#just a pet peeve i guess

[archaeologysucks]

I just spent an entire day untangling a knot in a friend's family tree. It turns out that about 100 years ago, some careless researcher accidentally smooshed together two guys with the same name, in spite of the fact that they lived in different states. Even though this person appears on nearly 500 people's family trees on Ancestry.com, and dozens of people have submitted him as their qualifying ancestor for the Sons/Daughters of the American Revolution, no one has ever taken a second look and thought, "Hmm ... it's a bit weird that this feller was still living in Pennsylvania 15 years after he died in Ohio."

Anyway, I think I have it all sorted out now, and I wrote up and posted a document explaining my reasoning, attached to his profile on the tree I made. I hope it is helpful to someone, and that I'm not about to have 100 angry DAR/SAR members show up at my door with torches and pitchforks because I said that their Revolutionary War Soldier Boy ancestor wasn't actually, and they're not as super special as they thought they were.

#genealogy #the dar/sar is bullshit #people just like to feel special i guess #u.s. history #revolutionary war #sloppy genealogy 'research' is one of my pet peeves #people will just copy and paste any old bullshit without a second look or thought

[sketchingstars03]

anyone else annoyed with portrayals that make Nm and the Bad Sanses and Error out to be “actually innocent uwu guys who aren’t actually in the wrong bc they’re traumatized” and make Ink and Dream out to be “actually the real bad guys actually cuz umm Ink soulless and Dream no care abt his brother actually”?

Like people probably think it’s subversive or something when tbh it’s really not, at least not anymore. Maybe at one point it wasn’t a very popular interpretation of those guys (to have them be The Real Victims Actually) but, it sure is popular nowadays.

Like I’m not against sympathetic portrayals of the bad guys or anything (I’m literally a For The Forgotten Ones enjoyer)

but like, idk it gets on my nerves a bit when people try to make them Not The Bad Ones Actually They Did No Wrong Ever™️. Especially when it’s at the expense of the Star Sanses (Ink, Dream, and sometimes even Blue)’s characters.

It just feels like villainizing the Stars (especially Ink and Dream) for no reason other than to gesture at a “”subversive and interesting”” story, making these interpretations out to be more complex than they actually are.

#idk just a ramble I guess #Getting some thoughts™️ and opinions™️ out there ya know? #Again I’m NOT against sympathetic portrayals of characters like Error and Nightmare #They can be done really well and be very interesting and enjoyable #It just is a major pet peeve of mine when they’re made out to be the 100% Victims Never Did Anything Wrong Actually #you know? #at the end of the day though I’m not gonna harass ppl for their interpretations #it’s all meant to be in good fun #undertale au #utmv #textpost #shaymin rambles #this was just on my mind lately

[aplpaca]

a lot of times a post will be like "youre not bad for having violent intrusive thoughts" and then someone in the notes will inevitably be like "yeah its only bad if you act on them" and like bro i cannot tell you how fucking unhelpful and misguided that statement is in this context.

like, yes, having negative impulses that you dont act on doenst make you a bad person, but intrusive thoughts are not impulses. the whole thing with violent intrusive thoughts (and intrusive thoughts in general) in OCD is that the person experiencing them very much Does Not Want to act on them, yet is terrified they'll "lose control" and act on them regardless of how much they don't want to.

treating these thoughts as if theyre actually something a person could potentially "give in to" and act out is fundamentally misunderstanding what intrusive thoughts are, and also plays into the very fear that a lot of people's thoughts are based on.

#pet peeve i guess like i know the people saying this are trying to be helpful #but it just really shows that they dont really know much about what theyre trying to help #ocd #actually ocd

[chamerionwrites]

Saw somebody praising Andor for handling fictional torture well, and I’m sorry but no. No the fuck it didn’t!!!!!!!!

And this is not me dragging the show. I really like the show. Sadly, I even agree that it handles this subject better than most. Which in many ways actually makes me MORE disappointed and depressed, about the fact that 40-odd years ago the OT (which I also like, but lbr the political commentary is not much deeper than a puddle) gave us Leia lying through her teeth with her planet on the line and Han sweating and stumbling and saying “they didn’t even ask me any questions,” and yet today - on a show that is unapologetically on the side of a kid throwing a pipe bomb at the colonial cops - it’s too radical apparently to suggest that torture is really incredibly shit at eliciting useful intelligence, and people on the internet will give you a gold star for doing the bare fucking minimum because sadly it’s still better than what 99% of other narratives manage

#they did do very well up to a point! and then they were like oh this works btw #it’s not just that the isb is high on its own supply (of ideology) and thinks that it works. it actually does work. #M O T H E R F U C K E R #congrats on limping over the low low bar of ‘torture is a display of power and also extremely evil’ i guess #sorry this is a. pet peeve isn’t really a strong enough term #cw torture #andor #my posts

[thevioletcaptain]

me when people treat casifer as though he's Cool Edgy Cunty Cas™ when he's literally just lucifer in a different meatsuit

#it's not cas!!!! #that's just a whole different guy!!!! #yes misha did a kickass job playing him but it's literally a different character what's not clicking!!!! #if you want an evil version of cas to pair with demon!dean or moc!dean or whatever there are plenty of options #and if you actually want to ship dean and lucifer that's frankly a wild ass choice but you can literally just. ship dean and lucifer. #but it's the way people always include casifer in polls of ''which cas is hottest'' or ''which cas to pair with this version of dean'' #like!!! that aint cas!!!!! #anyway this has been a rant #wank adjacent #i guess #more just a fandom pet peeve of mine

[tanjir0se]

You could convince me to watch the *checks notes* loser rangers anime? 👀

SKCNCJSKSK!!!!!!

Were you a Power Rangers kid??? Are you over-saturated and bored by modern superhero media?? Do you long for a fresh take on the “dark side” of Sunday Morning cartoons that ISN’T grimdark and irony poisoned and lame?? Do you like absolutely incompetent cringefail losers and their hot murder girlfriends???!!? Then come on down to…

✨GO! GO! LOSER RANGER!✨

We’ve got it all! :

Protagonist that just fucking sucks at everything

Like. Really REALLY fucking sucks. At everything. Cant even figure out how to eat food. Hates everyone and has no friends. He’s just like me fr.

He’s like if Sasuke was the worst ninja ever like couldn’t even throw a kunai but still thought he was better than everyone else and kept the exact same pretentious attitude. I’m obsessed with him.

A fun, unique twist on the Power Rangers-esque Sunday Morning cartoons of our childhood that pokes fun at the 90s era camp of that genre of media while still feeling genuinely heartfelt and respectful to the spirit of the source material it’s satirizing

If villain bad, why sexy?

Hot Murder Lady

Genuinely just like a fun silly plot that isn’t too serious (yet) and can be enjoyed casually (or not casually if you’re a freak like I am) and really hits different if you were a power rangers kid like I was

Cool animation with a unique style that feels like a lot of love went into it

Did I mention if villain bad, why sexy??

HIBIKI SAKURAMA💅🏻💕💖💖🌸🌸

OOOHHHH YOU WANNA WATCH GO! GO! LOSER RANGER SOOOOO BAD

#go! go! loser ranger! #loser ranger #it’s silly and fun and fighter D is my special special little guy #the absolute PEAK of ‘you’re stupid. I like that in a man’ #just sucks so much forever but in a sweet never give up kind of way #(he should give up) #also one of my pet peeves is like. antihero media that just tries way too hard to be edgy #like ‘ooh what if.. Superman BAD actually??? please clap I am very smart’ #and this is like. in the same vein I GUESS but the key difference to me is #it keeps the same lighthearted and fun tone of the original media it’s making fun of #so it’s more like an homage to it rather than trying only to just tear it apart #less ‘haha the 90s were sooo stupid am I right guys? but not like me I am very smart check out all this blood’ #and more ‘damn this was kinda silly huh! well let’s get a little sillier :)’ #me and Cam are watching it religiously as former power rangers kids #and we love it

[12neonlit-stage]

I'm sorry, but sonic fans who are anti X thing are SOOOO annoying-

I'm not talking about those who dislike certain aspects of the series/fandom, talking about those who actively interact with said thing they hate, tagging their posts with the thing they hate and ESPECIALLY hating it for the most minor, inconsequential thing ever.

Like I'm begging you to shut up or at least not tag your goddamn posts with said thing you hate. Fans of that thing you hate don't wanna see your negativity.

#sonic the hedgehog #i read a post about how someone hates sonic prime just because of one of the character designs and it bothered me so bad 💀 #12chatting #pet peeve #rant #i guess #for anyone who has both tags filtered

[bsaka7]

dude am i crazy or is it not just good ettiquete to keep ur fic out of the main tags like idc if it's x reader rpf ocs anything why are you tagging it with the dudes full name

#I GETTTTT organizational tagging and obviously I have a pretty boring organizational tag system here #but it drives me up the wall to go into a main tag (especially the ones that r like. Usable already) #(bc ive blocked a lot of x reader writers GENERALLY sorry but it's mainly for this issue) #and have it be like. x reader fic ask personal venting etc. keep that on your blogggggg please #Sorry #Haterpost for real rn #It annoys me more when it's like someone I don't want to block bc ik we're vaguely in the same circles and it's cool it's just like. #I don't want to see it THERE. in the main tag #Tetra's stupid fandom pet peeves. I guess

[motheatenscarf]

The nice thing about being caught up on MSQ is I can go through character tags just fine and not get spoiled!

The bad thing about being caught up on MSQ is I can go through character tags and realize oh god, oh no, people are trying to include Urianger in their cute little fancomics and no one is taking the like 30 minutes it would take to figure out the grammatical rules on his speech patterns, OH NO.

It's a very stupid pet peeve of mine but it's just one of those "I know it when I see it" kinda things about BAD fake early-modern English. I'm far from an expert, I never did get my degree, Life Happened, but I don't think you need to be an expert to make it... not... terrible...

Like, literally 30 minutes of research on early modern English, you don't need to be a scholar of Shakespear or the King James Bible, you just gotta remember basic grammar and read shit out loud and if it's Technically Correct but sounds bad, change it and be wrong anyway.

Just. Ngh.

#it's VERY DUMB i'm not the fandom grammar police it's just a personal pet peeve but it really makes me twitchy #i guess i kinda envy their confidence to just be bad at something and not put effort in and post it anyway #i mean if it's their self indulgent hobby then go off i guess but god if ur gonna put it in the character tag pls try orz #i want it on record i don't care that it's Wrong i care that it Sounds Bad #language doesn't exist to have rules it exists to serve the purpose of conveying thoughts to others #but the rules can serve as good guidelines for making that clearer and easier and not sounding like absolute ass #break rules if it serves language better absolutely that is what a Writer Does but it is easier to break rules when u know what they are #or at least it is easier to break rules in ways that are interesting and sound good and use words to convey your ideas #which is what writing is pls just try

[parttime-creative]

I recently made a post about how I love gideons different depictions in fanart and on the cover (x) in which I mused about how I still wasn't sure if she was wielding a long sword or a great sword and several people have made good points of arguing that she is wielding a great sword not just a long sword.

Now that I've started to read Harrow for the first time (yes I am late to the party I am sorry. But I finally got the second and third book) her sword is more often described as a "two hander" or "great two hander" (which btw STILL doesn't make it clearer for me because Harrow is arguable so tiny and scrawny that she'd probably call a dagger "great" in comparison to her noodle arms... But that is beside the point xD) however the cover art (as I've not yet finished HtN) does look like another weird mixture between a longsword and a great sword and I remain confused.

The handle is much longer than for a usual longsword, however would fit a federschwert (a different type of longsword especially made for fencing, not so much for the battlefield. It's blade is usually much thinner tho, so I doubt it is a federschwert) it's crossguard also is kinda too big for the usual longsword, yet not entirely unseen. I did wield longswords with a crossguard like that.

However judging from nothing but the cover I do still think Gideon wields a longsword. Because the cover sword is just TOO SMALL for an actual greatsword.

I dont believe people realise HOW FUCKING HUGE an actual greatsword is. Like, yes Harrow is supposedly small so the sword on the cover DOES look big on her. But it is diagonally on her back and now reaches almost her knees. An actual GREATSWORD wouldn't even fit that way or her back (yes it's a fantasy drawing, yes usually swords like that can not be carried to draw on the back regardless if it's a long or great sword. We're gonna ignore that, cuz magic and necromancers and lyctors)

So I remain with my headcanon, that Gideon wields a longsword and not a greatsword.

To summarize:

A longsword is made for dueling AND for the battlefield

A longsword has several similar and adaptable techniques to a rapier in wielding.

A longsword is however heavier than a rapier, so a life long longsword fighter would have habits that would make their rapier fighting style uncanny ("you wield your sword like someone who is used to a two handed weapon")

A longsword CAN be wielded with one hand (a great sword 100% can't. It's just too damn big)

A greatsword is literally made to swing around yourself to makd room on the battlefield. Its slow if you want to hit something and it needs A LOT of momentum to be wielded. It was made to slay horses and break spears and knock people off their feet. If someone is used to wielding a greatsword all their life, learning the nimble techniques of a rapier in several days maybe a few weeks is.... hard to say the least. Their muscles wouldn't even be made for that.

A longsword is also called "zweihander" in german so harrow or gideon calling it a "two hander" is absolutely legit.

And last but not least, Harrow calling it a "great two hander".... Is just because she is DAMN tiny. I am 165 cm / 5' 4'' and my longsword reaches to my chest and it is not one of the big ones.

In conclusion: FOR ME IT IS MOST DEFINITELY A LONGSSWORD AND NOW I CAN COSPLAY/IMAGINE BEING GIDEON EVERYTIME DURING MY FENCING LESSONS EHEHEHEHEH

#I do however have a pet peeve with how some artists draw gideon sword #I don't care if they draw a longsword or a great sword #But please #If the balde is thicker than gideon forarm than it's neither a great nor longsword #Than it's an anime sword #And unwieldalbe sword #A sword that might as well be just a club #I would have no idea how anyone should wield those #But i guess that's another pet peeve i have with sword depictions #I love me some anime like thd next person #But some swords maaaan.... #Looking at you berserk #And you cloud stripe #They LOOK awesome... But my sword loving heart is bleeding #Anyways i am getting of track #The locked tomb #Gideon the ninth #Harrow the ninth #Tlt

[azure-clockwork]

I love the genre of (usually male) engineers who know they’re smart and think that makes them magically experts on everything. Homeskillet, you’re a mechanical engineer and programmer who isn’t even really good at either, and you’re attempting to tell me (the team’s electronics gal) and our EE about quadrature encoders. You’re just wrong but you won’t let me get a word in edgewise. I have been staring at our wiring diagram til my eyes bleed and I have done six other projects with similar motors. Shut the actual fuck up.

#At least it’s not misogyny? He does it to the other guy on the team too! #He also didn’t finish his sections of the system dev & design doc until six in the fucking morning #Dude your section was just to reformat a table I made a month ago #Ooooooooh and new pet peeve unlocked: #When something doesn’t work and we gotta poke it and figure out why just saying “I don’t wanna” when I tell you to check for shorts #What do you mean you don’t wanna #Yeah me either but guess fucking what? #Our fucked up power regulator doesn’t give a shit if you wanna investigate! #Anyways we’ll see if I manage not to throttle this bastard before the project is through

[wereh0gz]

Am I the only one who gets really annoyed when ppl treat Sonic's alternate forms as separate characters

#ramblings #it mostly happens with the 'dark' forms like werehog or dark sonic #they're not separate from sonic! they're forms powered by his negative emotions! they're a part of him! #werehog isn't just a feral werewolf personality that takes over at night #and dark sonic isn't evil either #sidenote as to avoid any confusion i am NOT talking about system headcanons those are cool #i'm talking about them being treated as completely separate in fanworks that aren't exploring that headcanon specifically #like. its almost as if they don't want sonic himself to be. i guess associated with things that make him look 'evil' #even though those forms are not inherently evil and sonic himself doesn't mind being seen as a bad guy #it's a weird pet peeve of mine whenever i see stuff like that #ik i mentioned werehog but this is mostly about dark sonic. that's the one i've seen being treated like that the most #it's like completely misunderstanding the forms themselves #i was looking at fics and i saw something like this and it. annoyed me #it isn't really that big a deal it just annoys me personally

[imsodishy]

what is with fandom and wanging an S on the end of the first syllable of a name and calling it a nickname??

I just saw 'Heaths' as in short for Heather. Please say that out loud right now. It sounds like you're trying not to hurl.

#im sorry but this is a massive pet peeve of mine and i just can't stay silent anymore! #im good now. im fine again. it's fine. #dishy complains i guess. fuck #they all annoy me. not just the ones that sound weird.

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

Saint Juniper’s Folly

YA paranormal mystery

follows a foster kid returning to the small town he grew up in, who runs from the judgemental townspeople and ends up magically trapped in a mysterious house in the woods

a boy who lives a boring life in the town until he finds him, and wants to figure out how to save him

and the young witch from the town over who’s heard the woods calling since her mother died, and wants to help

m/m, friendship & investigating a mystery

#Saint Juniper’s Folly #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #this is….okay #writing is quite young - it feels like middle grade. would be fine bc i like middle grade but it's a bit at odds with the fact that #they’re 18 and talking about college soon and driving round in cars a lot #There’s very little ghosty or spookiness - it’s more just about the characters and their developing relationships #I felt like there were quite a few pivotal scenes missing? Like it skips from the kid being back in this town for the first time #to suddenly he’s stuck in this house in the woods. We don’t see him go out there; realise he’s stuck; or anything. #(unless libby skipped a chapter in my audiobook again?) #It also felt like it skipped any of them like testing the supernatural stuff? They go straight to researching the house’s history. #Once the end is revealed it makes sense I guess - but it’s like the because the author forgot to make the characters (who Don’t know) #do the first logical things you might do in a situation like that. idk. #the boys hating each other at the start felt manufactured for some hate to love thing instead of for any reason.....I didn't buy it #Also my pet peeve of: having a character call her dad by his first name! …….but it's an indication of their bad relationship. okay then. #(I know that is also a real experience but MAN sometimes people just do that it's not always a sign of emotional neglect!!!!) #Anyway - I didn’t hate it by any means; there’s just a few little things that didn't work for me

[v-arbellanaris]

I put it back on the dash 🫡 (<— forgets im relatively new here) …. It was juicy Cassandra lore and I am but a kitten with sharp teef

it's so funny bc that post was intended to be a cullen & hawke meta around why literally No One Else could have been the commander of the inquisition; bc the inquisition was always formed to march on the mages and rebuild the templars. the only person suited for that job is the man who worked as meredith's second in command in kirkwall, who has the added bonus of likely being able to keep (mage!)hawke in line.

#asks #transprincecaspian #like tht meta spiralled out of control but it's UP THERE in terms of my fandom pet peeves gfjkgjfdg #everyone collectively just ignoring what the inq was actually built for so they can complain abt him as if he wasn't hired on purpose #and with purpose. the inq is absolute shit and pretending otherwise is top 10 most deranged fandom moments. to me #fandom critical #in the tags i guess

[magniloquent-raven]

sometimes i genuinely cannot tell if i was an exceptionally unsheltered child or if people who say things like "no kid would understand that lololol" just do not remember being children

#idk SO often i'll see reviews/reactions/whatever #people watching things made for kids and going ''wow that would have gone over my head when i was young omg'' #and half the time it's something i saw as a kid and i 100% knew what that meant so like. what are you talking about #it's just. a dumb pet peeve of mine i guess? but maybe some people really need to realize #that kids probably aren't as unaware as they seem to think