Rant - Tumblr Posts
scrolling through the repo! tag and seeing the way people interpret the largos as if they're in any way sympathetic or likeable is such a baffling example of how dead media literacy is.
like in multiple interviews, terrance zdunich and darren smith talk about how the largos are supposed to be so comically unlikeable that even a man as reprehensible of a person as rotti largo detests them. the joke is that the world of repo! is so horrible and dystopian that the comic relief are, in terrance zdunich's words, "a murderer and a rapist".
no, the largos would not go on to denounce their father and turn geneco into a benevolant company that changes sanitarium into a utopia of opportunity and life. like that would NOT happen, luigi is aggressive and power-hungry, pavi is as power-hungry as it gets considering he's a literal rapist who wears dead people's faces and amber is a spoilt womanchild who whines and moans and will do even the most degrading and dangerous stuff to get her way (fucking graverobber for drugs so she can keep getting obscene amounts of surgery). amber is slightly more sympathetic and she is meant to be, she's taken far more seriously than luigi and pavi but she's still a terrible person who intimidates and assaults people (Z'd up shouting at shilo, groping luigi's balls and licking his face, throwing tokens at graverobber, just to name a few)
"b-but it says geneco becomes committed to change!" that's something we like to call in the movie world a "joke". the change they're committed to is absolutely not going to be good - it's ran by a fashion surgery & drug addict, do you genuinely think amber sweet, after having absolutely zero character development and being humiliated and booed offstage, would genuinely want to make geneco, the company she didn't even want, a better/more ethical business?
the largos suck. that's sort of the whole point. you can like them without endorsing their actions, literally every single person in repo! has done something terrible except shilo and that's the point. the whole point is, in this world, the only good person is a girl who was kept trapped in her bedroom her whole life and never exposed to the cruel outside world.
but obviously enjoy what you want, this has been a weird misreading of characters since the fandom originated in late 2008, like i know it's always been here and it's not going away soon. it was just bugging me and this is my repo account so i wanted to share my thoughts lmfao
Hello, one of your mutual decide to send kindness to you, and to send a how you doing physically and mentally?
Thank you for asking :) My mental health hasn’t been the greatest lately. Art is my main outlet for my problems until recently. Now I’m mostly sketching out scenarios with characters that I made based on my vent art. I sometimes post fanart of media that I like, but it’s very rare as I have a tendency to not complete it.
Besides, I have made some good improvements with my art. Now that my mental health is not that bad. I used to be very icky about being perceived with my art since I view it as an extension of my own personhood, which is really detrimental.
i’m trying to give myself a healthy attachment towards my art, since I really do love doing it.
Here’s a free picture. I hope you like it. :3
Ambiguous Endings (and Why I Hate Them)
I’m sure we’ve all read a fic so engaging that you can’t wait to get to the ending and see how your favorite characters live their happily ever after. Or maybe it’s an angst fic where the characters are in danger, you have no idea who will die or be seriously injured next, and you can’t wait to see how they solve the mystery before they all end up dead.
Except you don’t get to see an ending, because the author left it open to interpretation.
I hate ambiguous endings. I avoid fics tagged with “ambiguous ending” all the time.
I read a fic to get invested in the story. This is an escape from the real world, and depending on how good the writing is, I’m invested in the characters. But no matter how much I may dislike characterization or not, if I read your story, I’m reading your story to find out what the ending is and how the characters get their.
I don’t read fics only to decide what I would do at the end of the story. Sure, I think about other options the characters could have taken and wonder about different choices the author could have taken to reach an ending. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t consider alternate paths their characters could have taken.
But as a reader only, it’s not my job to decide how this fic ends and where the characters end up. Frankly, if the author of my favorite fic gave me their story and told me I’m free to write whatever ending I want, not only would the ending be bad, it would ignore almost everything that happened in the story up to that point to give everyone a happy ending. I like happy endings, and no matter what the fic is, I want the characters to have those happy endings.
The author is the one who led us to where the characters are now, and they should be the one who decides where the characters end up. I would seriously rather a bad ending where everyone is dead over an ambiguous endings because at least that’s final. There’s no ifs, ands, or buts about it. That’s it, and there’s nothing more.
With ambiguous endings, you’re left with the eternal question of “what really happens?” (Unless the author makes a sequel, but that kind of ruins the point of an ambiguous ending.)
You read this entire story, and maybe it’s the best thing you’ve read in years. You’re invested in the characters, the plot is amazing, and everything is realistic. You’re invested in where everything ends up. And you never get a true, concrete endings because it’s ambiguous.
I feel like ambiguous endings may as well just be incomplete and abandoned because you as the reader have to decide the ending, but they’re more disappointing. At least with abandoned fics, you almost always go into it knowing it’s abandoned and you won’t have a true ending. With ambiguous, you’re expecting a complete fic with a concrete ending that you’re not given.
Please authors, even if you don’t tell us everything that happens (either because you yourself don’t even know or to leave room for a sequel) at least give us a proper ending. Don’t lead us on for the entire fic with us expecting most things to be resolved at the end just to say, “well, my part’s done! Whatever you want to happen can happen now!”
I’m just a tired fic reader who wants an ending. At this point it doesn’t even need to be a good ending. You could just write a sentence saying “and everyone died for reasons unknown” and while I would low key be sad because it’s not a happy endings, it’s better than being left in confusion forever about what could happen to them.
Sexuality is fucked up
Like, i like boys
And I also like girls
And I guess I like nb people too but I've never met any so I can't really say
So am I pan ?
Well technically pan people are gender blind (aka they don't take gender into consideration when dating)
But I'm not
So should I call myself omni then ?
But no one knows about omnisexuality
And I don't really care about being labelled right
As long as they don't say I'm s t r a i g h t
But I'm technically not pansexual
Ugh I'm just gonna label myself as confused
Other example
I'm attracted to men on a physical side
But I hate guys and I don't wanna date them
On the other hand, I love girls and I'd give anything to have a gf
But I'm not all that much attracted to them sexually
So what????
Am I Heterosexual Homoromantic ?
Am I Arostraight Acebian ??????
Sexuality is fucked up
Like, i like boys
And I also like girls
And I guess I like nb people too but I've never met any so I can't really say
So am I pan ?
Well technically pan people are gender blind (aka they don't take gender into consideration when dating)
But I'm not
So should I call myself omni then ?
But no one knows about omnisexuality
And I don't really care about being labelled right
As long as they don't say I'm s t r a i g h t
But I'm technically not pansexual
Ugh I'm just gonna label myself as confused
It is such an unfortunate thing when you encounter people who seem to wake up each morning with a mantra of trying to do damage to you in any way possible. It is a given goal even if it happens to be a trivial thing. It is even more irritating and frustrating when it's your neighbour and they did this when you're having a low tolerance with BS people.
I try so hard to respect DNIs, but if I see one more person write "basic dni" and not elaborate, imma put my hand thru a wall fr
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HISTORICAL TIKTOK
Do not tell me it would not be like this:
1)*Alexander the great as a child* "Hi I am Ale-" *Alexander the great as an adult* "They know who you are"
Hall of Fame as the sound
2) Brutus....well "BACKSTABBER"
3) Napoleon *il sera formidableeeeeee"
4) The spartans at the thermopiles *You and I ...we were born to die"
5) Alcibiades "YOU WILL MISS ME WHEN I AM GONE"
My mum be like: clean your room, while her spice basket is an absolute mess
bro waking up to the cops banging on the front door is becoming a normal occurrence to me
like either just arrest somebody already and get it over with or stop trying to ruin the little sleep that i get tbh
sorry I got a bit angry…
But fr Ochaco is having an emotional breakdown and they’re saying shit like “omg Izuocha canon!” Like how disgusting can you be!? Have a heart!
I actually made this meme a while ago but didn’t post it here I think I posted it on Twitter but idk… this is my honest opinion, sorry if you ship izuocha and your kind but I needed to let off some steam.
I don't know if to continue or to rail through it for I know I got talents but is it enough? Doesn't luck matter? Doesn't money matter? Of course it does! It's not just the societal norms but also a criteria for a good and well acknowledged life. I hate how's the world running now but I don't even know if I'm right. In this world, who knows what's right and what is not? In this world, who knows what's good or bad for them. In someway or the other everyone relates to each other but yet we don't like others. In someway, we're all the same. Selfish. Selfish as in not ruin the whole world selfish but haven't we in some way messed up things without thinking or giving a second chance or showing kindness to others as well as ourselves? It's crazy how we run our minds. It's just a whole other world in there but it's almost the same compared to the outer one. Don't take this rant seriously but it's good to free up the inner world as to change the outer world. If not in a large scale, just the peace and quiet of your surroundings isnt enough for you lead the life you've dreamt of? Because every thing and every one count as you're a social being or else you're just a sociopath out in this psychotic world. 💕 #miracleswords ____________________________________________ #write #writing #writings #deepthoughts #writers #writersofinstagram #wordstoliveby #words #wordporn #poems #poemsofinstgram #poemsporn #poetry #spilledpoetry #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #writtenword #love #dream #rant #instawrite #instawriting #instawriter #quotes #instapoetry #instapoet #instapoem #spilledink #wordgasm (at Cubbon Park Bangalore) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAqN7Csjipz/?igshid=108zfhkcjtaaq
He wasn't the brightest brightest of stars but still his eyes twinkled. I don't know why I write about him for he's just my imaginary fool. He is a confidant with whom I feel at home. ✨ #miracleswords ____________________________________________ #write #writing #writings #deepthoughts #writers #writersofinstagram #wordstoliveby #words #wordporn #poems #poemsofinstgram #poemsporn #poetry #spilledpoetry #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #writtenword #love #dream #rant #instawrite #instawriting #instawriter #quotes #instapoetry #instapoet #instapoem #spilledink #wordgasm https://www.instagram.com/p/CAs1uhBl06m/?igshid=178s9nabxsp0w
Everything starts at Home and so does caring and nurturing the Environment. Seeing the happenings around the world, we, Humans, have understood how much the Environment is Stronger and Patient than all of us. My #OneWishForTheEarth this #WorldEnvironmentDay is that Humans understand that we are a small and even maybe a little unimportant in maintaining the balance of the nature. So let's not be arrogant and be thankful for what she has given us even though we haven't been her best children. 🍃 Take this initiative and spread the world among your closed ones. Say what would you wish for the Earth this day. Tag #OneWishForTheEarth 🌱 #miracleswords ____________________________________________ #write #writing #writings #deepthoughts #writers #writersofinstagram #wordstoliveby #words #wordporn #poems #poemsofinstgram #poemsporn #poetry #spilledpoetry #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #writtenword #love #dream #rant #quotes #climatewarrior #instapoem #spilledink #wordgasm (at SAVE mother EARTH) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBCyFzrFu9v/?igshid=1vyl3wk4iaquh
You have your pillow as your tears-friend, why not have another as your talk-friend? Maybe yourself! Just try to know yourself. Listen to yourself before expecting others to listen to you. ✨ #miracleswords ____________________________________________ #write #writing #writings #deepthoughts #writers #writersofinstagram #wordstoliveby #words #wordporn #poems #poemsofinstgram #poemsporn #poetry #spilledpoetry #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #writtenword #love #dream #rant #instawrite #instawriting #instawriter #quotes #instapoetry #instapoet #instapoem #spilledink #wordgasm (at Namma Bengaluru- ನಮ್ಮ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBGhMzWlUbd/?igshid=1xwrbw93kgiis
Google Docs is one foot in the grave
If GDocs deletes ONE MORE of my files I'm going to SCREAM I am so lucky I had the story back up on a hard drive from back when I couldn't access internet. But i am still missing my idea book and my details page for one of my stories that had all the picrews of the MCs and I can't find the images (there somewhere I just don't know where) Since Idk when the files randomly got deleted docs can't recover them. as soon as I find the images I will share them because it's an original story that I've been working on for six years now and I mainly talk about my fanfics on here.
More thoughts late at night!
Jesus. Maybe I should make this a series.
Anywho, this one isn't Ao3 or even fandom related, more of just a personal update/rant.
And holy fuck have I been feeling isolated recently.
And this isn't a cry for anyone's pity or attention, I'd be fine if this got 0 notes, I just want it be out there and off my chest.
Does anyone else have that feeling of desperately wanting to talk to people but just feeling... like a waste of their time? And it's sometimes stuff where I don't even have anything good to talk about/ bring up or ask questions about. But I still want to talk to other people I just... don't even know how to bridge the gap.
So now I'm in this catch 22 hell where I do and don't want to talk to people and it just SUCKS.
Well, that's it for tonight. Sorry to rant at anyone who like, came to this blog for fandom stuff, but my blog doesn't have a theme just a majority of posts.
Thanks to anyone who reads this, feels nice to know there's other people out there sometimes.
<3
God engagement w/ posts is so fucking annoying. There's quite a few posts that I actually put effort behind, mostly on my side blogs, ESPECIALLY on the politics one.
I fucking fact check those politics/world events posts I rb and add context to, which takes about 30 minutes per post. And I get like... 3 notes?
And when I post stuff about magic I very rarely get notes, which is so frustrating. Recently I posted one of those cards I made to the r/custommagic subreddit, and that gives some good perspective on the engagement:
Like I realize this post is only an hour old, but there's 300 views on it already (and I get that not all of those are real views but still), and only 6 upvotes (excluding the auto upvote from urself and the downvotes which idk how many there are).
All you have to do is press a fucking button and say you liked something. But people just don't. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong but there's something apparently.
And its not lie I want my posts to blow up or i want to get "internet famous" or any of that shit, but it'd be rly fucking helpful to my mental health when I post stuff I've made if people would just engage a little.
Idk sometimes I feel like I should just shut the fuck up. It's not like anything I want to say is ever interacted with. And that's really annoying when I started making posts bc my social circle is small and I just wanted some feedback or validation.
I really shouldn't care all that much about this but... I do, and it annoys me.
Sorry to bug yall with a pointless rant.
An update on that post:
1,700 people "saw" it, and only like 14-ish people upvoted? I'm just baffled. I'm clearly doing something wrong, but no one has given any indication. Apparently I'm just easy to ignore, same as real life.
Now on that graph you can see a view spike near the start which is when this post was near the top of the "Hot" and new categories. But still minimal engagement.
This isn't about magic. This is about anything and everything I say or do. Post a chapter on Ao3? Cool, I get 4 comments that make my fucking day, and I do NOT take those for granted, those screenshots are saved to an album on my phone that I cry when I look at tbh.
But that WIP fic has 658 hits on it. and I know hits aren't exactly accurate, but thats incredibly low engagement per read. I just don't get what I'm doing wrong.
Idk why I'm so hung up on this, I'm just tired of being ignored no matter what. It happens here, Ao3, on reddit now, and IRL. And part of the reason I'm prob so sick of it is that I came to these places to STOP BEING IGNORED.
I don't have any delusions of internet fame, and would in fact, really hate it if I was any kind of famous, but I just want some kind of consistent interaction. Some note that I should keep doing shit.
Because I'm really starting to feel hopeless.
God engagement w/ posts is so fucking annoying. There's quite a few posts that I actually put effort behind, mostly on my side blogs, ESPECIALLY on the politics one.
I fucking fact check those politics/world events posts I rb and add context to, which takes about 30 minutes per post. And I get like... 3 notes?
And when I post stuff about magic I very rarely get notes, which is so frustrating. Recently I posted one of those cards I made to the r/custommagic subreddit, and that gives some good perspective on the engagement:
Like I realize this post is only an hour old, but there's 300 views on it already (and I get that not all of those are real views but still), and only 6 upvotes (excluding the auto upvote from urself and the downvotes which idk how many there are).
All you have to do is press a fucking button and say you liked something. But people just don't. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong but there's something apparently.
And its not lie I want my posts to blow up or i want to get "internet famous" or any of that shit, but it'd be rly fucking helpful to my mental health when I post stuff I've made if people would just engage a little.
Idk sometimes I feel like I should just shut the fuck up. It's not like anything I want to say is ever interacted with. And that's really annoying when I started making posts bc my social circle is small and I just wanted some feedback or validation.
I really shouldn't care all that much about this but... I do, and it annoys me.
Sorry to bug yall with a pointless rant.
wanna clear something up bcus I was looking at my WIP fic on Ao3 and thought this rant makes me sound ungrateful.
I'm so incredibly grateful for the kudos and comments I've gotten on my works, especially my current WIP which is def so much better than the other two lol.
I'm just sick of people who refuse to engage, because it feels like a negative vote or comment, even if it isn't one.
okay with that cleared up i swear im going to stop updating this rant post (￣▽￣||)
God engagement w/ posts is so fucking annoying. There's quite a few posts that I actually put effort behind, mostly on my side blogs, ESPECIALLY on the politics one.
I fucking fact check those politics/world events posts I rb and add context to, which takes about 30 minutes per post. And I get like... 3 notes?
And when I post stuff about magic I very rarely get notes, which is so frustrating. Recently I posted one of those cards I made to the r/custommagic subreddit, and that gives some good perspective on the engagement:
Like I realize this post is only an hour old, but there's 300 views on it already (and I get that not all of those are real views but still), and only 6 upvotes (excluding the auto upvote from urself and the downvotes which idk how many there are).
All you have to do is press a fucking button and say you liked something. But people just don't. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong but there's something apparently.
And its not lie I want my posts to blow up or i want to get "internet famous" or any of that shit, but it'd be rly fucking helpful to my mental health when I post stuff I've made if people would just engage a little.
Idk sometimes I feel like I should just shut the fuck up. It's not like anything I want to say is ever interacted with. And that's really annoying when I started making posts bc my social circle is small and I just wanted some feedback or validation.
I really shouldn't care all that much about this but... I do, and it annoys me.
Sorry to bug yall with a pointless rant.