#just a grumble

[greenteaandtattoos]

Yeah, hi, so,

I have a better idea:

✨Let aroace characters be aroace✨ challenge 2024 [impossible]

#lgbtqia #aromantic #asexual #why aren't aroace characters enough? #it's fucking annoying having aro and ace characters dismissed #because you'd rather have a DIFFERENT sexuality #and just use the aroace characters as a way to boost the other sexuality #orringinal grumbles

[sunfoxfic]

We were so close to smoking not being cool anymore. We were so close. Then they flavored it mango and now it's taboo to criticize it anymore. People don't ask if they're allowed to vape indoors, they aren't considerate of people who may have health problems that are triggered by the chemicals or if it just bothers them, people don't care that they're supporting an industry built on corruption and greed, they can't see it draining their pockets and much less their health. We were so close to smoking not being cool anymore.

#i hate hate HATE nicotine after watching my parents smoke when i grew up #its gross and bad for your money and bad for your health #and i get it. theres SO MANY socioeconomic factors that make it a complicated issue. #you CANT blame smokers. #but it feels like people are just accepting the institution for what it is bc now it tastes good #bitch just chew gum jfc #it doesn't matter if its an industry issue. we have seen in the past that making it “uncool” hurts the industry #make nicotine uncool again PLEASE #grumbles

[blockgamepirate]

This is my petty complaint time, this video annoys me SO MUCH and even more so what annoys me is that the latest comment on it is this:

HE TAUGHT YOU SO MUCH BULLSHIT, PLEASE NO, DON'T LISTEN TO HIM

And yes, I've been thinking about this stream for nearly three years now, I've been meaning to go through it to critique Wilbur's arguments, I just never got around to it

Wilbur: "Tubbo, you've created an anti-state capitalist dystopia"

So all Tubbo had explained so far was that his town had a big company that owned two other big companies. Nothing about the government or anything. It's true that one company owning all the major businesses is pretty dystopian, sure, but I have no idea where Wilbur got the "anti-state" thing from, usually capitalist companies are fine with the existence of states, states do a lot of dirty work for the capitalists

Spoiler alert: Tubbo's city turns out to be pretty much a city state so Wilbur is just wrong anyway, not that he ever acknowledges it even when it does come up

Also it's not like corporate acquisitions are completely unheard of in the UK, as far as I know. Admittedly the UK is also arguably a capitalist dystopia but you know what I mean, the concept shouldn't be all that shocking to Wilbur

He's being so dramatic and trying to make it sound like he's caught Tubbo in a mistake or something. He also keeps asking questions and then not letting Tubbo answer properly before taking like one word Tubbo says and running with it

But this is the one that I find the most obnoxious:

T: "I did some research into like economics and stuff and I discovered this thing called UBI, have you heard of it?"

W: "What's it stand for?"

T: "Universal Basic Income"

W: "Yeah, I know about that"

He clearly does not know what UBI is.

It becomes very apparent very quickly:

W: "So you've got universal basic income but then also the rich exist still?"

T: "Yeah! Yeah they do."

W: "How does that come about then,"

T: "So in my mind--"

W: "is this universal basic income different for different people?"

T: "No, no, the universal basic income is better for everyone, just the people who have--"

W: "In order for there to be a 1% that means someone's earning more,"

T: "Yes, someone is earning more"

W: "but that means the universal basic income isn't universal!"

T: "No no no, not everyone's getting paid the same but everyone gets the same to begin with, okay? But then you can build on top of it."

W: "Oh no, you've got a-- Tubbo, you've got a fucking social point system!"

T: "Have I made a social point system??"

W: "Tubbo, you've made China!"

None of what Wilbur says makes ANY sense here. The only explanation I can think of is that he didn't know what UBI was, made an assumption that it just meant "everybody gets paid the same amount of money" or something like that and then just spoke fast enough that Tubbo couldn't correct him

Tubbo is correct here, Tubbo knows what he's talking about, but he can't out-speak Wilbur who is just throwing so much bullshit out of his mouth that there's no time to even respond

So, UBI means that everyone in the society gets a regular payment of a specific amount of money that's the same for everyone regardless of their life situation (and generally a requirement would be that it has to be enough to live on, altho people do like to water this down a lot...) This would be completely irrelevant to your wages or salary or capital gains. You can choose to either live on the UBI or you can just do the regular capitalist things to earn extra money on top of the UBI

Obviously I'm not one of those people who think that UBI would solve all of world's problems, I mean I am an anarchist and all (and not an ancap either), but it's literally just a very streamlined welfare system. That's all. It would probably be a lot better than the current models we have but it's not fundamentally different. There's nothing particularly weird about it, the point is just to make sure that everyone has enough money to live on, in every other regard it's just normal capitalism

Wilbur completely misunderstands the whole thing (because, again, he does not know what UBI is so he's just trying to imagine what it might mean based on what Tubbo is saying) and jumps immediately to something he apparently has heard of, which is the Chinese social credit system, which has nothing to do with UBI. In fact I'm pretty sure it also doesn't actually have anything to do with income either, or at least not directly, so I don't think Wilbur knows what the social credit system is either

He's literally just talking in buzzwords

Like if you actually wanted to make a leftist critique of Tubbo's city, you could, don't get me wrong. But instead Wilbur keeps insisting that he's made a social point system despite Tubbo trying to explain why it's not that at all

Wilbur just keeps yelling over Tubbo until his own chat turns against him and finally Tubbo himself also kinda gives up

And from there Tubbo also kinda just starts playing into the bit and just lets Wilbur direct the whole conversation, the rest of it is just them getting more and more into the roleplay. Wilbur keeps talking about the state pension plan, even though Tubbo already tried to explain that it's part of the UBI (this actually is how UBI is supposed to work, it does indeed streamline most of the welfare spending! Obviously you can still raise questions about that (I can think of a few at least) but Wilbur didn't let Tubbo explain so I have no idea what Tubbo actually had in mind)

I could try to go through all of what Wilbur says here but it's just too much, so maybe some other time. Although to be honest there are so many other streams that I probably should talk about instead that some fans unfortunately took a bit too seriously because they assumed Wilbur knew what he was talking about

My point here is mainly that just because someone sounds really confident and knows a bunch of buzzwords doesn't mean they know what they're talking about.

#wilbur soot #tubbo #this is literally just petty grumbling #not a serious post #altho i do genuinely hope that people reconsider all the things they've 'learned' from wilbur

[wtfforged]

doodle from september that i colored, you guessed it, during dnd. my sanji-is-just-a-bit-taller-than-zoro propaganda also. zoro my beautiful prizewinning tomato plucked fresh from garden

non-loser version bc i think he looks cuties on his own.

#“wheres sanjis arm” idk man i just didnt want to draw it. whatever. lets pretend i cut it off because i hate him #someone rbed this and said they thought that noodle freak was grabbing zoros butt and i fell to my knees before the court #HES NOT!! i cried. HES NOT GRABBING HIS BUTT!!! I JUST DIDNT WANT TO DRAW HIS ARM!!! and the judge shakes his head and sentences me to deat #every day i think about zoro getting embarrassed when getting made fun of for his directionlessness in dead end race movie #clutches my head #i hate onepiece yaoi leave me alone. but its the biggest producer of zoro content so alas #grumble grumble. do i tag it. i hate it here. i feel like the fujoker i hate onepiece yaoi #wtf... art #roronoa zoro #zoro one piece #z(gags) #zosan #sanji one piece #blackleg sanji #one piece fanart

[naturecalls111]

#hs au #one piece #roronoa zoro #fanart #the L on Luffy’s jacket is also sewn on (thank you dadaaaaannn) #so with a little convincing (AKA luffy going zorroooo it would look sooooo cool) Zoro agrees to getting his initial sewn on as well #just for luffy to tell Dadan “he asked for an L as well 😃 #and now Zoro’s stuck with an L for Luffy on his jacket #he grumbled about it but hey he never picked it off so #Zoro loyalty to luffy transcends canon universe

[stheadcase]

drawing i did 3!!! years ago. time flies.

#davesport #dsaf #dsaf jack #dsaf dave #dayshift at freddy's #dsaf fanart #my ipad is yellower than my phone grumble grumble. looks weird #guns bitches weed money ysl gold chain #the longer i stare at it the more i hate i’m just gonna press post

[flowergirlmiwa]

in general i'm weirded out by this impression people seem to have that yuri is made for or widely consumed by cishet guys. it's literally just brainrot and lesbophobia, "all media involving lesbians must be fetishization because i assume it is"

#my post #yuri theory #yuri grumbling #like if you dont know anything at all about yuri you can just not say things about it #yuri

[ministarfruit]

day 8: living dead ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

#minifemslashfeb2024 #vtuber #hololive #holomyth #takamori #calliope mori #takanashi kiara #a reaper and a phoenix. this too can be yuri #haha get it. living dead. because calli's... death... and kiara's... alive after being dead #haha. hahaha. isn't that funny #ok I didn't notice this until just then BUT #every takamori picture I draw is the same. #it's just kiara laughing brightly and calli looking at her fondly #I GUESS THAT'S JUST HOW I INTERPRET THEM #I'm the king of drawing the same image again and again but slightly different each time #ok this one has a literal reaper and a phoenix in the background though #I'm really pushing the limits of what I can do in a day. sweats #it is once again 11:30pm. #(grumble) stupid... ambitious... mini...

[soup-mother]

"the queer community would be better if it was more like the 70's and 80's" I'm pretty sure you're lying actually. i think you just met a young person who didn't have the same worldview of their identity as you or didn't use the labels you'd use and you feel like "this generation is ruined" or something.

I'm pretty sure it actually would not be better if it was more like the 70's and 80's and there's swathes of queer history that are better left in the past. I don't really want to go back to lesbian seperatism and transmisogyny and racism and some imagined utopian bar scene that never existed and was only in the USA.

but sorry that young person on the internet was "annoying and in your face" about their own identity or whatever

#my post #just grumbling about something don't mind me

[timothvy]

go on... whats so funny?

#lets atleast get thru the monologue guys #grumble grumble #the mission hasnt even started yet #my art #tim drake #bart allen #kon-el #cassie sandsmark #young justice #dc comics #dc #impulse #wonder girl #superboy #conner kent #young just us

[morallyinept]

Love how people think being 48 years-old classifies you as being an "old man."

Like... no, bub.

Being 48 is not "old" by any stretch of the imagination. Jeez Louise.

Sorry, I forgot we all die in our 40's...

#pedro pascal #dude is young af #jett grumbles #grumble grumble #i'm fine #just makes me die when people say he's an old man #and not in the affectionate way either #aaaaanyway #normal programming will resume

[doomordestiny]

charlie is like a cryptid to me bc he lives in like the middle of nowhere, nobody ever sees him outside, he never attends cc events, and he acts like That. he is not real. that man is something other than human.

#i mean this lovingly #hes just a funky goopy guy idk #cryptid little slime ball #charlie slimecicle #slimecicle #gloom grumbles #i think ik why he doesnt go to events and i dont blame him they seem stressful #he seems so nice to meet tho but id probably explode bc wdym ur real

[bidisastersanji]

Taz Skylar just posted a video of himself on a mechanical rodeo bull and now I can’t stop thinking of Sanji on one oh my god the leg strength.

Makes me think of that guy who was just standing on the mechanical bull really casually like the master of mechanical bulls, too!

Zoro would definitely find it hot either way.

#zosan thoughts #sanzo thoughts #zosanzo thoughts #zoro x sanji #zosan #sanji #zosan fic idea #honestly zoro and Sanji meeting in a cowboy bar ? #luffy eating all the steaks? #zoro grumbling #until he sees THAT #a super hot guy just riding the bull like it’s nothing #and he feels challenged #and absolutely fails #so he keeps coming and coming #not at all to see the hot guy who hangs there often #(or works there?) #but to get better

[zeerohpunk]

david and honey who learn how to properly express affection with their partners

david who accuses his future partner of stalking him

honey whos violent

david who calls his partner names

honey whos stuck in their head

david who jumps to conclusions before communicating

honey who gradually smacks guy less

david who laughs unrestrained

honey whos more affectionate

david whos protective over angel

honey who puts up with guys memes and references

david who reassures angel that theyre safe, that hes got them

honey who takes care of guy when he needs comfort

DAVID AND HONEY.

#i love these two grumbly softies sm #the tsunderes of the redactedverse just <3 #theyre grumpy and i love them #redacted audio #redacted asmr #redactedverse #zeeroh speaks #redacted david shaw #redacted honey #redacted angel #redacted guy

[sinful-lanterns]

PTN women who reader has been having flings with but now they’re attached and want her to stay after the sun rises—

Awww…

Imagine when the sun rises, Reader is getting up to go to her work/classes (or another fling) but the PTN woman they just slept with suddenly latches onto their waist and pulls them back into bed…

It’s kind of an emotional moment too. Just the PTN woman mumbling into your neck “stay…” while they sleepily convince you to stay even longer. It’s extra intimate when it’s one of the more stoic women too, like Langley, Shalom, Oak Casket… they just want their sweet Reader to stay with them longer 💔

#⛓️ interrogation complete #my heart melts at Langley doing this specifically #just the intimidating 9th agency boss #grumbling about how you should stay with her while she latches onto you #ough…

[allgremlinart]

as much as I love Superman (and I genuinely do) I do NOT trust Superman writers with Batman in Superman title comics. he’s usually set up to be Clark’s foil which, ok sure, but the issue with this is they end up making him way too cruel and vengeful so Clark can have his “sometimes fear... needs hope :]” moment and its like. 

they are not actually that different!! you are exaggerating their differences so it makes for a more satisfying narrative which yes!! ok!! but stop!!

#clark and bruce aren't TRUE foils imo.... #they're ALMOST foils but at the end of the day they represent very similar things #just in different fonts #gremlin grumbles