#samsara. all is samsara

[passengerpigeons]

becoming largely chill about most things. but i give myself permission to be mad about car infrastructure, car dependence, and cars flagrantly ignoring pedestrian right-of-way and generally endangering beings of flesh. because this is one of the few truly moral axis of this world

[ganondoodle]

okay now, im a little pissed off- i wont be reblogging the post bc its and old shitpost and i dont want to attract more notes on it but

i am so fucking, and i mean FUCKING, tired of all the shit ass excuses some people try to make to defend ganondorf being a nothing burger character

this dumb ass comment really goes all in too, and here i painfully see how much damage skyward sword has done to him bc people cant fuking think i guess "as of skysw he doesnt have an true motivation of his own- hes evil just bc he is there nothing else to it" shut the fuck up man oh my god, you dont think thats a problem? you just accept that? no no OOT also already showed hes nothing but evil tm uwu he doesnt have a reason - AND THATS A PROBLEM YOU ABSOLUTE BUFFOON

if you think that giving ganondorf a miniscule amount of ANY sort of sensical reason to do what he does, a backstory, fucking anything 'changes him into a different character'- HOW in the FUCK do you not see the problem here

and my favorite (refernceing a different character) "If hes evil, like ganondorf, which means an absolute evil, then his backstory wouldn't matter a lick" HELLO??? HELL FUCKING O???? "absolute evil" do you know how you sound like??? also EVERYTHING MATTERS oh my god, but no no of course it wouldnt matter and make no difference if you knew more about a character, no, actually, knowing less of a character is better even! why even write anything tbh? you just give them a label of good or evil and then you dont need anythign else heehoo i cannot believe this shit is now hanging on one of my posts, im struggeling to even dismantle it bc its just so goddamn stupid what do you mean it woudnt matter???????? if i knew ganondorf had a personality (especially totk bc its the worst case), if i knew he had loved ones once upon a time, he laughed and was allowed to feel like a person, whatever made him go down a bad path to end up making you defeat him would mAKE IT ALL HAVE MORE OF AN IMPACT (this is assuming that whatever path it is leads him to oppose you but also .. it doesnt have to mean hes evil or done all bad deeds, guess what, you the player could also be playing the real "villain", wouldnt that be a change of pace .. or it wouldnt, depending on how you look at it (oh NO shift of perspective???) it already is, even if i personally prefer it ALL being a spectrum and not just a label of good and bad and just rolling with this badly definable bunch of words)

do you know why i didnt give a flying fuck about the final battle in totk?? bc its all fucking NOTHING, ganondorf is a goal post with a face that got "BAD GUY" written on it in big red letters stapled on it and nothign more, you cant care about nothing and the point of any story at all is to fucking CARE

honestly a reason why i hate both "redeemable" and the good and evil descriptor is that its so ... limiting, redeemable, what does that even mean really?? it just sounds like you are applying some weirdo christian sins to make up for with good deeds shit onto characters that are, or should be, meant to make you feel something and be a pinnacle of jesus instead, like a checkbox, a scoreboard, and now its being mainly used as a negative word to dismiss legitimate criticism of boring or shitty writing bc giving any character any depth at all now automatically means you want to redeem them and thus absolve them of their sins or some shit, make them uwu perfect little good guys which is not the point (even if there are people like that, sicne guess what, theres lots of different ideas of things all around, inlcuding this hellhole- and yes there are shitty ways to give a character depth! the problem then isnt the motivation to give them depth, its the WRITING of it)

the whole good and evil thing also is just so darn limiting, what does evil even mean, who defines it matters alot, what does good mean, the definition is also really really bendable- link kills more living things than ganondorf ever has yet he isnt evil (bc hes on the side of hyrule, the designated good gouys uwu which means anythign they do is okay), the royal family having a torture dungeon and persecuting the shiekah into submission doesnt make them evil uwu but the gerudo have to suffer for the "crime" of having birthed ganondorf at some point for all eternity i guess

(as well as the very very obviously stupid turns and things ganondorf does and doesnt do literally just bc they needed him to do soemthign you could call bad even if it makes no sense at all, why would he attack his own fucking people out of nowhere, why destroy everything, literally what for, why give himself up if he wants to rule its jsut as stupidly nonsensical as the dumb magic pebbles that just gives random powers out just to force the outcome they wanted to happen)

redeemable, saveable, whatever, giving a character depth doesnt have to mean you want them to join the good tm guys either and im so fucking tired of this way of thinking, EVEN considering that hey ... it would be cool actually to have a ganondorf as the main guy, but we all should know that would only happen if he is a servant of hyrule, which i would consider to be more out of character than ... GIVIING HIM ANY SORT OF DEPTH??? to sympthaize, be conflicted or see the guy you need to defeat has a point is like, not a bad thing?? you can make someone be the most sympathetic guy of all time and still make you fight him ??? and i will repeat again, ganondorf being a nothing burger (espeically in totk) hurts EVERYTHING, everything suffers from shitty writing and lack of writing, the thing that link and zelda are almost just as flat istn .. isnt good either?? its also bad but hes got it way worse (and the racism oh bOI)!!! (there is a reason why ww ganondorf is widely seen as the best one and itse literally bc he says ONE or two lines that may make you think omg .. he is person.... he might FEEL OoO- man the bar really is below the ground isnt it)

and they dont even care to try to make him actually be dislikable, he doesnt tease zelda with killing her father or soemthing, he doesnt have any sort of connection to any of them, every line he says (in totk) is like a prepackaged microwave villain line, you could apply it to anyone, even rauru and it wouldnt seem out of place tbh (which is BAD), more depth would have connected him to the story, the world the literal everything which means people care which means a better story i dont know how to explain to you that you should be able to care about characters??????? he gets the stamp of "evil guy" on his head and they expect you to be happy with that, accept any stupid thing they make him do and others say about him without question? do you NOT feel at least a little insulted???

and like, this is still written, this is a piece of fiction, they had to sit down and write all that, or .. well, NOT write it, they decided to do it like this, despite the ocean of potential in front of them, you could do so many itneresting thigns with this world and they jsut dont and then theres people like this that are so entrechned into this boring ass writing they think that its the point, liek the point is its bad hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

"but hes not meant to be a person he jsut ev-" SHUT the hell up, nevermind the whole curse thing is an englsih trnaslation thing and also perhaps not meant to be taken literally, you think that makes it ok? that well there was a demon once (who also doesnt get any sort of depth btw!!! problem shoved one place over but still the same problem!) so that means hes not actually a person but idk a demon puppet or soemthing- doesnt change anything imo, are you not bored? are you not tired? are you happy with not thinking? not being engaged with at all? to see chaarcters to utterly flavorless you fall asleep and choke on them? i am not, i love thinking, im addicted to it even, i think every day even, right now too, they got a convenient excuse to put not even the barest fucking minimum of writing care into a character and you are jsut going with it!! where are your tastebuds buddy??

[moregraceful]

Hello everyone, yesterday afternoon I escorted Keats to the great compost buffet in the sky. I'm doing extremely bad about it all but I know it was the right decision because he was suffering a lot in a terrible and quick-moving illness. My friends, my community, the staff at the ICU, and my support system at the PHP have been amazing throughout this short but awful process.

I am currently planning a collage of sorts to memorialize my little dumpster dog and I want to offer you all one last opportunity to hurl your most inspired insults at him so that I can include them in the collage. Yesterday I read all my screenshots of notes and replies you left on photos of him, and enjoying all the beautifully evocative ways you have described him over the years. Please enjoy these photos of him in various stages of his life and do your absolute worst in the replies of this post or my inbox.

I also have a request, only if you have the means and motivation -- I am hoping to rally some friends and family to help clear out the Amazon wishlist of the shelter, SVACA, that pulled him out of the (literal) gutter 8 years ago. They saved him and he saved me, so maybe I can bring a little bit of that back to them. It is linked on this page or can be found Amazon here.

I feel insane for organizing what is effectively a wake, or a celebration of life, for my zooted lil physics problem on Tumblr of all places, but you all have been incredibly funny, overwhelmingly enthusiastic, and unbelievably supportive about him from the day I brought him home all the way from when I told you he was in the ER on Thursday. So I wanted to offer you all one last chance to drop a couple hot takes about him. Do your worst. Love you all 💙

[tempests-bards-and-birds]

please god make the "three time winner of the best bard of mondstadt" one of the earliest pieces of evidence we got for the samsara without us knowing it at the time because it would be so fucking funny

[gongziyus]

for @wangquan-fugui

[a-cloud-for-dreams]

society if remy's MCs were allowed to be curvy

[zorostitties]

the way i already have 3 ongoing fics but gojo wants me to start a fourth

[asexualbuthorny]

next one on the mpreg list is pei ming and right after it's luo binghe, sepcifically the original one from pidw

[squishywizardd]

As a certified Ram girly….I am absolutely fucked

Can I have both at the same time and Devi can channel her inner Renée de Noailles PRETTY PLEASE WITH A CHERRY ON TOP

[kazu-naito]

you know it's over when you see these expressions

[babyblueromance]

I want Ram just like this, waiting downstairs in his lingerie waiting for Devi to come dominate him 😂😂

[ratanslily]

this cg is so iconic especially when you have a Devi exclusively romancing Saraswati.

three bisexual men defending a lesbian with a sword

[malekswife]

Seen this on reddit and i didn't want to engage there.

In other words.... it was good for 1% of the story? 😁🤣💀 Because... what arc??? Before he was reintroduced in the story after the time jump, he literally just appeared in one episode and one scene (which was the most boring and cliché li introduction scene out of the all lis in the story). His "arc" was never good, because it was obvious from their first meeting that Remy is trying to go with "not all colonizers" narrative with him, which is extremely fucking problematic given the context of this story and the position he occupies. He was badly written from the start.

[eliathynfer]

Ram Doobay

1/2/3/4…

“I’m sorry I wasn’t there while you… I don’t know what you felt, but… Inside, I felt that I was dying with you.”

Holy fucking SHIIIIT this took me AGES. Yes, I procrastinated, yes, the details fucking suck, but I don’t care as it is 04:30 AM and I’m STARVINGGGG. Anyway, slay king, he’s a cutie patootie.

[gongziyus]

You saved her twice. And you are taking care of her with such dedication. Have you developed feelings for her?

[a-cloud-for-dreams]

"Come outside, we won't jump you"