#im just so frustrated

[vurelly]

you ever just have a really great drawing idea but you’re already working on another one but you wanna take a BREAK from the other one so you start the new one but you can’t FIGURE IT OUT because your brain is still so invested in the first--

[l3ominor]

I think I've cried every day this week.

Something about being home I guess

[munchboxart]

TL;DR me bitching about Transformers ONE's design of Soundwave early in the morning because I've been thinking about this since last night and I'm mad

Starscream and Shockwave look amazing, I like that they keep giving Shockwave more meat... Metal..? It fits him, I hope he keeps his Tank form like in TFP. And Starscream being Mr cuntress as always

And then there's Soundwave. Why is his gooch so high (I know the other's have high gooch's too but his is way more noticible)

Anyways, I swear I've seen like 50 versions of of this exact same toy design of Soundwave and it's still as ugly and cheap as the last time and I'm so tired of it. I think the designers just don't know what to do with Soundwave's design anymore. Doesn't help that no one uses cassette players anymore, and younger kids might not even know what they are.

To be honest, I don't even like the design direction they went with for the characters but fucking whatever. I'm just sad I'm gonna have to continue my drought of not buying any Soundwave figures because THEY DON'T LOOK THAT GOOD. I already bought most of the ones I like (I still plan on buying the FlameToys kit of him but I'm iffy, since I bought the Thundercracker one and he's so fucking lose and falls apart when I touch him), hell I literally bought a Kinder Eggs toy of Soundwave TFP and spent ~$50 on gacha bags just for him because I'm that big of a fan.

Anyways, I look forward to TF ONE, I was ready to hate when it was first announced but it's nice that they're going a different direction and ACTUALLY USING QUINTESSONS (IDGAF ABOUT BAYFORMERS) And we're finally getting a movie without humans!!! I don't like Megatrons and OPs design but you know!! Who cares!! I'm happy. Ish

[sharkdays]

i need to calm down

[asakano]

Can I just say that I hate how much economic freedom we've lost in just the last few decades? I've seen a couple posts floating around lately that really hit me hard with just how bad this really is. It's no wild claim for me to say that corporate greed is stealing our futures from us.

When I was growing up in the late 90s and early 00s, it wasn't unheard of for someone fresh out of high school to get a job and be able to live on their own, even if it was paycheck to paycheck. Even just 7-10 years ago, rent in my area was less than half of what it is now.

I want to be able to live on my own and possibly have kids in the near future, but I'm stuck making just over minimum wage (which wouldn't even pay for just the monthly bills) and prices are going up faster than wages.

As a kid, I was told I should be able to be completely independent by age 20, but now I'm getting close to 30 and I'm living with the in-laws because I can't afford to not.

[gnarlystarships]

i really wanted to try and draw my new OC today but my wretched brain caused so much problems for me and had me LITERALLY turn in an assignment at the last second and now i am very nauseous and tense and idk. I also failed to get a bunch of other stuff done but I guess at least I got that one incredibly simple assignment done :|

I guess I should just draw something simple and go to bed so I can get up early and get back to the grind :|

[chaotic-on-main]

I just want one week where I'm not in emotional distress, is that too much to ask 🥲

[soreddieforme]

bisexual richie tozier

so we all know about the discourse between gay richie and bisexual richie and i think is obvious where i stand here, but it's been bothering me too much lately, so I'm gonna put my thoughts out there even if no one asked me to

so first the first argument on why a part of the fandom says is bad is; "richie was canonically gay on the it chapter two movie"

and well they could try and tell me that all they want, but I'm still not gonna change my mind because is still subjective, in the movie it was never said richie was gay, neither was it explicitly stated

and you're gonna say to me, "but it was coded"

and all i'm gona say is ("oh like the book bi coded richie that you all ignore and underestimate" but that would just be petty of me so I'm not gonna) actually i didn't get that richie was gay from that, i just thought "oh he likes a guy, not sure who, but he likes one" so just making the assumption seems kind of a stereotypical and something that straight people would do, just because a man likes another man that doesn't make him gay and assume that is wrong

but andy moscarrietty and bill harder confirmed he was gay

the same bill harder that didn't read the book and just went with the script (look i don't have anything against bill, i actually liked his performance, it was really good, but again he didn't read the book) and the same andy moscarrietty that doesn't respect characters arc's and switched them how most convenient seemed for him and if they need the actor and director to confirmed it in interviews and such, they didn't do a good job portraying the so call gay representation, sorry to break it

"y'all can't let gay men have representation without trying to steal it"

i could say the same, people reading richie as bi existed before it chapter two, even before it chapter one, this character was seen as bisexual and andy instead of using his bi coding decide to joint his coding with eddie's gay coding, he literally admitted he used eddie coding on him because richie wasn't angsty enough (what does that even mean, a character doesn't have to suffer to be a good character), actually it was half hearted representation, just because he saw the potential to profit out of the reddie fanbase wich was huge and didn't want to let go the opportunity. he was going make it more subtle, so if that doesn't tells them how much he doesn't cares about representation, i don't know what to tell y'all

"representation is still important and they gave it to us, stop whining" (something i literally read)

look gay richie wouldn't exist if there wasn't previously a fandom that shipped reddie so hard and that same fandom was played dirty, not only by andy but the people that joined after it chapter two too, all those fic writers, edit, gif and art creators were bullied just by saying they didn't agree and still saw richie as bi, people were receiving death treats, being call homophobic and were drove off of the fandom, just by stating their opinions as if the 2019 movie was the only canon, wich it isn't

"who cares they aren't real, this are just characters"

well yeah, but the experiences that richie and eddie had are real to bisexual and gay people respectively and those aren't interchangeable (and the people being bullied were real too so), andy not respecting that is homophobic and biphobic, but also denotes then again that he doesn't care about representation, but if y'all still want to make richie gay bc andy said so, then go off you capitalistic baby, even so they have to respect the people that won't settle for his half hearted portrayal of a lgbt character, i want representation and i want it to be good and fair, i want eddie kaspbrak canonically being the gay character that he always was and i don't want andy stealing his coding to give it to richie, i want justice for this characters and the people that identify with them

"people still should respect other people's headcanons"

and i agree, gay men identifying with richie were never the problem, it is valid if you respect bi richie, identifying with gay richie doesn't make you a bad person, the thing is the majority of the fandom that saw richie as bi, me included, initially didn't care if people saw richie as gay, we were just disappointed and sad, but i used to read any fanfic and reblog any fanart even if gay richie wasn't what i hc the character as, but at least to me, it left a bad taste on my mouth thinking about gay richie, because i saw all the biphobia happening and excusing it with wokeness saying:

" yeah in the book richie may be bi coding, but it is a bad book because it has that orgy scene and book richie was racist"

even if they prefer the movies because of that, they have to be realistic, the movies were based on the book, andy moscarrietty isn't their grand savoir, the rights are still king's and he profit out of the movies, he is in it chapter two, be serious please (he was also high on drugs, which isn't a excuse, but it explains a lot), andy read the book (supposedly bc his treatment of the losers says otherwise), he's a fan, stop trying to be on the higher moral ground when you aren't, also the part of the fandom that likes the book better, condemned that scene too, just because we like the book, doesn't mean we don't have critical thinking about its problematics themes

richie was born and raised in the 50's, was a kid that didn't really understand what he was saying, he just wanted to make his friends laugh, I'm pretty sure he was imitating the comedians from the time too, this meta by @dear-wormwoods explains it better, but it just seats wrong to me that that's an excuse against bi richie when they don't have a problem using other of his treats like him being a radio host, his nicknames and pet names like eds and eddie my love, make sandy his girlfriend mind you, a lesbian (is that the only way to make his love for eddie more valid or what?) or having him say he wasn't really attracted to her, why is that ok? but bi richie isn't? if all of that is part of the book too? sounds pretty biphobic to me, but not only biphobic, is also racist and performative, (if you only care about his racism when it comes to his bisexuality, but everything else is fine, start questioning your biphobia and racism)

also just because the movies didn't say the nword doesn't mean they aren't racist, the only black character was strip of his arc, made mike hanlon just a side character that doesn't talk in the first movie and don't make me get started on how they portray mike on the second movie and no, I'm not trying to make anyone feel guilty for liking the movies, I'm just saying, be more critical and less hypocritical

also, also i have to say attacking people just because they like bi richie with things like "you're racist because you like book richie" or "you're homophobic because you're making a canon gay character like women" are so stupid, be for real guys, you don't even know if were are white or gay, because yeah I've seen black and gay folks being pro bi richie and you're just assuming what we are without knowing for sure and just making us feel bad and even if we were white what's the problem, we just like the book characterization and that's totally valid

[miku-mayhem]

god do i love the achievement hunters. ive been a fan practically since their minecraft series started. i never in a million years would even imagine id dislike something they put out as much as i do now. algorithm chasing is going to ruin them.

whats even worse is that a dwindling viewership wont open their eyes to the fact that theyre going to lose their dedicated, hardcore fans. trevor in particular has proven that hes dedicated to what theyre doing. but this ydyd doesnt even feel like an achievement hunter series.

for the record, i am someone who will still consume their content even if its not my cup of tea. i want them to succeed. i want them to do well. but sometimes changes just dont need to happen.

[snixx]

my family including my sister will not stop shit talking our mutual best friend who is apparently not even her friend anymore and it's driving me nuts WHY DON'T YOU JUST TALK TO HER I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT SHE'S MY BEST FRIEND CAN YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP

[softbutchthatlovesyou]

White ppl reblog ONE just ONE poc post talking about thenselves without saying "I'm white and I approve/im white and I don't get it/ I'm white but I relate/I'm white and *insert dumbass words here*" challange.

Just fucking once!! Shut the fuck up!

[sammyloomis]

ohhhh feel bad today team, feel real real bad

[theboarsbride]

Fr fr American academia can go choke, just please let me graduate💀don't tell me that I can then turn around and tell me no, then say maybe, then no again jfc WHICH IS IT CAN I GET MY DEGREE OR NOT?!

[deadlynigh-t]

I think im just gonna kill myself :/

[tao-lay]

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[kiwibes]

I try not to rant here too much but I gotta spill this anger somewhere....

Academic publishing is the biggest bullshit scam ever.

If you are considering a career in academia please reconsider just being happy and NOT falling for it.

I submitted an article summer 2021 , the first review process lasted over 4 months, then I had to do major revisions, review again, minor revisions, review again, get accepted 2 months ago but it still has not been published.

The submission system was hell. Took 2 days for submission alone....'please upload your files...oops too big...oops zip is not supported...oops I demand a blood sacrifice', the reviews were mostly useless non-constructive papers to show their superiorty complex and humiliate an anon author. And after its acception it just gets worse...´retype this´...´this table does not look nice please remake´...´your title is not very marketable and you did not provide a twitterhandle'...´can you up the dpi of this image ....oh I still dont like how it looks can you change its size? Dpi again? Hmmm still don´t like it...can you maybe remake it word or ppt instead of the professional graphics software you´ve been using?´

Like we exchanged a bazillion mails and it is still not ´sufficient´. If I ever meet an academic journal editor irl I REALLY wanna punch them in the face.

Not only do we researcher freely provide them with content and do reviewers freely extend their services to them, they even bug you about paying a publishing fee..FOR PUBLISHING YOUR OWN STUFF! But now I also have to do their job for them. And they know we can´t deny them cuz we need the publication ratings, the impact score...to even keep the slight possibility to get funding for further research.

Please don´t EVER pay for a scientific article. Just ask us via researchgate or email or sth. We published it for free. We sure as hell can give it to interested readers for free.