#personal bias

[nephilimeq]

You know what would be amazing? A Teen Wolf fandom event entirely dedicated to the characters whose actors refused to be in the Teen Wolf Movie (Stiles, Kira, Derek, Braeden, Theo). Just to spite Jeff Davis & the talentless, unemployed ones who signed on it

Yes and no.

I would love to see them do something together--

--but without Theo. Or Braeden. I'm sorry, but I hated Theo's character with a violent passion because of the fact that they accepted him into the pack after all the shit that he did, and Braeden was just a bad character. Personal bias, maybe, but I hated her.

If they did it, I would want it to be in an almost TikTok style, where Stiles is making videos of the three of them (Stiles, Derek, and Kira) hanging out doing stupid shit, like playing video games and trying out new bars together, seeing how much he has to get the two supernatural beings to drink before they start to get drunk, putting all of it on Derek's tab.

I want to see Derek taking Kira under his wing and showing her how to be comfortable with her kitsune side.

I want to see Stiles stuck in a cuddle pile on the couch with Derek and Kira on either side of him, nearly smothering him as they curl around him like the puppy and fox that they are.

Derek and Kira deserve to be happy, along with Stiles.

[lilisouless]

There are relationships in media that i am 100% sure the only reason the fandom AND the writers ship them is because they are the main characters and nothing else.

Which may be because i always get very skeptical the first time i encounter the main couple in a fandom.Luckily some of them had won me over (ex: peraltiago subverted my expectations)

[lonelinessisadisease]

Who are you if not critical to yourself? What value do your opinions hold if you have never once considered why you keep them? You have hoarded your thoughts with the conservation of a gluttonous dragon, and your ideas have grown culture. Fungus eats your innards. Your lack of self-reflection is moldering your values. 

Your inability to look beyond what you desire to be true has skewed your capacity to respond with empathy. Your ideology has morphed into a prison. Your heart is rotting from the inside out.

You do not notice. You have covered all your mirrors with cloth. You are dreading the juncture where you cannot refute yourself, where you are made known.

Your luster is fading. It is being replaced by a changeling force. The capacity for evil grows in places where it is least noticed. Your lungs are expanding. Your breath tastes of justice. In your hands is a knife.

You are me. I’m scared.

[eliotandquentinsittinginatree]

Quentin Badass Motherfucking Coldwater

You know, on a first glance, it is so very easy to dismiss Q as someone fragile.

He has clinical depression. We see him sad and despondent so very often. We know he tried to kill himself before.  He doesn’t strike you as a fighter. He doesn’t seem like a leader. He isn’t the most powerful. He isn’t the smartest. He doesn’t appear to be the most resourceful. 

And yet.

Three times.

There have been three people who he loves wholeheartedly, who had been turned against him. 

Niffin Alice. Who he didn’t let go of, who he refused to let be banished. Who tormented him. 

Shadeless Julia. Who used him. Who was ready to sacrifice him to Reynard without a second thought.

Monster Eliot. Weeks of trauma, physical and psychological. 

“A monster with his face and his hands.”

Three times.

Three people he truly loved.

And he kept going, kept fighting, kept believing in them. Through all the doubts and fear and pain and tears and heartache. Despite the hopelessness, and the broken brain, and being so god damn fucking tired. 

He did this three times.

Quentin Coldwater was the fucking strongest.

[siempreuniverse-blog]

Impressions

You can’t believe everything someone says about a person... Regardless of whether it’s coming from your best friend, your boyfriend, even your mom... the person you trust the most. Because the truth of the matter is: Everyone has their own personal bias. 

People aren’t one dimensional. There are different parts to each person. What one person thinks about an individual can be drastically different from your opinion of them, even though it’s the same person.

I remember reading a post that said, “Every person you meet, have a relationship with or make eye contact on the street with creates a version of ‘you’ in their heads”. We are not the same person to everyone. There are different versions of me that exist out there in the universe. Who I am to my cousin is not the same person I am to some girl I went to high school with, to my dad, or even who I am to myself. I feel like we don’t realize how great of an impact we leave. Everywhere we go, we leave impressions. Probably even the barista at Starbucks has some sort of idea as to “who I am”. So... why, as people, are we so quick to make judgments and assumptions about others? Every person’s experience with someone is different and we need to learn to open up our minds. For example, your best friend can completely despise a girl but you shouldn’t hate on that person based on that simple fact. Learn to give people the benefit of the doubt and find out for yourself. Because if you think about it, someone is probably doing the same exact thing with you. Only you truly know the true version of “you” that exists. Try to treat people with that same concept. Be open and search for the good in others. And lastly, don’t believe everything you hear.

[ladylike-foxes]

We're driving through Mississippi, and if you weren't aware, it's still 1996 here.

[aky-matsy]

Hatsune Miku Project Diva Future Tone

Do you like rhythm games? Cool. Do you like underage girls singing and potentially dancing suggestively in skimpy outfits? If so, you may enjoy Hatsune Mike Project Diva Future Tone, and also please go to jail.

So recently I've been playing Hatsune Mika Project Diva Future Tone with a few of my friends, and I have to say, if you can get past the whole thing of sexualized children, it's actually a fairly fun game. I'm the type who has always enjoyed rhythm games, but has never been particularly good at them. Ever since childhood with games like Guitar Hero and DDR, and into my older years with Stepmania and OSU.

Not too long ago, I spent quite a bit of time playing Melody's Escape, and enjoyed it uite a bit, but eventually grew away from it. When my friend introduced me to Project Diva, it sort of helped to fill the void.

For those of you who don't know, Project Diva (at least the console version), is a lot like OSU, but also Stepmania, and it's played with a controller instead of a mouse. You play to vocaloid music with music videos that range from realistically calm to absolutely mind-breaking. Something like someone singing and dancing in the middle of the field, to a teenage girl jumping and dancing across light-speed psychadelic shapes on the acid trip of the century. Or of course a sixteen year old vampire walking around a gothic castle acting cool as hell. Oh and one where there's a sixteen year old girl slowly committing suicide in the most dramatic fashion possible.

All of these music videos are fronted by a rhythm game that is simple yet strangely challening. Of course, a console based rhythm game like this could never really rival Stepmania or OSU in terms of difficulty cap, but it definitely proves to be a very brutal challenge for anyone who is not adept at this variety of game.

The game has issues but they're all quite minor. Little things like sometimes janky animations and bizarre body movements. However, aside from that, the game does very well at everything it tries to do. It's a simple but enjoyable game, and definitely something I would recommend to any vocaloid fans I may know who don't already play it.

I'm not entirely sure why, but I find Project Diva to be oddly enthralling. I find myself playing it for hours at a time, despite it being the type of thing I would not normally get too engaged in. Perhaps it's just the charming, upbeat nature of the game that invokes some sense of euphoria. Or, perhaps it's because I've grown to associate it with the one group of people I actually look forward to seeing regularly. Either way, I feel like I enjoy this game way more than I have any natural right to.

[easternhognose]

Because I am autistic and also weird AF I have a little game I like to play in my head. I've been playing this game for a few years and it doesn't really have any rules but the premise is somewhat like people watching but with a goal.

What do I notice about that person first; A brightly colored shirt, really long hair, an interesting hat, ect

Then second; blue eyes, high heels, big hoop earrings

Then third; a scar on their forehead, crooked tooth, mismatched socks

I usually stop at three and then try and make a story about how that person came to have all those things or make up a story in which those are the only traits a police sketch artist has to draw a suspect. Recently I've started playing a new version which is just me trying to examine my personal bias. Because that man had an unkempt beard what are my initial thoughts about his class status? Do I think that woman is trashy because she was yelling at the cashier or did her bad spray tan and bleach blonde hair prompt my brain into disliking her before I knew she was being rude? Did I notice that the woman across the street had a walker and then noticed that she had a beautiful coat? Why did the walker come first when if it was an able bodied person then them being able bodied would not be something I thought about? It can be a fun way of examining internal basis and help you recognize unknown ableism, classism, racism, sexism, ect but people with OCD (me) should be careful not to do it too often or it just becomes an obsession with pure and morally correct thoughts.