#sorry if this rant. is bad. lol.

[sorrelpaws]

no offense but i genuinely fear that their potential dynamic will go severely underutilized

[townofcrosshollow]

Being autistic feels like being born in a society where everybody innately knows the basic rules of chess, but you don't. You go to school for the first time and kids are playing chess together at recess and you're absolutely fucking puzzled. You're like "What is that game? Where did you learn to play it? Can you teach me?" and they act like you're insane, because everybody knows what chess is, obviously. Any time you ask adults to explain the rules of chess to you, they tell you vague platitudes about how it's okay if you don't have other kids to play chess with! Lots of people only play chess against one person! If you always lose at chess, just practice a lot and you'll get better!

As you grow up you try to pay really close attention to what people are doing when they play chess to figure out how to do it. People constantly expect you to play chess with them and you always look like an idiot because you don't know what the goal is or how any of the pieces are supposed to move. You google it hoping to find tutorials, but all of the tutorials tell you about high level strategy that you can't parse because you still don't know why you can move your knight to that space, but if you move it to the one next to it, people yell at you.

Eventually by the time you're an older teenager maybe you've figured out how all of the pieces are supposed to move, but you still don't know what "checkmate" really means, you just have a vague idea that you need to take other players' pieces. That's what everybody's spending all their time doing, so that must be the goal. But no matter how hard you try to do that, other people always make fun of you for not making the obvious move. You must be not taking the game seriously because you're an asshole. Nobody wants to hang out with you because you refuse to play chess right, and that's obviously you're fault, because everybody knows how to play chess.

Finally as an adult you've made a full mental map of all of the rules of chess, you've studied movies with chess scenes and written notebooks full of notes about how people responded to your different chess plays, and you've figured out the goal and you've memorized how all of the pieces move, and finally with all of a decade of effort and all the mental energy you can muster you manage to win one or two games! You're elated! It's like you've finally learned how to ride a bike! You finally get it!

And your boss at work chastises you for playing chess like a five year old. What are you, lazy?

[limlightdaydreams]

just a little ranty rant

i'm sick to death of seeing people complaining about wanting achievements, but thinking it's unfair that they have to replay to earn them or thinking they should be able to just "check off what they've already done" and get the achievement that way.

y'all! think! this feature literally exists to SELL TEACUPS. romance club is a business that needs to MAKE MONEY. it makes NO sense from a business perspective to just give people achievements without requiring replaying the story. what on earth would the advantage for them be if that was how it worked?

it's not just like the romance club devs just sat down and were like "hey, you know what would be fun to spend a ton of time and resources on? creating a whole new panel of the profile feature, going back into the code of all of our stories, doing a ton of QA and testing, and designing 100+ icons! our users will be so happy to have pretty icons on their profiles, and that's enough for us!"

no, they sat down and were like "it's going to make us a LOT of money if users have to replay everything multiple times to get these achievements."

romance club has a great social media game and they do a fantastic job of listening to the community + appearing generous (see also: diamond rushes. these are NOT done because RC is "generous"--it's all about selling teacups). however, at the end of the day, they are a business that exists to make money. the achievements feature was created to make money, not give you cute little icons on your profile because you played Heaven's Secret one time three years ago.

[francy-sketches]

the king of drip ✨

[sonic-fairyspell]

The Jedi did nothing wrong. They didn't ""steal"" kids. They did not deserve to be fucking murdered. They weren't responsible for their genocide. They are not at fault for Anakin's Fall. They did everything they could do to help people. Anakin is responsible for his of his own actions and choices. That includes his choice to Fall and aid Palpatine instead of stop him, his choice to lead the mind controlled Clones into the Temple, his choice to lead the genocide of the Jedi, his choice to be literally the worst person in the galaxy, murder more people, and help lead and enforce the fascist Empire. Those were his choices, his actions. Not the Jedi's. Don't like it? Too bad, that's was the movies and shows literally show.

[winryrockbellwannabe]

this guy is honestly making me question too much shit

bc there's no way in hell is just that nice, right?

at this point either: 1. he's being this nice and kind bc he has a crush on me, 2. he's honestly that nice, which will make me have a crush on him, bc omg. he's just the nicest person ever

[dantelionwishes]

and they lived happily ever after, the end!

[why-the-heck-not]

19.12.23, tuesday

0.5h of coding lol

wasn’t having the best day so decided to finally watch the barbie-movie (it’s on hbo rn) bc figured that could cheer me up

but bc the universe loves a good timing, on the grocery store trip after, some dudes came to me like ”which one of us would u fuck?” and that annoyed me way more than it should’ve. Like cmon, it’s 10pm at a grocery store; if you’re not cottage cheese or olive oil get tf out of my face

just a short evening walk bc it was windy and I was annoyed

[emberglowfox]

looooove blacking out on staircases because me saying “i can’t do that, i’m going to throw up and black out” in response to being told that we’re going on a upstairs hike is apparently me being lazy and trying to get out of things

and then people are appalled and embarrassed when exactly what i said would happen happens. and then somehow it’s my fault, like me publicly throwing up in front of a bunch of joggers is my idea of a cheeky prank and good time

[sprucewoodmpreg]

watcher lore dislikers are reported to be mildly scared and afraid during this season of life series

[anti-spop]

i have never watched the original she-ra besides a few clips, but honestly it doesn't seem to be as mean-spirited as spop can be. it seems very accepting of the characters. even if, like, bow is usually the comedic relief, i don't feel like he's the butt of the joke the way spop kyle is. og bow is just clumsy and dorky but overall he seems to be a good friend to adora.

while i may like some of the character designs from spop better, i also feel that the original ideas were far better. like, og she-ra just sounds more interesting overall? where i live though it's not very popular in comparison to he-man, so i never checked it out when i was younger. but that might change, who knows?

[tigergendermoved]

Remembering the toxic hellscape that was 2015-2019ish SU fandom and just how much hate the show got is really insane when you rewatch the show after it's been a while. Like the show is good what the hell were any of these people talking about

[fluffydice]

TW Abuse

Aren feels guilt over clinging to his abuse, because he’s looked up to his Pops for so long as a role model, as someone who he should aspire to be.

But then he interacts with a toddler, or a little kid, or even people his own age. He can’t help but think about how fragile they are, how easy their skin would give way to bruises and blood, and he wonders how you could have something so precious and vulnerable, one that looks up to you with adoration and unadulterated trust, and tear it to shreds.

And he knows it was wrong, but he still tries to convince his friends otherwise. Because if they agree, that means it’s something he has to let go. He doesn’t have to look it in the eyes and ask questions that he won’t ever get an answer to.

[bardcharms]

im getting rlly tired of seeing the really arbitrary stereotyping on (often more mainstream) social medias abt he/they, they/he, she/they, they/she pronoun-users tbh. it was funny for like all of 2 seconds until u realize it’s just (mostly) trans folks making fun of other trans folks. i want to shake these people by the shoulders and tell them to be nice to their peers!! be nicer!!! making me want to change my pronouns to null/void

[txtistheloml]

no bcs im ab to cry what the fuck.

[ganondoodle]

something thats been driving me crazy is the constant worry that i am somehow using harmful stereotypes for the characters i write

like i am unfortunately white tm and me also being autistic and queer does not erase that obviously, im always trying to educate myself as best as i can, yet i feel like im always doing something wrong

its less of a problem when im working with the normal forms of hylia and demise since they are not really human, and though their humanoid disguises technically are still not human they do represent what they might have looked like if they grew up as one; i didnt want to make demises form too dark since i felt like it would perpetuate that stereotype of dark skin = evil which is already not great about ganondorfs character design, but didnt want to make him too light since i felt it would erase that part of his connection to ganondorf altogether and make it all the worse, but then again my demise isnt actually that evil, hes good at heart, so making him too light then would be even worse bc it would imply that light = good thing again

for hylia im even more anxious about it bc i intentionally gave her very dark skin to kinda subvert that light = good thing with zelda (tho in my AU the gods are not good and hylia isnt actually as loyal to them as it may seem bc she knows that.. which i feel complicates things just further; and also light an dark is just a very good contrast aesthetically?) but then i also like to intentionally make characters rather ?gender? but then i worry her being somewhat masculine would also be sth harmful bc i know black women are often treated as inherently less feminine .. which isnt my intention at all (tho my hylia .. doesnt rly have a gender? idk many characters i like to write/design dont have anything specific, like what more do you need than knwoing the right pronouns to call them?? qnq) her being rather cold and ruthless also feels like im doing something bad somehow

then theres the whole sexualization worry, i dont know if im doing that in a bad way bc honestly i just like .. drawing ...bodies? aesthetically? like yes they are very sexy but also wheres the line, am i somehow overstepping it without knowing?? how can i recognize what is normal 'finding certain things pretty or sexy' and what isnt??

so far i dont remeber anyone pointing anythign out as bad which im taking as a sign that i cant be doing that badly .. hopefully, maybe all this is a very stupid thing to worry about and its obvious to everyone else but i am so god damn afraid of doing something even slightly questionable and being hunted down for it (probably bc similar happened to me when i was a teen and it was about an absolut non issue, literally, so even the thought of doing something actually bad is mind boggling to me bc that other thing nearly cost me my life and i literally dont know how i survived and i would 100% not if it happened again..)

this is probably a very chronically online thing too but hoenstly i needed to get it out of my head for once