#ruining it for the rest of us

[nartml]

Nah, you know what makes my blood boil?

Seeing characters degraded, vilified, and desecrated in the name of ship wars.

No, Aang did not strip Katara of her agency nor did he only accept the "digestible" parts of her, leave my baby alone.

No, Zuko isn't just a selfish colonizer, bro did not have one of the greatest arcs of all time for you to reduce him to that.

No, Katara wasn't just a mother to everyone, for fuck's sake, did we watch the same show?

I can go on and on and fucking on, but all I'm gonna say is I'm fucking tired of y'all's shipping discourse.

It was never that serious, it will never be that serious.

I think that both Zutara and Kataang are great ships in their own right, with their respective pros and cons. I also think it comes down to personal taste.

Of course, people can have differing opinions on characters, regardless of the inclusion of ships or not. But at the very least, stick to your own.

Ship and let ship. Remember when this was fun?

Don't invade spaces that aren't yours to start trouble, and stay appropriate with the tags. Fandom etiquette, it's pretty neat.

Y'all suck the joy out of everything.

#the way i can apply this to half of the ships amd characters i like #ive seen things #ive seen some crazy shit #heard some wild takes #take a chill pill #and sit your asses down #kataang #aang #zuko #atla #shipping wars #shipping discourse #fandom etiquette #this applies to every ship btw it just so happens that i stumbled upon yet another kataang vs zutara ordeal and im fed up #ruining it for the rest of us #i get it and i do think the passion is beautiful and a show of how many emotions and how much love these characters still make us feel #but hot damn enough is enough

[sailermoon]

they are trying to kill him

#ruining it for the rest of us

[keelifallen]

Local grump caught smiling

#📸 #the rest of his day is ruined #kanan jarrus #ezra bridger #star wars #rebels #swr #caleb dume #fan art #artists on tumblr #illustration #keelidraws #it looks stiff but I wasn’t really using a reference so a win is a win 🤷‍♀️ #might delete later

[valyrfia]

I don’t know how many more “keep ao3 and shipping in fandom spaces” I’ve got left in me.

#i jest but I’m tired and angry guys this is a cardinal rule #the second it gets to the people involved it’s bound to get weird no it’s not something to laugh or joke about #and all it takes is a few people to ruin it for the thousands rest of us #so like….let’s not please #lestappen #Maxiel

[cosmichawk]

It's that time of year again so here are xmas harbingers edits by yours truly

bonus:

#unfortunately signora passed away last xmas bc of her recklessness with the fireworks :'((((( rest in peaces queen <3 #scara was blamed for it so he is not on this party either :( #pierro looks so upset bc he knows once this is over he will be the one to clean zapolyarny palace up #maybe arle and cap will help if they're sober enough #also bc someone used party popper near him and now there is confetti in his food #pantalone looks like someone who will wear tinsel around their neck like let's be real #cap loves string lights trust me bro i'm his armor #removing pulchinella's hat and editing sandrone's robot was... fun #i don't like the one w/ arle bc unlike others it's close-up of her face #it ruins aesthetic!! #however face that arle makes is so me #feel free to use #tho i have no idea where the fuck you would use robot santa #this is my magnum opus i won't be able to create anything better than this #genshin impact #fatui harbingers #fatui #pierro #capitano #dottore #columbina #arlecchino #pulchinella #sandrone #pantalone #tartaglia #ch - shitpost

[vampiressmoney]

Hips.

HIPS.

#James Hetfield #jameshetfield #this should be illegal #sos #I saw this clip on Instagram first #but there were too many words taking up the screen #I feel like he takes a pause like #how can I make vampiressmoney suffer #I know I'll throw in a brief grind #it's so quick but impactful #well done james #heaven help us #i am ruined for the rest of the day now

[daffi-990]

Yeah how about we don’t be this person.

#ship what you ship but for the love of god stop making everything about your ship!!! #this kind of behaviour is why people cringe and groan when a non canon ship is brought up #this is not me shitting on buddie #I’m a buddie shipper 100% #this is me shitting on people who do shit like this and ruin it for the rest of us #this was a post about Chris and his mum .. NOTHING TO DO WITH BUDDIE!!! #wtf some of y’all need to fucking chill and back off #sorry .. seeing this just really annoyed me #fandom #buddie #911 abc #I get the poster could be young and not know better #but ahhhh it irks me

[kurain-genealogy]

and why aint he ourple

original:

#dontlistento me #ideally the rest of his outfit would be changed to look better but. i dont feel like doing that #i just prefer purple bonnie over blue bonnie personally. also the fact that bonnie bowl bonnie is purple??? #fnaf #glamrock bonnie #fnaf security breach #fnaf sb #bonnie fnaf #security breach ruin #found this shitty transparent on the wiki but could make my own transparent that's cleaner if ppl want to like. actually use these fsr #if you saw me repost this 3 times no you didnt

[felixs-voice-makes-me-wanna]

this… 🥹🥲

#to the people who ruined Chan’s room for the rest of us.. fuck you #HEADLOCK #bang chan #Chan’s room #han #han jisung #stray kids

[b4kuch1n]

first batch of art fight!! all revenge babeyy

for @trucbiduleschouettes, @sallymiakki, and @paristandard respectively :]c

#art fight 2023 #bakuspecial #team werewolf I am awooga #as u can see if u attack me and I revenge high chance ur guy is getting funny new clothes to wear :]c #and. now that I'm using SAI2. doing lace has become easier #and thus I am so much more ready to ruin my whole life :]c #come help me do that if u feel so inclined! I am having fun+enjoying myself+frolicking #got three more revenges in my queue rn. hope to get that done in time for next weekend #but for now. I rest my eyes. last weekend was kinda fucked up&evil. will not repeat! thank u! #have a good night lads! spin a guy around like the michaelwave

[neurotypical-sonic]

sonic can alway tell about what time it is in the mystic ruins. he doesn't really do the whole time thing, he doesn't have a consistent sleeping schedule because his circadian rhythm is permanently fucked due to him constantly travelling all around globe. time zones mean nothing to him now. but he can always estimate when abouts in the day mystic ruins is in. he will get a text from tails, and depsite it being midday for sonic, he'll immediately go "hey. isnt it like. 3am there. what are you doing up." and tails will grumble about it's not THAT late, it's only 2am. sonic's internal mystic ruins clock does not take daylight savings into account

#but i do think the watch in his communicator is always set to mystic ruins #if it changed according to the timezones he was in itd be functionally useless. #sonic can estimate what time it is locally by the sun or by the starts #and he uses mystic ruins time to base the rest of the world off #hes pretty good at remembering how far ahead or behind mystic ruins is compared to other timezones. more or less #dates‚ however‚ are fucking lost on him. cannot for the life of him remember at what point on planet the day starts and ends #what do you mean this country is a whole day ahead that other one close by it??? thats fucking stupid. who made it like thar #that #sonic #sonicposting #egg.txt

[ikram1909]

De La Muerte speaking about Gavi at the conference today ☹️

#he ate this one thing #Gavi really is irreplaceable and its impossible to find someone like him #both as a player and as a teammate ☹️ #mi Pablito please come back #why is Spain nt putting salt on my wounds today what the hell? #first Fabian now this #I appreciate his words for the most part but none of us would have to miss him if he let him rest for ONE useless game #he ruined everything #pablo gavi #baby waby

[thenixkat]

Anyway, if you aren’t Black don’t use any variation of woke. I don’t care what conservatives are calling fuckers/using as the new sjw/political correctness/what have you.

If you know what fuckers mean use what they mean, and if you don’t why are you copying what people are saying?

Woke ain’t for you. If the discussion isn’t about Black people being aware of and/or educating other Black people about racism/antiblackness/structural inequality/all the other bullshit then it doesn’t need to be used in the discussion.

#nix meows #aave #woke #aave misuse #apparently that one post i made where i directly mentioned how i don't wanna see boogleech no more showed up in his tags #which is generally how tumblr's search function works; if a word in there it shows up #anyway i do wish a motherfucker would learn to take a hint that i do not wish to continue a conversation #cause all i'm getting is excuses about how he's just paraphrasing so its fine #that other people don't have an issue and not 'to shoot the messenger #my wigga i was forced to see the word 'wokeist' (yall know i can't spell) on a post from someone i know is white #who's posts show up everyfucking where in the corner of tumblr i generally operate in #why would i give a damn what the rest of the post was about when a wigga shouldn't be using words like that period #aint no fucking changing my mind #ya ruined my night and i don't wanna see ya #i aint ask nobody to block you or some shit like that #i personally don't wanna get microaggressed on my own damn dash cause my white mutuals (who mean well but dont all ways catch shit) #decided to reblog it untagged #like yeah its pretty easy to drop a bitch i only occasionally interacted with over the course of a few years over #it just on the innitial 'it's not an issue' dismissal #told me everything i needed to know #bogleech #may as well actually tag them cause I've been feeling a lot less charitible given how they handled shit and kept trying to shut me up #plus they're a vote blue no matter who fucker like genocide joe is harm reduction

[slicedblackolives]

personally I think if you’re upset that people are treating the menorah and the cross of david as hostile symbols, you should be angrier with Israel for planting giant menorahs at bombed schools and hospitals than undergrads ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#like the only Hindus I’ve met who get all prissy that the swastika has been ruined by Nazis are hindutva assholes the rest of us get it #even though that genocide had nothing to do with Hinduism at all #and this is being done by explicitly Jewish supremacist state

[maxwell-grant]

So yesterday was my birthday and I invited a friend over to watch some movies we’d been each putting off. He showed me They Live, which I’d somehow never seen, for the first time, and I repaid the favor by breaking his brain with Speed Racer and letting him see how everyone ever was 100% wrong about that movie at release and it is in fact the best thing ever, but in regards to They Live:

I expected a good time and had a really great one. I knew about it’s central alien allegory, and how it’s been co-opted by anti-semitic memes and right-wingers who think they’re being cute. I knew it inspired dialogue in Duke Nukem, I knew it was a John Carpenter film starring Roddy Piper with Keith David in it, and that was it. I was blissfully unaware of everything else, including the fact that it somehow winds up being a spiritual successor of “The Challenge of the Beyond”, the pulp writer round robin exercise nowadays most famous for it’s H.P Lovecraft - Robert E.Howard parts.

There’s a post on it that floats around regularly and I’ll link here for better explanation, but in short: Lovecraft’s section of this story had the protagonist George faint from terror constantly and go mad after turning into a giant alien centipede, which was followed by Robert E.Howard immediately retconning said madness in his opening line and having the character embrace his new life as a horrid centipede beast in a new planet and go on a conquering rampage of “titanic adventure” as George the Centipede Barbarian. I bring up George the Centipede Barbarian not because it’s funny, but because They Live intentionally pulled off a very similar kind of brutal tonal dissonance.

They Live is very comparable to The Thing in the sense that it is a 50s concept told through 80s filmmaking and distorted accordingly, to the extent that the black and white parts are not just colored differently, but shot differently from the rest of the film in a way that’s far more reminiscent of 50s horror films. Our protagonist is an 80s meathead cowboy who lives in a struggling urban landscape with mysteries and horrors he never quite understood but continue to plague him and those around him, and he has a moment of truth when he puts on magical sunglasses and finds out that he’s been living in a Twilight Zone episode the whole time, and so has everyone. The black and white allegorical terrors won and have been running everything all along, and that is the point the episode should end with our protagonist horrified and broken, “wouldn’t that be fucked up / doesn’t this remind you of something / these horrors are real” message conveyed, episode over.

Except our protagonist is an 80s meathead cowboy, so instead of surrendering to the horrors after finding out everything is a monstrous lie, he fights back with a shotgun and a bag of one-liners. Dude just immediately, like not even 10 minutes after he first puts on the glasses, starts blasting alien cops and bankers and spaceships. I really did not think that “bubblegum” one-liner happened that early in the movie. This dissonance would have been wonderful regardless but it helps that it’s done so intentionally.

I really didn’t expect that the movie was this 100% completely blatantly unsubtle about the true nature of the alien ghouls as bloodsucking capitalists. It’s not some veiled allegory that can be left to interpretation, the movie tells you repeteadly and explicitly what it is about. The film tells you that the aliens are weaponizing communist paranoia to gain control over cops, preceding a line “We'll do anything to be rich” and then a description of them as “They are free enterprisers. Earth is just another developing planet, their third world” is actual dialogue from the film and that’s just before we learn the aliens all wear expensive watches, that most of the cops going around brutally gunning down the resistance are humans who sold out, and get scenes of the aliens and humans standing around in suits congratulating each other on profit margins. I don’t meant this as an insult but it’s frankly cartoonish in how unsubtle it is, it’s insulting that John Carpenter even had to set the record straight with Yes This Was About Capitalism and Reagan and Yuppie Bloodsuckers You Stupid Fucks like the movie isn’t hammering the point constantly.

If you haven’t watched it, did anyone ever tell you that the inciting incident of the movie is the protagonist being radicalized by police brutality? Yeah, funny, nobody ever talks about what happens in the movie before George puts on the sunglasses. The first 20 or so minutes are about the protagonist, George Nada, arriving in the city and struggling to find a job or place to stay and being offered one by Keith David’s character Frank, who takes him to a homeless community. They have a handful of dialogues together where Frank repeteadly expresses a cynical viewpoint towards life under You-Know-What, over opportunities turning into traps and steel mills giving themselves raises by screwing workers over, and George brushes him off stating he still believes in America, he still believes in getting a fair shot.

George is quickly and immediately reduced to horrified bystander as the police storms his community and destroys their church and goes around beating up them up and evicting tents by bulldozer, while George runs around trying to help and save at least one of them. The next time we see him, he puts on the sunglasses and learns the awful truth and starts his rampage (framed in no uncertain terms as an act of revolution) by doing, what else, shooting cops. Or, well, aliens who approach him as cops and tell him that, now that he sees them, they can work out a deal to profit together if he just goes quietly. The movie makes it as obvious as it could possibly make it.

So yeah, watch They Live, it’s Duke Nukem vs The Twilight Zone’s Episode on Capitalism (with Extended “Guys Being Dudes” Action, I’m glad I didn’t know about that alleyway fight scene beforehand). Also watch Speed Racer, it’s glorious, and it has the exact same villains. Had a really great time yesterday with both.

#they live #film #John Carpenter #roddy piper #keith david #everyone who told me this movie was ambiguous was full of shit #I do wish it was a little more clearly against Othering since that might have prevented it's unfortunate legacy #but you can't blame Carpenter for underestimating how deeply stupid anti-semitists are #it's mostly sad but still funny that american right wingers keep using this movie for their memes #my dudes this movie couldn't possibly be more about you #yes it draws a line between aliens and sellout humans and yes it's more specifically about #unrestrained Reagan capitalism #but come on #the aliens are red white and blue ghouls who treat the world the way America treats the rest of the world #the movie is pointing at you and saying you ruined everything and you deserve to be shot #Avatar wishes it could be this potent as a criticism

[fishandshesmygills]

NEW ADRIANNE LENKER SONG IS SOOO GOOD

#i loveee this one and ruined so ive got high hopes for the rest of the album #and solo version of vampire empire!!! #and US tour dates!!!! today is a win