#grumping

[prokopetz]

The thing about fantasy worldbuilding is that verisimilitude and the rule of cool are not enemies. Someone who looks at a pod of flying whales and asks "what do they eat?" is not being a spoilsport – they're engaging with the premise. There are any number of much more serious objections to aerial megafauna than lack of any obvious role in a trophic web that could have been raised if they just wanted to shoot the idea down; a person who wants to know what the flying whales eat is all but explicitly yes-anding the idea. Sure, you might not have an answer at your fingertips, but acting like it's unimaginative for them to have asked is a really fucking weird way to react.

[kyliafanfiction]

Genuinely - what were the Jedi supposed to but join the war, under the circumstances they started and given the things the Separatists were doing?

Genuinely - what is your proposed alternative for them that would have magically saved everything?

[transsongtaewon]

I do wonder if a certain subset of s-class readers realise they can just stop reading it if they hate Yoohyun that much. Like he's not going away, his and Yoojin's relationship is kind of the driving force of the story. If you cannot stand that, maybe this isn't the novel for you.

[9ofspades]

Sometimes I see something that says “these take no effort whatsoever!” And realize that, clearly, whoever wrote that has a DRASTICALLY different definition of “effort” than I do.

[platoniromantic-feelings]

Tumblr is great because you can find a really good post with which you resonate and agree, and then scroll down to the notes and find lots of people to block.

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

last week I encountered someone on another site who seemed to genuinely believe that "ZUN trolls his fans", and that it followed from this that you could just straight-up ignore any actual evidence of anything ever.

like, good lord, where do I even begin. how do you even communicate with someone like that? like, at all?? jesus.

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Gonna queue up the next week of photo dumps, then work on my art for the night, and I refuse to feel bad for not getting to the dishes today

[shiisiln]

its so cool that I've had multiple therapists hit me with the "If you let someone bother you when they're not around, you're letting them win" so that now when someone hurts me, not only do I feel bad about it, i also feel an agony of guilt and frustration because I feel bad about it and that means I'm doing emotions wrong

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

my one big gripe with the owl house will always be what they did with the blight parents. they built them up in amity’s flashback and the first episode they appear in as a couple on equal standing with each other, whose abusiveness manifests in different but equally malicious ways. who terrorize their kids because they care about their company more than their children and parade them like status symbols. and even alador, the less active parent, can stop Odalia’s abuse at any time because they’re EQUAL in their partnership but doesn’t bother because he either doesn’t care what she’s doing or they’re working together to do it.

even in the episode centering around alador, they never show any indication that odalia is forcing his hand, or even that he’s against odalia’s decisions at all. at most they show he hasn’t talked to his children in like 10 years and doesn’t know or care what they want until amity shows potential in abominations, which alador then cares about. (the twins show magical potential in that episode too, and he still didn’t care btw.) even then they reinforce the fact that alador can stop odalia’s abuse at any time by promising to talk to her about amity’s hair in a way that implies he’s confident odalia will listen. he never promises amity that he’ll talk to odalia about her not wanting to join a coven. and later we find out odalia is still able to ground the blight kids and break amity’s belongings without any mention of resistance from alador.

and then in all of a sudden they retcon these two to the Evil Woman and her battered, terrified husband who’s been Protecting The Kids All Along by... not wanting anything to do with them and twiddling his thumbs and sometimes helping as his wife tormented them? but don’t worry! he’s Good Now! because odalia is actively (and maybe knowingly) helping belos with genocide in a plan that makes absolutely no sense, even though the last time we saw her, she and her husband were in a tense standing with belos for “building their own private army.” but yeah, i guess belos just let her in on secrets only the coven heads knew. they gotta get the audience to hate odalia enough so they think alador’s new backstory makes sense.

and according to the fandom, belos take her sigil off even though there no evidence it can be taken off and though hes REALLY intent on killing everything on the isles, including the children, a grimwalker who had no magic to threaten him with, and also his most loyal servants! because like kikimora, terra snapdragon, and lilith clawthorne and even amity blight in some circles, this is an Irredeemable Evil Woman who does Evil Things and who cares if it makes sense she’s Evil and thats what matters!

and now i guess alador’s the perfect dad now. he and amity have to reconnect after the years of not talking to his own kids that his Evil Wife forced him into. and odalia is actively trying to get her husband and daughter killed now i guess, because even her previous reason of helping belos to secure wealth and status for her kids isn’t flimsy enough. and yeah they’re the exact trope of the irredeemable domestic abuser husband and the battered wife who never protected the kids but at the end turns out to Care About Them All Along and just couldn’t do anything because she was oh so terrified of her husband. except they didn’t even build it up. they built up a different much more interesting dynamic before they flushed it down the toilet to make it this dynamic. oh but the genders are swapped which makes it Subversive therefore Progressive therefore Good, i guess. i’m gonna need to write so many retcons for this mess.

[toytulini]

god i really went THREE FUCKING YRS without getting sick i was being so goddamn careful but then my parents got smth and foolish me, didnt step up the level of precaution i was taking around them, and lo and behold, im almost definitely sick

[prokopetz]

The trouble with the rise of the YouTube Video Essayist™ is that everybody wants to be the next Defunctland or Hbomberguy, but all the wannabes know is how to be an influencer, so the resulting video essays are always really about themselves. You'll get a forty-five-minute video with maybe fifteen minutes of actual, topical information padded out with half an hour of tedious theatrics about how hard it was to do research for the video and how nobody wanted to talk to them, and I'm just sitting here like "yeah, dude, it was hard because you don't know how to perform research, and nobody wanted to talk to you because your behaviour toward your prospective sources amounted to borderline harassment, and that's how it looks in your own version of events which has clearly been spun for optics – I can't even imagine how badly you must have gone about this in reality".

[kyliafanfiction]

I really hate it when a content creator I don't like for very specific reasons related to their opinions about fictional spaceships made a comment that pissed off a bunch of whiney right-wing dudebros once, and so every attempt to find people who agree with me about the spaceship opinions ends up flooding me with whiny right-wing dudebros instead.

[fear-of-the-familiar-and-known]

This post (and the general pattern of posts it's based on) kinda baffles me because

Why do they talk about reading like it's an exercise routine? I thought it was supposed to be fun

Why are these numbers always so goddamn weird? 20 books a year is nothing and 100 books means one book every three or four days

[9ofspades]

”I can’t believe people are learning morality and empathy through meaningful art that passionate creators pour their hearts and souls into! Why can’t they instead just learn morality and empathy through reading my stream-of-consciousness tumblr posts and obeying them unquestioningly?!”

[buckets-of-creativity]

Had an overwhelming urge to dig through the vintage camera tag and was slowly reminded I’ve done this before and was disappointed

While none of the content there is bad or anything, its not what I’m searching for. Its primarily aesthetic photos likely taken on film cameras (admittedly cool) or filters to look old (less cool but film is expensive so a valid method) or photos of old cameras in either aesthetic setups or very market listing

While thats all well and good I need someone to info dump with. History and excited tangents about various cameras one owns or wishes to own, and I can’t seem to find anything like that. The closest things I do are pretty dead looking

Idk maybe I’ll post some content of that sort and find others that way

[rose-red-ink]

I want to WRITE but it is TOO LATE I must sleep

And I cannot WRITE TOMORROW because I have work at 1 and if I get in a writing groove and need to stop I will be horribly cranky.

I must wait to write SO MUCH TIME and I have already waited so long. And Riley is pacing my brain, grumping at me because she wants to be on the page. And I'm like "girl I am trying but we need income"