#My Rants

[ayumifantasy91]

Well, that's me hoho

don't ever look up what your childhood friends are up to now!!!!!!!!!! like girl you're a nuclear safety engineer. i put on matching socks today. we played tag a thousand years ago.

[gingersnapwolves]

You know what since I’ve got a ton of new followers because my post on puberty blockers took off and people apparently want to see me rant, I’m gonna get up on my soapbox for a PSA for tumblr’s aging userbase.

Do not! Get! A Medicare Advantage plan!

Tell your parents not to get one. Tell your aunts and uncles not to get one. Tell your friends not to get one.

Why is that, you might say? Kouri, what is a Medicare Advantage plan, you might say?

tl;dr Medicare is the government healthcare plan for Americans of a certain age or with certain disabilities. It is owned, administered, and operated by the government. You are entitled, if you wish, to outsource your Medicare and have your policy run by a commercial group, such as United HealthCare, Cigna, Aetna, et cetera.

Here’s how it works: For everyone who signs up for, say, a plan that rhymes with Figna Medicare Advantage, Medicare gives Figna a certain amount of money and says ‘use this to take care of this patient’.

You can see where this is going, right? Figna says ‘sure boss! *wink nudge*’ and then shoves as much of that money into their own pockets as possible, and they do that by finding excuses to NOT pay for your medical care.

Medicare Advantage plans are pushed and marketed heavily. They’ll call you. They’ll set up stands in your PCP office to try to encourage you to buy in. They will say things like ‘with Medicare, you have to pay a 20% coinsurance, but with us you only have a 10% coinsurance’ and completely neglect to tell you that having a smaller coinsurance only matters if they approve the fucking care that you need, which often they won’t (while Medicare would have) and if your doctors are willing to accept it, which often they don’t (while they do accept Medicare).

Is Medicare perfect? Absolutely not! I've got my share of bones to pick with them. But simply put:

Medicare is government administered. It is a service. It costs the government money, which is why the GOP is always trying to cut funding to it. Medicare Advantage is corporately administered. It is supposed to make money. Which gives them incentives to deny your care and fuck you over that Medicare simply does not have.

Do not. Get. A Medicare Advantage Plan.

[fossilizedhysterics]

grabbing all trans men by the fucking shoulders oh my god. you are allowed to be angry. you SHOULD be angry. you should not have to clarify your words to death, going "i know i dont have it as bad, but-", or put yourself down, "haha yeah, men suck dont we?", you are trans, and you are worthy, and you belong in this fucking community and you deserve to have your voice heard.

trans men get fucking angrier

[wifeguybecket]

can we talk about how this is the best scene in the entire movie. the score. the boat. the jaeger foghorn motif and the up angle we see lady danger at as she makes her way to otachi. the way raleigh and mako let the boat drop and readjust their grip on it. the way they use it like a BAT. the determination and coordination between them. the way they absolutely rock otachi’s shit. the way otachi uses its tail to grab and throw it away. there was no need for this scene to be so fucking cool AND YET!!!!! I love this movie I love guillermo del toro everythjng is beautiful bless my wonderful life

[blonndiec]

The biggest thing we got robbed was the summer episode in the height of their pinning.

I NEED TO SEE THE COMPLETE SCENE OF THE SHOWERS.

Must have been important…they running at the beach and this one in the ending.

And let’s not forget THEY MADE A COUPLE COLLECTION FIGURE OF THEM WITH MAKKA. Where? AT THE BEACH. Must mean something🥲💖

And you know? IT MUST HAVE TO BE RELATED that picture of Viktor drinking at night. And when he is combing Yuuri's hair? That too. And where does that appears? YES, IN THE ENDING. 😭

I need this lost episode. I need at least the keyframes, the storyboard. I NEED MORE.

[because-why-not-thats-why]

It's so fluffyyyyyyyy which i loveeee and the author was great about getting the dialogue DOWN

why the fuck am i ugly crying over a damangela fanfic lmao

[immortaledd]

what made you decide to give your Ruin's design a mainly gray color pallette?

Speaking of your designs, what made you design Eclipse the way you did?

Ruin’s Design Explanation!

I figured i’d do a whole rundown because I’ve been asked why I designed em like this before!

Secret design LORE, comic sneak-peaks, in-character dialogue, headcanons, and more!

Eclipse will be a separate one, his has a lot more history!! The color palette question is answered in #7!!

And now, some in-character lore…

Yes he in fact has trans scars. Why? The AI’s are all naturally agender and can be programmed to act as a singular gender. Gender itself is not a real concept to them, and is only there to make humans feel more comfortable.

After everything Ruin has gone through, delving into human life and discovering the different genders humans may identify as, he related to the struggles of transgender slander, being labeled as a complete freak for being born the way he is and then outcasted for it. He designed those scars himself to give himself his own “identity” as you would program into him.

Ruin has no specified gender (my specific Ruin) but he leans towards being a feminine he/him.

In shorter terms I watched all his past abuse and all I could think about was transgender representation.

SNEAK PEAK COMIC!!

The comic’s results in present day!

More in-character transferring to my own thoughts.

Extra questions:

why the hell is he blue tinted

Just mood coloring! He’s not ACTUALLY blue-ish grey. It is color theory fr fr!

WHERE’S HIS MARRIAGE RING

I frORGOOOOTTT ASSROTPPPPPP DOFNT YEEL ATT MEEEEE

If you have any further questions or just had one I didn’t answer, ask em and I’ll be sure to answer them when I can! 😋😋

[whumpypepsigal]

new reason to live just dropped:

la piece de resistance

[a-little-cretur]

im not really fond of fics where will is overly repulsive to the cannibalism thing because in the show, he just expresses a moment of shock in realization and then proceeds to continue dining with hannibal completely unbothered

and mind you he literally brought the psaos major muscle of a man he intimately beat to death for hannibal to prepare a meal of

[eschercaine]

So while the rest of the family is preoccupied with coping from losing Verso in the worst way possible and playing god inside the Canvas, Clea in the real world is fighting a war against the Writers who started the fire. And she has to come back home, like, once in a while (?) to check up on them.

Clea Dessendre is not getting paid enough for all the stuff she has to deal with.

Absolutely obsessed with this queen. I don’t get the hate she’s getting.

We need Clea DLC.

[latenightsinpemberley]

i think i’ll take the romanticised love story narrative between mina and dracula from the 90s over the nosferatu edition of ellen volunteering to be raped (again) to save the world

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

I will say, after seeing how a lot of people reacted to DDBA episode 5, unless the show is a comedy, I’m now fully convinced TV shows can never return to the format of having 20+ episodes with some episodes being standalone.

It’s not even that DDBA episode 5 was bad, a lot of people actually liked it. But I’ve seen so many comments about how it’s useless filler, doesn’t belong in the show, it’s a mistake, they should’ve either cut it out or added it to episode 6, and so on. I’ve also seen backhanded praise from people who said that while they enjoyed episode 5, it was smart of Marvel to release both 5 and 6 since if this week only had episode 5, the show would’ve gotten backlash.

If a great deal of today’s audience can’t even handle one standalone episode that wasn’t even that bad, what makes you think today’s audience can handle a show with 20+ episodes in which several episodes are standalone/don’t progress the main storyline? It makes me a little sad since it makes shows like Buffy, Lost, 24, or even Agents of SHIELD feel like products of their time.

(EDIT: Just to add on to this, here’s an example of what I mean. The Dos Cavazos react channel straight up skipped episode 5 after watching all the episodes that came before. If they did record a reaction, they definitely chose not to upload it to their YouTube channel since their episode 6 reaction is available)

[le-fruit-de-la-passion]

I keep seeing people worship Christian Linke for some shit he’s said and ignore the fact this man is antisemetic and heavily insensitive towards non white and straight characters HE IS NOT YOUR ALLY

I genuinely think people just don't know how much of a shitty person he is. Seriously, that dude was quite possibly the worst person to put in charge of a project like Arcane. Here are just some of things he's said that you should know of:

• Linke said the death of every character in Arcane was a direct result of their own actions : "Every single big beat in the end with our characters, whether it’s a death or not, is a consequence of their choices."

So, I'd like you to explain to me how Vander's death was his fault, because I don't quite remember him agreeing to becoming Warwick. Also, maybe having the three characters portrayed as suicidal in the show (Jinx, Viktor, and Jayce) all die, and go on to say it was just the consequences of their own actions... isn't a good message?

• Linke has declared Viktor as asexual on his own, with the sole purpose of discouraging JayVik shippers : "There is a love. I don't think it's romantic [...]. To me, Viktor was always asexual".

Now, the issue here isn't having an asexual character, its having chosen VIKTOR, one of the most important characters for disabled rep in animation and popular media, to be asexual. I've went on and on about how infantalizing that is to disabled/chronically ill fans, because we NEVER get to be perceived as sexual beings. Having a body that's visibly different from the norm, or limits on certain abilities, turns off people, makes them uncomfortable. That's why you just never see a sexually active or a sex positive disabled character on screen. That's why, in all his "sexy" skins in LoL, Viktor is given a six pack, has no visible marks of illness on his body (scars, fatigue lines), and has no medical brace or crutch.

Viktor was always intended to have a sexual swagger in season 1 ("this isnt my bedroom") and that was EXTREMELY important to a lot of us in the community. I've seen a very similar response from the asexual community as well, who feel like Linke is using their identity and experience as a shield from fan interractions he dislikes, and without actual care for what it means to the characters. Don't fall for rep that isn't actually meant to represent you.

• Linke has directly and openly compared the Zaun and Piltover conflict to the left and right in the United States, and put both sides on equal moral footing : "If you’re asking me whether we were inspired by two sides of one nation who are incapable of even talking to each other anymore at a certain point, yes."

So, I don't think I need to explain how bad this is. Remember that Piltover is the city of wealth and enforcers, and that they've gazed the district of Zaun, dumped chemicals around their water suplies, directed brutal and deadly repressions of civil uprising and protest, offered no financial support to the struggling communities of addicts, disabled people, and orphans, refused Zaun any implication or decisional seat in the city political life, AND THAT'S JUST ON TOP OF MY HEAD. Now, think about what that means with the USA politics comparison, and the idea that they should "just listen to each other". Yeah.

Now, if you know me a bit, you know I live in Canada, so maybe you think this doesn't affect me personally, or that it doesn't affect you because you live outside the US. To that, I want to tell you about a neighbour of mine, who lives on the street parallel to my house, and this truck he owns. The truck has a whole lot of fun stickers and flags on it: the quotes "TRUMP ARREST TRUDEAU" and "CANADIANS FOR TRUMP", the israeli flag, the confederate flag, christian crosses, the blue lives matter flag, and an anti BLM sticker. Now, I'm sure theres more cool things, I've just never gotten close enough to look at the smaller stickers and ornaments because, as a very openly bi arabic woman, I'm scared to death of that man. But maybe I should just hear him out, right?

Tldr, do not think that the state of american politics doesn’t affect the rest of the world.

• Linke has called the people of Zaun and specifically Silco "Svengali", which is an antisemitic name that implies Jewish people are crooks / dirty / thiefs / sexual degenerates. There's a great post on Tumblr that goes more into detail about this (https://www.tumblr.com/endearing-dalliance/769693230696677376/another-blow-against-arcane-anti-semitism?source=share). I'd just like to insist on how bad calling someone "svengali" is. His character was used in many pieces of propaganda in Nazi Germany to picture the "Evil Jew", and to dehumanize Jewish communities by portraying them as ressembling Satan (forked beard, can do unholy hypnosis, targets women...). Linke could have chosen ANY other term to talk about Zaunites, the oppressed community getting gazed by a police state, but he chose that one. That was not an unconscious decision.

I'm a firm believer that it is possible to separate art from artist/studio/company, and to appreciate something while still being aware the person behind it is not a great individual. However, if you're defending all the decisions made in season 2, these are things you HAVE to be aware of.

[warningsine]

Guys, I know that since the ban "female presenting nipples" have been a no go on this website, but we can still say the word "sex."

This isn't TikTok or YouTube. You don't need to censor yourselves.

Seggs -> Sex.

Unalive -> Dead.

Le$bian -> Lesbian.

[slipknot-babe]

maybe in another universe i make sense when i talk