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Because I'm seeing cakegate on my dash again, let's stir up some old drama
#playchoices#the freshman#choices tf#the royal romance#choices trr#I'm gonna say it—Drake's was dumb as hell but you can't deny it was p in character for him#them rewriting it + trying to make him out to be a non-toxic masculinity icon later on was what wasn't consistent#(& you cant say the latter was character growth because they never presented it as a journey they just pretended the other never happened)#and see if he didn't want a pink cake just because he doesn't love the color that's valid#it's that he specifically said it was because it was girly that makes it a fragile masculinity thing#and by extension it's also a sexism thing and even a homophobia thing if you wanna view it that way too#the Abbie thing made people mad enough to give it a name (cakegate) and it sure is the icing on the cake for an already loathsome character#anyway I'm voting Abbie cause I hated it but I still think the fuss about the Drake one wasn't really warranted#like yeah I maintain it's a problematic comment but idk what to tell you man that's just the dude you romanced#like what aspect of his characterization leading up to that moment makes it take you by surprise or think it's ooc#and I say this as someone who originally married Drake and had him as one of my favorite LIs but that was Drake being Drake honestly#unconquered queries
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not even gonna tag this properly bc i don't wanna get Involved but i do have some Thoughts i need to get out into the void so here we go
(aaa quick edit: CW for mention/discussion of Boothill leaks)
#today's gone Badly and i'm upset but instead of venting abt it i'm gonna channel that energy into doing a bit of tag rambling abt Boothill#well. less abt Him and more abt uh. self-analyzing my anxiety surrounding contributing to fandoms. he's just today's catalyst#like. i know it's mostly a me thing. i'm hypersensitive to criticism and very conflict avoidant + socially anxious + perfectionistic etc.#so I'm the one that keeps myself from posting more stuff out of fear of being criticized or called-out for what i've made#bc inevitably Someone's gonna see it and think its OOC or a problematic take or they'll misread my intent. etc etc what have you#but like. that's inevitable. there's no way to communicate every single thing with all of the nuance required to avoid misunderstandings#and other times it's not a misunderstanding it's just a difference of opinions and that's Fine!! there's no accounting for personal taste#there's no accounting for several things actually. taste‚ bias‚ lore-knowledge‚ differing levels of chronic-online-ness‚ etc#so this isn't me complaining abt the state of fandom culture (although i do think. sometimes. ppl take shit a bit too seriously)#but anyways all of this is mostly just anxiety-fueled. it's not like i very often actually even receive negative feedback or anything#if anything ppl tend to tell me that i'm overthinking it and killing my own fun and worried that my stuff is more OOC than it is#which like. yeah. Yeah u right :) but that's just the way that i am! always losing the idgaf war i suppose#anyways what's Boothill got to do w this ur wondering. well. i've been thinking abt the quickly emerging concept that he's illiterate.#and it just. has me feeling a lot of ways. and watching ppl disagree over it has me feeling some Bad ways. bc it's def a loaded topic!#if you'll pardon the pun there. and i don't rlly have anything new to add other than that i'm conflicted abt it.#like yeah i saw the leaks days ago. of him mentioning 'not hitting the books' much as a child when we ask him why he sends voice messages#or voice Transcriptions ig. ykwim. and like. *braces for impact* ...i liked it? like. it doesn't feel right to call it endearing#i'm not trying to infantilize him. ok that's not the right word either but ugh. you know? what i mean?? who am i kidding even i don't know#it's not quite right to say that it feels like Representation either. but it's something close i guess#as a southern person myself who didn't receive a 'complete' education due to factors that weren't to do with my intelligence#the concept of seeing him as a capable force to be reckoned with and respected who also happens to have not received much formal education#i like that. i do. but there's so many issues w it at the same time. like. as i said‚ being southern myself has me Wary of the way Hoyo is-#writing him. as well as of the way that the fandom is taking the bits of his lore and running away w them. and i'm Very aware of how ppl-#will see a southern character and be All Too Eager to agree that they're lacking intelligence based on our Redneck™ stereotype#sigh. and before we even go too far with this. it's not even confirmed that hes completely illiterate. which is a valid criticism i've seen#there's Multiple reasons that could make him prefer voice to text. but regardless. i'm just worried that ppl will misconstrue my intentions#like. example: that edit i made the other day of him saying 'no thanks i can't read'. wasn't me playing into the stereotype of-#'haha dumb country boy can't read!' it was. in my eyes. something he'd say as a joke to make light of a potential insecurity#like. i think there's far more depth to Boothill's character if ppl could look past the surface. and i dont wanna contribute to the problem#but sometimes ppl Will have stereotypical traits and i wish the same could apply to characters as long as it's done Thoughtfully.
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every day i think about the ansur plot in act 3 could've actually had emotional weight if larian studios gave a shit about wyll. damn.
#like the whole gauntlet is about expressing the type of heroism that wyll has striven for his entire life.#the way the quest is so prototypical in it's fairy tale sensibility of the honest and true hero awaking a dragon under the city and -#saving the day and he goes through this whole gauntlet that's a test of how well he ascribes to the ideals of balduran and his father -#and everything he ever clung to to validate himself to himself after being coerced into mizora's deal as a 17 year old kid and then -#he succeeds! he passes the tests! only to find that ansur (literally named answer) is an undead abomination you have to put down#like it's SO SAD. and to me a big part of his story is accepting who HE is. seeing himself outside of his deal w mizora or what his father#wanted him to be and the fact that wyll isn't allowed to have a big emotional reaction to the ansur situation is so annoying#in fact wyll doesn't EVER get to have an emotional reaction to anything bc larian studios doesn't care enough to flesh his story out -#despite giving him one of the most interesting ideas for a character in the game! like act 3 should be WYLL'S act! he's so tied into -#everyone important in that act that it's actually a crime that he's sidelined the most there and he doesn't have enough vocal fans -#that larian studios will ever care enough to patch his story or add anything like they did for karlach or astarion. it's so dumb.#and it sucks that the writers don't recognize wyll's abuse bc his abuser is a hot devil lady. what she does to him is sick. god.#anyway. whatever.#baldur's gate 3#my posts#.txt
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my father is an olympic gold medalist in the sport of emotionally tormenting women
#bolo speaks#I've had him blocked on everything for the past two years because I was one of the women he terrorizes even when I was still a girl#but I'm only able to do that because *other* women in my family are on the frontlines dealing with him. which I am keenly aware of.#anyway I got a message from my grandma asking if I was mad at her because he'd been saying that I hated her (untrue and bizarre to boot#like just factually a man I haven't been on speaking terms with since I was seventeen has no leg to stand on whatsoever wrt to what I have#going on emotionally or in my relationships. but he's nothing if not adept at digging into people's worst insecurities so I get why she'd#be bothered)#and he has a new girlfriend now who I haven't met but who he treats the way he treated my mother before they separated#going into drunk rages breaking her things degrading her etc. and *her* family encourages her to ignore it because he's got money#and I don't know. I don't know my dad's girlfriend I've never met her but I am intimately aware of just how horribly#he treats every woman in his life. anyway [NAME] if you're reading this GET OUT ‼️#and the worst part is that he is like. a genuine shameless misogynist like he'd go on these crazy rants about#how women are just vaginas and we're all stupid and hysterical anyway so it doesn't matter if me and mom are scared of him#because we're just dumb women. which has naturally torched his bridges with me and every other woman in our family right.#and his takeaway from that is that he's *right* and being put-upon by all these irrational harpies for no valid reason.#my dad voice: are women scared of me because I'm violent and unpredictable? no. it's those stupid bitches that are wrong.
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Listen yeah okay. Alastair was mean at school. True enough, I don't care, I think he was funny, but it's true. I just wish that those who were mad at him cited "partially responsible for a prank that resulted in a student dying" rather than "called our friend Goatface" as the reason they didn't like him. Because that way they'd have, like, actual valid ground to stand on
#to be sure i think matthew is valid being angry for him spreading the rumor about his mom#and thomas too#but like. this is not why everyone is mad.#and matthew takes it really far#i mostly am talking about pre-chog james and thomas and kinda christopher here#i also dont think alastair was to blame for clive dying at all btw#i think it was a dumb prank that went bad#but i could see this being an issue#but no one ever brings it up again#even alastair is like Ooooo i was terrible i called james mean names#and didnt seem to dwell on the clive thing at all#which if i were alastair ngl the clive thing is what would have haunted me#especially since he presumably uh. saw him ripped to shreds
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I'm gonna let you in on a badly kept secret. most of my dazai analysis is truly just me projecting. but being decent enough at bullshitting to make it sound convincing so ppl usually end up agreeing with my takes
#what i lack in actual reading comprehension and analysis abilities i make up for in charisma and fake confidence#ahdjfllhh or maybe my projections just fit! maybe i accidentally do make good analysis! or at least offer alternative readings!#anyway i was thinking abt his relationship with pain again. and i started writing an essay in my head#before realizing I'm basically describing my own relationship with it. and that my experiences are not universal esp in regards to that#but just bc they're not universal doesn't mean they're nonexistent! who's to say dazai doesn't have them as well 😩#fr tho i think with a character like him that hides a lot of himself and his true feelings. insisting on one 'canon' reading is dumb#the whole point is you view him through your own personal experience. imo. that's what he'd want too#the emptiness inside him is meant to be filled by his audience. whether inside the story or outside it. i think.#that's why he is one thing around fyodor and another around atsushi and i see him one way and you see him in another one#and all these readings are right and all these versions are still him. you don't know what's inside the donut after all#but again :) even this part could be just me projecting :) but see how nicely i bullshitted through it to make it sound deep?#(<- being sincere but hiding it with irony as to not get rejected. as one does) (<- admits it bc who tf would get this far into my tags)#(but thank you if you did ily) (also shoutout to anyone who ever validated my unhinged analysis/projection mwah)
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#ok ik all the hot take asks are pre much done and the sparkly say smth nice asks are better but well I’ve been having thoughts all day at#work and want to get them out now so that’s what I’m doing lol#obvs for the past few months i think ppl are vv heavily leaning into the dnf /r and I firmly believe that they aren’t#like yes I enjoy being a multi shipper but I still primarily read dnf fics bc they’re cute dnf writers and artists MWAHH ilysm#but it’s been increasingly annoying how every move dnf make ppl hyper obsess over it and ignore everything else like blog what u want this#is tumblr dot com but I think ppl how only see dnf thro the lens of romantic do much more ‘harm’ than ppl who dont#like the argument about taking validation out of their very REAL amazing friendship just gets over shadowed by omg Dream posted a pic of#geogre they’re in LOVE and sucking and FUCKING every night. like#and then completely disregard when dnf do and say the exact same shit about all their other friends#like dream has explicitly said they aren’t dating (ignore that tho) amd that’s he’s kissed multiple ppl since coming out (ignore that too)#and their friends naturally say that they’re all single (ignore that too) idk man it’s ok they like to pander amd that dream is a toxic#dnfer but it’s all just For Funsies. another thing is ppl CONSTANTLYYYY putting geohres sexuality under a microscope oh he drinks lemonade#from Starbucks he’s soooo gay like dumb shit like that is so irritating#the fact that geogre has never once talked about his sexuality except that one instance where he got a DONO about it proves how much it#just doesn’t matter or apply to the type of content creator he is/wants to be#to be clear if he is or isn’t or dnf every explicitly announce their romantic relationship im gonna be sooooo happy and supportive like aw#dnfogies🫶🏻 but I think there’s a 99.9% chanve that’ll never happen so maybe we should all just care a Little Less and focus on out lgbt#creators if that’s smth u wanna watch/blog about idk maybe I’m just burnt out from the phandom but whyyyyy does is matter what their#sexualities are they play minecraft who cares who CARESSSS idk maybe just having older brothers around dtqk ages has made me realize that#guys will just act homiesexual no matter What#guys are just Like That and tbc I’m not saying that just bc gnf hasn’t made an official coming out doesn’t mean he’s not queer but for the#sake of his contwnt it doesn’t matter either way ? so why are ppl talking about it on the daily idk man it’s just annoying but Oh Well#at the end of the day they’re all famous white guys and nothing matters hurray !!
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one thing about me is even if i hated the book i just read i will still be defending the main character while all the goodreads reviewers go on about how whiny and selfish she is
#hi do you not understand she was 18 and did not get to figure out her own identity before becoming the wife of a grown man#do you not understand how postpartum works lol like she did a bad thing leaving the kid for a few months#but like. definitely worse things a struggling mother can do!#like she was doing all that with zero support because neither of them were connected to their parents at that point#and she didn't get to make any friends because as soon as she came into this city she got pulled into his life#and he's certainly not helping because he's always working and he thinks she has it so easy being with a baby all day#even though he absolutely DOES see how impossible it is to calm the kid and YET#and even when she leaves and he has to do shit himself and sees firsthand he still doesn't acknowledge it much#anyway that was a dumb book but it's like i always go looking to reviews for validation on not liking it and i see that shit#and i'm just like no no she was not the issue#it's literally like.........so many books i read where a woman is Going Through It#and is somehow expected to just be graceful and perfect all the time both within the book and by readers??? like what are y'all on#being rightfully unhappy about your situation does not make you whiny even when you're in the wrong sometimes you need to complain! damn!#and also she rarely did complain that's why she had to just leave because if she had said anything to her husband#about her struggles he would have dismissed her and told her to wait it out#god. i think it was very weird that i didn't see mention of the age difference in other reviews#literally. just graduated high school. he is 28. i'm just.
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succtwt acts like if you say you're interested in mencken as a character it means you're on your way of becoming a n*z*
#girl i just wanna see the election plot#and the complexity of roman's character is that you see him being emotional and have a big heart and then you see him endorsing mencken#plus justin kirk is such a powerhouse#boy i am mexican his speech was literally on latinos taking jobs from americans i am not dumb 😭#like ofc disliking the character is valid but the cognitive dissonance some people have as if atn itself wasn't fox news
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another day another person on this website calling a PJO character toxic or saying they have a "red flag" for a trait that is largely normal to the human experience. i'll never understand when people have criticism of a character that boils down to "they aren't a perfect person and therefore I don't support them". And it's usually only female characters that people nitpick like that about?
I DUNNO maybe i'm just rubbed the wrong way by some people taking a totally normal teenager thing like gossiping, or arguing with your friends, or having nicknames, and saying that it's a red flag because the character is meant to be a hero/protagonist.
more rant in the tags
#also i have seen all the percy being a dick for the wonderbread posts and i agree#he was a fucking dick for that#but you know what#he is ALLOWED to be a fucking dick!!!!#I also agree that it was a moment of stress and panic and he's got some leeway there#like it's a totally normal human thing for someone with DOCUMENTED anger issues to....get angry.#and he didn't ACT on those thoughts!!! which would have absolutely made him a dick#more of a dick#but the fact of the matter is we as readers are in the privileged position to be in his head and if we weren't#we never would've known he was thinking about throwing wonderbread at nico LMAO#will would not want to KILL percy for that shit Will would probably laugh about it#like they're fucking kids in crisis guys let them make mistakes and say dumb shit in their heads#i also fully understand that criticism doesn't automatically equal hatred of a character#there are very valid PJO criticisms that I have seen and agree with#but in these instances i keep seeing it's like people are making mountains out of molehills#percy jackson#annabeth chase#pjo#nico di angelo#will solace#jason grace#hoo#heroes of olympus#piper mclean#leo valdez#frank zhang#hazel levesque#discourse#pjo discourse#i guess?
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thinking abt csm again (<- it has been 2 years)
#csm#🌸.txt#denji may be my fave for a variety of deeply concerning reasons but everyone else is so insanely well written even the chs i hate. fujimoto#rly said oh lemme make every character experience immeasurable grief and carry that burden w them the rest of their arcs#aki was trying to change. he was opening up and healing and learning to take care of ppl again in a way he was never rly offered as a kid.#AND IT MATTERS !!!!! BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN HE GETS TO LIVE !!!!! all it means is that for a couple dozen of chapters he gets to shower denji#and power love theyve never experienced. bro#back to denji for a moment theres sm abt him that makes me insane. the complete lack of love and social conditioning as a child leading to#him being completely unaware of whats socially acceptable and how to distinguish between genuine love and affection. tho he can feel in his#stomach when smth is wrong he just doesnt have the emotional vocab to express what that is#the scenes w makima make me so nauseous for v personal reasons but the whole concept of conquest and control being embodied as a soft spoken#blunt and seemingly intensely honest women who listens to u talk abt dumb childlike shit w no compaints and provides u constant validation#and 'support' ... i fear that fujimoto is just like me fr#anyways hayakawa fam cuddling together power and denji sharing a room aki finally getting to be an older brother denji learning to cook and#all of their inevitable deaths <3 one of us has to die first#anyways csm is abt learning to love after experiencing pain and grief that has left you feeling subhuman and also the dangers of wanting a#mommy gf and also being goretastic. luv it
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Continuing from my previous post, but I honestly thought that when Michael learned of Willow's leukemia diagnosis, he'd delay this plan to "take Sonny down" with Dex indefinitely to be there for his wife and family.
He doesn't even have to tell Dex that Willow is terminally ill, he can just claim that with her advancing to the later months of her pregnancy, he doesn't want to be away from her side too long. You know, show that Michael loves Willow more than he hates Sonny.
Maybe the more he focuses on his family, the more he realizes how much better it feels to not be obsessed with petty revenge and does what I've been advocating him to do since he started this whole mess--focus on his family and move on from his complicated and flawed father.
He could approach Dex and tell him that this whole thing is over, pay him like quadruple what he gets paid, sincerely apologize for the pain Dex went through because of him, and implore him to leave Sonny's mob and get out to find much better life. Only to be bewildered when he later discovers Dex is still doing Sonny's work because it isn't just Michael that Dex is working with to dismantle Sonny's organization.
Buuuuut no. He's still gonna act like a spoiled child and go for it when even Dex warned him "I dunno about the Pikeman angle, dude." and if he does get his dad arrested truly, I hope the Pikeman Service destroys him first.
#general hospital#ramblings#rant#michael#willow#sonny#dex#like the thing is michael being upset with his dad for cheating again and not wanting to be his friend rn#a little dumb considering sonny and carlys history#but still valid!#this dumb bullshit with the mole in sonnys group#yeah no hes stupid#i hope that smug look he has falls off his face when he realizes he just screwed his entire family when pikeman comes knocking at his door
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i've been rewatching lil indigestion's outer wilds playthrough, and i still think it's my favorite out of the many i've watched. at the same time, though, i absolutely cannot recommend his playthrough of the dlc to others in good conscience. outer wilds is a game where the order you go in doesn't matter, EXCEPT for parts of the dlc. and lil indigestion plays the dlc soooo out of order. he still enjoys it overall (and there are some really satisfying moments of realization/understanding), but there's so many other parts of the dlc where he (unintentionally) skips entire sections that are meant to lead him to other sections, as well as other parts where he gets pretty needlessly frustrated by trying to brute force innocuous things as opposed to just following where the game's story leads.
#this is a very niche topic but i wanted to post it somewhere lol#it's dumb but i like to try to imagine what the perfect playthrough of outer wilds is#to show to someone who couldn't play the game#and like i feel that way about his main game playthrough for the most part#just definitely not the dlc#and if someone does want to argue that there is no wrong way to play the dlc#look you are valid but the devs explicitly talk about a certain part being a bottleneck#from their perspective (and design choices) you aren't meant to do anything past that bottleneck section without doing it first#and lil indigestion blew right past it (unintentionally) and i think it lessened his experience in the long run
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misogyny has people in a death grip because how the hell did we end up in a world where people think billy is the most important defining characteristic of a black christmas movie
#'this shouldnt be called black christmas bc billy isnt in it' is the dumbest fucking take imaginable im sorry. i had to say it.#the most important characters in black christmas are the women at the centre of it all billy is literally only there to be like#a physical embodiment of the rise in serial killers and particularly misogynist violence#thats his entire purpose thats why in the movie we never see him we never learn his backstory (glares angrily at bc2006)#because it doesnt fucking matter what matters is that he terrorizes and harrases and murders women.#so yes while i think the 2019 version is still wildly different from the original in a lot of meaningful ways#(all of which adds up to it not really being fit to be considered black christmas)#i dont think excluding billy is a valid difference. replacing him w another embodiment of patriarchy is fine#the core defining feature of black christmas is its feminist themes and like#maybe its just my fave horror movie so im defensive but boiling it down so that 'its all about billy' is like#a view on the original movie that i PERSONALLY think is so dumb that it offends me#avpost#no shade to the people that like him or whatever. thats a different story#i may not share your taste in men but i dont think its an issue if youre like wow hes sooo hot or w.e. thats your opinion#im more taking issue w the people who are like 'WHAAAAT how can you have a black christmas movie with NO BILLY'#like. as if his existence is what makes it black christmas. that offends me.#black christmas is made by jess bradford and her abortion smh.
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i cant explain how much namjoon talking about not rly wanting to get married means to me
#when he said that thing like 'i suddenly thought for the first time a few years ago that maybe im not getting married?'#like thats so. thats so real i had the same realization where i was just suddenly like 'maybe im dont want to get married'#i think it has as much to do with who i am as it does with just. the legacy of abuse in my family#but the thought of not having a spouse doesnt scare me as much anymore#sometimes i do think i want a wife and i do like the idea of having a person i can love and grow old with#but i dont know if there is a one person. and thats fine#idk just really validating hearing his thoughts on it#bcs its true a lot of us have become very disolussioned to mariage as a structure#and accepting that being 'single' isnt bad or a failure#this is so silly and dumb but :') yeah he means a lot to me#it means a lot that he would talk about it in a way that feels so accepting. like theres no real disapointment to it#dl
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i know in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter but people who don’t watch spnwin and then complain about how bad it is and are all happy because they want it to be cancelled…… i think maybe you’re in a cult. no independent thoughts or opinions
#like genuinely is there a valid reason you don’t like it or are you still caught up on the assumption that this is meant to rewrite john#and make his actions seem ok#because i promise you that is not what is actually happening in the show. which you would know if you watched it#or even read an interview. drake rodgers has really interesting insights into the characters that most likely reflect the way the other#actors feel too but ok……#this literally doesn’t matter lol. so dumb but it irritates me#it’s a fun silly cw show and it has easter eggs and cute characters#lots of diversity#queerbaiting#unhealthy attachments#what’s not to love#ppl aren’t gonna like this post sorry buds we can agree to disagree just maybe stop being annoying abt it
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