#unpopular post alert!

[gingerjolover]

can we prioritize jb controversially young gf pleaseeeee i vote yes

to ease y'all into it, get ya warmed up, here's a little appetizer (courtesy of my friends @boywithpinkcarnation and @ever-siince-new-york aka the loves of my life)

julien w a controversially!young gf

okay i have an (unpopular) opinion that i don't think julien would date someone controversially young not because there's something wrong with it but because she will get so existential and I feel like she would feel bad if your brain wasn't fully developed lol

however!!!! this aside, lets continue

I don't think it would be a best friends little siblings scenario or like the kid of someone on her team or the bg team

young!gf is probably a writer or an artist of some kind and julien is either a fan or is at a charity event or something similar and she meets boygenius and they all instantly love her sm

and jules and young!gf really hit it off and so julien leaves with her number but doesn't find out shes young until like 3 days later

has an absolute crisis about it, especially because she doesn't want to hurt you or change you

thinking young!gf is 20 about to be 21, like just old enough that some people will be like um??? but also you're a whole-ass adult so you can do what ya want

but julien and young!gf have a very serious convo bc they are both feeling the vibe and julien just wants a healthy, mutually beneficial, safe, and loving relationship

but anyways

lets get right to it, phoebe and lucy and MUNA love you

like the love u sm but they also love teasing julien

julien could be getting up from a chair or like be laying on the floor and phoebe is yelling "life alert" to you, a glare pushing its way onto jules's face

phoebe is the biggest instigator, always snapping photos of you both candidly and adding them to her photo dumps

I had that phoebe buys young!gf a t-shirt that says I love milfs but @boywithpinkcarnation said a shirt with I <3 cougars and its iconic honestly

phoebe will 1000% caption a photo of you sitting on jb's lap and be like "sugar daddy vibes🤑" or one of jb sitting on your lap with the caption "jb is taking babysitting wayyy too seriously" (@boywithpinkcarnation)

they all call you baby and they mean it

katie is the second biggest instigator and right after that is lucy, then nomi, then jo

katie always teases about "respect your elders"

lucy will post a very wholesome photo of the two of you but caption it "spend time and cherish your elders, they aren't around forever❤️" (straight from social queen @boywithpinkcarnation)

eventually young!gf gets into it and starts making jokes like kelli tiktok vibes (@ever-siince-new-york)

she gets asked in a day in the life vid or a live a question about jules and shes like "I'm not sure really...i just with her for the money," and julien is in the back like that interview when lucy says they're breaking up like "baby! don't say that! it's not funny!" and she's groaning coming into frame, her hand on young!gf's head, "they're gonna start to believe you, ya know?" like all sassy how jb gets🤓☝🏼

PRIVATE BUT NOT SECRET VIBEZZZZ @ever-siince-new-york, carlena said and i quote, "like they're not lovesurging on tiktok but if the paps get jb giving hickies on film... oh well😁"

they are also STOKED for you to turn 21, since most of them are sober the idea of getting you drunk is so appealing

and jb is SO protective, like already jb has her hands on young!gf all. the. time. like in the dip of her back or on her hips or hand on the back of her neck, jb is always making some type of physical contact

BUT especially in the club or at a bar

they do get freaky on her 21st bday hehe

maybe the day after bc young!gf just lets joi keep giving her shots and julien is just standing there jaw dropped because who knew their sweet baby girl was a mf tank

but lit katie, molly, kelli, jo, nomi, lucy, and phoebe LOVE you sm, like yes you're young and everyone is pushing or already 30 but young!gf is so profound and mature but not in a way that's not acting her age, she just has a very old soul and enjoys rest and knows what she likes and what she wants

and julien loooooves this, like jules doesn't want to groom you and mold you into something you're not, she wants you to act your age and like she doesn't isolate you or make you act 28 because everyone is around that age. like she fully supports if you wanna go out and party or like do something kinda childish or if you wanted to stress about school or be homesick, julien lets you just vibe and doesn't pressure you to grow up faster, she truly just wants you to grow up without the age gap looming over you

back to the daddy!jb antics, without infantalizing you, jb handles ALL of the "adult stuff" like y'all def split bills if you live together but she manages all of the subscriptions and pays all of the utilities and makes sure your car has gas and is always maintained like takes it to get inspected and stuff

if young!gf is in school than that's your biggest priority in jb's eyes, like yes focus on school or your work and then when you graduate we'll start to divvy up the household stuff

jb just loves to care for you, like she always has an extra hair tie on her wrist and its your scrunchie like the one you love

before you live together, jb is stocking her house w your stuff to make you comfy

your fave snacks are in the kitchen, your fave drinks in the fridge

jb buys a full size of your fave perfume and body wash, she has you pick out pajamas for her dresser and puts a jewelry holder on her dresser just for you (@ever-siince-new-york 🥹)

if you're in school, jb def has a desk set up in her office or music room and its one she built and it has cute pens and stationary and a pretty keyboard and a comfy chair where you can cross your legs and then under it is built in storage for some of your books and crocheting/knitting/crafting stuff

when you move in, jb designs (w the help of lucy and Katie) your own office where you can write and paint and it has the best sunlight in the whole house

julien also gets really anxious leaving you at home, not because you're not capable but she grows so attached and is like "you'll be a different person when i come back:("

always sending flowers and dinner and gifts while on the road (@ever-siince-new-york)

not smut but smut adjacent

julien is sooooo nervous to have sex w young!gf

maybe she hasn't done it before or julien just feels a lot of pressure to take care of her

and she has to be like "do you not like me?" kinda insecurely because julien is treating her like shes glass

and jb is like "oh my god sweet girl, no no no, i- of course i- i love you!"

and she's like "you WHAT??"

#anon cutie #take a sip of da juice #small sip #julien baker x reader #julien baker x young!gf #fic coming soon! #ALSO MY KIDNEYS AND BLADDER ARE CLEAR #fuck u matty healy

[dottores]

okay well, i logged back in, obviously, because there are clearly some things that need to be addressed and have been taken out of context. just because i’m leaving doesn’t mean i should sit here and let my name be smeared. 

to preface this, anantaru and i had a discussion where we came to a congenial understanding of what happened, there's been an acknowledgment on both sides of misunderstanding and believing distorted rumors and people that we probably should not have, but i’m still going to give a full explanation as to the background of everything so you all can understand and come to your own opinions. plus, if there's going to be a call-out post directed majorly at me made, i want an official address of it.

please do NOT send any hate their way, we have ended this discussion on good terms and have worked out what exactly was stirring this discourse between us. (spoiler alert: there was a third-party shit-stirrer that we both considered a decent friend at the time!)

i don’t really need a reason to block someone, and i shouldn’t have to explain it, but i did and i will again but more explicitly this time: @/anantaru made a post that i did not like. it’s as simple as that. it was a post about genshin characters and sex icks and one of the lines were “venti: too drunk.” i’m not anti-dc, but there are topics that i am sensitive about because i was sa’d in my freshman year of college—that is something i have talked about on this blog before, many of you who've been around since my tr era are aware of it. i acknowledged, and tee acknowledged, that this was probably a joke and was not meant to be taken the way i took it, but the aloof/casual way it was mentioned without any TW of implied dubcon, and without acknowledging that it was at least dubcon and could border on noncon in certain interpretations made me uncomfortable. i don’t mind seeing it as long as i’m warned. if it was tagged properly, i would have moved on without much care, but it wasn’t, so i was scrolling through the post snorting and was hit with that and i was made uncomfortable because i didn't like how it was just being passed off as an ick, and i blocked. there was no reason for it to go beyond what it did, yet we are here. anantaru mentioned that if you frequent their blog, you would know that they often write about venti and reader being drunk—i don’t frequent their blog, in fact this was my first encounter with them being reblogged onto my dash by shared mutuals, so it rubbed me wrong. thats the end of it. 

i’m not sure the exact timing, but i believe it was two(?) weeks after this, when i reblogged an unpopular opinion’s post with an opinion that i thought was fairly harmless. sure, looking back on it i could have phrased it better, i’m not going to deny that, but pinpointing my one opinion out of the hundreds of others that were objectively far more controversial than mine and crucifying me for it is uncalled for. you guys know very well that i do not have the time or energy to sift through random people’s blogs to look for minors. every once in a while i glance at the notes of shit posts that happen to be on my dash and i’d be a bit startled at finding a minor in them because i still do think you should at least try to catch minors who interact with shit posts because that’s the easiest way to find them. but i was working at a medium sized firm for a year and a half at the time of the post and i am currently in law school, i do not have the time to be psychotic about people’s likes and interaction, and even if i did have the time?? i’ve always gotten incredible interaction from y’all lmfao, imposing the idea that i’m jealous is entirely inane. i do still stand by the fact that my words were twisted, i was made out, more than once and by more than one person after the next bullet point's events, to have been some psycho that stalks peoples’ posts for excuses as to why they get interaction when that is simply not the case. 

regardless, after this incident, anantaru made a vague post that was almost directly quoting my tags from the reblog and was thus sent to me because many shared mutuals put together that it was about my tags. this was upsetting for multiple reasons 1) i had blocked anantaru by this point so i felt a bit violated that i was being vagued for something by someone that i blocked. 2) i started getting hate anons en masse after it, some of which were very unnecessarily explicit. needless to say, i was very upset and made a subpost on my main account after noticing i’ve been blocked on ao3 because 1) i was already upset and i didn’t even know why anantaru seemed to have it out for me much less go to the point of blocking on ao3 which leads into my next point and 2) i thought it was a bit ridiculous because the only thing blocking on ao3 stops is people from commenting on posts and i clearly was not going to comment on a post of someone who i was not on good terms with. reasoning aside, anantaru can block who they want and i was out of line for making comments about that in particular. i’ll admit that, and apologize for it. 

a screenshot was taken from my personal—not a good moment for me, obviously, but anantaru claimed in their post that it was about them with no evidence. i dmed them about this in particular because i was genuinely confused, we spoke about it, i offered them proof that it was not them because i had a discussion about this post with a close friend at the time of posting it and they believed me. i will attach screenshots below (cropped because there's no reason to attach the whole conversation) because i feel as if this accusation was rather extreme and i wish it would’ve been removed because it was obviously not my best moment. an explanation for the post itself, i was upset over plagiarism accusations regarding something i put my heart and soul into and then seeing the same person that made them consistently on my dash just straight up triggered me, for lack of a better word lol, so i made a vent on my personal. how it got misconstrued as to be anything about anantaru is baffling to me but i suppose that's a question for the subject of our next bullet point. i don’t want to go into detail about the accusations in themselves because i don’t want people to send the actual person who it’s about hate. regardless, that post was not about anantaru, i have never called them a cunt nor have i ever called them a gatekeepy cunt, though i’m beginning to think i should probably remove the word from my vocabulary atp, i use it far too flippantly. anyway, i do not know them well enough to formulate any sort of opinion like that. aside from that, in our discussion we came to an understanding over it and i wish that would have been cleared on their blog as wel. so i'll attach here (i crossed some out because i don't want to breach any boundaries regarding what anantaru might be comfortable sharing but i do think it's fair for me to want this particular point fully cleared as it was a bold accusation remaining up):

5. in our discussion, we came to realize that we have/had a shared mutual who was fostering discourse between the two of us. many of you will recognize her as audri aka alucrds, who has supposedly left tumblr by this point—i suspected this and anantaru has confirmed it while we were talking. audri was sending anantaru my posts claiming that they were about anantaru, but i will stress that the only actual discussions i ever had with anyone about anantaru was with tee and eris about that initial joke because it had upset me at the time, it never extended beyond that and it certainly was never with audri. my only conversation with audri that mentioned anantaru at all was probably around a week or so after i made the post in point 3, when audri asked me about ao3 blocking in casual conversation and i offhandedly mentioned that anantaru had blocked me on there—audri was a close friend at that point and iirc, she had actually told me right after that that anantaru had her blocked on tumblr, i had no idea that they'd been mutuals at all but either way, it was an offhanded comment that led to nowhere (or so i thought LOL). looking back on it, it was clearly her baiting me into giving her information about the post i made a week or so prior because after talking with anantaru, they explained that they got an anonymous message claiming that i was shit talking them for blocking them on ao3 and the only person that could have put together that the vent post from point 3 was about anantaru was audri herself. audri continued to evidently cherry-pick random vent posts of mine to show anantaru and claim that they were about them. why? i wish i could tell you. i considered audri a decent enough friend, and though she had her fair share of issues with mutuals and other friends of mine, i never really thought she’d stoop to this with me. but i guess there’s really no explaining people who thrive in discourse.

6. my comment in my most recent post about being harassed on ao3 and in comments and in asks was not about them at all. i thought it was very clearly about heliotropes (my dottore series) and pressure to update from certain readers, but i'm clarifying that now.

7. i never intended on directly addressing this, which is why i did not directly name anantaru in my post, if i’d known at the time that tee was going to end up addressing all of this, i would’ve just been straight up with all of it.

anyway, i think that’s all, hopefully this will be the last post for real as i am tired mentally and now i am also physically sleep deprived. i've been up since three so forgive me for typos and grammar errors. this all has gone on for over a year. sorry for all the discourse on y'all's dash, wish i could have left with a bit more grace than this. rumors have been blown out of proportions and blindly believed, things have been taken out of context, such is life. i made my fair share of mistakes on my personal blog with my vents, others have admitted and owned up to their own mistakes, some will never admit to their mistakes. such is life. it moves on, always does. i know all of y'all are smart enough to come to your own opinions.

over and out, sorry again, and logged out (hopefully for real this time),

cat

#tw discourse

[reicchel]

For the ask game--SaneGiyu and GiyuRen??

Thanks for the ask! For this ask game

SaneGiyu

Ship it!

What made you ship it? It's always fanart by other people. In this case *spoiler alert* it's a very nice development of their relationship in an after canon setting, that goes hand in hand with character development of the two.

What are your favorite things about the ship? I get to see the gentle side of Sanemi, and also Giyuu being able to open up and get close to someone. Giyuu can be as awkward as ever and Sanemi will go from exasperated to find it endearing. They can be so soft and funny.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship? I wouldn't know what are the popular opinions... I guess my unpopular opinion is that I don't think Sanemi would be rude to his partner (whether it's Giyuu or someone else, I just can't see it).

GiyuRen

Ship it too!

What made you ship it? Again, probably someone posted some cute fanart.

What are your favorite things about the ship? The whole water-fire theme, opposites attract. I feel like Rengoku could force his way into Giyuu's heart without even realizing it. It's also cute to think of a partially deaf Rengoku and a Giyuu who talks very softly.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship? I haven't seen many rengiyuu opinions around, I feel like it's not really a popular ship. So my unpopular opinion it's that it's a good and underrated ship haha

#ask game answers #sanegiyuu #rengiyuu #backwardshirt #i actually love both ships although i haven't dwelled on rengiyuu that much #...i have a lot of giyuu ships im sorry

[olderthannetfic]

a discord i'm in found was alerted to the drama about your post and was immediately like "what's the contact for ao3?? they must be Warned"

Like, sure. ao3 needs to be alerted about a 7 year old post made by someone who hasn't volunteered with them for over a decade. omg what's next, reaching out to your high school principal?

"she wasn't just a volunteer, she created the policies!" like. ok. even if I agreed that that post was unforgivably racist, you're absolutely right that enforcing a no-racist-works ban is impossible. There's no way to tell if someone is malicious, or ignorant, or just a bad writer. And handling reports is either going to a 20-something white girl who learned what microaggressions are 6 months ago, or be forced on POC who shouldn't have to be exposed to that regularly.

Building better blocking/muting tools is the best option, and it sucks it took this long, but they're doing their best. The only improvement I'd recommend to really help the people concerned by this is creating a way to import/export blocked users so people can circulate block lists so people don't have to seek out/stumble across the notably racist works in order to block them. (and antis can have fun blocking half the site lmao)

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One of the things I've seen people bring up in terms of making AO3 more welcoming is hiring paid staff to handle reports. I'm very much in favor of that, though for AO3 to do that, they'd need to raise 10x the current donations.

(An individual abuse staffer would be cheap, but to have any paid employees, OTW would need to gear up for that and probably hire sysadmins and stuff first. Realistically, paid abuse staff are unlikely to happen until OTW levels up overall. Though, that said, I haven't been involved in years, so who knows what people think internally right now.)

I see people trotting out the idea that I made all the policies ohnoes. The bulk of them were a collaborative effort that involved a lot of focus groups of fans and input from other committees. I think some of them (e.g. whether RPF was allowed) were handed to us by the initial Board and we just worked out the wording and nuances, but I honestly can't remember. That was in 2008.

The things I remember being particularly responsible for are: 1. suggesting the rule that the Abuse team can ignore duplicate reports of the same thing (so they still deal with the thing but don't spend time on the extra reports), and 2. Original Work being allowed on the archive, which I campaigned for for ages and which was internally very unpopular at the time.

I think publicizing group blocklists will just lead to misery and drama as it usually does, but if people really wanted to, they could just c&p the text from the current AO3 interface. Building a tool to block a whole list at the click of a button would be a waste of OTW resources. If a third party wants to build that, it's probably possible.

[idontbeatgames]

For no particular reason, Shazam!: Fury of the Gods came to mind today and I'm not even gonna lie, the lack of Asher Angel in that film still pisses me off to this very day. I don't know whose idea it was to not make Asher Angel a massive focus in that film after his amazing arc in Shazam, but it was a terrible decision and it still shows after all this time considering it's one of the few major issues that immediately stand out when you look back on Shazam!: Fury of the Gods. 

Asher basically was the glue of the first Shazam film considering how great he was as Billy Batson. He was legitimately able to bring out the best in so many characters throughout the first Shazam movie. Plus, I think it's also due to his amazing dynamic with Jack Dylan Grazier (Freddie Freeman) -- which I consider to be the heart and soul of Shazam. It's so frustrating because it was one hell of an avoidable mistake and could've easily allowed the Shazamily to continue forward in the DCU but there's absolutely going to be some sort of changes, considering the massive negative reception Shazam 2 had. What those changes are remains to be seen, obviously.

(spoiler alert, I guess?) There's zero chance that Gunn doesn't immediately address it, considering Shazam was recruited to the JSA in the post-credit scenes by the Peacemaker cast. However, there are definitely gonna be changes with that since Gunn has already confirmed that Peacemaker is affected by The Flash story-wise. So, if there was a change I'd like to see with Shazam and his family going forward in the DCU it's that I want Asher Angel to replace Zachary Levi entirely.

In Shazam 1, Billy Batson was a standout character despite Asher's young age. In Shazam 2, Asher still shined in his very brief moments, like the final moment of Billy saying he loves his mom before the big final fight. So, in my opinion, Asher can easily play Billy Batson in both forms in the DCU like Grace Caroline Currey did with Mary Marvel throughout FOTG. That may be an unpopular opinion and that may be a terrible take due to how marketing works, but after the lack of Asher being a key flaw of Shazam 2 and seeing how bad Zachary Levi was in Shazam 2, I'd take that as a solution any day of the week.

#idontbeatgames #shazam movie #shazam dc #shazam fury of the gods #dc movies #dc universe #dc comics #dc extended universe #dc films #dccomics #dc heroes #shazam! #shazam #dc captain marvel #billy batson #freddy freeman #dc studios #asher angel #jack dylan grazer #mary marvel #shazam family #shazam fotg #dcu

[garfeildfanpage]

CONTROVERSIAL OPINION ALERT 🗣️‼️

Jk anyways hot takes have always been kind of a drama-trigger for tbhk fans generally (though most takes aren’t exactly “hot” they’re either lukewarm or just bad), but most prominently on tbhktwt, which I don’t actively participate in. But I’ve noticed that every time one of those “what’s your unpopular tbhk opinion?” Posts gets popular everyone starts fighting and it’s kindof annoying. Which for a few reasons: they just like to argue when no huge announcements are happening to make sure the fan base stays alive, or someone just has a really bad opinion (ex the toxic nene post).

Now that’s not the point and has nothing to do with what I’m about to say but I thought it’d be a fun intro.

(tldr at end and also more concise points w/o the tired rambling)

Quick side note. I’m being super serious, these are all just opinions I possess but they don’t necessarily exist in a vacuum. I mostly just want to complain about a trope I don’t like, but I’m not die-hard about any of this. So take everything I say with a grain of salt

Mitsuba, Sousuke, and what makes a character interesting

(Mitsukou cameo 2 because staying on topic is hard)

After a while, I started to develop a bit of a dislike of Mitsuba, the fake one specifically

To elaborate: During Sousuke’s introductory arc (and the only one he’s in) despite the trope-y nature of his character, his opening up during the chapters and his pre-canon connection to Kou is what, to me, made me like him more. I personally cannot stand the “cute-boy but actually he’s really mean” archetype, and it really turned me off from him in general. But I continued through it anyway. I thought the subversion of it was nice, not having him on edge and actually have a somewhat heart-to-heart was nice. And then he died whoopsie

I liked the hell of mirrors, like a lot actually. At the beginning I really liked Mitsuba, but as the series went on the traits I disliked started to shine more than the ones I liked. His stoic act around Nene at the very beginning of the hell of mirrors was the peak I strived for, but it basically never appeared again. The gruesome horror of Mitsuba lost my interest as he began to behave more human, I think. Now really all of this just comes down to personal preference. I like subversion, so I liked how Mitsuba was at the very beginning, but I never loved him. And I know that the direction his character took was always going to be the same but some part of me prayed for some kind of miracle.

He’s not human, but he wants to be, and I liked the idea a lot. But I was never able to get invested because almost every time he was in a chapter I wanted to bang my head into a wall. The the sensitivity and tact of Mitsuba isn’t lost, but I feel like a lot of it is lost when he’s around certain characters. His interactions with Nene (with a few exceptions) demonstrates how he could be if he decided to tone it down on occasion, still irritating but y’know, not as much. This falters with Kou in specific though, as he is constantly flip-flopping between defensive and annoying. If he could learn to let his guard down a little, it could really go a long way

Speaking of Kou

They are peers, they knew each other, and now only Kou remembers. Great, love it. Mitsukou, now that’s where it gets a little complicated.

As true equals, I do love them. And I know “the fandom ruined it for me” is a ballshit excuse but it genuinely does this time ‘round, and I can give a few pinpoints.

1. The constant feminization of Mitsuba

Every fandom is guilty of this at some point, and tbhk is no different. Forcible feminization of one (typically smaller or younger) male characters because they act even somewhat effeminate. And I have a right to be upset! It’s my 2nd amendment right or whatever!

2. And in tandem, the over-masculinization of Kou

His ass is fourteen!!! He ain’t buff!!! he probably still squeaks when he gets scared!! Enter that scene where Dipper is singing ABBA in the bathroom and Stan walks in except it’s Kou!!

3. General disregard of canonical characterization

Mitsuba can absolutely handle himself I’m going to kill someone

IMO mitsukou only really works if there’s an underlying understanding that 1. They’re both stupid kids. 2. They’re peers, and wether supernatural or not they are in alot of ways equals. And 3. They’re both deeply flawed.

To add onto that, Kou is indecisive about values. He wants to be an exorcist but has gotten attached to every somewhat sympathetic spirit he’s come in contact with, showing that he’s far too empathetic for the profession. He claims to understand Teru’s view on the undead yet he holds his personal judgment over his brothers consistently, for better or worse (yeah IK hanako is the title character so obviously he has to be good so why would he die but I’m just trying to think about it more literally, y’dig?). Mitsuba (the fake one) is not, and never will be, he isn’t meant to last forever. Sousuke (the dead one) Left everything unresolved, even when trying after death, nothing ever came to any conclusion, not even with his mom.

They work alone, but not yet together. But they can, it’s not too late, if given care and some intense therapy, they could totally be awkward teen romance of the summer. But the cannibalism should probably be talked about b4 that

Overall I think the general populous of Mitsukou could really benefit by trying to understand their dynamics a lil better, but what would I know I’m no yaoiologist

TL;DR (and end notes don’t forget) Basically, I wish he kept the short-lived confidence he gained in the Hell of Mirrors. I wish his cutesy-mean attitude died after as well. I also wish he wasn’t nearly as feminized as he is. (He’s not 4,9 he’s taller than Nene and would most likely be (if he didn’t die, rest in rip) the same height if not taller than Kou). Also his dynamic with Tsukasa makes me uncomfortable, like deeply so, it’s kinda really weird. ALSO(also) I think the constant comparison to Hananene is weird because the same comparison can be made to literally 90% of the other ships, why is no one ever comparing them to Terukane? Or Aoiaoi? Or Sumi6 (actually I completely understand why not sumi6 but they’re literally all human x supernatural no one is special)

Anyway the point I’m attempting to get across (while sleep deprived) is that (to me) Mitsuba as a character just doesn’t tickle my fancy and I tried my best to explain some reasons why. if you don’t agree, that’s perfectly fine! No one is entitled to agree with me.

Sorry if bad grammar I,m moments away from death Uauuughhh ninja out

#hot cheese #jibaku shounen hanako kun #jshk #tbhk #toilet bound hanako kun #kou minamoto #minamoto kou #mitsuba sousuke #sousuke mitsuba #I’m going to eat a tire

[destinyc1020]

Unpopular opinion, but it's so crazy that some fans project so much insecurity upon Tom when it comes to Zendaya having male friends. It's almost like he wasn't raised by a comedian, lol. He's not insecure, im sorry. Both Tom and Timothee have spoken highly of each other, there a moments in Timothee's interviews with Zendaya that he brings up Tom but stans, timdayas or some tomdayas no shade feel threatened by one another.

Even fans were getting insecure of Austin becoming friends with Zendaya like this is so weird. I'm starting to think most of these fans are young girls who self insert themselves as Tom and Z because no other fanbase I've been in is like this, and I stan K-pop groups lol.

Unpopular opinion, but it's so crazy that some fans project so much insecurity upon Tom when it comes to Zendaya having male friends. It's almost like he wasn't raised by a comedian, lol. He's not insecure, im sorry. Both Tom and Timothee have spoken highly of each other, there a moments in Timothee's interviews with Zendaya that he brings up Tom but stans, timdayas or some tomdayas no shade feel threatened by one another.

Yea, I don't get it either Anon. 🥴

People act like they have never seen Z with male friends before.

Ummm.... Kamil has ALWAYS been her male friend and former costar for YEARS! He would be over her house all the time, playing video games w/her, etc. He used to post her all the time (until fans got weird about it). Like, they are SUPER close. 🤞🏾 What's the difference?

And no, Tom isn't insecure. Idk how much more Timmy and Tom have to say about each other to make fans realize that they actually LIKE each other and are cool! I'm sure if Tom and Timmy were on a press tour together, you'd see with your own eyes that they are buddies and are perfectly COOL with each other!

I remember when fans (even myself 👀) thought that there might be some tension on set of Dune btwn Timmy and Austin due to the Lily Rose Depp fling thing, but turns out, those two became closer than brothers during filming and Dune press, to the point where they both looked like they had heart eyes for each other rofl 🤣

Even fans were getting insecure of Austin becoming friends with Zendaya like this is so weird. I'm starting to think most of these fans are young girls who self insert themselves as Tom and Z because no other fanbase I've been in is like this, and I stan K-pop groups lol.

See....That's what I don't get either, coz noooobody in here was worrying about anything when Austin and Florence, Austin and Lea, or Austin and Timmy were close during parts of the press tour? 😅 🥴

The man barely even said two words to Zendaya this entire press tour, and all of a sudden, some fans are like: "Omg.... alert the press!! It's a catastrophe that he's even standing next to her on the red carpet!!" 🚨

The man has known Zendaya longer than Timmy and Tom probably combined rofl 🤣

All of these actors are each in separate rlshps with other people.

Fans need to grow up, seriously. 😒

[bcbdrums]

🍄🍬🌿🧩 Truth or Dare!

"🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings"

uhmm... hmmm... hmmm... i don't think i can pick one pair, lol. i'm gonna pick. a few.

i'll preface this by saying i'm a canon purist 99% of the time, so when i have a headcanon, it's because i think i can defend it very well with evidence from the source material.

Star Trek - Jim and Spock share a mental link that was created by accident and allowed intermittent empathy/mild telepathy of both a conscious and subconscious nature. this is evidenced in several episodes, but a particular moment on the bridge in The Immunity Syndrome is my solid basis for this. (I promise I'll keep writing "Always Will"... Star Trek is the fandom of my heart. I'll come back to it. I promise.)

Kim Possible - (angst alert! tw: infant death. tw: child death. tw: miscarriage. i hope i did that right...) Drakken and Shego had twins that didn't survive. The event brought them closer together and made them re-think their priorities... This is post-canon when they were dealing with the good vs. evil issues already, and the only thing they knew for sure was they wanted to be together. This event also led them to realize...they want to be parents. (Yes, my fic "Rekindling" is in fact, headcanon...)

Soul Eater - I haven't posted a fic about this one yet so I'm leery to share it... But a story is already in the works. And I'll be very, very vague... Stein's "experiments" on Spirit were extremely mild and rapidly turned into something else... Something Stein was doing to cover for Spirit, to protect him from something else going on in his life... And that's where I'm leaving that because I want it to be a surprise when I post the story! But a couple people I've told might guess this, heheh. (No title for this story yet... Titles are my worst enemy.)

"🍬 ⇢ post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character"

Spirit Albarn did not cheat on his wife. 😎 I'll die on this hill. In a diff post than the one I link, I compared him to Greg Universe (of Steven Universe). The authors present both as characters you want to hate, who you question, who look like lousy fathers. But slowly the story starts to unfold and you realize...there's more here than what was presented on the surface. And maybe the surface was a lie all along. I use that comparison because most people seem to get it with Greg. But only a few people get it with Spirit. That's fine. It's my headcanon; it doesn't have to be yours. And I enjoy other ppl's headcanons very much. But you did ask.

"🌿 ⇢ give some advice on writer's block and low creativity"

this is where the whole... 'write for yourself' thing, comes into play. i've actually seen a lot of tumblr discourse about this recently... write for yourself! people say. but, we share creations out because...we want people to see them. we are writing for ourselves, and then sharing them...

here's what i'm learning. my motivation to create has to be for myself, in the grand scheme. it's fine to create things here and there for others. and i personally love gifting fanfic. but if your goal when you go into creating is... 'i'm going to tailor this story so this person will like it,' or, 'i'm gonna post this and i can't wait till this person comments!' that's when you're in danger... you're not creating for yourself anymore. now your satisfaction is going to come from...what that person thinks, whether or not they comment, how deep is their comment...

your satisfaction has to come from responding to your own creative drive.... i suppose that's where the advice starts. make sure your motives are in the right place. and... hey, if the creativity is sated? allow yourself to rest! as i'm writing this (it's being queued so, not coming out near the same day it was asked), my writing well is a bit dry. you might want to create, and feel bad you're not doing so... but it's okay to rest! if your mind just wants to daydream but the hands don't want to write the story or draw the piece right then... just let yourself be. allow yourself that space. i think you'll find creativity is better for it in the long run.

'but i'm worried my followers will be disappointed?' now, there you're not creating for you again... if they're friends, they'll still be there. if they're just...a random number in your stats, then again... your motives aren't in the right place. i'm a firm believer in...don't base your self-worth on internet stats. it's just not something i can get onboard with. your value is not determined by number of views, comments, reblogs, etc...

"🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?"

ahhhh hmmm.... i haven't done any immediate clicks in awhile. i'd say if something squicks me pretty suddenly. but blessedly, with AO3 tagging, i can often avoid accidentally running into those things.

wanna be clear though, writing is in art itself and sometimes... well, i'll give an example. i read a fic not too long ago with a twist ending. it is the sort of thing i would not have read had i known. but, had they tagged for the twist it would have ruined the story. so i was not bothered by the lack. i personally would have done the same. am i haunted by what i read? yes. but storytelling is its own art and well...yeah. it's not like in picking up a physical book we're gonna get the tag warnings.

that was slightly off topic, uhhh... i think mostly just if one of my squicks shows up i'll click away. something that's not my thing. and depending on how good the fic is, i'll try to push past it. but if it keeps happening... like there was one long, long multi-chap where main char was kidnapped and tortured and my poor li'l happy-ending heart didn't realize until i was fairly deep in that the whole point of the fic was torture that just got worse and worse... closed that one, never finished.

oh okay but one thing... if a story is VERY out of character, then i'm not interested. like.... the whole point in fanfic is to see more of the character so if it doesn't read like them, then... yeah. that's actually probably the most immediate thing for me. i can handle poor grammar and formatting and english-second-language writers and new writers who are learning the craft... all of that is fine. long as the character is in character, i'm pretty game to read most things.

thanks for the ask!!!!

#ask answer #kim possible #drakgo #shego #drakken #star trek #t'hy'la #soul eater #CrossStitch #franken stein #spirit albarn #drakken x shego #james kirk #spock #tw: miscarriage #tw: infant death #tw: child death

[clementine-kesh]

Chakotay?

First impression: tbh i was a bit apprehensive about chakotay at first because of how his indigenous heritage was written

Impression now: so underrated! it’s fascinating to see his devotion to the people around him and to his principles come into conflict with each other. he’s also one of the funniest people on voyager

Favorite moment: the episode opening where most of the crew is watching the doctor’s slideshow while harry and chakotay hold down the bridge and harry’s like “didn’t the captain ask us to fake a red alert after an hour?” and chakotay’s like “and deprive them of the doctor’s amazing presentation? no way”. SO funny

Idea for a story: post-voyager chakotay grappling with staying in starfleet. alternatively ds9’s the ascent but with chakotay and tuvok

Unpopular opinion: he’s a lot more than just someone to ship with janeway and the fact that fans tend to reduce him to that is… bad.

Favorite relationship: both him and janeway and him and tuvok they do make me a lil crazy

Favorite headcanon: he and harry had crazy grief sex during timeless

[emmashouldbewriting]

i know this is going to be an unpopular opinion but i think he really did hold the queen/royals in high regard, i think his mistakes when he was here were just that, mistakes, and he had a really rough reception here in the UK with sadiq khan's stupid little baby blimp over london

Bull. He wouldn't look at national security briefings unless they were mostly photos, he certainly wasn't going to read briefs about royal etiquette. So those gaffes can't be called mistakes since he chose to ignore the advice. He does what he wants when he wants, believes he's "perfect" and has said that consistently for years and years. He just wanted to butter up HM for a gold carriage ride on his return visit during his second administration *snort*. That family brought every single person they could for some "royal fairy dust" and likely a ton of sneaky photos of the private areas behind the scenes. Has any other head of state brought all of their adult children and all of their spouses? Maybe some despot who also calls all of his family members "advisors"?

You don't have to post this because I'm sure you don't want your page to turn into a political debate, but the ONLY person Trump holds in high regard is himself. No one else. You just haven't been subjected to it day in and day out because you're safely in Wales. He deserved everything he got plus a shit ton more and should be constantly followed by a blimp so everyone can be alerted that he's near and flee the area.

i'm glad you know him personally to say this all with 100% certainty anon, good for you

and yes i will post this, breaking my usual rules, because i don't appreciate your patronising tone of 'you're safely in wales' -- the publishing industry is predominantly american. i've written US-based books for a decade. my best friends - my ride or dies - are american. i'm not ignorant and exist solely on what i'm fed by the media. i might not know the ins and outs of the rules of your political system but i am subjected daily to americans and their opinions across the political spectrum. i am more versed in american politics than some actual americans i know, and i like to think i'm fair and just in my opinions, and my opinion is that he does respect our royals and our country, far far more than his predecessor and especially his successor do

[wtfcl0ud]

seemingly unpopular opinion lately but i like that filtered posts still show on your dash i understand why that is 'problematic' but also depending on what you have filtered like ik if i see a filtered post from certain ppl i follow then it's going to be smth i want to see bc ik they share the same view of tht thing of tht makes sense? i hope if staff makes any changes to that feature they simply add a like higher tier blacklist for thing you don't want to see at all and leave the option where you just want to be alerted that hey this post contains this thing and you decide if to view it or not. also as is known you can filter urls this means that filtered terms that appear in a url cause the whole post to be filtered. for eg i had smp filtered so urls like autismpride in their url wld get filtered n if it's not op but the person the person im following reblogged it from i wld see the url in the post header n i cld be almost certain the post doesn't contain smp stuff that i don't want to see so i can choose to view it if i want

#cloud nonsense

[livingforacademicvalidation]

Unpopular Opinion (shatter me series) (spoiler alert) :

Adam Kent is definitely overhated.

Okay so everyone hates him after the post war scene right? When he said that he was happier when he thought that Juliete was dead and he didn't want to fight anymore? But honestly how can you hate him? Yes he was horrible to Juliette but for a second put yourself in his shoes.

He was beaten and verbally abused in his childhood. He had a horrible father too. And his mother was never really there. He was a broken child with nothing left for him in the world except his little brother. Aaron at least had an option to gain power and a mother worth living for.( I am not saying anything against him. He struggled a lot too.) But then look at Adam who had NOTHING except James so when Juliette asked him to return to war, he would of course say no. Think about it. His girlfriend whom he loved a lot came back after vanishing and now she was taking side of the guy who tried to him and hurt his brother and who everyone thought was a monster. Adam didn't know Aaron like Juliette did. All he knew was that he had power, good food, shelter over his head, soldiers at his command and many more such privileges. So it was pretty natural for him to be sad and hurt. How much pain he must be feeling when he found out that his gf was inlove with his brother and now all his friends whose asses he saved were taking her side.

It's not fair for him too.

#shatter me #shatter me series #aaron warner #adam kent #juliette ferrars #nazeera ibrahim #kenji kishimoto

[patronsaintofhomosandpain]

Hiiiiiiiiiiiii!!! 😁💖

🐇🦷🍬🧃 Please and thank you

Hiiiiiiii!!!! Thank you for the ask!!

🐇 ⇢ do you prefer writing original characters, reader inserts, or a mix of both? 

I've actually never written a reader insert!!👁👄👁

🦷 ⇢ share some personal wisdom or a life hack you swear on

You can't run from the past, and you can't chase the future.

Learn from the past heal and let it go.

Prepare for the future but don't borrow its trouble.

🍬 ⇢ post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character

I don't like Harry Potter. I'm sorry, but I really didn't find anything remarkable about the story or its telling ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

🧃 ⇢ share some personal lore you never posted about before

I was exorcized when I was like five or six. Spoiler alert: It didn't work 😈

(I was also kicked out of "politely asked to leave and never return" to Sunday school as a wee babe, but ironically, neither of these incidents were related!)

❤️‍🔥

#none of that was a joke just the gif lol #ilyyyy #gaybi answers things #gabyrels grumbles #writeblr #writerscommunity #writerslife #writers #writers on tumblr #writerscorner #writing #writblr #writer things #book blog #sharpiegirl

[thebomb-thebird-andtheburntbitch]

🛼🧃📚🍬🔪

🛼 ⇢ describe your latest wip with five emojis

🐦‍⬛🔥📱😤🧑‍🏫

🧃 ⇢ share some personal lore you never posted about before

uhh, up until like 5th grade i think, I was convinced tornadoes were extinct. my baby brain thought that the movie Twister had documented the very last one and the machine-thingy they used to throw into the tornadoes to like document them or whatever just killed it or smth

📚 ⇢ what's the last thing you wrote down in your notes app? 

an inventory list of what linens are stored in my back closets at my job lol (spoiler alert: we need bathmats)

🍬 ⇢ post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character

i'm looking at you toji (jjk) fans, i just don't get it. he isn't appealing to me at all. the only thing i see that appeals me abt him is that he cares about his kid. he isn't hot i'm so sorry he just isn't

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

it wasn't for a fic, but when i was making my vox timeline i had to do a lot of research on a lot of different things. one of those things was how long would it take for the human body to look starved, like ribcage on full display, beyond saving starved. all so i could place something as accurately as possible.

#thanks beans smooches #birinbeans #ask

[strideofpride]

our girl Lemon Breeland <3

First impression

Honestly, don't really remember sorry (this is gonna be a theme). I think I was kind of just like...okay. Antagonist alert. I don't remember when I first fell in love with her, maybe late season 1?

Impression now

Love of my life!!!!!! Truly though, Lemon is one of my favorite characters of all time. The amount of time I've spent thinking about her, analyzing her...unquantifiable.

Favorite moment

Her telling off her mother and then inviting Scarlett out to brunch with her and Magnolia <3 <3 <3 v v important to me.

Idea for a story

I'm gonna preface this with that I'm probably never going to write it, because to be very frank, posting non Zade hod fic feels like talking to a brick wall, but I got a mini fic idea last week in my head of when it comes time to start trying for a family with Lavon, Lemon goes to Zoe for advice because obviously she wouldn't go to Brick on best practices for conception and what not and Zoe's just like. No thank you. And then Lemon threatens to get her medical license revoked if she doesn't help lololol

Unpopular opinion

I don't feel like there's a ton of disagreement in the hod fandom lol but I will say I do not at all like any sort of headcanon that involves Lemon having an unplanned pregnancy. She already had one child kinda dumped on her to take care of, let the next one be on her own terms!!!!!!

Favorite relationship

Ugh, this is hard but I think I ultimately have to go with Lavon. They just...they're just so perfect for each other in every way and I don't think people realize that cause of the bad timing when they first met and the George of it all but like. Idk the fact that Lemon considers Lavon to be the love of her life before they even officially get together, and not George, really says it all to me. Like I'm actually mad we only got the one flashback, cause clearly whatever they had during that six week affair was so insanely deep and beautiful and ugh. And also the fact she dresses younger when she's with him is not a coincidence that costume design is intentional!!!!! Lemon was forced to grow up so fast and preparing to be George's housewife was a big part of that and it's important to me that it was Lavon who brings out Lemon's girlboss side, that first starts as his campaign manager. It's important to me that she dresses younger in that one photo of her he kept and that she is dressed the youngest she ever has been in season 4 when they're getting together. Like it's all so!!!! Lavon brings Lemon back to the person she was before her mother left and the world was still full of possibilities for her!!! Again, it's also not a coincidence that her mother comes back right as she's about to get together with Lavon!!!!

Favorite headcanon

It's not even really a headcanon it's pretty much canon (to me) but Lemon's initial dislike of Zoe is entirely because she thinks Lavon is dating her, and has nothing to do with George until several episodes into s1 when she realizes Zoe likes him (also there's hella projection on Lemon's part as well because she thinks Zoe is attractive and has no idea what to do with that information)

send me a character and i'll tell you

#lemon breeland #hart of dixie #hod meta #lemon x lavon #hayland #terrainofheartfelt #strideofprideanswers

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

Kalim?

I actually had my Kalim Character Opinion Bingo queued up 😂

***Standard disclaimer: These are just my personal opinions of the character(s); regardless of what I may think of them, sharing my thoughts is NOT meant to offend or to shame anyone that thinks differently.***

This is probably a very unpopular opinion, but Kalim is my favorite dorm leader. Among the roster of students, he really is the “odd one out”. Unlike his peers, Kalim doesn’t seem to hold any kind of overwhelming power, crushing aura, or intentional malice. He doesn’t operate in an underhanded way, either. He’s the genuine article, friendly and cheerful, someone that’s easy to approach and talk with, someone that’s eager to lend his support and even his finances if needed. Kalim is a leader that is truly well-loved, not feared, and that is reflected in how much his dorm members look up him, respect him, and feel entirely comfortable telling him about their troubles. It’s a nice change of pace seeing someone actually want to help, no strings attached unlike Octavinelle, and it leads to a lot of funny interactions in which people react to Kalim’s... oblivious, carefree, and overly trusting nature.

There’s an almost child-like naivety in Kalim, most likely as the result of growing up ultra-wealthy and sheltered, so he has no idea about how the real world works. He also relies on Jamil to do a lot of things for him, and admittedly, I find the lack of self-sufficiency not very appealing. However, Kalim has demonstrated a willingness to learn and to improve himself, especially post-episode 4, so I have faith that with a little elbow grease and proper instruction, Kalim can do it! I would love it if we could see Kalim grow out of his rich boy roots and broaden his horizons. Sure, the world may not glisten like the gold he has grown up surrounded by, but it would be extremely valuable for him to be exposed that which doesn’t glitter--so that maybe he can help not just the people immediately around him, but those out in the world, too.

I think that Kalim is usually perceived as not that deep because of how happy-go-lucky he is. However, that would be disregarding all of the hardships he has endured up until this point in his life. Kalim has never had to worry about money a day in his life, but he certainly has had to worry about attempts on his life every second of every day--and I can’t imagine what that must do to a kid’s psyche. Unfortunately, we never really hear too much about how Kalim feels about these assassination attempts, but I think that him just speaking so nonchalantly about them tells us all we need to know. It’s routine. He barely bats an eye at them anymore... but that doesn’t mean that they haven’t cut him and hurt him deeply.

If you look at Kalim’s official profile, his least favorite food is curry. Why is that? Because, as Kalim tells us in-game, Jamil once taste-tested a curry dish for him--a dish which had been spiked with poison. That curry put him in a coma for several weeks, during which Kalim was at a very real risk of losing someone he thought of as a close childhood friend. What must have been going through Kalim’s head in that moment? Pain, sadness, confusion, fear, guilt. He couldn’t bring himself to look at curry the same ever again... something he still says with a smile. It makes me think that all the happiness that Kalim projects outward may be just a coping mechanism for him to deal with the daily threat of being killed, and the unconscious thought of how many others he must have endangered just with his existence. Any other person would be somber, always on high alert--but Kalim isn’t, because how can anyone he’s with have a good time if he isn’t? He has to play the part of a happy host, chasing away the looming threat so that even he, for just a moment, can pretend like he’s living in a dream. That may be entirely speculation on my part, but I think it’s an interesting angle to observe Kalim’s character from.

There’s two major popular takes about Kalim floating around in the fandom. The first of these is that he is incompetent or somehow unfit for his position. This belief is mainly derived from Kalim’s poor academic performance, as well as something that Jamil drops in episode 4: that Kalim got the seat of dorm leader via nepotism and large donations the Asim family made to NRC. The bribing part might be true, but I wholeheartedly believe that Kalim DOES embody the mindfulness of the Sorcerer of the Desert, and that he doesn’t lack intelligence. On the contrary, Kalim is incredibly socially intelligent--Leona even points it out as a strength of Kalim’s in episode 6--and he unintentionally knows how to wield it well to forge strong relationships with others. This is an incredible skill for a merchant or a businessman to have; Kalim can make connections with people and create what is essentially a network of buddies to help him out of any and every situation, and he doesn’t even REALIZE the power he has. That’s scary in its own way--can you imagine how terrifying that power would be in the hands of someone that DOES have ill intent?

Now, the second belief that’s pretty popular is that Kalim has done no wrong. While I’m not saying that I think Kalim is secretly an evil mastermind, to think that he has done “no wrong” implies he is totally innocent and has never done anything bad in his entire life. In my opinion, Kalim has hurt people, and in a way that’s more insidious than you may think. He hurts people through his words without even realizing it. Like Rook, Kalim is brutally honest--but unlike Rook, Kalim has zero self-awareness. As a result of that lack of a filter, Kalim unintentionally says things that can offend other people (ie when he commented that Riddle tires fast, implying he has low stamina)--and because he’s so candid about it, it can somehow sting all the more. I can see some people easily dismissing this because Kalim doesn’t hurt others on purpose, but I disagree because hurt is still hurt, whether intentional or not. I do believe that Kalim would apologize afterwards once he realized his mistake or if someone were to express that they were offended by him, but that still doesn’t change the damage he did, or the fact that he wasn’t able to stop it from happening in the first place. It’s the same principle that made Jamil resent Kalim so much: his obliviousness to the suffering of others, and the naivety to believe that every problem has a simple solution. I don’t necessarily blame Kalim in his entirety for this; it’s an obvious area of weakness for him, and something that can be improved with time and experience. He should still, however, be held accountable and own up to his mistakes (which, again, I think he will more readily do than the other NRC boys would).

#Kalim Al-Asim #twst #twisted wonderland #disney twisted wonderland #notes from the writing raven #ask game #character opinion bingo #spoilers