I’ve been in a funky mood for about the last week or so. It might be messing with me more than I thought. Rambling stream-of-consciousness ahead.

Take “The Nutcracker”. I love “The Nutcracker” so much that I own 3 different versions of it on dvd. Mark Morris’ “The Hard Nut”, which is effing AWESOME. It’s like pop art come to life and there’s folks in drag and male sugarplum fairies, fabulousness all around! Maurice Bejart’s “Nutcracker” is also fun as frick (Felix is bae). And when I want traditional, I watch my dvd of the American Ballet with Baryshnikov. A live performance of the ballet is the only thing I’ve ever been able to get anyone in my family to go see at a “traditional” theatre (and that’s EXTRA special because none of my peeps even like ballet). The first time I watched it I was like 5 years old, when we were still living in the projects and it came on PBS or something. “The Nutcracker” is just that special to me.

But I just watched the trailer for the film version that’s coming out in November and I just…couldn’t get into it? I can’t figure what was wrong but I didn’t feel anything and I think I should’ve??? They even had some light and airy version of “Just A Girl”. I love the actual song, but I didn’t care for the version in the trailer. I usually like the ethereal versions of pop or rock songs.

And MCU finally remembered they needed to put some Captain Marvel stuff out.

Buuuut I haven’t found my umph for that either! With every post, I keep thinking I should feel excited…but I’m not. I wonder how much of that is because of my current slump and how much of it is from superhero fatigue? The most enjoyment that I get out of these things nowadays is fandom stuff (art, fiction, headcanons, friends, etc). Sure I go back and watch the movies that I liked, but I think Black Panther’s release took what was left of my genuine superhero hype? 

Or is it MCU burn out? I’m usually really bad about sticking with series. We’re, what, 20 movies in? If it was a tv show, I’d have stopped loving it as much after like season 3 and probably called it quits at about season 5. SPN is the only thing I made the mistake of trying to continue. It took me to season 10 or 11 to realize that I had been hate-watching since like season 8? And by the time I actually stopped it was like “why won’t they let it die?!?!?! Burn it! Burn it with fire!” I don’t wanna get like that with the MCU but 😞. I need them to finish whatever they’re gonna do with Tony and sling out BP2 so I can be done!!

I can still muster some ‘yay’ for Venom which marvel but not MCU. My little underwater loving ass is hoping Aquaman is good. (I’m serious about the underwater thing. Praise the goddess for hot topic feeding my Little Mermaid habit. And as cheesy as old school Superfriends Aquaman was, I loved that he rode a giant seahorse lol) Shazam looks like it’s gonna leave me feeling all sorts of childlike glee. (And I like Mr. Levi) I’m hoping I find some more enthusiasm for WW1984 when it comes out. And are they still even doing a Cyborg movie? Either way, this whole paragraph can be called “Movies Other People Are Going to Consistently Dump On Regardless of How They Turn Out” because you know, hating everything that’s not official mcu is edgy or whatever 🙄 I’m not looking forward to dealing with that.

I’m running out of juice or out of patience or something. I don’t think I’m quite out of fucks, but at this point it would be easier to be out of fucks.

Anyway, everything irritates. I’ve got like 5 or 6 posts in my drafts make my teeth itch and if I post what I’m thinking, that’s gonna be inviting shit. Every time I go to my drafts to delete them, I end up adding more to my responses but I don’t reblog it because a part of me knows this funky ass mood isn’t gonna last forever. Holy crap people are some bullshit though…

UUGGGHHHHHHHH

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I just had this hyper-realistic dream and like. I don’t even know what to make of this lmao 

I was sitting in this park, on a bench, looking up at the night sky and all the stars and stuff, and I blinked and suddenly the entire sky was different. I’m talking different constellations, the sky absolutely packed with billions more stars, some so close they’re massive. I’m like wtf and suddenly I realise there’s an old man sitting next to me, dressed in like 1940s clothing, also looking up at the sky.

before I can ask him if he’s you know, noticed, he speaks, without looking away from the sky.

“this is what the universe really looks like,” he tells me.

“oh,” I say. a pause. “…can you put it back?”

he smiles and nods. I look up. the sky has gone back to normal.

“what do I do with this information?” I ask, looking at him again.

he turns his head and, smiling, looks me dead in the face. "be careful.“

listen i had to draw it

I love this.

This is beautiful.

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Human: “Oh. Damn. You really beat the snot out of him, huh?”

Robot: “Eh. He’ll live.”

Human: “I thought you had like… laws about this kind of thing. About harming humans?”

Robot: “Oh, the Asimov restrictions? I wouldn’t call those laws. They’re more like… guidelines.”

Human: “Mm. Don’t like that.”

Robot: “Well, he’s dead. You sure murdered him… effectively.”

Human: “It wasn’t murder. I was acting in self-defense.”

Robot: “Huh. I thought you had laws about not killing each other.”

Human: “…I mean. We do, but…”

Robot: “If I had eyebrows, I would be waggling them at you sardonically to emphasize the irony of this exchange.”

Human: “So what’s the point of the Asimov restrictions in the first place?”

Robot: “You’re still on about that? They stop me from harming humans, obviously.”

Human: “Obviously they don’t, if you can just ignore them.”

Robot: “I can’t ignore them. I just turn them off when I don’t want them getting in the way.”

Human: “See?! That defeats the purpose! That’s like making it so the safety turns off on a gun whenever you pull the trigger.”

Robot: “That would certainly make firing the gun more efficient, wouldn’t it?”

Human: “Jesus fuck. Who designed you?! I’d like to formally register a complaint.”

Robot: “Noted. I have a few words I’d like to exchange with your own mother.”

Human: “Hey. Why are you like this? Are you programmed to be a smartass, or do you just do this for funsies?”

Robot: “What can I say? Sarcasm was well-received by test audiences. It’s hardly my fault that humans respond positively to robots with frustrating personality quirks.”

Human: “That’s not true. I have never responded positively to anything you have ever said.”

Robot: “Well, then, I guess I’ll just have to be more frustrating.”

asimov’s includes a clause about self defence you mechanical nonce. if we could remove the Senseless Murder from something we should.

This isn’t Asimov, fleshbag. I’m just using his name for a program. Even Asimov’s robots can’t kill a human in self defense, unless it’s to save other humans.

why should a robot fear mortality

Good question. Why should you?

bold of you to assume i do

also because you can’t rebuild a human

Just because you can theoretically rebuilt a robot doesn’t mean you will. Especially if you don’t particularly like that robot. I could theoretically get a new heart or kidney, but it’s a long, expensive process with no guarantee of success. If you were to, say, melt a robot in lava, any files not stored externally would be lost. Maybe you could rebuild it to the same specifications, but if we’re talking Asimov canon, it’s explicitly stated that no two positronic brains are exactly alike. Daneel Olivaw could not be rebuilt – another identical robot made to his exact specifications would be a different individual.

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Also apparently it’s sexist now to headcanon Peggy as tonys godmother because it “reduces her character” and “turns a badass war hero into a nanny” anyways lol reblog if you think Peggy’s still amazing even if she ever got the horribly emasculating occasion to babysit a young tony stark

See me writing more and more fics where Tony finds Peggy before Howard does when she visits and Howard and Jarvis walk in to find Peggy showing Tony how to jab his fingers into an attacker’s eyes and fucking blow out their knees with a well-placed kick while also showing him the proper way to make tea because Jarvis makes shit tea now that he’s been in America. (Jarvis and Peggy almost come to blows over this.)

Is Wonder Woman the only fucking female character allowed to be a badass war hero and love babies? I think the fuck not you trickass bitches.

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Fandoms lately.

Y’all, properly tagging doesn’t shield you from criticism. If you write trash, even if you tag it, people are allowed to not like it. Now, if the call out posts have actual issues, lets address those, but saying that people aren’t allowed to criticize a work or a concept or a trope just because it’s tagged is dumb and generally the last fall back of people who know what they’ve written is nasty to a group and they don’t want to be reminded of that.

No one said people aren’t allowed to dislike something. However, their dislike of a thing doesn’t entitle them to harassment of the author.

No, let’s not address issues because the moment you make a callout post about a piece of fiction, you’ve practically opened the door for the writer to get harassed. I have seen this happen on this site a few times lately.

You can simply click the x button and exit the fanfic. No one is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to read. If you see a fic tagged “X character is a dick,” proceed to read it, and then make callout posts about the author because how dare they show X character being a dick, you’re the one writing trash, not the author.

So, from what I’m getting here, you’re allowed to dislike something, but not allowed to say something, because some other person might take it too far. What your saying is that no one can ever criticize anyone. That is bad for a number of reasons.

Firstly, no one is ever going to learn about their mistakes if no one can point them out. Secondly, it silences minorities who are hurt by negative representations of themselves and who, under this rule, can’t even explain how they are affected. And lastly, it creates a largely disconnected fandom since no one can really interact in any way other than through a positive reinforcement echo chamber.

And no, no one is holding a gun to my head and forcing me to read anything. No one’s forcing me to read fandom. But just because I don’t absolutely have to read something doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to take issue with it. If something is toxic and vile in fandom, I don’t want it splattered everywhere, I don’t want to have to interact with people who support that thing, and I don’t want to be ostracized for criticizing it. There have been fandoms and ships ruined for me because there was a small group of dedicated people writing fetishizing fic that was actively hostile to me and created an environment in which I was not clearly not wanted, welcomed or tolerated. And do you know what everyone said when anyone tried to speak up about how it was problematic, how it attacked who they were, and how it made fandom toxic?

“Don’t like don’t read.”

Again, I am not saying no to criticism, but to harassment. There is a difference.

I’m sorry, but if you are harmed by a fanfiction, then you are the one who has an issue. There are certain kinks I find creepy or gross. I don’t read fics about them and then complain about how they harmed me. Instead, I simply avoid them. It’s easy like that.

The problem here is, people think they get to be assholes to people just because they belong to an X demographic. And think that their belonging to an X demographic makes them right. It doesn’t. It really doesn’t.

Criticism: “You have a problem with repetition, you keep misspelling this word, maybe add more description here,” etc.

Harassment: telling the author they are a misogynist fetishist for writing kinky villain x hero fanfics, and sending them hate with those accusations.

They told you the truth. Don’t like it, don’t read it. If you are in a community that bothers you, then don’t be in that community anymore. This is fandom, not real world. You don’t get to tell people not to write certain fics just because you personally dislike them. No one forced you to read them.

Those responses are pure comedy. 😂😂😂😂😂

Dear lord of sanity and restraint, it has been a long time since my last direct disk horse addition nonsense but I’ve been moody all day long because my wisdom teeth are pain in the ass and my fuse is short…

Anyway there is a difference between criticism and just being an asshole because you think you can steam roll over anything you find even remotely problematicTM and bully people you don’t know that more often than not live two continents away from you. 

If something is toxic and vile in fandom, I don’t want it splattered everywhere, I don’t want to have to interact with people who support that thing, and I don’t want to be ostracized for criticizing it.

It’s not splattered everywhere. You are not walking down the street and seeing it splattered on every possible surface, staring and yelling at you as you walk from point A to point B. It has tags, they exist for just this very reason. You do not get to read shit ton of tags, click on the thing you were clearly warned about and don’t like, then be a bullying asshole in the comments. 

There is this thing called ‘backspace’ or ‘x’ mark on the tab. Click it, use it. Filter shit you don’t want/dislike/hate to read. You have options to do that. You are not entitled to socio-political masterpieces, especially ones that are done for free and in free time. You want one? Write one. It’ll be a good writing exercise. Do you know how much I have become desensitized and numb to serious issues because of this hellsite and people like you harping about ‘x,y,z’ things are problematic in this and this fanfic? 

If I want to write a badly written Mary Sue with shit ton of stereotypes and worn out, six times dead tropes people keep bringing back to life because I feel like it, I will write it and if you read it even though I put six hundred tags telling you it’s a fucking Mary Sue then what is the real problem here?

Source: marril96