#anyways chill out guys

[buthappysoverrated]

Okay I’m not vagueing anyone I’m just glad I never say any of my hot takes online and just don’t interact with people

But also I thought when people say they’re not here for fandom drama then they’re not? And people can just have different opinions and not, idk, declare war? Anyways I’m going back to my revising fandom discourse is much less interesting than my major

[wyvernity]

been thinking about the sinnohtrio lately......plus misc other stuff

also, casual ko-fi drop!! get something in this sketchy style starting at $10 woop woop

[aroaceleovaldez]

Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.

Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.

Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.

Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.

[toytulini]

listen im ace and im pro kink at pride and whatever, but the way some of yall are wording your posts in response to the backlash against it is uh. really taking me back to the ace shitcourse era.

yall know theres nothing wrong with being a "virgin", right? that its not inherently shameful to have not had sex, to never have sex, even if youre not ace, even if you do want to have sex someday, like, its fine that you haven't had sex?

maybe if your problem is that theyre trying to police your behavior and shame you for expressing your sexuality, you can say that? instead of resorting to "haha stupid virgin gets no bitches" like my god. do you not hear how fucking regressive that attitude is? i know, i know, youre "joking".

get a better joke

[pkaykim]

Oofurixmas2022 for @meela-31

[ultimateinferno]

My opinion on the matter in as few words as possible and why I want Moash to persist as a character through the second half of the series.

[fandomfrolics]

1x10 || 3x01

[gay-otlc]

Trans men might identify as lesbian because...

They are multigender and therefore wlw or nblw

They are closeted in most contexts and refer to themself as a lesbian rather than a straight man so they don't out themself as trans

They don't pass and are generally assumed to be a lesbian/in a lesbian relationship, so they use this label to describe their experience with that

They spent a long time (often decades) identifying as a lesbian before discovering they were trans, and they don't want to leave the lesbian community that in some cases has become their family

They identify as female but use masculine terms such as man and/or he/him pronouns as a way of expressing gender nonconformity or butchness

It's their identity and they can describe it however they like

Trans men don't identify as lesbian because...

They want to make cis lesbians feel unsafe

They want to force cis lesbians to date or sleep with men

They think trans men aren't really men

They think all trans men who like women are lesbians and want to misgender straight trans men

They think trans women can't be lesbians

They hate lesbians

So like. The sooner yall can recognize that our identity is simply us trying to live our lives in the way that feels most accurate for us, and not a personal attack on you, the happier everyone will be and then we can focus on problems that actually matter.

[spookberry]

patchin up wounds in the dark

[athena-willowthorne]

to anyone saying the apology came too late:

these guys are human beings. when 90% of their fanbase turns on them unexpectedly after a change they all seemed genuinely excited by, that has to be stressful. I know I needed time to process my feelings after friday, and they did too. especially to come up with a solution and deliver it right from an optics angle

god forbid they're struggling right now. there's a lot of people to please, us, the advertisers, themselves, their team. it's a lot for three people, emotionally at the bare minimum.

this is a business. business decisions had to be made, find out what's best. the decision to take everything optional is a big one, with a lot of compromise in there. also, it was the weekend? the work week was over, they came up with a decision likely off the clock, on personal time, which is a lot to ask of someone.

at the end of the day, if you've lost trust in them that's perfectly ok. it's been an emotional rollercoaster for a lot of people, and if that's what your recovery looks like, that's fine! but don't blame it on their timeline. they've given you the best version of what you've been asking for, and it's up to you to respond.

[rustedrocket]

thinkin about these dudes as teens.. what're they up to, y'know? what're those kooky kids doin

[boilingheart]

"why is anduin 40" have none of you seen a 25 year old man before

[keibea]

her name is fiorella and i lubs her very much goodbye

[gooberdingus]

help yourself, they are not edible

[red-the-dragon-writes]

Fellow writers who come up with wild and/or complicated as hell worldbuilding! Share some of your highlights!

I'll go first:

Two major systems of currency that dramatically increase and decrease in value across the continent in direct conjunction with which particular major country is closer;

Magical person-eating eels who have their own entire society underneath a particular city that never becomes relevant because they think everyone else is frustrating and terrible, who have exactly one (1) ambassador to interface with the outside world but who decided that everyone else was (still) frustrating and terrible and now works as an assassin for hire instead of doing that and just sends the occasional trade good back home with their stipend;

Pseudo-electricity that works by summoning spirits from outside of the world to come hang out in your batteries

[daddy-ul]

Kirk and Cliff's culinary adventures.

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or, the long history of Metallica and toasters.