Dramatic Stoic

stopbeingbored:

OR: I’m A Lazy Author And I Really Need A Plot Device
The public demands it. So let’s see what I can do.

Hello, fellas!

Welcome, once again, to my blog which has taken a turn for the TMNT fandom lately. Those of you who are not into turtles: I have no idea why you bear with me lately, but thank you! You may now carry on! To the 2k12 followers: While I may point out one or two things that have to do with “your” Raph, I will mainly concentrate on 2k3 Raphael.

You see, I love the new show and I love, love, love that it brought a new wave of fans into fandom! However, it is apparently impossible to avoid that some of the long-passed stereotypical standards have come up for our boys- standards and issues that I thought the 2k3 fandom had overcome years ago flare up with renewed intensity all around. Those include, but are not exclusively:

• My-happiness-hides-my-tortured-soul Mikey
• Nobody-understands-me Don
  
• Boring-stick-in-the-butt Leo (see last rant) and
  
• I’ll-just-go-on-a-killing-spree Raph

While I have my issues with all of them, it is the latter that I want to talk about here.

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fantasiawandering:

amanda-the-human:

lillianjessica:

cocoloveszoo:

neophoton:

eus-mylus:

tgweaver:

kawomaeda:

this has been a PSA

Jesus fucking christ

This is exactly the kind of shit I was talking about. I had a rant some weeks ago about people ‘hiding’ comments in their tags, and the response was mainly two things: Either people did it just because they preferred it that way for whatever reason (which in the end is really their business), or this, which is something that until I made that post I had no idea about. I didn’t know this shit was a thing. I had no idea people actually posted shit like this, because it just seems so fucking unreal.

This is bullshit, and the person who posted this is bullshit by extension.
This is some fucked up elitist mentality that only some thoughts are “worthy” of being made. That if your response doesn’t live up to their standards then why the fuck are you posting it? Keep your mouth shut because what you have to say isn’t worth hearing! This of course is further ingrained by the use of excessive caps and emoticons in the original post suggesting that anyone who makes a response like that is a child or an idiot, because there’s no faster or lazier way to discredit the other side than to imitate them with fevered, emoticon-littered writing.

Well I say fuck that. I produce my own content (and I don’t mean compiling TV gifsets) and I want to see everything everyone has to say. Even if it’s just AAAA THIS SCARED ME or WOWOWOW THIS IS SUPER CUUUUTE WOW, seeing that kind of response means a lot to me. It means I evoked that kind of response. That’s very flattering! And for people to want to censor others because they think their thoughts aren’t important or worthwhile enough to be read, frankly, that’s disgusting. No one should be pressured into feeling like they have to shut up especially on a subject and medium like motherfucking Tumblr. It’s like telling someone “GET OFF MY POST”.

And I mean let’s think practically about this, too: It’s not like every time someone reblogs your post AND ADDS TEXT a man comes to your door and sits you down and reads it out loud off a telegram. What happens is that the little list that shows “so and so reblogged your post” has one additional line of text on it saying “AND ADDED: [COMMENT YOU DON’T THINK WAS WORTH YOUR TIME]”. I would say it takes one extra second to scroll past but the amount of time spent scrolling that additional line is so insignificant I couldn’t even measure it. Most people who address this spend way more time complaining about it than they ever would spend being inconvenienced by having to read what people thought of their post (god forbid)

So in summation this whole toxic, bullshit mentality of “Hey plebeians who have the privilege of looking at my stuff! Here’s how you are and are not allowed to respond to it!” is awful and so arrogant I almost didn’t believe it was real
If you want to sort of stash your thoughts away in tags, I can’t force you not to by any means
But you should never feel like you have to hide your thoughts because they’re not ‘good enough’.
Especially not here.

Thank you, tgweaver

Agreed.

INDEED THANK YOU I was waiting for that!

(this is what I meant to reblog kjhfgkdf)

Reblogging for that essay of a comment that I love very much up there^^

I am an artist and because people sometimes hide their comments in the tags, I go and check every single reblog to see if the person who reblogged it wrote anything in the tags. I do this because sometimes people make little zany comments in the tags which I love very much

BUT when your notes on a certain piece of art is in the hundreds (or worse thousands) it gets tougher to do, yet I still try.

The only thing I will get on your case about reblogging my stuff is if you erase my own message on the post. That’s silencing me and I hate that.

OH and if English isn’t your first language, I still want to hear what you have to say, Google Chrome has this awesome thing where it’ll translate a blog to the language the user speaks more fluently.

And there are also sites where it’ll translate something into another language.

All of that! I like it when people have comments to add, and if they add them in the reblog rather than tags, I can actually see that they’ve said something from my dash rather than having to clickthrough and risk missing it.

jasjuliet:

If you were a Transformer, you’d be Optimus Fiiiiine.

sonicthehedgeho:

I jumped on the “Challenge: Recreate any Game/Film/Album cover using ONLY Clipart and Comic Sans” bandwagon with one of my favorite games

(via cosmicremix)

vegebuls:

au where bulma is a saiyan and vegeta is a human heh heh

endthymes:

“does anyone else-” yes

“am i the only one who-” no

“is it weird that i-” probably not

(via rabbidattack)

fantasiawandering:

Yep! So, as usual, this is rambly stream of consciousness.

Did I like the episode? Yes. I like pretty much every episode, though, so that’s not saying too much. but I liked this one a lot. So, working our way through the episode…

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(Source: holdmetights, via g0op)