#just peeved right now

[swan2swan]

Yeah, I think if you and all your coworkers find out you got fired via a press release, you should be allowed to sue the corporation who fired you.

#personally I think all firings need to be done face-to-face #and I don't mean in the assembly room #one on one #you don't have the guts for that? don't do it #you start getting nervous when Employee 57 comes in and they all picked up the pattern? #good #Employee 98 takes a swing at you? good #just peeved right now #very peeved #I know the company was a wreck but seeing them all screaming and being shocked #like... #and it's not just them #you can't say ''well this company had bad practices'' because THE SAME THING HAPPENS TO SO MANY OTHER COMPANIES #ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh #freaking capitalism

[swaps55]

I have been thinking about two things all day.

That post I saw this morning very confidently believing that a $130k salary is "comfortably middle class" in Los Angeles, which made me laugh, then have a mild existential crisis.

Sam Shepard absolutely slaying it at karaoke to "Walking On Broken Glass."

So. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#adventures with swaps #'shoot it again sam' shepard #the burnout in basically every facet of life is real right now #so i'm latching onto a happier sam to find some seratonin #i will never make pop culture references in my sci-fi stories #it's a weird pet peeve of mine #but let it be known that if i did #sam shepard would be a 90s guy to his core #and you can pry this secret headcanon out of my cold dead hands #i need this #just as badly as i need him doing a mean duet with aslany to wannabe

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

a couple of years back i was pretty vocal about not getting when people complained about their art not getting "enough" notes. but i'm getting to recognise a sub-category of that frustration these days that, in fairness, was maybe what people were talking about all along? but i've also seen other posts mention how fandom spaces feel changed since the last few years, so maybe it's a new thing or at least a thing that hadn't reached my fandom corner until now.

i truly don't mind if my writing doesn't garner a lot of attention (although i say this from a place of priviledge where my writing has so far always garnered some attention, and often a lot more than i anticipated). but what is really starting to grate a little is the amount of attention vs. the amount of reaction. For example, before the latest update on my big multichapter fic, it sat at ~ 33,050 hits. since then the fic has been clicked 400 times. the kudos count went up by maybe three and there were three new bookmarks - this isn't super surprising because i don't expect to be reaching a lot of new people with an unfinished 100+k word fic in a dwindling fandom, and if they're return readers they can't leave new kudos. but five people have commented on the fic since the update. One percent of readers who have clicked on this fic have reacted. Did all these people see it on the recently updated feed, started to read it, didn't vibe with it and moved on? That honestly wouldn't bother me. But it's been steadily gaining attention for the last few weeks, long after it moved off the first page of the recently updated view for the fandom. so rather, I think it's mostly subscribed users (the fic has a little over 400 active subscriptions so that would make sense) or people actively checking back on the fic. in which case they must be at least somewhat invested in it.

and again, i'm not owed any feedback. i put my work out for free and people decide what to do with that. but fandom is a collaborative space, and it's been feeling like less that for a while. people seem less ready for conversation, and i think that's sad, and quite demoralising for creatives (at least for me personally). fandom work isn't meant as bingeable content that you consume and then leave. if you do that on netflix, that's fine, because you're paying the platform and they're at least supposed to recompense the creatives who made the show you just watched. fandom artists don't get that. we make things for the love of it, and because we wanted to share that love. it doesn't feel like sharing though when you put something out there and nothing comes back. it feels like standing in an empty warehouse telling my stories to nobody. and, again, i'm personally lucky enough that it's not like that all the time, but i get why people stop doing it. and i get that engaging with art as an audience member doesn't come easy to everyone, but fandom culture needs it. it's supposed to be an exchange. it's supposed to go both ways, and i think if you want to sustain the culture, you simply need to try and give something back, whatever that is.

because putting something you made out there and nobody looks at it is definitely not a great feeling, but having anonymous masses file by and look at your thing and then meet you with deafening silence feels... worse.

#again i cannot overstate how much this doesn't go for all my readers #and how lucky i am to still have anyone care about fics i started seven years ago i do get that #but yeah the engagement ratios have changed i think? #and it's on tumblr too and not just with art also just like. observations and meta posts and jokes and stuff #people like and reblog your thing but there's no comment no little smileys in the tags no silly ramblings just... #my new favourite pet peeve is seeing people asking for advice or asking a question and there's like fifty likes and not one reply or reblog #what are you supposed to do with that #yeah idk it's supposed to be collaborative right #and we can't all collaborate all the time but i feel like people used to interact with maybe 50 percent of the things they saw #and now it's like 10 #anyway #fandom #tbd

[heart-of-the-morningstar]

I really don’t want to sound entitled or like I’m getting worked up over nothing but like...one of my biggest pet peeves is when you message someone and you see that they’ve read your message and they just DON'T RESPOND

I honestly understand that people may be responding and not hit “send” by accident or just outright forget to respond but...I don’t know it just rubs me the wrong way when it happens so frequently. I don’t think it’s too much to ask for something like a “Hey, I’m busy right now, I’ll message back soon” or “I don’t have an answer to your question right now, let me get back to you”. I feel like if you have the time to read the message, you have the time to send a quick response if you don’t have the time to have a full blown conversation.

And especially when you’ve explained how you feel about it more than once. I’m more sad than anything (having RSD really does not help me), I just automatically assume the worst when I don’t get a response when I know they’ve seen the message...am I allowed to feel this way or am I being dramatic?

#rsd #rejection sensitive dysphoria #pet peeve #idk i'm sad right now #i feel like a burden to this person #adhd #adhd symptoms #i'm not entitled to anyone's time #i just don't know how to not feel torn up about it #i kind of sound like an ass don't i...

[quaranmine]

my biggest pet peeve is how many people in my life (knowing i know things about Plants and Science) ask me if things are weeds are not. stop asking me if that's a weed! weeds do not exist! there are no weeds! it's only a weed if you don't want it there! are you trying to make a pristine flower bed or growing crops? okay, then that might be a weed if you don't want it to be growing there. is it just growing in a random place? is it just growing in a field? then leave it alone, it's just a little guy! it might even be a beneficial little guy, you just don't like how it looks! now in some circumstance it might be a (harmful) invasive plant we should be eradicating, but most of the time i get asked this it is literally just some innocuous plant or flower

i'm for real gonna cry if one more person points to a native wildflower and asks me if that is a weed or not

#i know they just dont know but it's driving me a little mad helpppp #it happens a lot to me because i have a tendency to point out wildflowers and plants that i know how to identify #so i have a lot of people in my life who are like 'oh alyssa can help me with this plant question. is this a weed or not?' #but bestie i'm gonna snap if yall keep pointing to random innocent plants and asking this #it's only a weed if you want it out of your garden. or for it to not cause cracks in a sidewalk or smth i dont know #also i put harmful in parenthesis because dandelions are not native to north america but they're not really harming the ecosystem #my friend asked me this on saturday we were taking photos in the bluebonnets #and there was some other plant in the way of the photo and my friend was like is this a weed? can i pull it? #and im like. we are in a field. that is a native wildflower the same way the bluebonnet is #it's no more of a weed than the flowers we are taking pictures in right now? it just doesnt look as pretty. i just held it aside for the pi #anyway. like i said. pet peeve. this doesnt matter much i am just tired of getting asked it #because i find so many people want an excuse to pull up any plant that they dont like #but we need a lot of these 'weeds' for the ecosystem....if it isnt harming u then just leave it alone....

[weirdwoodeyes]

i love ghosts as an idea i mean great concept guys but it’s mind-boggling to me how many people believe they are real due to an event they personally could not explain

#like sorry to be pedantic but wouldn’t there be billions of ghosts drifting around #meaning we all should have probably seen one by now #slash also if not everyone becomes a ghost and it’s only troubled souls or something #A that would still be a lot and B aren’t you just right back at theism there #this isn’t worth a tags rant but belief in ghosts is one of my personal pet peeves in ppl #mine

[mellpenscorner]

Me, seeing any female over the age of like, 14 with her hair down in a period piece: hey you might wanna put your hair up

Me, seeing those 2010s Beach Waves™️ on a 19th century heroine: Put Your Hair Up Please Ma'am

Me, having to ONCE AGAIN look at a fictional Victorian woman with a Pinterest-style "Romantic Half-up Half-down": Madam I must insist that you PUT YOUR HAIR UP RIGHT NOW HOW ARE YOU FUNCTIONING IN SOCIETY

#pet peeve #enola holmes #sanditon #when calls the heart #persuasion 2022 #I'm sure there are others I just can't think of them right now #just yuck #textpostsbymellpen

[bidokja]

me doing my damnedest to tell people that kim dokja gets isekai'd literally more times than you can count on one hand, and yet there's still people in the notes going UHMMM HE WASN'T TECHNICALLY ISEKAI'D like. man. they aren't even lying for the bit either, like. at least it'd be funny if they were, but nah they're just Wrong and confident about it sjhdgf

#ky speaks #it'd be funny if it wasn't genuine #like if people were lying for The Bit that's fine id join in like yeah disqualify his squid ass smdh #but people just straight up spreading misinfo unironically is a pet peeve of mine big or small #even if its something minor like a silly lil tumblr poll #like. if you wanna try n discredit kdj you can just say that ORV doesn't fall into the isekai genre and you'd be right #at least have some SUBSTANCE to your discreditting statements make it interesting #but regardless kdj himself does in fact get yeeted into other worlds like. VERY frequently asjhdgf and thats all that isekai means/is #i think the worst part is that half the people saying it are people who have literally read orv...besties....come on.... #EVEN IF YOU'RE A WEBTOON ONLY READER THATS NO EXCUSE AT THIS POINT #HE GOT YEETED INTO THE GREEK UNDERWORLD. DID YOU THINK THAT EXISTED ON EARTH. ON OUR EARTH. EXCUSE ME. #sure okay maybe you can argue its a realm attched to earth so it doesnt count #YOU CAN'T DO THAT WITH THE TINY WORLD #THATS ALSO APPEARED IN THE WEBTOON ALREADY #DID YOU THINK THAT WAS EARTH??? THEY'RE LIKE 2 INCHES TALL COME ON NOW #NO EXCUSES I AM SITTING YOU ALL DOWN AND MAKING YOU WATCH AN ISEKAI 101 POWERPOINT #(note: i am not actually mad like. tbc. im being hyberbolic. that doesn't mean i'm not a lil peeved that this notion keeps spreading)

[therealjammy]

#it's poll time baby #writing stuff #this is taken from my own personal list of fic pet peeves and i just want to see how many of my mutuals have the same or different ones #and i'll tell you right now the first option is my number one #if your tenses are all over the fucking place it's an immediate nope from me #idc how good your plot is or how well you've captured the characters #anyways have fun with this one everybody #i'm looking forward to seeing your answers and tags

[scarfacemarston]

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#personal stuff #i'm so peeved right now i feel like I dont get noticed at all on tumblr anymore #despite all that i do #i'm talking about feeling acknowledged at all #i dont know what happened #i do what everyone asks and there's nothing at all #is it too much to ask for a little interaction? #I give the audio files the meta the art journals which take me hours and Ive lost money on the audio files #literally paid 200 bucks because of that crap messing with my computer and needing new hard drives and stuff #god forbid that I post a few things i'm interested in getting interaction in and I get nothing #at all #some of the last requests Ive done has gotten ZERO notes #a lot of the stuff I want is just not popular I guess like with Abigail or wanting to rp #but a lot of the characters I want to branch out to are popular #maybe my masterlist worked against me since it's old stuff I dont like #sorry to bitch but I just feel so ignored and have been for weeks

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

and about my last tags: a sentence that's too long can be a bad thing because it's more complicated than it needs to be or because it's exhausting to read, but as long as you connect the clauses correctly, it's not a run-on sentence.

"James went to the store, he bought a jar of pickles" is a run-on sentence because it has two incorrectly connected independent clauses.

"James went to the store and bought a jar of pickles, which he opened with a can opener that he'd bought at a swap meet last week from a man who had divorced his third wife the week before that, and then James made a pickle sandwich and gave it to his dog (which wasn't advisable because James didn't know whether pickles were safe for dogs to eat or not), but what James didn't know was that his dog was secretly a wizard who had been cursed to take the form of a dog when a spell went horribly awry; James was not a perceptive man, but he sure could open a jar of pickles when he was in the mood for it" is actually not a run-on sentence, just a terrible one.

#pickle pontificates #pplease pleas e please stop saying this if you love me #i don't really need to be complaining about this right now i just want to air my pet peeve #thanks for coming to my ted talk and all that

[brain-in-a-skin-suit]

just spent hours revising a big writing assignment and i managed to cut out so much text that i’m somehow almost 1000 words below the mandatory word count. i was 500 words above when i started. i need to go chew on some drywall

#i haven’t rewritten the conclusion yet so i guess i’ll just ramble or something??? #to fill space? #idk very peeved right now #hate mandatory word counts #my posts

[squiggelsquirrel]

"When love is gone" was the best song in Muppet's Christmas Carol and I'm still pissed about it being removed.

#muppet christmas carol #my opinion #There are bigger problems in the world right now #I know #this is just a pet peeve

[practically-an-x-man]

Me: *finally gets home after what has culminated into a god-awful day, telling my parents about the skull and how my instructor got on me about texture*

Me, semi-joking: ....and I bet I've held more human skulls than he has before. [I was a forensic anthropology major before switching to SFX school. I have held dozens of skulls]

My dad: I wouldn't make that assumption.

Me: Well, real ones maybe

My dad (again): I wouldn't make that assumption. He's been around a LOT longer than you have.

#yes true fair point he's like 45. But why do my experiences have to be discounted just because I'm younger? #it's not even about the skulls it's just that my dad has this nasty habit of defending his arguments just by saying he's been around longer #which is the BIGGEST fucking pet peeve for me #I guarantee I've done things in my life that many many adults three times my age have not done #it feels like I just have to wait around and age just for my opinion to be taken seriously. Even on the smallest things #maybe it's not that serious in its own but it was the cherry on top of everything else right now

[hollypies]

I'm so sorry bestie!!!! I know there's not much that can help with something like that but I hope you're able to find things to distract yourself as you deal with this and remember that we love you sm!!

I don't know if it'll cheer you up but something I found out and really liked is that strawberry poison dart frogs are sometimes called blue jean frogs because they can have patterning on their legs that make it look like they're wearing jeans!!

Hi sorry!! I took a bit of a break! I'm feeling better now, at least functional.

Thanks for the frogs and support I really needed it ^^💗

And yess strawberry poison dart frogs are so so cool and they do indeed look like they're wearing pants !! They're just cool like that !

I love you all too, mwah !

#holly answers #fanta my beloveds #Fanta's Frogs #hghshgag i fanta!! sorry it took me a while! #again im doing better now! im still feeling a bit rocky an. egghhg but. ill get better #im doing good hiding my mental breakdowns from my mom at least . she keeps guilttripping me about how “oooh its all my fault i bet im judt #the worst now “ and ”everyone must hate me because i just cant do things right“ mom you got my kitten killed. it literally WAS. your fault #kajsnsnsmsms maybe if she didnt DRINK SO MUCH . but thats . aghhgg. sorry im still a bit peeved ig. #thanks again fanta mwah mwah!! youre all so amazin . even if i dont talk a whole lot

[sunnibits]

every time someone draws a brown or hazel eyed character with blue eyes I should get 5 dollars

#another post from my drafts anyways past sunny is gonna rant in the tags now #take it away past sunny #IZZY. STEDE. ROSE MF TYLER. THE LIST GOES ON. #I seriously don’t know how so many ppl get characters’ eye color wrong in fanart and fanfic #the sheer hubris. the unearned confidence that they just KNOW the color by memory and not bothering to check #it’s just a silly pet peeve but it confuses me SO much like I always check that shit whaaaat are you doing #sorry I’ve literally already ranted ab this exact thing 20 times but shshjshb #brown eyed ppl deserve rights please let us live