#it just sucks for a variety of reasons

[silhouettecrow]

365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 270

Adjective: Brilliant

Noun: Beacon

Definitions for those who need/want them:

Brilliant: (of light or color) very bright and radiant; exceptionally clever or talented; outstanding, or impressive; (informal) (British) very good, excellent, or marvelous

Beacon: a fire or light set up in a high or prominent position as a warning, signal, or celebration; (British) (often in place names) a hill suitable for beacon of fire or light; a light or other visible object serving as a signal, warning, or guide at sea, on an airfield, etc; a radio transmitter whose signal helps to fix the position of a ship, aircraft, or spacecraft

[sieglinde-freud]

realizing that even though i think about the awakening second gen all the time i really dont have many pairings im like “oh yeah i GOTTA do that one” like i do not pair these guys 😭 i do lucisev and MAYBE gerolau depending how im doing and then the rest of them im just like. oh yeah i’ll look through your romantic supports later and then i dont do that. who has chemistry with owain

[lacnunga]

In the wake of the IA situation, I've seen a lot more posts circulating about using your local library and I just. Sigh

[actualaster]

It's absolutely fascinating being in 2 wildly different gaming communities.

You have the one where players do complain about a legitimate balancing issue and a bunch of "I make being The Best at this game my entire personality" types just come out of the woodwork to go "git gud/skill issue" and go on about how they never have trouble so people should just try sucking less.

Then you have the other where people go "IDK, having a bit of a struggle with combat, anybody have tips?" And one of the most common suggestions is "drop the difficulty if you're struggling too much to have fun with it". It's rarely the only suggestion offered, but it's very frequent and repeatedly stressed that there's no shame in that. You can treat it like a practice mode or just leave it low and have fun with it.

First community people's advice is just "suck less, loser".

Second people regularly offer paragraphs of tips, tricks, and general advice as well as ask questions to figure out what the OP is specifically struggling with so they can give more targeted advice.

The end result is one community has a very hostile feel, the other feels like it's very open to people of differing skill levels and actively encourages people to both have fun and increase their skills.

It's like whiplash glancing between the two.

[findingtarshish]

Lately social media has had me feeling really lonely

I feel like I'm shouting into the void and no one's listening, no matter what I say

[ladyluscinia]

🥲

[thisselflovecamebacktome]

Job interviews are the worst thing this world has created ngl

[actual-changeling]

I think it is important to remember that while Ellie does not know many movies, songs, or other cultural aspects that existed before the outbreak, she is overall an incredibly smart and well-read person! She knows her science!

Yes, she will probably have no idea who Queen is but she isn't stupid. There is at *least* a high school level collection of knowledge in her head, probably more in some areas she is especially interested in.

Writing her as not knowing basic bodily functions or absolutely elementary science level info is not only inaccurate but also incredibly infantilizing, and the latter is already an existing problem based on ableist stereotypes that I have no interest in seeing exacerbated by people not putting more thought into their headcanons/writing. If people are interested or curious I can make a whole post on the age regression aspects of her cptsd and how to handle it responsibly and with grace, but tl;dr if you do not know how to write it without making real people who go through it feel like shit, don't do it.

You can do with the character as you want but as soon as you publicly share those headcanons you have a responsibility to not spread harmful misinformation or be offensive in any way.

[autism-disco]

sometimes i think i’m a fully proper binary guy. and then i think about gender for a minute too long and

[burningfaith]

omg yes, please delegalise zh*ngch* in eu

[rillette]

Any fun facts about kilowog? He is like an uncle to me

Kilowog is really fucking smart!! i feel like people tend to forget that bc he's pretty down to earth. He used to be a geneticist back on Bolovax Vik, before it exploded. Bolovax Vik was super populated and the Bolovaxians share a mind link, so Kilowog is a pretty social person. He's also super good with mechanics!! Kilowog hung around the JLI embassy for a bit and did some mechanics work. Him and Guy were pen pals back in the 80s, when Guy was with the JLI and Kilowog was at the GL hype house on earth. Kilowog and Guy are besties ^_^

[trucksquared]

Sooo much "original fiction vs fanfiction" discourse would be more bearable if people replaced "original fiction" with "published fiction" and "fanfiction" with "unpublished/self-published fiction". Also distinguishing between "professional writing" and "hobby writing"

So many arguments that "fanfiction is bad" have nothing to do with them being derivative works and everything to do with the fact that there is no quality control on most self-publishing sites

[windfighter]

I summoned a warden by mistake and my whole body just PANICKED so that was absolutely not fun and I hate Mojang for adding them

0/10 worst mob added to the game

[aw-bean-s]

Gotta say as someone whos been out since they were young, I'm really sick of having to defend the existence of queer people in media and explain how it's 'useful' or 'plot important' when straight ppl i know can like whatever trashy het romance they want no questions. Like does it have to be useful? Can it not just be there? It doesn't 'cheapen' anything its just there and suddenly you have to fight for your life to explain why it should get to exist. And it's always the bloody 'pandering' 'it's a trend' argument and I hate it because is it so terrible if they pander to ME for once instead of you?? Is that so terrible?? But you can't say that because then you're a fool who doesn't understand good storytelling. And then if they're real annoying, they'll pull the 'well i don't like when ANY romance is just pushed in' so then why. Is it always queer stuff you're complaining about?? And then I'm forced to be defending a (honestly poorly written) queer romance because all I said was that it couldve been handled better and somehow to straight ppl that translate to 'yeah they shouldn't have done it at all' and they don't even REALISE their bias and that SOMEHOW the ONLY FUCKING TIME we have this arguement it's about a queer character. Can I not enjoy the fact a superhero I like is bisexual while also admitting I don't like how they flattened their character after it? Can I not say 'yeah it's trashy but theyre cute' to some crap TV show? Does it always have to be perfect? Because yeah. I want good shows. I want complex dynamics. But sometimes it just feels nice when the silly comic book character is bisexual. And these motherfuckers will ALWAYS find some way to argue that it wasn't relevant and therefore they shouldn't have come out at all, which is just another way of saying that queerness should be kept away from the things they like and only be included if 'plot relevant' so then they can avoid it. I'm just so tired, so so fucking tired, of having the same argument over. And over. And over again with the same people about the same things when all I wanted to do was talk about a bisexual character WITHOUT some asshole jumping down my throat. I've been doing this shit since I was 12 and I'm just tired. Christ.

[gregoryhou5e]

having a normal one (lying). every goddamn night i have to deal with the array of Thoughts and Imagery my brain throws at me whilst i try to sleep. really do not enjoy this btw

[monsterbisexual]

things have been scary n hard n a lot but i do feel good sometimes..theres good things too they might not seem like big things or as meaningful but it still matters n makes a difference! things might get scarier n harder etc overall n probs will at least sometimes.. even when it feels like things shld be easy theyre usually not but im trying ! n thats smth i suppose