#NUANCE : a generalization ofc

[glubandeepspace]

i always see so so many "this is so cool, credit to the original artist idk who" and like hello You downloaded it from somewhere and it's an era where you can reverse image search in less than a minute (if not copy & paste link even quicker).

if you dont know how then you can also learn as fast.

if the results arent precise then first of all also why do you think the point of "credit" is only saying it's not yours?

is it not obvious that most artists post not only to share but to be recognized for their own hardworked skill & creativity?

but nooo youre the one who'll be or wanna be hearing all the "ahh yes this is so good"s for far far less of a point (without even giving others the option to check out the artist's other potentially similar works that both of you may enjoy)? is that the only way you can find community? just say "art not mine, idrc abt the source" atp at least if you won't (ideally) stop entirely. honesty & self awareness is great with the bar this extremely low. consumers these days

[meowdei]

I change my vision depending on the selfship tbh

[mermaidsirennikita]

sometimes it drives me literally insane to see romance requests that are like

--I want a romance wherein it's basically the happy epilogue throughout the book

--I want a romance that has great communication and they never withhold anything from each other ever

--no "miscommunication trope"

The last thing is just a general gripe about how so many of the things people say are tropes are not tropes, and it's pedantic and snobby but like. Miscommunication is so broad. It's not a trope. People are miscommunicating. WHAT are they miscommunicating about? Is one of them keeping a secret identity from their partner? Because a secret identity romance iS a trope. Is one of them withholding their feelings out of fear of rejection?

Because people DO miscommunicate. Often writers do write it clumsily. If people miscommunicate for no reason, sure, whatever. But if they miscommunicate BECAUSE of a REASON--like, often it's not even miscommunication lol. It's the hero keeping his dire supernatural secret from his wife because she'll die if she finds out (honestly, valid to me, but whatever). It's the heroine finding it difficult to trust the hero with her heart because her dad left when she was young (maybe cliche in theory, but actually a very real thing that happens).

If all you want is plotless nothing wherein everyone is happy and nobody makes mistakes, I personally have a hard time thinking of it as a book, because there is no story. It's just vibes. And essentially EVERY time, people have to mess up and make mistakes in order for there to be a plot.

I just don't understand the point.

[liuisi]

what is it about becoming an academic that makes you like bad poetry

[lifesver]

anyway laurel is also explicitly an expression of queerness. is it a healthy one? absolutely not. it is, like his other murderverse personas, a very physical manifestation of a coping mechanism and it’s a way of creating a mental block between himself and the horrible things he ends up doing. laurel is a way of expressing things he repressed for a long time, things that don’t matter when you’re nobody, when you’re dead, when you’re in the dark with a stranger, and when you’re supposed to kill that stranger before the night is over.

[mad-hunts]

alright, i have come here to discuss something tonight and that topic is: barton still killing every single police officer that bothers him at the docks (except for jim, but i swear that's just for plot purposes. okay... nah 🫠 it's not lmao BUT moving on) and hating law enforcement in general + vigilantes, BUT with the new added context that he has a partner who he found out is a vigilante? well... i'm just here to say that it makes me think that doing mental gymnastics is just a daily practice for barton at this point LOL

but that's okay, because his vigilante partner is genuinely slay in his eyes + worth it. and thus, anyone who dares try to call him a hypocrite for being with her will be smacked halfway to tuesday so ❤️ (the heart essentially means don't do it JSJSJ ☠️ not to say that i would expect that anyone here would do it OFC though y'all know what i mean (,,: and oh, the mun who portrays the vigilante character that i'm talking about knows who they are tehe MUAH ilyyy)

[widevibratobitch]

me when im obsessed with dead singers from 50 (well... mostly 70-120) years ago and im heartbroken to know i'll never see them on stage... never hear them breathe, never see them sweat, never even touch the hem of their garment...

it really is enough to drive a person mad...

[petorahs]

9s and 2b as a relationship is so good because theyre written in a yuri way. ive never seen a depiction of a m/f relationship more yuri than them and it's probably intentional. hope this helps

[odysseys-blood]

i love when you cant really condemn a character and their actions because sure what they did was morally wrong but also what choice would you have made? would you have done any better or made a choice that shattered their world any less if you were in their shoes having experienced the same things they had before they took the plunge?

[anthromimicry]

okay, but i think it is about time to talk about one of misao's fears is, because i believe that they can tell you a lot about a character and their psyche — and i came to tell y'all that the one i'm going to be talking about today is that misao fears becoming a mother / motherhood. the first reason in which why i believe this is because misao just genuinely thinks that she is not the nurturing type and that she would likely be a terrible parent to her child ( which i know is a very depressing thing to think about. but it is something that she has feared for a long time, unfortunately. ) this likely stems from a mix of misao's inability to deal with her own emotions, though, as she feels like it's better to just bottle them up and deal with them all on her own rather than the alternative. and this would be to try to confide in someone and/or get help from them should she need it. so, misao feels as if her child were to come to her needing emotional support from her, she would absolutely fail at it and the last thing she wants is to emotionally neglect someone the way she had been as a child ( p.s. of course, this was mostly just borne out of unfortunate circumstances, as i've stated before because of kaiyah's illness. though this hasn't stopped misao from feeling the brunt of the impact that it had on her. )

plus... i feel as if misao also doesn't have a lot of confidence in herself whenever it comes to the concept of always being able to put a child first, as she has a pretty negative self-image of herself deep down if i'm being honest. she sees herself as an extremely selfish person who can't even become friends with one person because she is so afraid that someone will hurt her, and in her opinion, that makes her pathetic or weak. so she doesn't feel like she'd be able to take care of a child with the amount of responsibility that is required to in order to raise them properly and protect them at the same time.

though this isn't necessarily true as misao has put up those barriers that would normally let people into her heart mostly due to trauma, and having experienced trauma doesn't make anyone weak. i just feel as if she desperately needs to remedy her self-image because it is very damaging to think of yourself like that and it would be really good for her emotional health if she were to try to ways to better cope with everything that she's experienced throughout her life. there are other reasons as well behind why misao fears motherhood while i'm talking about it, however, and these are arguably one of the more bigger ones: the act of giving birth itself and suddenly being thrust into having to not just take care of yourself, but the baby inside of you as well. which sort of makes sense whenever you connect the dots as to how many horror stories misao has heard about delivering a baby and also how much a person's experience while being pregnant can vary from others. i mean, it has been shown that some people may have more morning sickness than others and that they just don't have a very good experience with being pregnant in general, for example. but other's may be 'glowing' as they say and may find it easier to deal with.

so, you never really know what kind of pregnancy you're going to have until you actually become 'with child' as misao would call it. and the unknown aspect surrounding it scares misao more than anything. plus, as it stands now, she isn't sure whether she'd want to go through the process of giving birth as there can be a lot of complications regarding it. but there can also be so many good things about inviting a new member of the family into your home and misao feels as if it is kind of expected of her to have children so she can continue the kanade line.

but misao is just so afraid of it for these reasons that she can not see herself as a mother, even in her head. however... there is the matter of adoption that she has yet to take into account, but with how focused the jorōgumo are about having biological children, i feel as if misao hasn't even considered it to be an option for those who are afraid of giving birth and also to give a baby / child a loving home as everyone deserves one of those. but yeah. i hope that this gave y'all a little more insight into her character, as misao is scared of re-enacting her past in a way, though i feel as if you become a mother yourself... you have to separate what will be your own experience of parenthood from your parents. so, in order to overcome this fear she has, misao would have to treat it as an entirely different thing from kaiyah's experience as a mother and her own child self's experience of her as a mother.

and this is definitely possible. it would just take some work, as overcoming any kind of fear would. plus, i feel as if misao were to accept other people's help it would also benefit her, since discussing motherhood / plunging into the topic of the sometimes seemingly scary thing that is parenthood is definitely not something that you have to try to go through alone.

[inkykeiji]

No fr, I saw Hazbin fans on TT who ACTUALLY THOUGHT Alastor's last name was "Altruist". Like. They didn't comprehend it was a word he was mockingly attaching to his name after his performance in the finale.

oh my good god. once again i say, the media literacy (and possibly literacy, period) is buried beneath the ground like...that’s actually concerning. unless they were young teenagers who just didn’t know what the word meant,, tho idk if young teenagers should necessarily be watching hazbin but that’s a different conversation for a different time.

[waywardsalt]

not to be That Kind of zelda fan but the hyrule historia does also explicitly refer to the world of the ocean king as ‘another world’

[egalitarian-cubone]

Low key there's levels of this I get, I am also neurodivergent so my tolerance is admittedly lower than others, but I would still appreciate 4 and above not to degrade into screeching goblins when they wish to communicate (minus those with issues where that's impossible).

Basically yeah have patience but remember there's a level of grace that is offered before it bleeds into being a public nuisance. Teach youd kiddos to stay within that range so they don't grow up into adult public nuisances.

The duality of man is thinking “children cannot help themselves and we all need to be patient with them as they explore what it means to be human in public” and also “damn, I wish this crying baby was not on the plane rn :/“

[doostyaudi]

Im very intentional when it comes to who's saying what. usually with this trend, the characters would take turns speaking, but this time i made it so silent salt mainly talks, showing how one-sided the relationship is

Shamil tried i think, but also forgot abt silent salt and his friends alot in general and took them for granted :p (obv more complicated and nuanced than that by ykkk)

This is them in the past ofc

Art i used for this below the cut

Programs used: Flipaclip, alight motion, ibis paint

Fps: 12

Song: https://youtu.be/LTv0FhFJPLI?si=WZHExKZV-BQalwkb

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

The biggest but most forgivable inaccuracy is the characters having a fandom at all. Serial/spree killers and politicians having an active fic writing fandom irl is deeply rare.

RPF is nearly all bands and actors and so on

A lot of speculation about what fic for famous characters would be like in universe goes awry by describing something akin to fanfic fandom instead of RPF

[enbysiriusblack]

ok i feel like the wording of this is gonna be so bad bcs i'm currently walking whilst writing this post & i've also only had one coffee but. (oh & also i should clarify that i am white)

i'm all for hc'ing a characters race and/or ethnicity, i mean i do it myself all the time, but it feels very empty to do so blindly & just sorta seems similar to the kinda ppl that 'don't see race'. by this i just mean like something very common i see in this fandom. hc'ing a white character to be a different race -> proceeding to seemingly not think/talk about how that would then impact the character, their relations with others, & generally in the story & rather just hc'ing it & proceeding to then only rlly talk about it through blatant stereotypes (this also is common in this fandom for hcs for ethnicity, sexuality, etc). if someone is a certain race, they will experience life differently to someone of a different race. i'm not just saying here like "oh if you hc james as indian then he'd be the one getting bullied in 70s england" or something. like, that's not what i'm saying, its that im aware there's a lot more nuance to that. im saying race impacts people's lives and ignoring how you're changing this character is, in my opinion, ignorant. i'm not saying 'keep all the white characters white', ofc not, just if you are hc'ing a character to be a diff race then maybe put more thought behind why you hc it & how this would impact them. and that applies to not just hcs for race but many things. otherwise you are very likely doomed to repeat harmful stereotypes