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given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
celestia is such a funny character like she's constantly manipulating twilight and friends to do shit instead of just asking and you could arguably frame that as being bc she's a "god" and pushing fate to her design or whatever, except that she engages with the group like a normal and relatable person, which makes it more like villainous machinations, except 90% of this manipulation goes towards things like "I don't want my party to be boring shit again. put my little country girl blorbos in there with zero prep so they fuck it up bad"
you think you've fucked anything up around princess celestia and she's like heh. no worries. all according to keikaku
Celestia instantly makes more sense as a character when you ignore the princess stuff and remember that she's a 1000+ years old wizard. Of course she does manipulative trickster stuff to teach moral lessons and/or cause chaos to amuse herself, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course sometimes she's actually socially awkward and bad at personal relationships and has bad ideas that she thought were good that result in her eating shit embarrassing style, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course she lets the aristocrats and nobles run around being assholes she's still running on wizard advisor programming, she's basically trying to merlin the entire upper class of equestria instead of just a king and some knights. "Yeah uuhhh we'll release the incarnation of chaos himself from his ancient prison because we think this shy girl can be friends with him", terrible plan if you're thinking like a ruler, amazing plan if you're thinking like a wizard. Just look at Canterlot 'Castle' for five seconds and ask yourself if that's in any way a castle. No. Wizard tower, yes. Wizard.
You are so right actually
just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out
EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!
if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.
if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to
PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply
figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list
so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...
so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts
posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig
I know I am attempting nuance on a site that does not do well with nuance, but stick with me a minute.
It's noticeable when people use a genuine complicating factor (social anxiety) to justify bad behavior especially when their behavior does not align with that confounding factor.
Common scenario (and one that I just experienced, oh, about two hours ago):
Person A: is a dick
Person B: hey, that was a dick move; maybe you didn't mean it that way, but it was, so please stop.
Person A: I was not a dick!!!!
Person B: You were. If you don't want to be a dick, try this instead.
Person A: I have social anxiety!!!!!!!!! I will flagrantly ignore your advice and do EXACTLY what you said not to do!!!!!!!!
Hey man, first of all, lots of us have social anxiety. We're still not dicks. Having social anxiety (colloquially or clinically) does not excuse causing harm. Full stop. But what's worse is when you try to use "social anxiety" as an excuse for taking ownership and accountability for the harm caused. Own your nonsense, make your apologies, and plan to do better next time.
Anxiety of any kind can be really perceptually warping, I get that. It makes your fight-or-flight go wheeeeeeee when it doesn't need to. But part of being a human in the company of other humans is learning to curb instinctual responses (being told "hey, you hurt someone's feelings" is not being chased by a predator, and you do actually know the difference) and to adjust behaviors accordingly. Sometimes that means taking a break before responding, learning coping strategies, and does mean learning and growing when given feedback.
But also, when you wave the flag of "social anxiety!!!!" I do want to note that the rest of us are noticing what you seem to have anxiety over, and in scenarios like the above, it's clearly not about interacting well, finding community, or expressing yourself in a way that better communicates what you mean. A person anxious about social interactions and not being harmful will be clearly focused on navigating interactions appropriately and avoiding or repairing unintentional harm. A person anxious mostly about how they're perceived will be defensive, combative, and closed to recommendations for change, growth, and harm reduction.
So like, don't be a dick, and when you're a dick by accident, don't double down on the dickdom by claiming it's everyone else's fault because you're a wubbly li'l bean with social anxiety.
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call me terminally academia-brained but i do think a lot of the fun of character analysis is figuring out how to build a compelling argument for a particular reading using lines of evidence from canon as well as meta/intertextual support
and you could say that what i’m saying here is basically “a lot of the fun of doing character analysis is doing character analysis” but let’s be real a lot of fandom character analysis is pretty heavily vibes-based. and i think that’s where i really chafe up against the traditional thought-terminating fandom attitude of like, everyone’s opinions hold equal weight and any interrogation of that is inherently hostile. because i think it’s fascinating to dig into where others are coming from in terms of their views on characters or dynamics or whatever, especially when they differ significantly from more commonly expressed views, and part of that digging is asking people okay what parts of canon are you drawing from to support your opinion? what parts of canon are you disregarding or downplaying? how does this argument hold up in the light of how race, gender, class, ability, etc. operate both in the piece’s in-fiction and real world contexts?
I decided to replay Slay the Princess again because I miss my beautiful wife, and I was reminded of my pretty unpopular fan theory that the narrator is the mirror. But dudes, he's totally the mirror! My evidence:
He is the only person who cannot see the mirror. Given how the game plays with the fact that you yourself don't know what you look like (and how inhuman you are) until you see yourself from the princess's perspective in The Princess and the Dragon, I think it's pretty important that the Narrator is the only one who can't see the mirror - because it's HIM.
The Narrator is supposed to seem like part of You, the Player, when he's actually an outside force. He's not one of the shards of glass the Spectre finds in your mind when she's looking at the voices.
The Narrator refers to himself as an echo, i.e. a sound that is made by reflecting sound waves off of other surfaces. A reflection, in other words.
The Narrator literally appears AS a reflection at the end of the game, and specifically not YOUR reflection.
The mirror shows up in the various chapter 2s, after you have had an experience that shows the Narrator is not, in fact, part of you, but an outside force that's keeping shit from you. The mirror specifically stands between you and the princess in Chapter 3, much as the Narrator is trying to keep you and her from connecting.
When you find yourself in the Long Quiet - that is, in your own sleeping godlike form - there are only two things that aren't your own mass there. One is the Shifting Mound, who is trapped under the Long Quiet and trying to break through. And the other, standing free and clear above you, is the Mirror.
The mirror destroys the other voices when you confront it in the Long Quiet, and the narrator openly resents how the voices lead you astray and keep you from the purpose he's molding you for. He only wants you to see the reflection of you he's crafted, not any facets of your personality that don't fit it.
The mirror is the narrator, that's him, he's this false reflection of you that is trying to shape you to his purpose, that's my theory and I'm sticking to it.
hope is a weapon but its susie deltarune
inspired by this post by @local-susie-deltarune-fan
HOLY SHIT??????? HELL YES
no but im so tired of how self-deprecation is always more accepted than self-advocacy. if i say i can't drive because im autistic i get questioned on how exactly that works and given a million suggestions on how to do it anyway and i look like im trying to be special so it's easier to just say im a loser. yeah i don't drive because im kind of a loser lmao. oh well. and people say lmao back and we move on. at worst they say "oh im sure you'll figure it out haha." but no interrogation!! being a loser is more respectable than being disabled. being a loser is something that doesn't make other people feel uncomfortable about their own biases. so no, no im not disabled. i don't struggle to keep friends and do the laundry and make quick trivial decisions and clean my room and brush my teeth because im autistic. it's because im a loser. it's my fault. it is what it is. at least im funny now. do you think im funny? please think im funny
Wasn't Linoleum that elf dude who fucked that dwarf
Linoleum is a kind of synthetic floor covering. You're thinking of Legoshi.
Legoshi is the wolf guy from the anime Beastars. You're thinking of Lemuria
The three essential blasphemies of contemporary gaming:
First-person shooters where you gun down angels
RPGs where you kill God at the end
Metroidvanias where you fight the Pope
Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord & Chris Miller
I genuinely can't stop thinking about these two. Help
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whether they're Good Media™ or whatever aside, I think mainstream liveplay ttrpg shows have been a fucking disaster for the hobby. it's hard to imagine anything that could have fucked the expectations:results differential for people more than having celebrities do college improv with dice (and an entire media production team behind them) and telling a generation of new players that's what tabletop gaming is like
