#anti-application

[then-ponder]

Mathematicians will see this and be like: “is there a surface that doesn’t have the property in which four points A,B,C,D with the relationship that |AB| = |CD| and |AD| = |BC| aren’t tangent to the surface at any orientation around a given Origin.

https://youtube.com/shorts/FArZQkQ3Ah8

[knifearo]

“there are always more fish in the sea!” babe no offense but i just really sincerely do not want to go fishing

[anna-scribbles]

i guess I did alright, considering!! tried to be a halfway decent friend!!!! WOUND UP A BAD COMEDIAN!!!!!!!!! an honest fool with more bad habits than you can count.

[anothersimulation]

Hey so none of us like art theft right :)

So let me give everyone a friendly little reminder that if you take heavy inspo from another artist's piece or design(s), you should give them a little bit of credit in the caption of your art upload.

It hurts absolutely nobody, it won't impact your engagement, it helps out the other artist and it avoids unnecessary conflicts and upsets caused by not crediting them.

You wouldn't like it if somebody ripped off your art or designs 1:1 practically - so don't steal from other artists and get credit for their ideas. Instead just make it so both of you can benefit. Extra points if you contact the artist and ask if you can make designs or pieces inspired heavily by theirs or redraw them etc etc

Light inspo is different obviously but I think some people have forgotten what that is lol.

[antianakin]

So I'm not the world's biggest Doctor Who fan or anything, I haven't done more than Tumblr watch it in years, but I happened across a quote from the Christopher Eccleston season that struck me as an interesting quote to use to discuss Anakin, his choice to save Luke, and why it doesn't really work for me.

You let one of them go but that’s nothing new. Every now and then a little victim’s spared because she smiled, ’cause he’s got freckles. ‘Cause they begged. And that’s how you live with yourself. That’s how you slaughter millions. Because once in awhile—on a whim, if the wind’s in the right direction—you happen to be kind.

-- Doctor Who, Boom Town

I don't remember the context of the quote really, so I'm not going to discuss that.

But that bit about how one small act of kindness doesn't really... mean anything? THAT'S what's getting me here.

This is why Darth Vader isn't redeemed. Because yeah, sure, he did one kind thing. But Luke is probably not the first random person he decided to spare because, on a whim, he decided to just let someone run or escape.

The one act of kindness isn't truly about the person on the receiving end of it anyway, it's about HIM, about living with HIMSELF. Because he wants to believe he's a hero even though he's doing evil selfish things and he KNOWS he's doing evil selfish things but he can't face that so he just keeps telling himself he's a hero, and it's probably easier to tell himself that if, every so often, when the wind's going the right direction, he decides to be kind.

But it's still selfish.

Saving Luke is still selfish. Because he wants to be a hero TO LUKE, he doesn't want to live WITHOUT Luke, so he saves him. He saves him so he can say "tell your sister you were right." He lets himself die so he doesn't have to live with the consequences of anything he's done. That's how he slaughters millions and dies thinking of himself as the hero still, after everything.

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[vvelegrin]

man another thing that's been very nice about having moved out of my dad's house is that... i am under no obligation to convey anything to anyone <3 i don't have to tell my parents about my doctor appointments, i don't have to tell people my intentions, i don't have to defend making purchases or arranging my life in a way that makes things easier or more pleasant because people don't even have to know about these things in the first place.

it's really fucking nice.

[teethmouth]

some of you people need to understand that there is a big difference between a toxic relationship in a piece of media and a relationship between an adult and a child or an incestuous relationship in media. i know the terms definition is already extremely muddled, but you guys have to stop throwing the term proshipper to lump people who like a ship you personally dont like in with people who consume fictional cp on a regular basis. okay. those things are not comparable

[bookshelf-in-progress]

The thing about a world where there's an entire class of people who are considered non-persons is that things get really dark really fast.

It's dark enough when you start with the premise that their only options are "killed at birth" or "lifetime of enslavement", but when the story's about people trying to avoid or change that, you can deal with it.

It's when you start digging deeper into the implications of the things this group of people could be used for, and come up with things like "sex slaves" and "vivisections" and "lab rats" that it gets really yikes.

Which is why anything I write about this is going to stay very focused on the point-of-view and direct experiences of one main character, and I'll let you guys come up with those terrifying implications yourselves.

[madamtrashbat]

Not to be a total bitch and not to insult my friends who are involved but like whatever hope I had for this zine is totally shot because dude.

You're totally onboard with the person whose first act in fandom was to go around to everyone they deemed unworthy and harass them and I'm supposed to support this project?

Bye.

[inquisitor-apologist]

Kinda funny that the Jedi are baselessly accused of everything the Inquisitorius actually does. Like, they’re right there. They even steal babies!

[lunar-years]

I’m trying not to focus on shipping war nonsense because I have learned that my world is so much more peaceful when I mind my own business and stay in the little corner of fandom that agrees with me. But with that said…I am absolutely about to rehash old season 1 & 2 arguments, because some of y’all can’t seem to let anything GO and I am sick to death of hearing about it! (sorry for the length of this in advance. I really need to get this all out of my system at once so that I can go back to nicely shutting up about it.)

1) As for what inspired this post… I do find it interesting that there are still people trying to insist that Steve didn’t walk out on a blackout drunk Nancy at that party and instead claim “he asked Jonathan to take her home first.” It’s just that…no he didn’t? There is literally a scene of Steve shoving angrily past Jonathan and other partygoers and out the door? In fact, this is presumably what tips Jonathan off to go look for Nancy in the first place. Yes, Jonathan later tells Nancy that Steve asked him to drive her, but it’s pretty clear that he’s lying. He’s saying it because he doesn’t want Nancy to be more upset than she already is re: Steve. He’s just trying to be a good friend and to comfort her.

This misconception alone might not piss me off so much if it wasn’t for many of the same fans then insisting that jancy shippers or even just Nancy fans are delusional for holding true to the belief that Nancy never cheated and that she and Steve were broken up when she and Jonathan got together. Somehow we’re supposed to believe that Steve walking back into the party, seeking out Jonathan, and asking him to take Nancy home is all “implied”—despite a direct scene pointing to the contrary—but: “Well then tell me.” “Tell you what?” “That you love me.” “…Really?” *cue a long moment in which Nancy is unable to say it because it clearly isn’t true, and Steve clearly realizes it.* “I think that you’re bullshit.” *Steve walks away. Nancy says nothing and does not go after him*…is not a ‘clear enough’ breakup? Yeah, because they totally would have come back from that one if only *checks notes* big bad Nancy hadn’t gone off and ~cheated~ on poor Steve with creepy Jonathan. Right.

(It’s the needing to be spoon fed the breakup but then making up ridiculous justifications for Steve’s behavior to try to either absolve him or worse, to demonize Nancy and/or Jonathan, for me….)

2) Comparing Steve and Jonathan’s past mistakes is just dumb to begin with because they have both grown from their season one arcs. Still, if I have to see one more post about how Jonathan is completely irredeemable for taking that photo of Nancy, I might actually lose my mind. “Why have people suddenly forgotten Jonathan being a CREEP and STALKING Nancy in season one!!!” Listen. I can guarantee you that no one has forgotten it because y’all insist on bringing it up every. two. seconds. Please be serious.

•though you’d think otherwise from the way people talk about it, funnily enough I have never seen a single jancy or Jonathan enjoyer claim this was anything less than a horrific violation of privacy and yes, creepy and disrespectful behavior on Jonathan’s part. 

•Jonathan gives a sincere apology, which Nancy then accepts. He never repeats the behavior and he never tries to justify his actions.

•that’s all there is to it. You can like him or not, of course, but it’s ridiculous to go on and ON about this years later, often while, at the same time, jumping through hoops to claim Steve’s myriad of wrongs aren’t ‘nearly as bad’ as Jonathan’s photos. Steve calls Nancy a slut, lets his friends declare it on the theater billboard to the whole town. He pressures her about sex. He insults Jonathan’s family, including his missing kid brother, and calls him a slur. He definitely leaves Nancy alone at that party. I like Steve (though damn, do his stans work hard at getting me not to) and I obviously like Jonathan, but that’s because I can acknowledge that they’ve both grown, and I also don’t selectively pick and choose what parts of their arcs I care to remember.

3) which brings me to…season four. Honestly most of the st*ncy flirtations were pretty harmless (if forced, imo) and I firmly believe that people are allowed to have ‘moments’ with other people even when one or both of those people are in a relationship without either one being immediately crucified for it. Obviously Nancy and Jonathan had some similar moments between them in season one/two when she was still with Steve. I didn’t think she was ~emotionally cheating~ then and believe me, I don’t think she is with Steve now, either. I also don’t think Steve was being like, wildly disrespectful to Nancy and Jonathan’s relationship for most of the season (for instance, his comment about the three of them and Robin hanging out after all this is over felt sincere)

That said…it definitely got a little squirmy there by the end and I have no idea why the writers had to push it so far even if they wanted to resurrect the stupid love triangle for season five. Telling an ex who’s in a relationship that you’re dreaming about having six kids with her is…yeahhh…totally out-of-pocket, lol. Even if she wasn’t in a relationship it’d be totally weird, but it makes it worse that she is, because it means Steve’s not only disrespecting Nancy, he’s also disrespecting Jonathan. (It was a bizarre writing choice, so believe me I’m mad for Steve’s character arc at this point, too.)

Yet, what do st*ncy and Steve fans choose to go on and on about? An off-the-cuff joke from Jonathan about how Steve isn’t much of a leader like Nancy is. It’s so not even that serious, lmao. I mean, what?? Jonathan and Steve haven’t spoken in years, and have cordially spoken pretty much never. I think Jonathan’s allowed to get a small barb in (note: I think this was a weird writing choice too, because why would Jonathan even be thinking about Steve? It’s out of left field. But again. Love triangle drama. Sigh.)

At this point it’s just getting ridiculous. At the end of the day ship whatever you want to ship, but maybe find a way to do so that doesn’t revolve around repeatedly trying to trash the other side using the same stale, nonsensical arguments. Or at least keep it out of the jancy and Jonathan tags, Jesus Christ.

[nando161mando]

The worst application I've seen

[descendants-brat]

I was rewatching D2 and saw that Evie had said none of the C4 was too popular on the Isle and it just leads to more confusion on how they even ended up becoming the saviors of the Isle in D3. I would've loved to see how the OG Isle that hated them for turning their backs on evil would've reacted to them being okay at the end of D3 (right before the engagement party) with Mal closing the barrier forever and really only seemed mad because she had lied to them about it.

[kenobihater]

anyways. how about those dijkstra spoilers, huh?

[sister-lucifer]

idk i just feel like if you need to have “no, i don’t hate [oppressed group]” in your bio for clarification, you probably do