#unimportant rant

[deviousdevilx]

I do not have Tiktok, but I watch a lot of Youtube and have seen this on other social media of people complaining about "Booktok" and the genre dubbed "dark romance"

and like

I can't speak on these published (self published or not) "dark romance" books but as someone who DOES read horror, and fanfic with ~dark themes~, that include non-con, violence, abuse etc, are people too worried/making a bigger deal than it actually is about the "influences" of this, I believe niche corner of the romance novel genre?

Like I do firmly believe fiction can impact real life, but not in a simplistic way, it's waay more nuance. I firmly also believe you can read dark kinky smutty romance novels or fanfic and also be an ardently against domestic abuse and violence in real life. Enjoying certain things in the confines of fiction doesn't equal real beliefs or are a reflection of someone's true morals. See all the die-hard conservative folks who LOVE Star Wars and Star Trek, while apparently never holding any of the anti-war, or progressive values shown in these franchises.

The way each person interacts with a piece of fiction will VARY. So I just wonder are people just pearl clutching when discussing dark romances "potential harm" to readers?? Is there any merit? And no I don't equate genuine criticism of any work or genre as the same as pearl clutching or moralizing, but I also worry because a genre is popular with women, it suddenly starts to be viewed with deep suspicion and loathing. Like women readers are too "naive" or ill equipped to handle dark topics, and separate fiction from reality or possess any nuance in what they read and watch.

Good heavens the women folk are into kinky/dark sexual things in their romance! Their weak minds with be corrupted!

It sometimes feels that way to me seeing how people react to it.

[r-aindr0p]

Uhhghfdss uhh going to a (themed) bday party this evening... Been like a deer in the headlights for a week now because I'm bracing myself for something that's very probably far nicer than I imagine but ough.... kinda panicking so I do nothing instead of organizing myself :)))))

[kieranscaren]

i think it’s so silly most abby fics have such emphasis on size difference. like i recovered from an ed and i think it’s so interesting how much people dwell on wanting to be the smaller, (though she is rather big, obviously!) to the point where every paragraph has to have a sentence like “y/n was just so small compared to her” 😭

where are the buff reader abby fics tbh

[bowserspears]

This is a random rant that literally no one should care about, but I felt like posting it anyway. So, here you go.

On my old 2002 Dell Inspiron 8200, I have an application called Pokémon Project Studio installed. It’s an old application where you can create Pokémon cards, like Birthday cards or Get Well cards. While you’re installing the application, the install wizard will ask if you want to install some side application, called Brodcast. I don’t remember now what this application does, but of course, I unchecked the box that enables it to be installed. Today, I happened to notice that an application called dssagent.exe would, at infrequent times, max out the laptop’s CPU usage for about 15 seconds. Sure, this sudden spike of CPU usage wasn’t hindering the computer’s performance, as far as I could tell, but I had this urge that I should find out what this dssagent.exe application was doing in the background. Well, as it turns out, it’s spyware. It’s spyware that comes bundled with the Brodcast application, an application I made sure to uncheck when I installed the Pokémon Project Studio application. This whole time, there was spyware on this laptop and I didn’t even know about it. ClamWin, a lightweight antivirus program that I have installed, didn’t even catch it. Luckily, removing the spyware was as simple as deleting the *.exe file associated with it. But, I mean, come on. A Pokémon card-creating program comes bundled with spyware? Give me a break!

[bowserspears]

So, I’m still testing out different games for the Wii, specifically racing games for the Wii.

I did recently re-discover a couple of Wii racing games from my late childhood/early teenager years, like Hot Wheels: Track Attack and SpongeBob’s Boating Bash. They’re nothing special (and nowhere near as good as Mario Kart Wii or Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing), but I do have a bit of nostalgia for them, so they’re okay. However, most of the Wii racing games that I have tested out so far are... just, terrible! A lot of them suffer from either really touchy controls or really insensitive controls. I think the worst Wii racing game that I’ve played so far is a game called Chevrolet Camaro: Wild Ride. Literally, and I’m not even exaggerating about this, if you steer the Wii Wheel slightly either left or right, your vehicle does an automatic 180. Every. Single. Time. I seriously thought that there was something wrong with my Wiimote, but my two other Wiimotes did the exact same thing. I fiddled with the sensitivity a bit, but that didn’t seem to help a lot. The game was just... that unplayable.

Part of me kind of likes not looking up games’ ratings and determining if the game is good or not myself, but I think I’m going to purposely look for a good game this time.

[bowserspears]

I am so socially awkward.

I thought I was getting better at talking to people, but then suddenly, I completely misinterpret what someone tells me and I make myself look stupid. The person I was talking to probably didn’t think I was stupid, but I thought I was stupid.

[r4nd0m-m4thn3rd]

For a brief moment, I forgot the word "addressed" and instead typed "assessed" on an important letter. Now I gotta hide in a hole and tell myself that the damage isn't that bad.

[captain-onyourleft]