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i feel like this author just finished taking a gender 201 course and like. it has fundamentally changed their interpretation of the world and made them a more compassionate person, but Also i'm over here in the 400 levels and really not reading this fic for a lecture

#so far it has been reasonable and not obtrusive #but unfortunately i am now extremely distracted by the concern that it will not stay that way #sorry this one is definitely mostly me being pissy #probably if this were a fandom i am more invested in i'd be more focused on characters and plot than on brief soapbox #but it is not and i really am #hopefully this post is the end of it bc if they get more lectury i Am going to come back and reblog this to complain

"too lazy to include translations...": we have different priorities but you know what fair enough

"...and also i think you should figure it out yourself": oh. nevermind. i think you're a dick.

you get italics Or bold, Not Both

#why.#i could find something to turn off the bold or convert it to italic or whatever #but i could also just pass!#bye!

you are so lonely, aren't you

#vagueblogging at an interaction on a different platform under a different name lmao

i strongly dislike when 'releasing feelings into the force' is, like, an actual space magic act, rather than a metaphorical description of a normal human behavior

#you acknowledge it and then you let it go!#you feel that but you don't have to let it affect your behavior!#you steady yourself in your desired outcome and methods!!#not aimed at a specific fic just a pattern i don't like #feels like it sets jedi as completely different when the point is that. they're not.#they're people

saw 'homewrecker' applied to an adopted child in a tag and had a Viscerally negative reaction

#tagging out #i know it's meant in good fun but #no?#no?????#homewrecker can Only be applied to a romantic and/or sexual relationship #or the suspicion of one #no children!!!!#like it's really the fault of the person who's cheating and lying more than the person they're cheating with anyway #but it is definitely! absolutely! not the fault of a child #i think it's the combo of Both 'outside the limited subset of applicable relationships' and 'implication of blaming a child'#that's hitting me so strong #plus like. the lowkey implication of a wildly inappropriate relationship with a child #'wildly inappropriate' feels like an understatement but i don't have a better phrase atm #and i wanna be done with this

spent five minutes trying to remember what the word the author meant to use was

#they used ludicrous #they meant lucrative #i knew what they meant but i got super distracted anyway bc i had to remember the right word

i feel like "canonical character death" only applies as a replacement for any other character death tag when the character dies in the same way as canon :/

#hm maybe it was p close to canon tho #i just wasn't expecting it and it made me super sad

jesus fuck if they're wearing armor then they wouldn't be wearing shoulder-length hair loose, much less waist-length

fic is fine so far, but i really don't need an infodump on the artistry of translation thanks

#either author wants to be a translator #or possibly it's a reaction to perpetual discussions on Not Being A Shithead to Fan Translators

....this author has issues with hierarchy that lead to. somewhat unrealistic attitudes from the main character

#it is a military context #probably i would care less if the lives of the foot soldiers were weighed the same as the named characters #(they Super Aren't)#(sorry buddy you can't be all 'everyone's equal!!' when you're setting Actual Lives as cannon fodder)#(god this already bothered me in the GAME with GAME MECHANICS)#fuck am i pissed enough about this to stop reading?#like i won't stop but probably i should stop #ugh there's so much good time travel badass happening but at the expense of So Many Families #who aren't given even the slightest passing thought #this kinda shit usually gets worse and i really oughta stop now but it's not at my breaking point #(yet.)#oh boy i am So Bitter over this wow #nameless! does not mean less of a person!#yeah mc can be a sentimental hypocrite over who they choose to murder sure #but you can't have the narrative be totally cool with that #unless you want people to send you that post that's like 'i don't know how to explain to you that you should care about other people'

man i just managed to make myself get over person on twitter being dismissive of my current hyperfocus fave, and then i ran into the crosspost on tumblr and i guess i scrolled too far today!!!

#ahhhh is there? a way to filter keywords but only from a specific user?#i don't wanna unfollow them over this petty of shit can they just. never mention his name again #aughhhh it's their Own Personal Blog and i Can't Dictate What They Post #but i wish i had a better way to filter out the one thing they ever post that distresses me #(tho only bc i take it stupidly personally)#(but also i haven't figured out how not to D:)

the tag "my [character] doesn't have rape fantasies" even though that's. explicitly a thing for that character in canon? like. i understand not having them! but how is that. relevant. having rape fantasies isn't a moral judgment.

#aha okay that's why this tag bothers me: it implies the moral judgment of all the fuckin antis #tagging out #also i was never gonna read it bc it's not focused on the character i'm looking for But #this is more of a turn off for me than a suicide tag!!!#(((((:#okay yeah this deals w rape and trauma? but those are still. not directly connected to rape fantasies.#you can have rape fantasies but that doesn't mean it isn't rape!!#it doesn't mean you can't tell the difference or can't have empathy!!#anyway my baseline for fandom nowadays is Do Not Trust to a much greater degree than it used to be #rape cw #like tbf on the suicide tag being less of a turn off: i was hoping the comfort would be worth the hurt #it super wasn't for me! but i'm still more likely to reread that than this bullshit

okay that was cute but? they had sex?? in someone else's living room?????

#alcohol is not enough of an excuse oh my fucking god?#jesus i gotta go do something else for a bit bc i am Not Over That enough to focus on another fic #they never discuss it!#they're just fucking in his brother's living room!

i generally respect this person and usually agree with their opinions but there's one fandom where they have some Bad Takes

#tbf i am not far in my reread to be confident on one point #but so far it's hearsay and super vague shit and we fuckin know this bitch is an unreliable narrator #and then the other just. misses the emotional mark so much?#the issue is not that one of the people important to him killed another of the people important to him #but bc he was a part of the way the murderer got access to murder method #and blames himself for it #it's not just the betrayal!#it's his feeling of culpability!#anyway they just seem. v dismissive of those to characters #which is kinda whatever for the latter #but the first one is my obsessive fave and i am! aghast!#anyway i hope they don't talk about my fave much in the future #bc i don't wanna unfollow them over such a small percentage of their content #except it distresses me an unreasonable amount so i would lmao

oh no this fic has a Family Drama scene starting with one character not wanting to get out of their car and go in and now i'm remembering how my brother always spent like fifteen minutes sitting in his car before coming in and worrying

#i don't think that was his reasoning? but what if it Was

bitch you were Dead and you dumb fuckers weren't even together before you died, you have No Right to get upset at him for fucking someone else

#to Be Upset yeah #emotions are valid or whatever #but to be upset At is a different matter #also it straight up feels ooc for him lmao

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