#default argument

[dreamerdrop]

Garashir deciding who gets to top or bottom based on who wins the argument over their dinner date.

Winner gets to pick the positions.

[ghostellie]

Expecting every junior driver to be the next Max Verstappen is stupid

[rawliverandgoronspice]

anyway to end the series on ganondorf tp's writing, my take (which isn't canon but arguable as a valid "death of the author" read imo) is that he is at his most iredeemable AND that's because he has zero things left to lose and no community left and his goal doesn't even make sense anymore he is parasitic and a ghost and pathologically obsessed by his own godlike legitimacy because that is the only thing he still has and it has prolonged his life in a horrible diminished state in a nightmare dimension so SURELY it must mean something right right RIGHT

[bobwess]

Settle this for me. And for the entirety of the staff pool of a job I work who are up in arms with each other today.

[cowboyviolence]

I believe in a subset of "the system is what it produces" which is something like "the student learns what the class teaches"

Sometimes a class teaches you intro to chemistry. And sometimes a class teaches you when it's time to bullshit a little

[acidheaddd]

This is some unhinged behaviour. That post is months, if not over a year old, for one. Wasn't reblogged recently by anyone, meaning this person literally went through my archive to even see this and comment this.

I don't touch npcs skin tones unless I'm actually making them darker since some overlays cause the skin tones to lighten. Kristopher isn't even dark skinned??? He's not white, but he isn't black. I just. I log on, see this, and it literally just made me sit and stare for a moment in bewilderment.

[bloobluebloo]

So what if I told you, what if I told you right, that framing Ganondorf as an "incarnation of hatred" without any strong narrative justification for his hatred apart from the idea that he was born that way is, in fact, a negative stereotype that is often associated with the vague concept of "average desert dwelling man in a piece of media", especially in recent times. It doesn't help that Ganondorf is also portrayed as someone that seeks complete annihilation and destruction of everything *without any reason apart from burning hatred* (he says he wants to be a king, why would he destroy the land he wishes to rule???). It really leans into the whole "they are bred to hate, they are bred to wish for the annihilation of civilized and decent countries that uphold peace and the rule of law, they want to turn our land into the same barren, backward wastelands they came from".

[eggmixercortex]

shiloh at the eras tour what will it do

[knockknockitsnickels]

I know it's less egregious than with Kris (since in Kris' case the fact that they're their own person is a plot point) but I do also kinda disagree with the idea Frisk is meant to be a blank slate (something which gets brought up as part of why it's okay to refer to them with gendered pronouns)

It's less effective than it is with Kris since Frisk isn't characterized as strongly, but I do think part of the conclusion of Undertale is meant to be that Frisk is their own person. The point where Asriel learns Frisk's real name (after referring to them by the name you gave the fallen child for the whole game) marks a separation between Frisk and the player. When you re-open the game after completing a true pacifist run, one of the questions Flowey asks you is to consider if the characters really cared about you, or if they cared about Frisk.

It's been a while since I last played Undertale, so I might be forgetting some other details. I guess I also just don't really understand the need people have to change the pronouns of these characters? Like I guess I'm not sure why people feel the need to make Kris and Frisk a boy or a girl.

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

if a writer insists that the best written female characters in existence are stoic and for all intents and purposes could be replaced by a male doppelganger without changing anything material about the story, ie """androgynous""" roles that just so happen to be played by a girl/woman, then that writer will face the same criticisms over and over forever that they only know how to write at most 2 women, and will ultimately never be someone who can write a variety of characters from a place of originality or honesty

and any reader who insists the same will forever feel threatened or disgusted by any characters who don't fit or don't reassure their expectations of gender-essentialism

[85-rend]

56 and Zachary are not wlw neither of them are women but its yuri do you understand

[altarfates]

≻ how does your muse handle having to confront someone ? (for grimsley!)

it depends on the confrontation, see if someone was for example getting up in his space in regards to something to do with gambling he was see that as challenge. when he sees it as a challenge there's a certain glint in his eyes, a certain danger to his guileful smile, he will match them stride for stride in a verbal confrontation especially and he's good at it, so good that the person will probably end up regretting arguing with him to begin with. when it comes to confronting someone when it comes to personal matters, emotions matters, he will often opt for circumventing it, avoiding it with a certain grace that belies the way he actually becomes rather anxious about it. for someone who claims to savour the unpredictable he isn't that fond of it when it comes to people, he prefers to have the upper hand in an interaction, to know where he can find a stable foothold.

↪ 𝐙𝐎��𝐈𝐀𝐂 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐒 . / accepting.

[qapsiel]

@bloodsalted ;; some meme somewhere [ text ]: you got into a really intense argument about protecting bees. it was weirdly arousing.

[text: Dean] Bees are essential for the ecosystem, Dean! Everyone should care about their protection. You, too. No more delicious pie fillings without bees. [text: Dean] Wait, what do you mean it was arousing?

[waywardsalt]

2, 7, 19 and 29 for the writer ask thingy?

2 (a character whose POV you’re currently exploring): Bellummmm i’ve jumped ahead slightly in a fic to do a scene from his pov (cant remember if it was originally in his pov or not) and i do enjoy trying to figure out his pov in general, this current one is in the ship oneshot so its both trying to write and figure out how he thinks/speaks plus the challenge of him being nonhuman and figuring out how to describe movement. otherwise i have an eldin ring and a smt iv fic both rotting in my wips somewhere that take a look at the povs of my tarnished and flynn where the neutral route splits off respectively.

7 (your preferred writing fonts): i dont really pay a lot of attention to fonts, i just start up a new word doc and the only thing i might tinker with is the line spacing- i usually end up in some sort of calibri or aptos or whatever the default font is.

19 (the most interesting topic you’ve researched for a fic): yeah im gonna be totally honest here and admit that i havent done a whole lot of research for most of my fics. i looked up how to block a knife yeaaaars ago and some light stuff about. um. yeah honestly i havent done a lot of research specifically for a fic, i generally look into stuff when it comes up and i deem it important enough to the fic, and since i put the most focus on the characters it generally doesn’t come up. more often than not, i tend to use past, unrelated research and my own existing knowledge, anyways, and play into that more. i do, however, do occasionally smatterings of research into injuries and illnesses and mental illnesses and all of that, partially out of general interest, but also because i like to keep it in mind for fic purposes. i have genuinely considered looking into taking an anatomy class primarily for fanwork purposes (but i do think the subject is genuinely interesting too)

29 (how easy is it for you to come up with titles?): coming up with titles is my achilles heel it SUCKS its a hell of my own creation i struggle with it so bad that’s why half of my loz aus have little placeholder names and why half of everything else is a song lyric or some quote. i only have a handful of original titles and any of the good ones likely took me ages to come up with. i tend to fall back on some flavor of pun.

[jemandrr]

Unironically, Ben Shapiro's greatest win against the left was turning left/centerleft laypeople off from the idea of a 'debate with facts and logic' because of his bad faith arguments. Like it's almost...triggering to people, and that leaves a lot of people with unsharpened ideas and an unwillingness to explain them in a rigorous manner.

One example phenomenon that this has fed into is a continuing degradation in the lines of thought people use to reach certain conclusions - so person A expresses opinion X that person B agrees with, but because person B never really sees the entire line of thought laid out by anyone else, their formulation of opinion X based on their own intuition might randomly lean on some idea Y which person A doesn't care about. As a result, if Idea Y lacks actual backing, person B might wrongly defend opinion X and give an impression that the entire thing is flimsy, or person B might lose their own footing and assuredness and change sides.

I also think that he so badly mangled the concept of debate in the casual public consciousness that it's a contributing factor to the vague anti-academic sentiment in recent years. (Which, while academia as an institution has problems, there's certainly an undercurrent of less directed discontent that is contributing to low public opinion of education as a whole - and a greater feeling expressed on social media that 'casual reference of marquee media' is in a way insulting to people who have not consumed it, rather than an invitation to partake or something you can pass by without caring. Not on tumblr though, where we see Dracula and then we read Dracula.)

tl;dr his pseudo-intellectualism meaningfully contributed to certain common sentiments of anti-intellectualism because of how badly and annoyingly he and the people who emulate(d) him did/do it.