by Tolkien so far #which is kind of surprising given that my personality is composed largely of Tolkien nerdery #but there are other fandoms I have not yet acknowledged at all with species names #so keep your eyes out for some Star Trek names in the future #there's taxonomy in that nebula #this has been your evening tag ramble #enjoy

[lagosbratzdoll]

On Daenerys, Colonisation and Race Discourse within the ASOIAF Fandom

This has been on my mind for a good long while and honestly, as much as I would like to leave discourse in the pits, it has been bugging me intermittently over the past few weeks.

Far too many of you get on here and call people who like the fictional dragon-riding family, neo-Nazis and that sentiment is so prevalent, that white people feel comfortable telling me a black woman that I am a neo-Nazi for rooting for Daenerys Targaryen. I am upholding neo-Nazi power fantasies for wanting to see a little girl live at the end of a story. I am a neo-Nazi for wanting to see the rape survivor have the family she aches for and children with the man (or men) she loves.

Then, those same people go on spiels about how the systemic erasure of those who sing the song of the earth and other old races is not colonialism. That their removal from their home is not displacement but an agreement between two equal parties. The fact that the only place where those who sing the song of the earth exist in the present timeline is north of the wall, surrounded by the bones of their dead, is not a travesty. That the expulsion of the old races from their home isn't that bad and should not be condemned. 

Instead, people argue, completely seriously, that the harm that the First Men and Andals have caused is centuries in the past, so essentially the slate has been wiped clean. The logical leaps that are required to arrive at such a boneheaded conclusion are truly mind-boggling, and those who make such arguments are not good people. 

I am unsure how one could read those books and come away with the impression that the old races do not mourn the loss of their home. I am unsure how one could read The Last of the Giants[1] and Ygritte’s reaction to both the song and Jon’s dismissal of the ethnic cleansing of the giants then believe that the old races and the free folk have moved past their displacement. 

In Westeros, from the Wall to the broken arm of Dorne, they all speak one language despite the fact they are all different ethnicities and they all landed on the shores at different times. That is not the case in Essos, we have been introduced to at least six languages and in A Dance with Dragons, Tyrion notes that the Valyrian spoken in the Free Cities has evolved into nine distinct dialects, and they are well on their way to becoming different languages.

How would a continent as large and diverse as Westeros maintain its hegemony over the people if not for forced assimilation, discriminatory practices and violence? The brutal repression required to keep one house in power for thousands of years is nothing to sniff at. The suppression required to keep the vast majority of Westeros worshipping one (or seven) gods. The systems in place ensure that language does not grow or evolve amongst the highborns at least.

Centuries before Aegon's Landing the maesters were the definitive educational authority and even now centuries after, nothing has changed. The grey rats still decide who learns what and when they learn it. There's one in every highborn home, all correspondence passes through them, they are the healers and the councillors.

The circular logic gets even more blockheaded when you factor in the fact that Daenerys is far from the only white character in the books. She is not the only character who wishes for home. She is not the only character who draws strength from her ancestors, her bloodline and her magical creatures. 

Cersei draws strength from her family’s iconography, and the Stark children (Jon included) all draw strength from their direwolves, their home and their blood. Sansa, Arya and Bran wish to return home and their home was built on the indiscriminate murder and displacement of the indigenous peoples. Their home is built on centuries of rape, murder, exclusionary practices and sexual slavery. 

However, if we give the nonsensical argument that time erases crimes air; the Starks, Lannisters and Tullys are warring to settle personal grievances in the present timeline. As a consequence of that war, thousands (a modest guesstimate) of small folk, minor nobles and even some major ones have been raped, tortured, maimed and killed.

Despite all this, no one writes meta after meta about how Sansa and her siblings must surely die for justice to be had for those who sing the song of the earth, the free folk, the giants and all the old races that fled beyond the wall.  

People write meta about Cersei and how she must die, but those are typically more misogynistic nature. They typically argue that she must die not for the “crime” of being Lannister, but for the “crime” of being Cersei and “ruining” Jamie. 

I would not mind criticisms of Dany and her peace-focused approach to ending slavery because the approach is naïve and she gives the slavers far too much ground. However, she is learning, growing and self-critiquing. At the end of A Dance with Dragons, she has decided to embrace fire and blood, her knight is breaking the false peace which is a necessary step forward.

What I find offensive is people saying that she should have planned better before she abolished slavery. And that the death, violence, and sickness that arises from her quest to eradicate slavery is somehow worse than the death, violence, and sickness that already existed in Slaver’s Bay. 

This argument often downplays the horrific conditions and suffering that exist(ed) under the slave system in Slaver's Bay. Such arguments are often in poor taste and prioritise the lives and comforts of the slavers more than the people they have enslaved.

I would not mind criticisms of Dany if people applied that same critique even-handedly. The same people who believe that Jon and Bran have done much to rectify the evil that their ancestors perpetuated believe that Dany has not done anything to right the wrongs of her ethnic kin. They praise them for the non-existent steps that they have taken, but in the same breath, they condemn Dany for not being able to immediately end the plague that is slavery. 

It is perfectly alright to not like fictional characters, no law requires you to like certain fictional characters over others. However, what is not right is making broad accusations about those who do, it is beyond the pale. It is disgusting, and annoying, and trivialises real-world issues to score cheap points against fictional characters.

Equating the survival of a teenage survivor to the restoration of a fascist house or neo-Nazi power fantasy when such designations do not exist in the world of ice and fire is strange behaviour. Saying that the teenage survivor will eventually be manipulated and raped (again) before ending up dead on her manipulator's blade is also strange behaviour. 

Dismissing the horrors of colonialism, especially when the text shows you that the involved parties are still affected by it, is not normal and often veers into real-world imperialism apologia. While criticism and analysis of characters and their actions are valid and even encouraged, it is essential that we do not resort to sweeping generalisations about other people and that we keep criticisms of characters grounded in the text. 

[1]  

Ooooooh, I am the last of the giants, my people are gone from the earth.

The last of the great mountain giants, who ruled all the world at my birth

Oh, the smallfolk have stolen my forests, they’ve stolen my rivers and hills.

And they’ve built a great wall through my valleys, and fished all the fish from my rills

In stone halls they burn their great fires, in stone halls they forge their sharp spears.

Whilst I walk alone in the mountains, with no true companion but tears.

They hunt me with dogs in the daylight, they hunt me with torches by night.

For these men who are small can never stand tall, whilst giants still walk in the light.

Oooooooh, I am the LAST of the giants, so learn well the words of my song.

For when I am gone the singing will fade, and the silence shall last long and long.

#I do not like most of y’all. #Do not call people of colour you do not know neonazis to win points against a fictional character. #It is not my fault that most of your faves are boring and do nothing to drive the plot forward #take it up with george rr martin and stop villifying dany and her (mid) family. #The insistence that we must mind fandom etiqutte is tired as hell too especially because people use it as silencing tools. #“Yes I called you a neonazi but you are the real weirdo for finding my post so really it’s on you that you saw that.” #that’s how y’all sound. #If I see another post that equates enjoying dany to being a neonazi #i will make it everybodys problem. #Took a long break from this fandom because the rancid takes were overshadowing the good takes #and i’ve been back less than a year and the takes are even more rancid than before. #hotd opened an evil door that should’ve remained shut. #Cause why the fuck are there criston cole apologists? Why are there aemond and aegon ii apologists? It is a dark world we live in. #put the last giant at the bottom for my homies who have not read the books which if we're speaking real is more than half of y'all #now that i have gotten this out of my system #it is time to get back to demon slayer #daenerys targaryen #asoiaf #asoiaf thoughts #asoiaf nonsense #if you saw the typos in the first version #no you didn't #edited this to add some thoughts I originally put in the tags because I felt it worked better there.

[pencilscratchins]

every time one of you message me after i do a livestream or a podcast or something with a message along the lines of “omg your speech impediment is sooooo precious, you sound like a little kid!” i want you to know that i eat entire can of spinach like popeye and then, i go punch craters in the street. for the sake of the people in my city, stop sending me those messages. we cannot fix the pot holes fast enough and we’re running out of spare tires.

#stop infantalizing people with speech impediments you fucking weirdos lmao #what are you 12 like insult me on something that is my fault #like my personality #don’t make fun of my LISP COME ON MAN #get better material!!!! #i know you think your being nice but you do not need to phrase it like that #if you like the way my rhotacism sounds just say you like my voice it’s that easy #freaks #not srt #delete later #you probably know what midwestern city i live in now bc of the pothole reference LMAO

[oceanwithouthermoon]

https://x.com/d3kutism/status/1741579841764475157?s=46

it should be illegal to be this fucking stupid so loudly and confidently omg..

mfs on the internet preach about "media literacy" yet they completely gloss over the fact that the only damn things that kusuo "canonically" is are a tsundere, an unreliable narrator, and a fucking liar LMFAOOO.. babe thats like basic reading comprehension, im sorry..

EDIT: it should go without saying not to send a person hate just because of a silly post like this one(+i dont have any reach anyway so im sure it wouldnt happen, but i wanna say this nonetheless lol) but i would just like to say that i just checked and realized that this person is 15 years old, so like... yeah, too young to be arguing with grown people on the internet. dont take this too serious or send this person hate pls lol..

#nobody who isnt aroace is allowed to tell ME what character has to be aroace #yall forget that we aroaces (+ESPECIALLY autistic aroaces) dont want or need your ugly white knight savior bs #'oh but im aroace n i also think hes aroace🤓' ok?? should i care about your hcs? #have your projection hcs or your regular random hcs- i literalky DONT care #but it becomes an issue when u try so desperately to defend it like this #like babe u sound so dumb☠️ #its so confusing to me how u chronically online weirdos insist on making ur hcs canon #i promise u guys ur hcs dont have to be canon for u to enjoy them #its a VERY popular hc too like tf more do u want #im autistic and aroace and i say kusuo is demi and autistic #i am him and he is me so i know factually/j #so still on the aroace spectrum but either way i dont force my hcs on other people like u selfish weirdos do LOL #also this person and the replies being like 'just cuz not all autistic ppl r aroace doesnt mean none can be' YEA OBVIOUSLY? #UR ARGUING WITH THE WALL AND ITS CRAZY CUZ NOBODY EVER SAID THAT #literally not one fucking person said he cant be aroace- just that it isnt canon #do u even fucking hear urselves.. YOURE the ones saying he cant be anything other than aroace.. so YOURE the one doing the forcing.. #u guys love pushing ur stereotypes on others and then defending it to high fucking hell #anyway sorry i dont have a public twitter so im saying my piece here #the link looks suspicious as hell twitter pwease give me a better link #saiki k #tdlosk #the disastrous life of saiki k. #saiki kusuo #meows post

[enhanced-operatives-division]

Did Reggie, Head Support Agent, get the ok to use the Agency Budget to get that ticket to the Mask of the Read Death show under the guise of it being for the mission (and giving Sam in Accounting a NIGHTMARE) or is that man making bank.

#im saying option 1 because i know he has an agency home but. look at that man #he would live small #he's very much one of those romanticise your life bitches to me #then again #that's going off later games #game 1 he's kind of a dick it's funny #he's so dry #game 1 Reggie I can 100% believe that man lives in a nice house #game 2 and 3 though? he's living in a cottage or some shit #idk because he's so into Juniper's stuff game 2 i like to think he's a huge musical buff #has a lot of reccords that he CHERISES #i also like to think he's a weirdo and uses a grammerphone because he likes what it adds to the sound #ANYWAY #ieytd #reginald crane #the handler

[blackgoliath]

the more i learn about vivziepop the worse it gets

#adam text #i tried to watch the first ep of hazbin hotel on amazon and: #a) it's bad. the writing is bad. even without knowing anything else it's Bad #b) in that vein the whole premise is hades/persephone for christians but it's their daughter #c) i need people to actually understand tropes & religious archetypes before they make 'satire' of them #d) i've seen all the stuff about her transphobia now & i need ppl to realize that she can be anti-transmascs WHILE ALSO clearly fetishizing #trans femmes #anyway just sounds like she's a bigoted plagiarizing weirdo #and i wish she had watched something other than invader zim as a child

[invinciblerodent]

Why is Gale eating shoes like The Meme du Jour. You ask nicely to please be able to eat two pairs of shitty boots and an ugly ring in act 1, and you're just forever known as Weirdo Wizard, the Shoe Eater? Nah.

What's ACTUALLY kinda inconvenient is that I do all this hard work of skulking around dank basements, rifling through corpses' pockets for loose change and opening every box, barrel, and vase, hoping to see old parchment, and whenever I actually FIND one, I can feel him licking his lips burning a hole in the back of my head with his gaze.

"That's a nice scroll you found," he says, "You know I could learn that spell, and be able to cast it whenever you need it."

But don't believe his lies. He just eats it like a musty fruit by the foot, and like 250 gold too, and he'll STILL only remember like. Seven or so of his dumb little spells.

We should call him Weirdo Wizard, the Moneysink.

#baldur's gate 3 #gale dekarios #bg3 gale #weirdo wizard (affectionate) #gale my love you are BLEEDING me DRY #even merchants don't have enough gold for me to be able to sate your appetite #(yes I know I don't HAVE to let him learn spells off scrolls) #(i know he doesn't ASK.) #(but I know. I know he sees a new spell and his ears perk up. i know my giant puppy of a man.) #(i know that he WANTS to and I kerp my boys happy and fed) #(why do you think I'm bloodless so often) #squirrel plays bg3 #(yes this is meant to sound like Tav ranting drunkenly at the others) #gale

[skylilac]

this book is acruakly soooo disappointing

#i was thinking like oh religion and queer angels and culty stuff that sounds fun but its actually SO BORING #every fifteen pages he started talking abt his ex like i still love him and also hes ENGAGED???? but he keeps saying betrothed like a weirdo #and like hes literally still in love w his ex but i KNOW thats not the real li but hes talked to the real li like six times maybe #like why put a love triangle if everythings lame and boring #and like the workd building fucking sucks its so bad all i know is global warming made it rlly rlly hot #and ok i get this kinda dystopian setting is hard to pull off but why is it SO fucking jarring i keep forgetting its dystopia #and like listen i get queer rep being important but this is SO BAD. #its like modern queerness + future dystopian apocalypse and it fucking sucks #like nothing abt queerness evolved over the last few decades?? are you fr?? we’re still having the exact same queer discourse?? #if youre gonna write a love letter to queer survival at least be fucking CREATIVE #im not buying that human culture stayed totally static except for global warming and a religious apocalypse #what abt race what abt sports what abt food what abt jewelry and clothes and ughhhh this is so boring #ok and the li also has no personality traits bc every time hes there alk the mc says is #wow! he has floppy hair! that he pushes back w bobby pins! #oh my i dont know how to use the bobby pins he gave me so im gonna dramatically throw them on the floor when we have our only fight! #ALL I KNOW IS. he has floppy hair it might be black #this book fucking sucksssss im so upset i hate gr reviews #avery rambles

[ratiosalaryman]

what kind of warmth are you? quiz tagged by @getouh in their answer

sun shining on your face

you're encouraging, brave in your kindness, and intentional about bringing healing to all those you love. your warmth is obvious, but commonly misunderstood. at first glance, people may take your positivity as naivety; it is the opposite. you have seen the cruelty of this world, and that's why you choose to be recklessly warm. you find comfort in nature and love random acts of kindness. you probably remember one specific stranger really well, even though you never saw them again. but they gave you a bit of warmth that you carry with you everywhere you go. i hope you know you are that stranger for others. the kindness you give out is helping others be kind in ways you may never see. i see you, and i'm proud of you. i hope you're proud of yourself too.

Tagging: @cursedcalamity @circusmxnkeys @toxji @hxbiris (Yuji) @inun4ki @infamiia (Apollo) @publicsxfetymakima @impishsensei @6cular @ofovertime + you who see this, too late now icon by @pfpanimes

#this sound more like haibara with the naive kindness #but I see him rubbing off on this weirdo #who hasn't watched the last episode #this person #but I know what happens #I know #𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 : ( prompts ) #getouh

[northern-passage]

this video is wild. even if you don’t want to watch the entire thing, the conclusion is really good and really highlights some of the issues faced in game preservation and the failure to recognize contributions and properly credit artists that work on these games.

#this video is fun he really spirals after the first section #but im certain there are plenty of people like tommy tallarico out there that just arent as stupidly vocal as him #and the way tiktok uses sound effects or uncredited clips as well as games like fortnite stealing dances #so it's not just singular people but also entire companies and corporations that do this kind of shit #idk this is kind of gaming related so. here you go #i know it's like 2hrs but it is really interesting and again even if u just skip to the conclusion he makes some interesting points #basically this guy tommy tallarico is trying to claim he created the roblox oof sound #but he didnt. lol. and then he finds out that this guy has lied about a whole bunch of other gaming shit #and steals credit from a lot of artists along the way #and is just. A Liar and a weirdo #but again i think there are definitely far more tommy tallaricos out there particularly in the gaming industry #where crediting has always been..... questionable at best #and especially lately i feel. there has been a huge uptick in plagiarism in indie games and even IF games #and in book publishing. watched a video the other day that was a review of a book that was literally just #fanfic. and was NOT edited enough to remove the blatant plagiarism that comes with trying to publish literal fanfic lol #i mean publishing fanfic has always been a Thing but it definitely feels like it's gotten far more blatant recently #and it feels that people just. don't care? especially again in indie spaces whether gaming or publishing #i mean there's a whole genre of indie horror games that are just 'asset flips' #that are usually made in a rush to profit off another game's success #and there's nothing wrong with using premade assets if you.... Credit them. but these games dont do that lol #and again are usually stealing the storyline of another more popular game #and again. publishing fanfic... liike...... it's questionable and can easily just become plagiarism #anyways. just something to think about i guess ! if nothing else the video is funney #video #personal

[zymstarz]

how many variations of "x reader" does a man have to blacklist and users to block before tumblr stops giving him almost exclusively those posts

#zymtalk #NO DISS TO PEOPLE WHO READ THOSE BUT #okay first of all. why am i getting posts for shows i dont even know in my feed. im trying to remember the main one i get but IDK #SO I FORGOT WHAT IT IS actually emphasizing my point #second of all THEYRE SO LONG AND THEY NEVER HAVE THE 'open full post' THING MEANING YOU SCROLL PAST THE ENTIRE THING BC THEY #ARENT CUT SHORT AND :ooohhhh: #THIRD of all I DONT INTERACT WITH THESE outside of blocking users who write them sorry :( not ur fault #unless u post weirdo pr0/sh!p ones. then it IS your fault get help or die #AND I ADD A NEW VARATION EVERY LIKE. 3 POSTS I GET meaning its 95% of my blacklisted phrases and tags #AND STILL NOTHING...... #sucession. the show is called sucession #THATS LIKE THE MAIN ONE I GET WHY AUUGJUHUGHGGH #also SPECIFICALLY the BAYVERSE TMNT MOVIES? WHATS THAT ABOUT? #that one i understand the tmnt connection i guess???? but even then...... what are you doing here. get out of my house. #ITS THE ONLY TIME BLACKLISTING A TAG OR PHRASE HASNT WORKED EITHER [spongebob bwomp sound]

[moregraceful]

heyyyyyy kasper, i was looking for my favourite summer vibes playlists and i realised i couldn't listen to your "trevor fucks his way through the military on the way to jamie who left to be a med student" (ish) playlist (leave a candle lit inside while we sit on the roof and watch the sunset? was that it?)

all of this to say: can you share the tracklist so i can recreate it? bc i fuckin love that playlist and also i'd like to recommend it to all your followers who want californian rooftop sunset vibes

(sorry to make this long but also i always mean to tell you when i listen to: Wouldn't It Be Nice by The Beach Boys was used for a chocolate brand's ad here in Australia and it always makes me laugh hearing it at the end of that playlist)

Yes!! You are so kind to listen to it more than once oh my gosh. Sorry this took so long. I responded to another ask the same day I got this message and Tumblr ate it and I was like I will not be silenced a second time today, and then I forgot

leave a candle lit inside while we watch the sunset on the roof

"Liberation" by Arkells*

"Tongue Tied" by GROUPLOVE (i loved you then / and i loved you now)

"Miracle Mile" by Cold War Kids (i'd be alright if i could just see you / come up for air / come up for air)

"Young Blood" by The Naked and Famous

"Surefire" by Wilderado

"Water" by Ra Ra Riot feat. Rostam (don't punish me / for what i feel)

"Nothing's Over" by Young the Giant

"Some Kind of Joke" by AWOLNATION

"House of my Soul (You Light The Rooms)" by Langhorne Slim

"Seventeen" by Sjowgren (if you want a second to breathe / give you all my love / give you all you need)

"Lazy Eye" by Silversun Pickups (i've been waiting for this moment all my life / but it's not quite right)

"Sedona" by Houndmouth**

"Black & Blue" by Miike Snow

"Sit Next To Me" by Foster the People

"Bad Sun" by The Bravery

"Heat Waves" (Stripped Back) by Glass Animals

"Wouldn't It Be Nice" by the Beach Boys, feat. the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (wouldn't it be nice if we were older / then we wouldn't have to wait so long)

This can be listened to on random for once, bc there wasn't a narrative arc in this playlist so much as it was just "songs that I listened to while I was sitting on the roof of my house in California experiencing being in my 20s + songs I think would enrich Jamie Drysdale's enclosure better than Taylor Swift + Heat Waves." If that kid heard "Seventeen" in a vulnerable moment he'd crack open like an walnut and bleed all over the shingles. Enjoy!

thematic content warnings:

*this is about someone dying of cancer

**this is in part about kidnapping

#it's so funny when people tell me where they heard the beach boys bc me having weirdo parents who grew up in california around white people #it's just in my dna #i think i was just born knowing the lyrics to ''california girls'' #but then people listen to pet sounds on purpose or hear them in ads or movies and tv or like actively have to look them up #it's such a foreign way to experience the beach boys for me lmao #cage replies #paintingtheice #BANGER playlist tho one of my best i'd say

[noven-warsh]

imagine if Nihachu was in the qsmp

#I know I might sound like the weirdo who thinks that the most popular streamer should earn a spot and such #but not only is Niki bilingual (english/german) but she's really popular and such #nihachu #niki nihachu #qsmp

[ellilyre]

I'm obsses with Vessel's mask.

The non pur white, the vague shape of a noise, the little imperfections, the hollow cheeks, the multiples eyes, the texture, the global shape... It looks like a non more human face. It looks like its bones. Like it was paint with fresh blood.

And the mouth. The mouth is the only missing part of the mask. You can litteraly see him screaming the lyrics

His face is hidden. You don't know what he looks like, what expression he has, in which way he looks at the crowd, all you know by looking at his mask- at him, is that he's putting his whole soul into each word and note

While watching replay of performences i can't help but stare. He sing like an angel would, with so much emotions (some that I can't even describe), he sounds absolutely etheral. But I believe seeing only his mouth bring even more power to his performence

#i can only say it here i know my friends are already annoyed with sleep token lol #hope i dont sound like a weirdo with a weird fixation tho #sleep token #sleep token vessel