#mutual distrust

[day-colors]

I had to draw this prompt from @citrus-soda's Layton game generator! I think it would be funny if this took place between miracle mask and azran legacy somehow

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

pausing your regularly scheduled drama to announce that camp tensions are finally relaxing ~

[kym-daily]

day 24, 🧹🏹

[freekicks]

just realized something important about myself:

i've never enjoyed a mutually supportive, slow-burn friends to lovers ship in my life.

[candlebel]

[pending-trans-action-2]

I FUCKED UP THE ASTARION ROMANCE I CANT HAVE THE TRAUMATISED VAMPIRE ;-;

[sexynetra]

Bye i love how most anarcia fics I’ve read, Marcia has internalised homophobia

It’s the blonde preppy girl curse, I can’t look at a blonde without thinking they’re probably at least a little homophobic 🤭

[jheselbraum]

I have anonymous asks turned on so people can send still asks about fandom bullshit if they have anxiety, not so weirdos can send me anonymous asks about fucking genocide. If you choose to somehow have me as your sounding board for opinions about ongoing genocides beyond "don't fucking kill people" despite the fact that I'm not an expert, have no qualifications, and am not a member of these groups, you put your face on that shit like a man. Especially if you're trying to convince me that a genocide doesn't exist, I have to attach my url to it if I respond directly to your bullshit ask, the least you could do is put your url on it too. I also find it distasteful to send me an ask telling me that one does exist on anon. People are fucking dying Brenda, anxiety takes a fucking break when people are dying. Say it with your whole chest don't hide behind the anon button like a fucking coward. Attach your url to it.

[prvtocol]

Security Chief Clarence, Brianne & Vaas in another domestic dispute at Estate Landry

~ gifted by the ultra talented & wonderful Zaff ( @badtrigger )

[boyenthusiast]

omg i really want to go to this k flay concert in march that's like an hour away but i can't drive and I'm not close enough with any of my friends to feel comfy enough to go to a concert with... i prefer going to concerts alone but if i were still with simon we could go together cause we both like her...

[llycaons]

damn so that ballroom dancing fic was actually quite good and I will be adding it to the rec list

[lord-squiggletits]

Speaking of stupid reasons to criticize the Autobots (or rather, the opposite), I actually find the ““““problematic”““““ nature of Cop IDW Optimus and other elements of the plot to be quite essential to enjoying the story and seeing it as a balanced, nuanced story.

Because like... in other continuities, the story of revolution seems to be very much “there were good revolutionaries and there were bad ones, and then the bad ones wanted to be in charge and then they fought about it for 4 million years.” Which seems very weak to me not just in the “revolution bad” sense, but it makes me wonder how the war could go on for millions of years when the Autobots and Decepticons literally had the same goal and achieved it, now they’re just fighting over who gets to be in charge.

But like, in IDW1, the Autobot insignia and stuff already existed as a badge for the previous regime of the Prime/Senate. Orion Pax (now Optimus Prime) was a lackey of Zeta Prime who was either his loyal puppet at best or being groomed for the position of Prime at worst. Most of the people Optimus Prime recruited to help him fight were other police officers and military members he was affiliated with, who were already cracking down on the Decepticon movement as it became more and more violent.

With that base of Optimus/the Autobots being actually ~problematic~, I can absolutely see why the Decepticons wouldn’t consider the war over and would continue fighting. I mean, why the hell would they trust a police enforcer/military officer who was lackeys with the PRIME? Why would they think Optimus actually believes in peace and equality?

Of course, the Decepticons have their own problems as well. What was once a universal political movement (because remember, the Decepticon movement began with Megatron’s writings but he was NOT the leader of a militarized faction until Megatron Origins) was taken over by essentially an underground criminal gladiator organization that began engaging in weapon trafficking, crime, and terrorism. From the Autobot perspective, the Decepticons are allies for equality gone bad due to Megatron’s violent influences and the gladiator/criminal aspects overtaking the actual social equality vibes.

I just think that the premise of IDW1′s Autobot-Decepticon war is so good because like, the Autobots and Decepticons existed in a way BEFORE either Megatron or Optimus became the official leaders of those two specific, organized, militarized factions. But the society that created them and the two different social classes they came from doomed them to distrust each other. It wasn’t ever a fight about who got to be in charge, it was a war between two different factions of people who had every reason to distrust each other and think that the other faction would subjugate them if they allowed them to gain power.

[thyandrawrites]

i was foolish and checked out the bnha subreddit and it’s maybe even worse than twitter. are we even reading the same story? absolutely everyone despises the villains and unquestionably supports the heroes full stop with no criticism. i feel like the majority feel this way and wonder if we are reading too much into the text or if horikoshi is at fault for unclear narrative framing

The framing in bnha is ass bad. I say this objectively and not just because it impacts my faves because the heroes are also given the short end of the stick for a lot of things. Bakugou's arc is one of the things that started out well enough and then ended in a weird direction for the same reason, too.

But anyway. I don't browse reddit because I'm allergic to reddit takes, but from what I've heard it doesn't sound like a great environment for deep analyses, tbh. Tumblr isn't any different unless you follow the right people, but at least here it's much easier to curate your online experience and blacklist and block the topics you don't want to interact with. Following a restricted amount of trusted creators also helps imho

[thedragonagelesbian]

astarion shooting his shot with ranger cyrus at the party........

[merionettes]

edelclaude is soooooooo sooo real

they got married

[zoanzon]

You ever come across a mutual’s original post talking about something good in their life and you end up spiraling into a horrific mental state because of it? Not because a friend is happy, but the why - the who - referenced in the post, unbeknownst to said friend, hits a years-old wound, a years-old bitterness?