#can we not

[wejustvibing]

"i did him proud. i did what he asked me to do" 🥺

[redscrawl]

the well written complex male character -> being mischaracterized by the fandom as a dumb slutty twink who can’t do anything pipeline will never not irk me

[stardustthread]

Nah man some of yall are just weird as fuck??

[nerdy-prude]

Can we stop gatekeeping music?

I have just gotten into the Good Omens fandom and that has made me listen to Queen. Obv I knew about Queen before and had heard a few songs before but this was the first time I actually felt like "Yeah, I really like this, I wanna listen to them more" I was bit hesitant bc I didn't want to at some point telll people that the reason I like Queen is bc a TV show/ a book but eventually I just tought, ah, who cares and searched for a playlist. The first comment I see is someone asking if anyone is there bc Queen is a great band and not bc a tv show or game or something else. One of the replies was like "yeah, some of us can think for ourselves and not have to be directed"

???

We both like the band, I just happened to discover it from a show, why does that make me a worse person somehow???

[kebriones]

I found this old greek translation of Alcibiades 1 as a free pdf online and I got it because it had commentary, which I need for my own translation. And the very first comment is:

"the word "erastes" (literally"lover") here only means "very close and dear friend" and not the unethical interpretation many have given it"

Why, my good man. If you cannot handle it, why did you chose to translate plato of all things.

He has translated everything related to love and lovers as "friendship" or "admiration" and "friends" i am losing it.

[kittenintheden]

hey idc who you are but if I ever find out you’re sending tooly anonymous asks in any capacity then I will eviscerate you in fiction ok thank u 💖

absolute inexcusable clown behavior. troll your friends with in-jokes like the rest of us if you must.

[bewitchedpeaches]

Scorpion will always be Hanzo Hasashi

So, I just want to scream this into the void. With the leak confirming Kuai Liang’s Scorpion in MK1. I have some concerns. The constant theme of- “The more things change, the more things stay the same.” Mileena; even as a legitimate sister of Kitana; is still Tarkatan. (The race is a disease is hella wack.) Kenshi still looses his sight. Bi-Han is still an ass hole. And the scariest thing- Scorpion is still Hanzo Hasashi. I swear if we end up with Kuai killing Bi-Han, running from the Lin Kuei to Japan, and Changing his name to Hanzo. I’m going to loose my crap.

[bardic-inspo]

I have been such an absolute crabass today (and real critical to myself re: writing) and I think it's because I'm actually incredibly salty about losing my honor mode 🥲

I'll get over it. Just wish I would get over it yesterday 😂

[joeyisourranger]

[pandorasboxoftreasures]

Real Talk For A Sec...

Don't get me wrong, I love seeing all the high quality artwork people make (that doesn't involve certain actions with certain characters and also particularly disturbing shippy stuff), but there's something I keep seeing in OC art that bugs me quite a bit. Because of the likely not intentional, yet if you think about it it's sort of awkward, aspects of it.

That being making Na'vi non-Avatar or Recom OC's look like Instagram models in terms of body proportions and makeup. Even when they're not supposed to be wearing makeup and clearly do not have the access to cosmetic procedures.

It gives the impression of applying Westernised Human beauty and body standards on them and it's really uncomfortable for me how common it is to see in fanart.

These characters don't look like Na'vi in their designs even through the filter of an individual artist's style. They have the skin colour and the stripes and the big eyes and the tails and the number of fingers but what else?

It's got the same feel under my skin as when I see somebody dressing up as a "Native American" on Halloween yet still dressed and wearing makeup to fit to Colonial American early 21st century standards of "sexy" with feather stuff on.

Depicting Native Na'vi like that is like making them into a costume in a similar way but obviously lessened because they're fictional peoples.

Na'vi are aesthetically interesting just as they are if you make them anatomically and culturally accurate. They don't need to be Westernised to hell to make them "pretty".

Not to say I'll rage at you for doing it or that it makes you a bad artist or a bad person for doing that, but it's disappointing not seeing enough Native Na'vi OCs that look like they grew up on Pandora as part of a clan there.

You can still get away with this (to a degree but still not that much) for Avatars and Recoms since they're culturally and physically more human (although why would the RDA bother), but why do it with Pandora-born Na'vi?

Your art is your art, but do you not see the problem here?

Maybe if you're dealing with a modern day or set in the future AU where the Na'vi have been culturally assimilated with humanity and so end up doing the same crap to themselves to the same standards we do, but if it's set during the time or world of the movies and games and comics? Why?

[nikatyler]

Me: oh god what is this feeling. is this what they call butterflies in the stomach. fucking hell can i be depressed and unable to feel this again this is annoying turn it off *checks clock* ohhh it's 11am, I'm just hungry

[notbballstars]

I really don’t like how the houseguests are talking about Kirsten it’s getting weird

[cryptidcarnage]

I made it very clear, did I not? Can we NOT do this shit? Did I overreact?

[lovvecherrymotion]

can we talk about this again

[sinners-go-to-drink-the-wine]

still seeing sexual posts including underage photos of the boys 🫥

[scientifically-fruity]

why is mankind so set on playing god. I am so tired. I don't want to walk among people who consider themselves gods. did we learn nothing from frankenstein? from old texts and movies? from all those dystopian future ideas. all those "what if..." and "how far..." that no one really stopped to think "should we". and those who did could never consider themselves gods, but if that's what it is to be a god i'd rather meet my mortal end!