#rant ish

[majachee]

Rewatching TMNT 2012 also gave me extra ammunition against that stupid "Splinter raised the turtles as soldiers" take.

Because...???

1. He admitted he didn't teach them to fight together, just how to fight and defend themselves as individuals. Teamwork is pretty important in an army, ya know...?

2. Part of the turtles' protection was Oroku Saki assuming that Splinter was dead, that Hamato Yoshi died in that fire with Tang Shen. It was only when the news showed a picture of a ninja star with the Hamato family crest on it did Shredder realize that Yoshi was alive and presumably training ninja. If Splinter wanted the turtles to fight against the Shredder in some kind of war, why would he not prepare them to face the Shredder? Why would he be concerned about their safety rather than the element of surprise?

Michelangelo was taught a Foot Clan move by Bradford and went on to teach that move to his brothers. None of them recognized it as a move belonging to Shredder and the Foot Clan. If Splinter was training them to be soldiers in this war against Shredder their entire lives, why wouldn't they know how this guy fights? "Here is this devastating move that the Shredder uses, here is how to defend yourself from it" — because Splinter never planned for them to face Shredder, because Splinter wanted Shredder to think he is dead and not look for him. Because he didn't want to face Oroku Saki.

3. The timeline/motif does not make sense. Why would Hamato Yoshi move to America and adopt four pet turtles? Pet turtles can live for a long time and he got four baby ones. If his plan was to move away and start a ninja army, why get 4 high maintenence pets...? That live for a long time...?? And when he was mutated he decided "Wow. This is comvenient!" and just... continued that plan...??? In the sewers....???? With four infant children that are half turtle also incredibly high maintenence...? And never got more than four kids...??? Brother this is a family of martial arts enthusiasts. Also why get them video games or movies...?

"Well maybe the mutagen made him mad cuz he hates being a furry?" He has a cheese phone and hamster wheel. And cheese popsicles. He is embracing being a furry. Brother probably had a fursuit that burned down in that family-killing fire.

[sailorgundam308]

Random ppl saying Karlach is “conventionally” attractive must live in an alternative reality I’m unaware of.

Is she stunning? Yes. But she does NOT fit into conventionally beauty standards for women (yes, even after her face change from EA).

Say you see a woman of color, way WAY taller than the average - let’s say 1.90m tall. She is visibly bulkier, has thick thighs, prominent abs. Wider shoulders than average.

Then, her skin (which again, isn’t white), is covered in marks. Scars, tattoos, discolorations and other “uneven” tones and textures.

On top of that, her entire right side is covered in ‘hideous’ burnt skin tissue. From her fingers to her ribs and half her chest.

But not all. She has metal pins and bits protruding from her due to some medical procedure you’re not familiar with.

And she might have facial scars too. On her very non-white facial features. Imagine she’s not only Asian - but the “wrong” kind of Asian (aka the darker side of Asia- not the mainstream-approved Japan or Korea). Maybe she’s even from the South Pacific islands.

Her hair is thicker, choppier.

And, beyond her appearance, she curses. She laughs loudly. She doesn’t act demure or quiet or feminine. She’s unapologetic about it, too. Proud of being physically stronger than most.

What an affront.

That is all to say… yes, she is stunning (to me and many of us). She’s especially more stunning BECAUSE she’s so off the scale of conventional beauty for women. You might have lived in a beautiful social bubble where women like Karlach are considered the prettiest there are, but even so, that’s not what the world at large sees as ideal beauty - for any gender, but more so for women.

That’s one of the big reasons I’m so into Karlach (and also why I have always had a soft spot for laezel too). They stick out like a sore thumb but they dgaf.

And to top it all, it’s one extra reason for me to ship the shit out of her and Astarion.

Astarion isn’t the conventional male handsomness but he does fall in a wider category of male beauty. He is the most popular male character and attracts both male and female fans.

I like him to fall for characters that would be considered way off the mainstream beauty scale. One thing I haven’t seen yet and want to do one day is make a half orc character to pair with him. Because fuck yes. And also because for me, Astarion does understand where beauty standards lay, but that lost meaning to him long ago. He’s capable of being petty and shallow but when push comes to shove, that’s not it for him.

Again, another reason as to why I’d think he’d fall head over heels for Karlach despite himself.

But yea. Going back to my point, no matter that WE think Karlach is pretty, cute, beautiful and gorgeous. That’s us being ::cough:: superior. But it doesn’t make her mainstream digestible beauty material (that’s lame shadowheart lol - sorry guys, sh is so boring to me).

Which in turn makes Karlach even more precious to me (and her and Astarion in love even more special 🖤).

Thats all the rant, for now.

[ziggityzigg]

Can people stop shipping HTTYD1 hiccup with people he meets later in his life? HE’S FIFTEEN. THEY’RE ALL ADULTS WHEN HE MEETS THEM. IT’S DISGUSTING.

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

No but full stop. if you say anything like "Gen Alpha is being raised wrong/horrible to have in class/morally fucked-up/idiotic/doomed/just really really cringe" I will unironically lose all respect for you immediately.

all this stuff about "they're illiterate", "they have no respect for parents or teachers" "screens have rotted their brains" "they just speak in weird Skibidi Toilet Gyatt Rizz Meme Language" "the screens have made them have no behavior standards or morals" "the ScReEeEeEeEnsssss"

...you sound literally exactly like our parents' generation did with us. and elder millenials'/Gen X/even really late boomer's parents' generations did with them about video games and cable tv and...regular tv

and radio

and records

and. dime novels.

and it literally just goes back like that forever

OVID talked abt this stuff in the EXACT same way

so yeah, if you say that stuff without a shred of self-awareness, then I

1) do not think you can keep your commitment to "not fuck up future generations like we were fucked up", since you're contributing to that fucking-up right now by your words and actions.

2) will assume that you have a similar shortsightedness in other issues that require you to compare your own/modern-day views and events to historical ones, and lose faith in your interpretation of everything from aesthetics and online drama to world-altering current events because of that

3) genuinely I just have nothing but disappointment in people who say these things. anyone on this site who hates "icky gen alpha things" almost definitely did the same thing themselves.

They have "Gyatt", we* had GLOMPING, Yaoi Paddles, shitty mspa twerking gifs everywhere, and "Oh My God, Look At Her Butt"

They have "Rizz" we had "YOLO SWAG" and "I made you a cookie but I eated it" and those selfies where you held your camera up too high and then looked up at it from under your bangs

They have "Skibidi Toilet" we had SO MANY THINGS. Llamas with Hats. Charlie the Unicorn. Annoying Orange. Crazy Frog. Potter Puppet Pals. Minecraft Parodies if you're younger gen z. friCKING TOBUSCUS MUSIC, that man was a PLAGUE.

They have a toxic social media culture focused on heavily edited and unachievable beauty standards, enforced popularity culture, rigid aesthetic-based social groups, harmful rumors about health & beauty, a pressure on young girls to act mature, and underlying racism/classism, all leading kids who dont have adequate guidance to, AT BEST, try beauty "products" that arent meant for kids and are usually scams. We had... literally the exact same thing except our airbrushing was on celebs and models instead of coming from filters.

*I am older Gen Z (24 y.o.) but was so fucking sheltered until ~2014, and even then... I'm going off tumblr-history blogs, yt retrospectives and "my friend said so" to understand what "we" had

TLDR STOP BULLYING GEN ALPHA

...except about "Starpatch" or "Starface" or whatever it is. yes, ik its also popular/more popular with younger gen z. yes I'm literally making a post rn to bully(lh) yall JUST as hard about it. if it were my exact age group doing this I would be bullying yall. i dont care who does it, starpatch is so fricking silly.

[ringos-left-eyebrow]

okok i KNOW people have definitely noticed this before, but!!!!!! in that one scene where todd is chasing neil around because neil has his poem, and neil shouts "i'm being chased by walt whitman!!!" i know it's because whitman is a poet, but also the epitome of HOMOSEXUAL POET. hm..............

[beedreamscape]

Let me write this before I lose my line of thought, (Again another RANT for the weak of heart)

but I think BH needs to lose something that matters to them, I'm talking true loss --- not like losing Bertrand or Eshteross which they mostly didn't care about, or like losing the skyship which they sacrificed willingly, or 'losing' their newfound friends/lovers to a research mission that should've ended at least a month ago.

I could add Laudna to the above list since everyone knew we'd get her back eventually, but at the very least it gave them drive (which gave us one of the coolest battles in the campaign which was worth nothing in the end, hey Delilah...)

But lose something that makes them ache, that shifts their dynamic into life and gives them purpose --- like losing Dorian! like fumbling the Paragon's Call infiltration and losing that battle in Bassuras with three party members down! like dropping a ship on a wizard's head and meaning very little! like 'losing' each other across a communication-less Exandria when you thought victory was within your grasp! like aaaalmost losing a friend to a million pieces for a decision he made!

There's so much stagnation in Bells Hells that it drives me insane, they're not the same people from the beginning but maybe apart from FCG and a little bit Orym and Imogen, most of them are still committing the same fallacies as they did in the beginning.

[samijami]

Y'all why tf are my videos flopping so badly lmfaooo 💀

I know I do the parodies for the fun of it, but considering that i genuinely put time, work, effort (and the breaking of my vocal chords) into the videos, I'd appreciate if youtube was nicer to me and didn't give me like to view ratios of like 48:681. If you like the video and you watched it, why can't you hit a like button so that the YouTube algorithm will recommend my content more to other users? Also, the less likes I see, the more I assume that the vacancy is related to people who watched it and dislike it, so they either leave a dislike, stop watching it partially in, or don't give a rating. I want to know if the majority of people like it and want me to continue, or if I'm only entertaining like 5 people per upload.

I've been continuing despite this lurking feeling that the majority doesn't like it, but I have stopped and even deleted some series before due to the stress and demotivation this shit has brought to me before. Idk why, but if I put effort into something, my brain wants it to be recognised.

That's probably something I need to personally work on mentally for myself, but y'all gotta understand that it is demotivating and just disappointing when I get stats as terrible as I've gotten on my parodies.

(Yes transfem Adam has a good amount of views, and yes, looking into analytics, I have found that there are only 5 dislikes--not counting those who just don't hit dislike and click off. But out of the views to the people who actually rate it, its maybe around 6% of the people who've viewed it so far. Which is disappointing. I, as a creator, want to see those who view my content actually rate it based off their opinion of it so that the algorithm picks up on it).

It's also sad that tranfem Adam only got so many views because my brother was annoying Discord users with sharing it in their servers. (I did not ask him to do it, he just did).

So honestly, I'll continue my parodies because I know it's worth it for those who like them, and myself. But I'd appreciate it if people would actually hit like, subscribe, leave a comment, or share them around if you find them funny enough. It'd support my channel and hopefully stop it from dying, which it was previously doing before me making these. I had lost over 300 subscribers from being absent from posting before, and I've literally only gained 5 when I start up again LMFAO

Seriously though, it's been a long time in running for my youtube, I'd hate it to just die 💀

Here it iz

[quartzitess]

IBISPAINT WON'T STOP FUCKING CRASHING anyways here's a sneak peek of something i’ll try! (Pray for me here) and HOPE I can finish it tomorrow.

[a-dog-with-different-paws]

I got nuts and apples! The apples are really good, I kinda wanna try grapes to see if that'd also taste good but we're low on money so I can either get apples or grapes and I like the apples a lot more, I'm also very picky with grapes, they have to be hard for me to eat so I'll just get apples :D

Sorry for the rant-ish

-🦌

[dragonfruuuit]

LMK SEASON 4 SPOILERS //

I really hope Azure was lying about what went down with Wukong, it's literally the farthest thing from what happened seeming as Wukong caused a shit ton of problems challenged the Jade Emperor and than the The Buddha himself (and pissed on his hand but I think might cut that out for censorship) and than was trapped under a mountain for five hundred years before being FORCED to serve Tripitaka (no hate to Tripitaka love you guy) like??? In no way did he give into heaven in jttw he fought till he realized that he shouldn't have been and that there was a place for him aside his master and brothers and if they don't show that I'm gonna be so pissed cause like why differ so much might as well make it an original show with Sun Wukong in it for funsies

[majachee]

Bit of an odd pet peeve but I'm really sick and tired of artists getting exposed for shitty behavior and teenagers flocking to their artwork with comments like "yall are really surprised someone who made this turned out to be bad??"

. Yes. Actually. Because you can explore whatever topics and themes you damn want in art, including the bad ones, without it being indictitive of your personality.

Hell, it's not uncommon for artists, including the musical variety, to create stories and narratives in their songs and/or albums.

Melanie Martinez and her albums Crybaby and K-12, which follow the story of her character named Crybaby.

Stalker's Tango by Autoheart.

Literally anything by Heilung, Wardruna, or Alice Schach and The Magic Orchestra.

Brother, fan songs exist. Musicals exist. I highly doubt the living tombstone or whatever is secret william afton or some murderous mlp oc cuz they wrote a song about em lmao

[sailorgundam308]

Honestly it baffles me that some (men) talk about Aylin as if she’s ugly. The woman reads as Charlize Theron to me SO HARD and they all simp Charlize (understandably), so is obviously not her design - but her character that throws them off. WEAK.

[auxwired]

i thought of a gender label that could perfectly describe what i am. i strongly consider myself to be bigender but theres a thought thats been appearing my head a lot which is "i am bigender but if someone sees me as a girl then i am a girl. if someone sees me as a boy then i am a boy, and so on" i genuinely do not care what my gender is but at the same time i heavily care about my identity, which is ??? very conflicting

i want to leave my gender up to interpretation. its like the descriptor schrodingers gender. like. i want to be every gender at once

kind of like schrodingers cat. while the cat is inside the box, it is both a boy and a girl and bigender and pangender and nonbinary and agender and genderqueer and genderfluid and- you get the point.

as of typing this, i have learned someone has already come up with an actual definition and multiple flags for it, which, makes me less original than i thought i was, but oh well!

[duckduckgoose-exe]

I just had a sh/proship/vent account reblog something of mine. Jesus Christ. Do not. Fucking get near my blog with that. Blocked and reported. Keep that on private. Disgusting.

EDIT: the gross part is proship, but this acc was posting sh photos and actively glorifying it.

[floralcavern]

“You’ve changed.”

Ya bro. You expected me to have the same mentality as I did when I was 14??

[finemeal]

you ever look at the shit that's going on with AI rn and just know you're gonna be That Old Person™️ who always complains about AI "creative" pieces and the younger generation will roll their eyes because they don't know what they're missing?