#what i said it right i take no criticism

[crownedwille]

I've come to the conclusion that loving young royals doesn't mean I can't be critical about it, maybe especially bc I love the show so much I have such strong feelings about it, good and bad and I can love parts of canon and agree with it and appreciate it but I don't have to love it all. I have accepted that it's okay if I don't accept the ending and I don't have to force myself to support it. It's okay to not agree with all of canon and it's okay to not side with all of the creators' intentions/views. Loving a show doesn't mean you have to take everything the writers say on face value and that's the only version that is allowed to exist. Canon isn't everything and fandom is about curating your own experience that makes you happy and not miserable. You don't have to dismiss canon in every aspect and ignore it entirely, that's certainly not what I want but there is a fine line between being canon respectful, allowing some parts to exist and sometimes, yes, you just have to say "fuck canon" and move on for your own sanity and wellbeing

#especically in the first two weeks of a new release everyone is feelings lots of intense emotions ranging from ecstatic to angry #everything in between is a part of it and i know i'm also feeling very strongly about it right now #i always try to stay levelheaded and rational and see things from an objective pov and be diplomatic about discourse #i don't want any of what i say drift off too much into meaningless hate instead of the constructive criticism it's supposed to be #but when you feel so strongly about something and sometimes you really just wanna say yeah i fucking hate it lol #but i always try to explain why and give understandable arguments and not just blindly hate on something #for example - I'm aware there are fans who have some problems with s2 and don't love the season whereas i do and it's my fave #and there is a difference between expressing some criticism and justified concerns which you can understand where it comes from #and those who are just like 'oh it's a horrible season. it was so shitty and we should get rid of it' which is dumb hate and just not true #and i can't support people like that and take them seriously #i can have my own issues with s3 from a subjective pov which can also include some justified criticism as well #but also still acknowledge it as a truly good piece of tv media and the quality is top notch #and that's why you have such high expectations and have critique because it is so good and sets such a high standard #yrtalk #with that being said i understand ppl not wanting to see any critic about it if they are riding the high of happy wilmon endgame #but that doesn't mean that i can't express my own opinions on my own blog and i will continue to do so #and maybe one day i will feel differently and accept or even like the ending who knows #but it doesn't have to happen. it's fine if it does but it's also fine if it doesn't

[venomized]

they were deadass raising dylan together like a married couple are you kidding me. venom scolding eddie for working too hard??? pls

venom (2018) #200

#also the 'old friend' thrown in at the end to make it seem less gay..... #i see right through you donny cates #i've criticized his run a lot already but he did write some not awful stuff #i've also already said this but i'll repeat it #you just gotta take what serves u and pretend the rest doesn't exist lol #venom #venom comics #venom (2018) #symbrock #eddie brock #veddie #marvel #comic panels

[bnuuys]

i love u aira tumblr i love u aira tumblr i love u so much aira tumblr

#ramblings #24 qrts on a poorly worded tweet in support of aira but still #literally hate him all u want but ur logic is flawed 😭👎 just know that #enstwt grow up challenge miserably failed #ALSO #SOMETHING RLY FUNNY but tragic is like #one of my oomfies is still getting canceled over their take in support of airaPs #AND MY ACC IS LITERALLY IN YHE SS FHAKDHAJDJJSDJJSHD #U CANT SEE MY USERNAME BUT ITS DEFINITELY ME #and good! i was right when i said i ignore enstars writing like my full time job #THEYRE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS RAGHHHHHH #can people. think a little more critically can people PLEASE start doing that #like if u get to be uncomfy and i DONT feel the same way i literally think thats okay #i consume my content critically! i know what im doing #we can coexist and do our own things on the internet instead of viewing this in such a black and white kinda way ! #this is literally so fucking stupid i cant breathe #im just gonna mind my business fr i hate my twt fyp SO MUCHDHDH I HATE THESE STUPID ASS 14 YEAR OKDS SO BAD #ok sorry #normal again bye

[ragnarssons]

the way so many people are complaining, like, “this season lacked of stakes” (because there was no death??) and it’s like... when did we become so addicted to cynical pieces of media, expecting characters to die, for a story to have “stakes” or any emotional payoff? why, tf, are there people who can’t settle for a (temporary, because there is a s4) clear-cut happy ending? and i find it particularly ironic considering s1 and s2 also end up on a clear-cut happy ending but somehow it wasn’t “a lack of stakes” back then... *rolls eyes* i just feel like so many people forgot what star wars is: star wars is luke and han strolling randomly around an imperial base and finding leia just chilling even tho she is the rebellion’s leader. them escaping because obi wan bee-booped the right button. star wars is a bunch of teddy bears saving the galaxy. star wars is anakin skywalker pressing random buttons on a spaceship as a 10 years old and winning a war just like that. star wars is jar jar dropping a ball out of sheer clumsiness and zapping a whole bunch of droids just like that. star wars is grogu being captured by imperial guards on episode 7 of season 1 and being rescued by ig-11 not even 2 minutes into the final episode. star wars is nanny ig-11 just zooming around nevarro destroying the whole imperial army without a scratch to him or yknow, the baby he carried with him. did people forget how the other two seasons were also completely “lacking dramatic stakes”??? because they’re just there, i watched the two previous seasons just before s3 and let me tell you: they’re the same. the arc is the same: grogu (din on s3) gets taken on the penultimate (or one before on s2) episode, somehow the search party does everything right and everything is solved by the end of the season. even more than that, on s1 kuiil dies on episode 7, here, paz vizsla dies on episode 7. so. no death??? why is it a problem now? like?? no stakes?? a whole exiled people finding their rightful place on their planet and ridding their homeworld of the invader that is the empire, wasn’t enough for y’all?? like i get it, y’all love the depressing era of andor and all, which is fine, to each their own. but why does it prevent other shows of just being what they want to be? yknow, potentially goofy and yknow, actually hopeful? because we know how cassian andor ends up. he dies. it’s horrible, it’s sad, it’s depressing. like, are we really out there pretending that din and grogu’s storyline wouldn’t be as fullfilling because they don’t die in what is basically an atomic explosion or something???

#star wars #the mandalorian #the mandalorian spoilers #ngl i'll take the mandalorian over rogue one like EVERY DAY #im rambling like ironically this is mostly a criticism against the french fucks i see all around youtube #yknow we french are sUpErIoR and we want our entertainment #to be dramatically tragic i guess like FUUUUUUUN *shrugs* #anyway i hate star wars nerds #like maybe check back up on what you've signed up for #cuz literally filoni ALWAYS said he'll right happy hopeful endings #also STAR WARS ALWAYS HAD THAT #the way people pretend that this 3 seasons arc holds NO REWARD #because 'there was no stakes' like????? #y'all are WILD #yknow what take your game of thrones shit ending #full of 'stakes' and go away

[elitehoe]

Hangman really is one of TK's go to guys and to talk shit about him in any sense is so fucking laughable. When TK needs someone to put on a damn good match, he goes to Hangman. Why? Because he's undoubtedly one of the best on this fucking roster!

#i take absolutely zero hangman criticism these days #I'm always fucking right #and if I'm not right i simple gaslight myself into believing i am #put some god damn respect on hangman adam page name #i said what the fuck i said #hangman adam page #hangman page #aew #aew lb

[starlitangels]

A concept I have always loved the idea of and wish I was in the business to actually create

is a movie trailer where it starts out with Tears for Fears' version of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" and obviously it's setting up the movie as some sort of rom-com or otherwise comedy movie

but then halfway through the trailer it transitions sharply into Lorde's cover of the song right as the audience realizes this isn't just a rom-com or otherwise comedy—it's a dark, suspenseful thriller

anyway that's what The Balance storyline's trailer would be like if it had a movie trailer

#I said what I said and I'm right. I don't take constructive criticism #Star's Random Rambling #Redacted Balance #Redacted ASMR #Redacted Audio #Redacted Elliott #Redacted Sunshine #Redacted Brachium #Redacted Blake

[lauranthalasah]

Orym had to tell Keyleth about Imogen... he had!

The only other option he had was to tell her in secret, but he chose open honesty.

Notice he didn't say anything at first when Liliana was mentioned, but then Imogen starts talking about maybe Liliana saving them IN FRONT of Keyleth... and Keyleth was watching! (Matt did that check that Liam and Marisha clocked) Now, maybe Imogen was just stating a doubt (she might even be right) but Keyleth has no context for this and she could think Imogen was making excuses for Liliana.

Orym has known Keyleth all his life, she has always been just. Unless Imogen does something to betray them, he has no reason to fear for her, and all the reason to tell the truth, explain the situation, and vouch for Imogen in Keyleth's eyes... which would help to maintain the trust Keyleth has on him.

Look at the table at that moment, no one was surprised. Laura thought Liam was gonna talk about Vax instead of Imogen's connection with Liliana, but she was not surprised by Orym sharing that information.

Right afterward he does that, we find out Keyleth was suspecting already. Orym made the right move! The smart one! He, and Bell's Hells too, can't afford misstrust from their allies! At that moment, the best option was honesty.

The only alternative was Imogen explaining on her own, but she suggested to Orym a change of theme instead of coming clean, the chance was right there, and she didn't take it. Orym hasn't talked with Imogen since their reunion. Before the fight with Ludinus, Fearne and him were planning what to do in case Imogen got tempted by her mother and Ruidus and all that. Let's be honest, Imogen herself has admitted she has felt tempted by the power, and we don't know how much control she has over all of this... Orym has reasons to be concerned, and Imogen trying to change the topic of the conversation instead of saying what it's kinda obvious (she and Liliana look alike), don't assure those concerns, hid best move... in every direction, was to be honest. Putting all the cards in the table.

Keyleth tells Orym what to do in case of betrayal in front of the whole group, so everyone knows where everyone stands. Like, if Imogen has no intentions of betraying them, then she has nothing to fear at all. If she has that intention, she now knows that she'll have to fight everyone else except maybe for Laudna (if she attacks Orym, she'll have to fight Fearne, if she attacks Fearne she'll have to fight Chet and Ashton, is she attacks Ashton and go against the gods she'll have to fight FGC*), and I say "maybe Laudna" because I've noticed a trend of them been tempted by power and the darkness on their own... but not wanting that path for the other, in fact Imogen made an interesting change the time they were apart, she is the one trying to fight the temptation now and keeping herself and Laudna away from the darker path.

* I know that maybe others would jump to protect Orym and start this domino, but the one person I have no doubts it would do it, is Fearne.

#critical role spoilers #bells hells #Orym #i know that some are going to assume my posts are only cause Orym is my favorite #but to be honest... I'm starting to get frustrated over how the people “defending” Imogen (and Laudna with the Bor'Dor shit) #they are taking away their agency! #Imogen and Laudna decided to do the things that made other people take decisions of their own #Imogen starts kinda maybe trying to defend Liliana in front of the leader of Orym! #of course he had to come clean!! #Laudna does not regret killing Bor'Dor! #she regrets the prize she might have to pay for doing that the way she did! #Orym and Ashton were... and are... perfectly ok with Bor'Dor's death #Liam said Orym would have done it if Laudna hadn't gotten to him first #I think both of them also regret what is costing Laudna #but to be fair... they respected her choices then and now too #these two women are adults and capable #they have a right to make the choices they want to make #but every single character has to deal with the consequences #like... Imogen is compromised... SHE IS! #the same way Orym is! #he has admitted he can not be objective about the philosophical discussion #these people killed his family #he doesn't care if they have a point... he is gonna killed them if he can #by admitting to this he allows the rest to know that they will need A LOT to change his mind... which may never happen #I think Imogen has changed a lot in their time apart #i think the only thing remaining in her is a hope that her mother could/would choose her (understandable) #and a slight temptation over power... that she is fully seeing as dangerous and wrong now #Imogen and Laudna are far more interesting characters than some people made them by making them victims at every single turn!

[shuriflurry]

Hey, welcome to the world of toh criticism! Glad to have you here. I second all of your thoughts on toh's worldbuilding, there was absolutely no effort put in there other than 'what if human world but ugly'. And you are so right about the school's placement system. Why they thought it made sense for the only courses they offer to be a kindergarten level class and an advanced class for high schoolers, with the only thing separating them being knowledge of two spells, is beyond me. I'm excited for you to get to Belos though, he does give the series that much-needed plot structure and while they do drop the ball on his story it's really only towards the end and he's easily the series' strongest (or only strong) point up until then.

Thank you! Happy to be here 😁 and yessss I am so looking forward to plot. The episodic nature of the show is driving me mad. Especially when they are blatently copying story beats from other media (I'm looking directly at the episode where Luz goes to school for the first time and most of the jokes/events are obviously taken from HP)

The school's advanced placement system is so fun to make jokes about. @monkeymindscream and I got much enjoyment out of that.

#personal #toh criticism #best part of it as mms pointed out is that it literally only is like that to provide a way for luz to be in the same school as her friends #because god forbid luz work for anything even though she has no right to be in the advanced course #since she HASNT WORKED FOR IT AT ALL OR GROWN UP IN THIS CULTURE #and there's not even a point to it because umm #not sure what high school dana went to but like #there are these things called ap classes #and you can be in them and still have classes with people that arent in them #so there's no need to break it up by baby school and advanced school #amity literally could have just said yeah i'm taking the equivalent of ap courses so i'm not sure how many classes we'll actually share #also if the school is broken up into covens how many classes WOULD the students even share because i cant imagine the covens having overlap #their school system is going to be the hill i die on i stg #the more i think about it the worse it gets

[anonymusbosch]

welp. meow meow meow

#right as i think 'wow im so glad i decided to get out' i got the 'we have paused hiring for this position' email #also i am trying So Hard to be So Nice to the work ppl im having a hard time with and their boss is like Lying to my two-up boss #about me being mean to techs #and being super petty to the rest of my team #but really straight up lying and saying im like bullying techs? what? i brought donuts and i said how much i appreciate their work!! #and have explicitly made not a single criticism or asked them to do anything outside of the function of their jobs #AND. so I got a 5:45 pm call from my boss's boss about feedback for me!! that he said [redacted] said that i made people defensive #and i was like what!! 'you asked them to do extra work and take longer and made someone defensive' every one of those is wrong #the boss of that team is such a guy! how can you be so incompetent and so mean and do petty things that do no good for anyone #meow meow meow i will talk to my boss's boss again tmrw about what Actually happened bc I keep things In Writing and . idk. slander #i am explicitly trying So Very Hard to be especially proactive and kind here that it hurts extra to have this behind-the-back accusations #meow. meow meow.

[pepprs]

my mom isn’t letting my dad go back to his office bc him being out of the house stresses her out and makes her have a flare up and it’s like kind of insane. like i understand why the idea of him doing that would make her panicky and angry as someone who also struggles w separation anxiety and abandonment shit / has physical symptoms from that kind of stress (though not to the same degree ofc) but also he is a grown man. he should be allowed to go to his office and not have to shape his entire life around her needs. and she keeps guilt tripping him out of it and it’s impacting his quality of life a lot and the whole thing is kind of… hm

#purrs #delete later #also she’s guilt tripping me into coming to the stupid fucking potluck on sunday bc she needs the extra help and it’s like… what are you #gonna do when i move out. like i am a grown woman and i should be able to choose how i spend my two precious weekend days. and my dad is a #grown man and he should be able to choose where he works. like is that not a little bit insane. i get it but also….. i do think it s kind of #fucked ip that it’s her way or the highway and her needs take priority over all of ours and she’s asking us to bend to what she wants when #she wants it. like i get it bc she’s sick but it’s not fair for her to expect that from my dad especially. particularly when me and my #brother are back at work / school in more high risk environments than my dad who would be in a private office alll day. and the thing is no #one is brave enough to all her on it bc if we did it would be the END of the world. she even threw a fit on my dads bday and complained bc #the things he wanted to do were things she didn’t want to do like all the man wanted to do was go mini golfing and when that wasn’t good #enough he just wanted to go on a walk and my mom complained the whole time and also scoffed the movie he wanted to watch and said it was #boring and it’s like… wtf it’s HIS birthday??? but what do you expect from the woman who (and in fairness her friends got her these as gifts #but still) has TWO kitchen items that say some variation of ‘a marriage is when one is always right and the other is always the husband’ 💀 #i look at that little plaque every night bc it’s in front of the sink when im doing dishes and it makes me so fucking angry. like my dad is #a whole fucking person and he can be right too and he deserves to make choices and be happy and not have his wife put him down all the time. #idk. and she puts down his family all the time too and complains when he wants to do the most reasonable things for his own enjoyment that #don’t align with hers and criticizes his interests all the time and it just sucks to see. he never shows hurt or anything so idk how he #feels about it but it makes me so angry and sad and when i tell her to stop she just lashes out at me so. 🤪. like how do we get her to stop #making her needs more important than everyone else’s bc… she may be our mom / his wife / whateger but that doesn’t make her queen. no one is #(andalso this has only gotten worse bc of covid / her being sick. like this has been a lifelong thing it’s just it’s a lot worse now bc the #circumstances gave her room / forced her to have to take up more space. and it’s just so frustrating. i get it. but none of us are pawns or #dolls or subordinates or anything. there’s 5 adults here and we should all be able to make choices and not be guilt tripped by her. lol #)

[daisywords]

actually my toxic trait is that I've never ever thought that my writing was bad idk what you guys are talking about

#not that this is a good thing! #there is something to be said for a healthy amount of self-doubt #or maybe self-doubt isn't the right word but you know. eyes to see how you could improve #I'm not good at taking writing advice and I'm not very willing to receive criticism #which is bad in terms of improvement #and I know this from my experience learning other skills which I'm not as confident about #but for some reason I'm like yeah no I like my writing and I don't particularly care what anyone else has to say about it #esp bc I feel like so much about writing is subjective and if my stuff isn't someone's cup of tea. well #I'm simply not going to take them as an objective authority #This is not to say that I think that my writing is some amazing fantastic better-than-everyone-else outlier #it's not it's just also not bad

[12pt-times-new-roman]

I am so ready for EXU: Calamity.

Like others have pointed out, I absolutely love that this is an adventure for which we know the ending, but we don't know the ending. We know what's going to happen, we know that nothing anyone can do will ever stop it — but we don't know what they will do. Matt and Brennan have created a story where tragedy and loss is inevitable, where the ending has already happened and the history has already been written, but they've done it in such a way that never robs the players of their agency.

Because the truth is, we don't know what happened. We don't know what will happen. The Calamity didn't just destroy 2/3rds of Exandria's population, it didn't just destroy every magocracy of the Age of Arcanum, it didn't just devastate the world — in a way, the Calamity destroyed itself. It destroyed its own history, and most of the history that came before it. We know that it happened, we know some of the things that occurred — but all that we know exists on the order of gods.

Vespin Chloras released the Betrayer Gods because he wanted to ascend like the Raven Queen. (Dire Children chase the Matron's wake.) The Betrayer Gods, upon seeing the world, no longer sought to destroy but to dominate. (Festering wounds from schisms long-since passed.) They formed a stronghold at Ghor Dranas, decimated Xhorhas, and launched an attack on Vasselheim. That attack forced the Prime Deities to descend and fight the Betrayer Gods. The Apotheon was given gifts of the gods and nearly defeated Gruumsh, Torog was banished (probably by Sehanine), Tharizdun was locked away by Ioun and Pelor, and the Betrayer Gods were imprisoned once more. The Prime Deities left Exandria and built the Divine Gate so nothing like the Calamity would ever happen again. (The wheel will always spin, its gilded fulcrum rotting from within.)

So the history is written, the time has gone by, but the stories haven't been told. Things end in tragedy and destruction and inevitable loss. The march of time will carry on, the march of time will stop for no one's hands, the march of time will inevitably and invariably push forward. That history happens, has happened, will happen. It's gone by. It's done.

But that's the thing about tragedies.

In my eyes, a really, truly good tragedy is a story where it seems like there are a thousand, thousand times where a character could've made a different choice, a thousand chances for things to end up better, a thousand opportunities to avoid what's coming next — but where it simultaneously feels like nothing could have ever avoided the inevitable end. A good tragedy comes when we know that the characters could have made a different choice, could have done something different, could have changed course, but we also know that those characters never would have. And that's what we know now: this tragedy will happen, because these characters may once have had a chance to stop it, but they were blinded by their comfort and arrogance until it was too late. They could have had a chance at stopping Chloras, but they never would have.

(Honestly? I think that these characters are the people who could've stopped Chloras from releasing the Betrayer Gods, but didn't. I think the city they're on either housed the temple he used, or floated above it. I think that we're going to get to see Brennan play possibly the greatest mortal villain in all of Exandrian history, and I really, really hope that this is the series where we finally get to see a full party of 20th-level characters.)

I can't find it anymore but there's a post floating around about Shakespeare's tragedies — about how if you put Othello in Hamlet's plot he'd have killed Claudius immediately, and if you put Hamlet in Othello's plot he'd out-think Iago. But it's because the characters are who they are that these inevitable tragedies are allowed to happen. Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher, had a saying that went something like this: character is destiny. I think this is what they meant.

We know how it ends, but we'll watch it anyway. Because really, we don't know how it ends. We know how people think it ends, we know how the gods told people it ends, and yeah, that might be the truth. But there's a world of difference between world history on the order of gods, and the tale of a group of would-be heroes who never really had a chance but tried anyway. (Especially when those gods are known to lie.)

#critical role #critical role meta #exandria unlimited #exu #exu: calamity #exu calamity #note watches c3 #at first I thought one of them might play Halas but iirc he was born during the calamity but this takes place right before it #someone else said that Sam might play the Aeormaton that FCG once was and whoever you are I love you #that would be so fucking cool #but we know for a fact that Leylas Kryn lived through the Calamity #and I do have to wonder #what if all (or some of) the characters they play are consecuted #and we eventually find out who they are in the present day? #or what if someone plays one of the Somnovem? someone from Aeor? that mage trapped in the bubble in the amphitheater?? #there are so many possibilities #I apologize in advance for the state of my dash whenever things about this drop

[oatbugs]

thinking abt that psychology lecture where they taught us how thinking about good memories makes your life obiectively better over time

#personal #i think i subconsciously equated memory and nostalgia. and i dislike the feeling of nostalgia so i avoided so many memories #i asked the masters student if every love song he listens to is about philosophy and he said everything is #everything is about the thing you love if you love it enough. i saw a star through the london light pollution (caught in an eternal nightly #daylight) . i was with a friend and another friend who had just gotten an unexpected diagnosis #we told her congratulations you're autistic and that means you may now explore a revolutionary depth #inside yourself. and it was all still about philosophy. (you sent us back a letter in said in capital letters #THE UNIVERSE IS GOING TO CATCH YOU.) one day i grabbed my friends arm and we jumped over a rusted metal fence #the soap-beaten bleach-eaten clothes i was wearing at the time still smell like rust and metal #for a brief moment i sympathise with the rusted case of a computer i saw when i was 5. i wondered if it had died #violently. i am spending my life protecting their ability to learn. and each time i ask a neural network what led to its choice of #planetary object it gives me the same blank stare of a young child which is in truth a black box to drown in. #when i was too young and i used to think of death too often i imagined my body was a machine. i imagined #liquid gold around my joints. i could never hurt a machine. i could never hurt a body that was a machine. #my neuroscience professor paused after a long lecture and told us #your body is not a computer，it is a flawed and gooey and imprecise mechanism. your nervous sytem is an intricate machine. #is every song about philosophy? is every song about the way machines learn? on the weekend i ignore the parts of him that have #rotted and pull the passion right out of his nerves. he told me he needs a way to kickstart critical periods so that he may learn well agai #and i told him taking every drug on the planet wont make a clever brain cleverer. he confessed he didnt plan #on making it far enough for it to matter. i checked his pulse and i told him that his body is a liquid imprecise delicate machine. #sometimes you become terrible but you are not an exception to being a winged thing. if you hold me you will smell like metal for the rest #of your life.

[holyshit]

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#'no need to post' anon #yeah like you said in your second ask i think most of the criticism right now is based around them being very lazy and relying on fans #to do the work they should be doing #even if louis doesn't personally want to go on a press tour right now- there is still tonnnns they could be doing that don't require his #active participation #but instead of investing resources into him and his career and do that work #they instead just keep falling back onto the fans to do everything which is always gonna result in very limited reach #so i do very much agree with the criticism people are throwing at his team right now #but regarding what you said- i agree as well there #i do think there is a lot of focus on only a specific kind of success- like the beyonce level of famous #which is not at all what everyone is gonna want #i do think louis wants to be successful and he's said as much #but everyone has different parameters for what they consider to be success #for their own life and their own comfort and downtime #like as someone who partially owns a small business- i have absolutely no desire to make my business a multi-million dollar affair #i want it to stay at a certain level that allows me to still be in control of it #where i get to live a comfortable life and maintain my business at a manageable level that doesn't take away all my free time #i'm still ambitious but ambitious within the parameters of the kind of 'success' i want #and i think it's weird when people act like i'm not ambitious or driven because of that #and i think people often views it in a very black and white way- either you don't care at all or you want to be the biggest artist in the #world #which i think is a narrow way of seeing it #none of us truly know what kind of success louis wants. i think he does want his music to be heard and i do think he wants to continue #growing his fanbase and his live shows #based on what he's said. i think he's ambitious and driven. #so i think his marketing departments need to get off their asses and do more #but do i think he wants to be the biggest artist in the world and constantly be on press tours? not necessarily. maybe. idk. #but i don't think that should be the only barometer people use when judging what success is. it varies a lot from person to person.

[agent-farah-hauville]

Dracula is the most overrated book in all of romance club

#romance club #rc #dracula: a love story #i said what i said #and no i wont be taking any criticism on this because I am RIGHT

[the-moogle-of-your-nightmares]

i truly love making people mad by applying basic reading comprehension to the words that are in front of me instead of using telepathy to intuit that a stranger means the exact opposite of what they said, using my block button, and moving on with my life

#moogletalks # ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #i have a cat to pet; and believe words mean things; and some of those things are in fact Critically Important to communicate clearly #if you don't want to quack like a duck and get called one; or validate actual ducks en masse. we are not the same #and like to be clear i know that not everyone who reblogs that kind of post is picking up on what it's actually saying #as in Actually Saying; with words and not telepathic vibes #but i also think it's very telling that posts about defending people's right to be Crazy and Unhealthy(tm) about relationships #in response to criticism get defenses leaning on calling the person 'insane' and a 'lunatic' 🤔 #anyway this is the last i'm gonna post or look at about that bullshit #including more than just the one anon embarrassing themself in my inbox #i am spraying my febreeze and moving on #abuse cw #ableism cw #anti-survivor cw #edit: okay one last thing actually #'but how was i SUPPOSED to know that when i said i wanted to express myself by beating loved ones' faces bloody because i was mad' #'people would take it at face value??? ummm i was being POETIC???' #'i've never hit someone in my life how dare you??? what would have possibly given you that impression???' #'the only reason you're calling my abuse rhetoric abuse rhetoric based on the evidence of your eyes is bc you're Crazy Irrational & Insane' #'quit stifling people's humanity and emotional expression you [slur] [slur] [slur] [slur] [slur]' #which like none of this approach helps one's case for THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT I'M NOT ABUSIVE IT'S NOT ABUSE RHETORIC I SWEAR lmfao #(for clarity's sake it was about 'screaming blood and guts and crying' at people; not physical abuse. but it is not a whole lot better lol) #(if you are in a relationship where someone is regularly driving you to the point of screaming at them because you are at wit's end) #(and nothing else works to get them to back off and stop hurting and goading you) #(and once you finally lash out; they use it as a get-out-of-jail-free card for addressing any of your concerns #bc you're Crazy and Emotional. that is not a safe relationship and you need to get out instead of investing in it /more/ #and if you realize that you /can't/ get out... it is REALLY NOT SAFE and you most definitely have abuse on your hands here #this rhetoric is dangerous for victims on both sides of the coin. don't encourage people to stay in relationships like this #don't encourage them to stay in relationships where they are metaphorically having to physically defend themselves from an abuser #instead ppl need to learn what goading looks like vs existing in ways an abuser takes offense to. i cannot overstate how important this is