#ranting about niche shit again fuck it

[demonzoro]

none of this is proofread but here's my ideal modern au for the goth fam. wall of text incoming, sky is blue, etc.

mihawk: World's Most Reluctant College Professor. history/archaeology. reluctantly employed because his place of residence (half-wrecked castle) is owned by the university and one of the terms for him to live there for free is to teach classes. initially hired as a publicity stunt that petered out. actual respected swordsman in the modern age but the reality is "swordsman" is... not very lucrative. really important to me that he is forcibly employed while having gigantic unemployed energy.

his ass is not showing up to a lecture hall unless under extreme duress (shanks showing up to his place unannounced again🙄). fully aware his papers are only taken as a credit filler (robin lectures the papers that are more practically applicable). almost exclusively "teaches" by emailing out reading lists and assignments. actively trying to get his students to drop his paper so he can do fuck-all for the rest of the year.

zoro: phys ed major. he's so serious about his main courses as well as mihawk's stupidly niche paper. probably the first person the "Dracule Mihawk Teaches Here!" publicity stunt has worked on in years. has trouble with the heavy focus of book-smarts this paper requires but powers through it best he can until mihawk sets some indecipherable tome as part of a reading list and zoro is like. okay. you leave me no choice.

he fully shows up on mihawk's doorstep at 9:44PM on a tuesday night brandishing this tome. mihawk answers the door because he is two bottles into his wine.

zoro, furious that this piece of shit tome has no audiobook alternative: this. YOU. explain. NOW. mihawk: a student. at my doorstep. did shanks blab to you. zoro: your address is publicly listed as a minor tourist attraction. mihawk (<- didn't know that): hm. come in.

zoro is treated to a full drunk history session and the supermarket gift wine mihawk has been avoiding but accidentally opened. he wakes up the next morning and zoro is still there in one of the guest rooms. he's like what are you doing here and zoro is like. i don't have a whole day to waste getting back to my dorm i need to do your assignment.

mihawk, fully aware the dorms should only be a max twenty minute walk away: interesting. get out.

safe to say, zoro thinks visiting mihawk's home is easier than emailing him. which is true in some ways since mihawk takes small joys in putting unread emails straight into trash.

perona: fashion major OBVIOUSLY. really interested finding vintage/archival sewing patterns/designs and modernising them. LOVES using essays as outlets for her rants. blase on everything else in life but takes her course so seriously. HATES zoro ever since he almost made her fail an assignment because he had checked out a book she needed and held it for fucking aaages.

similarly zoro hates perona bc she almost made him fail an assignment by hogging the only lightbox on this side of the campus that makes it possible to read some of the archival material mihawk puts on his impossible reading lists.

zoro gets lost in mihawk's castle and meets perona in-person for the first time outside of a name on a booking sheet and they have a huge stupid argument. zoro storms off and accidentally finds mihawk again this way and he's doubly mad because he can't believe mihawk has been chasing him away all this time while letting another student just live in the east wing.

mihawk (<- didn't know that): there's a what.

turns out perona just said "umm dorm fees? rent? in this economy? there's a wrecked castle 20mins away from campus it's free real estate". and she's right. she also finds out mihawk has staff access to archival materials not readily open to students and she immediately whips out a wishlist.

anyways i imagine perona graduates and becomes a fashion designer. zoro decides booksmarts is not for him and drops out to focus fully on a professional athlete career or make his way as a stuntman. models for perona on occasion. mihawk fully quits his job after those two leave bc they were the only ones in years that made it interesting. retires but robin recommends him as a consultant to the museum society and he does some work there. ALWAYS calls zoro or perona if he's restoring smthng cool he thinks they would love.

jfc are you still here. i kiss you on the lips

[fictarian]

kind of a niche(?) request, but hcs for hobie with a spider s/o who has an ability like ant man (shrinking down to the size of a spider) and usually spies on other people? thank you !! >_<

𝐇𝐢𝐦 <𝟑 . ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ 𝐏𝐭. 𝟗

ღ I’m actually so obsessed with this request, I literally couldn’t wait until I got back home to write it 😭 While on the trip, I was brainstorming headcannons so I could be prepared. Shoutout to my followers who are under 5’6 😝 (I’m kidding ily you guys)

ღ No cause we’re already at 129 followers and I find that so CRAZY, WHERE DID YOU GUYS COME FROM????

ღ Hope you guys like my new theme 😈😈😈 I’ll try my best and keep it for at least a week LOL

ღ Previous part can be found here !

• Even before you two started dating, Hobie had incorporated a small pocket in his jacket for you to ride in whenever you activated your ability. He always used it to sneak you into meetings that you weren’t invited to, but eventually, Miguel caught on to your guys’ scheme and told Hobie to not wear that specific jacket to meetings anymore.

• …So instead he incorporated a pocket on his boot LMFAOO

• Due to hanging around you so much, Hobie has gotten a sixth sense of knowing exactly where you are when you’re spider size. Bro is literally playing ‘Where’s Waldo’ when it comes to you LMFAOOOO.

• You had made it your personal goal to become unnoticeable to Hobie whenever you enter a room, but alas, he somehow ALWAYS manages to spot you.

“Y’know I can see you, right luv?”

“fuck you, no you can’t”

• Right before you guys head to your own respective missions, you always run up to him in little form (you’re much faster when you’re small), switch to normal size, and press a goodbye kiss on his cheek before switching again and running into the portal your wrist watch made.

• You two barley have any time between missions to properly give each other affection, so you always make sure to AT LEAST give him a quick kiss on the cheek, or even a hug if you have time.

• But anyways, back to the topic of spying.

• When you’re small, you’re practically invisible. AND BETTER YET, you can go anywhere you want.

• What does this mean? You have all the latest news and gossip, and when I mean all, I mean ALL.

• Like, you know everything that’s going on. And who gets to hear all about it? Hobie obviously.

• AND BRO EATS THAT SHIT UP!!!

• Hobie’s just tuning his guitar, when suddenly, you’re at his side on the couch with your legs propped on his lap.

“Hm?”

“You will not believe what Jessica said about Miguel behind his back”

“…Go on”

• Now intrigued, Hobie pulls on your ankles until you’re then sitting on his lap, giving you his full attention RAHHHH.

• You’d rant about everything you heard that day, and Hobie would listen with a small smile on his face, his chin on top of your head while his larger hand traced shapes on yours.

• Not even 30 minutes went by, and he had stopped paying attention to what you were saying, instead focusing on your voice. Hobie loved how fast you spoke when you got excited, how easily you lost your train of thought when you thought of something more interesting you heard that day…

“Are you even listening to what i’m saying?”

“‘M sorry luv, got distracted”

“Hobie!”

tag list ! @zalayni @luvstarrstruck @jrrantss @pixqlsin @kairiscorner @k4tsu3 @asmobeuses @maxoloqy @miirene @nokkihy

[thixms]

okay the way this all has come full circle. after almost exactly 7 years i finally finished airplanes. some ppl might remember my posts screaming about it (they sometimes still get likes i think lmao) so yea no i was like that deep into it and was like with that shit almost from day 1. crazy to see on tiktok that ppl are still talking about it and some ppl are only now getting into teen wolf/thiam and reading that fic. like everyone in the thiam fandom knows this fic is THE thiam fic. like i knew and know the fic is good but crazy to see that the fic i loved sm is still getting its recognition. i feel kinda like i'm "entitled" to say i was from day 1 !!! i knew it was gonna be good even there when not that many were around !! lmaoo. i only "abandoed" it cuz my lack of attention as a teenager threw me from hyperfixation and fandom to another. plus i got to experience actual life stuff and kinda abandoned my roots.. IT DOESNT MEAN THE FIC WASNT GOOD ENOUGH OKAY

but OKAY what i wanted to say is how fucking goood this fic is. yk it has to be good if i literally went back after "abandoning" it for 7 years and finish reading it. literally no fic in any fandom has managed to do that for me. and i still enjoyed it so so much! that's how you know the fic is good. i reread it and still laughed so fucking much like tf how is it possible for a fic to be so entertaining and good? it makes fucking sense why. it's timeless, it's a masterpiece. istg, i'd almost say it's canon now or like at least some of its thiam headcannons def are canon to me. like i'm not sure id airplanes came out w the idea that theo likes biology or it was actually mentioned in teen wolf?? that's how good the characterization of thiam was like i really am getting canon and airplanes canon mixed up lmao. @thiamfresh i think you might know by now what kind of a cultural reset you created for the thiam fandom but i just wanted you to read and know it again for sure. i don't even know if u still use tumblr.. but i think i saw some time ago you posting about seeing some hate being written about airplanes and you feeling insecure about it. and i just wanted to say you really shouldn't pay attention to it!! i hope this long ass rant post will show you how good and loved this fic is. it's still getting mentioned so so often in the fandom. like it's some find of bible or like manual to thiam as the ship lmaoo. so yea, me loving this fic as a somewhat developed adult and someone a bit more removed from the fandom defenitely a testemant to how good it is.

okay now i gotta rant about my life tho..

because jesus, i also only realized now that it was one of the first few fics i read on ao3 (i was a wattpad reader before, don't shame me pls, we all had to come from somewhere). but yea no, crazy that thiam was literally the start of me being solely reading fics (& fics of other fandoms) on ao3, as well as LITERALLY CREATING THIS TUMBLR BLOG??? HELLO?? IT'S LITERALLY CALLED THIXMS LMAO. it's crazy that it's been 7 years like wdym 7??? that's fucking long ago. i'm not even that old??? (i'm feeling really old rn) like how is my thiam phase already 7 years ago (and literally why did it come back after literal 7 years lmao). i mean, my teen wolf stan (as well as my thiam stan) kinda already came out last year with the release of that trashy ahh movie we're not gonna talk about. but yea no there i failed to commit and finish the fic and didn't get deep into the fandom enough. life happened tbh. but yea no 2023 and 2024 (especially 2024) crazy ass years. the way i experienced so much (good) real life shit, literally lived out my (childhood/teenage) dreams but also fell back into my weird niche interests??? like how tf did i have time for that??? (my sleep schedules hella fucked. it's fucked from every direction by the amount of unresolved jetlags i have).

what i'm trying to say is: 14yo me reading airplanes would never believe what 21 yo me will experience and be able to do but also won't believe i'm still reading the same fic (no i would, i really thought i was soo deep into this thiam shit that i'd still be obsessed even when i'm an adult and i wasn't wrong lmao). makes sense why i feel like time hasn't moved on and i'm still a teenager. i'm literally doing the same thing as 14yo me. laying in bed ranting on tumblr about thiam.. jeeez, it should be embarrassing ngl.

[idontplaytrack]

Soulmate

Lilette Suarez x fem!reader

warnings: manipulative parents, arguing, coarse language, guilt tripping, mentions of death, anxiety, fluff (a/n: is this character too niche? lol lmk)

In which, Lilette knows how reader feels all too well and takes her away from her house so she can get some well-deserved rest.

Lilette walks you home. And after kissing you goodbye while still down the street, she doesn’t leave but instead hung around, watching you walk up your porch and enter your house. You had a hand in your pocket, gripping onto your phone as you walked into the house, shutting the front door behind yourself.

“Where were you?” Your Mom asks you immediately, her voice was harsh.

“School.” You answered simply.

“School? Don’t lie to me. Who are you kidding. At this hour?”

“I was at school.” You repeated.

She glared at you, eyes filled with what seemed like anger- which was something you found familiar. You backed up an inch, she stood up from her seat on the couch, walking over to the dining room table, pulling out a chair noisily, just to startle you.

“I had rehearsals.”

“Who gave you permission to be in a play?”

“It’s required by the school-”

“After all I’ve done for you…I told you not to join any clubs, just focus on your studies. You don’t listen.” She scoffs, “That’s all I ask of you. You’re going to regret going against me when I die…you’re going to regret all of it.”

You were angry, you wanted to scoff, you wanted to scream at her. But all that came out where quiet sobs that you silenced.

“Quit the play.” She demanded.

You kept quiet, having half a mind to run away and half a mind to give up and just cry. You were tired. Tired of her guilt-tripping you for as long as you could remember.

She smacks a glass off the table, and it shatters, eliciting a gasp from you. “You hate that, don’t you? Don’t talk and I’ll do that again.”

‘No matter what she says or how nice she says it, don’t listen to her. Turn around, walk away. I’ll be right there waiting for you.’ Lilette’s voice rang through your mind.

Your Mom wanted to play this game? Fine, you’ve learnt a thing or two. You made yourself cry, and while she’s going off on a tangent about how you’re such a crybaby, you turned and left the house while she was focused on her rant.

“Hey! You ungrateful bitch!” You heard her scream when the door slam. You ran down your porch, down the path on your front yard and took a left to get to where Lilette said she’d be waiting for you. Through your clouded vision, you looked around trying to spot Lilette to no avail. You began to panic, anxiously watching over your shoulder to see if your Mom caught up to you or not. You shakily fished your phone out from your pocket and clicked on Lilette’s name on your call log.

“I see you, honey. I’m headed towards you right now.” She says, then hangs up. Seconds later, you saw her jogging towards you. “You okay?”

“I guess.”

You fell asleep on the drive back to Lilette’s. You felt safe, despite knowing she’s been through some shit of her own with her Mom. But last you heard, they’d worked it out. Also, Lilette managed to move out after graduating from Staton High. She lived on college campus at first, but eventually moved out to a humble studio apartment nearby.

Forty-five minutes later, she shook you to wake you up. You got scared, gasping and your heart raced, until your eyes came into focus and saw that it was your girlfriend. “We’re here.”

“Oh, okay.” You blinked profusely, shaking your heads as if to get rid of those thoughts before you opened the car door to get out.

————

“Does she know you packed your clothes with your school bag this morning?” Lilette asks.

“Probably. But I don’t care- I got out and she doesn’t know where you live.” You answered her question coldly. “This is the daughter she raised- one that plays her fucking game with her.”

“But you got out. You did it.” She smiled, brushing her thumb across your knuckles soothingly, noting that the time on the clock said 11:11.

“What the hell am I supposed to do now? You’re working two part-time jobs. I’ve got none.”

“Right now, just worry about getting some sleep.” She reminded you, “Everything else doesn’t matter.”

“You’ve been working your butt off to pay for everything. I can’t just-”

She caresses your cheek, watching your teary eyes, “y/n, listen to me. It’s very late- past 11. Let’s just brush our teeth and get to bed for tonight, okay? We both have class tomorrow.”

You agreed wordlessly, trailing behind her to her bathroom where you both brushed your teeth and washed your face, then, went to bed. You got under the covers first while she turned a nightlight on, knowing that you didn’t like sleeping in complete darkness.

You laid with your back facing her, but then she does something you didn’t exactly expect- she spooned you ; her chin resting on your shoulder, fitting into the space like a piece of a puzzle. You wouldn’t tell her you want a hug from her, but she seems to always know, anyway. Fighting a forming smile, a sob gets caught in your throat painfully as you furiously blinked your tears away.

She decides to sing you to sleep, and you calmed down soon enough, forgetting about why you were even wanting to cry again in the first place. Your breathing evens out, and Lilette slowly removes herself from you, allowing herself to fall asleep. She catches a glimpse of the timing on the clock, it’d just struck 12. 00:00. Angel numbers- something Lilette strongly believed in. And these ones could signify a fresh start. Definitely for you. The number 1 has repeatedly shown up all around you throughout the course of knowing each other, and Lilette’s always taken that to heart- that it meant something ; that you were her soulmate. You didn’t believe in that, but you didn’t stop her. It was nice to have someone in your life who believed. Someone who believes in the good things, someone who believes in you. Well, you do believe in one thing. That you met her for a reason- Lilette Suarez entered your life for a reason. She was the reason you didn’t give up and continued living, encouraging you to fight for what you deserved…and tonight, you finally did it. All thanks to her, whom you believe is your soulmate.

[destiny-in-the-universe]

Kind of a personal ‘rant’ but it’s more about FANDOM ETIQUETTE and weird things that I just find funny.

The other day I was on this fandom discord for uh, one of my niche interests- and don’t get me wrong, it’s a nice little community. For the most part, but something that honestly left me giggling to myself because they were so shocked over a Gravity Falls and Danny Phantom crossover, like-

I was in the heyday of Superwholock. I got into RISE OF THE BRAVE TANGLED DRAGONS.

I won’t stand here and berate children, but- crossovers in fandom is nothing new and I’m sick of people pretending it is. I’m not going to lie, it’s a little disheartening as a crossover creator.

Another thing, and I cannot say this fast enough: this is not directed at anyone, but stop harassing people who aren’t in the same fandoms as you? Look, I was in a lot and I do mean a lot of problematic fandoms- I’ll be straight up honest, I was fixated badly on DSMP for fuck’s sake, I’m a veteran in fandoms and sure, I avoided Homestuck and the like but I will straight up block you if you come on my page and then get mad over my interests. Or anyone else’s for that matter.

Don’t do this. I’ve never had anyone shit on me for enjoying RC9GN, but if I see one more “[insert fandom] DNI” and then target people in said fandom, I hope your pillows are suddenly filled with uncomfortable legos.

Also!! Uh. Again- I’m not calling anyone out, I’m not talking about any specific person but I will lose my goddamn mind if people get upset over HEADCANONS. Look, I’m in Danny Phantom; sue me if I want to read platonic Badger Cereal. I’ve also seen people get mad over Vlad treating Danny like a son in an ALTERNATE UNIVERSE. Babes what do you mean??

It’s an AU. The whole point is that it isn’t canon- now obviously if you make some dark cringey shit where it’s complete mischaracterization, like that’s different? But I can’t entirely judge because I have an AU for Gravity Falls where it’s dark and about a cult of all things- to say the least, because it’s so much more complicated than that but let people have fun?

That’s it. That’s the rant.

I just had to get it out of my system.

[gingerylangylang1979]

I am avoiding management positions as much as possible in the future.

I am finally up for two positions in my field that are a step up but not management. Every field I have worked in the only way to move up has been management and I'm honestly sick of it. I have never liked managing but always end up doing it because I'm smart, innovative, dedicated, detail oriented, and organized. I got sucked into thinking the next time would be great and it was a reward for my hard work. It ends up feeling like punishment every damn time. People love to promote me to leadership but every time that happens I hate it and hate my life shortly after.

In my current role I manage two teams totaling 18 people, multiple information sites, and a meeting space. I'm so over it. The next position will not be management, but to move up after that most likely will be again. And I think I will just stay at the level and not care. I would rather have my sanity than be the point person for personnel and resources. I know I've already quiet quit, thus the amount of time spent on Tumblr during the workday, haha! And I don't even feel guilty about it because my shit is still handled. The difference is that in the past I would have added even more projects or found ways to help others and "go above and beyond" and I'm just not doing it any more for a job I hate.

The jobs I'm up for will allow me to use my creativity and work on projects I want to work on, that are scholarly and engaging, all without the responsibilities that come with babysitting adults. All I do now is maintain service and systems. My goal is to become so much of a subject expert that I can be hired for my niche knowledge and skill set without fucking having employees!

This is so stream of conscious ranting. But just a cautionary tale for anyone dead set on thinking management is the end all be all in upward mobility. Most people actually think it sucks but they have no other options so they just do it for more money or think it's going to give them more freedom. The money usually isn't enough or worth it and the freedom is a joke.

[whatdoyoumeanitsnotcanon]

if the primarchs and Big E where youtubers/influencer/tiktokers what kind of content would they post and who would be the most popular?

I think they'd all be popular in their respective areas.

Big Daddy E would own the media sites so he'd have no need to be an influencer.

Lion has a very, very small internet presence out of choice. Does enjoy Corvus's channel because it's calming and puts him to sleep.

Horus does something. And the content is engaging. Too bad he's shadowbanned so you don't know what it is. After complaining to the VP about it (Malcador), he was locked out of his channel for about a week.

Fulgrim and Sanguinius are beauty gurus (Fulgrim practically forced Sanguinius to do this) but for some odd reason (it's odd to him) his stuff is always age-restricted. WTF?! Fulgrim is always having some kind of bitch fit while doing makeup and is busy ranting to the camera and Sanguinus is just... staring at him. They are popular because their audience is thirsty but there's a small population that likes to fuck with Fulgrim to see him flip his shit in his videos.

Guilliman is the 40k version of David Ramsey except you can see the light go out in his eyes with every caller talking about the financial mistakes they've made. May or may not start nursing a glass of wine with every video. Becomes surprisingly famous as a reaction meme. Is even more dismayed at that. Leman called in once while he was drunk.

Corvus... has an ASMR channel where he narrates horror stories. Konrad's always trolling his videos by reporting them. He has no internet presence regardless because he's banned from everything lmao.

Magnus is popular in the New Age community despite this... not being his intention. Has been featured on Fulgrim and Sanguinius's channel as an unwilling model which helped boost said popularity.

Leman Russ and Angron are gamers who are also popular because folks like to see Angron rage quit and Leman laugh his ass off. Angron is also afraid of horror games so Leman got his ass a couple times.

Vulkan has a nice welding and DIY channel and he's incredibly popular in those circles.

Perty and Dorn were forced to do a podcast together and NO ONE expected it to take off as it did. It was supposed to be an architecture podcast but it turned into a social commentary podcast without the social commentary really and all Perturabo does is bitch and moan about Dorn while Dorn just shuts him down in a deadpan voice. Folks love the chaos and think they play it up for clicks and views but no, they're really like this. lmao.

Lorgar has made his niche in history and breaks down religious texts. He, too, is shadowbanned because he's Lorgar. lol

Jaghatai Khan has amassed a following because he collects bikes and posts about them.

Alpharius and Omegon are professional trolls who... troll their brothers, mainly Guilliman and Fulgrim so they can see him bitch and moan. They're the ones who will photoshop and fuck Fulgrim's pictures up so he can rant yet again. Ferrus Manus shakes his head because everyone BUT Fulgrim knows it's Alpharius and Omegon who are doing it.

Speaking of Ferrus, he doesn't really have an internet presence but he usually oversees the production of Fulgrim and Sanguinius' channel and Perty and Dorn's podcast.

Mortarion secretly runs a burn book account where folks talk shit and be petty, especially about his brothers.

[starplusfourletters]

Random takes on ahsoka eps 2 and 3

so spoilers for the niche crap I care about in eps 2 and 3

once again holding back the plot / character / that's not how the force works rant until i have more perspective BUT IT'S BUILDING UP

i have so many questions about how the FIRST iteration of this apprenticeship got started but noooooo i'm holding it innnnnnnnnnnnnn

good to know "gold leaf on a rock" is all it takes to send me into full mortis art / world between worlds panic mode

When Ahsoka's like "there's simply no way to move this potential bomb out of the hospital" my guy Lothal is 99.99% grassland

Distinct lack of Lothwolves tho. Did Filoni move past his wolf hyperfixation?

[chopper's immediate suggestion being to bomb a city] i missed him so much

If sabine's hair looks anywhere close to good in the next scene after that haircut - oh is2g

dude tho that lightsaber dodge? so so so cool. just no fucks given. Hero

so did Sabine hire a long-term catsitter orrrr look let’s be honest I’m more invested in the cat than sabine. Not to be – wait for it – catty

oh no kaz's dad (? look I'm not going to check) is mean :(

DOUBLING DOWN ON THE GREEN HAIR WE LOVE TO SEE IT (but like srsly how. star wars canonizes DNA and then pulls this shit)

is the show really trying to make the sabine/ezra ship sail like actually? after 4 seasons of rebels being like "dude she's gay"?

Huyang straight up roasting sabine <3 he is my spirit animal

I was fangirling about ahsoka's dojo because if i was a space wizard I'd totally want my dojo to convert into a living room that's rad and then my friend pointed out that that means the place you just stood and fell and sweated on becomes your dining room table and that's... less sexy

Speaking of not sexy these mercenary / dark jedi ships. Boooooo

just have sabine fly and put ahsoka on guns. play to your strengths.

YES SPACE WALK omigod that helmet how does she even get into that

SPACE WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALES

guys I JUST made the connection about the convors in Rebels "Trials of the Darksaber." It has bugged me for 6 years. This is s3; ahsoka's not even confirmed alive let alone IN this ep and this ep is about sabine who's not even connected to ahsoka why are there convorees here? omigod it was FORESHADOWING? alternatively filoni just puts random animals in the background sometimes so he can pretend he knows what he's doing still haven't figured out the symbolic significance of the convorees in TCW "Bound for Rescue" helpful reference if you need it

but three eps in and nary a convor in sight? Did they forget???

[thephantombelow]

long annoying rant about a niche topic sorry

ffxiv "concerts" are all really impressive in what they do but also fundmentally ffxiv as a platform really really really struggles this really simple concept called "audio mixing", at least for the bard "musicians". for some reason thesec "concerts" and "bands" will go out and can be bought for like 10s of millions of gil for even a small venue and like I get the appeal for RP venues and the like but holy shit it sounds sooooo bad. all of these bands, due to the limitations of how it all works -- and like, the instrumentation that the bard performance mode gives is just, hm. off key? out of tune? utterly tone deaf? not sure. the way these bands work is just putting midi files into an auto performance bot and even when these bands all make a lot of compromises with the songs they choose it is all like, this sucks, right? it speaks to a larger truth of the issues with ffxiv rp venues, housing, and general non PvE or PvP events within ffxiv. they all have to take a real obnoxious amount of compromises for them to work. even with a really impressive amount of work put into making these songs work within these limitation and adjusting the instrumentation to work with these song bots it just doesn't sound good at the end of the day no matter how much effort is put in it. the stark contrast of the fully composed songs throughout the game to the literal midi renditions of pop songs, popular game songs, etc. that people port into these bands is like, really, really staggering.

and again -- these songs are all fucking covers. the original versions of every single one of these songs covered just plain sound better. why would I listen to a cover of wonderwall performed in midi form by a travelling gang of lalafells when I can just, I don't man, listen to wonderwall? it still sounds like shit either way but that is besides the point the good sounds covered sound like shit too.

so in summary: - people are paying tens of millions of gil for bands of bots that play midi covers of songs from pop rock, various other RPGs, etc and they all sound at best passable covers but at worst just aggressively mediocre and just plain rough covers that you can really feel that midi instrumentation in

the audio mixing is nonexistent, oftentimes helping to ruin the quality of the songs even further than the midi instrumentation will already do so.

none of this is like, surprising, right? holding on to limitations and poor quality is the essence of the general housing scene in ffxiv.

the limitations are what have made the housing, rp scenes, etc., feel as jank as they feel.

unlike the housing scene and the rp scene, the bard orch bands cannot even be "fixed" with plugins and mods, or even optimized. they just have been automated with them.

this sucks.

[neuroprincess]

Just a rant here...

I was just talking about a subjetc that triggered many memories of when I was a teenager, WHY THE FUCK DO WE NOT TALK MORE ABOUT SEXUAL PREDATORY WOMEN? As a teenager I fell into the trap of "you look too mature for your age" or "you're so smart, so this and that, etc", not phrases spoken by men but women, I was just a 14/15 year old girl finding out about my sexuality and thinking I was in love with a 24 year old woman because she was the only one who "validated" me. So I ended up in tears feeling like shit when she got tired of me, then along came 24, 28 and even 33 women who used the same clichéd phrases, giving me some attention and I really felt special about it (mostly because I was a child prodigy and thought no one my age understood me, yes, I was a teen shit), they reinforced. At 16 I deprived myself of several things of being a teenager because according to the woman I was with "this is not mature", are psychological reinforcements for the shit that I already faced from the teenage crisis. Male teen predators suck as hell, but I think female predators have more emotional manipulation over teenagers, easily.

I also largely blame the fanfic media tsc tsc especially wattpad tsc tsc, teenagers read this, fanfics that basically romanticize female teachers with much younger students, mature women sleeping with girls. I wasn't the only one who find such a story while researching lgbt+ history, was I? In 2016 it was the theme that had the most in this niche, the stories are still there and have new ones. And unfortunately there are still stories, fanfics and the like that normalize this. And it's all very beautiful, romanticized... Protective, for being with a woman. When not so. It becomes a relationship about power when there is a big difference in age and one is an adult and other not. I'm going to have to use myself as an example again, sorry, but I was 16 and I was with someone aged 24 (almost 25) who always used her age in her favor, like "I know I'm doing it and telling you to do it because you're just a teenager and I'm an adult, don't do shit" and acted as "boss" in the relationship in every way because she was the "mature" one. It was about her being able and I not, about her knowing I wasn't, it was about how she attacked my self-esteem with small and big things, and I know a lot of girls go through something similar. I am very afraid of those who use their gender to get away with this type of psychological abuse (and other types of abuse) in same-sex relationships with teenagers. It's not talked about enough, about women looking for teenagers who don't know what they're doing or are in fragile moments for their own pleasure (and sense of power). Making it clear that I am talking about the age difference between ADULTS AND TEENAGERS, age difference between adult people is totally okay when are healthy and don't have this question of power. It pisses me off that there are still female writers who normalize this shit, I think I've seen three or four one shots with Wanda or Natasha with teenage readers, girl, TOTALLY NOT. And even though it has some dark tags, it can still be considered fucking pedophilia, it's a 16 teenager being coerced by adults to have sex. Dude, it's ok to write dark (I respect those who do, I'm not judging, everyone has their own tastes), but at least don't put teenagers in it. And damn, this content is so accessible to minors on multiple platforms, I bet there's a 1Xs year old reading this and thinking "Oh, an adult can be interested in me like this? Okay, sounds... Interesting?", sometimes they just get into things like that and don't experience anything healthy until adulthood. I have a friend 3 years younger and at 17 she was with someone almost 30, she read these fanfics/stories, idealized a mature and experienced woman as in what she read, at the end of the relationship that bitch stalked and used her until I had to intervene. Now she's having to recover from all the shitty emotional abuse.

Idk, I'm just rambling, but in conclusion I condemn anyone who puts and fetishizes teenagers and children (I love and hate AO3 at the same time), who normalizes relationship between women and underage girls as if it's something beautiful, just tell the truth, they are sexual predators as well as older men who prey on teenagers. Internet is a trap, there is no control, we just have to guide and protect these kids. Sorry for the rant, but I just got mad when I realized it still happens and hardly anyone talks about this shit. If you're a fucking teenager, don't think that's normal, they are adults wanting to take advantage of you just like men. If you have a teen sibling or relative or friend watch out for female predators too, not just males. They are still not fully formed people and need protection, especially lgbt+, we don't know their reality, how they see themselves or see the world, in the end they can be really fragile prey for these women.

[yerbamansa]

on revenge ranch, hitting milestones, and writing to process personal shit

trying to port a twitter thread over here, please hold for awkwardness.

Our Flag Means Death got me back into writing fanfic after a few years of not writing at all, and I just hit what feels like a milestone there and wanted to reflect on it. 🧵

I just hit over 100k words across 15 entries in a series, Revenge Ranch, a modern AU loosely centered on Jim and Oluwande but with POV stories from other characters too. It's definitely a case of "I write for myself," but thrillingly also connection with others. 2/

I'm not comfortable writing smut and plot isn't my strong suit, so it's not like I'm "popular," but writing as a means of processing feelings that the show and also life brought up has been its own reward. 3/

Specifically, of course, the show dredged up an awful lot of stuff about queerness and gender for me, which was a path I'd been on for a few years already, but clearly had (have) a long ways to go. So I wrote about people trying to find their place in the world. 4/

I wrote in a modern AU because, frankly, historical stuff was both too complicated and too icky in the details to be fun for me. Surely worthwhile themes to explore, but not for me. I just wanted people to get to be OK. Because maybe we get to be OK. 5/

The first story I wrote in the series was an attempt to explore how Jim and Oluwande ended up together, and I went with the latter's POV. Just thought we needed more fics of the pair, and figured it'd be a one-off. 6/

(so i went a little nuts in canva last week...)

Of course, once I wrote it, more story came to mind, and I had to switch to Jim's POV. Which was scarier. Harder shit to work through, plus actual personal (gender) feelings. But it cracked something open. 8/

And people commented/liked? There was discussion? Again, not in VAST numbers (which, honestly, that would be a lot to deal with, and I am an anxious soul), but the interactions I had and connections I made gave me a weird glimmer of hope. 10/

It's fucked up, honestly. I have long called myself "fandom-phobic" because it's just...a lot. Either you're hot shit or you're no one, and everyone's judging themselves and, uncomfortably often, each other. Cliquey. So a little niche felt right. 11/

Also, I am VERY MUCH in therapy, and my poor therapist has had to patiently listen to me rant about a TV show and fanfic for six months now while actually being supportive so uhh. Huzzah for queer therapists. Anyway. 12/

My intention was to avoid focusing on Ed/Stede just because there was so much of it already, but I couldn't tell the story without it. Plus, I just...really get Stede, in the sense that it took me a long time to figure things out, and wanting to escape. /13

At this point I decided the pattern was Oluwande➡️Jim➡️another character, so it was back to Oluwande, now more settled in, both at the Revenge Ranch and with Jim. And third-wheeling Ed and Stede's reunion. I wanted to explore his interests, though. 15/

Once you've been jolted out of monotony and things seem safe, what then? What makes you tick? Who do you want to BE? OK, also Izzy is in this one. 17/

Looking at one relationship through the lens of another person is kind of a fun challenge, especially when the third party is building a relationship with each half of the couple. So naturally, Jim and Ed gotta bond. 18/

ugh, i just realized i forgot to add alt text to earlier images. sorry.

Anyway, Jim/Ed's friendship was maybe the most fun to write, and probably the thing I think about/wish for most often myself. (I exist on the internet…) 20/

There's so much I can't put in these stories. I aim for sensitivity and some thread of honesty, but ultimately it's a personal exploration. Which may be careless on some level. I'm bad at asking for help, especially without something to trade. 21/

Anyhoo, next we have a tiny lil' Wee John story, which pairs him with Frenchie but leaves it open-ended. As a POV character, he didn't speak to me too much, but I love him. 22/

It's all exercise, trying to find someone else's voice. Some are so loud I hear them through everyone else. Some fade into the background and I need to work to pull them out. Maybe some aren't for me at all. 23/

The next Oluwande story was maybe the hardest of the batch to write. I had an idea where I wanted him to go, but couldn't take it there yet. But he has a role and a voice and things to do. He's observant. He's kind. 24/

...and his relationship with Jim is so damn important. That they're growing together in ways that lets both of them change and fuck up and hurt and learn. Which is what happens to Jim. /26

I honestly thought this would be a fun little fuckery story and then is really, really wasn't. I love Jim and I hate making them hurt but THE SHOW DID THAT OKAY. I'm just writing the fallout. /28

So they "faked" Ed's death to get rid of Izzy. It probably doesn't work, but also I don't feel like writing it /harder/. Ed deserves a moment of reflection. He's pretty prominent in a lot of the other stories, so the one-off is short. /29

Feeling yourself out takes a goddamn lifetime, y'know?

Next, Oluwande comes home from EMT training (growth! change!) and just has a long conversation with Jim in the car. Because I love writing them together. /31

(ok i'm getting self-conscious about the length and self-indulgence of this thread, but you can always bail, folks! might as well finish this!)

With a little feel-good out of the way, it's on to more pain. I'm sorry. /33

We've gone 10 stories with Jim getting away from the vengeance life and feeling maybe good about themself for possibly the first time ever. So of course a little bit of the past has to come back and test them again. /34

Grief is hard, and closure isn't always (often) really possible. I was fighting both the "make everything better" and "make everything worse" inclinations. Also why not let Stede's kids show up now? /36

Time for yet another POV character! How about...Lucius? I am a big fan of major life events happening outside the story. I'm more interested in regular life. Anyway, let's meet Lucius's mom and his BFF, eh? /37

tfw it's fine but it's not fine with your parents, y'know? I did say I'm still working a lot of shit out, didn't I. But also Lucius is such a good dude to have in your life. He deserves the world. /39

THREE TO GO. OKAY. I had the idea to do a two-parter in which Oluwande does the EMT thing during a big storm while Jim is back at the ranch. /40

First part has the first M rating of any fic in the series. I tried. I am awkward as fuck but wanted to give them more clear intimacy. GOD, I feel fucking stunted sometimes. There's that "working shit out through fic" thing again. /41

Because of the nature of the main story, I felt compelled to do more actual research than I'd done before, at least enough to get a rough sketch of relevant details. I watched a lot of storm videos, too. And bad shit is encountered. /42

I wanted Jim's story to be more...light and fun. And it kind of is, but weird feelings snuck in there. Just, surprisingly, not theirs. /44

Which brings us to No. 15. I wanted to write a Halloween story, and I wanted to find Roach's perspective. I have so many notes trying to suss out what everyone else did for Halloween, bur Roach doesn't give a fuck. /45

Roach has his own shit going on. Lots of it he didn't want to share, and writing around that--both what he shares as thoughts and what he actually says to other characters--was tricky. Sooo many notes. /46

But in all of these, there's a little piece of myself. There's stuff I'm trying to do that's different or trying to be consistent or whatever. Because it's project, and it's given me something to focus on. /48

I don't know where the story's going from here. I want to work on some other stuff, plus I need to, like, find an actual job that pays money and doesn't make me completely miserable. So maybe I can find my own path, too. /49

Anyway. There's a whole pile of feelings and fic links from an unemployed 40-year-old weirdo. If you wanna connect, I'm open. I'm mostly enjoying the corner of the fandom I can engage with and am so inspired by other creators. Full of gratitude. ❤️ /end

[holeynightsky]

overthinking albums: midnights pt. 1

welcome back, lovelies! today's Long Rant is brought to you by all the beautiful RWBY art i've been seeing as we get hyped about vol9.

today, we'll be thinking way too hard about the lyrics and general vibe checks of taylor swift's midnights album, and how each song was specifically written with a RWBY character/relationship/arc in mind. this is going to be split into two parts, because i, ahem, hit the character limit for a text block post on tumblr.

(what's that? sorry, i can't hear you, but if you're suggesting the album was not in fact written about a niche animated show, i'm replying with shhhhhhhhh.)

the album can be found here on spotify, if you're interested in listening along.

lavender haze - okay guys we gotta start with a bumbleby song. and this one--whoo boy. are you kidding? hell yeah! you don't really read into / my melancholia.... i just wanna stay in that / lavender haze. i mean come on. can't you just see blake singing about yang? staring into her eyes? the epitome of sapphic love??? also, obsessed with the way adam didn't scare yang off in conjunction with the line they're bringing up my history / but you weren't even listening. i know it's not a one-for-one match but i'm gonna die on that hill.

maroon - bear with me for this pain, but: a jaune-grieving-pyrrha song. the visual of the two of them over time, all those shades of red... the tension just before and during the vytal festival arc (how the hell did we lose sight of us again? / sobbing with your head in your hands / ain't that the way shit always ends).... jaune in the forest during vol4 (and i wake with your memory over me / that's a real fuckin' legacy)... him standing in front of her statue, finally putting his ghosts to rest (the rust that grew between telephones / the lips i used to call home / so scarlet it was maroon)

anti-hero - a hot take, but i feel like this is a song for oz/oscar/ozma. i have this thing where i get older but just never wiser is him struggling under the weight of everything he knows and all the ways he's fucking it up anyway. not to mention this whole thing: i end up in crises / tale as old as time / i wake up screaming from dreaming / one day i'll watch as you're leaving / 'cause you got tired of my scheming / for the last time. i--i don't even think i need to explain this one? are we good to move on?

snow on the beach - a qrow/clover song. you might think this is qrow thinking about clover, because of lines like you wanting me / tonight feels impossible--but ohoho, slow down there my friend. i will die on my headcanon hill that clover was just as traumatized as qrow, just with different coping mechanisms, and that he was absolutely whipped within hours of meeting him. plus, qrow just deserves at least one (1) nice thing--and don't you want to see him getting all flustered and happy when someone else looks at him and thinks of the lines i searched 'aurora borealis green' / i've never seen / someone lit from within / blurring out my periphery? akjsdbfkasjfh and the pause after can this be a real thing, can it? with their hands gently brushing.... hello? my heart?

you're on your own, kid - yang. yang alllllll the way. am i maybe projecting the oldest-female-child-syndrome? yep. but i mean--oh my god how could it not be??? i didn't choose this town / i dream of getting out / there's just one who could make me stay doesn't have to be romantic. that can be her thinking of ruby. my friends from home don't know what to say / i looked around in a blood-soaked gown / and i saw something they can't take away is living at the dorms in vale and leading up to the fall of beacon, 'cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned / everything you lose is a step you take is her recovering her confidence in vols 4 & 5. you're on your own, kid / yeah, you can face this / you're on your own, kid / you always have been is that moment where she steps past raven and ventures into the spring portal alone...... i'm simply not okay.

midnight rain - raven and ty. we were all thinking it, right? i mean. i mean. how could it be anything else? my town was a wasteland / ... / my boy was a montage / a slow-motion, love potion / ... / i broke his heart 'cause he was nice. the way she left but didn't feel guilt that we really see at any point in the show? he wanted it comfortable / i wanted that pain / he wanted a bride / i was making my own name pretty much sums up that dynamic. ty is a himbo and i love him but as soon as we met raven i was like "oh, obviously that wasn't gonna work." also, i peered through a window / a deep portal, time travel / all the love we unravel / and the life i gave away is so perfectly on the nose it's not even funny.

question...? - blake and ilia!! blake! and! ilia! specifically, ilia being bitter as she watches blake move through various relationships with various levels of health, and never once look at her. good girl, sad boy / big city, wrong choices / we had one thing going on / i swear that it was something / 'cause i don't remember who i was before you. or, or!! she was on your mind / with some dickhead guy / ... / it was one drink after a another / fucking politics and gender roles / and you're not sure and i don't know / got swept away in the gray. i simply cannot. i shall pass away before i ever make my peace with this level of pining.

stay tuned for part two, coming soon! <3

[postive-rainworld-anarchy-conf]

As someone who mods for the popular rw confession blog on this site (least I assume its the most popular? Idk), my confession is that im sorry that pro-Az people are mad that their ask where they said Emily is a gross pedo that should kill themselves didn't make it through the anti-harassment rule. Its not our fault that Pro-Emily people know how to format their confessions to not be name-dropping dogshit and make it through. Most of the 'Vauge Az asks" got through because they were talking about how scared the situation made them feel, or about the side of the fandom they didn't like as a whole, which is not harassment or name-dropping. Sorry you read everything like its about your friend group, but someone saying they feel scared about teenagers harassing others in the fandom isn't automatically about just one guy believe it or not. Im not saying which side im on cuz it doesn't matter (and thats against our rules anyway), im just saying no one on the pro-az side knows how to silently say they dislike someone without being it being obvious and a huge dick.

We got rid of the 'You can talk about drama' rules weeks before the doc even came out, and asks from the time it was dropped haven't even posted yet (our queue is still submitting posts from July 10th.) Ya'll can stop whining in our inbox about how we post nothing but anti-Az asks, the last drama ask was posted months after the org drama ended and weeks before it started again.

Half tempted to @ your blog so people will stop trying to get their drama asks through /j. Your doing gods work on this blog and sorry for posting a huge rant in your inbox lol (also before anyone tries playing detective, im one of the quiet mods on the blog who never talks. Good luck)

"oh fuck I sure do wonder why I have 8 messages in my blog" looks inside how the fuck did anyone even find me. I literally just dusted off the blog to laugh at a really really bad document for a bit, guess uuuuuuh...... ok! (I did not, as they say expect the unexpected.)

I don't really know how to respond honestly. I mean the no harassment rule does fall apart after long enough and enough bullshit happening.

really hard to not harass people when those people are infuriating as all hell.

this isn't like, a "you should answer those asks" it's a "wow alot sure did happen, and it sucks that you have to sift through this stuff to pick out the stuff you can actually post."

and it really sucks that the pro-emily side is often the one that just, better follows the rules, I may be 100% on emily's side but like, a confessions blog is a confessions blog and I know how much it sucks to be shoved out of their without your ask ever getting answered.

but like, those rules have a reason. is it a good reason? yeah? also good on you for adding a 'no drama' rule, this shit is fucking toxic.

also I'd say you can edit the asks to make the fit the rules and repost them as anon but like...

that's alot of work! and I don't expect anyone to do that honestly. I wouldn't even do that. and I'm, actually insane.

---

onto the next ask...

oh god people not understanding what you mean, the blog this one is based off of (whom I'm not going to say because while I dislike them, they did say they didn't want to be affiliated with this blog so yeah lol) did that so, so much. but I get it, it's scary when someone has an opinion you don't like and says that their blog is based off of yours

honestly I think your blog is the gold standard for confession blogs, literally. it's always fun to scroll through and see what dumb shit people say just because they can, without worrying about the repercussions.

when I learned about your blog I instantly went "why the fuck am I doing this, this is already done, but better and more popular"

though I guess I've come to realize that I'm filling a different part of the niche. especially since you aren't really wanting to answer drama related asks, probably a good decision honestly.

I wish you luck with running the blog. it's a tedious process, especially when everyone just instantly went insane when they saw the document.

also Post Script;

that would be really hilarious if you @ my blog being just like "heeey, this fuck WILL answer your asks." and I'd be fine with doing it, especially if it makes wading through your inbox easier over time. though I completely understand not wanting to do that.

people read "this blog follows the harkness test" and think "oh, you must be a zoophile" when in reality, I'm an ao3 user and this shit is fucking lame compared to the stuff I've seen.

and your already getting a ton of angry people at your door for the crime of... having rules... and... following those rules...?

Post Post Script;

can I just say how fucking insane it is that I've gotten asks from both emily AND the real rainworld confessions???

90% of my asks used to be me just saying shit. I guess this is the thing that happens when you do this kind of thing.

Post Post Post Script;

seven red suns pronouns are 7/8/9 duh.

anyways, hope your having a fine day, this was an interesting way to start mine! and don't worry, you did post both of these with anon, I thankfully didn't have to gaze upon the true form of that which wishes to stay unknown.

[therevray]

I've been kinda busy working on my own short rn, but I also know if I rant about that new Hellboy trailer on my IG or somewhere no one's gomna see it so... enjoy this brief interlude where I defend the shit out of the new Hellboy (WHICH IS NOT OUT AT THE TIME I'M WRITING THIS IF IT ACTUALLY SUCKS I WILL GLADLY ADMIT IT)

When I first heard this was happening, I got so excited. Folk horror Hellboy period piece set in rural Appalachia? Are you fucking kidding me? How can anyone hate on that? And the obvious answer is nostalgia. The less obvious answer is the trailer. Let's talk about it.

Would I love to see GDT's Hellboy 3? OF FUCKING COURSE. I adore GDT, I love all the cast members individually, and I do really like those movies. However, as far as I can tell the rights have changed hands, which makes that exponentially more difficult. Additionally, it's 2024. Unfortunately, MCU brainrot has killed any chance of a real dark superhero film getting a blockbuster budget. Maybe a miniseries at best. More importantly, as he's become more influential in the horror community and more adverserial about the "bastards with money," GDT also isn't getting a blockbuster budget anytime soon. And to get all those people on board, and make another film on the scale of the first two, you'd need a strong budget. And to be completely honest, I think it would bomb. I think it's slightly too niche of an audience. Do I care about that? Obviously not. I just directed my first short film and I'm out $250 easily. I'll never see a penny of that. Many of my favorite feature films were made the same way. Unfortunately, studios care just a little bit about that. And especially with massive failure of Hellboy 2019 we should consider ourselves lucky anyone wants to touch the property right now. Also I mean... Ron Perlman's old. Sorry. That's a lot of makeup and a fair amount of action. Not saying he *can't* do it obviously, just saying it'll be harder.

Now that the trailer's out, I also wanna discuss it. It sucks. I hate the editing so deeply. It's the most generic horror shit imaginable. However, I pretty much liked what I saw in the trailer. If it nails the tone I think it's gonna be good. And for what it's worth I also strongly disliked the marketing for I Saw the TV Glow which is easily my favorite film of the year. Also I'm really glad Jack Kesy isn't just doing Ron Perlman again. David Harbour relied way too heavily on that performance. I'm also glad he has more normal proportions, and his voice isn't so deep and gravelly. Obviously Hellboy has some muscle, but nothing about Mignola's art style ever indicated to me that he'd be fuckin huge and I don't think the Perlman/Harbour voice would really suit the lankier Hellboy.

Listen, I'm willing to be wrong. If it actually sucks as bad as everyone thinks it's going to, I'll own up. But some of y'all are in serious denial about what Hellboy's options are in the current climate. I'll take a million of these over an insufferable fucking Deadpool rip-off because no one else knows how/wants to make a different R rated superhero film. Unfortunately, that'd probably be what would make money and maybe even shut up some of the whiny fanboys. "Oh man I really wish GDT did Hellboy 3 but this one felt like a Rick & Morty episode woah epic!" At the risk of continuing to argue with a guy I just invented, I'm gonna stop now. Point made.

[georgegraphys]

Another day another misconception by people who have 0 knowledge in the corporate, marketing, sponsorship world

Warning : Not for fragile snowflakes who will send hate asks when they disagree on something, don't take it literally, ranting with my knowledge as someone in corporate communication and strategic communication (PR/Marketing/Social Media Management/etc) field, unreliable as i'm not Mercedes so take it lightly.

People... still on to these things and saying these shits when...

Mercedes' big valued sponsors such as IWC Schaffhausen, Petronas, SAP, UBS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Puma, exist as team partners due to Mercedes Benz's connection with the team.

Before some anon jumped again "ohhh ari back at it again on undermining (insert driver name here)". First things first, drivers are one of the factors to attract sponsors indeed. I do not reject that fact. Drivers are the ones who represent the brands and there needs to be a synchronization in terms of value, image, personality, etc between a brand and the drivers as the KOLs. They often play the main role but that's not the "PERIODT!!" here. That's not the case here. The one who plays the main role is the company. Why? Because you can't invest based on one individual. Sponsors invest in the company. The company stays. The individuals can come and go. It'll be risky to just put all the stakes on one person. The company plays the game too. And in this case, the company is the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team which is a subsidiary of the Mercedes Benz. Who wouldn't want to be partners with THE Mercedes Benz? Single brand coverage of the car with the sponsors logo posted on Mercedes Benz socials meant something.

Why does Mercedes play the main role in attracting and retaining sponsors? Because they are MERCEDES. The brand name comes first. And you can't say "Ari is undermining againnn". People out there don't know what the flying fuck Formula One is. But people know Mercedes. An exception is made when it's those smaller teams who clung on to the drivers' value to elevate their team's existence and popularity. But in the case of teams like McLaren, Red Bull, Ferrari, Aston Martin, etc or those with big names in the front of their brand. It's the brands that matter first. And this is the norm. This is not "Ari projecting" "Ari delulu". This is how it is in the industry.

And talking about sponsors leaving after a certain individual leaving, i said it AGAIN and AGAIN. It is NORMAL. Because they might not fit the image of the next individual, why stay? Why make investments if it doesn't fit? It will hurt everyone's image as there won't be any consistency and synchronization within brands. So they left.

But again as what Do Kyungsoo sings in EXO's Love Shot, "people come and people go", sponsors also come and go. With the vast amount of connection Mercedes Benz and its branch companies or subsidiaries have, there is no fear of being left without sponsors. Mercedes generally now? I can name three potential big sponsors to join next year as a prediction. Even if all of my predictions are wrong, there will still be sponsors and companies lining up to partner with THE Mercedes Benz. To partner with the small niche of Mercedes Benz. Remember, Formula One is nothing but a small niche in this HUGE world and in the world of Mercedes Benz ventures. Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team will never go sponsor-less. That should be the least of your worries or bullshit when the team name has Mercedes name on it.

Again.

This is Mercedes. Not some nugu unknown company. To think that they need to pull a "sabotaging" PR works to move the spotlight to George to keep him relevant and prevent the sponsors from leaving is stupid, idiotic and brainless behaviour. The brand is Mercedes Benz. A multi billion dollar blue chip company, one of the world's biggest car manufacturers. They don't do these stupid things to "prevent sponsors from leaving". Be for real..

[silentlittlefire]

absolutely have to rant about something that popped up again today.

i had to go to reddit today for something specific (niche question time) and recommended posts from my old 3d account popped up, specifically r/fasting. And brother. I forgot how wild that shit is and how much it pisses me off. There are people on there talking bout literally only eating every 72 hours, how THEY LOVE THE SENSATION OF FEELING EMPTY WHEN THEY FAST, beating themselves up that they aren't 'dedicated enough' to go as long as other people without food, complaining how isolating it is because so many social activities are based around food. MY FUCKING BROTHER IN CHRIST THAT IS AN EATING DISORDER YOU ARE DELUDED. Just because you cherry picked articles on your info page that say it cures everything from dementia to cancer doesn't make you a fucking 'health and wellness' subreddit.

And I remember way back when I was on 3d reddit the way people in r/fasting would talk down about us, and how reddit fucking nuked our sub (which prohibited pro stuff, was an amazing support space), but not theirs. Like you couldn't post actual 'harm reduction' guides for 🌟ving yourself...but you could literally go to r/fasting and find tips on how to survive not fucking eating for 7+ days, and accountability buddies to help you on your 'month long fasting journey'.

There was so much more wild shit I remember from that stupid fucking subreddit but I'm getting pissed now thinking about it lol