#they're more for an... idk.. aesthetic

[minamill]

Slow progress on the ranch

#i think the living room's done? idk i might change some minor things later but i'm rly happy with how it turned out #trying to mesh their colorful victorian aesthetic with the earthy ranch vibes while making it more mature bc they're parents #and reusing their old furniture and decor is... a challenge lmao #onto the kitchen! #ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 interior #sims 4 interior

[front-facing-pokemon]

#kricketune #ahhh. the good ol' DEEELELELELELELE WOOOOOOOOP #the One pokémon cry that Everyone can remember. i can remember a few off the top of my head but this one is very iconic #aside from like. pikachu and eevee getting anime cries in the games for a small bit there for some reason. glad they're back to normal #shit i think that's all i know about this pokémon. i mean. they have a big mustache..! i dunno why but they do #i guess it's to be more. of the uh. violinist aesthetic?? do all violinists have big mustaches. i'd believe it #they also go from having pred eyes to having prey eyes which is interesting. idk bro this is definitely a pokémon

[sarahjacobs]

punk spot and goth sarah stuff 🫰

i also made playlists of the kind of music i think they'd listen to :') you can listen to spot's here. most tracks fall under the hardcore subgenre, but there's also a good amount of ska and pop. generally has a chaotic, garage, and/or dated kind of sound, really wanted the kind of stuff that scratches my brain in a specific, rough way

there's also sarah's playlist, which i'm less confident about because i'm wayyy more immersed in punk subculture and music. but. i tried! some gothic rock, mostly punkabilly and gothabilly. i feel like she'd be into music that has that campy slasher feel, so that's the overall mood i was gunning for

#newsies #92sies #uksies #sarah jacobs #spot conlon #drawings #confession idk anything about uksies this is purely based on vibes bcuz the concept of a pinoy nonbinary spot has charmed me #anyways more nerdy stuff ahead i am so sorry >>> #i heart thinking about what characters would be like if they were punk it is so fun #i view sarah as punk usually so it's interesting to compare & contrast her and spot #like sarah i personally cant see modifying her hair or her body much. she'd mostly stick to diying clothes and jewelry #so while she IS punk she's not the kind of punk that most people auto think of #but spot feels like someone who'd /really/ want to lean into all the trappings of punk. being intimidating AND cool #so they're spiky all over. hair piercings jacket are sharp #sarah's battle jacket is a comfortable corduroy material. it's colorful and has random scraps of fabric bcuz the goal is #to make the original jacket last as long as possible #whereas spot's has more inflammatory patches and is strictly black and white and has the sleeves cut off #and has non fabric stuff attached like the spikes and studs and also soda can tabs #because they also strike me as someone who collects random odds and ends. hence the bottle caps repurposed as pins #i also wanted to play around with adding chains and safety pins onto their jacket but alas #ultimately had to prioritize readability #same thing w sarah i wanted to give her layered necklaces and more maximalist elements to her outfit but it ended up muddying everything up #anyways. im insane but specificity is very important to me for punk stuff just because i think #'punk versions of xyz' tend to water down what punk actually is by prioritizing the aesthetics of rebellion without being specific #in What they are rebelling against. which is why these headcanons lack inflammatory political ideas and punk bands #or like they'll just have the circle A sign and it's like ok but do you know what anarchism is and what anarchist praxis looks like #also spot would not be an anarchist tbh they read as more of a commie #they are not doing nonhierarchical based organizing iykyk

[winepresswrath]

I do gotta say tho, even tho I’m mad at aziraphale because he’s being a terrible boyfriend like what you said about the “I forgive you like” because WHAT. But also I really like the way the show really demonstrates the underlying cruelty of heaven and it’s angels. Really shows the hypocrisy of a group of beings who are supposed to do good, especially aziraphale who really buys into the heaven propaganda, who hurts people, particularly the person who means the most to him. Because like you said he fully just takes advantage of that devotion Crowley has for him. Insane, this shwo makes me INSANE

I missed this anon and yeah! The angels were one of my favourite parts of the season, and I think the strongest element aside from Neil Gaiman deciding he's just a simple man who wants to put his otp in situations. They are deeply awful and I kind of love them. They are the exact kind of moralizing hypocrites who are callous and cruel precisely because they think being on team good means everything they do is justified and it's actually impossible for them to be in the wrong (they're angels! is it even possible for them to do the wrong thing?).

but!! To me, they also seem like they're basically kids? Obviously they're not literally children, but there is this very consistent reoccurring joke about how childish/sheltered/immature they are. Muriel is the most obvious example, but the archangels come off like bratty twelve year olds to her sweet little kid.

Gabriel is basically teenager in love flipping off his family as he runs away with his backstreet guy. Uriel is constantly picking at Michael, Michael is playing at being in charge like it's a game, and it's ridiculously easy for both Aziraphale and Crowely to trick them obvious half assed lies. They're not allowed to ask questions! The Metatron treats them like badly behaved kids out past their curfew. At any point an old man with a beard may pop up to scold them and send them home, and they're all scared of doing something wrong by his standards and getting in trouble with this guy who is pointedly not God but who lines up exactly with the pop-culture idea of god the father, and who offers Aziraphale, among other things, a respite from the hard work of figuring out what the right thing to do is for himself. It's fine! You don't have to question the belief system you were born into or make a painful break with everything you've ever known! Aziraphale has had six thousand years on earth to grow up, but the other angels have been sitting in a sterile white box playing "i'm not touching you" games with each other and filing paperwork.

And I think that's extra interesting because this season also really emphasizes:

Heaven has Institutional Problems

Aziraphale isn't the only angel who's unhappy in heaven. Gabriel and Muriel were both completely miserable. They just didn't understand that they were unhappy because they'd never experienced anything else.

Angels who aren't Aziraphale can change and grow! There's very explicitly Gabriel being changed by love and Muriel growing up a bit on earth, and from a more fan-theory angle there's also Jimbriel, who I think is probably basically Gabriel minus the war and six thousand years of playing referee for Michael and Uriel while unleashing an assortment of plague and calamities on earth because that's God's will! Buck up champ.

We also get Gabriel and Beezelebub talking about how their underlings basically live for Armageddon, "if you can call that living." This is so bleak. They've all been on a six thousand year time out just dreaming of the day they get to beat the shit out of each other until they feel better, but it won't work because eternity is just more of the box.

Anyway I think it's going in a distinctly eden adjacent direction. Aziraphale is going to tempt those angels with knowledge and the capacity for change. I have veered so far from your ask anon i'm sorry you're right heaven really went all out on sucking this season & while Crowley and Aziraphale are both fucking it up Crowley refrains from being spectacularly cruel to Aziraphale about it and Aziraphale should learn to return the favour. I forgive you!! I forGIVE you. I forgive YOU. "you can be an angel again" is actually a worse thing to say than "you're a demon. i don't even like you." when he finally picks crowley over heaven i'm going to lose my mind.

#good omens spoilers #good omens season two spoilers #idk it makes me sad that i didn't like the humans very much this season because i think ideally they're central to this whole how to be #a person question i also hope we get to see more of hell next season because i do think they're stuck in basically the same place #with a different aesthetic! and the stick being #thrown into a torture pit instead of thrown into hell #or like. mindwiped and locked in an office for all eternity #gabriel broke my heart which is embarrassing but when he goes from not even understanding what music is to experiencing #the simple pleasure of sharing a song with someone for the very first time and almost immediately hits repeat for eternity... baby. baby bo #i would also like more crowley! this was very much the season of aziraphale #which is fine but i missed him yelling questions at god and the bits where it seemed he really wanted aziraphale's opinion instead of just #wanting aziraphale to develop better opinions #next season had better be crowley wrestles with the universe i am telling you!!! #remember three months ago when i was like eh... another good omens season #i bet it'll be cute but i'm content with my book #i don't go here i said strapping on my clown shoes #seriously though i do think crowley is scared to admit to wanting to be good both because god rejected him and he doesn't want #to be a sucker for her (he is only interested in being a sucker for aziraphale) #and like. chase after something he's barred from and has already been told isn't for him. #and that's why it's so hard for him to admit even to himself that he too would be unhappy ditching earth #in ways that parallel aziraphale's unwillingness to let go of heaven as a source of moral authority and goodness #but the way aziraphale goes oh no! i cannot trust my own judgement and desires. They are suspect! #my judgement is that crowley is good and also funny and sexy. my desires are for his company and also his body #therefore the source of these desires is also maybe bad. i mean he's a demon. he's got to be bad #right??? but no. but i saw him do a good thing. but maybe i didn't? I should probably take a stance on this. #and he makes this crowley's problem until the apocalypse but then the second he gets the chance to cram crowley and his feelings for him #back in a heaven approved box he jumps at it in a way that requires just being WILDLY insensitive and dismissive of crowley's feelings #he's not just being a dick about their relationship he is being a dick about crowley as a person. and he should know better but is choosing #not to because he wants the easy out so badly. anyway i love him he was my favourite character all season no notes #good omens

[derelictheretic]

FAR CRY 5 — Seed Themed Text Dividers

#Far Cry 5 #WHAT DO U GUYS THINK OF THE THINGS I MADE. I LIKE EM #i've been on my writing blog and looking at other ppls text divider graphics and I wanted to make my own #I might make more bc these are the first ones I made but yeah oahsjsbddb #they're really cool I had a lot of fun making them idk 🥺🥺🥺 #scrounging at any ounce of serotonin I can get now days my friends ansjsnsns #misc: aesthetics #Far Cry Tag #text dividers

[lord-squiggletits]

Salty Ask List: 1, 5, 14, 22 ?

1.What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?

Dr/atc/het 100000%... I just don't understand what their chemistry is supposed to be together. It's partially ruined for me by Drift in MTMTE being an absolute mess of a character who got most of his planned plotlines cut or changed, and partially ruined by the fact Drift spends most of MTMTE straight up absent from the story, and then he and Ratchet meet up in Empire of Stone and come back during Dying of the Light and are just...together romantically now? I don't understand how they have any chemistry at all much less romantic lskdjflkds

I know a big one people talk about is "Ratchet saved Drift's life and then told him he believed in him" but... the way their meeting was written didn't come off as particularly romantic to me? Ratchet saved Drift the same way he's saved countless other addicts in the Dead End and then his parting words to Drift were to tell him to go to the Functionists so they could get him a job. Very "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" kind of advice that clearly didn't work since Drift stayed impoverished, his friend got killed by police brutality, he went into the underworld to be a hitman, etc etc. Like yeah in theory it's very romantic for an OTP's first meeting to be one of them saving the other's life and treating the impoverished person kindly for possibly the first time in their life. It's just that that moment in canon doesn't have romantic vibes to me at all, it's just a doctor-patient encounter in which Ratchet is nice to Drift like he's nice to everyone, except it's also kind of condescending/ignorant bc Ratchet basically tells Drift "oh just get a job and get clean and you'll be fine" as if it's that easy to stop being a homeless/jobless drug addict?? If an ER doctor did that shit to me I'd be more likely to see him as an asshole than to admire or like him at all sdklfjsd.

Then Drift was a Decepticon for millions of years, then he joined the Autobots on Earth and like... he and Ratchet sure existed on the same team together dlkfjldsjlkds there were zero interactions of worth b/t them in phase 1, their ship dynamic came entirely from JRO's writing and even then I feel like it's an informed romance more than an organic and believable one.

5. Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?

I actually used to like O/Pli/ta when I first came here, but as I stayed longer it became evident that the overwhelming majority of the fan content of it reeks of "we are very sorry for having a heterosexual ship, let us compensate for it by making the woman a Girlboss Xtreme and the man a weak simp so that you can be sure the woman isn't being Oppressed and Stereotyped by being in a heterosexual romantic relationship" which is one of my most detested types of fan content, so now I have the ship tag blocked sldkfjlsdkdskl. Literally it's just the same "the woman is a TOTALLY COMPETENT AND COOL ACTION HERO and her man is a TOTAL SIMP FOR HER" that's interchangeable with most het ships in other fandoms, where there's no actual personality or chemistry for them and instead it's just the same Fandom Approved Heterosexual Relationship Dynamic.

That and a significant amount of content I see for it is just like blatantly ripped off from Me/go/p dslkfjsdfsjl or like, taking the main MOP dynamic and just swapping OP and Elita's places so now Elita is the cool action hero who's rival to Megatron and OP just Exists as an emotional support husband I guess. Or like Elita is made into a daring action hero while Optimus is reduced to a meek little wallflower who's no one of any real importance and just follows in her wake. It reeks of insecurity and unoriginality, as if the fanbase is cripplingly aware that Elita was made to be the Token Girlfriend and instead of just making her a better character and making the romance she's a part of more equal and compelling for both characters, they have to violently overcompensate by having Elita steal OP's role and everything interesting about him. 😂Like I'm begging people to just be normal about hetero ships. You can ship a man and a woman together without having to diminish the man and girlbossify the woman to prove you're a Real Feminist.

14. Unpopular opinion about your fandom?

Continuity soup is boring and for the most parts creates purely fanon plots/ideas/characterizations that have tenuous relationships to actual canon. It's nice that people have the creativity to make their own AUs, but I also want to read about the actual continuity in question and not someone's mishmash of it.

Like UGH when I read a fic tagged IDW1 I want to see cop Orion not archivist or dockworker Orion. When I read a fic tagged IDW1 I want to read about the Senate led by Proteus and the reigns of Nova/Nominus/Sentinel/Zeta, not about the Council from TFP. When I read a fic tagged IDW1 MegOP I want Orion being a simp for Megatron after reading his stuff/meeting him one (1) time sdkflsdkf not yet another iteration of the tired "one day an archivist and a gladiator became great friends! then they broke up."

It's not hate for other continuities, I'm just tired of the fact that continuity soup is so prevalent that even when I'm specifically filtering for content of the one continuity I want to read about, the fics I find keep having random shit from other continuities interjected into it. I think each continuity has really interesting takes on lore that have potential to be wholly unique for each one, so it's really frustrating when the average fic I can find is just a random mishmash of continuity elements, or more often than not just an IDW knockoff taking place in a separate continuity. Like guys, I'm an IDW stan myself, but wouldn't it be cool if we got more fics that explored ideas that only happen in G1, or only happen in Animated, or Aligned, etc?

Doesn't help that when I AM looking specifically for IDW stuff, most of the content I look at (MOP) does continuity soup for the sake of replacing IDW OP with some sort of aligned/g1 lite OP which makes me salty as hell

22. Popular character you hate?

Drift for sure sdklfsdlk. I mean when I first read about him in the comics (the Drift miniseries) I was like, he's fine I guess he's an action hero whatever. But then literally the more of the comics I read the more his personality and story were just incredibly corny, stereotypical, or boring as hell no matter what writer was controlling him. And he got bounced around between writers a lot, and then even the "main author" people know Drift from (JRO) kept changing his plans for what Drift was supposed to be (and cutting plots related to him) so any hints towards a storyline went nowhere. And then Drift spent basically all of MTMTE gone elsewhere on some exile-adventure, and then during LL he just kind of. Is there, existing.

So like, honestly Drift is a victim of getting bounced back and forth and having his writing changed so often he doesn't reach his full potential, which isn't really "his fault" as a character. It just so happens that I also think the bits of his character that exist are either boring or overhyped or in one case (portrayal of his religion/religious worldbuilding in general) outright offensive. He's basically written like some hippie stereotype with vaguely Asian/Japanese flavoring (the extent of which is basically his name + fighting style) and then he barely like... does anything in the plot? I think he's supposed to be like, ~mysterious and shifty~ but then all of the plotlines that involved him being a secret traitor got cut, so Drift basically just became Weirdly Suspicious For No Reason and his genuine personality/motivations felt indistinguishable from what he was faking and what plots got cut from him. Absolute mess of a character that got almost no payoff for any of the things planned for him, and all that's left is some kooky hippie personality of "hee hoo I believe in auras and mystical vibes and magical colors, also I'm dating an atheist who's openly dismissive of most of my religious beliefs (that I do or don't actually believe in depending on what part of the story I'm in) and this somehow doesn't get in the way of our personal/romantic chemistry

But then the fanbase are basically making him some kind of Gary Stue, obsessed with making headcanons like "Deadlock wrote/edited Megatron's speeches for him too!" and "Drift defected from the Decepticons to try and make a point to Megatron!" and generally trying to make him the Decepticons' Specialest Boy Ever and it's just. Ugh I get that he was under-written in canon, but every bit of fanon I've encountered doesn't make him interesting either. They just kind of make Drift the center of the world where he's actually the coolest, most talented and interesting person ever where other characters owe their accomplishments partially to his influence and I'm just. I don't get it, I don't understand the appeal of fanon and I don't even understand the appeal of canon either. I think part of it is for representation reasons (e.g. Asian, lower class, former drug addict) and it's nice that people can pull something meaningful out of the mess that is canon. It's just for me, canon Drift is so mediocre I don't get why anyone would even WANT him as representation sdlkfjsdlkf. I guess fixing what the writers failed to explore the potential of is an understandable motivation though.

#squiggle answers #long post #as far as asian coded tf characters go cyc and WB have mountains more character and meaningful plot imo #plus their depictions of religiousness are way less offensive and actually play more importantly into their characters #like idk am i the only one who thinks most of JRO's worldbuilding re: religion is an absolute joke #it's a combination of multiple antagonists who are religious zealots (not offensive on its own though) #plus very shallowly explored religious beliefs that mainly come up for plot reasons #plus a lot of the religious beliefs that DO come up are like incredibly unimaginative and boring and stereotypical #plus the plot basically being a deconstruction of the entire religion like. sike all of the ppl you worshipped and myths you believed in #were lies. they're all assholes and also cyberutopia doesn't exist #it's just one of those things where in isolation/in theory none of these religion related things are offensive in and of themselves #but when they're all stacked together it comes off as a kind of Reddit Atheist view of religion #where the more religious a character is the more likely they are to be evil or literally insane/mentally ill #and what religion IS represented is portrayed as nothing more than like. paint colors and a few holidays #as if religion is nothing more than an aesthetic as opposed to a whole philosophy/way of life w a lot of htought behind it

[quicktimeeventfull]

genuinely i do not have anything against the anime adaptation of death note, i actually think it's quite good, but i wish there was more recognition that it is in fact an adaptation directed by a real human being (tetsuro araki/mochizuki saburo) who made creative decisions and explored themes which differed from those in the manga

#i feel like a lot of people have this idea that anime is just 'manga but it moves now' #but it's as much as an adaptation as the live action ones #like it adds in a lot of aesthetic christian iconography and removes some of the buddhist & shinto elements #light's death is completely different (& mikami never turns against him) #there is SO much added to L's death scene and the jarring suddenness of it is removed #light's characterization as a whole is much harsher & his behaviour is more erratic #i actually don't think these were bad decisions -- i think they worked well if you had read the manga first #(which you very possibly had bc it was ludicrously popular) #you got fun little twists and changes every week #but they are decisions #they were never an attempt to faithfully reproduce the original #i feel they're interesting in their own right idk fgjghf it does both the anime and the manga a disservice to treat them #like they're interchangeable

[bluelolblue]

yur version of DEMOLITION🇮🇹💥🇫🇷💥(sanvin) is so vampire empire coded btw :p

Ayy thanks so much :3

Yeah they're dark vampire empire vibe🍷

#santino d’antonio #marquis vincent de gramont #john wick #DEMOLITION🇮🇹💥🇲🇫💥 #santino d’antonio x vincent de gramont #they're THAT dark vibe i absolutely love #i also associate them with roses idk why #myb bc i actually like roses 😞 #this is their aesthetic #and i can make a lot more #yeepie pretty pics for characters :3

[hearts-hunger]

no thoughts head empty except for a high fantasy au where josh is a faerie/angel/ghost/deity/something who can catch stars and he teaches reader how to do it too

#idk i have the very barest of an idea..... it's like more of an aesthetic really #an old study in a castle tower whose walls are filled with multicolored glass bottles where stars are kept when they're caught #conjuring stars in the palm of his hand #some stardust getting caught in his curls #creating new constellations and shaping them just so #josh + stars + magic just seems like a no brainer <3 #maddie.txt

[usareiis]

#my favorite on first listen #i need to go back through the whole thing again but 95% of the time the album does exactly what it should #in terms of sounding like a txt album and doing the kind of experimental stuff a minisode should do #as a whole i like it and the aesthetic better than the last album #however i think the killa shouldn't have made it to the album idc #literally two days ago people were saying a zionist was involved in producing it and now it's all yayyy ~sex~ song #like it sounds generic and it doesn't go with the plot of the album and soobin has literally talked before about being oversexualized... #...making him uncomfortable and everyone just ignores stuff like that bc everyone acts like the second you don't make a idol sexy the... #...second they 'turn legal' that they're 'grown ass men' you're infantilizing #like. idk how to explain to you how annoying it is just to define being an adult by having sex like it's not universal 😭 #i don't even mean to say this in some kind of puritan censorship kind of way it's just annoying to view adulthood just as sex time? #especially in this situation this is his job 😭 he's at work 😭 #and everyone being like but this song sounds gay 🥺 well a zionist produced it i'm so glad you have moral standards #it isn't inherently infantilizing to not talk about sex or to not have sex either that's such an annoying marker of adulthood #and this little prince concept is so unique and interesting just to toss in a generic ass song #like stick to what makes txt unique and stop trying to make broad appeal music #they took me out with all of the bad collaborations last year like just stooooppp #especially when you hear members say they only get to make music that's their own personal taste sometimes like let them have more voice!!!! #anyway 😭 #music

[weaverofink]

closing time at the sy detective agency-- hot guy P.I. noir AU

#hot guy pi #drawfee #nando sy #Schmidt hot guy pi #schmando #drawfee fanart #schmando noir au #here it is!! #my very self indulgent au #fun fact the private eye symbol on the door was inspired by the drawtectives symbol!! #drawtectives #im gonna tag that too bc why not #anyway im a sucker for the noir aesthetic and for dramatic lighting so this was perfect #honestly I just wanted to draw Schmidt's outfit again bc I love the gloves and pearls #ignore nando's wack anatomy idk what happened there but I was too tired to fix it #also it turned out a little more suggestive than I had originally intended lol but whatever #it was supposed to be a kind of relaxed end-of-the-workday lean and loose tie but it for sure does not read that way lmaoo #weaverofink #anyway go watch drawfee and drawtectives and read hot guy pi #they're so good I promise

[britneyshakespeare]

i dont know where to scream about this but i honestly feel some sort of weird relief that r//nbow high is declining. i knoooow i know it's popular and they've been such high quality dolls and collectors have loved them and some(?) people like the web series (or do they? ive heard mixed things but ive never had any interest in watching it) but oh god. i just. sometimes it takes me awhile to appreciate modern doll lines and their aesthetics but i just could not get past their weird fish faces and in general i do not like monochrome styling themes. i realize their designers did so much with their concepts, i realize a lot of heart and effort went into them, and i completely understand why so many people were floored with the quality of the dolls and the rate at which they were being put out. even though the prices kept rising for them, you could at least see where your money was going, like they were always so well-constructed and doing new things. but like. at the end of the day. on a very basic level they were just never all that aesthetically pleasing to me and it was kind of maddening to see all that potential going towards a line of dolls that had just... like... facial proportions i could not get past lol.

#i wasn't super into the way theyd ape (or 'pay homage to') modern celebrity/designer fashions #but like i get it. that's a strong brand aesthetic. it's NOT something i really care for but yeah. #i guess if you were to compare it to like. lol omg dolls and the way they do so many celebrity homages #i think lol omg elevates it a bit more. im not a HUGE fan of lol omg but im like ok i DO get it. #even tho the faces are flatter and more dead-inside i actually think that makes it more forgivable and doll-like for me. #like. r//nbow high just hits some kind of undesirable middle for me between cartoony and stylized and realistically detailed. #also not everything's about 'quality' and fabric diversity and working zippers and pockets or whatever #i mean those things ARE nice but at the end of the day i just prefer imaginative designs. things should have a mix #not saying rh didnt have those things but. oh god. i just. i just did not like the dolls in themselves #the monochrome thing again i just cant do it. i heavily dislike monochrome doll designs and unnatural colored doll hair #not that it can never be done (the wild colorful hair) but for me it's gotta be done in a very specific way #it has to stand out rather than blend in i guess? idk im not a design expert i have no reason to be so snobby about this #tales from diana #dolls #rant #i actually think whatever they've been doing w their latest line. downgrading everything in 'quality' and making them seem like #they're appealing to a younger audience before and cheapening the production... i think it makes them look less weird to me #i still dont LIKE them but like theyre not off-putting to me. like to me they look no worse #this isn't to like mock anyone who ever really was into rh bc i know that was a lot of ppl. i get it #i just felt VERY alienated by how popular they were and how much lavish praise theyd get all the time #bc overall the end product just lacked smth for me. that i felt like other doll lines had. which was... cuteness #anyway dont take any of my mean opinions too much to heart. remember that i was a na na na surprise fan #i own four of those dolls. so take everything i say w a grain of salt #(i loved them when they were still fabric-bound ngl i thought that was such a cool brand choice... it saddens me theyre hard plastic now)

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[sunshinefurby]

hm. i've been quiet abt it bc i don't really like being negative on here but honestly the new furby design is. disappointing idk. absolutely nothing against people who like it ofc, and there are def some cute aspects. but it sucks to see that the design is so far removed from original furbies and just doesn't have the same charm idk. the connect was already straying pretty far but honestly i kinda like connects bc the shapes are cute but. idk the 2023 furbs just seem like they're trying to hard to be cutesy and it just feels sort of forced?? if it appeals to kids and young people get to enjoy it that's awesome and honestly that's kind of the point. but i do get why people are unhappy with it. like in regards certain aspects like the eyes the fixed beak & the way it's like. super difficult to take apart bc of the clips and stuff. i can totally see why a lot of customizers especially aren't happy with it. i'm sure lots of people have said the exact same stuff but yeah overall i feel like. relatively neutral to the whole thing idk it's nice to see furbies being produced and sold again and yeah it is cute but i get why people aren't loving it. that said ofc there are people who do love it and that's totally okay. regardless if you love it or hate it what's not okay is people within the community being rude to each other based on whether they like it or not cmon. it's not for everyone but if people do like it that's their business and there's no need to be rude!!! but on the other hand if people have complaints about it they should be allowed to voice that as long as they're not being mean yknow. letting it cause a rift in the community is silly. but anyways

#sorry for the super long post #but yeah these are just some thoughts abt it. idk personally i don't love it it's not for me #but i can acknowledge that other people and kids especially are enjoying it and that's good!!! #i hate being negative on here so i wasn't even gonna voice my opinion on it. but like #i personally do not really like booms n 2012s to be honest. the like digital eye thing and everything idk it's not for me #connects too they're just. not my fave. but honestly they're aesthetically very nice i think?? just not the bluetooth aspect and fart jokes #but idk it does feel like with each new model it gets further and further from the originals and ik ik that's what a redesign IS but #i do kinda wish they went back in the other direction a little idk. there's a reason why 1998s and 2005s are the most popular models #and i truly don't think it's bc they're considered retro or whatever i think it's bc they're a little out there and very unlike other toys #and the whole cutesy rainbow thing is. i totally get why some people love it!!! but you can't rlly deny that it's not really unique #but. idk. i do get both sides of the argument. personally i would have loved smth a little more adjacent to 1998s #that said. a lot of ppl do find 98s creepy and weird so from a sales perspective i get why they might not be. marketable #bc i guess a lot of kids might find them offputting #also correct me if i'm wrong but i think the 2023s have painted on eyes?? which. Don't Like. #didn't love the digital eyes either bc i keep the batteries out so they're just blank for me which is kinda boring #and i don't love the digitization of everything like 😭 idk. so i'm kinda glad they moved away from that #but if they're painted/printed idkkkk. i'm an eyechip girly i think they're great honestly #they're just nice to work with for customizing especially. also keep in mind w my opinions i primarily am a customizer so #i do kinda view it from that perspective #ANYWAY feel free to rb or comment or whatever and lmk ur thoughts. i genuinely do not want to get on here and be negative #or say anything that would upset anyone bc i imagine some anti 2023 furb ppl have probably been pretty nasty #honestly i haven't been online much at all so idk but i can imagine 😭 i ain't wanna come on here and be like BOOOO I HATE IT #i don't hate it tbh i just don't love it yk. but i'm not gonna shit on people who do love it

[blackwldcw]

Blackarachnia as The Divine

“I will storm the Gods and shake the Universe” ― Euripides, Medea

#{ seduce & destroy ;; aesthetic } #blackarachnia aesthetic #ok listen #LiSten #this thought that onyx has been grooming ba to be a consort and eventual heir has been stuck in my head rent free for the past week #like in the comics they are powerful tm #and they question and that's dangerous #so what if they were discouraged from tradition in order to pursue science and be distracted by a war #what if idk #recent events were distractions #what if ba is just starting to realise how powerful they are now that they're older and onyx is sweating lowkey #i just love flipping the quasi- dare i say- monotheistic trope in the early early iterations of transformers where primus is absolutely #good and unicron is absolutely bad #and the primes aside from megatronus the fallen can do little to no wrong #what if it's more complicated than that? #what if chaos is a necessary balance to creation like how krishna vishnu and shiva all work together to uphold balance #and what if the primes were once mortal and had mortal failings #what if they still did #in this essay i will

[kdelarenta]

first ever video edit - idk how to feel. anyways, had to edit best girl <33

norah's my mc for @lacunafiction 's fernweh saga

#this was an experiment so idk if i'll be making more of these #but it was so fun to make nonetheless #the intro is basically norah's drunk sappy ramblings #if she somehow gets ahold of a phone a random person on that contact list is getting a nice surprise 😭😭 #i tried finding the right pictures to make it all ✨ cohesive ✨ and ✨ aesthetic ✨ whilst still giving off the correct vibe #i particularly love that lipstick stain picture because i can totally imagine norah doing that to b #that's why everyone thinks they're dating at first 😭😭 #anywayyys #whoever put a phone with an editing app on it in my hand - you will regret it 🤡 #go play fernweh if you haven't it's amazing !! #btw tumblr RUINED the quality as per usual #i'm actually so upset #fs: norah #*myedits

[kingcriccket]

here's the thing like .yes an excessive amount of self-deprecation harms you and is offputting to others but also I think in some (niche small leftist spaces) we've swung the pendulum so far in that direction that there are places it's unacceptable to ever make any negative comment about the self, spaces where it's completely taboo, where we're just so fucking allergic to any hint of perceived negative self-talk that we jump in to correct people who's language is too 'negative'.

and like. I don't think it's that serious? sometimes you can make a negative joke about yourself and it's fine. sometimes you can say "if this widowmaker headshots me again i'm gonna fucking kill myself" and it's fine. sometimes you can take on a persona you're making fun of, or exaggerate your own negative qualities for The Bit. and it's fine.

& i don't think this is actually that big a deal, like, at all, except in that it's I think emblematic of this wider... thing in leftist spaces where there's this. like, this belief that if we can just avoid all the bad words and say all the good words, if we can make our language perfect, that we will then live in a just world, or love ourselves better, or each other. and it just isn't true.

#it's alive! #also I find it a bit annoying. idk #like again excessive constant self deprecation is offputting & ig probably bad for you #but the impulse to almost like. jump on and correct people into using more positive self-talk if they're like #'oh I'm dumb lol I forgot my keys' #like. what are we doing #always wanting to say the right thing & make sure other people are also saying the right thing #this like. verbal aesthetic of progressiveness that is becoming further & further divorced from the actual cause. #or maybe I'm just like. grouchy. idk.