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thottybrucewayne · 2 years
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People say tumblr is dead and what they mean is that tumblr isnt profitable.
Tumblr fame gets you nothing.
You can't monetize it in any capacity, not even in an "internet attention economy" sense
So they fail to see the value in a social media experience where you don't have to commodify yourself.
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raplinesmoon · 8 months
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istg fighting with scammers is a full time job
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northlandcleric · 4 months
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I’m going to finally go on a long ass rant that’s been building up for a while now:
I really fucking love how yall go and say “angry about Astarion kisses for whatever reason,” like yall don’t know.
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And to add, these pics are literal datamined dialogue that has been floating around for a while.
And then idk if you’re being deliberately obtuse, but wtf kind of response is this? Yall are just feeding that delusions at this point.
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Because yes! We do think Larian is only going to give something to one companion and not the others because that’s all they’ve been doing since release!!
For god’s sake, the company love child and thirst trap of the game has not only gotten extra content(that was confirmed by writer) to fit in perfectly with the Dark Urge origin, but they keep adding more shit for him! He already has a grand total of 9 scenes where 6 of them can be romance. The SENIOR NARRATIVE DESIGNER said they prioritized Astarion over the others.
Meanwhile, we have, on release:
Gale, who is so damned buggy that everybody knows him as the desperate, horny, still caught up on his ex, magical item consumer: 6 scenes with 3 that can be romance.
Wyll, whose romance and story is so fucking short it might as well not exist: 5 scenes with 2 that can be romance.
Karlach, whose story is not even damn finished properly: 4 scenes with 3 that can be romance.
Minthara romance has been bugged since the beginning.
All of these other companions that do in fact exist keep getting neglected, but yall have the audacity to freak out when his kisses are bugged? Heaven forbid.
And aside from the companion neglect, Act 3 is still bugged out. Content was cut in full release to the point there are too many loose ends and quests that go nowhere. And no epilogue.
I’m just tired at this point. Love the game, love most of the characters and even more of the side characters. And I really wish this was talked about further than Tumblr, but any other platform will get you mass attacked.
Anyway, doubt that this will get far, but hope I can at least help start some conversations.
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seireitonin · 4 months
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Rant about Creepypasta Ages/ misinformation
(istg this is the first and last time I’ll mention this on tumblr)
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“Toby’s a minor🤡” Since when is 19 a minor? He’s not even 19 anymore he’s 29 almost 30. Begging you guys to think before you open your mouths. Same w Jeff that man is literally 29-40. Even in the Woods story where he was 13 it literally says “it’s unknown how old he is now” because he’s on the run and has been for years. No ones keeping track of the man’s birthdays bc he’s a criminal but it’s implied he’s a grown ass man bc literal years pass. The stories where they’re 17 and 13 are called origin stories. That means it explains how they got the way they are and why they behave the way they do. Not that they’re age locked at 13 and 17. Especially Toby bc kastoway said multiple times that he’s in his 20s and even drew him as such. There’s literally a whole age chart for Toby. This is all literally surface level information. You guys are showing me every day that you guys don’t actually read or research the characters you claim to love sm. Especially with BEN who’s literally evil computer code. Not Ben the 12 year old boy. The only minors are Sally who passed at 8 so she’s permanently 8. Ben the 12 year old boy who passed at 12 so he’s 12. Not BEN, the evil entity. Lulu who’s age locked at 15 and Lazari if you wanna count them. Everyone else is in their late 20s-early 30s. Or like Bloody Painter and Jane in their 40s/almost 40. Again begging yall to do research before you speak. The misinformation is crazy. (Again idc if you hc them as minors hcs don’t bother me at all!! The only reason I bring it up is bc ppl get mad at ppl for shipping certain characters together or call them awful things bc they think nsfw content of certain characters is sexualizing minors when it’s not. Bc they’re not minors. I just want the fandom to be as peaceful and unproblematic as possible. (Impossible ask, ik) and try to use my platform for good. But if you are gonna make Creepypasta nsfw art/content make sure you use the adult designs. Also if you are sexualizing minors/ proshipping you need to be in jail and shamed.Idc. It’s literally not hard to do research and be a normal human especially if you’re an adult like me.)
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i don't mean to stir up more controversy so feel free to not post this ask, but like. yeah. i don't get it. is harry potter a shitty franchise filled to the brim with subtle bigotry and glorification of various nasty outlooks on humanity? kinda, in my opinion, yeah. is it written by, and profited off of by someone actively using their platform to cause harm to human rights? yeah. would i ever want to engage with the content or fandom? no not really. but does this mean that anyone who even breathes in the direction of Harry Potter content is condoning all this bullshit, or kissing the author's shoes and ideologies, and giving them money to harm the people they want to harm? uh.......... no, not really. what the fuck
like............ yeah. like you said it's a huge franchise. literally a silly little Tumblr poll that will realistically get under 10,000 votes, let alone notes or discussions, is not at all going to compare to the reach she already has. and it feels weird to twist the blame that way— this author is using their writing and manipulation skill to earn lots of money and do awful things with it... and suddenly it's the individual fans' fault that she has that money and reach? and not just the fans, but even people that don't actively go out of their way to excommunicate fans of the media?
sorry to rant in your inbox i just. im pretty sick of all this "inaction against a major celebrity is the same as condoning their abuse of power and influence" stuff that people throw around instead of criticizing why our social power structure is based on popularity and engagement in the first place (which is bound to put the most cultish, manipulative, influential, and charismatic people in power). idk it just feels really skeevy to blame people who enjoy or passively tolerate something that's expertly designed specifically to be appealing by a master manipulator.
you don't have to post this (though i also don't mind if you do) i just wanted to like. bring some of my takes into your inbox cause these anons sounding like they're accusing you of queer blasphemy or some shit over literally just.... letting someone hate their anti-blorbo/love their blorbo that they think everyone else hates.... are just really putting me off. like do they get that this is the "oil companies tell poor people global warming is their fault" argument all over again?
This has been sitting in my askbox for a long time because I wasn’t sure how to address it or whether to even address it or just delete it, as it feels like a topic that’s bigger than I am and I can’t ever properly address all of it. But all I’ll say is, while I agree that not all discussion of Harry Potter or other shitty medias is promotion and we as individuals shouldn’t be held accountable for the actions of a transphobic billionaire, it is still important to approach the subject with nuance and make sure the ways in which we talk about it do not spread harm. I think that’s why so many polls decide to ban it and other medias from their polls, because most of them are designed to find the “best” of something and to insinuate that something from one of those medias can be the best could be harmful. That’s why I’m not gonna post any asks that defend the series as a whole or the franchise as a property, because it’s not right to even humor those who want to downplay transphobia and antisemitism (among others). Aaaanyways all this to say if people discourse about Harry Potter characters in the notes or askbox go for it just remember the real people impacted by the bigotries present in it when considering the way you want to make your discussions
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auraboo · 2 days
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About comment and interaction culture
Related to my last reblog, I table at cons and other pop culture events multiple times a year. While it's really heartwarming to encounter people who come by to tell me they love my art/writing and have been following me for years, it's also a baffling experience everytime. And it's specifically because online, I have usually no way to tell that my works are reaching an audience at all.
Most of the time I release art and writing to near complete radio silence. I'm used to it, I don't expect anything else because I know today's online culture has shifted to passive consumption and the way platforms function does not encourage interaction, but of course it often feels demoralising. I just tend to ignore it and keep going anyway because I still love the things I create and want to share them with the world.
It's just a really strange experience to have people come up to you irl and tell to your face that they're big fans and never miss a post, because I have no idea if anyone even sees what I post most of the time. And that's because without comments, likes, reblogs or other interaction there's literally no way to tell. Without cons I'd have no idea that I have fans or that someone out there likes my works enough to keep coming back to them. And I'm lucky, because I've decided to keep this as a hobby and not try to make a living out of it.
I don't know what the solution is - apps and platforms have made us timid to reach out to each other and trying to change that when the way they're designed encourages mindless, passive scrolling is very difficult, if not impossible for individual users. It's hard for me too - I find reblogging unnerving nowadays, like I'm somehow being a bother or annoying the creator, that I need to have something long and meaningful to say in order to leave a comment (and that's the devil speaking). In the days of old deviantART and LiveJournal I used to be a very active commenter on the daily, but nowadays just saying "loved it" once a week seems to take mental effort.
And the people who do reach out, who do reblog, comment, like or anything else, I see you. I think about those interactions all the time, and it's a huge motivator, knowing that something little old me made resonated with someone out there enough for them to reach out with something.
This is not a rant or a guilt trip btw, I'm just having some thinky-thoughts after last weekend's comics festival and seeing a bunch of other posts discussing this.
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Aggretsuko rant after finishing season 5
I may mention things about past seasons so BEWARE SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT
AGGRETSUKO SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT, BE CAREFUL
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Season 5 had me yelling, talking to myself and feeling like I need to start rewatching it right this instant after finishing it so that I can process everything properly. I really want to read comments and reviews about it but I’ll wait until I’m done writing this so that whatever I read doesn’t influence my rant. And don’t expect any order, rhyme or reason here, I can’t be bothered to make this look like a proper text.
THEY FUCKING GOT MARRIED? WHAT? WHAT? EXCUSE ME WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?????
It was incredibly cute and sweet how they just felt it was their time and eloped, no perfect wedding, no cute bride with her dress and no anything, just Haida and Retsuko. Four seasons raging because she wanted to be a cute bride with her wedding dress in a chapel and she ends up getting married at the registry in the middle of the night, who would have guessed! HOWEVER, it makes me sad that we didn’t see more about it. No rings, no family and friends’ reactions, not even a mention about it. This is supposed to be the final season, so the way A LOT of things were left makes me extremely confused.
We don’t know what Haida’s new job is. We don’t know who was behind the truck attack. We don’t know how come there’s a picture of them with Retsuko’s family now. We don’t know what the deal with Tadano, Gori and Washimi is. We don’t know how the stunt worked for OTM’s social media numbers. We don’t know what happened to that guy who offered Haida the construction work. There are so many things we don’t know! Idk, the ending felt a bit lackluster precisely because the second the elections ended the season was over and it feels there wasn’t proper closure for some points.
And why couldn’t we hear Shikabane singing??? ;__; It almost made me tear up how Retsuko offered her the microphone at the end, I was really hoping to hear them singing together.
I could relate a lot to Shikabane throughout the season. Those feelings of hopelessness, loneliness and having to constantly do something to keep your mind occupied so that you don’t succumb to those thoughts have been incredibly present in my life for the last months (going to therapy and relying on my supportive partner to try and get myself out of it), so I totally get where she was coming from and why she acts the way she does until the end. Plus her character design is SO CUTE. The platform shoes, the ribbons, the colour palette! Had me wishing I looked as cool and fashionable as her!
But Haida. OMG HAIDA. THIS GUY NEVER LEARNS. He was making bad decisions during season 4, but THIS. Retsuko is so patient with him, if my partner was ever in that situation and hid it from me that would probably be a deal breaker. Not because of him being jobless and homeless, but because I’d feel he doesn’t trust me and thinks I’m not reliable or that I won’t help him. He gets on my nerves so much, sometimes he’s the perfect ship for Retsuko and sometimes he just self-sabotages to the point of almost ruining his life. Annoyance aside though, I feel like their struggles as a couple are very realistic and I enjoy that. The struggles of all the characters in general are realistic.
AND SPEAKING OF SHIKABANE, HAIDA AND THE WHOLE NET CAFE THING. I was so shocked because literally two days ago I was watching a video by Nekojita vlog (Spanish-Japanese couple who has been doing Youtube for some years now) talking about this topic, women who live in manga kisas either because they cannot afford an apartment (with the money it would get you just to pay rent you have food, showers, washing machines, drinks, internet and a place to sleep if you find a good deal) or because their lifestyle is more suited to this (maybe they work most of the day/night and it is better to rent a booth for a few hours to crash there than be bothering with rent, bills, neighbours and all that stuff). I found the topic super interesting and it was quite a surprise to see it was one of the main points of the season.
The second part of the season threw me off a bit with the whole “suddenly Retsuko is running up for Parliament” thingy, I really dislike politics and it felt a bit like propaganda, it reminded me of this random Modern Family arc in which Claire is running for the council. Despite that, I think some real-life issues that need urgent addressing were mentioned and it would be good if that raised awareness about them in Japan, like how difficult and expensive it is to have your child in kindergarten (me hating politics doesn’t mean I don’t know about how messed up things are there). It also made me feel bad that Manaka and Hyodo kinda sold Retsuko to this creepy Ikari guy just so that they could get free publicity for OTM Girls. And Tadano buying the net cafe so that he can have it for himself??? He left so many people like Shikabane homeless with that move, he could just have remodeled his apartment. Overall this second part had some great moments but some bad stuff that leaves a bittersweet taste for me. And it annoys me that we don’t know who attacked Haida at the end so that Retsuko would quit!! I was so worried that he would die or end at the hospital and in the end nothing really comes out of this event (except for the eloping) and the next day he’s there playing with her (extremely cool btw) like he didn’t get hit by a truck the day before.
Selling Retsuko to Ikari for clout aside, I honestly felt jealous (in a good way) for Retsuko’s support network. I rewatched the whole thing during February so that I would be ready for season 5 and something that really caught my attention was how she gets more and more allies and how much teamwork there is.
Gori and Washimi the best friends ever!
Tadano who saves the day each time he appears, Retsy and him are cut out to be a couple but they sure are to be friends and allies!
Tsunoda and Fenneko being the unexpected wingman team?? They carried so much of seasons 4 and 5.
Anai doing a 180 and going from crazy newbie to someone who legit cares about his coworkers! He has evolved so much thanks to Kabae and his gf!
Director Ton OMG DIRECTOR TON, went from villain to that brutally honest but really supportive person who sometimes seems to know her better than anyone! And his daughters being part of the action of seasons 3 and 4?? And the whole family teamwork at the end of season 4 when they were trying to get the flash drive???? Loved that.
Manaka and the bodyguards making sure Retsuko was safe (Manaka in general with that bat full of nails is super cool). Though she’s still Manaka, 90% of the time I really like her but the other 10% I think she doesn’t care who she has to sacrifice for her idol career... Same goes for Hyodo.
It’s so wholesome to see how much she has evolved since the first season and how she relies on others and her trust is being rewarded.
I don’t really know what to think of her parents though. Her mother seems to have good intentions on the last seasons but in season 2 she’s just the most nosy and meddlesome mother ever. AND DON’T GET ME STARTED ON HAIDA’S FAMILY. I honestly feel bad for his mother, she looked so kind and she has to deal with crazy obsessive Juzo and Jiro. So manipulative, so money-centered, I don’t believe ONE BIT, what Jiro said about him not being behind the truck attack. And if he wasn’t him, it was their dad, how else would he know about what happened? I wanted Haida and Retsuko to tell them to shut their mouths and go to hell SO MUCH.
Random, but the Juliana’s references throughout the series gave me life XD The Bubbly Land ad made me crack up.
So no that the series is supposedly over, I think my fave season is season 3. To me it was perfect in every aspect: the plot, the character designs, the pacing, the ending, the soundtrack... Second place is shared by the Tadano arc in season 2 and the net cafe arc in season 5. Then we have the second part of season 4, all of season 1 and the second part of season 5. And finally the beginning of seasons 2 and 4. Not that Aggretsuko has any bad seasons or episodes, but I certainly cherish some more than others.
I said it before but I really think like I need to watch the season again to process everything that happened and gather my thoughts on it. Maybe I’ll do that tomorrow or in a few days, maybe not. If this is the end, I want to say that since I watched Retsuko for the first time I have related A LOT to the characters and their situations at different points of my life or regarding different aspects of it. The show has got me through so many shifts and has felt so cathartic when I was done with my job and wanted to death voice all my customers and coworkers. I’m so grateful that this show exists to drop a sea urchin in the desert from time to time and remind us that things aren’t as hopeless as they may seem.
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qqueenofhades · 2 years
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I don't know if you've seen it, but I just saw Trevor Noah's monologue about RvW, and I am so angry right now, and I'm not even from the US. He has a huge platform and influence, to the point where things he said on the show were quoted by protesters back in the BLM protests. Usually he says incredible things, but he just went on a rant on how the democrats in power "haven't done anything" to stop this and to protect the right for abortions and that basically we shouldn't donate to democratic nominees anymore before they show us proof of their success, and the crowd cheered so hard. And i'm just. So fucking angry. That's NOT how politics work and saying this the way he did is actively harming the cause. Sorry, I just had to rant, and it felt like you would understand my frustration.
Ugh. I haven't seen it, but that is, as you point out, deeply disappointing, since Noah is a respected political commentator with a large audience and a considerable platform to influence the debate. I would think that he's definitely one of the people who knows better, and is just mobilising the misdirected anger at the Democrats to get quick likes and kudos, which a lot of other irresponsible clout chasers are doing; someone like him should do better than that. Or he genuinely feels that this is the case, in which event then he needs to sit down and think about the whole situation a lot harder.
I am all for pressuring Democratic elected officials, especially those who currently do hold all three branches of Congress/the executive, to DO MORE in response to this. But withholding fundraising or punishing them for the decision itself, rather than trying to help them respond effectively to the aftermath, is beyond asinine. There is literally nothing that anyone in the American government, apart from the Supreme Court itself, can do to stop or overrule its decisions. The fact that the opinion even leaked ahead of time was utterly unprecedented and triggered a furious witch hunt among the court insiders. Otherwise we would have just been dropped with it like a bomb out of the clear blue sky and that would be it. We would have had no forewarning, even though people like me and a lot of other politically plugged-in people were warning that it was coming. This is the result of the bad-faith, extremist right-wing, nakedly partisan Court we were stuck with as a result of the Trump presidency. Anything else is straight up and disingenuous disinformation.
People like AOC are shouting at the Democrats to "restrain judicial review," as if this is the Democrats' fault for not preventing SCOTUS from carrying out the function appointed to it by the Constitution. The fact that SCOTUS did its job is not the issue; the fact is that SCOTUS was staffed with terrible personnel by a terrible president and a terrible Senate majority leader, that this was a direct result of their win in a terrible election in 2016, and if you can't or won't draw that distinction, you don't have any business commenting on American politics right now. If Hillary had become president and appointed 2 or 3 SCOTUS justices, this would never have happened, we would have a liberal majority on the court for the next generation, and all the damage of the Trump years would have been avoided. Alas, you kinder timeline. I want to live there so bad.
American democracy is not designed to guard against a personal, evil, deliberate, wide-ranging bad actor like Trump. As long as he occupied the office, he was entitled to exercise its prerogatives, however terribly and corruptly he did so. People like me warned throughout the 2016 campaign season that even aside from being the worst human being alive, he would be able to fill likely multiple SCOTUS seats with the help of an increasingly reactionary and fascist Republican party. Once again, that is exactly what happened. There is a direct line from A to B to C. It's not a mystery or some nebulous clusterfuck where Both Sides To Blame!!! We know exactly what happened in this specific instance, and how. It's really discouraging to see people whitewashing it so thoroughly in their psychotic quest to blame the Democrats for everything. If you don't remember what happened only six fucking years ago, there's no way you can ever muster a coherent response to the actual situation, rather than yelling slogans and blaming the wrong people and continuing to make everything worse.
Anyway. As I said, this is deeply disappointing, especially from someone with such a platform/influence. So the Republicans took away Roe, and we should... punish the Democrats for it, take away their ability to effectively respond, and make it more likely that the Republicans will win actual elected office as a result. Sure. Seems entirely smart and logical and progressive. Or, you know. Not.
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mantabay · 1 year
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ngl sometimes I wish I had a platform like Lily Orchard's so I could make a hyperfixation rant myself about the Monster High reboot--like how most of it is amazing and the detractors are mainly pissed the designs of young teenage characters look like young teenagers,
but how weird it is that the "all accepting school for monsters" now suddenly has monsters that are discriminated against by other monsters, like yeti and gorgons.
original canon monster high was a utopia that even crossed (stereotypical) barriers like ending the vampire-werewolf feud, and the only apprehension any monsters had were about humans. (Since humans started chasing them around after the black n' white monster movie boom.)
It's so weird now to hear Deuce Gorgon say he at first wasn't allowed on the casketball team, or have Abbey Bominable's mother cite legislation against yetis enrolling in monster high. "These monsters are dangerous so fuck them" is so literally the exact thing humans say that I'd be stunned if it wasn't an intentional parallel.
Knowing that's why they're doing it doesn't change how sad it is, though? Even if the characters in the show disavow it (because obviously they do) what was the point? Why put in more fantasy racism when there was already a vector for that?
We already know MHG3 is more inclusive than the original, G1 had some pretty damn racist moments--I'm a caribbean hispanic and even I definitely won't be the last to say Lagoona's change was an odd choice but one that's ultimately super cute so as an adult it's none of my business, new Lagoona isn't for me--so their decision to wade into these waters is no doubt with good intentions.
I'm just nail-biting over it because... it hurts? It's not fun? I know mature topics are what most cartoons do nowadays but Monster High was very much the escapist 'be yourself be unique be a monster' fantasy where even those mean ol' humans only showed up once in a movie and are never active participants of the series, just a faraway concept we know exists.
Returning to that escapist fantasy just to be bombarded with "witches bad" (btw I dunno why witches are called humans now, Casta Fierce was green) & "gorgons bad" & "yetis bad" & the "half-monsters are too human so we banished them and the humans killed them lol. it's so funny and cool that they're dead" is very... hn.
What kind if irony is it if I'm probably too immature for a children's series?
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miahearts · 21 days
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Anonymous asks are now off 🥰, most likely permanently.
To the anonymous person that left that hilarious but disrespectful inbox, I got something else to say to you, yes this will be a rant/vent, whatever you wanna call it.
Listen man, if you want to be miserable, that’s fine, but you are NOT going to start disrespecting my life like that, YOU DO NOT KNOW ME! WHY ARE YOU ACTING LIKE YOU DO WHEN YOU COULD NOT EVEN GET ANY INFORMATION ABOUT ME CORRECT? WHO EVEN ARE YOU? I’m happy with what I’m doing, and my fictional crushes are happy with me too, and if that pisses you off THEN BLOCK ME, I WILL HAPPILY SCREEN RECORD SHOWING YOU PEOPLE WHERE THE BLOCK BUTTON IS, IT’S FREE TO USE 💀
The dumb blonde comment, man what a way to stereotype, that’s embarrassing, that saying has been so run down too, and harmful, and to throw a tantrum because you don’t like me for some reason, that’s beyond embarrassing, I said for people who like drama and hate on others art in my intro to not interact with me, looks like someone doesn’t know how to read, who’s the dumb one now? Where the heck did you get I was blonde from? From my self inserts? I’m really guessing this came from my Miki x Zhongli post that I did yesterday, the fact that you decided to judge me off of one post to my understanding is beyond childish, Miki is blonde, yes, but what does she also have? Brown hair at the tips, that comes from me because I have brown hair. I have self inserts who HAVE PINK HAIR, because pink is my favorite color, do you not understand how self shipping works or making self inserts?
My self inserts are reflections off of me in some way shape or form, and I cherish them greatly, AND MY FICTIONAL CRUSHES, and they love me as well, like greatly, I hate to break it to you, but I’m 100% worthy of self shipping myself with any character I want, that’s MY life, not yours, you make it seem like I’m destroying their character or torturing them, THIS IS A SELF SHIPPING BLOG FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, YOU WILL SEE ME SHIPPING MYSELF WITH FICTIONAL MEN. I’ve been doing this since middle or elementary school before even knowing self shipping was a thing, I have a bunch of family and friends who love me, I did not work for years to love myself and surround myself with people who do just for some random online to come on here and tell me otherwise, you’re talking like you know me, bro couldn’t even get any sort of information they put about me correct. Even if you don’t like self shipping that’s fine, just don’t spread that hate and negativity, KEEP IT TO YOURSELF! Wait till you hear about the men I’ve been able to have all over me when I’m not even looking for a relationship, I’m not trying to brag, but yes I am attractive irl, I gotta see what you look like now, and I’ve had a lot of men hit on me and check me out, even some confess romantic interest in me, I’ve even had a few of my own mutuals fall for me, so no one will like me you say? I can say the same about you with that attitude, can’t believe you think you’re worthy of talking all the smack.
You are allowed to not like my art, that’s fine, I completely understand my artstyle isn’t spectacular, but I’m drawing for MYSELF, NOT FOR YOU, seriously don’t send that on my page? Literally compared to how I used to draw before, I’m drawing better now and I’m seeing the improvement, I adore my art, I do, I’m getting better with my backgrounds, my colors, and just overall style, I’m only going to get better the more I draw and that’s my plan, I’ve even had friends who draw better than me PRAISE my art, talking about how cute it is, which is super sweet. I’ve been drawing since elementary school and I refuse to stop drawing, I’ve said this multiple times, I WILL NEVER STOP DRAWING, plus Tumblr is literally a platform used for ART, ART, and writing, I’m literally in college for graphic design for a reason, if you don’t draw, you shouldn’t be talking, if you’re an artist, that’s even more embarrassing because you should be uplifting other artists, NOT bringing them down. Sorry I can’t freaking recreate the Mona Lisa 🤣, clearly you don’t have any sort of taste for a happy self shipping artist who’s just having fun and showing off what she can do, but that’s not my problem, LITERALLY READ MY DNI AND PISS OFF. But on the bright side, at least I got a good laugh out of this, so thanks for the laugh anonymous!!
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Anyway, I have some doodles to finish that I’ll definitely post soon hehe.
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olderthannetfic · 2 years
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You know I really feel torn in fandom sometimes. I adore 'dudebro style' fandom meta and analysis and canon supported and cited essays with the reddit debate exact words nonsense, but I hate how that culture derides headcanons and silly shipping and people throwing canon out the window and deciding that any fancontent they make will have the characters all be gay or genderbent or POC or something- 'fangirl type' fandom. I hate how you cant draw your own personal fanart of a character with a little trans flag button or non anime-pale skin without people jumping down your throat for having a headcanon and not labeling it firmly as a headcanon or au and not drawing 1:1 with canon character design in these spaces.
Likewise I ADORE 'fangirl-style' fandom and the infinite varieties of AUs and shipping and 'what if x was gay and trans', I ADORE reading 40k slowburns and smutty AUs, but I really hate how hard it is to have serious conversations about actual canon sometimes. I really dont like how its derided to want to actually engage with the text itself in places and people will get mad at you for asking about the *actual canon* and what it is rather than accepting their '''x coded'''(ie headcanon) as actual rep(its not). I hate how it feels like if you try to talk meta people freeze you out because you care too much about the actual text and not the ships with fluff and zero plot or content. 50 oneshots with no plot OR smut arent fun to read if you arent super into the ship actually! And god forbid if you are aromantic or actually LIKE the canon content. In some fandoms on this side it feels downright hostile if you dont flog yourself in pubic about liking the canon over whatever the popular fanon and noncanon ship is.
It really sucks because I love fandom, but some fandoms have such a big split in culture that if you like meta and canon you get excommunicated for being a snooty redditor(politely asking where in the story it says a thing so you can find it and be happy about canon rep when people say 'x is canon' and them getting mad because it isnt canon actually), and if you like shipping and headcanons you get excommunicated for being a wishful 'pushing headcanons on everyone' fangirl(drawing fanart of a character in a modern au with a trans flag button who has extremely transgender subtext to the point its hard to claim No One on the production team understood the Implications as well as a DLC costume being Literally Trans Flag Colors without firmly plastering it in 'this is a personal interpretation headcanon im claiming nothing about the canon itself').
Haha sorry for long rant but like. IDK. Im tired. Of both sides of fandom. Love it, but man...
Have to pick and choose what platforms I put what kinds of posts to not get yelled at in many fandoms and it SUCKS.
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Yeah. I'm not wild about that flavor of the fangirl/shipper side of things either. Oldschool LJ and such places had far more of the canon meta mixed in with the shipping and far less of the "my headcanon is canon" stuff. (There was still a big separation from dudebro fandom though.)
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sadieb798 · 4 months
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Rant incoming
I just got fired from the new job I started (I was sick and couldn't remember to call out too many times). I was really excited about it, as it was in a bookstore, and I would have lived out a fun fantasy.
but one of the things that I can't stop thinking about is that the woman who fired me asked what I had done in my previous jobs (kind of showed she didn't look at my resume tbh) and when I said I had done graphic design and art-related work, she looked so fucking brightly at me and said: "oh, it sounds like you just need to focus on graphic design!"
and like. I wanted to fucking laugh in her face -- does she KNOW how hard it is to get a job in an art field?? literally, she could go downstairs to the department I worked in, throw a rock, and hit an artist that works in the department. then she can ask them how easy is to get work in the art industry.
she asked if I ever worked in retail before and I said no, this was my first job, she said "retail is a tough beast, you'd have to decide if this is really what career you want to do." yeah no SHIT sherlock, I don't actually want to work in retail I have read too many stories on tumblr about what a hellscape it is, and I hate the idea of retail in general and this is only a job to pay bills while I do art.
I'm just fucking outraged by the fucking opinion of a lady who has no fucking idea what the fuck it's like to be an artist. We 1) have every platform steal money from us, 2) we get no respect at ALL, 3) literally have to hustle every day nonstop to get jobs, 4) and if we're a NSFW artist, FORGET about any platforms allowing you to show off your art.
Just,,,,the arrogance. I wanted to laugh in her fucking face. Especially with the week I had where I got scammed -- but that's another post.
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thebonesofhoudini · 2 months
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The internet and social media is so fucking stupid and weird now. A person can't even make a post about something that's bothering them seeking advice or share a picture of their new shoes without putting it out there on a corporate owned platform with fake influencers making a bunch of professionally produced shorts and reels designed to sap every bit of attention from you for a minor dopamine hit (watch til the end...wait for it...), news about graphic and illegal wars, pictures of dead bodies, stupid memes, a plethora of ads for everything, and a clutter of information overload the human brain is obviously not equipped to handle.
I miss when the internet was an escape from real world, now the real world is an escape from the internet. And barely. The real world is now embedded with the internet, inspired by the internet, every business and company is on the internet, everybody is on the internet, even the people you used to use the internet to get the fuck away from...are now using the internet.
Sorry for the rant, but Tumblr literally feels like one of the last places online that you can rant about this for free without having to pay a monthly subscription (cough cough Medium) and without it being reddit.
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Ok normally I very rarely compose my own full posts, especially back to back, but I just found out about the INSANE shit that Unity is doing that seems likely to ruin developer's wellbeings, and will make a lot of games likely lost media as many popular games being run on Unity are literally being DELETED like Cult of the Lamb, and others, not to mention how this might affect games in development in Unity like Silksong. Ik I'm like a little late to this, and someone like my guy @itdependsmusic has probably already reblogged or posted something about this but omg this is so insane I have to vent about it and explain just for my own benefit.
anyway, the main thrust of this is that Unity plans to implement a $0.20 cost *per install* for the developers of games made in Unity, and not only that but they apparently managed to fuckin double down on that somehow but I haven't actually read into this enough to say more, but regardless OMG how crazy are they, why would you do that for your free platform, i get income and all but you've been free for YEARS, why now? Not only that but You've just instantly made your software SO many times more inaccessible for developers just starting out in the industry, which is their main source of users, and has resulted in the successes of many big indie titles like Cuphead and, yes, my beloved Hollow Knight. This is such a silly move, speaking from my point of view as someone who is a prospective (and I mean that very much) game designer who is looking for an easy start in this field I really enjoy in an engine like Unity, which may no longer be possible now. I might not actually get to do what I love as easily with these new changes, and me and many others might never. okay big rant p much over, again I haven't fully read up on this yet, there's way more thought out and researched discussion about this on the #unity tag if you wanna know more (and I heavily encourage you to take a proper look), but I just wanted to let more people know and give my own thoughts on this bc it affects me and a lot of the games I love.
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fffmpreg · 8 months
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I'm ranting on here like it's a weekly tradition
its so funny when twitter users are saying stuff like "I can't have a black and white X logo on my homescreen, i might actually leave this time"
like sure, you've been saying that stuff ever since elon bought the platform. Are you actually saying that you're okay with literal nazis on your dash but draw the line at bad graphic design?
That's not even what's actually pissing me off though, the real reason is how much people are dying to get on bluesky and threads.
The first one lets people have the n-word as their username and won't even address the situation, and the second one is the privacy equivalent of radioactive waste.
And all this time open source platforms like mastodon have just, been there? I'm sorry is it too hard for you to just sign up to an actually good platform instead of throwing your money at billionaires? Have we lost all sense of agency that we can't even move on from a shitty site?
okay I sound like a prick and I've forgotten where this rant was even going in the first place
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hyacinth-venom · 1 year
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Meowdy!
I'm Mars, Cinth, Delta, or whatever you wanna call me. This is my main blog, which is mostly used for reblogging, random thoughts, and the rare original work (like my poetry, or on even rarer occasion, art.)
I'm friendly and open to random interactions and asks! I don't get upset by notifications at all!
I have the typical dni list:
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Proship
Other problematic groups or ideas!
Please just block me and move on with your life!
I run a few separate blogs for separate fandoms, which I write fanfiction, share thoughts, or talk about updates on the media itself on.
@mars-f4ndom-sp4c3 is my Cookie Run blog!
Note that I'm currently on a semi-hiatus for requests due to burnout :p
Some facts about myself:
I go by any pronouns that aren't he/him, please refer to me with literally anything else! (I usually refer to myself with and prefer it/its, but anything is okay!)
Avid anime enjoyer, I just don't write about it. I like Bsd, Csm, Tbhk, Kny, and quite a few others!
I am one of the most awkward little shits you will ever meet, but I am usually perfectly friendly and don't mind random interaction or asks!
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Character analysis and discussion are some of my favorite things, especially getting into the design and personality of the character. I could probably rant about some of my favorite characters for hours.
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My favorite color is purple, and my favorite animals are cats (any kind) :]
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I'm so (not) normal about moths and birds. I love them a lot.
(Rewrote this to contain more relevant information about my current interests - Nov 1st, 2023.)
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