#yes this is a mini rant

[frownyalfred]

“this fic was good except for…” “this would have been great but…”

some of y’all need to learn how to give better constructive criticism and it shows. so here’s a quick rundown.

Give a positive statement. “I really liked how you did X.”

Then — without detracting from the first statement, and only if the author has signaled that they are open to criticism and advice — give your second, unrelated point.

Critical point:

“I noticed how you did Y. That felt a little out of character to me because of Z reason.”

And, finally, follow up with a broad summary:

“Overall, I really liked this, thank you for writing!”

#see how different the tone of that comment becomes? #it’s very different #the point is your concrit shouldn’t detract from your overall positive points #strike the words ‘could have’ ‘almost’ ‘would have’ from your vocal #yes this is a mini rant #I get comments like these all the time these days #and I’m ok brushing it off but baby authors would be crushed #I know I would have #writing #writing things #ao3 #archive of our own #fandom #plz be nice to your authors #we do this for free #/end rant

[survivalove]

blah blah something something about how fandom gravitate towards more individualistic characters because they’re easier to understand compared to community-oriented characters whose character development is very much tied to their culture/nation because understanding a single character is easier to understand than a character AND an entire culture, especially when said culture is based off a marginalized community that exists in real life 🫠 and said fandom is majority WHITE.

#mini rant #fandom problems #aka #atla fandom problems #yes this is about #katara #cuz when am i not talking about katara #and how this fandom does NOT understand her #because y’all don’t bother to learn about the cultures the white men took from for this show #and how katara’s entire character revolves around her community and her role in it #which is also why that horrible ship is allowed to prevail #because this fandom downplays katara’s loyalty to her tribe #and the cultural implications of that ship #anti zutara #anti zutara fandom #the same can be said for zukka before someone brings it up #in fact #anti zukka #when the tags longer than the post #lmao #i’m not even gonna mention who the individualistic characters are because

[biggest-tmnt-nerd-ever]

Look what I got! It’s a model of Donatello from the 1984 comics- when they all wore red masks!

I showed it to my mom- and she goes “Honey, that’s Raphael.” So I explained to her the history of all the turtles. (She looked at me like I was the world’s biggest nerd, which is fair enough.)

It was $30 but totally worth it.

It also includes a comic with Donatello’s best moments EVER in the comics :]

#tmnt donatello #original tmnt iteration #tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt #rise donnie #mini rant #tmnt 1984 #tmnt comics #tmnt comic #yes i am a nerd

[vypridae]

btw im gaining some attention so anyone here for vees stuff!! if you think the vees are better off without valentino!! and hate on him constantly!! and say that vox deserves better!! get off my blog!! block me!! i don't want that negative energy towards my babygirl on my page!! i recognize that valentino does awful things, and he is a terrible person, but if you think he's the only one of the vees that's super awful then please go away <3 vox and velvette are literally no better, they AID HIM in what he does (velvette's love potion, vox's advertising of said love potion, not to mention their own personal issues). you can hate him as much as you want but if you want him dead because vox and velvette need to get away from him or you think they're too good for him, please dni!!

#i fucking HATE how val treats his employees and angel but does that mean i hate him as a character? no #he's awful yes but that's the point and its the same with the other vees #anyway sorry for mini rant it came to me in a vision #the vees are all my babygirls and i want it to be known they are ALL awful people and nothing they do is okay #they are fun fictional characters that we can have fun with #nothing they do is okay and i know that #i understand if you don't like any of them for any given reason and its very valid but if you think vox and velvette need better than val #then please go away <3 thank you #this applies to any vees apologists too . go away i don't want people who think their actions are okay on my page because i DONT #SORRY MINI RANT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU ALL ARE CLEAR #xanrants #should i tag this with the characters idk #maybe i will #hazbin hotel

[averagepsychouser]

To ship Arcade and Vulpes is to dumb Arcade down to nothing but a gay doctor. In ANY circumstance he and Vulpes would despise each other, and if they don’t then that’s not Arcade and/or that’s not Vulpes.

It’s always irked me that people shipped them together, it’s not cute (especially not in the context of any Legion ending). To me it’s just an attempt at being different, outright dismissal of Caesars Legion and their beliefs, or a refusal to recognize Arcade as the character he is.

#yes even in AUs they shouldn’t date #I don’t care if it’s a high school AU and Vulpes is on the football team or something Arcade would despise him and never date him #it’s not a cute enemies to lovers thing arcade is very rooted in his beliefs #he even goes so far as to off himself when he believes he’s helping his enemy #Arcade is not a cute UwU gay twink and I am so mad people dumb him down #mini rant #sorry for the rant #vulpes inculta #fnv vulpes #arcade israel gannon #arcade gannon #arcade fnv #caesar’s legion

[geekynightowl1997]

Okay- but...

Has anyone else noticed that at least with Dean Devlin- Christian Kanes characters all have some sort of ties to each other?

I mean:

Eliot Spencer; A military bred, mercenary trained, with multiple aliases- with a specific skill set, con-artist.

Jacob Stone; An art historian, with multiple aliases, genius brain, eidetic memory (?), librarian.

Alex Walker; con-artist, with multiple aliases, an eye for detail, retired giftshop owner.

The characters might not be the same but there still enough for them to be long lost triplets or something.

#leverage #the librarians #almost paradise #eliot spencer #jake stone #alex walker #at least in the dean delvin universe christian kanes characters all have to have multiple aliases #does anybody else find that odd? #almost like they want to do a crossover #long lost triplets #yes I know I'm stretching #but come on #your gonna tell me eliot jake and alex all have particular skills that #and not think they're related? #im also well aware that they are played by one actor #just-work with me here #mini rant about christan kane #this is what I get for trying to come up with a crossover

[say-hi-intrepid-heroes]

you know what pisses me off?? straight hair = normal, pretty, desirable hair.

if 14-year-old me could see my hair right now, she’d be appalled. “But I thought only straight hair could be pretty, like in Princess Diaries?” she’d say. Because that is what media taught me. Every actress, every protagonist in a glow-up teen romance movie, every influencer, if they were white (or mostly white), a girl, and needed to be seen as “pretty,” they had straight hair.

I spent all of middle school and high school straightening my hair to a crisp. Every single morning, I would spent twenty minutes minimum forcing my hair to take a shape it hated, frying it into submission.

Who was going to tell me that my hair wasn’t meant to be that way? Not my mother, who had naturally straight hair. Not the people around me who were doing exactly the same thing I was. Certainly not the media, who told me I would only be beautiful with straight hair.

I’ve been wearing my hair naturally now for almost a year, and it is still recovering from the damage I did to it. But it looks better than it ever did before because it’s meant to be wavy. My hair wants to be curly, that’s just how it was made.

Anyway, this is your sign that if you have always thought your hair would only look good if you use heat every single day to shape it in a certain way, it might be time to just see what it can do naturally. You may not like it, and that’s okay, but everyone should be given the space to try out new, maybe natural things, rather than telling young people that there is only one way that is beautiful.

#mini rant #this just really pissed me off #yes im genderfluid but i present more fem fyi

[sk1fanfiction]

on dursley revisionism

Random people with wrong opinions: "Harry wasn't abused by the Dursleys" (bonus points for 'just neglected', which is a type of child abuse btw or 'that's all fanon')

Things that the Dursleys canonically did that are abuse just off the top of my head:

Swung a frying pan at his head (at the age of 12)

Grabbed him by the neck and basically tried to strangle him (even light pressure to the neck can cause internal damage)

Starved him

Verbally abused him

Locked him alone in a small cramped space as punishment (which can cause permanent psychological damage btw, and that's in adults. It is literally a type of torture.)

Made him sleep in that same small cramped unhealthy space when they had an extra bedroom

Encouraged their son to bully him and beat him up

Left him to be possibly attacked by a vicious dog

Bonus: Hid the evidence of his existence to outsiders and didn't speak about him to others (a typical thing for abusers to do)

And more. That boy is unrealistically well-adjusted.

I know the shitty guardian trope is so common in British children's lit (think Roald Dahl) that it became normalized, but it's not. It's abuse. I am worried for the children in your lives tbh.

#harry james potter #hp metas #this is so prevalent and weird #i sometimes forget how unhinged the dursleys are myself but it's so weird to imply this is not abuse. like #i saw someone say they were not 'cruel' #also a lot of people will literally deny canon and insist that he wasn't physically abused. he was #i think it's because it's treated in such a casual manner #yes the books are narrated in a way that normalizes it but it's through harry's pov of course he (sadly) thinks that's normal #vernon and petunia didn't deserve that mini redemption arc #they would do it all over again to another kid #neither of them have any redeeming qualities whatsoever #anti dursleys #i could say more about how good people in hp canon are portrayed not to have any lasting effects of trauma #whereas only villains have mental illnesses #but that's a whole other rant #tw: abuse

[drenched-in-sunlight]

Just wanna let you know you went SO HARD when you made Freud look like an older scumbag Rusty. Like visually it’s really cool but also narratively what it implies about the end result of the V.IV Rusty persona? How Rusty can give Raven purpose but Freud can give 621 strength? Ugh it’s so good absolutely adore it

IT'S INTERESTING YOU PHRASE IT THAT WAY CUZ

so in previous title, Armored Core: Verdict Day to be exact... there's this guy called J who is the final boss that lives for the thrill of the battlefield only. he also commands a group of AC pilots called Reaper Squad who literally goes around hunting down promising AC pilots. he also has banger quote like "There is no place for me other than the battlefield. to live as I please, and die a senseless death".

Freud is basically a Walmart version of that guy (sorry Freud).

BUT. J. is actually also a Walmart version of another guy in AC4 called Joshua who is: friendly, kind, helps the player character a lot in battles, pilots the most memorable mech in the series to that point (White Glint my beloved), but still ended up as the final boss to the player character. so basically... Rusty is kinda a callback to him in some aspects??????

that's the real reason i designed Freud to look kinda like Rusty, since they are both parallels to two other characters who are also parallel of each other (it's actually implied that J is cloned from Joshua after he died). they are like two sides of a same coin thrown into the lake of 621's life: one gives them the drive for power with purpose, while the other understands power as power only, that it does not need to be crowned with other grand names, yet two opposite ideals are delivered to 621 in a same form of love and admiration and obsession. augh it's so good.

#divine-bloodlines #ask #reply #this turns into a mini rant BUT I SAW A CHANCE AND I TOOK IT #yes im really not normal while designing these characters aughh #thank u for pointing it out so i can talk about it

[aheathen-conceivably]

Josephine with a baby would be insane. I don’t have anything else to say; the dynamic between an uneasily pregnant Jo and a wishful and wistful Zelda, still waiting for lightning to strike HER again, would be so heartbreaking. I do think Jo could find new purpose with a child, especially in this life that’s so different from anything she imagined for herself, but it’s not a decision to be taken lightly or made on a whim. It would take a serious miscalculation (as if!) or some bizarre irregularity in her cycle……. Highly unlikely. 👀

Well hello hello, friend. Look at you, back in the inbox right on schedule. Grab a chair, why don’t we? It’ll be a long one….

Okay so FIRST of all this is why when you sent me that ask yesterday I was like, boy oh boy, do we have a psychological dive in store for you. Because y’all, there’s so damn much going on in that post. Why don’t we, uh, go back to an old tradition and follow a heathen under the cut while she rants about her pixels…

A plotline where Jo would be (even somewhat begrudgingly) pregnant while Zelda was the one who wanted the child would be too heartbreaking, even for me. While I think there’s potential there for support and mutual parenting (which they’re doing with Violette), at its core it would be gut wrenching for them both. I think we can really see why that is for Zelda, as she almost “illogically” wants a child more than she can describe. This is where the double entendre of Josephine talking in the mirror in today’s post comes in, because we can apply it to Zelda and the fact that there are VERY good reasons for her not to want another child. But there’s still something in her that is longing for one, and so to make her watch while it happens to her best friend would absolutely break her.

However, Jo is not aware of Zelda’s struggles at all. When she is speaking in the mirror, she is talking to herself. What we (and Gio) caught Jo in the middle of was sheer, unadulterated spiraling. If you go back to the last line of the corn post, you can see Jo setting herself up for this, insofar as she thinks that Zelda is happy because she has fully given herself over to this life, and that Josephine wants that; she just doesn’t now how.

Keep in mind Josephine is 32 at this point, and I think this is an age where there’s a moment for many people who can bear children, where you think “is that what I’m supposed to do?” or “will it make me happier?” even if you’ve decided that you don’t want children. While a small part of Jo is considering Gio in these thoughts, it is mostly self-pressure, with the influence of society and other women - being Zelda here, too. So when she’s listing these logical reasons why she shouldn’t have a child, she’s telling that to herself. She’s talking herself out of it, and as the end of the post hints at, it’s because she can get pregnant at that moment and she knows it.

But simultaneously her choice here shows that even while she is at her lowest (arguably even more than her depression because now, she’s giving it her all and it’s still not working), she will never choose to have children. You are not wrong in that it might give her life purpose, and that’s part of her thought process here too. She’s almost convinced herself that the act of bearing a child could give this pointless life she’s living meaning, and in doing so she could finally let go of her need for control and give in to her situation.

Like you said, there’s always the element of a mistake, but she tells Gio point blank “that she doesn’t make mistakes.” Of course all it takes is one, but this post is meant to show that she’s far too calculated and self possessed to give herself over not only to the intense emotions she’s experiencing at the beginning of the post, but also any sort of physical drive that might lead her to sleep with Gio when she knows not to.

She also very purposefully ends the post without ever giving in to him physically or emotionally. Even more, she’s still using selective vulnerability and sex to more or less manipulate him. Her balancing on the tip of her foot only to pull away is very indicative of this, insofar as she gives him just enough of herself without ever doing so completely. When she ultimately walks away with that little smirk on her face, its because she has truly talked herself off the ledge and reestablished some sense of self autonomy that she felt like she lost even in the act of considering a child. She’s realized that even in his world and for however much she has altered her life around his dreams and their situation, she still at least has that level of control over her own body and even his.

Y’all please just know I can write a whooooole ‘nother essay on the last paragraph so God help you if you made it through this one and imma shut up now…

#whew babes I mean it I hope you have a chair #or some some tea or a drink or something #I cannot shut up and for that I humbly apologize #am I maybe sort of on my shit about this mini arc? #….yes #cannot even deny it look at the rant #🫡 #ask #answered #Josephine Duplanchier extra #gif warning #unhinged Heathen warning #someone make me take a haitus my brain has done rotted away entirely warning

[this-is-macy]

Let Crutchie be allosexual and alloromantic.

Let Crutchie be allosexual and alloromantic.

Let Crutchie be allosexual and alloromantic.

Let Crutchie be allosexual and alloromantic.

Let Crutchie be allosexual and alloromantic.

Let Crutchie be allosexual and alloromantic.

Let Crutchie be allosexual and alloromantic.

Let Crutchie be allosexual and alloromantic.

#please #disabled characters are allowed to have sex lives/dating lives too. #i'm not trying to rustle any jimmies here but as a disabled person myself this trend is getting quite annoying and yes it is ableist. #i'm just sayin' that if any other 2 characters had the same dynamic that jack and crutchie do then people would ship the hell outta them. #and not just platonically #crutchie #crutchy #newsies #newsies musical #newsies 2017 #newsies 1992 #newsies uk #disability #disability representation #disabled characters #musical #theatre #mini rant #crutchie morris #crutchy morris

[demonicfarmer69]

Q: Does Jiujiu ever talk to JL about his maternal grandparents? 

🍋: he speaks of them with respect. but if my jiujiu raised me like my grandparents did, i....

#yea they fought a lot and even put me in between of their shouting matches #frequently which was an uncomfortable position to be in but they're my parents and i respect them a lot #listen the jiang parents are a whole can of mixed beans and ppl have many opinions on them ranging from positive to negative. #but imo jc would be the type of person to be like #regardless of whatever lvl of damage the jiang parents did to him. + #its jl so theres no way he would want to damage the image of his own parents in front of his own nephew #jl growing up under his jiujiu and seeing how strict but lenient jc is with him would find the parenting methods of the jiang parents as ... #jc is a mini yzy becaus he nags at jl like yzy did to jc YES but the difference is #jl is not hurt from it and still sees jc as a beacon of protection someone he can go to if hes hurt (biggest example is the boat scene.) #the best way i can summarise jc and jl's relationship is that jc is the eldest sister turned parent who has full responsibility over their y #does not have the same authority over the younger sib the same way a parent does #jc has influence over jl and jl respects jc but jc will never be able to have full authority over jl because jc is simply just his guardian/ #Adult Figure in his life #<- this rant is a yr old but i still agree w/ these points heh #jiang cheng #jin ling #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #jims2kevent

[squidgirlautism]

goyim dni

it bothers me so much that so many western jews adamantly deny that jews as a whole have any connection to israel and say things like “my home is long island” or something. that’s such a privileged take, maybe you personally dont feel a connection to israel, but the vast majority of jews do because it is quite literally our homeland. hence the word made to describe the jewish people: diaspora.

#mini rant maybe #but omg its so annoying #jumblr #before anyone on the piss on the poor site says anything Yes obviously i disagree with the israeli govt thats not the post

[braingobrrr]

where are all my mutuals….. where are you mutuals…

#yes i am personally offended that you’re not active at the exact same time that i am #kidding. love u all 💞💞💞 #but seriously Where Are You #mini rant

[kah-way-loh]

Necco was so excited to hear it was snowing this morning, but not enough snow has fallen for them to actually play in it yet!

[Image description: Necco the 1999 yellow and white Confetti Furby Baby with pink and teal spots is sitting in a patch of snow-covered grass. Their eyes are half open and looking slightly downward. End ID.]

#tj taulks #furby #furby fandom #furby community #furblr #allfurby #safefurby #f: necco #yes i ran outside just to get this photo of a furby on the ground. it was an impulse idea #i had to retake it SO MANY TIMES because my damn finger kept creeping over the cameras. WHY DOES MY PHONE HAVE THREE CAMERAS #mini rant aside. i am not ready for winter yet please bring back the fifty degree days

[porcalinecunt]

transphobes will scream up and down that they want to “protect real woman” and “protect the children” while their ideology actively get cis and trans woman and children alike KILLED.

your not a feminist if your ideology demonizes other woman, whether you realize it or not.

#☁️— toni thoughts #cw transphobes #mini rant #sorry i got heated rq #just saw a bunch of nasty transphobes acting stupid #yes this includes terfs #just dont wanna use their tags or else ill get mauled to death