~Shameless Multishipper~

Foxx, she/her, twenties. constant state of Bi Panic. mostly here to reblog. minors dni in too many fandoms. literally just following the dopamine. consistency is for other people

[raccoonmilf]

one of my biggest beefs with AI is that I never learned to use a semicolon properly, so I have just been using the emdash and now that has become a sign of people using AI and it makes me feel insane

[packyanderson]

DO NOT LET STUPID AI ROB YOU OF THE EMDASH—it is perfectly cromulent punctuation, and one they will pry from my cold, dead hands.

Emdashes are used by educated people, which is what AI was trained on, so it being associated with AI means millions of people who would never use the mark on their own are seeing it in writing generated for them by stochastic parrots. Just because AI tries to ape good writing doesn't mean you should stop using the good writing elements you know how to use. Don't make your writing worse so it's not mistaken for crap.

[raccoonmilf]

This is actually exactly what I needed to hear, I think. Because honestly, I feel like I have been purposefully making my writing worse. Or, at the very least, more casual. I have been passionate about academic and informational writing since I was in middle school, it’s something I love and work hard at. But the paranoia is really getting to me.

[trashcangimmick]

[whyenn-reader]

normalise saying ''what the fuck is wrong with you'' to mean people

[whyenn-reader]

stop making this post cute. it's blunt and violent. it's about humiliating needlessly cruel people not about bickering with loved ones.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Ok so lemme get this straight the boys get advertised their body weight in protein powder and girls are told to get by on uncooked foliage and I’m supposed to believe that the observed differences in gender are strictly because of sex chromosomes with no cultural influence at all uh huh sure hey buddy what kind of idiot

[doorjamb]

oh like how sarcopenia (muscle loss) and the associated osteoporosis effects women significantly more than men? and we dont really talk about why, we just assume its biological? like yes okay it has to do with estrogen but HAVE WE NOT COMSIDERED. THAT WOMEN ARE TOLD TO EAT SALADS. AND MEN ARE TOLD TO SUBSIST PURELY ON TOMAHAWK STEAKS. and then men are at a higher risk of cholesterol issues and heart failure in later age HMMMMMMM.

[systlin]

Every time I see bullshit about women never EVER being able to beat men in any sport, I think about how in martial arts classes I, a cis woman, 5' 8" and 145 pounds, regularly beat the tar out of 6' 2" 230 pound cis dude weightlifters. One guy ragequit class. He came in cocky as hell and talking the standard bs line about how a woman simply never could beat a man in a fight because they're physically weaker and our instructor was like. Okay. Put the pads on you're sparring her. Yes, her, the one 4" shorter and 100 pounds lighter than you.

It wasn't close I beat the pants off that man, and others like him. I did it more than once. Some guys got humble and stayed. One guy got angry and stormed out.

And I think about that every fuck damn time I hear that bullshit, which seems to be all the fuck over the place these days. Oh, women are just fragile little soft delicate flower creatures who can't do ANYTHING and could NEVER compete with big strong manly muscular strong MEN.

I think about driving that dude into the mats and seeing the brutal reality of this big dude's misogany meet the realization that a woman was beating his ass literally that second, that none of his strength could stop the fact that I'd just hip thrown him facefirst into the mats and that had I actually connected with the axe kick to his neck I would have crushed a bunch of important shit and he could not stop me, and his whole psyche collapsing like a dying star in that moment.

Anyway, don't ever fall for it, ladies, and there's absolutely no goddamn reason to get your knickers in a twist about trans people in sports.

[mortalityplays]

there is no single argument against including trans women in sports that doesn't boil down to "women aren't supposed to be good at this" and it's fucking insane to me that every woman in the world isn't up in arms about the way this issue has laid institutional misogyny bare to the bone

[gayteensupreme]

"queer-owned business" means nothing anymore. OpenAI and Palantir are both queer-owned businesses.

[gayteensupreme]

if this is how you find out that both sam altman and peter thiel are gay im sorry

[haughtyraban]

“there’s an ai tool for that” okay ?? there’s probably an ed sheeran song for it too who gives a fuck

[anarchistmemedistro]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the ashtrays in airplane bathrooms are a fascinating harm reduction metaphor. yes it's illegal as hell to smoke in there. yes there's a smoke detector that will snitch on you the second you light up. so why is there an ashtray? because if there weren't, your single momentary dumbass crime could kill 300 people. it is fucking vital that if someone does have a lit cigarette on a plane, they have a place to safely put it out.

[redstonedust]

i keep using 'blorbo' to refer to my own OCs to the point i forget its supposed to be a fandom term. yeah i know blorbo from my shows. and those shows? only airing inside my own brain and the dms of a few lucky friends, baby.

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[nickmpreg]

83 years old still writing about his situationship from his 20’s

[nickmpreg]

This is not about that faggot from interview with the vampire

[nickmpreg]

REAL HUMAN MAN PAUL MCCARTNEY

[what-even-is-thiss]

So this is how I learned that Paul McCartney has a new single out

[homunculus-argument]

"Don't speak ill of the dead" my ass. If you didn't want people talking shit about you when you're no longer there to defend yourself, you should've been a better person.

[bisquid]

I always took it to mean, like, don't bitch about Mrs. Obnoxious in front of her grieving children, not 'you can't say anything bad about a dead person ever' but let me tell you some people really do seem to take the latter approach and it's EXHAUSTING. "don't speak ill of the dead" are Ronald Reagan's descendants in this room right now?

[homunculus-argument]

I'm going to have to take a minute to process this, because it had not occurred to me that "don't tell grieving loved ones that the person they are actively mourning sucked ass and is better off dead" would've been a common enough faux pas that they had to make a whole phrase about it.

[dollbandcry]

how do people hatewatch things, i can barely find the time to read and watch all the things i actively want to, how the fuck are you putting time aside to watch an entire season of dogshit telly thats just gonna make you mad

[should-be-sleeping]

In fifth grade a boy tried to impress me by swallowing a whole tadpole live and I punched him so hard that he puked and the tadpole was fine.

[should-be-sleeping]

I kept it in a terrarium and it became a normal 🐸 despite everything. About a year afterward (I thought) it died, so I sadly put it in a shoebox in the shed until the ground thawed enough for a proper funeral but when that day came I opened the box and the frog was fine.

[justprettygay]

[should-be-sleeping]

This is funnier than anything I have ever said.

[should-be-sleeping]

This post is to Easter what a Geiger counter is to radiation.

[should-be-sleeping]

I see it’s *looks at smudged writing on hand* Lent again.

[spacehunterceline]

LADS & the new 3D otome game(s)

I'm reposting this because people in this fandom need to think reasonably and not be so easily triggered every time news like this comes out.

Probably an unpopular opinion but I'm excited for the new 3D otome game & will be giving it a try, even if it sucks. Now that we all got a whiff of this new game. It's ridiculous to me that the game hasn't even come out yet and already received tons of hate. Please understand that in doing this, you as the player and active consumer are sabotaging yourself. Let me explain.

1-REPLICAS ARE INEVITABLE

Infold revolutionized the world of otome games with LADS and I'm constantly amazed by how high quality this game is. Not only did LADS bring about so many firsts, it set such high standards that their peers will have to run at x2 speed to catch up. 

This kind of success ALWAYS bring about imitators. Now that LADS has proved appealing to women can be just as profitable, everyone and their mother want a piece of the pie aka your wallet. This day was coming whether we like it or not. I, and I believe many other players, actually welcome it.

It's obvious that the visuals of this new game are strikingly similar to LADS, some might even call it a ripoff. I don't argue with that, I have working eyes too. They're following a formula that's proven to be effective.

Should they have been more creative specifically in terms of visuals? Yes, maybe, but it would be a HIGH RISK to introduce something brand new that again has zero proof would be successful. Remember when BlackPink succeeded with the girl crush concept and every company started introducing their own girl-crush girl group? This is no different.

2-COMPETITION IS NECESSARY IN EVERY INDUSTRY

Me wanting competition for LADS does not mean I hate the game or the company behind it. I don't form personal attachments to business entities. Besides, I haven't gone through my LADS burnout phase yet, still a honeymooner :), so I don't wish for its downfall or anything like that. I welcome competition because it's necessary for market health & balance. Did we forget all this talk about how monopoly is bad?

A monopoly benefits companies, not consumers, which is what we are - consumers. When a business entity becomes too big to fail, with no equivalent competitors, it has less incentives to listen to customer feedback because what other choices do you have? In this case, you lose leverage as a consumer and the business cannot be held accountable.

3. NEWCOMERS MIGHT FAIL & THAT'S OKAY

Let's face it, as of now, I doubt any new otome releases can come close to LADS. Personally, I don't have high hopes but I wouldn't mind if the new games suck. If they do suck, we as consumers should give criticism because that leads to improvement and innovation. 

The LADS today that we know and love is not the first version. It built upon its predecessors. That's what these new games are doing. I'm not saying you should accept low quality products & services, btw. I'm saying newcomers should be allowed the space to test & fail before getting dragged. If we want healthy competition, we have to allow competitors to grow.

4-THE EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT

This is my own perception but I think this hate isn't about the actual new game which hasn't even come out yet. Could it be about the players' personal attachment to the LIs & LADS itself?

Again, I'm not saying you can't have your opinions and you have to like this new game right away. But the visceral reactions & hate, getting all worked up and for what? If anything, you're giving this new game (that you supposedly hate) so much attention and buzz. Let's not forget, no publicity is bad publicity.

Your feelings are valid and I'm not shaming. It's human. You probably have identified yourself with the game & the LIs, so the thought of imitators instantly triggers your protective instinct. Though, it's important to be aware of where you're coming from & not let it cloud your better judgment.

5-IN CONCLUSION

I'm not telling you how to feel about this new game or any other games that will be following in LADS footsteps, trying to replicate its success. Personally, I find it hard to see myself forming such deep connections with other characters the way I did with my LADS mains. But I am saying that we as active consumers should at least give newcomers a chance.

You don't have to like it, you don't have to play it, but don't snuff out any potential seed of innovation before it even has a chance to sprout. If we want good quality products & services, the feedback environment has to allow them to evolve.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk ❤️

Disclaimers

1-Everything is my own opinions based on my own experiences. 2-My analysis is for entertainment purposes only. 3-Do not repost without credit.

Love, Celine