#your opinions are valid

[xaeydnquartz]

Idk people i feel like majority of this discourse, whatever you want to call it, is purely due to people not getting their personal head canons confirmed.

#critical role #cr #critical role spoilers #cr spoilers #your opinions are valid #but clearly the owners of the characters felt differently

[icrowler]

Support & Changes 2 / 2

Appreciate the OG queers and support the young ones, bitterness and rules don’t help anyone 💜 

#SORRY #korrasami #zukka #fanart #lok #atla #legend of korra #zuko #korra #asami #sokka #ive also been seeing a bit of hate and phobia within the community and i'd like to saya happy fuckily duckily your bad opinions #everyone's valid <3

[canon-can-fight-me]

Shoutout to self shippers that are subjected to disagreeable/incorrect takes on their F/Os more often than they want to be. We are so strong and brave.

#canon🥊 #or I guess in this case #fanon🥊 #also your takes are valid even if it feels like the less popular opinion I promise #f/o community

[bananonbinary]

as a certified Diagnosed Autist(TM) i cannot stress enough that i am not only pro- self-diagnosis, but also pretty anti- legal medical diagnosis. it is, at best, a cruel hoop we have to jump through so privileged people will deign to give us what we need. don't fucking do that shit unless you have to, it was disgustingly expensive, fucking humiliating, infantilizing, and dehumanizing, and would probably actively cause problems in my life if i didn't have some really good allistic (-passing) people in my corner and also wasn't so fucking disabled that it mostly doesn't matter.

literally get that diagnosis if you need it for job/school accessibility shit or SSI or whatever, and otherwise dont tell the government SHIT about yourself. there is zero good reason for them to want that information. that's between you and the people you want in your life.

#as a side note: this goes for gender too #dont fucking get a special marker on your passport or whatever #trying to get ssi has made me realize how deeply cruel the system is #never reveal any vulnerability you have unless it's absolutely necessary #do not do this stuff for validation the government is not your friend and you should seek emotional fulfillment elsewhere #hm this post turned out a lot angrier than i meant #guess i'm still mad about how awful the process was #it wasnt even long it was just. so *impersonal.* #this woman talked to me for two hours. went down a fairly bigoted checklist. #didnt ask me my own opinion on much of anything. and then declared a bunch of her impressions as if they hold weight just bc shes allistic #like how i have 'identity issues' (am trans and dont want a romantic partner) #and thats just. my permanent record of diagnosis! this two hour conversation with a stranger! she doesnt fucking know me #we paid like $500 for that

[unbidden-yidden]

Genuine question for those of you who say that you want the dissolution of all states. What do you envision in place of states in terms of:

Logistics (i.e. making sure every area has the basic resources it needs in order to function and people not die for lack of water, food, fuel, medical supplies, etc.) Like not assigning these things necessarily but literally just getting them to various far-flung places.

Security (how do you prevent people from outside the area coming in and taking everything including resources, land, people, etc.) How do you prevent authoritarian groups coming in and occupying your formerly peaceful, non-hierarchical society?

Supporting people outside of affinity networks or within rigid social systems (a lot of disabled people, queer people, and other people on the social, familial, and religious outs are gonna die without some kind of appropriate systems in place to meet these needs.)

Addressing major environmental challenges that require cooperation over vast areas of land, if not global cooperation.

Rule of law, especially when it comes to human rights, freedom of movement, freedom of religion/culture, dispute resolution between governing bodies of whatever variety that doesn't involve war, etc. but also just like, basic laws governing interpersonal relationships (preventing rape, murder, theft, etc. and addressing the aftermath of those things in a humane, just way.)

Peaceful transition from states to whatever it is you imagine taking their place, without hemorrhaging lives from the most vulnerable populations.

And like, there's more that I'm sure I'd have questions about too, but these concerns are so basic that I just cannot continue the conversation without knowing what the plan is for these essential tenets of an organized society.

Don't get me wrong: I don't love states and wish we had a better system too. I am also painfully aware that states are failing many if not most of these all the time. However, what I would need to know is how what you are proposing is better than trying to improve what currently exists and isn't going to come at the cost of catastrophic loss of human life, human cultures, animal life, and land destruction. And not in a pie-in-the-sky way, a realpolitik way.

#yes this question was originally prompted by the ''I'm not [just] anti-Israel‚ I'm against all states everywhere'' leftists #but I'm not talking about that specific conflict in this post #I am genuinely asking what you envision in place of all states everywhere in the world and how we get there #it's not enough to just say ''states bad'' #that's a long-range criticism that's valid but unactionable without a real plan that doesn't get people killed #if your answer is ''just dissolve [X]'' and you don't have a Plan B? #you are a deeply unserious person and I will be giving your geopolitical opinions the corresponding weight #if your answer is ''the future we work towards should have in mind the replacement of states with a different system but #for now we will try to improve things in [X] [Y] and [Z] ways'' then sure #I'm listening #if you have a plan for an immediate overhaul I'm deeply skeptical but listening

[zahri-melitor]

I think there’s a discussion to be had about how the lack of current consistent character bibles affects comics in terms of characterisation.

Because I think there actually is a lot more consistent characterisation than people sometimes want to realise when they’re complaining about appearances being out of character. There tends to be a background set of character notes writers who DON'T follow a character obsessively know about them when writing them, and they're often based in their early or most prominent stories. Even if people are willing to look, they’re mostly going to dip in to a couple of recced stories to refresh their memory of what their characterisation is like. Which is part of why character growth has trouble sticking (if what a less-frequent writer is referencing is not the most recent run) but also is frustrating when you're having the 'is this in character' debate because if 8 writers over 10 years all pull this trait out and use it again, there's a level of consistency that's hard to overlook, even if the main writer for the character isn't using it anymore.

It’s particularly noticeable in characterisations in crossovers and events. Because when a writer is juggling half a dozen characters they don’t usually write, they’re going to draw on their memories rather than do deep dive reads for the ones they’re less familiar with. So you get the ‘everyone knows’ character traits and beats.

And this leads to people who love a character vs people who are fine about the character but don't specifically read their runs having differing views on their personalities if these things clash.

Let’s use Damian for an example, because it’s really really obvious by comparing what I’m reading at the moment: Batman & Robin Eternal, Robin War, and Robin: Son of Batman. Two events (one with a crossover issue) and his main title in 2015.

Because if you only encounter Damian in crossovers and events, Damian being a little turd who uses insulting nicknames and proclaims his superiority to everyone is…a lot of what you’ve seen in previous crossovers and events. And he’s doing it again in Robin War and Batman & Robin Eternal. Now there are specifically different beats to this – Damian’s fully ready to sacrifice himself for Dick when he realises Dick’s in trouble. But he’s using frankly derogatory nicknames to Jason and Tim and insulting their abilities, and is even nastier to the We Are Robin kids. And he shows up in Eternal and out of the gate tells everyone they’ve been an idiot.

While if you’re a Damian fan reading his own titles, some of this characterisation rings as backsliding, as he doesn’t really use nicknames anymore in his own titles and has been soul searching about his own past and actions, so it’s not congruent with what you expect to see him doing.

Because if you're fully enmeshed in a character's lore and all their appearances, you obviously centre their protagonist stories and discount the crossover appearances that don't match. But if people only read those crossover appearances… that’s the character they know. And see. And it’s pretty consistent BETWEEN those appearances, so telling those people they’re wrong about a character they’ve encountered in multiple storylines is only going to get backs up on both sides. When actually these are two different completely valid views on a character, sourced from comics. It’s just that those personalities are particularly out of sync between “how they appear as a protagonist/regular” and “how they appear as a side character”.

And that can be incredibly frustrating to hear, when that’s your blorbo. But also, people who are treating repeated characterisation they encounter with a character over many years, across many titles and writers as ‘this is who the character is’ are not deliberately out to be mean to your blorbo. That’s the character they know!

And I think we should all think about that a bit more and take a deep breath.

#dc meta #people can have completely valid comics-sourced opinions on characters that differ from each other! #and I think this element often drives a lot of characterisation complaints #if you're claiming a whole swathe of writing someone has read about a character 'doesn't really count' you're going to have an uphill battl #to convince them that your opinion should be listened to

[dndspellgifs]

Based only on the illustration, which MTG card do y’all think is the most Daddy?

#off topic #magic the gathering #art #my current vote is Drannith Magistrate am i a basic bitch? #im open to changing my mind tho #if you say teferi you should discard your hand #if you say oko go to elk jail #nicol bolas is a valid opinion

[a-s-levynn]

About those new masks..

So i saw this take a few times already and i have some thoughts. Obviously it's paraphrasing but you'll see these a lot similar to this if you scroll in ST spaces since yesterday:

"These new masks have too much personality, they said the people behind the music is uniportant but they now have this new personalized look instead of the uniform sleek minimalist one and it is the direct opposite of what they are saying. These new looks do not fit Sleep Token"

Let me preface this: I'm not going to explore specific reasons why people might hate on the masks because... No i refuse to go there, but i will talk about the issues i have around this a bit.

No.

If you are hating on the new masks so much so as to cry about that "this is not what they supposed to be about" you are missing your own point. You are in fact shooting the opposite direction. You are no longer in it for "just the music" but you are very much caught upon the "everything else beside the music." You got distracted. You putting the blame on them instead on yourself for loosing your own point.

There is no moral highground in this whole ordeal. Please respect yourself enought to try not to look utterly stupid if you frothing about something you visibly misunderstood. Do not hide behind excuses. Do not put this on the artists. Own up to the fact that you simple don't like it.

Admit that it's your opinion purely; because ultimately the artist creating their own art will understand creative choices behind their creations more than you ever will. No matter how far you try to bend backwards.

The masks fit Sleep Token because it is Sleep Token who decided to have them. End of story. You can hate it all you want but it is still part of the shabang now. And don't try to mask your distaste over visuals with shouting about the artist not understanding their own ideology.

If you are so hung up on how they look like, more than what the music still is, than stop and think for a second please.. You have it backwards. If you really truly only care about the music, what it is about, what it gives you, than you are not going to give a shit what they are wearing on stage.

Maybe in a passing few sentences but otherwise you are not going to be worked up about it to the point you sent hatecomments to the artist who made them.. It is shameful.

Besides i hate to break it to people but they already had their personalities with their outfits just not this strongly. III had the random whacky shit. IV had the hint's of this comfy leisurly punk-ish techwear whatever going on besides the fancy stuff the past a months since the summer. II had a slightly sleeker but maybe sort of tech-ish look which is now reflected (in my opinion) much more strongly with this new look (which sorta reminds me of a stylized oni or something tbh and that is extremely in line with their older far-east inspired thematics visually, just saying).

They are not handing you the "we are unimportant" part anymore. They are not spoonfeeding it to you. Not in the way they had before at least. They presume you are mature and smart enough at this point to get it. To get to the conclusion that it is unimportant what they look like. And allow them to still have fun with it.

Or just they are being cheeky and went for something that would shake up the people. I don't know, i don't know them or anyone close to them. I don't have answers. But they are trying something new an it is perfectly fine.

Also which would have come off so much differently if Vessel is 100% btw. Be honest, if they would have been able to perform to their fullest abilities, far less people would be so loud over this.. This was just an unfortunate turn of events and when shit hits the fan it usually never just one dose. And my heart breaks for the boys for all this.

Besides, people were so loud about hating that "they looked the same" and "so hard to distinguish" and "easy to replace because of this" ... now they have personalized masks and looks and the same people cry about the exact opposite they did before..

Also it just occured to me that this is basically the same as the lightshow upgrade. It gives you something to look at at the rituals. The new looks are visually interesting, and with the lighting setup they have now they are gonna look like some seriously fun nightmare creatures btw. I love that already.

So all in all i don't know, i don't really have a point here i guess, but the boys are in such a no win situation right now and i hate the fact that people are shitting on them just because they don't fit their idea of "an anonymous collective" anymore. Which is reddiculous and sad because nothign has changed.

It never was about being a blank page. It was about being human. It flies over so many peoples head but the anonymity part isn't about not being a person under there. It is being about that person not having a name. It doesn't matter if the person has a personality or not. What matter there is that no name.

There is no definitiveness. It gives an open invitation for anyone to step into that person but first you need to recognise that there is a person there. And there is no doing that if there are no traces of personality. Or humanity if you will because personalities makes us humans. Don't make me hold a philosophy lecture here on what it means being human please.

It does not matter who that individual it is by tagging a name on them. But it is extremely important that there is a person there. Otherwise there is no connection point. If there is no person there is nothing to understand. But it does not matter how that person looks like. It does not matter what the person wears. Or what that person is called. What matters is that it is a human being. And as such you can understand it. Our at least you should be able to.

Regardless of the design of a mask.

#there is so much more there i could bring up and talk about but i have stuff to do today so i can't get hung up on it too much #but i hope it comes through what i'm trying to convey here #i'm not trying to hate on people not liking the masks because it is an extremely valid opinion #i hate people trying to mask it as a thing about sleep token loosing sight of their own thing #please do not try to hide behind stupid shit like 'this is not what they talked about' #cut the bullshit #grow up #and own up to the fact that you are visually do not like something #there is no need for a moral high horse in this case #you can dislike something for the aesthetic #but again. please do yourself a favour and try not to look utterly stupid about something you only half understand appearently #i'd say i'm sorry if i offended anyone here but i'm prepared for getting shit over this anyway so no i'm not apologizing #if you feel offended by this maybe this is your reminder that maybe you should think it through why you feel targeted #✌🏻 #sleep token

[sorikufeels]

thinking about how they went out of their way to show kairi being put to sleep to search her heart for answers to find sora and that ending in a complete dead end and then had riku’s dreams be the key to finding him. if kairi was truly sora’s love interest, then why wouldn’t they make her the key to find him? like i don’t see a reason not to do that. and they didn’t have to show her going through all the effort to find him and come up completely empty either. they didn’t have to do that all. it really feels like they’re trying to deliberately say something about who is actually sora’s love interest

edit: someone pointed out that kairi did find a clue in melody of memory and i forgot, sorry about that!

but i think my point still stands about riku’s dreams being the key since it’s through them that nameless star recognizes quadratum. it still points him out more as the love interest because a common trope is having a character brave the unknown and face trials to save the person they love. if kairi was sora’s love interest, it would more sense to have her go find him or at least go with riku, if they really want insist she’s too inexperienced (which they didn’t have to, it felt like they were grasping for any excuse to not let her go, which sucks!!) to go by herself. but she gets left behind and that in itself says a lot, in my opinion.

it was incorrect to say that it was a complete dead end and she came up totally empty, though, and I apologize for that!! i don’t want to belittle kairi anymore than the games already do 😭

#no hate to sokai and people that ship it!!! y’all are completely valid to your feelings and opinions #it’s just strange to me that they’d show this and frame it like they did if kairi was his love interest #no hate to kairi either #kingdom hearts #sora #kairi #riku #soriku #i yap

[viaviv124]

What argument anti rayfrog shippers (or nayfrogs as i've learned, which is 10x more hillarious) that just makes me question if these people actually pay attention and is also lowkey funny to me is "Bullfrog said he watched Rayman since he was a tadpole!" That is literally not what he said. He said "i used to watch you as a tadpole"

Considering the Rayman show is probably the only or biggest kids program in Eden and Rayman is literally everywhere i doubt Bullfrog couldn't not watch him, espacially if it's mandatory viewing (which it most likely is). To me this just makes it like their Spongebob but forced, you get what i mean? I don't think this really proves a point. Bullfrog didn't even mention ever being a fan or liking the show. Just that he watched it. It's also funny to me how he dropped that line right after calling him "Eden's favorite Poster boy" like it's such a random thing to add lol, i don't think he wanted to imply he ever idolized him considering he was just mocking him the entire way through. Either way, at the time they met both of them were consenting adults able to think clearly and, again, Bullfrog hated Rayman with a passion at that point and did not idolize him, i mean, look at that glare:

If that's not pure spite and mockery i don't know what is.

What people need to understand is that no sane rayfrog shipper goes "Bullfrog likes Rayman/Ramon because he loved watching him on TV like 25 - 30+ years ago!" Pretty much all concepts/headcanons are hurt/comfort because the consensus of them bonding consists of them supporting eachother and becoming a shoulder to lean on to work out their mental stuff like Ramon's guilt about literally everything and Bullfrog's survivors guilt and eldest sister syndrome. Also, Bullfrog is quite literally a trained assassin of a group that quite literally has been fighting the templars/Eden since pretty much the beginning of human history. Pretty sure if anything his mind would default to spiting and distrusting Ramon at every turn instead of idolizing him for something he saw on tv when he was a literal toddler i mean come on are you serious. Also pretty sure his mind is clear enough to think about shit rationally.

Another point i love is "they shared only one scene." People have done more with less. Ramon and Dolph have not exchanged a single glance and Laserray (rayhawk? Idk) is a thing. People will ship anything as long as it has a good dynamic in their eyes. I'm just saying Mordetwi and other crossships.

Its genuinely hillarious to me how people hate on the popular ship instead of everything else. The two canon predators? Nope! Sarah x Jade that would, if it would be canon, be nothing but abuse considering all of their interactions in the show, as few as they were, are pretty abusive? Nope! But god forbid two consenting adults with an age gap that support eachother kiss! I absolutely do have certain problems with rayfrog but considering the lack of material we have to work with these problems are all speculations i can headcanon them away.

Also as a small note in case the conkai crowd pins me on this because of the posts i made several months ago, no, two consenting adults with an age gap are not the same as a 17 year old banging a physically 6 - 8 year old even if he has the mind of a 17 year old, thank you.

#I am by the way taking all of this very lightly #there is no real spite or smth #i genuinely think these points are just hillarious #have your own opinion boo you're valid #i'm having fun with this #by the way i've seen a post where someone lists all the arguments as to why rayfrog isn't a proship and their response was just “stfu” #truly delightful i must say #captain laserhawk blood dragon remix #captain laserhawk #rayman #rayfrog #bullfrog

[minty364]

DPXDC Prompt #91

Danny was dimension hopping, his original dimension was still there but after his parents disowned him when they found out it wasn’t safe anymore especially with the GIW stepping up their game. Danny just wanted to find a dimension where he could live peacefully after all he was part human and while he loves the infinite realms it wasn’t sustainable in the long run to his human half. He finally finds one where the GIW doesn’t exist at all, but the weird part is there are actual superheroes here. The weirder part is his counterpart in this dimension is part of the Justice League! The bad part is it seems in this dimension the portal fully killed him so how was he supposed to explain to his counterpart that he was half dead.

#dp x dc prompt #dp x dc #dc x dp #danny fenton #danny phantom #poor danny #writing prompt #Danny meets his fully dead counterpart in an alternate dimension #alternate universe #danny is a little shit #How does Justice League Danny feel about this? #Fully dead meets half ghost #Honestly not a fan personally for full dead AU I kind of think it takes away from the point of Danny’s character in the first place #That’s just me though #These prompts are meant for everyone though so even if you think differently from me your opinions are valid #I think conflicting ideas is an overall positive #Also I hit 1K notes in a single day yesterday and I can’t believe it #Thank you everyone!! #my asks are open #if anyone had a question I’ll post some of my old artwork again

[altschmerzes]

every time a post/poll goes around about being aspec and fandom shipping enjoyment/engagement/whatever im like. NOW can we stop acting like being an aromantic person who enjoys shipping is some kind of Weird Outlier Situation? can we stop acting like this is an Unpopular Opinion or even Persecuted Outcast Take rather than idk, the default standard, just like everywhere else? idk romance repulsed aromantics Yes Including Fiction aren’t the default or even a significant majority and it really drives me nuts when people act like aros who enjoy shipping are somehow Not exactly that.

#gav gab #aro blogging #like gdspeed bud enjoy what you enjoy #glad you’re happy #but can we fucking knock it off with the ‘but am i VALID to be an aro who likes shipping?????’ stuff #like yeah dog you and fucking Everybody Else in fandom #a small handful of ‘im too aro for this’ from the handful of Yes Including Fiction Yes All Of It romance repulsed aros #are not persecuting you or taking away your aro card #anyways that goes along with my general opinion that #going around asking people Is It Valid To Be X Identity And Have Y Experience Or Opinion #is a fundamentally useless and unhelpful thing to do #and is unfair to yourself and to the person you're asking #bc you're placing your like #ability to Have An Identity in someone else's hands #which they did not ask for #and is not theirs to give or not give anyway #this one just super extra annoys me lmao #'am i valid if i'm an aro who still likes shipping?????' well if you weren't #most aros wouldn't be ValidTM #because that is not unusual at all #you know what IS unusual? #being the big mean aro in the corner who DOESN'T like shipping #no none of it yes including that one I Do Mean All

[gingersp1ce547]

I know alot of people are scared about the potential of a q!cellbit villian arc but have you considered more celltw angst scenes with q!fit ready to throw down? Have you considered potential return of the murder husbands?Have you considered others supporting and maybe even joining in on the villian arc? HaVE YOU CONSIDERED Q!DOIED, Q!ELQUACKITY AND Q!CELLBIT HAVING A FIGHT ABOUT WHOSE THE BETTER EVIL TWIN!?

#there’s alot of untapped potential here guys #though i do wanna say everything here is mostly jokes and that if your worried thats a very valid opinion to have #and this joke is not meant to belittle that opinion in anyway #qsmp #q!cellbit #celltw #fitpac #spiderbit #bolas rojas #bolas #def not thinking specifically villian qarchivists no no no #i woulf never think that #gingersp1ce547

[rainbow-wolf120]

Self indulgent Hazbin Hotel X Rayman AU because the voices took over

I've been trying to keep it a secret that I like Hazbin, but the folks in the clhn server are very supportive so

Yay! Welcome to the Hotel of Better Dreams! (A play on the Cave of Bad Dreams). To line up the cast its

Charlie > Goth Teensy

Vaggie > Selena

Alastor > Mr. Dark

Angel Dust > Raymesis

Sir Pentious > Ales Mansay

Husk > Flaming Teensy

Nifty > Moskito

Adam > Murfy

Lute > Barbara

Emily > Rayman

Sera > Betilla

Oh, and Lucifer is Jano :)

Heaven is the Glade of Dreams and Hell is the Land of the Livid Dead

This AU is still very new and in development, so feel free to ask questions about this silly AU :D

Another screenshot redraw with minor blood and major spoilers under cut:

Drawing this made me lowkey happy <//3 (I hate Murfy I'm not sorry)

(Oh, I don't support Vivzie btw. Only her shows)

#Hotel of Better Dreams #<- thats the au tag btw :) #im probably gonna do more so like #keep an eye out :D #sorry to the folks who arent fans of hazbin #your opinion is totally slay and valid #rayman #fanart #digital art #rayman fanart #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #goth teensy #raymesis #betilla the fairy #moskito #barbara #murfy #flaming teensy #selena #ales mansay #mr dark #rayman murfy #rayman mr dark #selena rayman #barbara rayman #au #rayman au #hazbin hotel au #alternate universe

[i-amtransexual]

actually i think i shall choose anger today anyway crowley and aziraphale are both asexual and i am not going to include a statement saying all head cannons are valid i dont give a SHIT they're ACE AS FUCK

#me.yay #good omens #aziraphale and crowley #crowley #aziraphale #crowly x aziraphale #asexual #ace #liie obviously whatever man who gives a shit #but idk i keep seeing ppl be like 'theure ace! but also all hcs are valid' and seem to soend more time being anxious #about making sure theh state that like its ok #you can be loud about your opinion on a character and be passionate about wanting it without having to passify possible dickheads #THEYRE ACE AND I AM GOING TO SAY IT WITHOUT A FUCKIGN DISCLAIMER

[carmsgarms]

My bg3 obsessed coworker: so my sister hates Astarion —

Me, obsessed with Astarion: she's so valid, continue

#shut up carm #i love Astarion #but i also hate his stupid ass #cuteness agression but its for Astarion #unpopular opinion haters are valid if youre chill abt it #bg3 #astarion