#real bummer

[tuliharja]

What a great way to start my morning by checking my email and getting all excited about the fact someone left a comment in my one art collection in AO3. Just to realize it was basically "clever" advertisement spam. It started at first like a misplaced comment (it didn't have anything to do with my art collection and it started somewhat blaming manner toward my collection, but at least the fandom reference was correct), but once I read it till the end, I realized it was basically an advertisement. Talk about a real bummer to start one's morning.

[loudevourart]

I feel bad today, moody even

What do you guys do to cheer yourself up?

[virtue-and-beneviolence]

Why is all of dead club city so shuji coded to me?

[buttfrovski]

another one cuz this au is too cute

[sleepsucks]

[zeldadiscussions]

The repeated use of the specific word imperialism in fandom discussions of TotK really bugs me because like… we know what imperialism looks like, right?

Genocide either by murder or assimilation, leadership that is either of the conquering race or loyal to it generally for personal gain, control of the conquered’s resources, and a social climate where the conquerors are considered superior.

But in this Hyrule none of the other races had their cultures erased, they aren’t governed by Hylian leaders and the local leaders’ first priority is taking care of their people, they manage their own trade affairs, and Hylians don’t constantly subject others to put downs about their race.

If a Hylian man dares enter Gerudo Town without the Chief’s permission, they kick him out or put him in jail. That’s how much control the Gerudo have over their own territory and how little being a Hylian matters if you mess with them.

Rauru is accused of hoarding power but he literally gave his secret stones out to the other races and they remain in possession of them to this day.

Basically the only time the other nations seem to actually follow Hyrule’s lead at all is when facing common threats or working towards common goals. Hyrule only ever meddles in other lands affairs either to lend them aid (Link and Zelda fighting for everyone, the folks at Tabantha Bridge Stable providing disaster releif to the Rito, etc.) or requesting aid from them (Rauru and Zelda asking the Sages and Champions to help them fight Ganon[dorf].) They lead like a team leader leads.

Sonia and Rauru didn’t found an empire.

They founded an alliance.

I know I’m beating a dead horse here but to my eyes at least (for now) there is zero solid evidence of Hyrule exerting control over the daily lives of non-Hylians or stealing their resources, two major defining traits of imperialistic rule. Hyrule is at the head of the alliance, yes, but an empire isn’t the only system of governance that has one group or individual at the helm of a coalition. The difference is in the details and the details here are that Hyrule leads the others but it does not dominate them, and that is key.

The only empire in the game would have been the one Ganondorf was trying to force on everyone and that was pretty bluntly depicted as being a bad thing. How can we say it’s pro-imperialistic if the main conflict is preventing the rise of an evil empire?

You can’t effectively analyze a narrative by completely ignoring everything about it and its meta that contradicts a knee-jerk viewpoint. What is even the point of analyzing it at all at that point?

[kabutoden]

FUCK THE KARKAT VANTAS PLUSH THEY CUT ME OFF FOR FUCKING REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

I WAS GOING TO MAKE A KARKAT VANTAS PLUSH AND SELL IT TO THE PEOPLE!! I WAS GOING TO DO THAT!!! I HAD A MARKETABLE PLUSHIE DESIGN AND EVERYTHING!!!! DO YOU SEE THIS FUCKER??? DO YOU SEE HIM??? DO YOU FUCKING SEE HIM?

I SAID IT TO ALL MY FREINDS!! TO MY FAMILY!! 'gonna make a marketable plushie out of this dog hes sellable as fuck' FUCK!!!! THEY FUCKING GOT TO IT BEFORE ME AND THEIR DESIGN ISNT EVEN GOOD!!! WHY IS THE HAIR LIKE THAT ITS FUCKING makeship THEY CAN MAKE SOME PRETTY QUALITY WORK!! ITS GOING TO COST 30 DOLLARS YOU DIDNT FUCKING NEED TO skIMP ON THE HAIR!!!!! PROMISE!!! WHAT IS THIS A FUCKING FNAF PLUSH??? ARE YOU JOKING??? WHO DID YOU COMMISSION TO MAKE THIS PLUSH DEISNGNNNNN WHY IS THE HAIR FLATTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

I WAS GOING TO DO THAT!!! IT WAS HALF THE REASON I MADE THIS STINKIN COMIC AND NOW I HAVE 60 MORE PAGES I WANT TO FINISH NOOOOO FUCKKKKKKKKKK NOW I HAVE OFFICIAL COMPETITIONNN WHYYYY

its fine. im fine im. FIIIIIINEEEEEEEE. its on me for not working on aphids... f in the fucking chat (this post is not very serious)

[nomoretumbler]

THE NEW MOUSE PADS????? KING CANONCALLY VISITING THE COLOR GANG (AND TRAVELING THROUGH MINECRAFT, LIKE NORMAL MINECRAFT)????? YELLOWS OFICIAL HANDWRITTING??????

[sanji-screenshots]

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[littlecofiegirl]

Ah shit

"The thing is, it’s not real. No artist named Emile Corsi existed in the nineteenth century. Even the header of the blog that shared it originally, Shuttered-Gallery, admits “artist never existed in reality.” But of course, most people aren’t checking before reblogging. And they’re shocked when they are told it’s actually AI-generated."

(...) I am against spreading misinformation, and I would count slapping a fake artist name and date on an AI generated image and not disclaiming its AI origins in the original post as pretty blatant intentional misinformation.

It was AI junk sorry (the article is members only but the point is readable)

[telluricdog]

kingisle whenever they need to coax older players back: HEY YOU PERSON WITH A WALLET!!! REMEMBER DRAGONSPYRE?!? REMEMBER HOW SAD THE LAST ACT MADE YOU FEEL? HERE'S SOMETHING REFERENCING DRAGONSPYRE!! ISNT THAT YOUR FAVORITE?!

[mmelolabelle]

If Aemond hadn’t kicked his mother off the Small Council she might have been able defuse the situation before he made an enemy of Larys Strong, the Actual Most Dangerous Man in the Room, but alas, you live and you learn I guess?

[ohnoitsjetster]

Idk who’s been paying attention to the posts about my school’s production of Little Shop of Horrors. But there has been a development. Our Seymour just dropped out. Which is insane on its own. But our director also said that, at the moment, the only person who she thinks can pick up the role is me. So hopefully we find another way, but maybe, I’m… not,, your dentist??

[starfruit-baby]

sorry ive been a while without touching a game but i was just remembering how incredibly lightweight the 'violence' route is for markus actually. like the harshest you can go is setting fire to inanimate objects, killing maybe 3 or 4 guards/cops before fully facing military powers and, at the actual most aggressive, just nuclear clear out the town (which certainly is the most extreme but as i see it not even close to how just ruthlessly bloody it couldve been in comparison to what we see the human side get away with)

[sleepsucks]

[brittlebutch]

“i don’t even feel slightly humbled, dude” — Obsessed