#what an unreasonable take lol

[randomfoggytiger]

I don’t know why you need to be a “mulder apologist.” You should just accept that the show as a whole is a tragedy, and misogynistic. The fact is that Mulder DOESNT love scully as much as she loves him, his world doesn’t revolve around her. I don’t think that’s a very good relationship, but believe what you want to believe I guess if you want to be delusional

I think you're my first hate anon! What an honor! :DDDD

(Note: Probably grammatical errors below; I'll edit later~.)

I disagree-- the show gave Scully powerful agency, Mulder gave her respect and love and admiration, and the two of them "didn't regret a day." If you notice, Mulder and Scully save each other at the same rates (for every Unruhe there is a Kill Switch); and more often than not, Mulder is too late to save Scully, leaving it up to her to save herself/stall for time/survive by chance. She never blames him and he never blames her, because that's their job and their life.

Onto the romance~

Okay, so: Mulder's whole goal in life was finding Samantha: "Nothing else matters to me" in the Pilot. By the end of that season, he and Scully were already dancing around their feelings-ish for each other (Mulder more in denial than Scully in Tooms, for instance.)

By S2, Mulder was adrift and internally bleeding without his partner; and it was Scully who saved him and showed him he CAN still talk and work with her. His adorable stuttering over the phone to her in Sleepless and his rage and grief in Ascension were peak early s2. 3 and One Breath touched on Mulder living in shuttered down mode: he became a lump who poked around cases, antagonizing more than helping. He connected with Kristen because she, too, had loss to his same degree. He wore Scully's cross, he shoved a gun in CSM's face, he gave up the X-Files as self-punishment for his partner's coma. He then gave up revenge, his secondary fall back, to sit and hold her hand while she lay dying. The rest of S2 Mulder hovered like a comforting shadow, peering into Scully's face for nuances and keeping himself constantly in-tune.

S3 they'd both mellowed out, lost a sister, and were united under a flag of avenging their loved ones. Scully was BACK, and Mulder didn't 'need' to tip-toe around her anymore (as she'd sensed in Irresistible.)

S4 was unfurling from strength and teamwork into Mulder beginning to ponder their future-- Home, for instance-- and Scully knowing he wouldn't be ready for that until he had his answers. BUT it was Mulder who mentioned settling down, gene pools, and then reestablishing distance by "mom"ing Scully's 'nagging.'

S4 ALSO explored Mulder's bottomless grief as Scully got worse and worse, his silent screams at her dying bedside, how he ALMOST sold himself to save her but knowing SCULLY would never forgive him and would rather die. (Her smile at his "you would tell me if I was making a mistake" confirms this.)

S5 was a dark season for Mulder; but his reliance on Scully never wavered. He lost more and more and more; but, in all his loss he never overshadowed Scully's losses: Emily, chiefly. Neither were distant (because that duo never could be, really); but they were walking-- especially after the Sims episodes-- like a birds with a broken wing each, leaning on each other for support but also limping slightly away in their stride.

S6 followed FTF's big revelation and confession; and The Beginning tainted the overall perspective. But I posit it was a good time for Scully and Mulder despite being on toilet brush detail: Mulder included Scully in everything except the time-sensitive mission in Triangle; but she still saved him, even in another dimension. One Son really got everyone angry at Mulder-- understandable-- but for every mistake me made in that episode, he turned around and did his best to correct it (doubting Scully = investigating Diana, giving up to CSM/Diana = pulling himself together and becoming supportive backup to Scully's mission, etc.) The rest of S6 was Mulder trying to make sense of his muddled happiness with Scully and the progress they've made while also having his full-time X-Files life back. Milagro-The Unnatural proved to himself the shift in his priorities; so much so that he later took her doubt in Field Trip very personally. Again, that episode proved that, without Scully, there would be no Mulder.

Biogenesis-The Sixth Extinction-Amor Fati was a joint realization for Mulder and Scully: it explored Mulder's craving for a normal life-- willing to give up the X-Files and himself, but failing without Scully-- and Scully's confrontation with herself over her beliefs and fears of believing. This led Mulder (whether he and Scully were dating seriously yet or not, like I think they were) to toss his final, fearful reservations aside and COMMIT to Scully (publicly) in Millennium.

S7 was a good time for both, so much so their HEAVY traumas were weathered and survived with each other (Orison, Sein und Zeit.) Mulder knew Scully so well that her "I'm fine" in En Ami told him she was in trouble; and he adored her competence in The Goldberg Variation and The Amazing Maleeni and Theef and X-Cops and Hollywood A.D. so much he was practically melting.

Requiem was Mulder's realization that Scully's importance was so much greater than the quest, willing to set their life on the X-Files aside to live it peacefully with her (both afraid it was an alien problem or a cancer problem.)

The whole show proved how lost Mulder was without his Scully; S8 proved how lost Scully had become without Mulder. But STILL, she kept up an impressive solve rate, made connections personally and professionally, and somehow managed the Kersh boat so well he attended Mulder's funeral (for optics, yes; but he wouldn't have come if there wasn't something to preserve between his and Scully's good will. He would have made a nice statement, left before the service, and that would be that.)

S8 Mulder flounders in the face of Scully's competence WITHOUT him, not realizing that Scully solved so much because she took cases that were, likely, easily proven (especially after Mulder's death.) She'd come to rely on his instincts, and almost died or made a faulty move without him there. (That's why she was so grateful to Doggett and conflicted about leaving him so unceremoniously in Alone.) It culminates in Mulder believing Scully and her baby would be safer in a location far away from him, his confidence in himself at an all-time low; but he still charged after, commissioning a helicopter in his quest, to 'save' her once again. Mulder's smile at his partner and his son in the final moments of Existence are priceless.

If you want to argue for canon past S9, it was Scully who convinced Mulder to go on the run; he wanted to see her and his son all those months, writing forlorn emails to her; and his family were the first people he wanted to know about when he was brought back and incarcerated. He questioned himself and his quest in The Truth; and it was Scully who assured him (like she had in TFWID and FTF.) IWTB is a weird one, but Mulder only took up the case because Scully talked him into it; and he kept at it likely to help others but also to win his freedom and a "normal" life for Scully. The breakup was even weirder; but Scully was just as damaged as Mulder and decided they both needed space to reassess their lives and grow stronger as people (as unjustified and unexplored as that was in canon, it was at least better than the original reason of "we weren't compatible." ) Mulder spends the Revival winning back his love with his charming, more in-tune habits; and Scully enjoys their old dynamic and being wooed. The Finale was the weirdness cherry on top of the cake; BUT it was Mulder who was desperate to be a father and Scully who brought him back from the brink with the news of their second miracle. So... there's that.

I don't think the show is misogynistic. The show didn't JUST take from Agent Scully because it first pickpocketed, robbed, and beat up Mulder before she was ever partnered to him. Mulder's losses are tremendous; but he's so internal and monotoned that his grief is harder to detect compared to Scully, who is more visceral and a horrible liar (plus, the writers wrote about her tragedy a lot because GA's acting was so good they wanted to see her carry story after story. That's a compliment. Mulder got squat, especially after his mother's death and his abduction/PTSD.) Scully's story-- written mostly by men in the 90s-- rang so true with women audiences that she has a cult following to this day. GA was encouraged to write and direct her own episode, with a very supportive cast and crew there to aide her whenever necessary. I think good or bad writing is not confined to the sexuality of the writers; and to think so reduces the humanity and experiences of a person down to what genitalia they were born with... almost like that's *gasp* misogyny (literally denying Scully her choices and amplifying her faults while completely dismissing Mulder's losses and when he was done dirty by the writers). Or in this case: misandry.

"but believe what you want to believe I guess if you want to be delusional" I shall, indeed! :DDD If you want to live in a reality of your own making where Scully is a bossqueen but also a hapless victim, be my guest. Because you, dear anon, are stripping her of her agency; you, anon, are ignoring her own words she's repeated over and over to Mulder every time he second guessed himself and his work-- "I wouldn't change a day"; and you, anon, are only looking at pretty gifs of her face and thinking you somehow have the right to judge others for the life choices SHE made, erasing her own agency in the decisions that culminated in All Things and set her free from her own insecurities. That journey wouldn't have happened if she had "chosen another path"; and it wouldn't have gained her the devotion and admiration and respect of a man so much greater than anyone she had previously picked for herself. And let's be clear: Mulder would have made the EXACT same mistakes; and had already done so. It was fate they were to wind up together; but it was HER (and his) CHOICE to keep going.

Thanks for sending in an ask! Hate doesn't bother me; so, if you want to send more, it will give me motivation to prove the opposite~!

#anon #asks #txf #meta #Scully #misogyny #what an unreasonable take lol #thanks for sending an anon! #send more hate! >:)))) #this is my first hate one right? #I think so #memory ain't what she used to... well she never was. so. #2023 #Tumblr #I do enjoy answering anons #even the negative ones #analysis #hate

[whaliiwatching]

don’t talk to him ever again

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based off this by riibbon on tiktok

#luigi fanart #mario and luigi #mario bros #playboy luigi #u think i can tag the ship pervading tumblr’s ecosystem rn #y’know what? i liked it since i first found the og artist like two years ago #so yeah. i can. #bowuigi #boom i did it #this was unreasonably fun to draw #cringe and free babey!!! #plus i got to play with my new watercolor brushes #believe it or not this started out as a test to see if i could draw spandex #or leather or whatever that leotard is made of #i think it turned out nice :) #i know nothing of mario i’ve barely played it lol idk what else to write #just take it and be free

[slutdge]

Not to get deep here or anything but i really think i dont want to have a relationship with my sister anymore and ive been reflecting on that a lot. like sure she didnt abuse me or really do anything to directly traumatize me, but she voted against me having human rights because im queer, as well as voting for a party that wants to harm first nations people despite both of us being first nations i just.... i dont think i can forgive her for that. weve had laughs and good times together but i find myself unable to forgive her for her politics. i wouldn't tolerate bigotry from anyone else, i shouldnt tolerate it from someone just cause theyre family.

#can anyone provide me guidance on this? ill bring it up with my therapist but i dont see her for another week #anyways im making myself cry late at night whats new lol ive been processing a lot this week #ok eta: and theyll always make you feel bad for this!!!!! #theyll be like ''ok so everyone has to bend to your commie regime to have a relationship with you 🙄'' #like yeah actually you do #if you really loved me like you claim to you wouldnt be FUCKING VOTING FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO TAKE MY RIGHTS AWAY #yes you do have to respect my rights if you want to have a relationship with me that is completely reasonable #whats ACTUALLY unreasonable is you asking me to ''just get over'' the fact that yall support people who think i shouldnt have human rights #right wingers will try to gaslight you into believing basic human decency is an unattainable and torturous request #then when you get upset theyll be like ''god the left is so emotional 🙄'' #like yeah. i am. and you should be emotional too about human rights violations. the fact that youre not is pure evil. #anyways ill go cry myself to sleep like a faggot now #it just breaks my heart that i dont have any immediate family members who dont blatantly hate me for being queer/first nations

[riddlerosehearts]

i know it's past halloween when i'm posting this, but as a vildia shipper i've been thinking a lot about what vil and idia would do together for halloween--ignoring the existence of the halloween event that we already have--and since i imagine them getting together post-book 6, when ortho has joined the film club and idia is trying to be a better brother to him and be less of a shut-in overall, i think it's a lot of fun to imagine the two of them taking him trick-or-treating!!

i think ortho has tried to get idia to take him trick-or-treating before, but every year idia always says no because he thinks going around to a bunch of rando's houses to get candy is scary, lame, and pointless (they can literally just buy candy at the store, after all!) and he has too many special halloween events to play in his video games anyway. so one day during a film club meeting a few weeks before halloween, ortho offhandedly mentions this, saying he's always wished idia would take him trick-or-treating, and vil decides to talk to idia about it. it actually doesn't take much for idia to agree that yes, it is wrong of him to stay in his room all day when his little brother wants to spend time with him on a holiday, and he absolutely should do it this year, no matter how nervous the thought of it makes him.

he asks vil to come with them, and vil initially says no because as much as he enjoys the aesthetic of halloween, he has a certain reputation and image as a celebrity that does not include doing such childish activities at the age of 18. but idia gets him to change his mind by convincing him that, actually, a lot of his fans would love to see photos and videos of him taking a little kid trick-or-treating because it would be gap moe! a term which vil understands without explanation thanks to idia--and he can see how such a thing just might actually be good for his image, simply by making him seem less otherworldly and unrelatable. so, he agrees, and the three of them spend the next several weeks trying to make their costumes absolutely perfect.

they really go all out, and they have a ton of fun with it. idia's costume has a mask that he keeps on at pretty much all times, so that keeps him from being nearly as nervous as he thought he'd be... except for when ortho gets so excited that he tries to just blast off from house to house without him or vil. but, he and vil both are incredibly happy to see that ortho is so happy, and throughout the night idia's ego gets inflated from all the compliments the three of them get on their costumes, and he and vil constantly exchange snarky comments under their breath about the quality and craftsmanship, or lack thereof, of the costumes and decorations they come across. they collect tons of candy and idia makes sure to add a special attachment to ortho's gear to allow him to actually eat it. vil started thinking he was too old for trick-or-treating a long time ago, but he ends up being pretty glad he went, especially when he sees all of the positive reactions from his fans on magicam.

i also think that before and after the trick-or-treating, ortho would hang out and do halloween stuff with his fellow first years while idia and vil take some time for themselves! the first thing they would do is that idia would introduce vil to one of his favorite survival horror video games, one that has a 2-player co-op mode, and vil might take a bit to get the hang of it but would ultimately really enjoy playing the game with idia.

later at night, they cuddle up and have a bit of a halloween movie marathon. based on idia's love of pumpkin hollow, he's definitely into horror movies, and i also think vil is as well, since he was directing a gothic horror for the film club in silver's PE uniform vignette and then based pomefiore's halloween costumes on gothic horror aesthetics. so, vil would get idia to watch his favorite classic gothic horror film, idia would force vil to watch pumpkin hollow (which vil did not think he would enjoy based on idia's description of its story, but by the end, while he still found it a bit silly, he was able to admire its craftsmanship and creativity and see why idia loved it so much), and then they decide to wind down and watch something more lighthearted. they pick howl's moving castle and idia compares howl to vil several times during the movie, which vil briefly gets annoyed by but then uses as an opportunity to tease idia back.

#twisted wonderland #twst #vil schoenheit #idia shroud #vildia #vilidia #idiavil #vil x idia #idia x vil #sorry for all the tags lmao. twst ship names are a bit of a mess and on top of that this one is a rarepair #BUT. tbh i have no idea what halloween on the island of woe is like or if we have any information on that in canon?? #but at the very least--even if ortho and idia went trick or treating as little kids they DEFINITELY never did it again after OG ortho died #also the thought of these two watching howl's moving castle together is unreasonably funny to me i'm sorry #idia: a super hot and super scary mage who steals pretty girls' hearts? sounds a lot like you LOL #vil getting VERY close to idia: hm. then YOU must the lovely young thing whose heart i'm planning on taking next. #idia: trying to stop his entire head from turning pink #they get to the scene where howl throws a tantrum and says there's no point in living if he can't be beautiful #just because his hair accidentally got turned orange #and idia goes 'LMAO wow babe he's just like you fr' #vil: wow and you're just like calcifer! you're both fiery and lovably obnoxious <3 #okay. anyway. EVERY TIME i make a post about this ship it's already longer than originally planned and then i add more in the tags #so i'll stop it here

[tka-trashfire]

Love that I (somehow?!) still own some stories I wrote* wayyyy back when I was four years old.

Also love that it was, uh, shit like this?

(* yes, my teacher clearly did the actual writing down of my narration, bless her, because how else would anyone have any idea that that's what this honestly baffling art is apparently supposed to be depicting XD)

#my mother didn't allow horror or ghost stories to be told in our home #but holy shit is all my kindergarten fiction just... death and weirdness #also a stunning number of dead-and-dying Jesuses #which is apparently what you get when your parents convert to a religion when you're four-years-old #(funny aside: my mother has long told this story about how much it annoyed her that my school got a therapist to check on me #when I was in kindy bc they were worried about me and/or what was happening in my personal life. #My Mum's take has always been that it was very unreasonable of them #and I guess I've never really questioned that stance too much. #Until uh now #after looking at what I was apparently drawing and writing. Dead Jesus really is Kind Of A Lot as a leitmotif ngl.) #...very random post brought to you by an unplanned segue in my Drowning In Paperwork Tasks Shit #lol

[whomturgled]

:^(

#feelin like a big lonely loser tonight teehe ^__^ #thought maybe i had plans but then not n everyone else i asked didnt answer or had plans w other ppl too #n i had suggested a plans with stef but she never rlly confirmed or denied but i figured not plus im kinda sick now too but #also called her just to be like hi n i miss u bc idk im SICK n i hate being sick n the way she sounded was weird AaagghGGHHHHH #n im just now realizing maybe she also ended up doing plans w other ppl #just feels like nobody likes me i GUESS which is dramatic but . aagggghhghgh #to be fair a bit of a 180 from i love u so much lemme say it 50 times last night to i call her n say ilu n shes like uhh ok haha #anD I FEEL LIKE EVERYONES GIVING ME RLLY SHORT ANSWERS N LIKE #but i dont know if i have the energy to give a lot of. energy. ?? to expect it back? but its like #an endless cycle of feel bad so less energy or want to bug less so then deserve less in return anyway so feel worse #its kinda feeling like isolation time which i havent done in a hot minute but i tried so hard to get out of it but like . for what yknow #i got to talk to some ppl some more n meet some ppl but at the end of the day i still feel alone n alien teehee #but maybe im just bejng dramatic bc sick. and rsd with the Tones and ppl having Plans With Others #like its perfectly reasonable to have forgotten or just idk had better options or maybe bc i didnt say anything sooner buT . IDK. 😔🥺 #im sick n i hate being sick n i want someone to take care of me ugh #instead i just kinda sat here. played some OW. got mad at OW. ordered pizza to engage in basically food self harm LOL n watched some #of a show ive been meanjng to watch. jts neat so far. but yeah now i just feel like shit i guess #idk how to like. not be insane. or like. ask ppl for like. idk. reassurance or smthn or. share feelings. without feeling like i am.... bad #for doing so or itll end poorly or its excess or burdensome or unreasonable. bc it kkinda is unreasonable but idk not entirely ig yknow #and i really need to shower but i especially dont want to now that i ate food bc id rather die than look at myself naked but yea #YEAH. IDK. i feel. like shit. and garbage. and i can almost see this as being the turning point to me sabotaging my ownnpotential future #whatever ive been slowly building that i just. end up giving up now. #god i wanna call stef or pidge or someone n... ig not even talk abt this bc i dont wanna be a bother but. just hear ppl. u_u #feel like i am wanted in the world slepflsjhggbjwjr #It's My Blog I'll Use It As A Diary / Thought Organizing Thing If I Want To !!!!

[coquelicoq]

the onset of voicing in the /b/ and /p/ phonemes are different in french than in english which is why french p's sometimes sound like b's to me, but for some reason i have not been able to replicate this yet in my own speech except in the word "père". pretty solid on pronouncing père, not at all on pronouncing any other word with a p in it. baby steps i guess.

#omg i just looked this up in ladefoged and he even has a handy chart comparing the voice onset time for /b/ and /p/ #for french and english!!!! #thanks petey! i take back what i said about you last year not giving me the sufficiently complicated algorithm for determining the lexical #stress of any given english word #i mean i still want that but you're dead and i understand that it's unreasonable to ask things of you in that state #so that's on me. and now also you've got my back with this VOT graph. you're a real one #if you're curious voicing starts about 10 ms into the english stressed initial /b/ and about 60 ms into english stressed initial /p/ #whereas french /p/ is about 15 ms and /b/ is -100 ms or more #that 5 ms difference between english /b/ and french /p/ is blowing my mind because i CAN hear the difference. it's just that french /p/ is #closer to english b than it is to english p so it kinda sounds like you tried to make an english b but were just sliiiiiightly off #but damn. five MILLISECONDS??? that's the difference that i can hear? sometimes? #it's already crazy enough that 50 ms is the difference between a /b/ and a totally different phoneme. like delay vibrating your vocal folds #for a mere fifty milliseconds and you have made a whole other word! bestie that is sooooo few milliseconds!!!!!! #my instincts are so off on this lol i was thinking VOT for /p/ was like 600 ms and VOT for /b/ was 100 #wow. send me back to phonetics 101 i guess. actually that sounds very fun i would love to take remedial phonetics #french #phonetics #my posts #my french pronunciation journey has gotten so much more fun since i stopped freaking out about how bad my accent is #or well i still freak out about it. but less! #turns out it's really hard to get better at something if you're so afraid of being bad that you never practice #also everyone else in my class has bad accents except for like two guys who have been taking the class for 12 years #and one of them lived in montreal. so that's cheating. disqualified! #god what if i just started like. recording my speech in praat and looking at the waveform and making adjustments based on the VOT #like biofeedback for my french accent #for all the rounded front vowels i can't tell apart just break out the spectrograms and start comparing formants #every time a french person says something i'd be like damn. what i wouldn't give to get that sound in my shop and look under the hood #i bet that spectrogram would be really something

[that-was-anticlimactic]

actually, no. you know what? i am so sick of this “marinette is just a friend” bs. okay. cool. adrien said she was just a friend a few times. whatever. it’s not that big of a deal and everyone in the mlb fandom like. hyperfixates on that??? idc if it’s a “just a joke” because it’s utterly ridiculous at this point. i have literally seen people go on heated rants about how stupid or clueless adrien was during the umbrella scene because he called mari just a friend. are you kidding me??? y’all are really going to take away that moment for him? he just made like his first ever friend in nino and when he called her a friend, he looked so excited because this boy has only ever had one friend before. of course he’s going to call mari just a friend because he just met her and the only time she’s actually spoken to him outside of the suit at this point is to yell at him like... y’all...

and this is not me hating on mari because i love her so so so much. i just hate how passionate and heated fans get about this. i mean... y’all... adrien didn’t even think mari liked him??? like, in puppeteer two, he is literally upset because he came to the conclusion that mari hates him. also, of course he’s not like in love with or crushing on her when she’s barely spoken actual sentences to him! again, not me hating on mari and her nerves because like i get it, it’s hard. and also this is like adrien’s first time interacting with people as peers, so 1. of course romance is not his main priority 2. he doesn’t understand social cues or situations very well At All which is made abundantly clear in the show 3. i don’t... i don’t think adrien knows what affection is??? i mean, he’s definitely learned some over the course of the show, but he’s used to a neglectful / abusive father, his stoic assistant, his bodyguard who doesn’t really talk like at all, chloé being chloé, and hoards of fans declaring that they’re in love with him, hanging all over him, acting like he’s a shiny thing rather than a person, etc... so like. how is adrien supposed to actually comprehend that mari likes him???

and okay no my last point: so so so sick of the double standard. i have seen countless people rant and rave and scream and shout about how stupid adrien is for not returning mari’s feelings or knowing he has a crush on her and then these same people will turn around and berate chat noir and say things like “gosh ladybug isn’t obligated to return his feelings:/” like... hELLO??? why is ladybug not obligated while adrien is??? it’s ridiculous and disgusting and i’m so so so tired of “just a friend” jokes on tumblr, in art, in fics, in youtube compilations... like... can’t we be normal about this? and i don’t mean normal as in “casually enjoy” i mean normal as in can we stop being so aggressive and harsh and hostile towards literal fourteen year olds my God they’re children they’re allowed to make mistakes and mess up and my God the way y’all talk about lila is disgusting, too like i hate her but i don’t want her tortured and killed??? and the way people characterize the classmates as physically and verbally assaulting mari because of lila??? like... my God they would never??? they would all honestly side with mari chameleon is a bad episode and is poorly written and everyone is out of character please use your critical thinking skills and understand that chat noir is not harassing ladybug anymore than mari may be harassing adrien (aka they are not harassing each other at all my God) and stop insulting and demonizing fourteen year olds so your otp can get together thanks

#i have. feelings. #sorry y'all #this may be harsh but i am so beyond sick of it #i've been going through the classmates tag on ao3 and filtered out all the s.alt fics for all the characters and the majority of the fics #i'm seeing are aggressive lila takedown fics or like unproperly tagged s.alt fics #where the classmates are still rude and aggressive and bully mari when even lila doesn't really bully mari that badly??? like yes it is #awful that she tried to get her expelled and lied a bit about her but lila has never been physical nor tried to kill mari and nor would any #of the classmates actually turn against her like. they may disagree with her or think she may be acting on her crush and yes lila did #threaten mari in the bathroom but like... what has she done since then? try to get her expelled and then... nothing. like. this is Not me #saying not to take bullying seriously but people take it to the extreme with lila and how she treats mari in fics and i am so so so sick of #it!!! i just want to read mlb classmate fics where they're all silly and being teenagers without mari being unreasonably and uncanonically #bullied and without the tags 'alya/adrien/classmate redemption' HELLO??? WHY DO THEY NEED TO BE REDEEMED??? THEY AREN'T VILLAINS??? THEY ARE #FOURTEEN??? as a rule of thumb i refuse to read fics with those tags like sorry but if you tag fics like that then you obviously don't know #the characters. i'm sorry if this sounds mean or harsh it's just exhausting trying to find fun or sweet or found family mlb fics because so #many of them are so negative and ooc and involve like extreme hatred towards fourteen year old fictional children... like... how do we not #see the problem with that??? like... am i overreacting??? please someone tell me they agree with me!!! i've been working on this really #stressful assignment that determines whether i graduate my future career and also costs three hundred dollars to take so i've been really #stressed and every time i try and take an mb fic break i end up more stressed because the fandom is so cruel to children ahhhhhhhh #okay i am. done. maybe i'll delete this later... i just need to see if someone agrees with me because i am. :))) on the verge of losing it #lol #mlb

[beeseverywhen]

Been reading about underground bins in Liverpool and also how now they don't need the alleys for bins in some places they've cleaned them up and put like plants and seating in them so they can sit with their neighbours and wow I'm having intense feelings of envy. I don't know what I want more, underground bins or a clean alley lol

#the alley by my house is not wide enough to have seating and i think it's too dark for plants #(im trying to grow them in the wall of next door anyway but who knows) #(i know its bad for the walls. that's why I'm growing them in next doors wall not mine lol) #(this isnt unreasonable i swear.nextdoor is a shop not a house & they have never once attempted to maintain their wall so its falling down) #but it would be nice for someone other than me to be invested in cleaning it. it's always full of sick and abandoned kebabs #but underground bins!!! wow that would be something. rn we have a tiny bin cupboard that's only big enough for 1 home rather than 6 #no room for recycling so those have to go in the porch and one of our neighbours gets pissy about it and occasionally takes the bins lol #(it's only me and 1 other neighbour that bother to recycle) #sometimes i find them inside other ppls household waste bins(so i have to dig them out) & those bins always have rotting food so it's gross #and sometimes they just bring them indoors and arrange them to block the hallway so i can't get in my house #but underground bins??? that would be something #maybe one day one of my neighbours will join in with cleaning the alleyway. be the change you want to see lol #I've got brought one of them over to my side with plant pots in the carpark & we are now jointly responsible for the gardening #and another one started recycling and got himself a bin after i ordered myself some bins #who knows who might join me in vom clean up #it's always the ones you don't expect. my recycling & gardening buddies are 2 of our angriest neighbours and spend most of their time #when not gardening/sorting recycling starting pub fights. unexpected allies #avoided them at first as didn't want to get on their bad side but turns out that was not what i needed to be worried about #i did not intend to win their loyalty but now have to keep intervening as they are trying to fight/ threaten people for me #I'm glad we are friends but please stop calling our landlord to yell at them/insult them on my behalf #i did not ask you to do that. i think the landlord thinks I'm in on it. #how often is this happening? half the time i find out months later by chance.

[bumbleblurr]

"how can BULKHEAD be able to defeat shockwave" shut up shut the fuck up shut up I will not have u disrespect my man bulkhead like this

#Bulkhead lets go somewhere where ppl wont diss u like this (holds his hand and walks away) #ok but like. my take on this #i think its not unreasonable that bulkhead can beat shockwave hes strong and smart #and shocks is Not as clever and graceful as ppl love to think he is #so when ppl are like SHOCKWAVE would NEVER lose to BULKHEAD #its like. ok i get it u dont like bulkhead as much bc hes not as attractive to u :// sorry hes not a skinny sexyman #but also not sorry fuck you #i do agree that the fight between bee bulk & shocks is waaay too short and needed a bit more back and forth to be satisfying #but to say They Shouldn't have been able to win against shockwave? #girl have u seen what those 2 have been able to do throughout the show yes they can #it just shouldve been a bit more of struggle to win against him thats what I'll agree on #besides we're ALL missing out on the comedy of Bulkhead being like ''dont try shit i can beat ur ass'' & shockwave going ''ok (sweating)'' #i think i made that joke Once before with bulkhead being the mod on bee's streams & is the one who bans shockwave lol #🐝 could you repeat the last part? 🟦

[maddy-ferguson]

Yeah and since this doesnt only involve writers but also other production stuff, i wonder how theyre gonna start filming in may or june? Bec that would also be breaking the strike too... like idk how they are going to work around that. But anyway. My estimation is that the strike will at least take 3-4 months at the very least. So like. Yeah. 2025 release seems more likely bc the strike also involves other production staff

i can't lie to you i don't know shit about how american strikes in the entertainment industry work and i was a baby (6) and not american in 2007 but i mean yeah that season 5 is never seeing the light of day i fear

#this implies that i now am american which i'm not. but i'm no longer 6 #again i'm kidding and i know everyone was already like it's gonna be 2025 for sure #but as a normal person i've always been a believer in tv shows not needing three years (that's three times 365 days +1) to produce one #season sue me... #i don't think the people behind season 5 of stranger things were ever on my team but like whatever. at least this is for a good reason #not that taking your time is a bad reason. it's just. unreasonable. to me. who knows nothing about how any of this works. i mean i'm the #one who's watching tv i think my opinion matters. hashtag humble #anyway do you know what the crossing the picket line thing reminds me of? even though that's not what you said? it reminds me of #that one episode in season 2 of grey's anatomy where the nurses are on strike and george is like guys my parents are union workers i can't #cross the picket line this is not who i am and so he spends the day outside protesting while the others are in the hospital. god remember #when grey's was good #my knowledge of how tv shows were affected by the strike is like oh this season is shorter it's probably because of the 2007 strike and #that's kind of it. like *vanessa hudgens voice* yeah tv shows are gonna be canceled which is terrible but like...inevitable? idk. maybe i #shouldn't be doing this right now. #i'm not complaining about anything i was already complaining before. i said good for them like ten days ago okay i'm an ally #i'm joking but i mean. i mean it lol. i love strikes okay i'm george o'malley #ask

[latinokaeya-moving]

i’m trying to figure out the theoretical journey to take from sumeru to get to mondstadt based on random estimates/reasonable assumptions and i’ve come to the conclusion that if you were travelling by land then there’s no way you would be getting there in anything less than a week’s time

#x #gi posting #like solidly 7-9 days from gandharva ville to mond proper #if you can get away w not having to detour to liyue harbour and instead brave passing through tianqiu valley that’ll probably cut a days #worth of travel but like. ur one the road for a week still no matter what 😭😭😭 #it’s been stated that liyue harbour road dawn winery is ~ a couple days travel #according to xiangling you’ll need three ish days worth of food #and there’s no way gandharva ville to liyue harbour is anything less than that #in fact if you’re detouring around the chasm (which seems the most logical bc MAN would it be awful terrain for caravans n wagons n whatnot #then like. 3-4 days is not unreasonable to imagine…. #i’ve had to look at the genshin map for so long trying to figure this out lol. the winery is a lot further away from the city than i thought #ngl. like ive estimated several hours away by some kind of transport that Isn’t just walking #which makes all those day trips characters take out to it seem insane but it’s fine. convenience or whatever sjdjsjd

[caruliaa]

my mum wants me to sit downstairs while home alone for “safety” bc shes scared of burglars or smth. like in not kevin macallister what do u want from me

#thts the kid from home alone. for context if u forgor #abd uugh. like its not the end of the world but it is annoying yk like #ik its to like. establish that someones home but its also v obvious that im home alone #and idk what burglar doesnt think they can take a 5’2 unathletic 18 yr old in a fight #whatever ill do it anyway just to be safe. but ill also blast my music in the speaker so there #this is the most stereotypically teenaged post iv ever made FJFNDJDNDNN #flappy rambles #its not a big deal just kinda annoying lol like i wanna take a nap #i always feel like whenever i complain abt normal annoying shit my parents do ppl will see me speratly see me saying theyre shitty #and think thats whyi think that and im being unreasonable. but thts a bit silly

[thisthisthisandthis]

sci men: i am emotionally drained

#oh keegan this one was for YOU #sobbing it will never be the same without him #not over the save either bc guy was two inches from the boards and swerved and hopped on the pick and still kept the fucking leg in the air. #matteo staring camp directly in the eye. i love this program it’s hilarious i don’t care what anyone says #and the two ends of the champery spectrum. sobbing over deniss nightmare comp and stephane hugging him saying what happened what happened #vs sobbing over miracle boy uno and stephanes rinkside bODY LANGUAGE #deniss……. i’m heartbroken… it’s been a while since he’s looked like that in the k&c #and the rest: i feel like the average human being would spontaneously combust upon staring directly into conrad’s eyes #gogogogolev redemption 🙏 this program looks a lot better on him than the short #the selevbros take up unreasonable real estate in my mind i love their style and their graceful beautiful hands #estonian fs world domination #also im so sold on britschgi lol i will not be elaborating #skate canada 2022

[unproduciblesmackdown]

speaking of “what else is new” the eternal genre of Takes available online or off through any platform that go like “this hangup / issue people can have can impede the success of like, connection & relationships & other aspects of someone’s life” like oh groundbreaking insight, go on. & then the conclusion is just “And That’s Bad” generally through like, criticizing any hypothetical individuals in a “have you considered that that’s bad? have you considered stopping? why haven’t you? sounds like a lack of Individual Responsibility...and maybe...You Suck??” vein like oh, again, groundbreaking. and it’s fast easy & free [sense of righteousness] i guess b/c it’s like oh i’m just helping, are you saying it’s Good / Better to have to struggle with / be impeded by xyz issues hmm? and like “here i am up on the cross >:)” satisfaction if anyone’s disagreeing lol like not only am i correct but ppl Hate it so it’s gotta be cutting edge, rather than it’s like, this is the most basic, well-trodden ground possible here. people hear about the notion of Ableism, resent the idea this might be a complicated thing to engage with requiring effort (but will also complain that idk it’s not serious b/c oh alllll people want to do is unreasonably issue a list of frowned upon language. like yes that’s all that exists and it must be frivolous vs being if nothing else an exercise in asking someone to shift their perspective / framework around taken for granted ideas) and then be like “well enough is enough (hasn’t done anything) i think this has gone too far & have we considered that it sucks to be depressed?? what about the people Dealing with other people dealing with issues who are doing everything right by being Not Mentally Ill but burdened or punished by the mental illness of others. not Their responsibility” like yes if we keep this in the realm of Individual Responsibility Apolitical Vibing then we can just call it a day. what does anyone expect the “absolutely demolishing these hypothetical Complacent mentally ill people, one issue at a time until everyone learns they should strive to be normal” to accomplish here. like oh enough, nay, Too Much consideration of Supporting anyone out here. i think it’s time we turned to voicing Disapproval & even moral judgment condemnation of these hypothetical individuals. can’t argue with that unless, what, you Want people to have problems? you think it’s good and right to potentially harm other people / make interpersonal relationships more difficult??? sounds like someone has some growing up to do 9_9 lmfao like again. just visionary & groundbreaking insights which is why this approach has kept being continuously reinvented here & everywhere else this whole time. like how would this relevantly / helpfully apply to the Reality of anyone’s situation on any side of anything. vs like well at least some people will be mad about This one, good posting

#ppl going ''hmm what a hugely complex topic tied to all other aspects of our lives...which'd be Resolved if everyone had My Common Sense'' #take it back on this site by a decade like ppl going ''trans people on tumblr are so unreasonable'' & ''tumblr's so Anti Recovery'' #the catchphrase of like. idfk ''recovering'' to a state of being nt i guess. b/c that's The Way & how it works for absolutely everyone #like of course there's gonna be idk Takes abt how to hypothetically Support ppl's struggles that'd be deemed Mental Health Issues which are #in turn at least Potentially counterproductive / unfounded/misguided but like. well throw the whole matter out then right #forget everyone in turn having to struggle through ongoing efforts to support Other People in this realm & plenty of others; theoretically #just say it Sucks of people to make other people deal with / be negatively affected by their Issues & who could disagree? toxicity gang?? #or even just the vague implication that if it's Extra Effort put on Normal People who are acting correctly then that's bad too #cue any ideas that like. if friends are too much effort in [pick any way you could interpret that] it's Bad #or really if they're Any effort it can be seen as bad. you Are a romcom protagonist & friends Are unconditional nonstop backup #i think if going ''have you considered that you suck'' at people hard enough would bestow w/e concept of perf Mental Health uponst them #then we'd've been all set by now...and does everyone really think that the like. call it mainstream ideas abt Good Relationships and/or #Good Communication are universal & objective & immutable & everyone agrees on those standards already right now #and like. A Post doesn't have to be something someone thinks applies to everyone / isn't abt their personal experiences but #the way plenty of shit is phrased in posts Pwning the concept of someone being Too Anxious or sm shit you Know it's meant to be general lol #and even then of course it doesn't have to be like ''any random post must be dedicated to real; specific support or it's worthless'' #but people clearly also like. are like yep this is on principle; ideally this will Affect people & they'll Get Right #(i mean probably it's more just about their own satisfaction in feeling totally justified while Also getting inevitable negative reaction) #but also like you know what. someone's Issues may not be contained within the realm of what either You *or* They can control #that like all issues of what provides ppl material support / meets their material needs are matters of Mental Health Support or what have u #like pointing out that shit like healthcare & housing & accessibility are matters of suicide prevention... #like yeah of course individual responsibility is relevant in everything but there's broader concepts of Responsibility beyond that #only addressing the individual responsibility in any matter is the flattest easiest shit you can do. why else is it so popular lol #and going ''but have we tried ascribing personal failures / inferiority into ppl struggling w/issues????'' yes. we have & continue to do so #like 95% of my life including now i am beset every day w/someone who absolute Won't take personal responsibility ever & yea it sucks #but i'm not like. making that ''wow this sucks a ton'' experience my like Worldview lmfao this isn't now my Personal Policy abt shit #going ''have we considered that anything but deliberately punishing Mental Illness just Enables/Encourages their destructive vibes??'' yes. #''well if everyone just accepted their Personal Responsibility in all ways this & any other matter would be completely resolved forever??'' #then by that framework if anyone goes ''well that's not quite it'' you can go ''sounds like someone isn't accepting their Responsibility'' #checkmate Individuals...

[kratomqueen]

wish my boyfriend would understand that this person is more trouble than they are worth

#they literally broke up my last relationship and my bf thinks i am crazy for not wanting them around him. lol #and they've pulled so much disrespectful shit with my now bf too #it's so hurtful #i dont want to be the controlling gf who makes him stop talking to a close friend but idk how much longer i can fucking take it #and of course i would be demonized if i did try to set that boundary but it's all bc of THEIR actions!!!!! #i had zero problem with them being besties with my ex. im not unreasonably jealous. it's only after what they did that i have a problem #what makes it harder is he lost his bestie a few months ago (sa accusations came out against the bestie so we stopped talking to him) #so i feel so bad making him to lose another close friend but AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH #(losing my mind losing my mind losing my mind)