Image Description: A sheet of music the title reads “Forgetting; Good fucking job, you forgot your instrument at home” the note above is “Awkwardly stare the audience in the eyes, silently” the music sheet calls for nothing but rests.
i feel like all fandom spaces would improve dramatically if more people learned how to enjoy non-canon ships which were never written as romantic without acting entitled to official validation or throwing a hissy fit over not getting something that they were never promised
like i promise there’s nothing wrong with shipping characters together while accepting that they won’t ever be a canon couple or with choosing to interpret their interactions as romantic while acknowledging that the writers clearly didn’t intend for it to be read that way
fandom having such easy contact with casts and writers and stuff was a mistake
leave them alone lmao fandom isn’t about changing canon, it’s about playing with it like barbies
How lovely to have smiled so often that happiness permanently etches itself into your face
How metal to have lived a life where your face now pre-warns people not to fuck with you
How resilient to have cared so strongly that empathy is now visibly displayed on your face
How ornithological to have so many corvid friends who love standing on your eyeballs that they’ve left permanent footprints on your face
[ID: two tags that say “I’m starting to have frown lines [sad emoji] vita demmerda rega” and “please romanticise the worry lines on one’s forehead next.” End ID]
I cannot stop laughing at the idea that socialism ignores humanity’s highest spiritual ideal: owning yachts.
[Image ID: Text reading: “Socialists ignore the side of man that is of the spirit,” Reagan said back in 1975. “They can provide shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you’re ill-all the things that are guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. But they don’t understand we also dream, yes, even of owning a yacht.” /End ID]
Debatable whether Duolingo taking away comments, an extremely useful part of the app, to push their premium “AI assisted” lessons pisses me off more or equivalently to them swapping out the skill tree format for the “learning path” and making it so much harder to self direct your lessons in any way. And yet here I am still using Duolingo almost every day as it gets shittier and shittier because it’s still hard to beat the combo of free, low minimum effort, number go up, and has both writing and audio.
The lessons have also gotten more repetitive? Same sentences over and over moreso than when it was the skill tree. At least it seems that way to me.
Also why the fuck does it congratulate you for going through a lesson quickly, when I zip through a lesson barely paying attention I learn less.
Making a thing that was already there (there wasn’t hearts in one version) is just so deeply frustrating especially as it’s really easy to spend all your gems otherwise, and it takes so long if you do the earn them back. But unfortunately sticking with it for the same reasons.
Ok followup question to the barbie post. When you were kids did you actually want to be doctors and fire fighters and astronauts and shit like that? like when you were five or six and people asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up did you answer honestly or did you just have an answer that was kind of close to what you actually wanted which you knew adults would tell you you couldn’t be? Because I said I wanted to be a paleontologist when really I wanted to be a dinosaur. I have papers from first grade where I spelled the word paleontologist wrong and I tried to introduce myself as sue in kindergarten.
When asked what you wanted to be when you were five or six did you
And now you want to be Buttons (OFMD) When you grow up, some things never change.
in my heart of hearts what i want more than anything is to just be a weird crazy old person
I wanted to be a vet and i told people that. My Barbies were solving murder mysteries and neighborhood violence tho. General Hospital was very inspiring.
I wanted to be either a doctor working for the Red Cross or a ship’s captain.
I had twin obsessions with the age of sail and history of medicine (and history of medicine in the age of sail) (also shipwrecks but that was not job related).
