#i dont really... understand when people complain about that? obviously it's going to be a very long manga and plot doesnt grow on trees

[atomicpinks]

sincerely hope endo-sensei keeps up the slow plot and doesn't rush it

[bungusofficial]

mutual how are you so good at getting into arguments with people who agree with you

probably bc i only respond to people who cant write or read

"rape play can be consented to" and "rape can be consented to" are VERY different sentences. n like honestly i shouldnt even have bothered.

if you have such a fundamental misunderstanding of the english language i wont waste my time trying to communicate with you. when every word means something different its not really english anymore is it. if everything u say is so divorced from the english language that i need to ask you to repeat and translate everything i dont think im at fault here

i might just cut contact w anyone in the community because everything i say is misunderstood and misrepresented and not taken seriously if im not sucking up to people.

and so many words have new double-meanings and im led to think i disagree with ppl because theyre fucking incapable of writing a coherent sentence. and then its my fault somehow.

and its not like 'transid' or paraphilia dont exist outside of the radqueer community. everyone wants to change things about themselves. everyone changes. people are into weird shit and have mental disorders. i dont have a problem with peoples experiences.

n if rqs put any effort into what they say (or even didnt blame me for assuming that a word doesnt have any new secret meaning) id treat it the same as the mogai or liom community. whatever. kinda fun. sometimes theres a relatable label

.delete later

[angel122sthings]

Hey people my name is Ambrosia I go by angel it is my more preferred name I'm here to represent Wilbur in the situation considering that his community has dug into the situation and has found a lot lets start with me asking you a question. If you walk into a court most of the time the victim has pictures and a statement and the abuser doesn't have much on this hand she would walk in with a statement and no proof and he has pictures and a statement on his own who would win?.

Now for the next I will number the stuff I have found from providers on Twitter or YouTube

1. I have noticed that in her case she says he bit her hard enough to the point it was bleeding but if you go and look at pictures of bite marks like that it leaves bruises and dents in skin that would be covered by a bandage but in her streams even with her exposing clothes we didn't see anything and if she did use makeup it wouldn't have worked well because of the bite dents

2.there have been many surfacing pictures on the Internet of him with marks on his own skin we are still unsure if it was from her or not

3.there is audio on ashs stream in the background of her getting mad and yelling at Wilbur for his keys

4.in the situation she does call herself the "ace Jesus" which really offends many people and a lot dont like it

5.she has complained about him not paying for her cats when her cats are her responsibility and should be taken care of by her and not him

6.it would be understandable for her to feel distant because they did have a long distance relationship so she shouldn't be complaining about it

7.his reply on Twitter was a statement on his side the only time he apologized was if he had hurt her feelings he never said anything about him actually doing it and in the statement she says and I quote "she said it was consensual" meaning it was completely fine with her

8.she supports the girl who said that George assaulted her which wasn't true but she didn't support Freddy in anyway which is concerning

9.many people who he was friends with did not only stop being friends but lost contact with him (he never got to meet Tallulah)

10.he was doxxed at his childhood home in the UK which put not only him in danger but also his family and she did nothing

11.when many kids ages 11-15 died due to her supporters and community all she had to say was "I need proof" when their parent personality went on their Twitter and said "my child had committed" but she still didn't care

12.kids are being doxed or threatened on a daily basis

13.during their relationship he was struggling with depression because of technos death that would be the reason for the slobbish behavior and messy room

14.she complained about him not buying her a plain ticket to see him when we his obviously busy but after that she bought a lot of new stuff and dyed her hair again meaning she did have money unlike what she stated to him

This is only what I have found or what has been provided for many other people

[spikes-left-eyebrow]

Always devastated to remember that so many people hate season 1 of Buffy. It is so good to me. The Witch? Ugh. Wonderful ep about parent child relationships, especially mother/daughter relationships. This is where my beef with Joyce starts (wait let me finish!). I do love Joyce but she is not a very good mother to Buffy at all, at any point. I know she's newly a single mom this season and that her kid is 16 but this woman loves to complain about how she'll never understand her daughter but does not make any attempt to actually listen to her or get involved with her life. Buffy even talks fondly in front of Joyce about Amy practicing cheer with her mom, like she wants to bond with her mom so bad but her mother is SO good at shutting her down! She falls into the classic parenting blunder of assuming that you just can't get thru to teens, so she doesn't really try. Ever think about how Buffy can't tell her mom she's the slayer? How when she does Joyce freaks out on her? Ever remember when Buffy says that when she first got called she went to her parents, obviously seeking support and protection, only to be sent to the psych hospital? This ep is such a perfect indicator of why Buffy & Joyce's relationship is like that. Now thats not to say that Joyce has to be perfect because she's a mother, but she should be doing much much better. And even though Buffy doesn't go through the kind of intense relationship Amy has with her mother, I think she really gets it. She has lines about how Giles underestimates the kind of pressure a parent can put on their child, and I think it really comes from experience. Joyce does put a lot of pressure on Buffy, to do well in school, to stay out of trouble, and even though this is an expectation that most parents have, she also refuses to understand how hard Buffy actually works to do these things. I often think about her line in the first ep about how even though Cordelia is nice to her, she approaches Willow for help because she doesn't want to flunk out of school. The point I'm building to here is that vampire slayer or not, a lot of parents have these expectations for their kids, and when they aren't met they don't try to understand the why and how of it. They show time and time again that they dont trust their kid- Joyce keeps grounding Buffy in season 2 for whatever reason, making no attempt to understand why her daughter acts the way she does, always assuming Buffy is deliberately acting out.

Also, can we talk about Amy's mother switching bodies with her to relive her childhood LITERALLY through her daughter? That is the perfect metaphor ever, I think. Idk. As someone who was a 'troubled teen' this episode is so special to me, then and now.

[sdvshanewife]

Gonna be honest and say that I don’t even think shane is rude he’s just not very nice. (Obviously all early on) first meeting he says the thing why are you talking to me I don’t know you. Which is a) true and b) not that bad he’s just like bruh who are you man. Okay woah not very friendly like most of the town but just how it is sometimes

And I feel like no one ever considers the actual situation afterwards. If you keep talking to him despite him very obviously wanting to be left alone and have somewhat made it clear the first time that’s on you?? He SAID leave him alone. The player isn’t respecting that and keeps talking to him. Obviously in stardew valley it all works out happy ending they get married yeah yeah everything’s okay but. In the real world if you keep bothering a guy who tells you to Leave Him Alone and he starts saying stuff like “what do you want” “go away” that is literally entirely on the person who doesn’t listen to him and you know, leave him alone?? It is so insane to me that people act like he’s the worst, acting like you said hi and he went “fuck you and your entire family I hope you die in a [redacted]”. Okay, I’ll agree that he’s not nice. But It is genuinely crazy to me that people agree that he’s apparently such a huge jerk. I think we’re all used to the town being really welcoming and warm and friendly so when he’s like that it’s unexpected and a bit of a shock, and I also understand being sensitive to stuff like this (no hate to that at all)

But I do not understand people who think others actually own them conversation just because…? and when someone doesn’t want to be bothered they are somehow lacking in personal morality. That is wild to me. Is it weird? Yeah maybe depends on where you’re from. Does it say something about who they are as a person? Probably not. At least less than they think.

I guess the fact that Stardew is expected to be a wholesome warm fuzzy game also plays into it. Like why are you like this it’s stinking up my cozy little game etc etc. And I get that but I don’t think it’s fair because Shane’s thing is not the only heavy topic in this game. Alex dealing with a parental loss and iirc also past abuse from his father!! Pam’s alcoholism and as a result putting Penny through so much bullshit and responsibility she shouldn’t have had to shoulder!! Kent is a former pow with ptsd!! And more that’s “milder” but still not all sunshines and rainbows. I know Stardew has the reputation of being cozy and warm and it’s true but that is mostly due to the players saying it themselves. There was no promise that there would not be heavier topics in the game at all. And it’s also handled well (not like uhh sudden horror twists or stuff) and is not otherwise very “out of place” so yeah it’s not fair to expect that from the game or him.

Um honestly by this point I’m not that mad anymore so

Live laugh shane our mantra yeah

the reason people make out shane to be ruder than he actually is is because they compare him to the other villagers that say hi and are friendly blah blah blah. it's also just expected for people to be friendly or atleast be "decent" (for a lack of a better word?) when you talk to them (or when they talk to you). when someone doesnt want to talk, theyre expected to not be so blunt and be like "oh sorry, i dont really wanna talk right now" and not be as direct as shane is.

i dont really agree with the "stardew valley is made out to be a cozy game". while i understand where you're coming from, most people don't mind the heavy topics, what they do care about is the way shane acts. ive never seen people complaining about penny's, alex's, or kent's stories which contain heavy topics. they're easier to sympathize with because the characters are nice.

LIVE LAUGH SHANE

[mutsukiss]

Reading the first book is actually insightful on the last episode because without it the whole "you're so boring!!!!" rant comes very out of the blue. In the show Louis is SUPER tame about himself as a vampire and vampires in general because he reduces himself to this weird self flagellation cycle of "oooh I'm so bad and evil I kill people how will I ever live with myself *becomes a serial killer*" and he doesn't have much,, care? Love? Appreciation? For himself and his life. He's just stumbling around and being a victim of the narrative. Things happen to him and sometimes he's an active participant, and that's it.

In the book Louis is SO eager to go and learn to be a vampire and do vampire things and explore what being a vampire is. He makes references constantly about how his first experiences were rushed and messy and got him this extreme high he searches for everywhere, and is immensely frustrated because Lestat is instead reduced to someone who is solely focused on his own damaging cycle and has no desire to enjoy the trip, just to chase the high. Show!Louis engages in hobbies and has his own opinions and boundaries and makes them know but he also doesn't ask or suggest or even demand a lot of times, specially/specifically with Armand. He says "this is how I'm going to go through this thing, you are free to take it or not but I'm not following after if you decide to not agree" and it puts people in a position. He's paradoxically giving others the freedom to follow their own rules, but by creating a punishing situation. Don't come to see me if you want me to join the coven, we don't need to put a name to our relationship, ignore that I imagine Lestat when I'm with you. These are mostly understandable requests knowing his background and context that still put Armand in a difficult position and he's not really given any wiggle room around them. Armand attempts to get into Louis' world and enter him in Armand's, but Louis isn't really interested in anything outside of what he finds comfortable or familiar and doesn't have a lot of drive to go and pursue new things about him nor others around him unless he's accompanied or pushed by another character, the being exception the interview in the present.

The overzealous, identity-missing, heartstruck Armand; in all of his own manipulative and calculating skills and habits, agrees to Louis roaming around to cruise and drug, fuck, kill and get high from 128 !! persons in the 70's only, cleaning after him, and we are given the image that he has never complained about this ever, not ONCE. We see Armand giving in to whatever Louis says, having kind gestures to him, spending time with him, having what I believe is infinite patience. I dont think these are difficult or unpleasant tasks for him, i dont think they are tasks at all. He is courting and ¿dating? someone and these interactions are obviously pleasurable to him. Armand says if Louis wanted for him to go away he just had to ask, and even after we are made aware of him tampering with Louis' and Daniel's memories, i believe that had Louis asked him that he would have complied. So WHAT is Louis looking for that he couldn't ask Armand for and have him agree to. If what he is expecting or wanting is resistance, HOW does that make Armand boring. How can Armand refuse Louis when that implies a complete negative, a total refusal of future positive interactions. What more was there for Armand to do in that situation?

Ultimately I think Louis is coping as best as he can and he has realized he is resorting to harmful behaviors and attempting to recreate past toxic dynamics, and that it won't make him happy because it didn't make him happy in the past, but that he is equally unhappy now even when things are supposed to be "fine", whatever his defintion of fine is. And this is something that would have been incredibly more clear if Show!Louis had been given Book!Louis' wanderlust and eagerness to learn and do new things, because with that in context, the conversation in the flat makes complete sense to me, even if it's still unfair for both parties, but it's something that may feel so sudden and out of the blue for show only viewers.

[mazzystar24]

Here's the thing and I'm not saying it's ok, it's obviously not in any way, shape or form, but since I'm assuming you have all the tags of bucktommy filtered perhaps you haven't seen it. Most of the bucktommy blogs (including ones that also ship buddie) have gotten many many hate asks, insulting them, accusing them of something, and just being incredibly disgusting. You literally can't go to the bucktommy tag without finding many posts of buddie fans who tag bucktommy saying shit about the ship, the actors, and the people who ship them. Saying that bucktommy shippers must feel threatened by buddie going canon and that's why they are rude is absolutely crazy (though there might be some that do, who knows?). Now, I'm sure that going to the buddie tag is also hard to do and there must be people who post shit about buddie and I know there are many blogs that are anti the extreme buddie fans. So, what I'm trying to say is that both ships have people that are purposely posting things to make the others mad, that are actively trying to continue this -frankly- stupid ship war. And they are being racist (on both sides, not just bucktommy shippers, I saw a bucktommy blog from a POC person get an ask calling them the n* word) and just plain awful. So, assuming that buddie blogs are better and do nothing wrong is incorrect, and it goes the other way as well. I really don't understand how people can be so mean, and so self-centered over two ships that who even knows what's going to happen? Everyone, absolutely everyone should do better. No one is better than the other one.

Hi anon!

Okay in case you don’t know my blog here is my usual warning that I will be bullet pointing but I promise I’m not trying to be curt/rude (cos you genuinely don’t seem to be on the attack or anything) I just can like explain my thought process better when I can like break it down into chunks 🫡

• I’m assuming you saw either this post which I do end with saying “Like we get it some buddie fans were dicks to you or you disagree or they did something or whatever the fuck but dont start being dicks to an entire fandom???” (Which I feel like it kinda gets the point across of like in general what people shouldn’t do but also it was in the context of me saying that that day there was a surge in the anti buddie fans in the tag, but I also do acknowledge that there will have been buddie fans who have been dicks to them, so I never “assumed that buddie fans are better and never did anything wrong”) Or this one which is just a whole post about why people shouldn’t be misusing tags rather than making people block them and obviously I’m talking in both posts about what I’ve personally seen which is the anti buddie accounts but the principle applies for both and I agree 100% and I did actually make a post earlier than that here where I do talk about both ends and misusing tags as well as not using discourse tags and I talk about both the anti bucktommy/ toxic buddie fans and anti buddie/toxic bucktommy fans so while I understand that you may not have seen that post and out of context it may seem like I only view one side as being better than the other I actually have pointed out before that it’s both and I urge both to just be respectful in fandom spaces, that’s why I even mentioned in the post where I’m complaining about people spamming the buddie tag that I always just politely ask whichever one I see (which again based off what I engage with happens to be the people spamming the buddie tag) but I did make a whole three parter post about how people can improve fandom spaces and how everyone should be doing better

• I actually don’t have the bucktommy tags filtered because as I’ve mentioned before I genuinely don’t dislike them and enjoy seeing their scenes and dynamic they’re just not endgame for me

• okay the racism is a more complicated topic so I do wanna preface this with saying I’m a poc before I have any toxic fans jumping into my inbox calling me a “dumb white bitch” again 😭😭- I don’t know how the racism toward the bucktommy fandom has been -not that any amount of racism is fine obviously like genuinely to those blogs that got shit said I genuinely hope you’re fine- but the toxic bucktommy fans have become a wholeass section of the fandom being racist, which is why I point it out because it’s not one or two incidences but rather an entire subset pushing racist narratives or just posting shit that’s racist u(and again my heart fully goes out to the bucktommy fans who had to deal with people being racist to them I am just personally going based off what I’ve seen and it’s the fact that there are SO MANY racist anti buddie accounts if that makes sense so it’s more widespread in that case)

• as for the comment about toxic bucktommy fans feeling threatened and that’s why there was a rise, i actually didn’t say that but it was pointed out to me by people in my comments and I was like that makes sense and honestly it does because it absolutely tracks that when one side of the fandom is feeling optimistic about something that hints at their ship the other side’s toxic fans will want to put a damper on that, just like I can probably guess that toxic buddie fans probably hounded the bucktommy tag around the time the hospital kiss happened, like it just makes sense

Thanks anon for the ask because I genuinely do agree with most of what you said, and you were respectful with it which I appreciate, but I genuinely urge you in the politest way I can to just check out people’s accounts before sending an ask like this because context is genuinely key and people aren’t gonna be reiterating that it happens on either end when talking about something in the context of one end if that makes sense? And I personally do try to acknowledge it as much as possible even in the posts that I assume you were referring to🫶🫶🫶

[freebooter4ever]

I've been doing my best to stay up to date on the boots brainfog fatigue lore for a while and I have two things to say. First, I am so glad the antibiotics are working and helping you and you're able to somewhat pause your symptoms. And second, your story is so terrifying I had no idea anything like this could happen and I hope the saga ends soon with you going back to a normal livable life.

Apologies for the slow reply, it took me a while to come to grips with my story being used as a 'lore' example. Legit i sometimes forget that i have a lot more followers than just the ones who talk to me on a regular / semi regular basis. So thank you to anyone who is quietly watching this painful illness play out and rooting for me <3 i hope it ends up being a happy ending, though my depression right now is being a witch and telling me it wont. As i type right now my eyes are doing the '300 times more effort to focus' thing because i ate dinner an hr ago, and im slowly getting used to putting this much work into something as simple as writing but...gosh this is all exhausting.

I didnt know this could happen either, but i cherish all the friends and strangers who have gone through this or are going through this who immediately reached out to support me. I've met one guy in person who was a casual friend until now, but who is becoming one of the few people i can randomly text depressing symptoms to and just know he at least semi understands. He also promised to take me on his motorcycle the minute i get back into a physically stable condition so i at least have a carrot on a stick at the moment.

I have also had a lot of really really enlightening conversations with my grandma who has MS, and she's told me stuff about her own illness that I don't think she ever would have divulged to me if this hadn't happened. And I now almost understand why. I can't tell you how frustrating it is to complain about a symptom and then have a friend or loved one immediately counter with 'oh, i have that!' and then go into detail about how they handle it when their symptom is obviously fleeting and passing and much less intense. Also, there's certain people in my life who i just cant get to understand how this illness is connected to food. Every time their response is 'I'm sorry you feel bad, let me make you something to eat' and i have given up trying to explain, lol.

I think it's also important for me to note that although my blog has seen a lot of this drama that i shared...the WORST parts of it i have not posted because i simply dont know how to process or talk about it yet. And also most of the worst moments happened while with my friend G, and when I'm at their house I tend to not need social media so much.

The funniest part in all this - it took a month for me to become so terrified of food because of the intense pain/reactions after eating, that I don't miss food at all despite my diet being severely limited. I miss peanut butter, although my reaction to peanut butter is not so bad that i can't eat it sometimes (but not daily like i used to). Strangely enough, I don't miss bread at all, except I do miss the easy convenient calories bread provided so I could run/dance/exercise. There is only one thing I have been craving this entire month....this fucker from 85c:

I have dreams about this guy. I vividly remember the taste and texture and how it felt to bite into one. The joy of snacking on one in the California sun under the arroyo trees. I long to be able to eat it again ;_; But with how little food I've been able to eat, I can't afford to waste calories on anything that isn't packed with nutrition so :( no taro bun.

[calebwittebane]

i dont think "fandom" is even a real thing like it's a good shortcut for referring to The Collective Of Fans Of A Thing but as a word to describe an actual phenomenon im starting to think it does more harm than good and provokes the most inane conversations. 90% of the time when people complain about Fandom Ruining X they're in actuality referring to like. personal anecdotes. a specific friends group they dont like. a discord server. the enjoyers and artists/writers talking about some specific idea or ship that gets on their nerves. some specific people they think are twee and annoying. some equally specific people they think have bad opinion about the thing they like. all with an air of prime r/iamverysmart material. i mean look at the "shipping ruined fandom!" posts its like so obviously thinly veiled vagueposts about people doing some Mushing Together Fictional Characters about their favorite series that they personally dont like and are bothered by. and all of the above gets brought up to this range of Societal Problem or like Cognitive Decline etc etc. like #SOCIETY. when at the end of the day its just the same petty stuff. theres a lot of Shelf Conchesness on display because theres always this urge to pretend like your favorite extremely mainstream thing of choice is Different and Really Deep. regardless of its merit it was still created with a wide mainstream audience in mind though so i promise youre not above all of this. you are A Fan yourself. people who write y/n fanfics and whatever else are not some different breed, they just happen to do some stuff in their free time that youre not into. people whose art doesnt appeal to you or contains "mischaracterization" are not taking away anything from the source material. bad posts dont take away anything from the source material. and if the whole issue gets to you this badly... well i hate to say it but... The Fandom-Brain Might Have Been Hiding In Plain Sight. ultimately if you depend on other people for transformative content, your being displeased with what you find isnt a societal issue, its just a normal thing that happens, sometimes you just think stuff sucks and is bad. you dont have to shield your petty complaints with Serious Language. youll feel better when you realize this is kind of futile and you can just do your own thing and not desperately depend on others' fan content or discussions, and if you do browse it, well youre gonna see good stuff and bad stuff. its fine. its fine. people creating bad art and writing bad stories for their own enjoyment for free is a good thing. bad art has the right to exist. sometimes in life you have to say, "wow, this sucks. not gonna ruin my day though" and move along. youll feel so much better. enjoy the source material and maybe make some friends through it and hang out with them and joyfully be Likers and Haters and Understanders. enjoy non-mainstream media. get into non-fiction books. go to a modern art museum. watch a movie from a country youve never seen a movie from. start making art yourself even if its bad. share it with your friends. eat hummus with them. etc

[tame-a-messenger]

“Are there a lot more Damangela posts out there that I’m missing? Because I saw a couple posts complaining about people talking about Damangela but I swear it’s literally only you and MAYBE one or two other people talking about them. Also it’s wild to me that people would complain about Damangela when Ianthony is RIGHT THERE or even amangela or spommy like people talk about these ALL the time writing lots of smut and everything but people are gonna complain about the five Damangela posts that happen every few days at most?? No hate to people talking about any of those ships I’m not one of those people who care so much about what people ship (if I don’t like it I just ignore it) but I just think it’s weird to call out Damangela when it’s such a small ship no one really talks about too much. And 99% of the Damangela posts are platonic and not romantic anyway so I don’t get why people are bothered by it.”

Hi Mitty! good to see you!

“Are there a lot more Damangela posts out there that I’m missing? Because I saw a couple posts complaining about people talking about Damangela but I swear it’s literally only you and MAYBE one or two other people“

That’s what has me all confused. I’m pretty sure there’s only a small handful of Damangela acc on here, or anywhere. I don’t really know why people have been getting so up in arms about Damangela? I’ve been seeing a lot of hate for ‘damangela shippers’ when I really can only think of like 3? that are openly shipping them together??

Most people posting about Damangela are purely Dynamic Enjoyers™, and openly stating that. I don’t know where this wave of people came from, talking about ‘damangela shippers’ like there’s so many.

“people would complain about Damangela when Ianthony is RIGHT THERE or even amangela or spommy“

I think it’s because those ships in particular are all queer ships. It always strikes me as odd that people are EXTREMELY comfortable shipping rpf if it’s queer, but if it’s hetero they say it’s an invasion of privacy and weird. Like you’re saying IT’S NOT AN INVASION IF ITS GAY??? WHERES THE LOGIC?? do people not understand how sexuality works? (if you have a problem with rpf COMMIT TO IT. DONT PRETEND ITS OK ONLY IF ITS QUEER. shipping real people is shipping real people.)

(I do realize that all of those ships have pretty obvious reasons why they aren’t taken as seriously. Amanda is married, Spencer is straight(?), ... , so I understand that side, but if you truly think rpf is bad, commit to it.)

I’d also like to say just because a Woman/Man is hetero, does NOT mean they romantically like EVERY Man/Woman they meet. 

“it’s weird to call out Damangela when it’s such a small ship no one really talks about too much“

That’s what I’m thinking as well, like I said, I can only think of maybe 3 people that openly ship them together? and they don’t even post that regularly. It almost feels like they’re trying to head off future shippers because of the Podcast clip that came out recently? (the Christmas Event™)

That’s ^ the only reasonable thing I can think of. (they still aren’t doing a very good job as a community... I think it’s because there’s been a lot of new fans the last couple years)(along with Smosh not being very good with fan discourse)(I could go on for days about this lol)(if there was an obvious figure head in the community that could point the fans in good directions I think that would help with the weird dog piling that’s going on rn)

“99% of the Damangela posts are platonic and not romantic anyway so I don’t get why people are bothered by it.“

It doesn’t make much sense to me either. 

The one thing I did see that I could imagine being annoying, is that people trying to look through #Angela Giarratana tag are getting flooded with damangela content. (and obviously the #Damien Hass tag as well) I could TOTALLY see why that could make some people mad! but there’s really not much to do about that.. 

(other than going into settings and filtering out damangela manually)

I feel a little bad that we’ve been flooding their tags, but I can’t really do anything about it? I could start not tagging both of them? but I feel like it makes more sense to just filter your own tags than get me to change how I tag (other people would be tagging them even if I stopped anyway..)

Anyway, I’m sure all this will blow over soon! something about April Fools Marriage and a Solar eclipse is getting everyone all red blooded.

-Much love Mitty! <3

[varijacija]

I think pathologic is a good game if you know what youre getting into and also if youre a specific type of player (as in if you love getting achievements and buffing up your character pl is not for you)

Pathologic is like an interactive novel you have to get into the story and characters to give a damn especially to get in the mindset of the character you play and they make this easy bc its so well written specifically for a game it depends on the perspectives of our player characters a lot they used the medium perfectly

Example while playing dankovsky you only hear god awful opinions on the Kin from powerful people who exploit them (bc thats part of your circle youre a fancy city doctor after all) you hear they are stupid animals and in the game their backward believes are blocking you from doing your work the first moment you hear of them youre send to kill one and when the man understandably freaks out and tries to defend himself HES the one thats a panicky stupid maniac also the missions you go on you go on to exploit the kin while also looking at them as expendable while your true goal is to heal the townsfolk

In Artemys route you get to talk to this people they are real they are your people they themselves believe they are a herd of animals but thats more like a religious thing "we are all part of one big whole" they obviously have their own thoughts and feelings they have their own complicated inner workings and problems and you can see personalities sprinkled in (how no one really likes the new foreman for example lol) their believes are used agains them to paint them in the worst light you even get to talk to the butchers doing dankovskys quest while they are hiding from the guards while in his route they are a passing thought by design

((unlike in p2 where they actually are a stupid herd???? Which are half human??? Any thats why the plegue didnt kill them?????and they even brought the plegue down upon the earth???? Wtf p2 but thats a post for another day))

Also the termitary in dankovsky route you dont want to get too much invested into that its like idk its the politics of this town you have a full plate with the plegue after all and dont have time to mess around you can even make a deal with big vlad to not say anything to the kains about it all while in haruspex route its like ok why the fuck are my people locked in there from day 1

The haruspex route also makes you run around the steppe and find the beauty of it the herbs are crucial to making the panacea its beautiful and miraculous AND usefull

It really shapes your perspective so masterfully

Even all the running that everyone cant stop complaining about while it can be annoying at times (harusplex route damnnnn youuu) is soooo good at storytelling you can feel the panic of the clock running out the frustration of running around doing useless things just for anyone to just let you work and believe you and not actively try to kill you

[slaythespire]

im sorry my tumblr followers who dont know me im mad rn, im just rambling mad under a readmore again thanksss

listen its not that i need to be dating someone im just chilling. in fact rn i would not want to date anyone.

but i HATEEEE HATE seeing people say shit like "You dont need anyone, you should learn to be happy without someone else in ur life! why do you need someone else! just be happy without that!" well damn sue me for wanting someone to deeply love me who i deeply love back!! why is that such a bad thing to want!! obviously if you cant function without being in a relationship that's not good, but people always say that shit to someone going "i feel unlovable and like no one will ever want me" and it feels so meanspirted!! damn!!

its been like almost a year since i got ghosted and i know its annoying to hear people complain abt the same thing over and over again. but its just HARD bcus i feel stupid, and used. i really thought my ex was like, THE person, we talked abt getting married and how we'd combine our last names, abt moving in together, supported each other through everything. when i was in inpatient this person called me almost everyday i was there to say hi and check in on me. i thought my future involved them and then they just dropped me without even an explanation. never in a million billion years did i think that would happen (outside of my bad brain telling me it would, which, well i was right so LOL) bcus they were my best friend of 8 years!!

and its scary bcus it makes me think there must be something wrong with me/"how could anyone ever love me when even the person who dated me for 6 years didnt". and people always say things like "you haven't met everyone who will care about you yet" but what if i have, and my one chance at having a relationship i was so happy in was ruined bcus the other person is a self-obsessed asshole who lied to my face abt so much for who KNOWS what reason. WHATEVER.

i feel like when i make posts like this i come off as an insane person in the "no wonder they broke up with you" way, but i promise im actually normal ive just been very emotionally ripped to shreds by a very bad breakup. barely a breakup bcus it was over TWITTER DM. whatever im just gonna be one of those people that obsesses over fictional characters so much i think were in a relationship.

i just rlly rlly wonder what their reasoning for doing this to me was and if they feel bad abt it. or if they think its funny, or if they just dont care. i also wonder if they think they can just message me one day and apologize and think itll be okay (i dont think this will happen, i used to but i dont anymore)

i lean towards they just dont care, i doubt they even think about what they did lol. i mean i HOPE they feel bad, but i dont think thats true. id be shocked if i ever heard from them again which is just, crazy. 8 years of knowing someone and it ends like that through no fault of your own. i wish i had a screenshot of the break up dm id post it in a heartbeat so anyone who actually read this far would feel whiplash like i do. (filled to the brim with "i love you so much" "i feel horrible for hurting you and i hate that im doing it" "i really care about you" "i hope you stay in my life bcus youre my best friend").

and it makes me really sad bcus OFC we would have stayed friends, i loved them so much that while id be sad abt breaking up i would still want them in my life. (WE EVEN TALKED ABT HOW IF WE BROKE UP WE ALWAYS THOUGHT WE'D STAY FRIENDS). but even in my fantasy world where they reach out after a few years all apologetic and guilty i just couldnt do it anymore.

one more but i don't understand what would compel someone to say all that knowing theyre lying and dont give a fuck about you, like it only comes off as evil and fucked up and cruel to me, so how else am i supposed to take that.

[saintetheldreda]

so in new perspective noah kahan sings

"oh, this town's for the record now

the intersection's got a target, and theyre calling it downtown"

read something in a book yesterday that made me think of this lyric did you know target is actually notoriously one of the business that is the most closely tied to working with law enforcement via surveillance data from people's credit card purchases. its something really unique and unusual about it. according to my book the vice president of target nathan garvis has proudly declared he realised tracking criminals "was really an inventory-management problem." oof!!! it donates loads of data to government databases, makes ties between its employees and law enforcement agencies, provides money to prosecutors, owns one of america's top forensic labs. which is a really really frightening manifestation of surveillance capitalism - a retailer allied with government, capitalism allied with control

and idk man not saying this was intentional cause noah probably just wanted a rhyme with "closet" lol but reading it made me so sad. and immediately scribble "this town's for the record now" in the margins cause like. imagine youre the guy from stick season you try to run away from the world cause the thing you fear most is being seen only to find out theres not really a place for individuality in this world anymore. whoever you are when youre on your own and no one is watching is not really wanted. no matter where you go, youre always performing, youre always held up to standards that are not your own, youre never just you

not to take the side of the character in this song completely cause obviously the song in a lot of ways is about how problematic his attitude is to things, cause hes shutting off from the world, but like. i also feel so sad for him cause you look around at the world and you can really understand why he did it. and i wish we lived in a world that didnt make people feel that way

and i love new perspective so much cause its both a beautifully personal song and also something that really captures the mood of current times. an internet age where were looking around a world where local community ties are eroded more and more and were all just funneled into the same spotlight. the same ideals the same standards the same toxic paradigms the same perspective. we dont look at each other through each others eyes anymore, its just through the same harsh camera lens of cctv or surveillance or social media or whatever. and we cant remember who we are anymore, we forget how to be individuals

its like in no complaints, this target surveillance capitalism really speaks to what it is to trade personal selfhood away in the name of safety - "i filled the hole in my head with prescription medication then forgot who to cry, who am i, who am i to complain?"

(notice the repetition of "who am i" - he forgets to ask the question that is really important to him, "who am i," halfway through asking it, cause he gets distracted by a culture that capitalises on fear pressing you to ask "am i safe? am i safe? am i safe?" to control you; to sell you home security systems and bogus diet plans and health scares or forward policies to collect your credit card data to erode your freedoms)

[sieglinde-freud]

For the ask game: Ophelia and Camillia

HELL YEAHH hi stedy :) starting with ophelia

How I feel about this character

shes so cute. obviously super similar to her dad and while i feel like she doesnt do the chuuni thing quite as well, i think its cute that its mostly in an attempt to emulate her father, the bestest guy in the world to her, which differentiates it from odin’s mannerisms that were formed as a coping mechanism. shes just very happy and i love that for her :)

All the people I ship romantically with this character

i remember really liking her with hisame at one point? i think i still do but i cannot tell you what their support is about. i forgot entirely. honestly, i need to brush up on the fates second gen because theyre a huge blank spot in my mind 😭 but like, conceptually, i also like her with shiro, caeldori, nina, forrest, and mitama. i just have to actually read those…

My non-romantic OTP for this character

i like her little trio with forrest and nina :) theyre so cute in heirs of fate… i wish we could see more of the second gen dynamic like that. in my head i also like her friendship with soleil, but… in terms of whats given to me in the game… its just… eugh.

My unpopular opinion about this character

i dont think she’s a better unit than odin in conquest. i guess it can depend on who her mom is, but odin is generally going to have much more survivability due to his defense and hp + joining you pretty early, making his role as a nostank reliable and costs zero effort. ophelia takes time, and ideally you want to hold off on getting her for skills/offspring seals. any early game build can be done with nyx or elise, to less potency maybe, but with way less effort especially now that the best way of support grinding (mycastle easy seize) is no longer possible. of course, you can use dlc maps but if you take dlc into account conquest is a whole different game.

One thing I wish had happened

how about something i wish didnt happen? her support with soleil is genuinely one of these most uncomfortable things i have ever read in fire emblem which is saying a lot! because the writing in these games suck! for the most part it is soleil’s problem and not ophelia’s, so maybe i shouldn’t be complaining about it here, but i dunno man. its just… its so bad. i cant even read it in game like it gets a physical reaction out of me and not a positive one.

ok camilla now :)

How I feel about this character

i love her lots :) my savior on conquest and she had the best hair in the game. her supports are… pretty unfortunate most of the time but i think the ones that matter are really good and she’s a really sympathetic character when you get over intelligent systems not trusting in her enough to be popular and slapping the gooner bait “big sister” crap on her

All the people I ship romantically with this character

i really dont have a major preference for her? in game, i usually prefer pairings that give her a kid because 1) woag god stats and 2) her hair color is sooo good i cannot waste it. but in terms of just shipping, shes good with like. everyone. some supports are bad but i can get over most of them if i like the ship as a concept. but off the top of my head i like her with selena, beruka, takumi, saizo, peri, laslow, odin, niles, hinoka, charlotte, arthur, reina, probably more but. yeah shes versatile to me. godmilla

My non-romantic OTP for this character

leo!! all the nohr siblings really but i think camilla and leo specifically are just. they give me lots of brain worms. elise obviously wasnt born yet to exeprience the concubine wars, and as the heir and, iirc, the only legitimate son garon had, xander didn’t really get involved as much either. im sure it affected him, but he wasn’t there actually taking part in it. leo and camilla shoulder a lot for their siblings and i think its very interesting that despite it all, theyre probably the only people that can ever really understand what the other has been through. and i enjoy their supports too, with leo wanting camilla’s attention but not being willing to voice it, and camilla understanding that her smothering would probably just piss him off so she tries to avoid it, until they ultimately find a healthy medium and can start to kind of… work on their relationship with eachother after everything. i love them lots :)

My unpopular opinion about this character

im not sure i have one? i feel like opinions on camilla are so all over the place so its kind of hard to have one thats “unpopular.” but i’ll say that i prefer her in malig knight rather than wyvern lord which is probably the worse play in most scenarios but… oohh hot lady on undead dragon… im very simple.

One thing I wish had happened

more elaboration on her past and her mother and some more story relavance for her. she just kinda… fades into the back after leo and xander come which happens with the other sisters too, but still……

[the1975attheirverybest]

wow that anon was weird..

i dont think ALL celebs MUST speak out about things like i dont think kylie jenner "speaking out" would really further the cause (i might be wrong tho) i DO think she should donate, anyone with means should donate, especially if they're tax avoiders.

BUT if ur in a band that makes political music and political statements AND ARE WILLING TO GET BANNED FROM COUNTRIES FOR A CAUSE

u cant keep ur head down for this one, u just cant, he needs to AT LEAST have a well thought out reason about why he thinks him speaking out doesn't matter in this case, and even then....

75 fans understand why people say that taylors a bad feminist, but wouldn't complain about kim k doing the same thing,, its cause taylor claims to be a feminist while kim doesn't,, its the same for matty, hes acting incongruently to his words and past actions. its not unfair to point that out

EXACTLY. To paraphrase my philosophy professor, all things being equal, some celeb voices are more equal than others hahaha. Like if you’re a makeup girlie and your platform is about comparing different products and making recs etc. obviously I’m not going to expect you to say something or treat what you say with the same substantive weight as Matty Healy. Remember when he spoke about the abortion bill in Alabama? And the crowd booed him and he said “fuckin shoot me mate we’re way past that.” it’s not illegitimate to then expect him to be against fuckin genocide. And if you do, ask yourself why.

[linklethehistorian]

sorry if this is a weird question I saw you saying the official translation for fifteen was inaccurate and i was wondering if you speak japanese fluently? /gen because i really dont want to read an inaccurate translation but i can barely read english lol nevermind any japanese

Despite my fear that this question is not actually genuine at all, I will go against my better judgement anyhow and answer it.

As to the question of do I speak/understand Japanese, the answer is yes; it should be very obvious to everyone by now, considering I do believe I’ve mentioned this several times, talked about translating the Fifteen stage play when I have spare time sometime back, and have watched and commented on the accuracy of the Fifteen and SB Stage Plays back while they were still (and in the case of Fifteen, still is) in Japanese only, as well as primarily own and read the JP Fifteen and Storm Bringer and have posted pictures of them before stating I was “bringing them along for reference” when I was going on a trip but still planning to work on my article during that time.

However, I find the question specifically being worded as “are you fluent in Japanese” to be extremely baiting, because with Japanese as a language especially, that is a point that has no universally agreed upon standard and can range from completely reasonable to utterly absurd.

Some people think “fluent” means having enough knowledge of the language to get comfortably by in day to day life while living in Japan.

Some people think “fluent” means knowing 1K-2K words.

Some people think “fluent” means knowing 10K words.

Some people think “fluent” means knowing the entirety of the Japanese language — which, newsflash, not even most native-born Japanese speak can hit that mark bro. Hell, English is my first language, and while I am obviously very familiar with it, I don’t even know all of its words that exist. Most people do not.

For fuck’s sake, I know someone who lives and teaches in Japan (which by some people’s definition would make them far more than fluent) and even they don’t consider themselves fucking fluent yet, by their own definition.

Do I know enough to get by with reading the source material cover to cover? Obviously, or I wouldn’t have the fucking book and use it as reference. Am I confident enough to say I can 100% accurately translate every sentence in it without any help or consulting? No. I’m still learning.

But that doesn’t mean that I don’t know enough to be able to tell when certain sentences are obviously off between the original and the translation, and then hunker down and do enough research and cross-checking with other people who speak the language to accurately and confidently speak on and translate those certain specific sentences in the book(s).

You don’t have to be fluent by any definition of the word to do your research and not be a dumbass about certain specific sentences and words that seem to be suspiciously heavily different between to versions of a given text.

I want to make an actual proper mini-article about this someday, and if I talk about it now, I won’t have any content left to do so, but what you need to understand is that entirety of the Fifteen Eng novel is not inaccurate — it’s very specific but important parts of it that are.

And the reason most people haven’t complained about it isn’t because the problem doesn’t exist — it’s because a) there aren’t that many people who are going to bother to read the novel in a language that isn’t their native one when they have the option of reading it in their native one, b) the ones that do speak Japanese and prefer to read the source material in its original language only are going to just do that, c) people who do bother to start comparing the two are likely going to start out by seeing that it’s mostly a decent enough translation and not continue to look for issues unless they’re pointed out to them, and last of all d) unfortunately people tend to just implicitly trust official translations to begin with, despite that things have happened in many, many fandoms time and time again to prove that no official translation should just be assumed to be accurate by virtue of it being “official”, as the frank reality of the matter is that official translators are no less prone to error or intentional creative liberty than unofficial ones (have I mentioned there is a frighteningly long thread somewhere here on Tumblr of official translators for various books talking about how they feel they have the right to transform and ‘improve’ the stories however they wish simply because they are being put at the wheel to translate it? not to mention fan translators even if not infallible at least tend to actually specialize in the specific series, understand its context better, and care about the project on a more personal and dedicated level than people who have likely translated hundreds of different series and are doing it primarily for the cash), and 99.9% of the time the original creators — for reasons that should be obvious — have minimal to no involvement in the process whatsoever.

If you don’t care about the book having an accurate tone or accurate characterization of all characters, then read the official Eng to your heart’s content, but personally I feel if you’re going to go that route, you’d honestly be just as well or better off reading any one of the Eng fan translations that exist, given you’ll get just about as many inaccuracies and at least generally a slightly closer tone to the original from what I’ve seen (though there is a major pitfall or two in regards to some of those, as well).

Oh and for the record this is only about Fifteen; Eng SB — for as far as I have gotten in it, at least — seems to be pretty decent overall, though I myself am not infallible and could have easily missed something.

In general, just don’t inherently believe everything simply because it has the words “official” slapped onto it; not everything that is ‘official’ is automatically perfect and good and fully looked over and fully controlled by Asagiri by definition.

Especially with translations in general — always take them with a grain of salt. Always. There’s nothing wrong with engaging with things in your own language, but never ever just assume they are 100% accurate and infallible because I assure you they are not. No matter how good or close to the original a translation may be, it will never be that original. There will almost always be at least tiny changes made here and there in order to make something read better or more comprehensively in a different language. And sometimes that’s okay and still makes something a close enough experience. And sometimes it isn’t.

All of that being said…

The sad reality is that as a person born and raised with a certain language or languages, we will never be able to reasonably consume everything in their original form; there will always be limits to what we have the time and ability to learn and what we don’t.

And that’s okay. That’s what translations exist for — to make a certain piece of media able to be enjoyed by those who for whatever reason can’t experience it in its original language. Is it always better to experience the original if you can? Yes. But is that always realistic and possible? No.

What is important isn’t avoiding translations like the plague even if they’re the only things you have available to you, it’s going into it knowing that they are not infallible and not using them to make arguments about the original, uppermost official canon without first double-checking that they are accurate to said original — and, god forbid you ever do and someone calls you out on it, being willing to check in with multiple people familiar with the language to ensure that your argument is indeed solid, and if it is not, being willing to admit you are wrong.

There is no shame in experiencing translated media. There is no shame in engaging with only translated media. There is only shame in being unwilling to doubt that the translated media is accurate and insisting that it must be simply because it is “official”.

And that is all I will be saying on the matter.

I also don’t mean to be rude, but for full transparency, if anyone sends me any further asks on the subject, I will discard them, and, if continued, block the individual(s) involved. It may be the case that you yourself intended this question genuinely, anon, but people who approach others with questions like these rarely do so in good faith and are usually actually looking for an excuse to dismiss someone’s thoughts on something, which is why I find the use of the word “fluent” to be beyond suspicious — because not only do you not have to be completely fluent in a language to be able to recognize and point out specific issues within specific parts of a translation to begin with and this ask inherently implies that one does, but also the meaning of that word is so incredibly broad and vague and varied from person to person that anyone could easily make the argument one is not “fluent enough” no matter how you answer it.

You could very simply have asked “do you speak/read/understand Japanese?” and have left it at that, but the fact you went out of your way to use that specific term instead every time you’ve asked about it makes me question your intent.