#just letting off steam

[prudeau]

manifest 4b: ship edition

Jachaelas: wait I blinked. what happened? Benvis: what in the riverdale??? Tolives: violet? ohhhhh. oh. ... huh? Zekaelas: endgame yay!... tf tho? Benberts: whyyyyyyyyyyy that other ship: lol why u mad the show kept telling u my ship was supposed to be good.

#manifest #manifest spoilers #benvi #jachaela #zekaela #benbert #tolive #don't mind me #just letting off steam

[junpei-gamer-boy-999]

If you're gonna try and dismiss someone's point with a link at least make sure your source is accurate?

I actually followed through and checked the link, and the link's sources and it was Wrong!

Asshole.

#not about anyone here #just letting off steam

[yallemagne]

Don't feel bad, this webbed site has grown up with media that spoonfeeds them morality, and now if they see a character they identify with do something awful as part of their journey, they think the writers advocate for their actions and are therefore Bad And Cancellable.

Oh, I don't feel bad. Frustrated maybe. Spoilers for Orice.

So apparently it is ableist to have Renfield say some misogynistic shit and be insensitive about Jonathan's trauma. In a story where all the other men 1. say some misogynistic shit and 2. are insensitive about Jonathan's trauma. Why is it okay for VH or Seward to be sexist or insensitive but not Renfield? Because apparently, mentally ill characters or just institutionalized mentally ill characters must be held to a higher moral standard than any other character in the story. If they aren't a saint, the writer is the devil.

In Orice, VH prods at Jonathan's scars and insensitively calls them "messy". He later implies that he thinks it's only a matter of time before Jonathan and Mina take on more traditional roles in their relationship (Jonathan no longer cooking and Mina no longer taking the lead). Seward takes notes about Jonathan's negative reaction to Renfield (huge fucking nono, Jono's not his patient) and later accuses Jonathan of willfully putting his wife in danger. He strongly implies he sees Mina as too weak-minded to continue on. Quincey downplays Jonathan's trauma because he's a man and justifies leaving out Mina because they can't put the "little lady" in jeopardy. Arthur hasn't said anything particularly shitty yet. It's implied that he sees Jonathan's gender expression as off-putting. Even Jonathan isn't a saint. Jonathan is always putting himself down for his PTSD and unmanliness and is somewhat ashamed that he still needs a cane to walk most of the time.

I don't agree with any of the things listed. None of these characters are me. They are fictional people, and like real people, they are capable of being wrong about things.

It is not as if Renfield is the only one who says some off-colour shit. It's just more noticeable because Jonathan has such an extreme reaction to him. And because people expect Renfield to be written as a sweet little baby who can do no wrong. It's infantilizing and frankly more ableist to demand that the only institutionalized character be perfect and innocent.

Renfield digs deep and catches all of Jonathan's insecurities and trauma because he knows shit about him that none of the other characters know. If he were not institutionalized but still working with Dracula, were he to meet Jonathan, he would have acted the same fucking way. He'd possibly be even less sympathetic toward him.

I don't think Renfield has to be a paragon of morality simply because some folks relate to him. I don't think a mentally ill character should be judged more harshly for being wrong than a non-mentally ill character. I'm not gonna water down his personality and go "awe he's just a poor widdle kitten" he deserves more than that. He's a full-grown man, he can take accountability for the shit he says and does. Victims of abuse can still be abusive and what matters is stopping the cycle of abuse.

Like, all this bullshit just makes me cringe in anticipation of posting the next chapter because it's not pretty.

#people ask me things #update #orice #btw not mad at you #just letting off steam

[k1ngbutch]

good morning I woke up to fresh (painful) acne around my face and neck :(

hormones are so stupid sometimes

#spidey thoughts #No extra tags because this is dumb #just letting off steam

[cripple-cryptid]

Oooooh I just realized that I can vaguepost about someone who will NEVER see this post. And honestly that makes this so much better.

Bruh.

You are literal scum.

You are not cool. You never will be. And pretending that you are the victim every time you have to be around me doesn't make you look better, either. You never were the victim.

I literally lost my home because you can't control yourself.

And now that your mommy is gone you have become one of the most deplorable human beings I've ever had the displeasure of knowing.

The only merit to knowing you is the fact that I met one of my closest friends through your idiocy.

God you're so fucking insufferable. You are a scumbag, a douchebag, and a horrible person. I genuinely pity our mutual friends because they have to interact with you.

I will be glad to never see you again after the favor I did for my friend. And if we ever do meet again, I will not be so "nice" and just pretend you don't exist. If we ever cross paths again I will gladly beat you to a pulp for being such a vile human being.

#l!fe #just letting off steam #I am allowed to hate someone #I am allowed to have emotions

[dormouse-iii]

I refuse to believe that the same empire that can't even fill their own museums or tolerate anything socially acceptable after the 17th century somehow invented one of the most archetypally malleable images in existence.

That just ain't true & I refuse to believe that lie.

#talking bout england #Grimaldi #imma cancel that loser one day #soon #sort of vent #just letting off steam

[astronomodome]

And he is just stanting there

#hermitcraft #zedaph #sillyposting #idk man sometimes I just need to let off some steam and zedpost in a silly way #screenshot is from x’s bedwars thing stream from today

[ballwizard]

scribbles from my plvaa playsesh today

#cool swag art #professor layton #luke triton #ace attorney #maya fey #espella cantabella #no clue why we decided luke was a little freak. literally just happened and we were like He should let off some steam by going rabid #had so much fun. Barely into chapter two

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Sorry if my question was uncomfortable, but I'm a foreigner and would like to understand more about the "feud" between Greece and North Macedonia. I've seen (heated) discussions between Greeks and Macedonians about culture, but I don't know much about the context. Again, sorry if the question is uncomfortable or insensitive.

I think this Geography Now! video does a good job of explaining the controversy. Basically, the Greek position is that since Slavs came a thousand years after Alexander in the area, and the culture and language of North Macedonians are largely Slavic it's illogical for them to name their country after a Hellenistic kingdom and claim many Greek figures, and also Alexander the Great, as people from their culture.

For clarification, Alexander the Great was certainly Greek and he spoke the Macedonian dialect of Greek which was Doric (for reference the Spartans also spoke the Doric dialect). When North Macedonians say "he was Macedonian" they mean he was from their culture and he spoke their language, and he wasn't Greek.

North Macedonian history tends to confuse the administrative regions with culture and ethnicity because it's convenient to them. It doesn't matter if Kyrillos and Methodios were two Greek brothers from Thessaloniki. To N. Macedonians, because these two brothers were in a region that was occasionally the administrative region of Macedonia, they were "Macedonians", hence "from North Macedonia". To them it doesn't matter that Alexander's birthplace and all important cities of the Hellenistic Macedonian Kingdom are in Greece.

What is crucial to understand about this controversy is that Macedonia for a long, long time, was basically "a geographical region of many mountains". The Greek word Μακεδονία literally means "Mountainous Region", and because it's kind of a distinct region it was a district on its own many times. That's an approximation of the limits of "Macedonia" as a geographical region with distinct characteristics.

Below is the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia. However, the people who are now residents of N. Macedonia won't be here for another thousand years!

The guy in the video says the Macedonian kingdom expanded, but then he doesn't say that it was separated into more kingdoms for better governance, and one of those kingdoms was this controversial region (in Green) which is now part of Greece and North Macedonia. (Slavs were still not in the area)

When Romans conquered these kingdoms they also separated the area into administrative regions. The province of Macedonia within the Roman Empire, circa 125 (Slavs were still not in the area):

Later administrative departments of Roman empire (Slavs were still not in the area). In fact, "Provincia Macedoniae" changed almost at the time the Slavs arrived, in the 7th century.

Within the Eastern Roman Empire there was later separation into Themata, but now the department of Macedonia was moved to the West, occasionally including parts of the region where N. Macedonia is today. (Slavs in the area after 7th c. ACE)

Theeeen came the Turks, and separated the regions differently. Now everyone, Turks, Greeks, Slavs, Hebrews and whoever else lived in that region, are all part of the same "millet", the Rum Millet. "Macedonia" wasn't an administrative area then.

In the 19th century, Turks and Slavs were the majority in the region of Macedonia, with Greeks coming third population-wise, and Hebrews also having very large communities.

(Greeks might not like this fact, or they may ignore it completely, but if you open actual historical books and maps, you'll see the demographics. We have censuses from that era. I learned the old Slavic and Turkic names that villages and places in my region had. There's also a reason Kemal Ataturk's mother wrote to him "They took our Salonik" when Greeks reclaimed the city after 600 years. We can still love our country and appreciate our history, without erasing parts of it.)

In 1912, the largest part of the region of Macedonia was claimed by Greeks. In time more Greeks came to it as immigrants from Anatolia and other Greek regions, shifting the population in such a way that Greeks were now the majority. (North Macedonia still doesn't exist as a country)

In 1991, when the country of North Macedonia was created, Greece already had an administrative region of Macedonia which covered most of the Macedonian geographical area, also the ancient Greek cities of the kingdom, and the emblem of Greek Macedonia was the ancient Greek Macedonian star. The Vergina Star, and the ancient Greek city of Vergina is also in Greek ground today. (Our Emblem and Flag)

So you can imagine it came as a shock to Greeks when a newly founded country used not only their symbols, but also distinctly Greek symbols. People who are now residents of N. Macedonia lived in the geographical region that a few centuries ago was also "Macedonia" in the administrative sense, so I get where they're coming from. However, when culture gets appropriated, when the culture of important ethnically Greek figures is erased, when Greek words are claimed to be "Macedonian" all of a sudden since 1991, things get tense.

It's a political matter, as the video says. People from the two countries usually have normal interactions if the matter doesn't come up. And I don't think there's hate between the simple people.

#I am not in the mood for a debate I just wanted to explain stuff #make your own post if you want to let off some steam against Greeks :P #answered

[mumbledramblings]

Sort of a sequel to this

C'mon, man... It's- like, average...

#trigun #trigun stampede #tristamp #trigun fanart #vash the stampede #vash saverem #vash #vash fanart #mid draws #if you don't get the joke: his dick is small #he just wanted to play a funny video game (deepest sword) #he doesn't even finish the game #just turns it off #i don't think deepest sword is available on switch but let's just pretend it is for the joke #yes this is a real game #it's on steam #i saw a video about it and remembered my small dick vash headcanon and laughed for like 5 minutes #i just like to bully him for things i made up about him #artists on tumblr

[the-irreverend]

I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#SORRY YALL I JUST FINISHED EPISODE 4 AND NEEDED TO LET OFF SOME STEAM #fuck valentino #valentino #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel spoilers #hazbin spoilers #hazbin #vivziepop #vivzieverse #vivienne medrano #hazbin valentino #hazbin hotel valentino #hellaverse

[demodraws0606]

Being a q!BBH fan is having to be hit again and again with the fact that no one will ever care about his lore or ever recognise that he is one of the largest roleplayer in the server (non debatable)

#qsmp #q!bbh #q!badboyhalo #bbh #badboyhalo #qsmp fandom neg #tw negative #sorry i really needed to get this off my chest since i'm like going through a rough depression period and like #i also do not want people agreeing with me or like think this is an opening to complain #i really just need positivity rn but i also really need to let off some steam #also the reason i've been posting less is to get away from tumblr for mental health reason #but omg its just #what's the point

[comic-sans-chan]

I adore how unhinged Garak is about the people he likes, because there's this theme of them being similarly unhinged. Like that colleague from the Order in Second Skin that he had to shoot and was like, "Aw :( ...Well Anyway" about. Or like Tain and Mila, both crazy bitches, imo. Or his last remaining contacts on Cardassia who he called up in In The Pale Moonlight who were all down to raid the Dominion’s underwear drawer at the drop of a hat. Like that's what Garak is used to. He likes excitement, he likes a bit of malice, he likes some cunning. And that's part of what makes Garashir so goddamn funny is Julian is actually a bit of a cunning, malicious little shit sometimes. If you watch the series knowing Julian's an augment, these moments come up all the time where it's clear he's fucking with people for his own amusement. Taking people for a bit of a ride just to see what happens. Then ofc there are all the gross incel fuckboy moments, but. 

I just love the idea of Julian going on some insane borderline villainous monologue about something or other and Garak sitting there with hearts swirling around his head. Don't get me wrong, Garak loves Julian for his goodness first and foremost, but Julian's not perfect and I think that makes the ship so much more interesting because I can't really see Garak finding most of Julian's worst flaws anything but thrilling. We go on about Garak loving Julian's infodumping and argumentativeness, but after the augment thing comes out, I think he equally enjoys watching Julian play dumb with people and Knowing he's playing dumb. It compliments his own Just a Simple Tailor routine so perfectly. They're just normal men. Just innocent men.

#i don't think julian's ever malicious about it to be clear #i think it just ended up being something that happened kind of inevitably because he already had to play dumb anyway #and it became one of the only ways he could really get any kind of enjoyment out of an otherwise miserable process of hiding himself #it's a sad lonely habit he got into #and it does bite him in the ass a lot. i think julian hates being underestimated A Lot #for obvious reasons (his parents are lunatics) #so... maybe it's a little mean of him sometimes #he has kind of a temper anyway. and it's a harmless way to let off steam #you can kinda tell after his augment secret gets out he becomes a lot more sarcastic #i think that's what his mind has been like for a long time #going a little off the rails here but julian's parents always acting like they did him some huge favor #meanwhile this is julian's every day experience now #just being so smart it's innately isolating and miserably lonely #he's not just mad at them for killing jules #he's mad at them for creating julian #my posts #garashir

[solarmorrigan]

Love having someone comment on one of my fics to bitch at me about how I've written a fandom trope that they hate when I have very clearly tagged that fic with that trope and made it very clear in the summary what's going on

My guy, I don't know what you expected. Literally no one is making you read this shit. Go away

#you want to give me constructive criticism? sure! #you want to yell about how you're tired of seeing people write this particular trope and you don't like it because [x]? no. #that's not constructive that's you letting off steam. that's you complaining and offering no solution. no one asked you for that #just like no one asked you to read my stupid story #sorry I'll probably be mortified I made a vague blogging post in the morning and delete this #blah blah text blah

[lucienne-thee-librarian]

Tw: lesbophobia, bullying, petty bitching about the Mean Girls remake and a subset of OG movie fans:

I Know. I KNOW its a me thing. But I saw a post that broke containment about the new Mean Girls movie how OMG REGINA CANONICALLY SINGS ABOUT GETTING GIRLS IN THE END SONG and my first response was "oh god, really?"

Look, I was never wild about the whole "Regina George was secretly closeted and that's why she picked on Janis to distract from her own feelings and save herself" fan theory but at least it was JUST a fan theory. And I know the original movie ending where it turns out Janis isn't even really gay, she was Lebanese and Regina got confused, and see she dances with a boy at the end, it's all okay she wasn't ACTUALLY a dyke!!!! - yeah I rolled my eyes too. Yeah, that was dumb and a coward's move, but idk. At least the movie itself, even if it copped out at the end by not risking having two of the protagonists be ACTUALLY gay in a teen movie...at least it seems aware that homophobic bullying is bad??

The original movie, whatever else you can say about it, or how it handled that issue or any others...at least tried to take that shit seriously. Janis was an outcast years after middle school who flinches at the idea of Damian telling anyone new about what Regina said about her for fear any new friends would abandon her immediately over it. Even Regina herself (blithely, callously, of course, but it's meant to be that) admits that the bullying Janis got as a result of Regina spreading those rumors about her made Janis break down, cut her hair and have to leave school temporarily over the rumors. Regina said that. Herself. With no remorse but she said it. The movie is a comedy, but it doesn't shy away from how brutal bullying of all forms can be. That's kind of the whole point of the goddamn movie.

But idk if the fans of this theory haven't experienced that much bullying themselves or its just a coping mechanism I can't relate to...that theory of "oh Regina's a closet case homophobe poor thing" just completely (to me) softens the whole thing, these fans do it to by making Regina in a sense, another victim. They may not intend it that way, but in the few times I've seen a Mean Girls post and my nostalgia got me scrolling a bit I've stumbled on this. Seen it in various places online and it always made me want to hiss like a wet cat because it's always like "omg poor Regina comphet sucks <333" and. Hork. Im sorry, hork.

Sorry, but I spent too much time BEING on the receiving end of that shit in middle school, getting called names and treated like an actual disease up until I moved to high school with mostly a whole new set of people over the fact someone spread rumors I was a lesbian, to feel anything but frustration over that. Yeah. I was Janis. I'll admit I can't be "objective" here. I never did any of the shit she does in Mean Girls in revenge, I never had the power or inclination, it wasn't a former friend who started it, but yeah I'm biased because that character was me. I know what it was like to be her because I lived it. And yeah, it kind of sucked!!! Did get better, but yeah. Was what it was.

It's a big part of why I've never liked the trope in popular culture that the loudest homophobic bullies are actually closet cases. It's not that "right wing politician caught soliciting blowjobs" has never been a headline but come on. Most of the people who trash queer people do it because they just hate us. Its trivializing of homophobic harassment to act like that's 1) a good explanation for most cases 2) much less an excuse and that's how it can be used. It'd be one thing if a self-hating person's mindset was like. Actually explored with depth and nuance as part of a story. But otherwise, nah. Miss my formerly lowkey traumatized teenage ass with that dismissive cliched shit.

So even the idea that the movie might be lending any kind of weight to that theory about Regina, however subtle or subtextual, that is??? Yeah funny lol, such iconic, very Representation. Fucking bite me. My lesbian ass is tuning right the fuck out. I'm not paying movie ticket prices to see this, if I'm gonna basically get the sort of person who would've made my life hell as a preteen and tween get turned into One Of Us with the expectation that's going to make me freak out with joy. Even if allegedly they did actually make Janis a lesbian (which, good for them if they did).

Of course, it could just be fans blowing something out of proportion but. Like y'all are not making me want to see this movie MORE and I was at best lukewarm on it having never seen the musical and being lowkey burnt out on the idea of yet another remake.

#idk if these girls are just that detached from the reality of what it's like to bullied period or what. Must be nice #ignore me i'm just stressed and strung out for a variety of reasons I'm trying to distract myself #from a health scare im having lately and trying to get answers for by any means necessary #if that includes whinging about something petty #to partly let steam off about bigger things and also cheer myself up #in case anyone else agrees and wants to bitch with me so be it. kvetching is good for the soul sometimes #tho to be clear this fan theory and that trope has always genuinely annoyed me

[halluciniwaynia]

my simple opinion (in relation to the weirdo lesbians on twitter who continue to insist karlach is lesbian despite canon saying otherwise) is that lesbians have got to stop indulging in lesbian separatism and other dumbass bullshit that puts a fence between them and other sapphic women. your history has always included pan and bi women, we’ve always used your butch and femme labels and our attractions aren’t the same thing as cishet people’s. It never has and it never will, especially when it involves gnc and trans men. acting like fools and insisting bisexual women calling you out for being biphobic is “lesbiphobia” is precisely the reason y’all are miserable little cretins of ideology who have never gone outside or even really talked to other LGBT people outside your own echo chambers on twitter.

pretending bi people don’t face a chronic amount of invisibility and questioning about their identities (especially if they’re gnc like karlach and astarion) is doing a disservice to us. it’s doing a disservice to all the bi women who propped your rights up and formed the backbone of your movements and parades, who have always been told to either accept being gay or “benefit from straight privilege” as so many people tell them.

it is a YOU problem that you’re not able to sympathize with bisexual women and their attraction to men. It is YOUR problem you conflate bisexual women as being “lesbians until proven otherwise” and when you ignore the fact bisexual women have the same complicated relationships with their genders as lesbians and gay men do.

it is a YOU problem that you continue to ignore bi women and create divide in the community. our invisibility is not an invitation for you to erase our identities and the way we express ourselves and find joy in characters.

peace ✌️

#bg3 #bg3 karlach #karlach #baldur’s gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 posting #sorry if this looks insane I’m just rambling and letting some steam off #some lesbians really think they are immune to criticism because they are lesbians and I’m like. No lol #bisexual #butches #butch dyke #butch4butch #astarion #astarion bg3