#Come read my dumpsterfire!
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You. Nuance now.
You can like shit that has problematic shit in it, without being a bad person. You don't have to give me a list of EVERY bad thing a piece of media you enjoy does, & why it's bad, but it DOES help to be mindful of that shit. You're allowed to enjoy your bad thing. You don't have to explain it or qualify it to anyone -- you know it's bad, we all know it's bad.
That said, if you watch something with bad shit, people will indeed judge you, or want you to not talk about your thing, or may even avoid you/block you for posting about it. While I know that feels bad, it's just a fact, bud. Those people don't directly want to hurt you, they just feel real strongly, & I think they're allowed to feel that, & I think they're allowed to act on that, to a certain point.
FURTHERMORE, there is a fucking line that you do not, do not, do NOT cross! Where that is will be different for most people, & fuzzy for all. For me, I can tolerate a lot of shit, but another person may not. I also think there is a definitive line you don't cross, which is media that is actively hurting somebody. I find it helpful to ask, "Is consuming this thing harmful? Can I hurt somebody this way?" I.E. you buy the queen terf antisemitism & transphobia game, beaming money DIRECTLY into the queen terf 's bank account, which sh has publicly, VERBALLY said she treats as a person accepting her shit beliefs, & she will then use the money to lobby horrendous bills. You are not enjoying garbage, at this point. You are actively doing something wrong, & you fucking know it, & I don't have the time nor the desire to waste another single goddam breath on telling you that any further.
I am not saying that you are required to go invest in problematic things. I am not saying you need to see something you KNOW will upset you. I am saying you are allowed to keep a list of media that you will never, ever touch, that you hate enough that you will not even talk to somebody about it. I am saying you can block a person over liking a piece of shit media you fucking hate. I am saying you can have a list of things that bug you so badly, that you immediately drop something just for having it, & you don't have to qualify anything on that list to me, or explain why -- you can just avoid that thing -- that's just fine. I am saying you can like something with bad shit in it, & I promise you do NOT need to give me a 5k words essay on why it's bad -- this isn't school, you're not getting Oops I Like Something Bad 😞😔 homework.
I am saying you are human. You are meat & bone, with a bit of electricity running through it. You are fallable. You are allowed to like something that isn't good. You do not have to be forever pure, forever flawless marble, because you are not made of stone, & even if you were, marble is worn down & away, with time. Nothing is infallible or perfect, in this world, & that's nice, actually.
I'm also saying, what a fucking miserable way to go through life, seeing everything that is not perfectly pristine as a sin, as a crime, as something that even an association with makes you guilty. There's so many things to see, to read, to watch, to share, & you're being FUCKING CATHOLIC ABOUT IT??? DO I NEED TO REPENT?? FOR LIKING SOMETHING NOT 10000% CLEAN?? SHOULD I PAY MY FUCKING TITHES OR JUST GET THE LASHES. GRABS YOU. MAIMS.
#gale chatter#YES i am mad#discourse#vent#hey if you come onto this post to explain why you like the transphobic wizard game I'm just gonna block you okay?#i will just. fucking block you. & move on with my day. because i hate you#harry potter ment#jkr ment#THIS IS NOT. ABOUT THAT. THIS IS ABOUT LIKING ELFEN LIED. THIS IS ABOUT WATCHING TRIGUN. THIS IS ABOUT READING. HOMESTUCK.#this is about watching old films that have words you don't & won't ever use#this is about finding comfort in discomfort & being mortal#this is about being insane about your favorite little dumpsterfire & being a gourmet trash consumer#this is about whatever. about nothing. about everything to a certain point#I'd like to further state i previously had such a mindset that i would drop anything that ever had even the smallest bump & never touch it#but tbh. i ran out of new shit to like pretty quick & jt was a miserable way to go into every new thing#just kinda hoping this one would be normal about its female characters#& once i started actively seeking out garbage & admitting i have shit taste & like bad things i had more fun.#i found like. new shit i loved that i previously wouldn't have even touched#& i think that's fun & i wish people would try such a thing
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That moment a TERF shows up in the Syscourse tag...
I think I need ayahuasca to recover from seeing their blog.
First, just A+ response there from @rainnthefrog!
Just love how they completely shut that down!
When the people banning drag queens (who have never harmed in children in these schools) from performing at schools are encouraging guns to be brought in, you should heavily question how committed people are to the safety of children.
As for @femaledracula, there is so much wrong with this. First, again, zero incidents of drag queens preying on children. It's not a thing. You're talking about a problem that doesn't exist. Second, how do drag queens performing in schools have power over students?
Teachers are in a position of authority. Religious leaders are in a position of authority. Drag queens in schools just... are there. They're just an adult who happens to be present. And if this hypothetical problem were so important, why not take issue with every instance of guest performers and speakers? A police officer or fireman speaking at a school will be seen as more of an authority figure over students than dancers.
Wait... it's the transphobia and homophobia, isn't it? That makes sense.
Oh, and did I mention the sheer audacity of comparing LGBT people to the Catholic Church?
The next post wasn't on femaledracula's blog, but was another reblog of the OP from @aftonfamilyvalues. And I just absolutely love @benkybot's take on the whole dumpsterfire of a post.
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Thank you!
And finally, as a tulpa, this especially caught my eye.
No. We're not our bodies. We're our consciousness. Our bodies are vessels our emergent consciousnesses ride around in. An amputee doesn't cease to be themselves because they lost their leg. A blind person doesn't cease being themselves because they lost their eyes.
Seeing your body as your whole self can be an extremely unhealthy outlook, especially when it comes to beauty standards and their affect on people's self-esteem.
I realize this is primarily about transness, but the mentality @talktomydoctorate is pushing is something that is also incredibly dangerous to the plural community where multiple people share a single body.
With that in mind, I'd like to take a moment to spout off a bunch of stuff to scare some TERFs! 😁
Let me start with an introduction! Hi, I'm Sophie, a cis girl tulpa riding around in an AMAB body!
Our tulpamancy practices can reliably make people of the opposite gender inside people's brains!
Tulpamancy, over time, is generally regarded as functionally irreversible, with one psychiatry professor likening getting rid of a well-developed tulpa to trying to will yourself to forget how to read.
Every new tulpamancer who creates an opposite-gendered headmate will be a brand new non-binary/genderfluid system in the world.
And tulpamancers tend to be creative people. I know many who are interested in animation and writing, where we can influence pop culture for future generations. Others are studying to be psychologists and psychiatrists where they can be influential in other ways.
And the best part is that there's really nothing you can do to stop it. 🤷♀️
Please, chew on that for a while.
And stay out of system tags. You and your kind aren't welcome here.
#syscourse#terfblr#radblr#gender critical#lgbtq#radical feminism#radfem#terf#terfs#lgbt#queer#plural#plurality#endogenic#tulpa#system stuff#tulpamancy#plural system#pro endogenic#pro endo
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Hello, how are you? I am Moataz, a graphic designer from northern Gaza. I campaigned to evacuate my family to a safe place, and we achieved 75% of the campaign. Can you support us to complete our goal? Thank you🍉🫶
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Hi Moataz, it's lovely to meet you! I am well, and I am incredibly glad you've reached 75% of your campaign. Whatever I can do on my end, I hope this helps even a little. I would be happy to post your links here. Sending all the best energies in the world to you and your family 🫶🏻
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rick doesn’t write nor is in charge of whatever goes on in readriordan they do their own thing over there. also mark wrote the book, which is why characters seem ooc - rick still had input in terms of outlining, plot, editing etc but mark basically wrote it. mark has talked about how much control rick gave him so I can’t see Rick being nitpicky about the details. He doesn’t even seem nitpicky in the books he writes solo. now i understand that obviously not everyone knows that and i personally don’t really like mark’s writing style, but they’re a queer poc who put a lot work into writing a story for kids about love, acceptance and overcoming trauma, something they very personally relate to. i’m not saying it can’t be critiqued at all because of this but some of you aren’t even really critiquing it you’re just genuinely being harsh and mean and refuse to even see past the words on the page to see the message and the impact this’ll have on kids, especially queer ones. but no it’s completely irredeemable and a dumpster fire all because clearly people prefer rick’s writing style to mark’s. I just…..ugh. so so disappointing.
well, actually, my genuine problem with it is the way that it was written. the pacing of it, I mean, the way that the story flows just feels wrong, poorly thought out, and poorly executed.
I'm not saying that people can't enjoy the book. And I understand that it's not written for people my age. But from the standpoint of a writer, the book is genuinely just not as good.
Mark writing the book and pouring all their love and devotion into it doesn't change the fact that it feels like it falls flat from an actual writing standpoint. It feels like it was a surface level first draft, the rough outline for what the story was going to be. It's the barest of bones, full of continuity errors and references that feel jarring coming from the characters they come from, moments that feel like they're trying to mimic the original PJO series and instead fall flat and just feel like a mockery.
The topics that the story wanted to address felt like they were shoehorned in - the whole plot was weird and contrived, the fact that Hades was the one who orchestrated the whole thing, the book itself already doesn't make sense just based on that alone.
And the way that the story went about discussing Nico and Will's trauma, I don't know. It felt like every other second Nico and Will were switching rapidly between being confident and flirtatious to individually nervous wrecks, their thoughts didn't feel entirely grounded, the action sequences felt jerky and uncoordinated, I couldn't ever get into the character's head. I couldn't ever really see it through their eyes, if that makes sense, because things were being TOLD to us the whole time, not SHOWN to us. It's one of the first things you're told when you start writing: show, don't tell.
I will say that you're right. Some of us are just being outright mean to the book, which is our right, just like it's your right have not found anything objectionable during your readthrough. And that's totally fine! We're all entitled to our own opinions, that's the joy of being online. Those of us who are roasting the book, calling it a dumpsterfire or saying it resembles a 2013 era Wattpad fic, we're all being dramatic and mean because that's just how fandom is. That's how fandom has always been. We criticize the new media because it will never be as good as the origal, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
You're right that this book also means a lot in terms of queer rep. It's fucking insanely cool that Riordan and Oshiro got to write such a blatantly queer story about overcoming mental health troubles and navigating a relationship when you're young and traumatized! And they published it through Disney! That's a fucking massive win for representation in media, it's a crazy cool thing to have added to such a popular, well known universe like PJO! I myself figured out I was queer through reading PJO and feeling a connection to Nico specifically, so, yeah, seeing a stand-alone story about him and his boyfriend is actually really really cool to me.
That does not mean that I have to kiss it's boots and act like it's gods gift to gay kids, because it isn't. In the end, it's still a just book. it's still fallible. It is allowed to have it's faults, and I'm allowed to say what I want to about it, just like you are.
peace and love, friend. I hope you have a wonderful evening.
#asks!#tsats#tsats discourse#pjo#like yeah. i'm going to rag on the book because I think it blows. but that's just my opinion and other people are allowed to have theirs#as somebody who literally grew up with Nico di Angelo it kind of sucks to see him portrayed in the way TSATS portrays him#shrug. such is the way of life.#I hope you didn't send this ask with negative intentions or in an attempt to make me feel bad for saying what i've said.#i refuse to take any of it back because I wholeheartedly believe this book could have been so so so much better
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im so glad I'm not the only one who thought the show was so shit,, like is this really the thing we were waiting for 4 years since it was announced?? did nobody tell them to stop with unnecessary sex jokes and that god AWFUL camera movements is so bad it's funny. even my 16yo obsessed self wouldn't approve 😭 i only watched bc of pure nostalgia and oh my god, they did not deliver and i was disappointed. the ONLY characters and things I liked were Vox, Sir Pentious, and Zestial. they were pretty neat. It's so bad it's lowk funny,, was there NOBODY who told them to just CONSIDER listening to fans advice if they're too ignorant to see them themselves?? it seriously BAFFLES me that people were PROFESSIONAL people behind this,,...there ain't no way they were serious with that script man😭. I've read COUNTLESS of fanfics that were better. and that says something?
| sorry about the long angry rant before omg,, but I was also a fan just as you and i also feel so bitter about what they did with the whole narrative of the show. imagine if the creator was normal and that the script wasn't a cringe dumpsterfire. the POTENTIAL this show had was sooo big 😭 I don't think about it anymore, it was my biggest teenage hyperfixation but it randomly pops up in my mind every 2/3 months bc of nostalgia. and I'm like it was cringe but i was so happy back then. it had POTENTIALLL😭 |
i understand how you feel 😔 my expectations have been at rock bottom since hb s2 premiered, but it's still frustrating and disappointing to see a project with such a genius premise go largely to waste. testing the viability of a rehabilitative justice system in hell ??? i would do just about anything to be able to come up with a hook like that !!!
i really don't mind that the show is cringe, or that the comedy is weak, or even that a lot has changed from the pilot stage to the final (even if a lot of elements seem to have stayed the same on the surface). the biggest issue is ultimately the show's failure to give its story and characters room to breathe. it's cramming as much as it can into the short amount of episodes ordered, which comes at the expense of the storytelling quality.
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As someone who was very recently having the same feelings about writing and fitting in on here as you are, I very much understand how you feel. It's extremely painful and makes you question everything, but you really, truly, genuinely are a wonderful writer. I'm glad to hear you don't plan to stop writing, but I hope you don’t leave because you bring value to this fandom and to readers. You could write for any character and someone could emotionally connect to it and that's a very powerful gift. I got a message today from someone telling me my fics got them through really hard times, and hon, I'm gonna tell you the same, because it's true. I felt like I should quit writing because there was a lull in my popularity for a couple fics and it damaged my self confidence, but reading your fics reminded me of why I love to write, which is to connect with people. I read "to do the right thing" and was blown away (though you might not have noticed this name. I have separated blogs for everything). So much so that I was like, oh right, this is why I love to write--to feel things like this and hope others feel the same when reading my work. It's hard to remember on here, where we live by notes and comments and reblogs, that sometimes making an impact on one person is a big deal and it matters. You happen to positively impact a large group of people with every story you post.
I feel like I can confidently say that people here support whatever choices you will make moving forward, but I also feel I can confidently say that we would miss you and your writing.
Sorry this is so long. But I get it, hon. Just keep on keeping on. 🩵 I hope you feel better soon.
I legitimately…am crying. Like I always say “oh I’m crying” no but actual tears are coming down right now and I’m so glad because I think for one, I just need a good cry and get out all these feelings I’ve been harboring and two, I have gotten kind words over the last couple of days that have all had such an impact on me and I think this was the last one, in addition to the others that finally felt like a good slap in the face wake up call to snap me out of whatever emotional dumpsterfire state I’ve been in.
I’ve lost quite a few followers between yesterday and today (I get it, emotional pity party Vee who does nothing but bitch and complain is not a fun person to follow so no hard feelings) but it DID make me wonder if I’m truly being nuts about it all and whether my mental health is just so far down the garbage chute that I don’t see how ridiculous I’m being over nothing? But with people reaching out to tell me they know how it feels…I feel a little less crazy, that’s for sure. I feel disappointed in myself for letting myself fall into that damn trap of caring so much about notes. Especially because when I first started out, I didn’t care about it. I was just having fun and sharing my ideas. The human part of me adores the validation and it makes me feel good and that’s okay, but to let it get to the point where I am letting a number determine whether my stuff is good it or not? That’s not okay. I wouldn’t want anyone, especially fellow writers who I think are so talented, to do this.
I feel ashamed tbh. Because you’re right, touching someone with your writing and connecting to people, that’s what is important. I loved getting replies and messages about someone telling me they can put themselves right in my story, that they felt like they were there. I loved that people told me they could feel my character’s emotions. I hold my characters so close to me and I should not stop loving them. They’re mine, and there are people out there who love them too. It shouldn’t matter if it’s 1 or 1000. If one person adores my sweet lil Peach from ASH, than I appreciate that one person for loving a fictional character I created.
I have a few people who have been so supportive of me and reminding me how much they love my writing and they’re more important to me than all the fucking notes and popularity on this site. And to any of these few people, I’m so sorry for being such a sad train wreck of a person. I hope you know how much I appreciate you sticking around and being so encouraging while I have been in my feels. I didn’t mean to be so ungrateful to you. I’m going to keep on writing and posting for myself, but for YOU as well. Because you’ve been here for me and you support me and that means more to me than anything.
Thank you so much for this message. It truly was the last one that snapped me out of it.
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Crossovers and Unfinished Oneshot Compilation
by Foopuff
Sooooo I have a lot of ideas that I don't usually end up finishing, and as a consequence they end up rotting in my google docs. I kinda wanted to... change that?
SO if you're interested in seeing what I wrote anyways, I'll post them here if I end up ultimately stuck in a rut. (Or it might even end up getting rescued if there's enough interest in one of them... I don't know yet lol) Anyways, hope you have fun!
(I'll add to the list as more are posted here:)
1: Kung Fu Panda x Scum Villain Crossover
2. OG Bingjiu Holiday Special (halloween... bad ending)
3. Feng Xin and Mu Qing meet Liu Qingge LOL (crossover)
4. Unfinished FengQing High School AU
ALSO: Feel free to continue these on your own! Just please let me know somehow, so I can read it!!! :D
Words: 4410, Chapters: 4/?, Language: English
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: Gen, Other
Characters: Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū, Liǔ Qīnggē, Shifu (Kung Fu Panda), Po (Kung Fu Panda), Luò Bīnghé, Fēng Xìn (Tiān Guān Cì Fú), Mù Qíng (Tiān Guān Cì Fú), Shěn Jiǔ | Original Shěn Qīngqiū
Relationships: Liǔ Qīnggē & Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū, luo binghe & Po, Master Shifu & Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu, Fēng Xìn & Mù Qíng, Fēng Xìn/Mù Qíng (Tiān Guān Cì Fú)
Additional Tags: crackfic, compilation of oneshots and unfinished drabbles that I will probably never come back to, Friendship, Cooking, ongoing dumpsterfire, Horror, wips everywhere, a LOT of unfinished work
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Kaon and Iacon spend the night in seperate rooms at a hotel after several months of sleeping in a 2 man suite together (on a ship). Both come to breakfast in the morning looking extremely tired.
Kaon: Rough night/not enough sleep/you had a hard time sleeping too?
Iacon: *tiredly* Yeah.
Kaon and iacon: *slowly eat (drink???) breakfast*
Iacon: was it also weird for you falling asleep in a room without another mech in it?
Kaon: *into his cube* Supremely.
Kaon and Iacon: *continue sitting in silence*
Iacon: *Fiddling with his hands* Soooo, you wanna book a room together?
Kaon, who had previously made an argument about how they needed to be self reliant and should nip their growing co-dependency in the bud before it became detrimental to their mental health: *In a sigh of defeat* Yeeeeeah
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For a little more context look at Robits, The Epic Train Wreck Dumpsterfire of a Transformers sidestory AU
OK, so after doing a little research on what co-dependency is any why it's bad*, co-dependency is not what Kaon and Iacon have
They've just trauma bonded and now it feels weird and unsafe falling asleep in a room without the sounds of another (vetted and safe) mech's internals working (like how you wake up during a blackout bc you can't hear your electricity or AC anymore)
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*My little bit of research says that co-dependency is when one person's happiness and self-worth is derived from being needed by their partner, and their partner enables that behavior by... allowing the other person to fulfill what they think their partner needs even if it's to their detriment? I think?
It can happen in all different kinds of relationships too, like friendships, romantic relationship, or even a working relationship (which kind of caught me off guard)
One of the sources I read said
"The telltale sign of codependency in a relationship between two adults is when one of them has intense physical and emotional needs. The other partner spends a significant amount of time trying to fulfill those needs."
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I've been noticing that I've been getting an influx of followers as of late.
So, first and foremost: Hello there! I'm theliterarywolf, otherwise known as Eldritch Grandma.
If you're here from the Last Unicorn post that went extremely viral out of the blue several days ago - I do talk about books and writing, usually focusing on anything dark, fantasy-oriented, or incorporating Teratophilia in some way. It's just... Don't want to say 'rare', but I do take my time with reading whatever books make it to my shelf.
Also, with writing - I do my best to offer advice when it comes to different parts of the writing process or alleviating writer's block. Sometimes it just takes me a while to clear out my inbox.
If you're here from one of my many Cookie Run shitposts/cursed posts - I don't apologize for any comments I make about the Western fandom; the vast majority of them are unhinged and not in the good way.
If you're here from a Zero to Tentacles post - Hello! Yes, I still do those. I'm just currently stuck on how I want to handle a Hollow Knight one that was sent in a bit ago.
If you're here from any of my hot takes on the doll community or the dumpsterfire that is the upcoming GEN3 reboot of Monster High - I don't apologize for any of the comments I've made thus far. Shit looks like ass.
Anything else - Thank you finding your way to my hodgepodge of a blog and I hope you enjoy your stay.
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Made it Through Charade Maniacs (finally)
I think it might be due to the repetative-ness of the prologue and having to skip a bunch just to get to the route, or maybe the route order I followed (Iochi>Banjo>Akase>Ebana>Futami>Chigasaki>Gyobu>Dazai>Haiji)
I started losing motivation to play and just wanted to move on to the next game I wanted to play. Maybe because I was only really interested in 2 or 3 of all the LI's? I genuinely couldn't care as much for the rest, but also wanted to know the truth what was going on, so I tried pushing through regardless〒▽〒 I couldn't buy into some of the romances either since it just felt too much of an afterthought in some cases on how to handle it? I don't blame though, the main plot really is to investigate and figure out how to make it out, really. But still;;
The true end didn't start as I feel it usually goes, with players having to start again from the menu once more. It was new and I didn't know what to expect, and I only realised that was the true end/The Truth™️ until I had finished everything, lol. I love how they gave valid points as to how each cast member is suspicious, and showing darker and more serious sides to them. Really kept mel guessing who the Producer and Sponsor were!
Ebana
Ebana's route I couldn't care for because I just didn't like his character enough to even pay attention and just skipped majority tbh. Though, I did manage to read some key info anyways.
Futami
WTF EVEN WAS THIS?? That was a dumpsterfire, and I was SO relieved that even Iochi was fed up with the MC, bc even for how naive or overly-trusting she is, she was absolute stupid and in denial even after everything that happened right in front of her. I'm glad it showed he wasn't willing to change through to the end, but I still hated and cringed at the "romantic" scenes bc I just personally could not get into it. Futami fans, you can gladly have himXD
Tomose
Honestly thought I was going to enjoy this since sucker for childhood friend trope, but this was not it for me
Dude literally forced himself on her (thank gods MC actually did smth and slapped him, much deserved)
I can do obsessive and yandere type characters, but this was just annoying and made me so frustrated for many reasons
Iochi
Enjoyed the storyline, didn't see the twist coming
The intimate/romantic scenes were very nice and had me blushing kjfksd
I love they never got answers or tried to categorise or make focus of Iochi's gender. It was very refreshing for these characters
the epilogue had me going "That's it?!" though, bc it rlly just feels like they skip a bunch just to exposition dump in these epislogues sometimes
Gyobu
I knew I'd love him, I was right. I loved him even MORE in his route, even in Dazai's (was that guy even present at all in his route?)
I loved his design most besides Iochi's. WE WERE ROBBED OF MORE PONYTAIL
He's so cute when he becomes all bashful
actually considers and works with (on equal stance) with MC and respects that she wants to trust others. "You do the trusting. Leave me the doubting". Other LI's tend to really chastise her (I don't entirely blame them, but they tend to completely shut her down)
I love his dynamic with MC, love that he's the multi-faceted characters who goes after the truth solo
I like his moto that 'the more you doubt, the more trustworthy you are' type thing
Dazai
Where to start? It felt like he wasn't around the heroine much in his own route. Gyobu appeared more and it made me miss him ToT
I get what they were trying to do, with the "we already had a pre-established (non-romantic) relationship together" thing, but there was just so few moments of bonding or anything to buy into
Was interested in seeing why he seems to be fan fav, he might just not be my cup of tea bc it was just...ok¯\_(ツ)_/¯
WHAT IS WITH THE STUPID GOLDFISH THING😭 That felt like that was supposed to be the most emotional bond moment for them, but it just felt so weak (and silly. like, "WHY should I care?") imo
Please actually SHOW there's emotional connection in these scenes? It's like, I know there's supposed to be because that's what's being told. But I felt none and it was practically only the same moment they kept bringing up over and over again, like they didn't anything else.
I would have liked to see more of Dazai's unrequited love, build more reason for me to care about the stakes and get invested in the pair
Haiji
Kinda obvious he wasn't actually kid bc they kept bringing up the whole "he looks too old to be" to not have any importance
I did not expect the direction it went
Chigasaki
This was a sweet route, I was interested in the character and why he's so apologetic and what exactly he feels guilty for
I slightly spoiled myselt from r/otomegames, liked how it went regardless
HIS HAIRSTYLE BACK IN THE ORIGINAL WORLD IS CUTE AND HE LOOKS AMAZING
I want to give this man a hug. He needs it, and deserves them all
Akase
Voiced by Saito Soma, how can you dislike?
I liked his energy
Felt a little OOC in a route or two
I honestly can't remember much from his route atm
His love for family and stuff very sweet
Really felt his hatred and anger w/ said family situation
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Look into Claudia De la Cruz! She's a 2024 presidential candidate with the Party for Socialism and Liberation and she is actively participating in pro-Palestine protests.
Thank you! I briefly looked through her website and platform, and she sounds amazing. I love her policy proposals, and I'll read more about her and how I can support her going forward.
That said, I've been through enough presidential elections now that I do not believe we can fix a two-party system by sliding a progressive candidate into the tippy top of the hierarchy. We've tried the top-down approach so many times and it has failed every single time. The closest we got in the last three decades was Bernie, and the DNC kneecapped that at the finish line.
So fuck the DNC, but a select few dems across the country have indeed clawed back tiny pockets of progress despite the damage of the last eight years, and we need those few to continue holding the line against christofascism while we work towards meaningful change with a combination of community organizing, mutual aid, protesting, AND voting, because it will take all four tools in the toolbox to have any chance of reversing this dumpsterfire.
There are 420 registered parties in the US, over a dozen declared third-party candidates for 2024 so far, and there is major perpetual and growing anti-voting sentiment in the leftist base with less than a year until the election. I personally do not believe we can create and sustain enough momentum behind a single candidate to break through, and find it more likely folks will pick a few faves and splinter across several parties.
In my opinion, we need to take a lesson from the Tea Party and work bottom-up, not top-down.
The Tea Party was officially founded in 2009 as an extremist response to the Obama presidency, and had a growing presence in Congress by 2010/2012. Today it's considered a 'dead' party, but they had MAJOR influence inside the GOP which fed and evolved directly into M@G@-style politics and policies.
They did all this in less than a decade of elections. The left can do it too, if we can simply sustain that same passion for our own shared goals.
If we want to actually drag the Overton window back to the Left and actually break the two-party system in the US, and if we want to see an actual Progressive president in our lifetimes, we HAVE to elect progressives to Congress first to have enough of a presence to realistically bring forward and successfully enact required changes such as getting rid of first-past-the-post voting, abolishing the electoral college, enacting congressional term limits, and removing the cap on the House of Representatives. A large enough progressive presence in Congress can also help us better fund and represent more third parties, and gives us a better chance of enacting progressive reforms such as UBI, universal healthcare, universal education, and more.
But in order to do that at all, we cannot afford to risk letting the far right have the oval office again, no matter who their candidate is. We should absolutely primary all disappointing democratic candidates on all levels including presidential, and I'm hoping like hell we get actual progressive candidates out of it, but in the end I will personally be voting a straight blue ticket in 2024 regardless of who wins those primaries because if Project 2025 is allowed to come into play we're all globally and permanently fucked.
tl;dr: Even on the very slim chance they would be ALLOWED to win the office in a rigged system, a third-party president won't get anything meaningful done with a two-party Congress -- and if we try and fail yet again, we may never get another chance to try at all.
(Sorry for the rant anon, I respect your intent and enthusiasm!! but I didn't wanna just leave it at 'thanks but I'm voting blue' without explaining why.)
#asks#2024 elections#US politics#third party#im not 'vote blue no matter who' im just#'primary the fuck outta blue and take what we can get but keep fuckin trying'#but we need progressives to run to be able to vote for them#and we need to support the few progressives we do have#bc if we abandon the next election to fascists we might not get another one
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𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐝, Potion, Fairy, Vampire, Sleipnir, Phoenix, Sphinx, Crystal, Angel, Siren, Magic stone, Demon, Cloak, Chimera, Dagger, Slavic Dragon, and Ghost :3
Hiii lovely <3
𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐝 - Where is somewhere you’ve always wanted to live?
Thats actually a really tough question ksjkfsks. Ideally I'd want to live in my hometown/region because its just amazing culture-wise, but also I wanna live in a place that has a lot of stuff going on like a big city.
𝐏𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - What do you think about most?
You :3 But actually I think a lot about Codex ckfsjkdjs
My blorbos rotate in my mind
𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐲 - Have you heard a song that reminds you of someone today?
Since I just got up, nope!
𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 - Something that you’re proud of:
I am proud of the fact that I got on the Dean's List this past semester!
𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐢𝐩𝐧𝐢𝐫 - What was the last thing you cried about?
Not really cried about but I did cry with you during your big breakdown :p
𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐱 - Random facts about yourself:
Uhh I placed first in Salsa for my school districts Ballroom competition once, I like sausage egg and cheese biscuits, and I like watching Bob's Burgers.
𝐒𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐱 - What was the last book you read?
If by read you mean finished in its entirety then The Last Cuentista, but by read last I'm currently reading the Memory Librarian and Other Stories from Dirty Computer!
𝐂𝐫𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥 - Leave me a cute message
Hiii lovely can't wait to live with you <3 my handsome babe :3
𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥 - Honestly, are things going the way you planned?
Honestly? Some stuff is entirely new but I'm taking it by stride. I'm doing good and enjoying life and thats all that matters
𝐒𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐧 - A song that you remember from your childhood
Kids by MGMT, my sister used to play it a lot and it gives me good nostalgia
𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 - In your opinion, what makes a great relationship?
In all honesty being able to be good friends and enjoy each other's presence makes for a strong relationship. If you don't like your partner and you don't consider them a friend then really what are you doing??
𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧 - What’s something that scares you about the future?
Thinking about what my parents would think about me legally changing my name and being in a queer relationship. I'm just not ready for the fallout, even though I know I'll have people by my side when it does.
𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐤 - What was your first thought when you woke up this morning?
It was raining in the morning!
𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐚 - Sexiest person that comes to your mind immediately?
Tenoch Huerta :3 and you ig
𝐃𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 - What songs are included on the soundtrack to your life?
Foam by Divino Niño
Canta by Amo Amo
Saturno by DRIMS
and Mary On A Cross by Ghost
𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧 - The type of person that attracts you
I think I prefer chill and fun creatives a lot, someone I can talk about anything to and just shoot the breeze with.
𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭 - Stalked someone on a social network?
Because I like them? No
But because they're a dumpsterfire and I want to see whar batshit insanse stuff they post? Many many times
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Hi, heard dumpsterfire (@justspreadmythighs love you) and had to pop in here to say that I'd love to see you write small blurbs or just comment on crazy ideas we might have.
-👁️ anon (the same one from dumpsterfire)
Oh, me too, we should start a fan club. I know the basics about sewing so maybe I should get started on a supporting flag? Or a banner perhaps?
Thank you for expressing your point of view! It means a lot to me since what I post is for both me and everyone else who reads it 💫
I'm taking e erything into account, but I also don't want to step on anyone's toes or seem like I'm copying other people on here, but I must admit that this is a really nice place for me (like I said, it has helped me and my anxious feelings lately) and since I'm starting my master's final year, I still want to keep this account because I know I'll want a safe place to be in (in the middle of internship and thesis and life in general) and those smaller pieces of writing seem like the most realistic way of me keeping this account going!
But yeah, I'll only write them if you want them to be like that and if it doesn't come off as me doing it because I'm copying
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The feedback I've gotten for my survey about why people have dropped/dislike AoT has been wonderful.
There's been pretty much only one wierd/nasty encounter within the now pretty sizeable portion of feedback.
Writing the post about the criticism directed at the story and going back through all of the AoT discussion in all of the different corners of the internet as far back as 2009 has been a blast.
I'm aiming to publish it by the time of the final chapter release, but I really want to be thorough with it.
Speaking of chapter release...
The final spoiler week is upon us. It's the week of April 1st at that.
Part of me wants to be part of this insanity.
But AoT is one of my favourite series ever and I think this final arc has nailed the core themes of the story outside of a few elements pretty much perfectly and the actual character journeys have been really good.
I think it's been a little loosely plotted, but this is nothing new to me. AoT's plotting ranges from pretty obvious to a fun kind of subtle and kind of genius to pretty minimal in terms of foreshadowing.
It's been all over the place from the start.
But despite this and the slower portions of the story, I never felt it was truly nonsensical, terrible or delibrately mean-spirited.
I've followed this story for a total of 8 years: from about April 2013 to now, making it the longest story I've followed to the end until now.
I even found my very first post about it in a different forum I used to frequent (I completely forgot I was pretty much on board weekly since episode 2):
Watched the first 2 episodes recently. The feeling of despair with this is incredibly well done. I feel like if not these characters, then at least humanity overall deserves a good ending, yet I feel like this is gonna be one of those kill 'em all series with no hope anywhere in sight. Also, love the ed for this, just looks beautiful.
My first impressions of the manga are as follows:
Well, caught up with the manga. Wasn't as depressing as I thought it would be, there's still some hope left after all. The mystery with the titans is obviously the most engaging thing about this manga, but sometimes they just look very silly and that makes it hard to take some scenes seriously. I cracked up a few times because of the way these things are drawn, with such a serious story and the titans showing up fairly often it can be really distracting. Not particularly a fan of any of the side characters, they have their roles which is fine by me. Eren and Armin are hightlights for me, I guess. Mikasa reminds me a lot of Morgiana, but it bothers me that she's so good with so many things. She's one of the strongest fighters, she's almost always reasonable, she saves the day a lot. Sort of iffy about that. I mean she has some tough moments to endure, too, but compared to the stuff Eren or Armin go through it seems so little. I also saw some of the twists coming fairly easily, some of them are very typical of this type of survival story. It was really easy to tell that something was going to happen especially when things got really hopeful. But otherwise very good read.
As such, I'm torn whether I should completely shut out of spoilers this month.
Should I experience the finale of one of my favourite stories blind or should I experience the insanity of final (and let's be honest very often a dumpsterfire) spoiler week?
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It’s funny that my opinion on TSATS was, at first, “I don’t want any spoilers until I’ve read the book, which I am going to buy the day it comes out”, which immediately swung to “I need to see the spoilers to understand if this is truly as bad as people say, also I’m glad I didn’t buy this stupid book” the day after the book came out, which rapidly descended into “holy shit this is genuinely Bad and I don’t understand how it got published and I’m actually kind of angry about it”, to where I am now: “this is such a hilarious dumpsterfire that I have to own it immediately so I am reminded that it isn’t a fever dream. this wattpad nightmare was written by two critically acclaimed authors”
It’s like I went through all the stages of grief and am now at the delirious stage where real life feels like a parody.
#TSATS#this sparked by me seeing they have signed copies of TSATS back in stock at B&N#and wondering if I care enough to go get one
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Hello! Can you do # 3, 7, 11, 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24 & 30 for your OC Kamihara-san? I noticed that all the ask-game asks were about Izumi, and I really wanted to know about Kamihara-san... (he’s one of my all time fave OC’s BTW...) I really hope this isn’t too much! Thank you, have a great day 😊
3. What does your oc’s voice sound like? (Or, if you have one, what’s their voiceclaim?) Can they sing, whistle, or roll their rs? Do they have any speech impediments or notable dialects/accents?
His VA would be Ono Daisuke (I kinda imagine him to sound more like Hori Kyōsuke than Erwin Smith tho). He can't sign very well either (There's this video of Ono-san singing Let It Go , skip to the 1:30 minute mark and I feel like he'd send Izumi something like this!) But, he can whistle! He doesn't really have much of an accent, but he has a very casual way of speaking that kind goes against his age, so people think he's very rude.
7. What song reminds you of this oc? Does this match up with the type of music your oc likes to listen to?
Hmmm, this is really hard!! I think he listens to the radio more than music tbh, like he'll listen to comedy cds in his car and Izumi thinks he's totally weird for having a CD player. He usually listens to City Pop when he does listen to music, I feel like he knows all the words to Stay With Me by Miki Matsubara (which admittedly is my fave song)
11. Does your oc have any interests/hobbies that they hide from everyone? Why do they hide these interests?
He likes solving puzzles and gets really proud of himself but hates telling people cause they mock his age. Also, really likes making things from scratch, so he makes his own rice wine at home and stuff. Edgeshot makes fun of him for it all the time because he basically is acting like a grandfather at the age of 40.
17. If your oc had a social media page, what would it be like? What would they post about? How much personal information would they feel comfortable posting on it? How often would they update it?
He does have a social media page and is pretty active on it. He's not really out there posting about his job or stuff, but follows a lot of people and makes posts like "look at this bird that's outside my window," and gives daily updates on that bird. Izumi told him about the dumpsterfire account and he follows that too. Has a whole little how-to-make-your-own video series.
19. How would an enemy describe this oc?
Annoying. Nobi takes his job pretty seriously because he works with a lot of children and their families, but he has a tendency to run his mouth around the perpetrators, so he's been written up for that before.
20. What’s a superpower or magical ability that this oc would hate having?
Nobi's pretty happy being quirkless, but I think something like mind reading would annoy the everliving fuck out of him. He'd become a villain in two seconds.
21. What’s a fact you haven’t shared about this oc?
Nobi went to a hero school, but he was in the general ed course there.
23. Who would this oc consider their family? What is their relationship with these people?
Um, other than Edgeshot, it's probably Nox. Nox was one of the first people he met when he became a police officer and really sent her into Edgeshot's hands to get her somewhere safe. I think as he gets to know Izumi more, he'll add her to the little bubble.
24. What is one thing that, no matter who it’s coming from, would anger your oc?
tbh, Nobi has a general dislike for heroes and he hates when they give him attitude, so even if it's his brother, if they try pulling the "I'm a hero card," he'll get annoyed. He doesn't really show it when he's in uniform but if you catch him out of uniform, he'll start a fight.
30. Tell a random fact about this oc!
Nobi gets really embarrassed when his juniors at work call him senpai and always blushes when he hears it.
He's honestly one of my fave oc's and he and Midnight are going to be featured a bit when Izumi gets her summer job :)
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