#ranting and rambling and etc

[rancidrubysoho]

i think the fact that June Egbert as a character is like. in some ways a deconstruction of the "self-insert protagonist" as a trope (i.e. "the protagonist of your story has very few unique individual traits beneath the surface, in theory so the audience can relate to them no matter what, but now they as a person are hollow and apathetic because they aren't much of anything at all") makes the fact that to this day a sizable chunk of the fandom still treats her as just a blank canvas to project onto both really funny and really irritating.

and i don't mean projection in a fun headcanon-y way, that doesn't matter at all. i think the Crockerberts are Polish/Irish-American because i'm Polish/Irish-American and they remind me a lot of myself and my family. that's normal. that's fine. everyone does that to every character and it's cool and good.

i mean like. you guys do realize June has a character arc and traits of her own, right? you do realize that you can read the comic and see the things she does and how she reacts to the world around her and extrapolate an actually complex and interesting character from that, right??? you don't have to just make up a new character and call her June, you do know that, right???????

she doesn't spend the entire comic just doing what she's told by Rose, Terezi, and Vriska for no reason! that's thematic! it's showing that she exercises no agency over her own life and will just go with whatever she's told!!! that's a character trait!!! she barely reacts to the deaths of all of her fucking friends and treats the entire scenario where everyone she's ever known and loved is dead like it's just a mild annoyance! because she's aloof and apathetic!! that's a character trait!!! that's a way that she actually is in the fucking comic!!!!

That One Fic that i won't name (because it feels weird and mean-spirited to directly shit on fanworks in a way that the like. author could see and read. if i wouldn't say it to their face i won't say it behind their back) has absolutely ruined how people view June. you're throwing out an incredibly well-developed and interesting character arc just to replace her with an OC, and nine times out of ten that OC is just another character anyway!!!!!! you're just replacing June with someone that's standing right next to her in the scene!!!!!!!!

i think June mimicking the people around her, trying to act in a way they expect from her, is an incredibly important character trait that reflects so much about who she is and what she represents in Homestuck. that does not mean you should just turn her into Vriska 2. there's enough Vriska 2's. we're at like Vriska 10: Vriska Takes Manhattan or something at this point.

[paranormeow7]

tired of nonbinary people being pressured to be thin hairless elf like pretty and always depicted as white afab skinny kids with blue hair, of course only using they/them. give me nonbinary people who are heavily fem/masc aligned!! give me nonbinary people who use neopronouns and xenogenders!! give me fat nonbinary people!! hairy nonbinary people!! nonbinary POC!! amab nonbinary people!! disabled nonbinary people!! nonbinary people who wear crazy clothes, or nonbinary people who don’t stand out and don’t feel the need to!! nonbinary people with names like Moss or Socks, or nonbinary people with “regular” names like Susan or James or something!! Give me every flavor of nonbinary people, and stop trying to make it into yet ANOTHER gender binary!! Nonbinary can be anything, not just a third gender to adhere to!!

[jvsont0dd]

gonna be honest, the way some of you on here talk about jason todd with such disgust about him being seen as anything other than “angry, uncaring, monster, criminal, awful person” despite MANY comics giving a look at his actual values and how trauma has affected him is really fucking weird. you don’t have to dog one character and put them in the box of “irredeemable immorality” in order to boost your favorite character instead. nuance has escaped you and it’s embarrassing that you’re typing it out for everyone to see

[helloimtired]

sad lonely yearning screaming crying wallowing hours

[killerpancakeburger]

Hm? Hello? Wtf is up with that ending? So you can be there for Karlach but not for Astarion? The sun was killing him the same way the fire was killing Karlach. Like remind me who I am romancing again? It was Astarion, not Karlach, last time I checked... and yet I can't throw a fucking coat on him? I have to hear him say he's sorry for running away? I have to hear Halsin say "I doubt we'll see him soon again"? Speak for yourself jeez

Like FUCK, one of the dialogue options with Karlach is making a life with her in Avernus or even with her and Wyll - two companions I am NOT romancing. Why is Astarion suddenly erased from the story??

[some-pers0n]

"Actually they're dragons so it's okay to ship–" THEY LIVE WITH THE EXACT SAME MORALS AS HUMANS AND ABIDE BY THE SAME SOCIAL TABOOS!!

(Yes this is about that one excuse Glorybringer shippers like to use)

[not-5-rats]

Are you in the YV fandom?

Do you have listener ocs/backstories/hc/etc and nowhere to talk about them?

Hi, my names Jet and I love listening to people be creative. So I am gonna offer you a very VERY good deal, you tell me all about your YV ocs/aus/stories/wtv and I'll listen, I'll listen so hard that I'll break my ears.

[queerofthedagger]

everyone write 100 lines of "'creator chose not to use archive warnings' is proper tagging no matter what else is in that fic and if you OPEN a fic tagged as such it's entirely on you whatever you find in there" before going back to any discourse on dark fic and antis i am BEGGING

[merrymorningofmay]

linguistics is about the only context where hearing the word "slavic" doesn't set off kill bill alarms in my brain

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

It's so so disingenuous to claim that Dany should have taken the time to separate xyz privileged persons in Meereen because "not everyone sanctioned the murder of those 163 children 😞". Oh ok. So that very wealthy, very influential man did not personally give the order. Maybe he doesn't even have slaves. But riddle me this: Where did their wealth come from? What are the historical foundations of their political power? In a society that continues to practice oppression (and a society where wealth and status is defined by it), how is it that they continue to hold as much influence and social capital as the "direct evil"? None of this is happening in a vacuum. And like....this is a society where the dehumanization of slaves is systemic. It runs policy and economics. And the people in power obviously know each other and support each other (considering the fact that they can keep wealth and influence!!!). So does it matter if xzy didn't give the order? Does it matter if they were not the ones nailing those kids to the posts? What matters is that they saw oppression, did absolutely nothing in the face of it, and continued to benefit from it. They are not innocent. Evil isn't just related to the guy pulling the trigger. The devil is also the one who's standing in the back, watching, and counting his coffers. And it terrifies me to think about what some of you would be saying in the real world, in the face of oppression. "I cannot be held accountable because I wasn't the one who pulled the trigger"....but you continued to benefit from the privilege afforded to you by the oppressive system AND DID/SAID NOTHING. By turning a blind eye, you have taken the side of the oppressor. So I'm sorry sweetie but you 👏 are 👏 part 👏 of 👏 the 👏 problem 👏 big time!

[doodle17]

Could you maybe tell us what future Raz and Lilis relationship is like now?

*vibrating with excitement*

Putting this under a read more because it might be really long hemngh

So I'd decided to study their characters and how they interact a little more (mostly from the second game, but a little bit of the first too) and think about how their relationship would develop as they got older.

I came to the conclusion that I want to portray them as two people who have some level of affection for the other, but don't have time to focus on being sappy "boyfriend and girlfriend" because of work. The "fun" part their relationship ended waaaay back when they were 18-ish and went from Junior Agents to Official Psychonauts. It ain't exactly easy to go on dates and save the world at the same time y'know, and both of them have a lot of personal stuff going on.

Raz is almost always busy. Constantly filling out paperwork, running around in Sasha's lab, doing agent stuff, Circus stuff, the WHOLE shebang. Lili, is still trying to get over her dad's retirement, as the while thing still feels very surreal to her. Not to mention Hollis and her dad trying to push her to become the next Grand Head, much to her dismay. It's not very easy to have a social life with that much going on to be 100% honest.

Theres also taking their very different personalities into account. Lili's "Fuck around and find out" and Raz's sticking to a solid plan type of methods tend to clash quite often, and many newcomers have a hard time telling whether or not they're dating or competing with eachother.

Lili is probably the most complicated woman Raz has ever worked with, and while he finds it endearing he also finds it incredibly exhausting. Sometimes, It feels like she'll do the exact opposite of what he tells her just to get a reaction out of him, out of spite. But it's not like she can help it. She absolutely hates being told what to do, and one of her least favorite things about Raz is when he decides to become "Mr. Boss man" and order everyone around during missions. Despite all of- that- however, they do end up having very successful missions!... Most of the time.

There's also the pressure to keep up professional appearances for their fellow agents and new interns. One thing the both of them can agree on, is that they'll avoid showing any PDA in front of their coworkers. They still cringe thinking about how a little too comfortable they were as kids, and how almost EVERYONE in the Motherlobe knew about it. Luckily, most of those people are retired, quit or fired, and gives the two a better chance to be a little more professional with their relationship in front of the newcomers, because if they have to hear, "You guys are like the next Sasha and Milla!" One more time...

This isn't to say that things are always rough and gloomy for them. They still have a very special connection, and after knowing eachother for half of their lives, it's not like they're going to get rid of the other anytime soon. So might as well make the most of it, eh? She'll never admit it out loud, but there's really no other person Lili would rather be tied up and dangling over a pool of pyrokenetic sharks with than Raz (which has actually happened before btw) There's no way you won't catch them holding hands or sneaking a quick kiss at least once.

Anyways, to sum all of this shishkabable up best I can: They're WAY too close to be considered "just coworkers", but they also have way too much going on to focus on a serious relationship at this time.

Good on you if you managed to read my nonsensical ramblings all the way through! Take a prize from the prize bin you deserve it 👏 👏👏

[rancidrubysoho]

i've talked a good bit with one of my best friends about this but i think one of the worst parts abt being transfem online (especially on this site but the internet as a whole) is that you're really never Allowed to just. relax and lurk social media. because unless you keep an EXTENSIVE blocklist and muted terms list and also close your eyes when you scroll you can't do anything to avoid posts about how everything sucks and the world is hell and there's no hope for anyone ever

obviously that's not to say "people should stop talking about transmisogyny because it makes me uncomfortable", it's to say "it fucking sucks that a solid 40% of the time i spend online has to be devoted to seeing shit that makes me miserable". all scrolling is doomscrolling when all posts are doomposts, y'know?

in general the internet has never been the super hopeful positive place people try to act like web-1.0 was (no internet that thinks the pain olympics are cool is as wholesome 100 as tumblr pretends it is) but it just feels more and more like a collective pit of sorrow and misery and self-pity.

i should write more transgender yuri

[tskva-happens]

seems like so far the #1 enemy of the bg3 modding community has been... *checks note* age. just like... any signs of age whatsoever.

[mayahawkeswife]

my roman empire, thanks for asking, is the fact that since i’m one of the few openly lesbian girls at my school and that i’m not traditionally feminine/i am gnc, i am a lot of girls first wlw relationship/situationship/crush but they don’t seem to understand that i, too, am also a girl and not a man. so they like subconsciously try to fit me into the “man’s” role or like force heteronormativity shit onto me for a gender that is not even mine.

and like— not only is it mine but they’re shouldn’t be things that “the man has to do” or “the woman has to do” in any sort of relationship. regardless the gender of yourself or your partner.

anyways.

[arcadekitten]

Please read!

Hi guys! I just wanted to make a little statement and I won't waste your time with introduction-fluff so I'm just gonna get right into it.

I feel like I have to make this statement every few months and recently I feel like I have to make it every few days. And I think when I say it you guys think I'm just being humble.

I'm not. Stop putting me on a pedestal. It's not flattering, it's scary. I don't like you guys raising me so high up to a point that it's gonna break my neck when I fall off. When I speak my words I speak them true: I am not above anyone else. I'm not any kind of special person with more inherent value than anyone else. I'm just a girl trying to have fun with my ocs. That's it.

Secondly, forgive me if this sounds a little too brutal, but I don't know how to say it without sounding like it:

We are not friends. I don't know you.

You do not love me.

You love the image of me you created in your head.

When people tell me they like my games/works and they mean a lot to them, I'm truly flattered. But when people, especially anonymous people, tell me in my askbox "I love you!" it rings very hollow. You don't know me, you don't love me. You love the image of me you created in your head based on the way I present myself online and what you take away from my works. That's not love, it's admiration and infatuation, and if you keep conflating it with love it will only be detrimental to you in the end.

Thirdly, on the topic of us not being friends:

I think you guys have been starting to get a little too friendly in my askbox. I enjoyed answering the occasional silly nothing-burger ask, especially if it felt like things had been dry lately and I just wanted to be active online in some way. But it's starting to get to the point where, again, you guys are sending me asks like they're a text message you're sending to a friend. I'm not comfortable being viewed as your friend who "just doesn't know it yet!" I'm not comfortable having you guys tell me things about your personal life or putting me in a position where I'm now responsible for your emotions. It's incredibly damaging for the both of us whether you see it that way or not.

From this point on, please try to keep your asks more focused on my games/characters/works, with the occasional question about me if you must. It's what I'd rather be answering after all!

Thank you for understanding.