#font discourse

[transhuman-priestess]

Petition to make Lucinda Handwriting more shameful than Comic Sans.

Oooooh you want your apartment building to give an air of casual sophistication? You want your stationary store’s sign to evoke class? You want your wedding invitation to exude an air of solemn joy?

Pick the first cursive font in Microsoft office. Do it. Who’s to stop you? The mechanical uniformity surely won’t strike literally everyone who looks at it. Who needs clean fonts? Serifs are so 1990s. Do it. Use Lucinda Handwriting. Fuck you.

[tofuingho]

My preferred font is Comic Sans because I hate that weird loopy, double decker lowercase a.

The lowercase a should be a circle with a little kickstand.

[wickedcityy]

you know what i hate? the normie-fication of fonts in books. like how the guardians of ga’hoole series was printed in golden cockerel, a fun and unusual font, but then wolves of the beyond (and bears of the ice, although we don’t talk about bears of the ice) were in goudy, the most basic and uninteresting font ever. percy jackson did this too!! the original five books were in centaur, which has Vibes, but then they went to goudy for all the sequel series as well. i hate this. i hate publishers. i hate goudy

[built-in-a-day]

If you're using Times New Roman it's cause you don't know about Cambria

[crazgreenenvy]

Times New Roman is a terrible font

not dyslexic friendly

industry standard for some reason

terrible for people w/ double-vision (me!)

kinda ugly, tbh

she's boring, she has no personality, she needs a little something

someone out there did this to spite me specifically

[madtomedgar]

In the vein of hitting them where it hurts and turning their own rhetoric against them, I think we gotta start emphasizing how unmanly, cowardly, weak, etc it is for grown men to bully children and be proud of that. Son, who raised you to think that's an acceptable way to treat a child? What's your next trick, hot shot, you gonna take candy from a baby? Ooooo big man making a little kid cry, betcha feel real proud of yourself. Fucking disgusting.

[mid-knight-black]

When you realize you are in love with your best friend…🫣

[starlightseraph]

there are three options:

1. the tinhatters stay silent.

2. they say it’s temporary.

3. they come up with an insane, borderline criminal conspiracy about how he was forced into it.

i think option 1 is unlikely, because they can’t stay quiet about anything, but it’s possible because of how difficult it would be for them to spin this in their favour.

option 2 is demonstrably, provably false. see the two attached photos. david’s also been seen with some kind of bandage at macbeth. it’s a real, permanent tattoo.

as for option 3, we’ll just have to enjoy the circus, i guess.

[built-in-a-day]

I need some serifs on my uppercase i's or I ain't buying

All fonts are valid except the ones where the lowercase L and the uppercase i look the same because it ruins ur ability to tYpE LiKe tHiS

[k3n-dyll]

Arcanetwt is unserious and I know that because I watched one of my favorite artists on there get harassed for drawing Vi (the butch lesbian) 'too masculine' because 'butch lesbians are still women' which is both

1. a little transphobic, becuase not all butches (or lesbians in general) identify as women, and

2. not shocking because the butchest twitter can seem to handle is billie eilish for some reason (they don't go outside)

[dreamytfw]

Anyway, tell me what you think Sam, Dean, and Cas's favorite colors are. Not what colors you think best represent them. I'll start.

Sam: orange.

Dean: says it's black when asked, but actually really likes yellow.

Castiel: some shrimp color. But if he had to limit it to colors perceivable to humans, indigo.

[fullscoreshenanigans]

The saga continues…

[ohbo-ohno]

heyyy im not blind! i see the people calling me a pedophile for a twitter thread i retweeted!

are you really calling me a pedophile for retweeting something with “implied underage”? really? are you trying to say you think I’m a danger to actual children because I retweeted a single thread with an implied illegal age gap???

if you think im a pedophile, unfollow me! if you think im an evil piece of shit, how about you leave and stop looking at my blog! but calling me an actual fucking PEDOPHILE seems like a bit of a fucking reach

[built-in-a-day]

Lexend is good too if you're a dweeb

[geddy-leesbian]

I don't care if you like a villain and want to pretend they've never done anything bad, just don't pretend it so hard you start actually believing it and need people to explain to you why they hate a villain

I've got a huge soft spot for Alfred Ashford and I would never send anyone an ask saying "why do you hate alfred ashford :/" because I would use my brain and determine they probably hate Alfred Ashford because of the whole being a fucked up guy running a concentration camp and hunting people for sport and elaborately torturing people and also the fact the people he hunts for sport include one very beloved character and he just generally comes across as a creepy weirdo

if I saw someone hating on him I'd think "yeah sure he did [all that stuff I listed] but I don't care he's my silly little guy and probably wouldn't have done it if he wasn't born into a fucked up family that groomed him into being like that" and then proceed to keep that in my thoughts only and just scroll past the post because who gives a shit man. Alfred did awful things that's an objective fact I can't argue with, and I also can't judge someone for thinking they're awful enough that the mitigating circumstances shouldn't apply because who fucking cares he's a fictional character. irl I like to see the good in people and think the vast majority of people can change and almost no one is completely beyond redemption (not that anyone is owed forgiveness either tho, I have people I will never forgive or let back into my life again, I just don't think anyone should be forever punished on a wider scale if that makes any sense) and thinking otherwise is actively harmful but for FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who cares man. someone else hating Alfred and thinking he's evil and beyond redemption isn't harming anyone in the real world. and me thinking 𝚔𝚛𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚛 is horrible and inherently shitty and beyond redemption also isn't incompatible with my beliefs because bitch ain't real. he's a character intentionally written to be shitty and not have any sort of redemption, the real world is different because there isn't someone pulling the strings and creating people that are inherently shitty and will never be anything else because they're custom tailored to fulfill a narrative role.

hating a villain should not be controversial someone disliking a villain that you like is not a personal attack on you and is not a confusing viewpoint that needs elaboration. (I don't think that liking a villain should be controversial either for the record but that ain't what this post is about. I've never in my life gotten shit for liking a villain but disliking one villain has gotten me shit on multiple occasions like it's not even confusing??)

and the adderall has definitely worn off I'm going full barely cohesive rambles one more thought before bed:

I mean if someone was actively making Alfred content on a regular basis but made statements about hating Alfred and thinking he has no redeemable qualities and only works as a villain? I wouldn't be mad or try to pick a fight, I'd just be happy anyone was giving him attention and wouldn't do anything that might risk upsetting them and make them not want to make that content anymore. I'd just reblog it and be happy and wouldn't at all even feel a tiny bit attacked because I like Alfred and they don't, let alone interact with them super defensively. don't bite the hand that feeds and all that yknow. I'm still going to keep making 𝚔𝚛𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚛 content because he's compelling and I'm thick skinned enough that while catching shit definitely annoys the hell out of me, I'm not deeply affected or anything, but it would sure suck for these people if I had thinner skin in this area and was upset enough to just stop posting about 𝚔𝚛𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚛 entirely because it's literally the only topic that gets me shit on a regular basis lol.

[aouceli]

mouths were washed