#either way it's frustrating

[hannahmanderr]

Am I missing something or just stupid or something? Bc I've been noticing an influx of fics on AO3 tagged with both the "Graphic Depictions of Violence" warning and then also with "Canon Typical Violence" and those tags are like??? Contradictory to each other???

Like. The show is rated Y7. By definition there's nothing graphic about the violence. It's sanitized, kid-friendly violence. So therefore "Canon Typical Violence" should be at the same level. And therefore not a graphic depiction.

I mean I guess I get it if you're trying to cover all your bases or something, like if not every moment of violence is graphic, but really you don't need both tags, bc how am I as a person scrolling thru AO3 supposed to know which tag you truly mean? Is this some etiquette thing I'm clueless to or what?

Ig I'm just frustrated with the phandom's ability to tag things properly lately

[very-moveable-object]

just remembered that if i want to post my au designs for randy and jaques then that means i have to draw jaques's reg design digitally so that it's readable but it never looks right digitally !!!

[inkskinned]

i hate to say it because i'm neurodivergent and a chronic-pain-haver but like... sometimes stuff is going to be hard and that's okay.

it's okay if you don't understand something the first few times it's explained to you. it's okay if you have to google every word in a sentence. it's okay if you need to spend a few hours learning the context behind a complicated situation. it's okay if you need to read something, think about it, and then come back to re-read it.

i get it. giving up is easier, and we are all broken down and also broke as hell. nobody has the time, nobody has the fucking energy. that is how they win, though. that is why you feel this way. it is so much easier, and that is why you must resist the impetus to shut down. fight through the desire you've been taught to "tl;dr".

embrace when a book is confusing for you. accept not all media will be transparent and glittery and in the genre you love. question why you need everything to be lily-white and soft. i get it. i also sometimes choose the escapism, the fantasy-romance. there's no shame in that. but every day i still try to make myself think about something, to actually process and challenge myself. it is hard, often, because of my neurodivergence. but i fight that urge, because i think it's fucking important.

especially right now. the more they convince you not to think, the easier it will be to feed you misinformation. the more we accept a message without criticism, the more power they will have over that message. the more you choose convenience, the more they will make propaganda convenient to you.

[zillychu]

I NEED Loop to be further tormented by finding out confessing to their party doesn't break their loops, and Siffrin wishes to see Loop again so hard he pops out of the favor tree so he gets to be Loop's guide

[rumarot]

Untitled, 2025

ko-fi

[seawing-vibes]

Happy post-Halloween :)!!! They’re making jack-o-lanterns <3

[itadooori]

well. i started thinking about the dynamic between s2 gi-hun and sang-woo (last seen in this post). then i blacked out and all this got drawn

[vaguely-concerned]

sometimes you come across a character that makes you go 'I love you so much that it's teaching me how to forgive myself' and then you just have to live with it

[vesna-v-irkutske]

what is this faggotry byee

i don’t believe reddit posts but this shi so gay i have no choice but to wonder whether it’s true or not

what do you think

It IS true, and I'm not even joking here. A 16 year old boy CRYING over this is just wow... Oh dear. :( 💔 It's not that he's not allowed to cry, of course not, it's just that he didn't cry even during the entire trial, while Artyom sobbed several times (lol), just wow.

[mistydragonflyart]

Happy belated 15 year anniversary to my favourite movie in the whole wide world! I owe it my life.

[blueskittlesart]

hi sorry im back. on a lighter note i do read every single tag and comment left on my posts. every single one. and i really do appreciate and even thrive off that attention. making art is hard especially when i'm also actively working on thesis and other things that I can't immediately share but I do really appreciate everyone who takes the time to be kind or at the very least normal about the things i post. ily goodnight

[unforth]

There's another post getting popular on this hellsite that boils down to, "in my anecdotal experience every child is perfectly reasonable as long as you just treat them as a tiny adult" and I'm ready to scream.

Actually mental illnesses are still mental illnesses! No matter how you treat the mentally ill person sometimes they will still show symptoms of being mentally ill because they are mentally ill! Yes even children!

I swear the minute it's about parents or children all the ~uwu take care of yourself~ acceptance crowd on Tumblr instantly reverts back to ableism and cultural Christianity - because obviously children are perfect and pure beings who are only misbehaving because the adults around them, especially their parents, aren't ~doing it right~ aren't ~trying hard enough~ actually mental illness just comes from parent fuck-ups ~obviously~. So any parent that isn't perfect 24/7 is bad and any kid is perfect until an adult messes them up. And yall haven't even unpacked your attitudes enough to realize that's the logical conclusion of these "well I work with kids and I just listen to them and everything goes perfect" posts and never fuckin reblog my angry posts where I try to point it out and I am absolutely fucking exhausted yall are exhausting. Sometimes, for parents with mental illnesses, the mental illness mental illnesses! Sometimes, for kids with mental illnesses, the mental illness mental illnesses! If your premise is "the only problem with kids is how the adults around them treat them" you are completely disconnected from reality.

It's ableist.

It's ableist.

I.t. i.s. a.b.l.e.i.s.t.

I am *begging* yall to think for five minutes before you make yet another "well I saw a kid in the grocery store crying and I asked them what was wrong and they were fine after we talked so clearly this is the secret to parenting" post viral on the 2% of people have children website. Just accept you don't know jackshit about parenting, shut the fuck up, and stop spreading ableist garbage!

[eiloh-dystonic]

As frustrating as reading x men fics as a big magneto fan can be, I've started getting pretty good at picking up on tells that he's going to be writen poorly (or not to my taste) so I don't waste much time on stuff I don't like

Like the words "metallokinetic" or "metal-bender" are an instant drop for me

Random German words is a big red flag too but I'm willing to over look it if something is pulling me in strong enough (rare)

It's hard to point out but a lot of fics take on a subtley dehumanizing tone when writing him that's pretty easy to pick up on quickly

Any fics but especially cherik ones that take on the "telepaths are the least accepted mutants" angle also have a high chance of being very unempathetic towards Erik

I also don't fuck with any fics that are even slightly unkind to Magda or in any way minimize Erik's feelings for her or their relationship

[strryhaze]

“oh yes, there is another fellow! i thought he was just waiting in line to get a haircut at the parker house. but we’re delighted to welcome him too. he is making truly an outstanding record in the senate of the united states. he’s gonna be a father for the tenth time. president johnson has just added another petition to his cabinet… and the next day it was announced that bobby was adding another child to his family — which only goes to show he’ll do anything to outdo lyndon!”

teddy introducing his brother bobby at a political rally for democratic candidates in massachusetts. he quips about the pressing national issue regarding bobby’s infamous hair and makes light of his (tense) relationship with president johnson while bobby and the crowd laugh along.

one can see that more easygoing, lighthearted, and juvenile dynamic between the two youngest kennedy brothers.

[theramblingvoid]

I'll be honest I never really gave Tim a second thought on my first listen through, but on a relisten I've realized that yeah actually that's me. That would be me. I too would get really frustrated and angry and make a million bad sarcastic jokes if I was trapped in The Office That Makes You Die Badly and could do nothing but wait around to die badly in the office. And also still had to fill out timesheets. I mayhaps would also lose my composure just a little actually.

[vaguely-concerned]

having seen at least the rough outlines of all the romances now I have to say that I think emmrich's is probably objectively the best in terms of coherence and completeness of story arc (with the understanding that ultimately the 'best' romance is whichever one makes YOUR heart sing anyway so objectivity is a silly thing to claim that way, it just felt like it's the arc with the most well-paced focused content and the least dangling threads)... but lucanis' is my favourite haha. just. the whole kneeling before your beloved full of reverence but without any of the distance that usually implies??? his complete undramatic certainty and calm in every scene with rook after this, having spent the whole game caught between fear and longing???? mr. lives in a pantry but it says nothing about my psyche don't worry about it it's purely for tactical reasons that I keep myself contained in a small dark room not entirely unlike a cell, love among the parsnips -- finally coming to rook in their room and it's so comfortable and comforting???? after all the times rook supports and comforts him through the game he's finally able to return the same to them when they need it while being so calm and steady and it's so fucking sweet and feels so effortless and with no price attached?????? he basically assigns himself the role of your bodyguard and he WILL stab a god over it??????????????? the turn to protector (which was in his heart all along longing to get out and find a place) of it all????? he sounds like he's found himself unexpectedly stumbling into such a soul-lightening state of revelatory existential relief, full on 'you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves' mary oliver style, and he goes and he shares that with rook and protectively envelops them in it when they're hurting??????????????????????????? hello for the maker's sake hello can anyone hear me?????