#i could keep ranting but i won't

[themonsterunderthebed]

petty pet peeve brought to you by sleep deprivation and the crushing weight of work building up behind my procrastination

that post going around about how dumb usamerican travel writers are for describing like a shuk or an asian fruit as a fascinating and exotic experience, because it shows the writer is...... unworldly i guess? too easily amazed by things outside their day to day sphere of experiences?

like...... travel writing exists so people can vicariously experience a different place. you get that this is context dependent right. if i've only ever shopped in supermarkets my whole life, if i'm usamerican and don't have the money to leave my home state let alone visit another continent, then yes a shuk or other open-air marketplace sounds like a very foreign and exciting experience to me! and if i'm reading about it, i want vivid descriptions of the sights, colors, sounds, smells. what's different from my daily experience? what similarities are there? how is local life in, say, morocco different than and similar to my life in kansas?

like yeah okay laugh it up at people who aren't as familiar with other countries as you are i guess, just know it comes off as petty and mean-spirited

[charkyzombicorn]

are usopp and luffy getting a divorce in yuor selkie au

Usopp: No????

Luffy: if Usopp wants one

Usopp:

Usopp: What're you talking about

Luffy: If Usopp wants to divorce that's okay, I don't want one but I get it if you do, I can't swim.

Usopp:

[beedreamscape]

On episode 92, I wish I could listen to the criticism quietly but the sheer amount unables me to sit in silence.

While the turns were a bit long, it definitely didn't drag like people on reddit (and some on tumblr how sad) were raving about. I feel they needed a non-recorded mock game to step back into the technicalities as to decrease the need to describe mechanics and lessen hesitation.

But even then let's cut them some slack, they haven't visited these characters in what two years? And from a TWO-shot! Some of them haven't been in a proper game in a while. Not only a recap was needed, and A chose to do it while in combat, they also needed time to get into the groove of their characters on an emotional level.

And unlike the live one-shots CR does where they can jump into old characters after years with certain ease, CK PCs played a small number of hours as these characters, they need wiggle room to adapt into the mindset.

And I won't even talk about the things they kept saying about how Aabria treated Aimee because it was born from seeded bitterness and hatred they refuse to reflect on. Paired with infantilizing these adult women who are very capable of talking to each other.

Also if one hasn't seen ExU Prime, they wouldn't understand their dynamic. I, on the other hand, understand it on a spiritual level and it changed me forever.

The timing in the campaign is beyond my judgement for a myriad of reasons, but the main ones are my player/people and plot preferences.

I won't say everyone should love ExU Prime or the CK, or that they're a bad person for it. Fair game, I don't love everything they've put out. But it's incredibly unnecessary to make it personal and attack them and spew (or rather reveal) bigoted hate left and right because of a DnD actual play.

[dirtytransmasc]

self indulgent got concept.

Ned brings Jon home, Cat hates the boy, everything stays the same... until Robert Baratheon is charging through the halls of Winterfell looking for the babe, ready to butcher the poor thing where he lay helpless in his cradle.

in a matter of moments Catelyn learns three things:

The babe was never a bastard, Ned had only lied to her to protect Jon, and that she would die before she let Robert lay a finger on the babe she'd previously wished death upon.

cue Catelyn Stark snatching Jon from his cradle, holding him, protecting him, loving him as she would her own son, risking it all to keep him safe, all care for herself thrown to the wind.

like they say, what a mother's love holds no bounds, and what it makes her capable of had no limits.

[triglycercule]

tfw when you get a rush of inspiration and the scattered pieces in your head connect >>>>

[ppulverse]

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[thethingything]

I'm fatigued, my back hurts, I accidentally spent like 3 hours sat downstairs in a chair that made our back feel worse because our executive dysfunction prevented me getting up and going back upstairs even though I only went down there to get one thing, and now I really need to lay down but if I accidentally fall asleep again I feel like I'll wake up, realise I fell asleep and also that I feel like I wasted a big chunk of the day, and I'll end up feeling even worse again

[tvrningout-a]

i should've switched to writing original stuff ages ago bc i could've been overcoming writer's block if i did :' )

[sixofravens-reads]

Have DNF'd The Kingdoms. Reading my 4th Natasha Pulley book and the first one set outside the Watchmaker universe made me realize there are some (imo) glaring issues with her writing that are annoying the crap out of me, and it's an author problem and not just disliking certain characters.

Going to start Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency now, cause I want something light and funny to end October and start Nanowrimo with!

[umilily]

pls keep your fingers crossed for me that after finishing this course i will never have to talk to this dude who took it with me ever again, bc otherwise i'm about to do something drastic.

[swordcoasts]

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[commissionsdarian]

Of course the advice is to ignore what's happening and focus on work in this reality. I'm surprised I expected anything more

[jennathearcher]

Every time I see unnecessary preemptive hate or bad faith takes on The Crow (2024) I instantly take +17 Psychic damage

and then gain the condition RAGE

[strawberry-pretzels]

bat ang halata ko kase

[the-mike-est-of-michaels]

I wish it was okay to be brutally honest to cis people at times, like you saying theres a toilet and definitely pointing to the womans loos when you know me as Michael he/him makes me want to slam my head in a car door and will make me feel like utter shit for at least 3 weeks and more things that I don't want to mention online but atlas I can't I have to baby their feelings and downplay the misgendering

[mygaymindpalace]

I'm fucking angry & hurt and I'm already tired of that feeling. It's not even 10am yet!!!!! (But it has also only been like 2 days...give yourself time, T)

I tried to be there for you and you left. And I really did try. You didn't care. I was trying to work through my shiz and because it didn't happen as fast as you wanted, you said fuck being supportive anymore.

I knew I fucking didn't like the "best friend" label for a reason. Disappointed that it was you who fucking reminded me why.