#shockingly i don't hate it

[cringefaecompilation]

not to sound too much like people that say "all the steven universe characters hate people who read killing/stalking" or "sonic the hedgehog supports decriminalizing sex work" or "twilight sparkle would be ashamed of you for being racist" but it is certainly something that orym's character revolves so much around the women in his life and how they affected him and how much he loves them and how deeply he respects his female friends, but half of his fans are so hostile and misogynist towards imogen, laudna and/or fearne to the point where his detractors are convinced he's a chauvinist bully and think he actively hates all of them.

#🍃 #orym of the air ashari #i say this as someone who has seen both 'sides' of the orym vs imogen kerfuffle and it's giving bowlgate #it's either 'imogen is perfect and orym is abusive and controlling' or 'orym is perfect and imogen is abusive and controlling' #or people who want to murder both of them which is shockingly common. mostly laudmoore shippers who hate both imodna and ashrym #anyways characters can have flaws. they are a feature not a bug and pointing them out is not bashing them nor coddling them #hate seeing posts where people allow him moral grayness and all the comments are basically: #'YES HE'S EVIL AND HE SHOULD DIE PEOPLE ONLY LIKE HIM BECAUSE THEY WANNA BANG LIAM' #okay those are my last words on this don't ask me about it again #'i don't care about character discourse it's too stupid for me to take seriously' i say as i do this #but like. it is stupid. it is painfully stupid. #remember when fcg had a mental breakdown and everyone started seeing them as nothing more than a time bomb until FRIDA came along? yeah

[deadmomjokes]

Child wakes up whimpering and going “NO!”

We rush in, ask what’s wrong, try to comfort her and calm her down. She bowls past us for the door.

“I know where all the flies are coming from! I have to get out of this room!”

Took us a good half hour of searching her room while she watched covering her ears and sniffling to get her back in the room at all.

Apparently the nightmares are still happening. :’( From what we could piece together through the sleep-grogginess and crying, this one involved hordes of big hairy flies gushing out of her pillow and mattress and flying into her ears to buzz in her brain.

Methinks it’s time to take her therapist up on the Emotional Support Animal thing....

#adventures of bean #this poor kid man #this is what happens when an anxiety disorder latches onto sleep as a trigger #she gets worried about sleeping because she's scared of hte nightmares #and then she has nightmares because she's all worked up #and then she has more fuel for the worry #i just hate it so much for her #she can't cosleep with me and her dad because we both have sleep disorders that require cpaps and it isn't safe #but she does best when someone else is in bed with her #like she's had nap sleepovers with friends when dad and i were down with pneumonia #and it went shockingly well #so she needs a roommate/bed buddy that's a living thing #the stuffies don't cut it #so on to the dog thing i guess #it's all we can think of #she's too small for meds #my heart just hurts for her so much....

[wernerherzogs]

bear in mind i've never seen yellowstone when i say this but, seeing your tag post about the reason for jamie's family dynamics and how its bad writing is extremely funny to me because that is exactly what happened to my best friend dean winchester 😂

*takes a long drag of a cigarette* dean winchester..... now that's a name i haven't heard in a while

#scream no anon you're actually onto something #there are - surprisingly or not - many similarities between the shows #mostly shitty fathers/complicated family dynamics/toxic masculinity #with jamie in particular i get so frustrated because the main reason why (slight spoilers but i don't think anyone watches this ajdjjd) his #sister hates him so much and why his father is extra critical of him gets revealed in the middle of season THREE #until then nothing he does warrants that level of hatred tbh #and when those reasons get revealed girl (gn) the writing was just SO LAZY when it comes to that!!!!! SO LAZY #and don't get me wrong jamie's not a crystal clear fellow and some of beth's (his sister) commentary on him is On Point #but when i discovered the origins of her/jamie's father's contempt towards him i was furious 😭 #GUESS I'M GONNA SUPPORT JAMIE'S WRONGS FOREVER THEN ! #truly few things piss me off more in shows/films than lazy writing/shock factor writing. fuck off #ANYWAY. just remember another shared characteristic between spn and yellowstone: characters brush off killing people SO easily lmao #well. most of them anyway #also the quote: 'there are monsters everywhere in this world. so we just have to make sure we kill them when we find them' is shockingly #NOT from spn lmao. #anonymous #a response #yellowstone spoilers #IF ANYONE CARES #yellowstone lb #ish #also am not fixing the typos i'm sorry. i see them but i ain't retyping all that #TL;DR BE MORE CREATIVE WHEN CREATING CONFLICT WRITERS OF THIS WORLD

[heteroflexiblecastiel]

could power several large metropolitan areas with the harnessed energies of the "queer is not a slur" crowd's persecution complex

#grown ass adults willing to DIE on the hill of like. the technical definition of the word Slur and whether that should be applied #to their chosen word that nobody is even trying to tell them not to use. besides like terfs and edgelords who bother everybody anyway #'queer is NOT a slur because a Slur is Technically [pedantic noises] and you will have to RIP my IDENTITY #out of my COLD. DEAD. HANDS.' bro relax nobody's taking it from you. nobody has made moves. #and then follows a million and one weird appeals to Queer Elders and the aids crisis and whatever else sounds old and authoritative enough #to further their Argument that they're shouting into the sky at virtually no one. #anyway i hate the word queer applied to myself and i don't need a reason and i don't care if it's Technically a slur #and this shockingly does NOT mean i hate people who identify as queer. for any reason

[thehardkandy]

I do think it's the winter getting to me but as soon as vacation ended I am digging myself further into a feeling of. Missing something important

#like i just need to go be creative and getting into the swings of passion #but I've been kinda drowning in SI more than is normal and while that's something i don't have an issue pushing through #it does make it especially difficult to create because i think about diving back into something #and it's just a big black hole where if i do it. so what. why does it matter and what is it for #and unfortunately giving into the black hole (shockingly) does not make the feeling any better #it just makes it bigger snd bigger and bigger #and everything feels so topsy turvy because more so than ever before my life looks like. more than i could have hoped for #working full time saving money eating well living independent #and it fucking sucks!!! i hate this shit!!!!! i dont wanna do this for 50 more years!!!!! #the things that bring me joy feel so secondary and insignificant cause everything i do #to give myself a good life that gives me space to ve creative and live and laugh...... doesnt do that #what do i do!!!! (rhetorical) #cause the answer is push through it. its to take my vitamin d and force myself to create #and soon enough ill be waxing poetic about how beautiful the life i have built for myself is #kinda silly how closely the feelings live together

[rahabs]

sometimes the reasons people hate you aren’t your immutable characteristics (sexuality, race/ethnicity, sex, etc), but rather the fact that you’re an asshole and generally unpleasant/taxing to be around (that is, your behaviour and the way you choose to act/present yourself to others, rather than the things beyond your control), and I think more people need to reflect on that.  like yes, sometimes it is due to your immutable characteristics, no one is denying that, but sometimes it’s genuinely you being unpleasant to be around outside of the traits you cannot control.

#Like... sometimes it's actually because of your own behaviour. #'They hate me because of [immutable characteristic]!' #No actually it's because you're an emotionally exhausting jerk whose personality just sucks. #I've known so many people like that because of where I live #Just so down the Victim Hole that they don't realise their BEHAVIOUR is the problem #The way they CHOOSE to act #Not traits they may have been born with. #I don’t know. I’ve just seen a lot of people whinging about it and it’s like. #You’re one of the most unpleasant human beings I’ve ever met? Like? #Shockingly THAT is why people don’t want to be around you. #text #misc

[gloriousmonsters]

5 minutes and i again see

someone: *makes a joke about how taylor swift should tell people to kill ron desantis for her because it would be super effective*

someone else: haha, no she wouldn't say it right out. Here's a string of emojis and let me explain what the references are, as Taylor Swift is wont to play little games with promoting stuff where she knows her fans have often been with her throughout her career and will get references to specific songs/albums/events, therefore allowing her to create decodable messages

someone else: WOW THIS IS JUST LIKE QANON

#can we stop. fucking please #are you gonna start reblogging people excitedly pointing out references and layered meaning in things like. superhero movies and novels #with 'omg you're reading into something and deciphering a message the creator fully intended you to find? for fun? just like qanon....' #or is it just that you see taylor swift fans as fair game because Haha White Women #i don't actually care if it's juuuuust a joooooke! it's nasty and pointless and makes light of a fucking terrifying conspiracy theory #because you find a pop star and/or her fans annoying #it's fine to be like. wow fans who have weird theories they go really hard on (like the 'she's secretly queer!!' people) #are on some next level shit. like the 'haha what the fuck' that TJLC or whatever was going on with 1D did #but almost everything has weird/annoying/boundary-crossing fans #and i shockingly don't think it's OK to compare all of them to a virulently hateful conspiracy movement #that actively tried/tries to stir up violence #vic talks #this has been Joke Police (Because Yeah Good Taste And Not Being A Dick Applies Even If You're Progressive) Hour with vic

[kingjasnah]

im going to kiss whoever decided to reprise the amok time music in spock amok on the mouth this means everything 2 me

#like this is everything. also shockingly I don't hate what theyre doing with t'pring #yes i am committing wage theft rn btw the wraparound tunic post got me #st: snw #strange new worlds #snw spoilers #amok time #spock amok

[wild-at-mind]

Just remembering when I was waiting for bf to get his tatt done and looking at the magazines, they had one of those extreme body mods magazines which was interesting. I have never understood why people get this kind of body mod, but I'm trying to work on being more open minded. And from this magazine I can see clearly that the ethos is 'my body is mine and I should be allowed to choose to do these things to it', which resonates. And as a trans person I would hope I wouldn't forget that transphobes call transition 'irrepairable damage' and self harm. (I can remember watching those early 2000s documentaries where surgery for transition was basically framed as an extreme body mod to be looked at for shock value.)

So I'm looking at this magazine, all open minded like, and then suddenly one of the models (who was being interviewed for something else, like he had his dick split in two or something) just casually is like oh yeah I have tonnes of different types of swastika tattooed on my arm. And sure enough, then there's a pic of like...20 swastikas done in different ways all on one area of his arm.

:[

#....i don't even know what i'm trying to say really #i think maybe just that scenes where being extreme is celebrated tend to go in bad ways very quickly #to be clear this was like a back issue. I think it was from the mid-late 2000s. Things were 'edgier' then. #i can imagine perhaps in the circles this guy was in the swastikas were probably celebrated as being oh so daring and taboo! #i hope that extreme body mod circles (which cannot be that large let's face it) are not like this any more but who knows #i just think it is much harder to know what lines to cross and which not to cross if you are celebrating line crossing #see also: when it turned out marilyn manson actually was abusing women #like 'i'm so shocking and edgy!!!' 'I'm shockingly and edgily abusing people!' they go together so well #i'm being facetious in my wording but i find this really hard to articulate.....i found the marilyn manson revelations very upsetting #to be clear i always hated him as an artist but like everyone i assumed it ws just a costume he put on #even more noodling: i was thinking about extreme kink (edgeplay i guess they call it?) and tbh i don't understand that either #but while i don't want to judge or kinkshame i do wonder if places where extremes are celebrated can ever be SSS #the risks skyrocket of harming your partner in ways they later hugely regret #also are they even following SSS? I saw someone who had been accused of causing harm to their partners during edgeplay being like #'i will take steps to learn how to do kink' um.....you didn't already know???????????? #surely if you're engaging in the most extreme stuff you should know THE MOST and not apparently the least????? #uggggggggghhhhh anyway fuck 'edginess' and fuck extreme and fuck sexscalation

[lunarharp]

a random draft where i was ramblingg about witch hat & art to myself for myself :)

rare time i feel like actually going off about the thing i’m having fun with right now in more detail ... but not on twt where strangers might try to discuss back at me lol sorry but that is scary. (not that you even have the room to soliloquy on there)

i love how there's characters for varying types of artists to relate to. people like agott who have been adept at drawing from a young age but feel overwhelmed by feelings of not meeting their expectations. and are driven mostly by feelings of wanting to prove their worth..

people like oru who have always been around the art but now are burnt out from commissions and wondering just what they're drawing for... and ones i relate to the most personally like coco and qifrey, who started drawing at an older age to the skilled people around them. like coco i'm so happy that i'm in the world of drawing(/magic) now and excited every day but also weighed down by fears that i'll never get to what i where i need to be after starting at this late stage and also whether i'm really cut out for this....

and like qifrey i only started drawing after a narrow escape from trauma... i started drawing to make sense of what my life is now, just as he was invited by beldaruit to become a witch because it was the only safe path he could take. (although i've not been through anything quite like what he's been through... ouagh)

and there’s tetia who just wants to draw to make other people feel happy about what she’s made, to have fun, and spread hope and happiness and gratitude. who feels so happy whenever someone thanks her for what she’s created - i understand now how it feels to want to thank them for thanking her and how making art, when you get a meaningful response, can be a truly warm communal type experience. but you do need that response - her overwhelming happiness when the dragon thing was happy and she said it was the first time she’d ever felt fully appreciated for her magic and it made her soooo happy. she had been drawing until then, but it was the last puzzle in place to make her realise the breadth of what magic can be for her.

and riche who is determined to not lose the “her”-ness from her art, doesn’t want to learn new techniques and become more regular and orthodox in style if it means she feels she’s losing something... i get that!!! precious autistic-coded child... the ways we feel about our art differ depending on our own mental landscapes. hahhhh... shirahama said she began this series because she was having a conversation with artist friends about how it feels like drawing just really is magic. i mean..... it is.

i think writing feels like magic too, and i’m glad i can do both now. any creation is total magic. i’ve drawn scenes that were in my head and that’s let other people see them and if i can trust their comments about it, has moved them in some way or at least let them imagine a scene or a situation that they wouldn’t have imagined otherwise. but it’s different from just telling someone about it. when you draw something, or write something it really exists now - outside of you. THAT’S SO WEIRD.

i liked drawing a lot of takarazuka things (before i realised i got kind of burnt out drawing all this transcore stuff that people were not exactly responding to because it’s so niche and weird lmao) but drawing fanart for something that also ONLY exists in art is so special. it’s not acted by real people. like.. they’re just little people that someone drew and now i draw them too. total magic. and she gets up and draws them every day the same as me...

i love that a manga isn’t just art, it’s storytelling too. doing both writing and drawing at the same time - it feels like such a perfect and fascinating combination of skills and facets of creation. i’m better at writing than drawing, so i don’t feel like i can express my original stories well enough in comic form just yet. but i might just get there.

the world is so confusing and overwhelming and terrible every day. only creation is something i can understand. sometimes i can’t understand it - when i feel REALLY bad, it’s definitely like, what’s the point. and i wish i had more things to experience at present than just creation - i want to be outside and just feel and be as well as create. and at some point i’ll definitely stop posting my creations online. but creating has become something that i don’t need to understand the reason for it - so at those times when i wonder what the real point to any of this is.... lately, i usually still create anyway. just as you’d still breathe and sleep even though you’re hurt and confused by the horrors of the world. it’s becoming how i express myself. i find myself drawing pretty much every day because it’s part of how i make sense of shit now and i naturally want to do it. not doing it is painful.

i hope this magic continues. i hope it becomes far more wonderful than i can even imagine from here.

and i won't lose.

#things really are different if you start drawing in your mid/late 20s or onwards. #you haven't developed your idea of yourself as an 'artist' at the time your brain was developing your identity. #but reading something that is basically saying- it's not too late and you have your own magic that only youan do... is so heartening. #also the manga is very gay. it's not THAT shockingly original and fascinating a story- but like... #i just don't know many ongoing fun series with interesting lovable characters where there are also major representations #for disability race queerness etc. #esp if tetia is trans. shirahama-sensei you can tell me... #MOSTLY IM LOSING MY MIND AT WHERE THE SERIES IS GOING LIKE I AM SCARED. my theories are dark and i fear for qifrey SOMEONE HELP HIMMM.. #ONCE AGAIN LET SOMEONE HLEP YOU YOU QUESTIONABLE AND TRAGIC GAY LITTLE SKIRT MAN #i hate that i had to just let my fic be so short. I CANT WRITE ANY MORE RIGHT NOW...i would have to make up so much plot stuff #bc orufrey CANNT happen they cant freaking KISS until so much is sorted out between them which requires the plot moving forward and.. #AUGHHH !!!! sensei please just tell me what happens please please please please please please please please please #the next chapter looks hella plot-ful but STILL..it's going to take YEARS..i just want to know if qifrey IS GOING TO SURVIVE THIS SHIT !!!! #if the brimhats [redacted] then he'll [redacted] and THEN WHAT IF [redacted] has to [redacted] I FEEL LIKE SENSEI'LL DO THAT !!! SCARED #SURELLLY she'll have [redacted] have to [redacted] but i dont think shed go as far as [redacted] ?????? #i plan to go to japan next year if possible anyway but what if it's too early for an anime-fuelled merch section in animate. please #this is like the first new and non-zuka thing i've been hyperfixated on for years. i need official qifrey and oru items. I need the items #once again i feel weird putting my personal feelings and theories on the internet to an audience of nobody but once again we will die. #am i going to be on my deathbed thinking 'oh i shouldn't have happily gone off about witch hat on tumblr that time how embarrassing' no. #do you know how worthwhile it is to enjoy something. and to basically avoid other fanworks for the most part so you're just surrounded #by your own pure and enjoyable feelings. #i actually went to a local queer art place yesterday and like. man i was very different to them but #there are people somewhat like me out there huh. somewhere. i'm going to make zines and art and express my world. even if just a bit. #literally why would you priv reblog something like this i think there is something wrong with you? i feel better about myself now #i will find the ones like me not the ones like you <3

[sysig]

I don’t know what it is but there’s something extremely funny to me about this enemy design

#Earthbound #WPEB #As soon as I first encountered one I just fell into a light fit of giggles about it #Is it the goofy mouth? The curly legs? The tiny yet fat body? I don't know but it's excellent #Also shockingly heavy hitters! I was lucky enough to only encounter one apiece for my first couple battles #But a couple fights later one teamed up with a mouse and took me the heck out #I do like this area tho the tiny enemies are really funny to me and the music is cute and funky haha #Not to mention Much better EXP farming than the Sharks ugh #I hate enemies that call for backup #Did make Frank a lot easier to take out than expected tho lol only one TPK #Well I mean it's still only me but I can be a Total Party! #That sounds like it would be dialogue from this game tbh lol #WPVG

[vimbry]

why's there a terf in my notes calling a 16 year old girl another character's mom

#shockingly it's f.uuka so you know what the implication is there lmao #I thought you hated women being reduced to reproductive capability and rigid gender roles #I feel so disgusted in general when someone transphobic uses my blog in general who do you think you are #you don't want me to have basic respect or rights what makes you think you can enjoy anything I share

[fabulouslygaybean]

well! my school banned the use of any browser except microsoft edge and installed a new surveillance program onto every school laptop to make sure that we can't use them at all :))))

#also they can now view everything we search and download and every website we visit and every program we open or work on #they can see when we're working/not working and also it put new restrictions on websites we can/cannot view #im still digging to see if they can look thru our cameras tho. i question the legality of that but i wouldn't be surprised if they could. #by They i mean admins and teachers. literally any of them can watch what we're doing at any given time. including at home :))) #i wonder if i can somehow start a movement to get rid of it. i know both students and some teachers would prolly join in #i may talk it over with my english teacher to see if he can offer advice for how to contact the admins for that #just. i NEED other browsers for class. like legitimately a lot of the sites and stuff we need are blocked or dont work in edge #idk how my history class is gonna work now bc we need to use chrome to view a lot of our blocked videos bc the system blocks any - #- supposedly controversial topics. aka racism homophobia xenophobia antisemitism etc etc. which are major topics in my history class 😐 #also english class too #and science sometimes #just. i hate it. there's too much surveillance in my opinion. the system restrictions were already enough. we don't need teachers to have - #- the ability to watch everything we do on our laptops. #this is coming right after our governor considered making schools legally required to put live feed cameras in every single room inside - #- school buildings except for bathrooms. any teachers could tune in to watch any classroom at any time. thats a fucking awful idea #like. okay it might discourage a couple fights. but you'll also be giving creeps access to watch your kids at any given time #it would be shockingly easy for someone to steal a teacher's login to watch a kid and figure out their schedule #its a safety hazard. i could not see any way this could go well #also just.. think of the mental health implications ffs. it cant be good for kids psychological well-being to know that you're being -- #- monitored 8 hours a day 5 days a week 10 months a year for 13 years of your life. like that's gonna absolutely fuck ppl up #its different in a business setting of course. cameras are obviously fine there for security purposes. but schools??? #outdoor cameras are fine and cameras near the entrances or major hallways could be okay but inside every single room?? thats too much #also like.. so many kids will inevitably get in trouble for shit they didn't do bc cameras can only pick up so much #you KNOW ppl are gonna get in trouble bc of a bad camera angle making it seem like they were doing smth they weren't #also just. more ppl are gonna get in trouble for harmless shit. #joking w a friend? trouble. doodling instead of writing? trouble. going on coolmathgames in class? trouble. #OH. also i forgot to mention but parents could watch the cam feeds too. which is awful #itll be a fucking nightmare for closeted queer ppl or ppl with abusive family or ppl who wanna talk to a counselor without parents knowing #also. creepy parents will absolutely take advantage of it. it's just bad all around. #sorry this devolved into a huge rant about surveillance in schools. i just have a lot of opinions.

[fooltofancy]

a thing about me is that i Will forget nero tol scaeva exists until he is on my screen and every single time i'm gonna be annoyed that he's there

#'why isn't nero in your unreasonable collection of xiv blonde guys' I'M SHOCKINGLY PICKY ABOUT MY BLONDE GUYS OKAY #the real answer is i don't actually know but i want to hit him with a car and not in a fun hee hee kind of way #baby mode blogging #i dont even hate him i just find him annoying #highest of crimes a blonde guy can commit tbh

[clownhara]

Sorry for Shuu posting but I’m playing Holiday Star and I wanted to see him

#I do think I should fling him into a wall though. #Seeing as I self ship with two men who hate shuu #and kin two/three other men who hate shuu #Despite it all though? #I don't mind Shuu funnily enough #i remain shocking ambivalent all things considered #shockingly* #Also yes Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies is playing in the background. Fully immersive Shuu experience