Random Opinions

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[need-him-pregnant-poll]

NEED👏THAT👏MAN👏PREGNANT *SEASON TWO* ROUND 4 POLL 5

TUMBLR! Who's getting pregnant?

Wei Wuxian/Wei Ying (The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation)

Starscream (Transformers)

Voting ended onJun 3

PROPAGANDA:

[Wei Wuxian]

"He’s such a sweetheart. He wants a baby. He found a child and said he birthed him himself. His husband helped take care of that child after our contestant’s death. So, he should get pregnant so they can have more children."

"He wants it soooo badly. Let him and his husband have a baby!! Give their A-Yuan a little sibling!! Or better yet, a whoooole litter of little Lans!!!"

"He literally has a kink of being bred by his hot husband, joked multiple times about birthing his and husband's adopted son, the world has magic BS in it. Case closed."

"He wants it."

"He loves kids, why not give him some more? Lan Zhan wants to baby trap him to High Heaven and drag him back to Gusu at any point in the story. Give him the happy family with lots of kids he has always craved for as an orphan."

"Danmei fans will remember how hard we fought for this extremely breedable man in Season 1. Please, friends, let me bend your ear about this man who canonically has a breeding kink (among many others)!

Wei Ying (courtesy name: Wei Wuxian) is hot shit. He knows he is, he's been canonically ranked as one of the most eligible men in the Jianghu. His love interest has been wanting to fuck him since the moment they met (sparring on the rooftops at 15 years old because WWX was trying to sneak liquor into their dry campus). I, too, have been trying to tap this goth hottie, but so far this man has remained fictional. 🫤

If "adopted-into-nobility twunks with big egos and class clown tendencies" aren't your thing, may I interest you in his alter-ego, "war hero necromancer who has experienced The Horrors and briefly delves into cannibalism"? What about "resurrected as a mentally ill twink and 'pretends' to be gay as a cover"? There's also a brief interlude of "cave-dwelling cottage-core baby-raising fugitive" in which he plants a toddler in the ground adorably, calls him a radish, and says he wants to give him many siblings. He also canonically notes that he wants a little one with his husband at the end of the novel. This is after they separately adopt the same child (that's a long story, you should read MDZS if you haven't already!!)

Please help Wei Ying get knocked up. I know this man could invent a male pregnancy talisman. He pulled his friend back from the dead and turned him into conscious corpse, I know he can find a way to build his own womb. Do it for Lan Zhan, who desperately wants to put a baby in this man. They fuck literally every day, statistically this man should get pregnant eventually. Do it so Jiang Cheng will need to hear his stupid brother complain about morning sickness and back pain and roll his eyes. Do it for all the MDZS fans who never got an extra with Wei Ying waddling around pregnant but need to see it. Fill the Jingshi with baby Lans, I know we can do it!!"

"JUST LOOK AT HIM! HE'S omega coded to his core, literally talks about birthing his son from his own body. Give him another baby!!"

"Look biologically he can’t get pregnant but I don’t think that would ever stop him from trying. If sheer force of will could knock him up he’d have a whole baseball team of kids."

"as we know, he already gave birth to Sizhui, but you can’t tell me he and Lan Wangji don’t want—deserve—an entire flock of little Lans."

"This boy stated he gave birth. He needs to provide Lan Zhan with more babies and Lan Zhan would be more than happy to breed this boy."

"This man has already proven that he can make it as a struggling mother, he deserves to be pampered for it this time. He absolutely would love to have another child and Lan Zhan would love to give him one. Wei Wuxian would be showered in luxuries and spoiled even more than he already is. They deserve this!"

"This man canonically tells his love interest he birthed the child hanging onto his leg. He wants to bear Lan Wangji’s children for him and has a massive breeding kink. Let’s let him finally win and get him pregnant."

Wei Wuxian propaganda from last season

[Starscream]

"He would be STRUTTING with it. He's gonna raise an ARMY of LOYAL UNDERLINGS and they're going to make him RULER OF THE UNIVERSE. also he would be fucking miserable and so so angry and i think that would be fun."

"I need need need my conniving flying bastard man to be pregnant, he'd be so insufferable about it. Can you imagine? TFP Starscream would use his pregnancy as a way to manipulate the autobots and pretend to "care so much about my precious baby" and then he'd stab everyone in the back. G1 Starscream would have a bunch of grand dreams of shaping his baby into the ultimate Megatron-killing weapon and then they rule the galaxy together."

"I need to see him manipulate someone into getting him pregnant only to abort it in an attempt to hurt them only to have no effect at all. I need this."

"He’s funny and endlessly miserable in most continuities and I think being pregnant would make him happy even if he complained about it at the time."

"LISTEN……. It would be funny as shit if all the time he tried to usurp Megatron he succeeded in the one thing he didn’t want and lost so disgracefully. And in some media interpretations having “kids” or pets mellows that fucked up prideful and very much traumatized abused but unwilling to admit it and look for help man."

Starscream propaganda from last season

[rotp-on-ao3-goofing-blog]

Look. Last Season's Propaganda sums it up nicely. Wei Wuxian deserves it. He deserves it as a little treat for putting up with the entirety of the Cultivation world.

And if that doesn't convince!

Imagine how Done With Everything And Everyone his brother, Jiang Cheng courtesy Wanyin, would be! Wouldn't you want this man to be tormented in the knowledge that Wei Wuxian has once again done the impossible? Torment this man in the knowledge that Wei Wuxian is once again flaunting his shamelessness?

What about tormenting Old Man Lan Qiren? Cause the old goat to qi deviate! Spit blood!

Or maybe you need a softer propaganda.

Lan Sizhui deserves siblings. He deserves to have Didis and Meimeis. Jin Ling deserves to have cousins he can actually dote on. Cousins that don't make him want to punch their face. These boys deserve to have younger children to love and stuff full of sugar before returning them to their parents. They deserve the reminder that the world can be a better place, that it can heal.

[max-the-lagomorph]

You Know You Are Vile When Max Is Disgusted By You

There's Freak and then there's just plain wrong.

You can quickly tell the Difference by if Max is horrified by it

[max-the-lagomorph]

[randomlyexplainedopinions]

@somethinginterestingithink

[somethinginterestingithink]

@randomlyexplainedopinions

For your consideration.

[rotp-on-ao3-goofing-blog]

Wow. Just.

I'm leaving reblogs on for this.

[sleepii-robo]

i like to think sam reminds max to take his meds every day

bonus:

[rotp-on-ao3-goofing-blog]

Gibibtcrxetvinn

The wind is terrifying me. Like, please, I understand that it is that time of year, but you don't need to be raging like this. We can talk it out.

[rotp-on-ao3-goofing-blog]

My husband is so fucking funny. This man, when I voiced my Concern™, told me "I'm sure it's fine."

....

Husband.

Light of my life.

Sunshine to my Snowstorm.

Father of my Goblin.

You! Are able to sleep through it! Without any sleep aids or tricks!

Of course you think it's fine!

[randomlyexplainedopinions]

LoL. LmAO, even.

[deejwalker]

"Fascism, globally, is totally not on the rise."

Ahem.

Germany. This week.

[deejwalker]

The longer clip didn't save. Those cops beat the shit out of anyone blocking the right wing assembly as they could.

[deejwalker]

Good God! Don't be a coward and reblog this shit!

The rise of Greek and German nationalism are the most cookie cutter versions of white supremacy to exist and to look away from it is 1000 percent to condone it.

It affects everyone with a conscious and working brain.

I've never given a fuck about yalls blog themes even once.

*handing you the mic* You think white supremacy is BAD. RIGHT???

[soapdispensersalesman]

I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon

[zevveli]

StumbleUpon once sent me to a supercut of Lion King, Lion King 1 1/2, and Lion King II, the main edit being that the scenes of Lion King and Lion King 1 1/2 were interspersed so that they happened in the order they actually happened.

[redpandarascal]

stumbleupon not existing anymore can be directly traced to a dramatic decline in my mental health, I could do a thesis on it.

[musashi]

bestie stumbleupon very much still exists its just called cloudhiker now. i use it all the time.

[lesbiassoon]

mini compilation of suggestions from the replies:

The Bored Button - "Press the Bored Button and be bored no more."

The Useless Web

Cloudhiker - "Discover the most interesting, weird and awesome websites of the Internet" (not really a rebrand, it's a different person running it but they have the same intention in mind)

Astronaut.io - "These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you)."

Marginalia - "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed."

[moonshynecybin]

have you guys ever seen a crocodile with its fingies out

[moonshynecybin]

[randomlyexplainedopinions]

Random Opinion #12

I have just finished my first full playthrough of Mass Effect: Andromeda. I feel a mix of emotions but I wanted to put forth my thoughts to digital paper.

Story:

The biggest source of negativity for me is the main storyline of Andromeda. While the beginning is slow, it overall is enjoyable. One thing I noticed after sometime was how similar the plot beats are to that of the first Mass Effect. Get sent to a planet on a mission that should go smooth, something goes wrong, a person in power that you could've been close to dies, sudden promotion after a bit of posturing, and lastly obtain a ship that is cutting edge. The more I thought of it, the more it reminded me that I was not only playing a game that wasn't Mass Effect 1 but it just highlighted a feeling of dissatisfaction with the overall narrative. This also includes into the Remnant, an advanced race that are no longer there for mysterious reasons (see Prothreans) or the Kett, a race of people within an empire that forcibly converts other races at a genetic level, which arguably the Reapers were also doing along with mass extinction. The main villain, the Archon, is not really relevant in the story. Sure, he'll pop in once in a while to make some vague threat or calling your efforts entertaining if useless, but that's all. More than anything, the interesting aspect of the story is just the premise. Traveling to Andromeda to explore, (unaware that the main reason was to escape the Reapers) finding homes that could be habitable, and trying to make a better life for all is really cool! It also breaks away from the seriousness of the main Trilogy and can give a more adventurous spirit of the first one. Fitting, since so much of the story already borrows from it. Yet, the game's storyline does not utilize it to its advantage. There are quests around setting up outposts, helping the colonists, and helping other people, but its not enough. You barely get to know the colonists or the Angara, the race that was in Heleus cluster first, in any meaningful way. Along with that, the outposts don't really grow that much. I'm not asking for massive cities after a certain amount of quests, but I would like to see more buildings the further you get in the game or the more you help. Maybe even have a terminal that acts like Spectre Terminal in Mass Effect 3, where you can approve certain things that will give outposts assistance from the Initiative. Some kind of tangible progress. Regardless, while the beginning is slow and the ending is disappointing, the middle does have some highlights. The first meeting withe Angara, the rescue of the Moshae, the shifting of Kadara port's owners. However, it leads to the unfortunate realization that most of the interesting/enjoyable content is not plot critical. Arguably, you can skip the entirety of Elaaden, which subsequently means never meeting the Krogran. This doesn't take into the fact that the missing Arks, outside of the Salarian one, can be skipped or ignored. Hell, the Asari Ark is needed for a damned loyalty mission, not even a plot critical one, an OPTIONAL loyalty one! While the premise lifts up the game significantly and the characters ultimately won me over, the story did not and I can confidently say its the weakest out of the Mass Effect series.

Story: 5/10

Gameplay:

While the story I have a lot to say regarding it, gameplay is somewhat light. Since it is using the frostbite engine, the combat feels fine. More often than not I had issues using melee while there was a loot box nearby, but outside of that, its fine. Gunplay is good, the combat encounters are fun, and the options for different weapons are pretty good. One other thing that I felt was positive was the fact I could actually jump! In the Mass Effect Trilogy, you couldn't. However, in this one, you have jump jets, so now you can not only jump, but also dodge. Downside, you lose a dedicated button for getting into cover, so to get in cover you just have to press yourself into a wall. It works for the most part, but it can be jank at times. I say the only complaints I really have are research/crafting and the driving of the Nomad. The research and crafting are a great idea in theory, but problem is that it feels like you don't level up enough to unlock all the tiers of research. To give an example, by the end of my playthrough I was level 64, and that is with doing side quests, combat encounters, and scanning like my life depended on it. Just felt like I was pushing a boulder up a hill. I can tell you, I was not happy. Crafting is... Okay. Just didn't like that Eezo was needed in the guns I liked, boo-hoo. Now, the Nomad driving is fun, but there is two sides to it. On one side, it drives like the Mako! You have vertically jets, a boost system, with the landscape to test it out. The flip side to this, it drives like the Mako. You will get frustrated with how often the Nomad can screw you over and be undrivable. Add that with the sheered cliff faces you may drive up and you got a recipe for anger headaches. One negative that popped up that I didn't think of, was the lack of Paragon/Renegade options. I'm not saying that system should've been here, but with the dialogue rework, allowing four different responses types, it would've been interesting to get response type specific dialogue if you favored one time the most. It would potentially make replaying more interesting.

Gameplay: 7/10

Characters:

The second source of my negative feelings for this game. I'm going to try and keep it brief, but to be put simply, I didn't like the majority of the characters in the beginning, with it ending with apathy or somewhat liking. To start off, the parthfinder you play as, Ryder? Sucks. I don't know if its the same for the female Ryder, but male Ryder just felt... Flat. It felt like whenever they were in a meeting with the crew, they were awkward, unable to actually lead them to victory. For reference, see the cutscene after recruiting Jaal to the crew. Yet, in the field, they're fine, commanding the squad with relative ease, or at least more at ease than on the ship! Now, you can argue that its simply because the situation and adrenaline is helping clear their head, but it still feels ridiculous. Especially when doing one on one convos with the crew, depending on your dialogue choices, Ryder can have moments of being wise or at least leader material, only for it to revert the next time their is a whole crew meeting. Another instance was the confrontation between Kallo and Gil. You can't even suggest to them to work together, you must pick a side. Ryder just comes off as an oddly inept lunk whom I want to stop playing as for a long time. The other characters are a little better, but a few are annoying. Peebee kinda gets on my nerves, but never to the point where I bench her permanently. Liam seems to just not get on with... Anyone, outside of Cora and Ryder. And Cora, ultimately, just reminds me of people who are mixed who are trying to piece out where they go, which did endear her slightly to me. I think the thing that gets me is that all the characters did grow on me, those mentioned above included. I truly don't know what could be done to fix my issues, or if they are issues in the first place. However, I want to say that characters like Jaal, Vetra, and Drack are well done, especially Jaal. Suvi and Kallo are also good supporting characters, who I wanted to actually talk to and get to know. I think at the end of the day, while I liked that the squadmates became more enjoyable, I wonder if they were a little more reserved in the beginning would have been a bigger benefit. However, the characters I have barely any positive things to say on, are the Kett.

Characters: 6/10

The Kett

So much to say, I had to make them an entire section. Lucky them! No preamble, they suck. They are a nothing burger of villains, to the point that if they were removed and the Roekaar were made to be the main villain force, the story would've been more interesting. New species and you have to contend with both a peaceful faction and a hostile faction? Would make the question of 'Who do you trust' in regards to the Angara more perilous. Perfect for a Pathfinder! Yet, that is not what we got. Instead, we got a faction of "We're better than you! Assimilate or DIE!" A Borg by any other name... I'm not trying to be overly critical about them, but it truly bugs me how much they seem to take after the Reapers as a galaxy spanning threat, yet they simply aren't! They're wasted potential, if only because the process of Exaltation is horrifying. The fact it flips them from a generic enemy to gun down, to one of the most monstrous factions within Mass Effect should be praised. The execution leaves much to be desired. As I mentioned, the Archon only shows up a few times, not really leaving any kind of impression. Sure, they'll taunt you, capture you once, and nearly kill you once, he is still nothing. I have no strong feelings regarding him, yet I do feel robbed of being the cause of his death. You cause it, I'll grant you that, but you don't actually fight him! You fight a bunch of Remnant in his place, the same enemy you've been fighting since the beginning of the game. He just gets shocked to death and BOOM! Story's over, thanks for playing! The Primus is also a secret villain, whom I don't care about. You only meet him once, he offers a deal. You can accept or decline, only kinda affect what happens in the final mission. You last see him as a post credit cutscene that is suppose to lead into the next game... That never got made.

The Kett: 3/10

The Remnant:

Robotic Prothreans. That's all. Right down to creating a whole new race and seeding them on other worlds. I'm sure, if a sequel was allowed, the mysteries of the Remnant would be answered, but since they weren't, the mysterious aspect becomes a benefit to them. Cool aesthetic and weapons, as well.

The Remnant: 9/10

Final thoughts:

While my time with Mass Effect: Andromeda was ultimately positive, I hate that it took me two separate times to try and playthrough it. I think if more time was spent on this entry it would not have gotten the negative reaction it received. But... I don't fully believe that either. I think it would've been hard to follow up the Mass Effect Trilogy, regardless of what was done. The unfortunate reality of it all, is that Mass Effect Andromeda is fine. As a Mass Effect game, its below average. I wish we got a follow up, or at least a DLC for the Quarian Ark (They're still lost in space). Perhaps they would have a better time with the second game, but that didn't happen. This is all we got.

Overall: 6/10. Worth getting on sale, for a playthrough.

[dateamonster]

i wish i had the post on hand but a read i really like is vampirism as disability. you cant work a regular day job, in fact you physically cannot leave your home most hours of the day, you have specific dietary restrictions that alienate you from the social act of breaking bread, you feel condemned to navigate the world at its fringes, maybe your body wont change and develop the way it does for your peers, maybe your body is changing very rapidly into something that frightens people.

its tricky territory because i feel like the trope of the vampire as parasite is very dominant in the cultural consciousness and thats obviously not a connection i wish to draw, but like, you know who else the capitalist ableist world treats as drains on Normal society? in a narrative where the vampire character(s) arent being played as villains i think theres a lot of fertile ground here.

[teaboot]

I think it would be a genuinely fascinating angle on writing vampire characters and an amazing way to discuss abled society’s tendency to relegate disabilities to “victim”, “parasite”, “monster”, and “pariah” categories depending on what they hope to gain from it.

“good” vampires are sympathetic and tragic, even sexy. “Bad” vampires are selfish and draining (literally) and ‘take up resources at other’s expense’, as the argument goes. Both ends parallel common talking points.

Hell, inspiration porn, unrealistic goals, fetishization, demonization, alienation, othering, the living ‘warning’, victimhood, survivorship, moralization- you could discuss a LOT about disabled experiences by using Vampires as the widely-palatable allegory and I kind of very much want to read that

[bluebeetle]

i saw some comments on tiktok where people were talking bout how they found tumblr too hard to use and part of it being that there was no lack of dates so “what if you reblog or like something from five years ago?!” 

buddy… we have posts circulating still from 2011, its literally just how it is

[do-what-i-yoinky]

Being on tumblr for years like:

[weaselsblaugh]

this post is 2 years old and it’s only going to get funnier as it gets older

[unyieldingsilence]

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[marichild]

five songs i've been listening to lately!

thanks for the tag @moondal514 :D and yes it is extremely good you have been converted into alienstageism. welcome.... anyway

赐我 (Blessings) — Xiao Shi Gu Niang

Secret Story of the Swan — IZ*ONE

春想 (Haruomoi) — krage

红绝 (Red Devastation) — Hu Xia

HOMESICK — MICO

3/5 being tgcf osts.... 💀💀 okay no comment

tagging @nirambles @witchcraftandgeekness @itsukashima @overthinkingmoth @sweetasticks @xpedience @5dtetris-revisited & anyone else who'd like to participate; but no pressure!! <3

[sweetasticks]

five songs i've been listening to lately!

1. For You by Tonight Alive

2. All The Things She Said by t.A.T.u.

3. Behind Blue Eyes by Limp Bizkit

4. Linger by The Cranberries

5. Who We Are by Imagine Dragons

@somethinginterestingithink @barely-an-artist

[somethinginterestingithink]

Five Songs I've Been Listening To Lately!

Yayyyy!! Thanks for the tag!! 💖

1. Bad Day by Daniel Powter

2. Go!!! by FLOW

3. Lily by Alan Walker

4. Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time) by Elton John

5. Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) by Train

Tag!: @cypherial @randomlyexplainedopinions and whoever else!

[randomlyexplainedopinions]

Five Songs I've been listening to lately.

'The Birds don't sing' by Clipse

'Been good to know ya' by Marcin Przybylowicz

'Good Luck, Babe!' by Chappell Roan

'That's what I like' by Bruno Mars

'Rage of Sparta' by Gerard Marino

[ilepigg]

father daughter duo

[spicyyhobbits-deactivated202411]

Reblog to give your mutuals a mini pumpkin in the palm of their hands. 🎃

[finjico]

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[dreemmachine]

just my humble attempt at raging against the machine