#why are we so whipped

[mikkeneko]

watching Jiang antis go, as a Scum Villain reader, never ceases to be kind of wild

#I'm always like #why don't jiang antis just get into Scum Villain?? #the story you seem to want Wei Wuxian to be in #where he is a poor little cinderella so bullied and abused by the jiang sect #who resent his brilliance and work to undermine and suppress him #and whip him for no reason and force him to sleep under the docks #we already have this story! this is luo binghe's story!! #luo binghe is the poor little meow meow you want!! #the elaborate revenge fantasies I sometimes see jiang anti fics devolve into #are right there on the page in SV #well... I suppose that's not true. it's not in Scum Villain. #it's there in PIDW #which the entire point of Scum Villain as a story #is devoted to exploring why those fantasies are shallow and hollow #why even the abusive characters are never really that simple #and why the trope of the poor little cinderella rising into an unstoppable crushing power fantasy machine #is an empty story in the end #okay maybe I know why jiang antis do not get into scum villain #mxtx extended universe

[curapicas]

CXS: Shut up I'm trying to think

LG: *smiles smittenly about it*

#link click #this man is so whipped he's like ''aaaw he's telling me to shut up'' #I take no credit for finding this someone pointed this out on twitter #shiguang #ish #shiguang daili ren #ep 5.5 is about a married couple but I won't tell you which #I'm also posting this bc the amount of notes the angsty posts I do makes me wanna eat GLASS why do we suffer so much

[hella1975]

we may have lost another one to the bisexual hotgirl and straight loserboy agenda but trust i am fighting it comrades 🫡

#IM TRYINGGGGG. the fuck of it all is that we've been going on dates on and off for WEEKS now #and i said to him at the start im not looking for anything serious and there's a chance he might be mugging himself off #bc i am just NOT emotionally available and low and behold we were at the pub the other night and wound up having a pretty #serious talk about how ive really liked getting closer to him and i genuinely enjoy our time together but i just cant see anything #serious coming of it NOT BC OF HIM BC GENUINELY I FEEL LIKE IVE MET MY MATCH WITH THIS BOY #NO ONE IRL CAN BANTER WITH ME LIKE HE CAN AND THAT IS SUCHHH A CRUCIAL BOX TO TICK WITH ME #but i just dont think im mentally or emotionally in the place for a relationship and i dont like him ENOUGH to fight for it #like it's been v illuminating v much that 'you never realise just how mentally ill you are until you try persuing a romantic relationship' #bc DAMN. i feel insane like why cant i just be normal about things and enjoy nice things and people in my life #BUT despite me saying all this to him and TRYING NOT TO BE THE ASSHOLE he has fully admitted that he likes me SO MUCH #that he'd like to keep going on dates and stuff regardless of the end result. like he genuinely just likes my company #and will take it in any capacity he can get he literally SAID that he's whipped for me 😭 #and im like HOW DO I WIN HERE. IF I TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT IM AN ASSHOLE BUT CUTTING HIM OFF ISNT FAIR EITHER #AND I LIKE OUR LITTLE DATES AND BEING SPOILED AND HAVING SOMEONE BE A LITTLE OBSESSED WITH ME #SORRY IF THAT MAKES ME A BAD GUY. GOD FORBID WOMEN DO ANYTHING #ughhhhhhh. so yeah we're going on another date tonight. shoot me i dont care!!!! #hella goes to uni

[arseniccattails]

btw every time someone suggests a solution to a community problem is to 'read Whipping Girl' you should actually read something by bell hooks instead, or, failing that, any decent social theory by an actual sociologist or academic in another social science.

#this will fix everything #the worst offender is 'wow I'm really annoyed by this trend I haven't realized stems partially from Whipping Girl.' #'we should all read Whipping Girl about it.' #< fastest way to show me you're either a liar who hasn't read it or an idiot with no reading comprehension #ac speaks #like. there is so much gender theory out there that isn't one mid book from 2007 #why has everyone chosen it as their fucking gospel #if you think masculinity and feminity aren't innate or inherent serano disagrees with you. #if you think transmisogyny doesn't mean 'the worst version of transphobia' serano disagrees with you. #(not that people can't use the term in ways that Make Sense or Advance Good Ideas but this book is stupider than most of you realize.) #transgender

[lingerbythecranberries1993]

have you guys noticed how a lot of the “icks” people talk about getting are just about like. normal human things. like i saw this one tiktok about a girl saying she got the ick when she saw what her bf looks like when he treads water. BABE! he’ll drown otherwise. everyone wake up

#or it will be like he likes whipped cream in his coffee. like okay. so do i. it’s good. why can’t we just all be people

[todayisafridaynight]

a bit late to the driving discussion but i cant even imagine the amount of road rage mine experiences everyday, i think being in a car with him would be terrifying

let me play contrarian and say the real stress of being in the same car as mine is that he probably does 80 in a 60 mph zone while talking on the phone

#snap chats #aka me 🥴 just the speeding part no one ever calls me <3 #no but LISTEN you mean to tell me he drives a sports car and doesn't rev that bitch down the highway. yes he does #there's a bunch of jackasses in my area with sports cars and they ALWAAYS have to make everyone know theyre driving one #WE GET IT YOUR PENIS IS SMALL STOP REVVING THE SHIT IN A SCHOOL ZONE #if anyone's getting road rage it's cause this motherfucker whipping and weaving. i do not believe he uses turn signals #i don't think he's a blinker user NO THAT'S ONE OF THE TESTS OF HUMANITY LOWKEY TO BE OFF TOPIC #there's putting the shopping cart back after using it and whether you use your blinkers or not #i dont think mine uses his just cause he's goin so fuckin fast so why bother #myyyyy god i was driving yesterday and the amount of jackasses that Do Not. Use Blinkers. killing you immediately #FUCK WHAT PART OF THE US JUST NEVER USES BLINKERS I FORGET. SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH I THINK CAUSE OFC #point is use your blinkers it helps everyone including yourself it is NOT HARD

[acrazybayernfan]

#now i have the image of hermann gerland running after thomas with a whip in my head 😂 #probably explain why we run so much in 2020 they were afraid of the tiger #thomas müller #fc bayern

[maliciousalice]

#a young captain janeway and her plushie sneakers #i love that they portrayed her with silly bangs as a young girl in that flashback funniest shit and why we draw peppa similarly to this #probably could have drawn a cuter mouse design but i whipped this up in like 30 seconds lol #big brain moment giving her a plush toy she sees again in her dreams during the books #is sneakers a play on it being a mouse? quiet as a mouse? sneak sounding similar to squeak? i'll never know #little janeway is such a heartwarming thought to me #her anxious overachieving a is so cute #art #my art #janeway #kathryn janeway

[sorrowfulrosebud]

Spider season or nuke my entire fucking house season

#🥀 rambles #fucking hate spiders #WHY WAS ONE SO BIG #MY DAD WHIPPED IT WITH A SLIPPER AND THE CORPSE SPLIT IN HF #WE CANT FIND THE OTHER HALF

[bearsace]

not the way motonari route has me by the THROAT rn... and i thought ieyasu was the one who bias-wrecked me for my ikesen replay...

#ikesen #motonari #ikesen motonari #i am so WHIPPED for bitches who have a rough exterior but are very romantic and sensitive lovers #it took me so long to play his route cuz i thought it was gonna be rough on rough #but every time they say motonari's eyes were gentle? his touch was soft? his voice was tender? good SHIT. #i promise you. i will 360 my ass right back into his route as soon as i am done with it #he has so much more depth than i thought he would wow. #my overall takeaway about the fandom discourse when he first came out: #it seems to me like the whole “owning you” thing got blown way out of proportion? i totally see why people were squicky about it. #tbh it kinda irritated me too a lil. #but as his route goes on i'm like “ok yeah honestly this was a good jumping off point” #i really disliked what he was doing at first but i'll say he goes to redeem himself #i think mc's headstrongness was the redeeming factor up until we got to see his side that's lmao. head over heels for her #also .......... everytime the game is like “he's so clever. he's so smart. what a sharp mind he has” i'm like BRING ME MORE #i have the hots for a smart boy #i also have the hots for a bad boy #who would've thought it would be motonari of all suitors to marry those two tropes perfectly for me #honestly i was getting tired of replaying mitsuhide route and that's why i slowly fell off ikesen #but damn if motonari isn't changing that rn lmao....? #anyway. that's where i'm at.

[stealthsuitdeku]

You know how BNHA in the latest chapters touched on how the countryside seems to hold different views on mutants and such? There is one thing I was thinking about Mt Lady, they pointed out that she basically would create less damage if she was a countryside hero but in the city

The hero work pays more, you get more attention, you can become a celebrity faster 

Maybe there are less heroes concentrated on the countryside so less exposure to other mutants in position of power and respect as well as less heroes to police the heteromorph persecution

And as such stuff like the CRC can work more freely in there 

Oh and the Meta Liberation Army too, if Deika location is anything to go by

(and can I tie in a bit of bnha lore speculation?) Maybe the countryside was always harder to be regulated? Maybe what Banjo meant here was that the current status and configuration of the society in the arc was literally how society during early Dawn of the Exceptional age organized itself as it fell into chaos, 

and as described by Best Jeanist:

And if we take the ratio of the early Rhode island Hero System(7/189) as a mirror tho the ratio of heroes per villains in other countries that implemented it, then they were operating with (more or less) 0,037% of the available manpower to cover any ground and offer their services. So some territory would be inevitably out of reach. It didnt’ look anything like the hero saturated society that was operating before the PLF war, with a hero every corner

Smaller areas of jurisdictions for heroes because it's more managable for their resourses=>countryside criminality and hate groups being out of control because of the jurisdiction it's outside=>perpetuation of the mindset of groups like the CRC in there

And then to this day, the countryside still remains badly patrolled because there is little financial incentive under the current hero system

#bnha #meta #hero society #mutant discrimination #mt. lady #crc #creature rejection clan #I think that this line from Banjo comes from his personal experience so this is why he drew this comparision #also Banjo lived through the Rise of the Exceptional with a volatile quirk like Black whip #and that must have been tough can we talk about that too?

[blujayonthewing]

[logs into vistaprint to look at our christmas card from four years ago because I put the hot chocolate recipe I invented from scratch on the back and I can't be fucked to go downstairs and look for where I have it actually written down]

#I had to invent my own hot chocolate one time BECAUSE we didn't have any hot chocolate mix #and the store might have been out? or they only had those single serve packets maybe? I can't remember #and all the recipes I could find use cocoa powder which I've never ever had success with... #it never incorporates properly in my experience it's always just hot milk with some powder floating around in it #I have no idea why hot cocoa mix Works but anyway #MINE you actually melt chocolate chips #and it whips ass #but I haven't made it that way in A While because it's a little more of a pain in the ass than you know... #scoop some powder and add Hot Wet lmao #gotta get a pot dirty. stand around the stove for an amount of time. make sure the milk doesn't boil. you know how it is #anyway I have screenshotted and saved the recipe so I don't have to go scrounging around vistaprint for it anymore lmao #about me

[iunctura-arch]

I've been reminded on why I take payment upfront for commissions..

#lilia speaks; ooc #cw vent #this person comes to me for a commission #we work out a payment plan #and they say they have the money for the first part almost saved up around nov 13th #i ask today if they need a sketch before payment #even though my tos states i take payment upfront #they do so i whip up a sketch. #then do lineart so there's no last-minute edits needed. #they go 'can't wait to see it coloured' #and i'm sitting here like 'what' #tell them they need to pay for me to work any further #and they left me on read after i showed them the lineart #i'm giving them until tomorrow to pay me or else i'm cancelling the commission #i've got enough on my plate. i don't need this too #they said they had the money nearly saved up so why am i being hung out to dry like this? #iT'S NOT CHEAP EITHER. IT'S A $135 COMMISSION

[fizzingwizard]

it's the end of 2023 and "thief king bakura had a point" isn't a hot take now anymore than it was twenty years ago when we first learned about aknadin's crimes in kul elna

#yugioh #thats what the narrative was implying you were supposed to think that #almost every yugioh dm plot arc involves abuse of power #and probably a hero/anti-hero/villain whose origin story is being a survivor of abuse #thats why we adore kaiba so much... despite his questionable extra-ness he's the guy who turned an arms manufacturer into a game company #and took over the world... with card games #and he's still messed up and extra and not all that trustworthy #but he's also a visionary #thief king bakura was much the same but much more helpless until he found zorc. or zorc found him #even atemu is a victim. he didn't cause any of this but he had to pay the price for all of it. #aknamkanon in his impotency knew it and thats why he sacrificed what he could to help his son even a small bit #i mean heck. what about kisara #point is thats the difference between thief king bakura and other abuse survivors in ygo. #he endured the unendurable but unlike kaiba there was no atemu to intermediate and help his heart grow out of zorc's reach #he becomes zorc's pawn and the battle is no longer about kul elna or bakura it's only about zorc #the person who deserved bakura's fate (as well as atemu's btw) was aknadin but like people in power are wont to he dodged accountability #yugioh was shockingly Real about some shit despite being the Card Games Are Srs Business anime #blah blah anyway it's nice to see the usual fandom wank still goes on in 2023 so i can whip out the ol' soapbox

[skullinahat]

i mean listen if a man says hes gonna get his own kingdom you better at LEAST ask what kinda kingdom it is, fucking idiot

#gabbering #berserk #(i understand why guts would not think to ask thi and why they were all blinded by griffiths charisma) #but its so wild how the band of the hawk all followed and loved and worshiped this man who they never... actually knew anything about. #a kingdom is truly such a vague goal #its so interesting to me it wasnt ''i will make a better kingdom''. never ''i want things to improve.'' #never ''i take issue with the horror around me.'' #simply ''i will have my own kingdom.'' #like griffith was always destined to do horrific things for this goal and his goal was always corrupt #from the beginning how do we get introduced to griffith and casca's relationship? #him telling her that warming a man is a womans job #like... he was always like this. he always held this potential #uuurgh running out of words but it just makes me think how the protelariats only freedom allowed in capitalism is to ascend to the bourgois #not revoking the status quo but simply angry you arent on top of it #peasant to king instead of revolt. want to be the one holding the whip instead of on the recieving end.