#tangent in the tags

[alagaisia]

Thredup is a great site for if you care only about what brand your clothes are and not about any of their features

#all of the search and categorizing options are so terrible #I mean the options are fine. it would be nice if selecting them meant you were shown clothing that matched them #also. you say on the site that sizing is wildly inconsistent between brands (we know) #you also provide (some) measurements for most items #why are you using tag size to sort things. you could use the measurements #‘my size’ is a basically useless filter because you want to put in the full range of sizes that might fit you in some brands #(since there’s not one size that fits you in all or even most brands) #but then 98% of results when you actually click on something cute are not your measurements anyway #because that size in that particular brand doesn’t fit #also why do you use only chest measurements for dresses. where is the waist measurement. #those are different things and there’s not a consistent ratio between them you can’t skip one #same with skirts having waist but not hip #although usually I’m looking for (and not finding because again filters don’t work) for styles where the hip measurement is irrelevant #you sure can search and sort by brand though! #thank god nobody cares about the style and fit and characteristics of their clothing and only the name on the inside #mine #tangent in the tags #not really though it’s all very much on the same topic lol #I got bored with poshmark browsing last time so I decided to switch it up #you would think a site where everything runs through it would standardize their stuff better but no it’s somehow worse #than the site with a thousand random people doing different things #thredup #thrifting

[introspectivememories]

street interviewer: what's your type?

tim who's just trying to get to work: i have a boyfriend

street interviewer: so what's your type then?

tim: my boyfriend

street interviewer: and what does he look like?

tim who will absolutely gatekeep bernard from the general public: he looks like my boyfriend

street interviewer: so what would you rate me out of 10?

tim: um i can't do that

street interviewer: can't rate me at all?

tim: i can't rate you at all

street interviewer finally realizing that this is going absolutely nowhere: what would you rate your boyfriend out of 10?

tim smiling stupidly: he broke my scale cause he's so beautiful

#this is 100% the way he comes out to gotham btw #also you cannot tell me that gotham doesn't have a bunch of annoying people doing street interviews #cant even walk down the beach without sm1 being like 'for $20 can you tell me your worst secret?' #also that video definitely makes it back to his siblings who mock him endlessly on twt #one of them ends up tagging bear and tim shows up to patrol the next day covered in hickies #this is also sooo jonjay coded btw #jon would 100% do this just in the middle of an interview #some reporter is asking questions and jon keeps going off on tangents about jay #bernard dowd #tim drake #timber #timbern #dc

[stardustdiiving]

The concept of people being transphobic to Wanderer Genshin Impact is really funny to me because I think he generally considers himself a man but if ppl are being weird and prying about his gender he just says he’s a puppet and this always pisses them off bc they’re like “what the hell does that mean you’re either a man or a woman and that’s that” So then Wanderer without a word casually grabs his head and abruptly twists it 180 degrees with a very deliberately uncomfortable inhuman metallic cracking noise that prompts everyone to start screaming at the top of their lungs

#this is specifically a wanderer thing #scaramouche on the other hand backhands u across the face then starts killing u with hammers #scaramouche #wanderer #Genshin #fern.txt #fandomferns #trans scaramouche #gender impact #<— this is going to be my tag for my lgbt genshin hc tangents #I have multiverses of them

[skullfacedfruitcakee]

Starting Gideon the ninth: wow, what a great book about complex lesbian necromancers being cool and emo and gay, with a great cast of supporting characters, and an interesting and mysterious plot! Cant wait to see what happens next!

Post Nona the ninth: this book is about humanity. It is about the soul. It is about love and It is about power and every devastating and wonderful emotion the human brain is capable of. It is about the meaningless bags of flesh that hold what is really important. It is about Christianity, and applying real human nature to its laws. It is about the end of the world. It is about a guy named John kickstarting the craziest butterfly effect ever. It is about

AND ITS NOT EVEN OVER YET!

#tldr #lois’ tangents #I’m so sleep deprived save me #the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #gtn #harrowhark nonagesimus #just throwing every tag in here right now it’s in my nature #griddlehark #nona the ninth spoilers #ig #gideon nav #nona the ninth #john gauis #jod #joddy daddy #now why did that come up when I typed jod you naughty hens #ledbian #lol #GAY #permeability of the soul #I’m done

[dotoil]

What are they looking at

#lethal company #lethal company fanart #nutcracker #jester #That nutcracker that I hate #That jester that I hate #Im posting this separately because I think its silly #Stupid goddamn toys #Why are they like that #I have to put them in a jar and witness them fight to the death #I know jester has a design on the yellow circle thing but Im soo lazy #I love going on tangents in tags #So hows everyones day been

[meamiiikiii]

a mock zoom call for a very very self-indulgent modern office au lmao

two important facts about this AU that exist in my head:

The King is the equivalent of 55-year old Betty from Finance, mortal enemy to the 24-year old office worker from a different department, like that one post. Except it's everyone. He has collective beef with everyone.

Loop exists in this AU as they are. They got reverse isekai'ed(?) in since it'd be Funny :)

#in stars and time #isat #isat spoilers #to err on the side of caution #uhh actually don't think i'm gonna tag everyone asfsada #its basically everyone #this one is for all my office workers out there #also side tangent the only reason i decided to color this is because of the shawl on The Head Housemaiden #i shouldve taken the L on drawing it cuz i was already slightly altering outfits for modern fits but oh well LMAO #okay tag talk over asfadada #reverse entry au #isat modern office au

[aoxizu]

i have another 2.1 character dynamic post in the recesses of my brain but i need to get this out first

star rail's 2.1 update main plotline leans a lot more into existentialism and absurdism than i thought it would which is a really nice surprise

like i thought before 2.0 that at most it was just going to be some "oh no capitalism bad ipc bad cults also bad" thing but honestly what we got is so much more interesting. the spoilers start now

also massive disclaimer i am not a philosophist and actually i really don't like philosophy because it makes my brain hurt and i would much rather just look at logical nice things like math and plants so. if i get anything wrong please correct me

acheron's past and how she became an emanator of nihility reminds me somewhat of the absurdist theme of how people always look for meaning when there isn't any, until they finally realize that the universe is meaningless

and the entire path of nihility basically is a road towards that realization that people tread on, and the difference between the real world and star rail is that in the real world here we have people who will see that and then go write a book about a guy not crying at his mother's funeral, whereas in star rail it seems that just accepting that the universe is meaningless turns you into a pathstrider or even emanator of the nihility (not sure if i remember the details, correct me if i'm wrong)

and then aventurine's whole motivation is trying to understand why the universe is so cruel to him, and to find meaning when you have everything except freedom, both of which are absurdist themes

the leap of faith argument often attributed to søren kierkegaard claims that even though there is no rational logic for believing in god, you should do it anyway because the alternatives are madness, suicide, and ignorance. this was one solution to the problem of confronting the universe's meaninglessness: choosing to believe in a higher being regardless

later world wars i and ii both contributed heavily to the rise of absurdism as people returned from the war, having seen so many others die around them, and then just going back to a normal society with none of what they as individual soldiers had contributed seemingly doing anything. and then it happened again, but on a much greater scale with even more deaths. both wars and the destruction they brought led many people to start questioning why a supposedly moral god could allow this suffering, and this is where camus comes in and says that actually religion and nationalism both aren't good solutions, and instead we should just accept meaninglessness and keep living despite the absurdity

and i think dr ratio's scroll thing kind of relates to that

he tells aventurine to open it when he's about to die, or when he's completely out of answers for the question of how to confront absurdity

and dr ratio's answer for aventurine is to just tell him to keep living, good luck

which is. yeah

it's the argument that there are more answers to nihilism than just 1) going insane, 2) pretending like it doesn't exist, and 3) dying

it's the bold claim that despite everything, you can still choose to live

sure nothing makes sense but that does not detract from your life. it doesn't need to make sense at all

and with the understanding that things do not need to fit our human definition of meaning, we can continue on knowing our true place in the universe

and with that aventurine walks into the very big black hole like look at that thing you cannot tell me there is no symbolism there

let's go back to acheron.

in the part where you get a snippet of acheron's conversation with some guy just before this cutscene, the other party states that "[IX] leave[s] woven strands of fate for humans to walk, and together THEY weave a great shadow...And this shadow silently envelops them."

which to me sounds like a statement on how people across time and space have again and again come to the same question, what is the meaning of life?

and acheron's whole color thing seems to mean that she is one of the few who, after walking so far on the path of nihility, somehow have not died yet, be it from madness or something else

like it seems implied that many many more have seen the meaninglessness of the universe and have not reacted as well as acheron has

ok i have more to say about the elation and how it in turn relates to the nihility but that will have to come later but there is. a lot of interesting things there to explore

once again disclaimer: I Am Not A Philosophist And Do Not Know What The Correct Definitions Of These Words I'm Throwing Around Are. thank you for coming to my ted talk that was more of a longwinded ramble

#hsr #honkai star rail #2.1 spoilers #hsr aventurine #dr ratio #(briefly but i think i might have more to say about him later once my brain gets working) #acheron #hsr analysis #i should make a tag for that because this is probably not the last time i'm going on a wild tangent about star rail #but bad #bad hsr analysis #someone save me and take me back to the luofu i don't want to be doing english homework while playing a supposedly relaxing upbeat game #or whatever it was that shaoji promised in the 2.0 livestream #i just want to go back and see dan heng and jing yuan and qingque and bailu and you get the point #get me out of this dreamscape.

[eurekq]

whats the point of being a teenage exocolonist without PROM!

bonus: all these fucking shoes i drew. look at them

#i was a teenage exocolonist #iwatex #iwatec #my art #dys (iwatex) #tangent (iwatex) #cal (iwatex) #tammy (iwatex) #nomi (iwatex) #vace (iwatex) #marz (iwatex) #sol (iwatex) #anemone (iwatex) #for my own tagging if i ever draw them again

[darth-sonny]

thought about developing the Bad End some more, and why not do that by creating some new characters?

meet The Twins!!! (they legit have no names)

[Inspired by @tmntaucompetition AUcember prompt: "Kid"]

Prime created them with some mysterious purpose in mind, but in the end, they were considered failures and sent them out to the frontlines to end up as cannon fodder. But, surprise, surprise, it turns out these kiddos are massive menaces. Compared to other Kraang, they have the least amount of bloodlust amongst them, but their scream (the same one that seals away ninpō) is incredibly powerful and is capable of even causing serious physical harm (Mikey and Donnie are their main targets). So, Prime allowed them to live, and they now serve their "Parent" as a tank and shield duo

Also, they dress and act like popstars. No one knows why. But if you start to hear music on the battlefield, that is your only clue to run

#i saw that prompt and blacked out #but honeslty I've been waiting for a chance to show these guys and here they are!!! #also. small tangent. but their main inspiration was velvet and veneer from trolls band together #those two just made something click in my brain #tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise oc #rise krang #krang oc #kirby tag #prime leo au #bad end #my art #sonny draws #pop and star

[catboy-scott-agenda]

it's genuinely really cool to see all the people who are getting into joel's content now that he's joined hermitcraft. as a long time joel enjoyer, i think it's great that people are discovering his stuff outside of the life series (which, as much as i enjoy, doesn't properly show off his personality) and falling in love with it the way i did all those years back.

#i had a two or so year period where i didn't really watch mcyt (before i got into the empires sphere) #joel was the only exception #part of me thinks that i wouldn't be in this fandom if not for him #hell his empires pov was the first one i watched #(which is a terrible introduction to the series but i think that's hilarious personally) #sorry for going on a tangent here in the tags but my point stands #hermitcraft #hermitcraft season 10 #joel smallishbeans #smallishbeans #hermitcraft joel #<- absolutely insane that this is a legitimate tag now

[kiirotoao]

I find it so interesting how Mike uses “dude” and “man” with Will whenever they’re fighting. One the one hand, it could just be Mike’s reflex emphasizers when he’s upset, but then when you look at the context of Mike and Will when they’re fighting so pointedly about each other and the underlying romantic pushes and pulls, it’s strange, because it seems like Mike is overcompensating for that romantic tension and trying to explicitly frame Will as his friend, and… it just makes me think.

#byler #also I am a firm believer that in the end Mike calls Will ‘dude’ and ‘man’ romantically to tie this all together #just because it’s cute sue me #Mike specifically being the ‘bro but romantically’ guy in their relationship is so amusing #kinda perfect crack fic setup #but still. cute #tag tangent lol anyway #mike wheeler is gay

[mochayoubi]

i was very surprised at how difficult it was to find (good) resources for learners that accurately describe how 部首 (in English we translate this to be the "radical") work in 漢字 (kanji). i pulled these from a very comprehensive guide of kanji from おじゃちゃん, a native speaker who is also a language teacher and if youre interested in learning more, you should check out her full overview here.

to a beginner this might not be as useful - but when you get deep enough into japanese i think it's worth it to understand how kanji is actually used by native speakers. understanding how the radical works can also help you guess at meanings and recognize common patterns that may make memorizing kanji easier

#mocha speaks #japanese langblr #learning japanese #japanese kanji #typically most english-speaker-centric guides describe the radical as 'building blocks' of kanji #which makes sense as a memorization tool #however if you ever went far enough in your studies you might need to unlearn all of that - the radical is actually a classification system #i'll stop there at the risk of going on a tangent in the tags #but yeah being aware of what it is at least could be helpful down the road #especially if you want to start using native resources. bc they use the radical much more differently than a learner might be used to

[moeblob]

So I haven't done much in terms of actual plot BUT I pulled a boy therefore I had to celebrate so I drew him and I know almost nothing about him BUT he gives off gremlin vibes at the end of his ultimate + a lot of official art.

If I'm wrong, oops my bad! I just got hyped over a guy unit.

#honkai star rail #yanqing #he looks like a gremlin in so many art refs and its fine i love him #i should have listened to his voice lines more but i got distracted #by listening to landau sisters voice lines and then samp lines about the older landau sibs #and come on this is like the vibes of a family where one of the siblings is not to be mentioned yet everyone mentions him #like wow we would disown our adopted brother if we could get rid of him but we cant so we will just whine about him #gep come home pls i need an army of blonde kids #tag tangent aside i actually really enjoy yanqings design ??? hes a cute little fella

[rye-kin]

Eddie hyde dewdle <\3

really wanna get him right realistically,,,

#ronnies junk #OMG let me go in a tangent in my tags cuz leik #I never really thought or HAD even an idea #of what he looks like if he were yk #REAL #not up until last year actually #SO #skinny British nose on him #dark circles and lids #sideburnsssss #and a specific detail: but skinny face #w some sagging particularly around the mouth? #like almost wrinkles but not quite

[dotoil]

*Spawns with a puzzling ask*

What could possibly happen if a nutcracker found either an AK-47 or an actual mini gun. Would both the monsters and players stare in utter horror with how much power the silly oversized christmas decoration has now?

HEYY FINALLY ANSERING THIS ASK AFTER ITS BEEN SITTING IN MY INBOX FOR 2 MONTHS LOLLLL

#lethal company #lethal company fanart #nutcracker #bracken #masked #jester #coil head #I spent too long on this #The second image is so scuffed cus I poured blood sweat and tears into the first one #And I was like ok speedrun time #This ask actually awakened something in me. #Ak47 drooling emoji #Sorry #the demons #I actually wanted to draw him wielding melee weapons too but #I would go insane #I want him to beat me up #Ok thats enough going on a tangent in tags #No one read these please

[sapphiretanto]

Probably one of the most little brother moments I’ve ever seen

Also some random screen shots:

#tmnt #tmnt 2012 #tmnt 2012 leo #tmnt 2012 mikey #tmnt 2012 raph #tmnt 2012 donnie #tmnt 2012 Splinter #Season 2 Episode 12 #Of Rats and Men #they are such little shits #they deserved that bap on the head #and I swear if you think this is abuse block me right tf now #they are sparring #Raph Donnie and Mikey are being little brothers #and Splinter reprimanded them #okay I will go off on a tangent in the tags if I am not careful #RIP Leo lmao