#does this not shame you? embarrass you?

[beanghostprincess]

buggy is so lesbian teenage girl coded

[kicktwine]

oh so alisaie’s exaggerated bully behavior is 80% fanon. saying this she casually picks up a large rock

[detectiveliz]

Consumerism has rotted some of your brains I fear because what in the Sam hell do you mean you can’t go single day without mediocre coffee and burgers??

[oatbugs]

she's so arrogant and annoying and hot it pisses me off !!!

[lazuliquetzal]

i want to hear the sports anime manifesto

Okay short version:

My life was a sports anime for a bit, and watching sports anime makes me nostalgic for those days.

Medium version:

The typical shonen sports anime deals with themes of camaraderie, ambition, and the intersections of camaraderie and ambition, which ALWAYS hits me right in the chest.

I'm not an ambitious person by nature, but--you know that one poem floating around on here, the one about the moth that wants nothing more than to fly into the flame, and how it would be nice to feel that kind of all consuming passion? Yeah, that's the feeling I get from sports anime.

And often, for the Team Sports anime, you'll get characters who have nothing in common except that they Love the Same Thing--a friendship/rivalry/(romance) formed on the basis of a shared interest. That's sweet as hell!

And they're super predictable and low stress for me. Very easy to watch! Total popcorn shows. Also I like listening to people infodump about their passions. Someone loved their Sport so much they wrote a whole-ass story about it, so yeah, eat that shit up.

Long version:

The Socioeconomic Inequalities of High School Sports

In high school, I was on a crappy underfunded soccer team (with a healthy dose of sexism) and due to [sports league division reasons] the schools we played against were almost exclusively private schools.

I cannot describe how existential it is to be wearing a hand-me-down formerly white-turned-disgusting-gray uniform that's at least five years old when playing against a team that gets brand new windbreakers every season.

(If you've read AAB, YES this is where my obsession with the windbreakers comes from.)

(Hilariously, the guys team got windbreakers but we didn't.)

(I am not over the fucking windbreakers.)

But anyway, when you're constantly losing to private schools you get this fucking complex about it.

This should come as no surprise but like. People with the time and resources to practice their Thing get good at their Thing.

Playing pick up soccer at the park is practice. Playing rec league soccer is organized, repeated practice.

Playing competitive club soccer is all of that, plus a coach who knows How To Coach and What The Sport Is, plus you get morale-boosting uniforms and the chance to play with and against other skilled players. So you're exposed to a lot more, and thus, you learn a lot more.

Competitive club soccer is also Expensive. Rich kids get good.

There's a reason why the "Powerhouse School" is a thing in sports anime, because it's a thing in real life. People with leisure time and money get to invest in their sports development, and everyone else gets left behind in the dust. It's basically a microcosm of capitalism.

The underdog sports story is (quite tragically) bootstraps propaganda. All you have to do is be really good and work really hard and have A LOT OF PASSION to get good at your sport! The cream rises to the top! This is a meritocracy! Let's ignore all the other factors that go into an individual's development as an athlete!

(My brother got scouted for club soccer as a kid. He actually went to tryouts and got offered a spot and a scholarship and everything, but there's SO many hidden fees after the initial registration. Uniforms, equipment, travel and accommodation, tournaments, plus like, the time sink, so we never signed him up. And equipment-wise, soccer is one of the cheapest sports you can play--just imagine the price for something like baseball or hockey.)

In sports anime, there is no reform. There is no revolution.

But sports anime isn't really about that. It's about the narratives we create when we convince ourselves that we deserve to win.

(You know what I mean. Every billionaire is convinced they're some sort of heroic underdog. The same exact kind of 'working your way up' narrative.)

Sports anime is like, the uncomplicated power fantasy of playing the game. It's a world where you are rewarded for your hard work, because it's narratively satisfying. It's a world where it's safe to want things, because you have the exact same chances as the private school kids.

I used to be an obnoxiously competitive child. Then I got all my competition beaten out of me by 3 straight years of constant losing in my clownagerie of a high school soccer team (affectionate). I am going to admit that experience made me a better person and I would not trade it for anything, but I also had to like, relearn how to want things. And maybe real life is not as equal opportunity as the world of sports anime, but I think it's good to want things.

Of course, the winner-loser dichotomy makes sense in sports because of the inherent nature of competition, but it doesn't make sense in stuff like society and economics because that's like, competing over the right to live. That's where the capitalism metaphor ends,

Does sports anime actually go into the socioeconomic inequalities of sports? No. Of course not. Giant Killing never got a season 2.

But it is something I think about when I write sports anime fic. Even if it's not the point, it influences my characterization. The ego of a prodigy character in a shitty sports program is different from the ego of a prodigy character in a rich kid sports program. I am obligated to my amateur attempts to capture the complexities of the high school sports environment in my fanfiction because I am fucking insane I had a specific high school sports experience and they do say to write what you know.

[cumdumpstiel]

another day, another blocking an ex spn mutual for getting into terf shit. literally pick a fucking struggle

[bookshelfdreams]

i swear i didn't want to talk about the tolkien ripoff by amazon ever but

there's this one promotional image i had to see today

it's - well, i'll just let it speak for itself

look at it. take your time. zoom in if you want to to appreciate all the details.

so many fascinating things to notice. why is her sword placed like that? poking that poor horse with the guard? granted i'm no equestrian but that seems a tad uncomfortable to me. same as having scale armour for a saddle blanket (why???)

i just. her outfit. scale armour on top and then scale armour as an undergarment - i mean, at least that makes sense, considering the ill fit of her boobplate, look at that massive gap between it and her actual chest.

girl, just stuff some tissues in your bra if you want bigger tits, this is embarrassing. at least her legs are well protected with the floor-length chainmail skirt. i'm sure that's comfortable to move in.

but wait. look at her arms, her left underarm. what's up with those wrinkles? i'm no expert but i'm pretty sure metal bits stapled onto leather do not behave like that.

because. this is a fucking. scale print.

on fabric!

you can literally see the seam on her shoulder. this is a sweater with a scale print on it.

look at that dude in the foreground, it's even more visible there

ill-fitting underarm braces (can't have a fantasy without 'em!) and scale-print undershirt to make it look like they are wearing full-body armour. i'm pretty sure the band around the upper arm is printed on too. notice the one (1) slightly discoloured scale to make the whole affair look more convincing.

i just.

i refuse to believe this.

this is what they used here! flimsy, plastic-coated jersey you can get at shittyfabrics.com for 11€ per meter.

this show has a budget of 50 million dollars per fucking episode, and this is the best they can do? what the fuck are they spending all that money on

[hoonclub]

[elialys]

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[vapemaster42069]

host by dog park dissidents, and any jrwi character >:3c (if you would rather tho, you can do an OC ^-^ i don't mind)

:DD heloo!! good song!! (no big cw's for this one, but there's a fair amount of cursing and Price riffs on Chip being queer like once bc. insecurity.)

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"One meal token says you can't make that jump," Reuben leaned against a drainpipe next to him, casual despite the considerable height beneath him. He brushed a stray section of hair behind his ear, raising a brow in Chip's direction.

"Oh, I can absolutely make that jump. But I don't need to prove it to you, asshole." Chip leaned out over the gap between buildings, holding onto the windowsill behind him with one hand. He let one of his feet dangle over the gap, the laces of his old boots swaying in the wet spring air.

"That sounds like you owe me a token, bitch,"

"I'm not a bitch!" Chip popped himself up, closer to the windowsill, and swapped hands, falling back into a half-dangle.

"I don't see you hopping that alleyway, though, do I? Really seems like little bitch behavior."

"I'm not your trick monkey, Reuben. Why don't you jump it if you're so insistant?"

"I don't have to prove I can hop it, I have all the tokens!"

"Yeah? And I have the apples we took last night," Chip smugly shifted, letting the bright red apples catch the light in the mesh pouch at his hip.

"If you're scared, you can just say that," Reuben crossed his arms, "I wouldn't be surprised, anyways,"

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Nothing. Just that I wouldn't be surprised if you're bitching out because you're pissing your little gayboy pants." Reuben wiggled his brows, cocking a cheeky grin.

"I'm not-- I didn't-- Reuben, I'm not fucking afraid!"

"Which is why you're holding onto that window like it's going to run away, right?"

"I'm not a bitch! Gimme the token," He swung himself around the windowsill and held out a hand.

"Uh, uh! Not until you hop the gap!"

Chip sighed, rolling his eyes, "Fine." He hauled himself back up and twisted, smearing his feet up the brick wall that now stood in front of him. He swiveled his head, looked, calculated, and aimed-- then leaped over a 3-story drop and rolled onto the roof of the next building over. He threw his arms up triumphant, "How's that for a bitch, bitch?"

"Not bad. Not really worth my hard-earned meal token though." He grinned, aiming his body toward another nearby roof, "See you at the soup kitchen tonight, bitch!" He hopped off, landing neatly on the tiled roof and hopping over to the next-nearest building.

"I-- Hey! Reuben! Get back here, asshole!"

"Go find your boyfriend or something, gayboy! I got shit to do tonight," Reuben twisted in the air, dropping down a story onto a windowsill. By the time Chip caught up, Reuben was lost in the crowd of the marketplace below.

"Asshole."

[whentherewerebicycles]

I feel so bad/sad/disappointed and I don’t even want to be comforted I just want to scream and scream into the void and then maybe sleep for a month. I am discovering that the great flaw of having an intensely project-oriented personality is that when I encounter things that cannot be made into projects but must simply be endured as Human Experiences I have zero chill and zero serenity and I become incensed about my total inability to exert my will over what’s happening. I need to PLAN I need to be in CONTROL and when I cannot I become a snarling snapping wild creature who is angry at everything and everyone. I feel BAD I feel SAD I feel also FURIOUS with myself for all the stupid hopeful little feelings of the last couple weeks, because we all know that the RULE, the LAW, is that if the universe catches you hoping it will punish you for it—don’t we? don’t we? and NO none of these feelings are ones I want to KEEP but here they are with me in my enclosure aka my head full of its stupid hopeful plans & my cramped miserly little heart. agh!!! in a little while I will fling the doors open and shoo the bad things out—begone BEGONE—but I must hunker down here with them and be miserable for a bit before I can send them away.

[persephoneflouwers]

Hello, I hope you have a good day

Tw: smoking, cancer

So there's a discourse on twitter going about how louis's smoking habit is dangerous and how it can have very damaging side effects uk with having history of cancer in his family. It bugs me how as fans they can't maintain a boundary.. But i am an anxious mess thinking about it.. I've always been regarding this topic. But now it has exceeded.. How do you manage thoughts like this as a doctor? When you constantly come across cases related to smoking and with the whole situation with lou. Like do you have any tips.?

Feel free to not answer this. 😥

Hello 🌸

Oh, this is a very good question. I’m sorry you’re feeling so overwhelmed right now. I think when you know how diseases work, you see things differently. It’s a bit easier to discriminate the cases: how many cigarettes per day? How long have you been smocking? How old are you? Is this an hereditarian case or were there other preventable factors? We are trained to come to diagnosis. You have to know the clinical history, the clinical presentation, side effects or literally anything in order to come to a conclusion. It comes across arrogant to find a diagnosis based on one thing such as smocking. Smocking is bad, of course it is. What else is new? It’s not just about cancer either. Smoke is the risk factor in every other issues (voice, breathing, stamina etc). But I know how hard it can be to quit too.

Fans have to know their boundaries here. I think fandom anxiety comes from the uncertainty around this topic (does he takes blood tests periodically for example? Is he getting checked every once in a while? Does he have a family medicine doctor who is there for him? We don’t know). The fact is, we don’t know much except for what we see or we are told every once in a while. I think no one has ever had THE talk with Louis about it, but that’s very normal for a young healthy man. The thing with smocking is that has been always so socially accepted it makes it harder to see the struggles of your health because of it. I’ve seen surgeons smocking in front of my two eyes! And I was like “how dare you? You literally operate these things inside people’s bodies!” but you know how humans are. You feel invincible and by the time you realise you are not, the cardiologist has already prescribed anti-hypertension and beta-blockers drugs.

My suggestion is to not take this burden on you. It’s not your job, not your responsibility as a fan (or as a doctor, by the way). Also stay away from twitter if you can. It’s very easy to be overwhelmed by the discourse over there. When something good happens you are surrounded by so much excitement, but it happens with controversial things too. The fact is when we go online and read stuff from other blogs or accounts, we don’t always match the energy. That’s absolutely normal, because we are individuals living our real life in different ways and in different moments. When discourses like this start, we are left with so many questions and worries coming from all the sides and that’s what you want to avoid. Stay away from any thing can make you feel uncomfortable. It doesn’t matter how little it is. Filter tags, block, say you’re not interested. Do whatever it takes to preserve your experience of the fandom. Today, this discourse feels like an unnecessary concern. Try not to stress on this thinking how being their health counsellor is not your role.

Anyway, this is a reminder to not smoke ffs. Here’s a thread I wrote a couple of years ago for the No Tobacco Day WHO campaign on the Louies science account, in case you’d want to spread some knowledge about the bad effects of smocking. :)

[eggthew]

I will admit I'm a little pathetic for my age, like I'm trying to work on it, but,

[starleska]

What do you find attractive in warren/gen?

you know despite the tone tag i can't quite tell if this is meant in a 'oh i'm curious' kind of way or in a 'seriously what the hell do you like about that monstrous little creature' kind of way sdfghds but i'll try my best to answer 💖 popping it under the cut as it's a little long, and i'm flustered!

honestly? i've always been attracted to Warren's specific kind of bastard: manipulative, incel-coded, discomfiting sort of characters with serious boundary issues and an unhinged intensity in everything they do. these aren't traits i'd find attractive in a real life-partner - i'm very happy in my actual, healthy, long-term relationship, and can assure you my real partner is nothing like that 😂 yet there are parts of me which take comfort in enjoying characters who express their desires in ways which would not be socially appropriate 😳 Warren is a damaged guy. whatever he's got going on, it's not healthy...but he pursues his desires with motivation. yes, he's pathetic and weedy and kind of hideous to look at, but at the same time, if someone like that wants you...they're going to really want you. think of it like the vampire fantasy so many people have. being 'taken' in some way by a strong, supernatural creature removes a lot of the agency and stress that comes with navigating the waters of a real-life relationship, even if there's the little caveat of them wanting to suck your blood. sometimes, you just want a creep whose canon actions imply that they would become obsessed with you 💖 i think myself and a lot of the other Warren fans view his 'unlikable' behaviour through the lens of our neurodivergence and/or trauma. not picking up on social cues and making everyone uncomfortable, being intense about his interests, having an identity which doesn't correspond to how other people perceive him...those are things many of us can relate to, so we end up seeing Warren as relatable, even if his behaviour isn't justifiable in a real-world context (which i shouldn't need to say!). the attraction may come from the fact that he is overtly supposed to be repulsive...horror and attraction are much closer together than you might think. enjoying a character with traits which are designed to be off-putting can make you feel...special, in a way. like you'd be the only one they'd want 😖 so, on a surface level? i genuinely do like Warren's unusual, reedy voice, his cute, crooked teeth - even his beady rat eyes 😂 he's cute! i'm a person who thinks Augustus St. Cloud, Baldi, and Freddy Krueger are attractive, so it's really not a shock - everyone has different tastes. but it's less about what the characters are, and more about what the characters represent to us. i find Warren's behaviour - invasive, aggravating, upsetting in a way which lingers - to be attractive in the same way some people (also me 😭) find slashers attractive when they're doing their murdery business, you know? it's not that i want to be murdered by Freddy, but i sure wouldn't mind being on the other side of his attention! with that said, concerning Warren: just because i wouldn't want to be cornered by some sweaty podcaster irl doesn't mean i don't find the thought absolutely riveting in fiction 😳😳

[headphonemouse]

I left a comment on a fic then checked out the author's account only to realize that I've already read all their other works and also left comments there god I hope they don't recognize me

[chamomileteainabuttercup]

It’s funny how you can find a character lovely and charming while also headcanoning that when at home he picks his nose and wipes it under furniture because that way it disappears and his more civilised boyfriend thinks he is an absolute disgrace