My understanding of evil, age 0-10: MY NAME IS SMOG SMOKESLY AND I RUN THE POLLUTION FACTORY, IT PRODUCES POLLUTION!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
My understanding of evil, in my teens: You can't really boil things down to good and evil. People are complicated. Everyone is the hero of their own story, and someone who seems evil to you is actually doing their best from their own perspective. If you could walk a mile in their shoes, you'd understand. There is no such thing as evil.
My understanding of evil, in my twenties: Look, it's basically just tribalism. We are all necessarily thrust into competition with one another. There are always going to be winners and losers. Whining about evil is just being upset that you lost the game.
My understanding of evil, in my thirties: MY NAME IS SMOG SMOKESLY AND I RUN THE POLLUTION FACTORY, IT PRODUCES POLLUTION!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
i cant find the post anymore but jeff really was just a tall guy . abed was the big guy . jeff just had big muscles and a big wallet and a big wardrobe and a big forehead . the true sigma of greendale community college was abed . he knew how to pull bitches through something called Genuine Emotional Connection all jeff had was phony wordwork and pretend confidence
I miss literature when it broke your heart in pieces and destroyed your soul. I don’t want you to tell me how your characters love eachothers, I want them to destroy themselves over their life and love, experiment the purity of emotions, reaching for life and love until they get burn.
🙄 ; What are your biggest pet peeves when it comes to tumblr?
I'm gonna get hate for this but fuck it we ball.
purity culture
the idea that you can make an OC out of a canon character but keep the back story and the name and all the connections. That makes no sense that's just saying you dont want to write them correctly and covering your ass-
Portrayal. And how no one fucking cares about it anymore. Everyone is great at what they do and there is NO room for improvements and you obviously dont have to do your character justice when you can just do whatever you want with them instead fuck if it makes sense youre only writing a real character and not an oc but ITS COOL RIGHT? WHY BE GOOD WHEN YOU CAN JUST DO WHATEVER??
I will die on this hill for all eternity, portrayal fucking matters and I refuse to fall into the crowd that supports "do whatever!" culture.
Oc's in canon settings that don't make sense. I remember back when I was in thg fandom people tripped over themselves to make sure their oc matched lore. People researched named winners of what games and they like actually gave a damn about making their oc as canon as possible. Without being needlessly rude that is not a thing anymore :)
people who go out of their way to scream they are super fucking nice just the sweetest ever just the nicest sweetest little bean never has a bad thing to say about anyone super sweet over the top- and its because they are a trash person trying so hard to hide they are a trash person. You look fake. You sound fake. Whoa shocker, you're fake. This is why I have zero problem being real about the things that I say and do. I am the first person to tell you Im a bitch, but im also the first person to step out on the front lines if you need someone. See they're not mutually exclusive I don't need a show to be nice.
the idea that constructive criticism is hate. Just bc you don't like it doesn't mean that someone who said you weren't perfect is sending hate. I saw this a LOT in 2k12 bro people genuinely trying to help got flamed bc god forbid someone improve.
attention seeking on the dash- Excessive "WILL YOU PLEASE LIKE THIS IF YOU LIKE ME AND MY MUSES PLEASE??" Bruh. Stop. If they follow you most likely they like you. Chill or they're probably gonna stop. Self fulfilling prophecy.
the idea that you don't owe anyone an explanation for blocking. If you have written extensively, and been friends for a long time yes tf you do owe an explanation even if its "You pushed my boundaries too often after I told you x thing" and then blocking them. But you owe a friend an explanation. Communicate. Don't be a coward. No sense in ditching a friend when you could idk talk about it but ok. this does not apply to randos.
thinking about how marlene mckinnon fought for her family’s love and acceptance for so long after coming out to them and they refused to be there for her even during her biggest struggles yet when she went home for one last chance to attempt reconnection with her parents as she feared she would lose them to the war despite feeling like she had lost the so many years before, she was murdered and betrayed by someone who had held her as she cried at 13 after being kicked out…
the way the anti-hero prophecy is coming true and even the most loyal gaylors are now leaving cuz theyre tired of her scheming..shes alienating the ppl that actually see and understand her the most
oh thats so true actually
its quite disheartening, because ive actually witnessed so many gaylors start distancing themselves from taylor because of the schemeing. i think for many its just tiring. honestly, i think even i'm distancing myself from her, but i think its more about how she is not speaking up abt ANYTHING (especially the genocide happening before our eyes). the most she has done this year was telling ppl to vote and that one pride month speech. and i know social activism is important to a lot of her fanbase (including a lot of gaylors) and I think thats partially why.
she has a constant cycle of bringing our hopes up and then crushing them, and lately all she seems to care about is pleasing the swifties/gen. pop
a lot of gaylors just dont want to stay in that cycle anymore, especially because it looks a lot like she's pushing herself deeping into the closet and we gaylor recieve a lot of hate. I can only hope that she realizes how shes pushing us away soon enough for her to keep us.
When I get back from my union meeting, I'm going to finish and post a couple fixes to the Smuggler story. Including one in which I actually fix the Voidwolf.
(Okay, it's a completely different character, but still...)
It's really simple. If you're born with a vagina and you naturally have elevated testosterone levels, you're a man. If you have a vagina and you take testosterone, you're a woman. But also if you have a vagina, you'll never be a man. But also if you have higher testosterone then you were never a woman. Woman never yes man a vagina testosterone no was an elevated. Vagina man.