#rant response

[bethanydelleman]

Thank you for contradicting the bedtime post so I didn't have to! Kids crave routine! Even teenagers crave routine! It's a basic part of classroom management - set up a routine and stick to it. The more predictable it is, the happier your kids will be and the easier your day will be. When you change up the routine without proper notice, you start getting behavior issues - especially from kids who don't have routines at home and are craving them. This isn't saying not to take feedback or to adjust the routine based on observations or to give kids more autonomy and responsibility, but patterns and schedules make us feel safe. Giving kids space to make one decision at a time and learn from it within a safe framework is part of raising and teaching happy, healthy, independent kids who will be able to construct their own framework when they leave home.

You don't just pull the entire scaffold apart underneath them. That's no way to teach or parent. Completely the wrong lesson to take from the camp bedtime example.

Also, you are absolutely right and parents need their kids to have bedtime too, and anyone who says otherwise has never had a child. Mine is four now and I have absolutely got to have a break from time to time to be a human being and not a parent proving attention and reinforcement/servant providing snacks and drinks and books.

If I am to give that post the highest amount of grace, they are talking about older kids who need some freedom. And that is true. But I've mostly worked with younger children, I ran a home daycare and I babysat young children/helped my parents with young foster kids. Those kids really need routine. On a Monday, after fun and being out of routine all weekend (which is good for them too in small doses) you can see the kids relax into their daily schedule.

I have seen parents who go overboard, enforcing schedules that are too rigid and don't allow for fun (staying up late when friends visit or for holidays). But in general, having structure and bedtime is an important part of their development. It's something most adults do for themselves. We'd hardly do that if it was so evil and oppressive.

Anyway, I agree with everything you said. And yes to having me time at night. So important. Vital even.

[subbyonsite]

People love a free handout - whether it’s food, booze, drugs, or nudes.

They have this stupid sense of entitlement that just because someone is slutty or wants to post their body online, that they DESERVE more free shit.

NO YOU FUCKING DO NOT.

You are LUCKY someone so pretty even shares as much as she does with you. You are BEYOND BLESSED that a caramel skin princess like her would show off as much as she does.

If you want more, you have to fucking EARN it. And is it REALLY too much to ask for a small gift or a reward once in a while.

You give a dog a treat for giving you a paw, you give a tip to a waiter for a job well done, but you dr a draw the line at a supremely hot chick showing off her petite work of art of a body for you?

Tell me you’re sick, broke cucks without telling me you are sick, broke cucks.

What a pathetic existence. Good on this princess to block and delete you all.

You deserve better my baby girl. So much better.

- ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

What anon❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹(aka my loveliest friend ever) said😌

[starsaver94]

Can I rant a bit, love?

Is it just an 'accepted fact' that Nagito is a yandere? Like.....did I miss a chapter somewhere in SDR2?

When??? How??? Gimme one--ONE--example of how he was a yandere? Whenever someone told him to shut up or go away, he did! He even turned out invitations to hang out with his classmates and stayed away from them when asked to. Nagito can take a hint and even acknowledges that no one wants him. He accepts it. It's......very dismal to say the least, but if definitely doesn't scream 'yandere'. And he never stalked Hajime or invaded his privacy. Yes, Nagito can be creepy, but he wasn't a yandere towards Hajime, someone who he canonicaly has romantic feelings for

Idk seeing blogs saying "Well Nagito is already kinda a yandere" just makes me so confused, as if I missed something in the game. And I feel like it's very a harmful stereotype as well. Komaeda is also canonically mentally ill. And the fact people romanticize mentally illness into an automatic 'yandere trope' is just disgusting

Idk, maybe I just feel this way cause the majority of the fandom calls Kagehara 'insane' or 'mentally unstable' and uses that as an excuse to make him a 'yandere', and he's in the same basket as Komaeda. Parts of the fandom really disgust me in that sense. I'm also mentally ill myself, so it's just so so terrible to group people like that as automatic yanderes.

Honestly, I really think it's because most people just like to generalize him. It happens with a lot of characters in a lot of different fandoms, not just Danganronpa.

When it comes to Nagito, people who don't know much about his character would most likely take the moments where he "snaps" (ex: during trial 1, when he blew up the hotel and threatened the rest of the survivors with 'bombs') and will think that's how he normally acts.

There are a lot of people in different fandoms that seem to think that insane=yandere/the character has yandere-like tendencies.

Something that came to my mind earlier is that almost every character in Danganronpa has some kind of screw loose. While there are mentally ill characters like Nagito, Junko, and maybe Kokichi (I'm not sure if Kokichi is mentally ill or not, forgive me in advance). There are other characters that seemed to be lost in their own little world (Hifumi, Gundham, and Himiko). Not to mention that the other characters from DR2 (aside from Hajime, Chiaki, and Mahiru) seem to a little bit off in the head.

And I personally also dislike the insane=yandere trope as well. This, along with other tropes that make mentally ill people seem just quirky or as dangerous are very toxic and could possibly have negative effects on how mentally ill people are treated in the real world.

Hope this makes sense. (heh… Hope…)

[amazildoessomethingstupid]

We Did It Bois!

WE GOT DAT ANON HATE!  I actually had to double-check cause I wasn’t sure if I turned on asks for this blog, apparently not.  Fuck, man I’ve been missing out!  This mad lad had to go over to False Idol to leave a comment anonymously.  And since I don’t want that blog getting cluttered let’s respond to it over here  shall we?  Let’s see what this man has to say.

Oh I’m sorry, was my use of the “N-word” inappropriate?   I thought it was quite clear, I was making reference to a joke that’s been a part of the public conscious and internet culture for like a decade now. And I’m absolutely certain if I used that old artifacted to shit meme you wouldn’t be offended!

Oh wait, no. 

There we go.  That cool?  You get the joke? 

I mean, it’s literally the same words, same usage, same context, and demeanor that’s meant to be conveyed!  I actually shy away from using slurs in a purely derogatory way, because that’s not fun or funny.  And if you didn’t catch on, the whole point of these rants is to have fun, while tearing into the comic where it deserves!  But oh no, I can’t say the N-Word even if its clearly done as reference to a popular meme!  Even if it’s done in a positive sense, in approval of a character and their actions!  How dare I as a brown man use the N-Word!  That’s only for black people!  I should stick to the slang words of my own culture that no one gets or would interpret as a joke, right you fucking cuxika haoli?!

And as for the cocksleeve comment, oh sure.  I’m sorry, did I hurt the feelings of this fictional teenage girl?  By calling her a shameful lazy plot device?    Forget the fact I was carpet bombing these “kids” with F-bombs like LBJ in ‘nam, calling a fictional girl in a comic a narrative cocksleeve is just too far!  Even though I clearly stated what the term represented, and how it’s not actually a sexual term in the context of the rant, this is clearly me calling this fictional girl a sextoy.  How dare I?  I should use a softer word, or descriptor in this instance, to lessen the impact of its use, make it less intuitive as to what it means, like all the words you people come up with! But oh don’t worry, I know what you’re saying.  Alright!  Fine!  It’s a harsh word!  I even stated as such in the rant, I should’ve used softer words.  Kinda like how my friend says I shouldn’t call Paulo a Cop-Out Gay, but instead use the term “queerbaiting” because that definitely has the same impact and gets the point across so much better.  

And while we’re on the subject of fictional character ages, you do realize Sam (the cat I use to represent myself in these rants) is like 13, right?  And hell, in the rant  I’ve not only battered her to a broken pulp.  

Bu I also shot this fictional 13 year old girl in the face!

drink alcohol

and attempt suicide! (although Taeshi’s done that too...)

Oh man I actually forgot where I was in this ask, what’re they going on about now?

If you’re talking about the reaction images, you do realize that these are all speed sketches right?  

I literally made this whole page of reaction Sams in like an hour.  Thus the lack of polish, or that much detail.  This entire series is just a fun side thing to break up monotony (and punish myself for when I start to slack off).  Not to mention, if being good at an art medium was the only way you could be a good critic of said medium, then I guess Red Letter Media, Doug Walker,and Brad Jones are all hacks.  Not to mention all the other independent movie, music, and art reviewers too.  

(although I’m sure you’d probably be the guy who’d argue that RLM are all hacks anyway)

and I like how you’ll insult my art and writing, but the only actual complaints you have are on the words I’ve used.  And a lame insult to my art.  And you say I don’t know how to write a story, but you don’t insult any part of my story or writing.

You don’t even have to look at all of it either!  I had a little snippet right in the rant!  It’s right there, you think I can’t write a story, or character?  Why don’t you criticize these scenes I pulled from my own comic?  And don’t worry, I’ll let you critique it even if you draw worse than me!  Cause I’m just a nice guy like that~

But I see you’ve written more, so let’s see what that’s about. 

Excuse you!  I’ll have you know I’ve been drawing these fancomics for almost FIVE years now!

And yeah, guy.  It’s called perseverance and dedication to the craft.  It’s what happens when you have a hobby that you love, and spend time working on.  It’s how  you can go from this 

to this

From this

to this

I know 4 years seems like a long time to progress, and it is.  But y’know what?  That’s nothing to be ashamed of.  I’ve spent 4 long, straight years on this stuff, and that’s a feat that too few artists are able to accomplish. I’ve seen so many astists and webcomics, fan projects, fall apart and not even reach one year before they burn themselves out or give up.  Artists much greater than me, who honestly deserved to have their stories told, and visions seen.  And you can say whatever you want about me, but y’know what? I can proudly say, I finished a long-form story comic.  I said what I wanted to say, I made the comic I wanted to make.  And that’s something that too many artists don’t live to see.  And hell, that’s something Taeshi can’t say!

I still have work to do, (clean up my lines, work on backgrounds more, be better at plotting scenes...) but I know that if I keep pushing at this rate, and bear in mind what I should improve; the next 4 years will only get better.  The only reason I’m not better now, is because of my time on the forum and being pressured by people like you to give up and not pursue what I love doing.  Instilling a sense of insecurity and self-doubt I didn’t have before.  But then again, it’s because of that, that I learned to look so deeply into my own stories to figure out what’s wrong and work on it.   To look at BCB and see its own flaws and to call Taeshi out on that, and to not make those same mistakes myself.  

and even better

It’s what’s made me smart and tough enough to not just take a punch, but throw it back at you. 

But now to the final comment!

“No note Joe”?

Oh my god, what do you even say to something like that?  Is that really the best insult nickname you could come up with?  Is this the kind of lame ass insults you make when you restrict what words you can use?  Jesus!  That doesn’t even make sense!  I know what a one-note person means, I can assume what a no-note person means, but I don’t know what that would have to do with however many people actually care about my art.  Dude are you okay?  I mean this in a serious way, I don’t mean to insult really but...

Are you mentally deficient? are you actually retarded? If so, I admit I do feel a little bad about this.

but also 

> Only you, and what, three other people give a shit about your stank artwork and attitude. 

BRUH

SuitCase WISHES there was only 3 people who are like me. 

But that’s the problem isn’t it?

You really believe that I’m the only one who thinks this shit.  You honestly think that I’m just a random outlier who is just bitching on the internet.  Let me tell you, I’m not alone.  And for a long time, I thought I was.  When I started doing comics almost 5 years ago, fully believing I was alone.  But what I learned from those 4 years making comics, working on the canon, and now doing these rants was that I wasn’t.  That there are people who feel these frustrations.  Not all of them, maybe not to the same degree as me, but they are there.  And what’s sad is that I’m probably the first and only person they’ve heard talk about this shit.  To say the things they’ve been thinking to themselves, and hiding from people like you, because they know if they tried to voice their opinions they’d get shut down the same way.  I’m not championing anyone, I’m not trying to be a role model, or want to be some icon of controversy or dissent.  

I just got no more fucks to give, and a lot of shit to say.

I’d also like to mention, because someone brought up the point that this person is probably just a troll.  And I shouldn’t respond, but calling/assuming someone’s a troll and ignoring them is exactly what SuitCase does, and if there was someone I’d like to think I’m better than, it’d be fucking SuitCase.  Besides, I’ve already got the next update for False Idol colored and lined, and ready for words, and the next update after that sketched up and ready for lines.  So I can spend the time to meme the hell out of an asshole.  And if you think I ain’t gonna take the opportunity to make fun of a guy who can’t properly criticize, argue, or even insult me.  

Then you really.

on some shit.

(Part 2 of the rant will be coming soon)

[ironclawallosaur]

Some responses to 5am rants now that I’m once again feverish during the early morning. In own post because the reblogs forked:

@proletarianprogramme - But that’s the point of the ramble. Planned economies, including communism and fascism, tend to get upheld as if the ones doing the planning are infallible, both logically and morally. Mao, for instance, genuinely thought that killing off the field sparrows would increase crop yields, thus freeing more people to do the “Great Leap Forward”. Instead, killing off the sparrows resulted in a pest insect boom, resulting in famine.

“Planning to do something about waste” could mean “planning to put it in a hole in the ground”, if the leader is corrupt or the plan is short-term, or “planning to use a technology that appears clean and safe right now but causes dire, unpredictable catastrophes 50 years later”.

I’m not averse to a planned economy per se, I’m averse to the idea that a plan, by existing, is inherently good. Any planned economy that gets implemented needs to have a certain degree of flexibility, allowing for adaptation as unforeseen events crop up, but flexibility in and of itself can lead to the plan getting corrupted.

@lets-all-blaze-together I definitely recognize that as the core of the problem. However, as with implementing utopic anarchy, the problem becomes “how do you assure that what’s happened so many times in the past doesn’t happen this time”. One possibility would be to make communist rhetoric calmer and less polarizing, but that tends to bog any revolution down.

@shituationist I’m not sure democracy is a cure, though. People tend to be fairly short-sighted, meaning that as long as the polluting effect of a technology is far away and the benefit is closeup. Accountability is necessary for justice, in the absence of perfect leaders, but it also has side-effects, namely that unpleasant but beneficial changes (banning plastics, for example) can be seen as grounds for removal.

A sea-change in societies values could make this work, but there’s the issue of how to cause one without methods like reeducation camps or childhood indoctrination, which both look bad and can backfire spectacularly.

And I’ll look into that book when I’m done with what I’m reading right now.

@hispanictwink I literally have no idea if this is a parody or serious lmao.

[thewallpaperconspiracy]

sherlolly-ship replied to your post: Haters

Omg that was a weird spelling mistake… I meant thank you for posting this…

Thanks for the support! I usually just ignore the hate, but the original poster in question is (according to her blog) a 30-something professional who really should know better and needs to grow up. We just wanna enjoy the sherlolly tag without fear!

[randomthingieshere]

There's a lot of hate on bronies because of that 5% of the fandom that's really creepy and messed up. But I think all fandoms have that "side we don't talk about" and I feel bad for the 95% of the fandom that just genuinely enjoys the show. I think the problem is that their 5% is just really, REALLY disturbing, so it's getting a lot of attention. I'm not much of a fan myself, but I agree that judging the entire fandom for it isn't fair. Most of the bronies I've met are pretty cool people.

I agree with you mostly. I however, still don't think it's fair to hate on something because it's disturbing. The main issue with PrincessMolestia is that kids were stumbling upon it, unwittingly. I don't fully know what was on the blog, since I only learned of it's existence from a post that said it was shut-down.

I've got brony friends [and other non male-identifying friends] who are probably in what you would consider that 5% of the fandom. They're really awesome people. I find what they're into kind of weird, but there is no reason to judge them for it. They aren't hurting anyone.

[tempest2004]

So, I put some information on a post about gender in Transformers and that side of every fandom popped up.

Response 1: The bolded. That’s the first wrong I find in your post. And maaaaaaaany follow. Like, please go refresh your memory or read up, because, and I really don’t mean to be rude, you don’t know what you are talking about. At all.

I'm sorry, like, did I, like, offend you, like, with getting just one thing wrong?

Would it have been difficult for you to link me, instead of suggesting I either refresh my memory (which would have been impossible, seeing as I was born in 1989 after the series came out) or reading up, which I don't have the time for.

I don't know what I'm talking about what? You don't mention what I don't know about. Could you be more specific, please? Maybe I don't know that the femme fought a guerilla war on Cybertron during the great war? Because they did. Like, please go refresh your memory.

 Maybe that Vector Sigma plays a role in the actual creation of Transformers, but that I had his exact role wrong?

Because it seems to me you're stuck on me being wrong, rather than being helpful and linking me information to help me learn.

And telling someone to go refresh their memory; read up and tell them they don't know what they're talking about isn't rude? You have a very strange definition of not being rude.

Response 2: Dude, protoforms didn't appear until Beast Wars in the mid-90s. Get your facts straight. (this is paraphrased because I accidently deleted the ask, I apologize if I got anything wrong in it).

Oh, darling. I know that. I was there when it started.

I made the apparently false assumption that they must have a history behind them. Because brand new technology just pops up on Cybertron that does not have external stimuli and/or reason. I.E, Beast Forms to defend from raw energon fields; Optimus being revived in the new series as a flyer to combat Megatron and so on.

I made the assumption that Protoforms had to have been around before Beast Wars because that was set (I'm not entirely sure of the timeline here, do forgive me, o all knowing knowers) after the Great War. And the protoforms that the Maximal and Predacons had weren't exactly unique, even to each other.

And yes, I do know that the remaining Decepticons had been integrated (sort of) into Autobot society after the Great War.

~~

So, to sum up, I do know my Transformers. I am on occasion wrong.

And it's okay to be wrong, I promise.

Maybe I don't know every little nuanced, anal retentive detail of Transformers. Maybe I haven't been there since the very beginning, but with the exception of Armada and Energon (which I didn't like because of the kids) I have seen all of the series'. I even (kind of) acknowledge Beast Machines.

Before leaping down someones throat to point out how wrong they are, maybe you could try finding the right information and linking them to it.

It only takes a few seconds.

See? http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page

Honestly, I don't appreciate the fact that no one seemed interested in educating me in where I was wrong, but more in informing me of the fact that I was wrong.

I'm also going to turn the Anon on my ask off. I don't really need any more negativity in my life.