#mini rant i guess

[aceoffangirls]

Love how I am still going through an identity crisis, like I am just a bunch of things all thrown at a wall.

Like ace? Yep. Aro? kinda but also changes everyday into a confusing mess. Bi? Yeah woman are beautiful but I also feel more romantically interested in men but also why romantic relationships?

Like I know ya don't need to have an identity and you can be all these things at once but I swear my identity is basically: nah yeah nah

[blueberryfruitbat]

Ideal anime Dedede would have been a "I mean yeah I bully the kid but I don't want him DEAD." And they'd actually keep that trait consistent.

[peachbun03]

What I find funny about making Clawdeen half human in the movie is that there were already 3 characters that were half normie that they could've used and 2 of them aren't even in the damn reboot, hell there's also characters that WERE human too but they weren't used to be the main character of this storyline either 😭

[tofania]

“only straight people ship eddie/chrissy” is so fucking funny to me like... our ship name is literally EDDISSY 💅 no straight person could have came up with that name I’m sorry

[theshadowrealmitself]

Aw it’s so cute that the character that doesn’t like hugging eventually hugs their friend but like,,,you could just accept that they don’t like hugging, y’know? could even communicate with each other about showing affection in a different way so that everyone’s needs are being met without making one of you feel like they have to disrespect their own boundaries to show affection to someone else in the “right way”

[princess-starscourge]

You know, Marvel, it is possible to cast a dark-skinned actress for Storm 🤷🏽‍♀️ Lol. I know she’s a comic book character so her tone changes all the time, but I’m sure it’s tiring for dark-skinned Black girls to never see themselves in Black characters when people with my complexion always do.

[alasse-earfalas]

I hate writer's block. Especially when it's for a passion project that I'm really invested in. I have the drive. I have the time. I want to know what happens next, I want to get into that creative flow. But the brain decides that it wants to do fifteen other things instead. I think about the scenes I'm working on and nothing comes to mind. I try reading back over the chapters I'm working on, or the chapters I've already posted, or chapters for a future bit that I've written because I was really excited, and... nothing. No spark. No words, no scenes. I want to know what happens next but the broadcast isn't playing.

[themasterofstudies]

Just love it when your friends and managers talk about how important it is to take care of your health. And then get very "no not like that" when you decide to do something about it.

[pandaspwnz]

phoooey I know I've had a pretty rough week but i woke up from sleep and have almost burst into tears 4 times since then??? I almost never cry what the hell

[toystorymaniac22]

Hey Disney, can you just cancel the Hatbox Ghost's debut at Magic Kingdom? It's way better than destroying the Haunted Mansion storyline for one (1) animatronic. Especially since that was Disneyland exclusive due to the nature of its intricacies of creation anyway.

While you're at it, pay your fucking workers and resolve the strikes. And definitely don't resort to AI. Got it? Thanks!

[praise-joko]

Aha, love seeing people complain about the story update in map chat. I get it; it's not some thrilling action. But it's important character building. To be honest, I never really paid attention to the story until recently. I never do for most games. Joko decided that he deserved my full attention, though, and his character made me fall in love with the game all over again. I think that's why POF and LWS4 remain my favorite. I still haven't played through the rest of the game in full yet. So I get not being interested in the story. Clicking through dialogue can be a slog when you're not interested in it.

Does that mean you should complain about it and ruin everyone else's enjoyment? No. Just keep it to yourself, push through it, and you'll be back to the gameplay you enjoy soon enough.

[doublecast-bayoen]

sorry for being so inactive recently mutuals (not like anyone noticed lmao) but i have been busy with work and training a new hire and i want her to inevitably (eventually, logically, hypothetically) replace me when i leave this job within the next few months (cus its gonna happen fr this time) so i have been putting in so so SO much effort to teach her properly (she is doing fantastic i love her much) which also means i have been doing almost no tumblr spam reblogging at work (and i miss it dearly like a boomer misses crack cocaine in their coca cola) but i hope you all have been well <3 (i miss u all so much mwaaa big kith from me) have a good one ny’all see you all again much more soon (i praydge) :3c

bonus: dog pic woohoo!!!

[marshmallowbee13]

Can I just say: if you're going to write a fanfic, finish it first or actually write the first chapter before posting online. Like don't go through with adding it to Ao3 with all the tags, just to have "work in progress" as the only words.

[verycharismaticdragon]

Y'know I'm not going to go and argue with people but I'm. kinda weirded out by the "Shen Yuan's family was actually neglectful/awful/abusive" takes? Because we have a story where:

a point is made about cycles of violence and how abuse creates more abuse (with Qiu Jianluo - Shen Jiu - Bing-ge sequence).

a point is made about how the person can turn out very differently depending on their environment growing up (with differences between Bing-ge and Bing-mei).

And like... how does one look at those two points, then at Shen Yuan saying he had a loving family, and forgoes the obvious conclusion - that growing up in a stable home is what sets him apart in the world of PIDW (including from literal author of the world who is a lonely and embittered child of the divorce!) and allows him to change it with the power of love & kindness & bonding with people - in favor of deciding that his family was ~actually~ horrible?..

In that case, what makes him capable of breaking the cycle? Some kind of innate goodness or kindness? That, for some reason, no other character happened to possess? Right. Nice going completely devaluing Shen Jiu's tragedy.

To explain the last point: we get a lot of backstory for Shen Jiu, and the obvious takeaway from it is that he was not born a scum villain. That he did have a desire to do (and be) good, but it just couldn't flourish - because of a combination of terrible circumstances of his youth, his personal flaws, and the demands of the meta-narrative.

Thing is... two of those problems, he shares with Shen Yuan. Shen Yuan has his own personal flaws aplenty, even if they differ from Shen Jiu's, and a literal manifestation of the meta-narrative haunting him. But, unlike Shen Jiu, he happened to have a good family. That is their fundamental difference.

If one argues that Shen Yuan's family situation actually wasn't good, then what allows him to be so different from Shen Jiu? Isn't that saying that Shen Yuan was just a good person from the start... and Shen Jiu was just a bad person from the start? you know, the exact sentiment that made Shen Jiu give up on himself? And isn't it flattening Shen Jiu's story from a tragedy of a person who was broken out of his desire to do good by his terrible circumstances, into just 'a bad guy doing bad things because he's bad'? like, exactly what Airplane did to him in PIDW...

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But, some of you may ask, don't we have evidence that Shen Yuan wasn't actually very happy in his past life?

Thing is, I don't disagree with that! I just think it didn't necessarily have anything to do with the quality of his home life.

For starters, having a loving family is not everything. Like, even if you just look at Maslow's pyramid, "love and belonging" is actually in the middle of the thing. Shen Yuan could have a perfectly fine, caring family and still be unfulfilled on "esteem" (recognition and respect from other ppl + personal feelings of accomplishment) and "self-actualization" (becoming the best possible version of himself) levels.

And that's before we factor in that he's a(n obviously if you read between the lines) queer dude who grew up in a country that criminalizes queerness which is something I don't see brought up a lot in discussions of the strength of his internalized homophobia, and the possibility that he is an undiagnosed neurodivergent person (i personally hc him as having adhd-I, i know there are also ppl with autistic headcanons, could be both, etc etc), and the influence of his social circle outside his family (cishet dudes on the forums, from what he know, so not the most positive and uplifting bunch)...

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Lastly, while I think the thematic evidence from the first half of this meta is more telling, there are also a few small in-text details that prove Shen Yuan's words about how close-knit his family was.

First, the way he compares Yue Qingyuan to his older brothers in the very beginning, at the time he is still finding his footing and YQY is the one person looking out for him. (On the subject of SY!SQQ and YQY, just read this post, I won't be able to put it better.) Shen Yuan is explicitly "feeling at home in the atmosphere of brotherly love".

Second, the fact that we know he read his younger sister's danmei novels. On Shen Yuan's side, literally how committed he had to be to supporting his sister's interests, when we know from being in his head how determined he is about playing ostrich with anything and everything gay. No shit he spoiled her, I believe that one hundred percent. And on his sister's side, the level of trust she has towards her brother? Having full confidence that she could make him read gay bdsm and he wouldnt love her any less?..

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So yeah, I think all signs point to Shen family being as close-knit and loving as Shen Yuan says.

[serial-serializednovelreader]

I think that adaptations who leave Quincey out or make him a horrible person (see 2020 Dracula) miss the point. He's not just a comic relief. he's the oathmaker. He swears to Lucy when she rejects him he'll always be her friend, and he follows through. He swears to Mina he'll not rest until SHE rests, and he follows through. He swears he will kill Dracula to Jonathan, and they shake hands, and he follows through. He gives Dracula one of the two fatal bows, and bleeds and dies, like he swore he would, for those he loves.

Wow, Anon. That was beautiful. You came to my inbox, absolutely destroyed me, and I'm thanking you for it. /pos

You're so right, though. He is the oathmaker, he follows through on his promises no matter what. Also, the Oathmaker is such a cool title is that a thing I missed?? Can that be what we call him forever now if we don't already??

But here I am, doing the exact same thing as the producers/directors, writing him off as comic relief (I did a little more than that, but still)!! I am truly sorry to Quincey, he is not just that and he never was. So thank you, Anon, for reminding me again why I love him so much. Perhaps one day, there will be an adaptation where he's actually appreciated.

As a side note, they made him a horrible person in 2020 Dracula?! Ugh, I started watching it and could not get through it after they killed Jonathan off -- I didn't care if they resurrected him or what, I was done. I just couldn't keep watching Now I don't want to do it even more if they ruined Quincey too!!!! BBC stop trying to be edgy with classic literature challenge (impossible). What are they going to do next? Make a Jane Eyre series where Jane's the wife in the attic the whole time? I shouldn't even write that cause they'll probably think "wow, that's a great idea!" :/

[idiot-mushroom]

keep hearing ppl on here saying shit (or talking abt what ppl said/say) like ‘csa is such a uncomfy topic!!’ or ‘ i don’t really feel comfortable with that stuff…’ or ‘kids shouldn’t know this adult stuff!’

guys, i’m a minor, a chunk of my ttnm iteration is literally about my experiences with sexual harassment, be it I don’t rlly show it via art, i do talk abt it, dude i made a whole fic abt it!! I even made a sequel to the fic!!

and yeah if it does make u uncomfy, i always tag trigger warnings, so you can block those tags or just ignore the post, but don’t say i have to stop talking abt something that is so common and ignored and misinterpreted in the present day. sure my experiences can’t sum up everyone’s experiences but that’s the thing! they’re my experiences!

thank fuck that ppl don’t say shit like ‘you should take this down’ on my vent posts abt this shit bc i would honestly block them and then have to think abt how fucked up it is that as soon as I actually try to really dive deep in myself and be vulnerable and show the world my experience and emotions and thought and my memories and raw feelings i would get shut down because it made them ‘uncomfy’.