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    Hi, I’m Golbez, I use she/he pronouns. I’m proudly Chinese-Filipino and my timezone is GMT+8.

    Here’s a list of some other blogs and places I’m somewhat active on:

    I’m a fan of a lot media so I mostly reblog random posts on this blog, but I’ll occasionally share or talk about stuff I’m up to in games I currently play. My main games at the moment are Guild Wars 2, Another Eden, Twisted Wonderland, and Princess Connect Re:Dive :)

    I AM NOT A FFXIV FAN.

  • I know harry shits on himself regularly but something about the skills themselves doing it, about the things they’re supposed to be confident in, during the final dream hurts. Conceptualization apologizing for suggesting you say something poetic. Volition telling Rhetoric they always make things worse. Authority saying you have no control, that they’re wrong about everything and you should go on without them. Rhetoric being sorry because ideologies can’t help you. Reaction speed second guessing themselves because they thought the figurines were supposed to help. “Brother, you should put me in front of a firing squad. I have no words for how I failed you.”

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  • I keep seeing alt text that contains artist's notes or jokes instead of an actual image description and I just wanna say: fucking stop doing that. It's really rude to visually impaired people. Our accessibility features aren't your playground. Put that shit in the tags where it belongs.

  • Oh my god, of course you only read Shonen, you half-baked meathead. How about you stop with the manga and pick up some real literacy? Oh wait, a book doesn't have pictures, so I guess it's out of the question for witless photo lovers like yourselves who have no sense of media literacy.

    Oh, honestly, how do people like you do it? Just "read" panels of mindless, repetitive, egregious fighting over and over again. I endear your low attention spans. Truly, I do. It must be magical being impressed by the most simplistic forms of idiocy. You people are no better than slug eyed mouth-watering neanderthals.

    If by any chance I've changed your miniscule, insignificant curiosity, why not read some Edgar Allan Poe...actually, how about something on your level. Hmmmm, oh, I know! Dr Seuss.

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  • The merit of your writing.

  • So, you’ve read something that has resonated with you. It’s everything you’ve wanted in terms of characters, prose, plot and pace. It’s the best you’ve read in years. You reread your favourite lines. You have to take a break just to absorb every meticulously crafted line. You are in awe of how something so small can seem to take up so much space.

    And in a perfect world, it would inspire you to go out and create. To work on that story that is languishing in your save files, to pick up that WIP you abandoned, to make you want to write something different and new and better. 

    Instead, it makes you feel inferior. The words are too good. You could never write like that. The characters are too perfect. You don’t have that insight. The story is too captivating. Your ideas are boring, cliche, plain. The insight is remarkable. You can barely string a thought together coherently. 

    Why even bother, you think.

    Don’t fall into that trap. I have been there so many times. I have abandoned writing for years because of “why even bother”. I have let it destroy my confidence, only to patch it back up in a cheap imitation of what it once was, just to let it invade my thoughts again. I have questioned every thing I’ve written, every choice, every line, because why even bother if someone is so much better. 

    YOUR WRITING HAS MERIT. What you don’t realize is that it’s not in terms of better, but different. Different style, different story, different interpretation, different mind.

    Someone out there will love the way you describe the night sky in poetry. Someone out there will love the way you describe the look on someone’s face when their heart breaks. Someone out there will love your idea, that strange one that seems impossible or already done, because it’s new and exciting or they love endless amounts of that same story. Someone out there will love your interpretation of that character, whether more gentle or bitter or broken or healed. Someone out there will love the words you write, the grandiose use of adverbs (my guilt) or the minimal scattering of dialogue. Someone out there will love your abundance or lack of something you saw in that story you so loved, the one that rendered you speechless and snuffed out your fire. 

    Someone out there will love your words. And you need to share them. 

    Speaking as a writer, no one sets out to create something to discourage others. No one wants to dominate their corner and be the only one there. No one wants to be alone in their craft. If they do, they are doing it for the wrong reasons. Speaking as a writer, I would never want you to read my writing and think, why bother. 

    I want you to think, why bother waiting?

    Your story matters. Your writing matters. It’s beautiful and defined and gorgeous and a work in progress and growing and already there and insightful and mysterious: it all has merit. 

    Never stop. Never stop writing and practicing and doing and creating and learning and loving the words you weave.

    You may think someone has done it more beautifully or better or too many times or never because who wants to read it? 

    They maybe have done all those things, but they lack one thing: they haven’t done it like you have.

  • Thank you, I needed this.

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  • Wow there’s some fucking bullshit going on in the replies here. Moderate your fucking spaces on the internet, kick racists and other bad actors to the kerb or you risk losing everyone else. This guy has the right of it (scroll up to top).

  • Quit thinking you need to be fair to unfair voices

  • For anyone who can’t/won’t read that twitter thread, it’s by Michael B. Tager (@IamRageSparkle) and it says: 

    I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”

    And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

    Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.” And i was like, ohok and he continues.

    “you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

    And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

    And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.” And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.

  • [ID: Screenshot of a tweet from @/AmazonChique that reads ‘Pathfinder FB fan group banned all racist members. The next week, they saw a drop in harassing & threatening posts of ALL kinds. From the mod: “I encourage every community to quit thinking you need to be fair to unfair voices. Get the rot out and you’ll have a healthier community” End ID]

  • Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty And peace treaties are not unilateral. They have obligations running in both directions.

    You are not bound to tolerate people who have a stated intent to not tolerate you.

    Nor should you tolerate people who have a stated intent to not tolerate people who are tolerating you.

  • Thank you for sharing this everyone, for image IDing and all of it, thank you.

  • octopus 2022 wrapped

    this year you disguised yourself as:

    coral 10023 times

    ocean floor 8064 times

    coconut shell 244 times

    various fish 196 times

    scuba divers long lost wife 12 times

  • Discovered that scrolling past ads on tumblr mobile pause my music even when they’re muted. Fuck off, tumblr

  • we need more concerning women in media. I want to be watching a TV show and to go "oh that woman has problems." I want to watch a woman constantly make the worst decisions in the world with no sign of stopping

  • hey actually in light of the idea that kim could be fixed by Doing A Du Bois. swap au where its not a swap at all and they both wake up with no memories and have to figure out wtf they're doing here and maybe do extremely gross frotting about it

  • girls. is this anything

  • But if I have amnesia...and YOU have amnesia...then who's solving the murder???

    No one. The answer is no one. Shit is NOT getting done in Martinaise.

  • looney toons style resolution to the tribunal where they keep unwittingly taking the merks out while fucking around.

    Kim is poking at a cranes control panel and accidentally drops a container in the middle of the scab congregation, crushing some beefy guy who keeps yelling about work or whatever.

    Harry hammer throws the boule but aims worse, making it sail across the road through the windowless facade of the cocaine skull building, hitting de paule in the face and killing her instantly.

    the tribunal never happens because as soon as Ruud walks out of wherever he'd been hiding, he tries to cross the street and gets pancaked by two guys who A) are arguing over who's car this is B) are temporarily resolving said argument by holding one gear stick each and C) do not remember how to drive.

    every time this happens they just kind of look at each other like "😬" and then they go back to whatever they were doing.

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