#people need to touch some grass

[ohhtobeagooner]

hey half of my dash has been mutuals and people i follow having to defend themselves and players of colour against blatant and disgusting racism and it’s fucking infuriating that the spaces we curate are still being infiltrated by prejudice so if you are one of the cunts being ignorant please educate yourself or die in a hole

#let’s be real who does the world cup really bring together #mutuals i am kissing you better #wc 2022 #people need to touch some grass

[scentedluminarysoul]

I just remembered how great Twitter is

Like, one time, some people said that you're a bad person if you liked games like The Tenants, because you play as a landlord and landlords are evil

And babe. Yes, landlords are evil. But do you understand the concept of "video game"?

They stopped responding when I said that I hated guns but still like playing shooters

#twitter #the stupidest discourse #people need to touch some grass #or smoke it #get a grip #and understand what 'fiction' is

[dolls-self-ships]

just saw someone on a self shipping post say to not use the word "obsessed" to describe their feelings for their f/o bc it's harmful to those with ocd and as someone with severe ocd please shut the fuck up and go outside oh my god

#tbh this is why i dont interact with the selfship community that often bc so many of you need to touch grass #like im serious #i love self shipping dgmw but holy fuck some of you its like walking on eggshells #'dni if you ship with abusers or problematic characters!!!' like huh???? wha?????? #im no proshipper like i dont like p*dos either but #not wanting people that ship with villains is like. #... youre blocking out like a huge chunk of the community babe #the purity culture in the selfship community is something else

[vapolis]

maybe I'm just a pussy but why are ppl on the forum so rude all the time?

#not necessarily abt my thread bc that's pretty much dead but wowieeee #some things ppl say in threads the author is active in?? I could never lmao #I'm all for constructive feedback but just shitting all across a game or characters in the thread the author made... some people need to to #touch grass #the moderators also lowkey suck at. the moderating part in those threads

[ride-a-dromedary]

Halsin would tell you to go touch grass but mean it 100% sincerely.

#BG3 Musing #Halsin Posting #Halsin #go touch some grass and maybe you'll calm down #and someone just reacting so negatively to that like well you don't need to be sassy #and halsin is like ??? i'm..i'm telling you to go outside and it'll make you feel better? #i keep imagining halsin sneaking out of the elfsong to go hide in the park because it's the closest he can get to feeling #even remotely comfortable in the city and you just find him on his back staring at the peeks of sky and he looks so much better #than he did when his shirt collar was choking him and the pavement beneath him felt like a death sentence #i feel like people really get on his case for being so upset in the city and criticizing it but like...the man is literally wilting there #he's suffocating - it's like...well...like putting a bear in a cage #and expecting him to perform for you #he will be angry and wounded and try to escape #and only when you've completely throttled him into submission - broken him completely - will he stop fighting you

[kidovna]

never draw byclair again ew

boo!

does this scare you?

#i need people to stop testing my patience! #touch some grass! #get a hobby! #will byers #lucas sinclair #stranger things #byclair #anonymous #artovna

[stevethehairington]

really fucking sick and tired of people who really fucking love the eddie book jumping on people who don't like or are even remotely critical of it's posts and like crusading their opinions around from the top of their high horses and shoving it down our throats.

if you like the book, great! that's awesome! love that for you! i am genuinely glad that you were able to find good in it and enjoy it!!

but not everyone did, and not everyone is going to agree with you. so, instead of going on some grand crusade where you find every single post that includes anything even remotely negative or negative adjacent or even neutrally critical and spending ALL this time and effort trying to provide unwanted rebuttals to every single thing, maybe you should just stay in your lane and find people who DO like the book and chat about it with them.

because i can PROMISE YOU, none of us appreciate it when you come onto our posts and start accusing us of "hating on" the author or "being rude" about her and her work and RIDICULOUS shit like that.

being critical of something and pointing out it's flaws is NOT inherently hating on it. i, frankly, do not know where people got that notion, but it's not fucking true so can we fucking quit assuming it is? and, critiquing something is also NOT the same as saying this is shit and it sucks and the author is a piece of garbage. again, where the fuck that came from is beyond me. you can be critical of something and still enjoy it. as soooo many of you love to point out, it's not perfect, why should it be perfect? so D U H. of course that means criticism can and should arise???

also. hot take (by which i mean ice fucking cold because it's NOT a fucking hot take), but going around toting FALSE facts as part of your "defense" does not make you or your argument look good. you, like the author, should maybe do a basic fact check first. 🙃

tldr, if you like the book, that's genuinely great, but stay in your fucking lane and stop seeking out posts from people who didn't like it to start shit in the notes.

#flight of icarus #stranger things #this has happened to me and to so many of my friends and im fucking SICK of it #i didn't even hate the book either!! i thought it was just okay #and yet i STILL get all these book lovers jumping down my throat about things i say about the book #things that - HONESTLY are not even like that scathing!!!!! #like god damn all im asking for is a little BASIC effort from the author and they all think thats me asking for her head on a platter #its NOT #i have no problem with the author #she's whatever to me honestly just a vessel through which the book was given to us #ALSO she is some nebulous blob way outside my orbit. AS IN any critiques i have of her and her work are NOT direct assaults on her??? #like i dont fucking KNOW her #im not saying any of this to her face #she is a published writer she should KNOW the risks she is taking when she publishes her writing #not everyone is going to like it! there are going to be people who are critical of it! there are going to be people who hate it! #critiques and pointing out mistakes and wishing for things to have been different is not a fucking direct attack #those things are actually pretty fucking common responses to ANYTHING #and a lot of times theyre actually meant as useful helpful things geared towards improvement and not something to tear someone down with #some people on the internet need to go touch grass and learn how to CRITICALLY THINK again #the world is not as black and white as you think #n e ways. rant over. if you stuck around through all of that kudos to you. i am just. at the end of my rope with this bullshit.

[nights-are-better]

i've seen a lot of stuff on this recently and wanna add in my opinions bc why not. there's stuff going around about how low engagement is on fanfics and people are right, i run an edit account (shameless promotion on it rn) and write fics (more shameless promotion) and i get a decent amount of attention, don't get me wrong i love when one person engages bc that means it's reached one person.

but back when i started my edit account it peaks pretty decently, then everything started slowing down and it's really sad, as much as i tell myself not to get hurt by the little attention it gets, i put so much effort into the edits and fics, just to feel a little short changed.

i bounce from more mainstream fandoms to more niche ones, i get engagement varies based on how big a fandom is so when i get little attention on my more niche edits i get it. but when it's a larger fandom, it hurts that i don't get much attention.

when it comes to fanfics, i get kudos, same logic, smaller fandoms, less attention not the issue. the issue i have is that no one comments, i get roughly three or less than. it's not that i wanna sit there and go 'validate me strangers, validate me' it just is a little encouragement when someone says they enjoyed it and can't wait for more (and i also struggle to leave comments on fics to, it slips my mind when you get excited with new ships or just fics).

i know there a bigger issues in fandoms (and the world), but the small sense of community i get within fandoms is quite nice, i've made some mates over the past few years and it's nice, becuase some pretty good friendships come out of one share interest.

it's worrying to me that interaction in fandoms seems to have fizzled out, but also how toxic a lot of them have become, i've seen so many saying they get rude comments, there's so much discourse. i sit back and avoid shit going down in fandoms bc at the end of the day, sure it's just a fandom, but it's also a community for so many.

sure fics/edits are made for the creators, i write a lot of 'no one asked for this' fics, but that doesn't mean you can't engage, leave a comment every once in a while if you enjoyed it, show the author some love.

#im tagging so many fandoms to call them out for toxicity too #bc im petty like that #and some people just really need to touch grass #comment on fics #please don’t be toxic #just be civil #911 abc #buddie #good omens #call of duty #dead boy detectives #doctor who #warrior nun #ted lasso #babylon berlin #marvel #marvel mcu #mcu #willow show #the last of us #the bastard son & the devil himself #shameless #the old guard #the witcher #ive tried to list of so many fandoms that ive been in #and are currently in #not all of them are toxic before you come at me #you know who you are #ao3 fanfic #fanfiction

[incorrect-primarchs-quotes]

#as someone who always hear stuff like “women are all gold diggers” “girls are dishonest and coward” #this was really ironic #literally men and women are the same - both in the good and the bad stuff #if you deny it you are just proving you need to touch grass #anyway im always surprised to see the length some people would go just to grab some more followers #pathetic honestly

[beaft]

i feel like i've become such a mean and cynical person over the past year and i really don't vibe with it... i wish i wasn't this way :( i do try not to let it out in my real life but unfortunately that means all of you on here get the toxic sludge runoff. sorry

#my most unpleasant trait by far is jealousy and i tend to get wildly jealous when i see people who have better lives than me #and because i've had such a shit year that feels like just about everyone i know #maybe once my situation improves and i'm out of crisis mode i'll be able to mellow out a little and open up my heart #and stop being such a spiky little closed-up ball of rage + hurt #maybe i just need to go away somewhere and touch some grass. maybe that would fix me

[kawoid]

midori says:

#fanart #sketch #your turn to die #yttd #sou hiyori #sou hiyori yttd #yttd midori #midori yttd #soushin #i'm tired of this shit #anti/proship discourse is so annoying #soushin IS NOT A PROSHIP #you know there's something wrong with so called “anti” when you being harassed and receiving death threats over ship #and you or your friends/partner are harassed/cancelled because of this “witch hunting” #you are not a “good” person if you spread hate towards people who did nothing bad to you #yttd fandom in desperate need of touching a grass #funny or not how this sketch i did while ago (two years ago lol) #and finished it only now when someones harass people over a ship. AGAIN. #like it pased 3 years and some ppl still think that shipping fictional characters as bad as murder

[miss-mossball]

Haze's ex girlfriend, Olivia

#doodle heaven #my ocs #prince haze #olivia #before dating Iris haze had a gf who uhhhh wasnt the warmest snuggliest #she kinda leaned super hard into his depression with her repressive pretentious nihilism #and totally convinced him that seeking any sort of love or connection with people was pointless and weak #and maybe threw in some trauma denial as a treat #she thought she and haze could be above all the normies #girlie rlly needed to touch some grass #haze and his dumb mushroom cut lol

[grayson-aveyard]

Dracula Flow could write a Taylor Swift song but Taylor Swift could never spit out "I wish aliens were real so I had more things to fuck"

#im not tagging this I don't need the fucking heat #I'm reading these lyrics and getting more pissed off #i know that it appeals to high school girls but honestly shut the fuck up #its fucking bland. I feel like Gordon Ramsey. where's the flavour? #idk man touch grass. she has enough money to buy all the grass in the world I think she should touch some #are the people who write her music not paid well? can they not write better? #dracula flow

[phatcatphergus]

i’m convinced everyone mad at tubbo has never interacted with queer people in real life because nearly every early 20s queer person i’ve met use fag and dyke as terms of endearment 😭

Everyone mad at Tubbo has a vendetta against him *looks meaningfully at specific fandoms* or is chronically online.

That’s a Venn diagram btw, they overlap

#and yeah people make jokes #it’s called having a sense of humor #people irl are so different then people online and some people need to touch grass to realize that it really isn’t that dee #qsmp #tubbo #qsmp fandom neg #fandom neg #also toxic behavior is respected on phattercatphergus on tumblr dot com for all your toxic needs

[helga-grinduil]

‘bakugou katsuki faces consequences’ tag on ao3 is such a wild thing to me, considering in some of those fanfics bakugou just straight up fucking dies (bakugou is a teenager).

#some people need a reality check and to touch some grass #and before anyone says anything im completely fine with those fics where they put him in therapy or in general course #bnha #usual salt #bnha related

[goldensunset]

i don't really know how to word this but like i feel like i'm gonna forever have to deal with the pain and heartache of one of my very first pokémon games- the first 'normal' pokémon game i've ever played, that i will have lasting nostalgia and love for as a result of it being formative to my introduction into the series- being the one that will forever be looked down upon for bad graphics and technical issues as a result of the game having been rushed

like i honest to goodness want to scream and yell and cry into the void about how this means everything to me and will always be one of my fave games just in general. but how am i gonna do that without someone being like 'the broken overpriced mess? the one that's missing all this stuff from the older games that was great? the thing with all the cringe? that one?' or whatever. and the thing is they aren't wrong for their criticisms either like i know the fact that they rushed this wonderful game hardcore is a massive stain on its reputation and it hurts me too but like i cannot turn off the brain full of love in me and be a mean critic. or even an impartial one. i mean i criticize everything i love don't get me wrong i am constantly running my mouth about what i like and don't like. but at the end of the day i approach all media with an unusually optimistic mindset. if you see me talk a ton about something no matter what i'm saying you can bet it means i love it.

just. aaagh. it's always tough being a new fan of an old series. i'm like too embarrassed to express my opinions bc i feel like they're invalid y'know? i feel so exhausted every time i see something to the effect of like 'oh those poor kids these days having to deal with such bad quality everything what a bad time to be a fan of pokémon wow y'all make me feel so old' well see the thing is i actually am thriving and i love it here. and i'm also an adult myself so i have more critical thinking skills than people who played red when they were like five years old did. and even with the power of critical thinking i manage to be in love with this. join me in marvelling at the beauty of life

#sorry for the massive rant i am full of both love and rage but i feel alone in this world about this particular subject #my other fav complaint is like 'they make it too easy to xyz these days' #to me that reads like 'i suffered so why shouldn't they' #yes we should encourage people to spend 100 hours grinding to do basic story requirements. #to weed out the true gamers from the weaklings. or maybe we could use the spare time in our lives to touch grass #the only easy-fication change in sv i don't like is the ability to access boxes right from the menu #that kinda cheapens the need to strategically organize a team before heading somewhere #i can.. sorta understand being miffed about the remember moves mechanic? #frankly platinum was so stressful with not being able to freely switch without great hassle/cost #it would have been a fair enough compromise to make you pay a bit of lp or something #or do it for free but having to go to like a pokécenter or something #i'll never agree that exp share is bad though sorry #pokémon #ok but about the 'i feel bad for kids these days with these ugly designs/lame 3D models' thing #yeah i have news for you every gen has its ugly/stupid pokémon. #dude look at exeggcute #and some of the oldest spritework is hideous #granted the ds era spritework was beautiful #but i don't see what is so bad about the 3D models of today? they're both nice... #dude play an indie game or something if it's that important to you idk #it will never be the 90s again. it will never be the 00s again. i'm sorry.