obfuscobble:

draqua:

simonbobx:

1. Put your username in image search.
2. Select “animated” under search tools.
3. Post result.

*does as specified*

*first result is as such*

I… I don’t know how to respond to this…

You know, I’m rather confused by my first image result.  Hugh Laurie, can you help?

(Most of the other image results are gifs I made, luckily.  And yet this is #1)

…. Uhh, well, okay then. (Incidentally a lot of the other results I got are gifs that you made, scobble, lol.)

raisehelia:

rabbivole replied to your post: Gordon Ramsay sure is naked a lot more often in Hotel Hell than he is in Kitchen Nightmares

what why is he naked i need context and maybe pictures

He tries out the showers.

The producers def. know their audience.

In a strange coincidence I’ve actually been watching Kitchen Nightmares (UK and USA) for the first time ever this past week and I noticed the weird amount of topless (and one time bottomless) Ramsay. So when I saw this post, I had to check this out and ohhhhhh my god you’re not kidding, Ramsay bathing fanservice in every episode.

something-is-not-right-here:

Thank you, all thirteen of you, who came to alert us that Wachsam-Eigenheit’s tumblr has been removed.  I mean it’s not like we followed the blog or check it daily or anything.  You have all provided us a valuable alert.

That said, we haven’t heard anything about what happened or why, but it’s probably just the same deal as last time.  If we get any news we’ll post it.  Hang tight, bros. -A

Wow, again? Where am I going to get my daily doses of funny, sarcastic tags at tumblr/’asexual’/otherkin stupidity now? :(

Maggie Thatcher finally shuffled off the mortal coil. Party at mine tonight. :D

brotherentropy:

joyceanfartboner:

brotherentropy:

diablod:

you like ffxiii

we’re getting a divorce

too late i already divorced you when you tried to get me to watch EVA during the honeymoon

do you seriously like ffxiii bro ent or is this an elaborate joke

i do! the battle system is genuinely fun and fast paced if you use all the tools given to you, the characterization of the main cast is acceptable but not amazing and it looks+sounds fucking gorgeous

I absolutely agree, FF13 is actually now one of my favourite games ever since playing it again after playing the fucking abomination that is 13-2. The linear gameplay didn’t bother me at all, it’s essentially just stripping out all the illusion of non-linearity and unfocused plotting that games like 13-2 (ugh) have. The battle system has a few kinks that had to be fixed but other than that the roles allow for a good amount of depth and switching it up in battle. My paradigm set is very different from, say, my brother’s when he plays FF13 (he also really likes the game, so we’re unpopular together!) just due to how I like to play compared to him. And my second time through the game my paradigms sets have radically switched up again with way more sentinel and debuffing action than I went for before.

I also appreciated the story a lot more when I wasn’t reading the encyclopedia entries because I knew what l’cie and so on are and didn’t feel the need to read all that stuff while playing the game. It allows for you to discover the subtext and the subtle character development yourself rather than having it as a brick to the head in the text entries.

The game is not without flaws but it is a good game and I will happily defend it. And I will also happily rip 13-2 to shreds because the plot, characterisation and dialogue in that game are a fucking abomination.

brotherentropy:

ilgen:

What happens when you give a Mario piano score to someone who’s never heard it in his life?

Awesomeness.

aaaaaaaaaaa i forgot about this dude he rules

This is too awesome to not reblog.

nellasaur:

obfuscobble:

First off, I understand the points you are making about the gender politics and consent issues that are plaguing fanfiction in general, and I agree.  Consent is a very complex and weighty issue.  And often, consent in fanfiction is presented in dubious terms.  As a society, the- no wait, as a SPECIES, humans need to wake up and learn that no is no, even when the aggressor has taken steps to ensure that the victim cannot, for physical or social reasons, say no.  Everyone needs to be aware of what rape is : sex without consent.  Consent is when both parties, of their free will, without coercion, agree to sex.

However, I can and will stand up in the TF fandom and say “Oi, what you’re writing, and the volume at which you’re writing it, makes me uncomfortable.”  I am pointing out a turd and calling it the turdiest turd because if we don’t start somewhere, the fanfiction keeps shitting.  I’m not trying to point out the TF fandom in particular as having a rape fiction problem.  it’s simply that I am vocal within this fandom.  If I were in ATLA/ATOK, or Supernatural, or DCU fandom, I would stand up and say the same thing.  I have no shame in saying that I think the fandom that I am in, with people who will listen to me, needs to second-check itself about how it presents consent in fanfiction.  I am anti-rape.  I would like the TF fandom to have less rape in it.  Especially the MegaScream.

You bring up rape-as-fantasy-only as a fetish.  This is a complex issue that I cannot speak to since I do not share the fetish and I have not read enough academic papers on the subject.  I am aware that it is a fetish, and a surprisingly widespread one.  Most importantly, having a rape fetish does not mean that that person wants to be raped, because it’s only a fantasy.  I get that.

Now I must say that with rape fetishism in mind, I still want to bring up that there is way too much rapefic.  Yes, it’s not my kink.  Yes, if I don’t like it, I don’t have to read it - and I don’t!  I don’t read the rapefic.  That’s the power of Fic Warnings.  But I think that the prevalence of rape fiction in TF and other fandoms may be a cause of the muddling of consent in other fanfic.  All it takes if for a few people to not tag their fic, or to rely on “dub-con” and all of a sudden, the younger members of the fandom, the impressionable ones who are probably less experienced in relationships in general, will read a “consensual” fanfic and get a warped sense of what consent is.  Or even the older members of the fandom.

I really want to point a finger of “j’accuse!” at dub-con.  I don’t think dub-con is a real category.  Dubious consent.  If the consent is dubious, it is not consent.  I think that dub-con is a weaselly way to describe rape that isn’t the “stranger in a dark alley” sort.  So we have two fic warnings, non-con and dub-con, both of which mean, by definition of a lack of full consent, RAPE.  Rape is rape.

Putting my foot down here.  I stand by my opinion that the amount of non-con in this fandom disturbs me, and so does its effect on other fiction.  This is a sliver of the larger disgust I have for how rape is defended in western society, and its victims falsely blamed.  I am angry at all rape.  Therefore, I am angry at the rape specifically portrayed in Transformers fanfiction.  To make an excuse of “oh it’s just a story” or “there’s rape in every fandom” is to ignore that there’s still rape there. 

I don’t have a rape fetish.  I find the idea of rape in fiction off-putting.  I have a right to that opinion.  Nella, you know I like and respect you.  I’m not calling you evil.  I’m explaining how I feel about a very controversial subject.  I don’t have a pee fetish either.  I still think that that’s pretty darn gross.  There is a state where I can tolerate something but not accept it for myself.  The old adage goes “it’s okay to not like things just don’t be a dick about it.”  I’m trying really hard to not be a dick but still explain my position.

If your fundamental argument boils down to “rape is so bad that no one should ever talk about it or address it in fiction in any way and the very thought of it makes me angry”, I don’t think you and I can continue to have any kind of productive discourse on this topic. I cannot stress enough how much I do not fucking agree.

Be angry at the people who conflate rape and romance. Be angry at the prevalence of fic that protrays nonconsensual sex without trigger warnings, tags, or even awareness that what they’re writing is rape. Be angry at the society that treats forcible stranger rape as the only “real” form of rape. Be angry at the fact that the lines are so blurred that people can write dubious consent fic and not seem to realize that what they’ve portrayed is rape. All of these are very real and valid facets of this argument to be concerned about. Personally, I know I’m concerned about them.

But there is a huge huge HUGE fucking gap between “this fandom has a problem with glorifying and romanticising rape and that needs to be addressed” and “this fandom needs to stop writing rapefic”. There is an even huger gap between “rape fic makes me uncomfortable and I wish there was less of it” and “this fandom needs to stop writing rapefic”.

You’re entitled to your opinion, Scobble, and you’re absolutely entitled to your own personal level of concern and comfort. You are not, however, entitled to make grand proclamations about what fandom should and shouldn’t write predicated on that opinion. “Putting your foot down” on rapefic as a whole, without qualification or consideration of why it might be written or what value it potentially has, just makes you seem like a sanctimonious ass.

Sorry.

That would be fine IF the majority of rapefics addressed rape in any meaningful way. They don’t. They’re mostly just wank fodder for a bunch of sick people who are getting off to the violation and abuse of another being. They’re awful, they’re prevalent in EVERY fandom, in EVERY sphere of writing. I can’t tell you how many novels I’ve read that have rape is love or rape as cheap character development compared to the ones that treat rape respectfully. I think it’s entirely reasonable to demand LESS rapefic in the fandom, even just this specific fandom  - because the argument “It’s everywhere so why are you focusing on us” is bullshit and derailing. Which is entirely what Obfuscobble did, he asked for LESS non-con. Not none, not to never talk about rape again, but to fucking stop with the disgusting mastubatory rapefics that do nothing but make rape seem like not the fucking awful thing it is.

So you can take YOUR sanctimonious attitude and shove it up your goddamn ass.

lizwuzthere:

secret-tingles:

Sorry, but fic writers and fan artists are not going to stop writing or drawing what they want just because you personally do not agree with it. Nor should they. You’re welcome to dislike rape and dub-con fics (plenty of people dislike them and choose not the read them), but your pedantic, kink-shaming screeds about how this type of material (and, by proxy, the people who create it) are wrong and disgusting and horrible for fandom is… really not cool or okay. You are completely failing at “not being a dick” about your dislike. 

YOUR PERSONAL TASTES ARE NOT THE SOLID GOLD STANDARD OF WHAT EVERYONE ELSE HAS TO LIKE, FIND ACCEPTABLE AND CREATE. 

And if TF fandom is really so horrific and disturbing and awful to you, well. No one’s forcing you to stay. Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out, and good luck finding a fandom where all the writers and artists only create things that conform to your personal sensibilities. 

You know what. I’m going to take it even further. I’M GONNA BE A DICK.

FUCK OFF.

Rape is not okay. I don’t give a shit if it’s your kink. Rape is despicable. There is no other crime that so completely violates someone and destroys their life the way rape does. I AM ENTIRELY UNAPOLOGETIC THAT I DO NOT AND WILL NOT UNDERSTAND PEOPLE WHO GET OFF ON STORIES ABOUT IT.

And your whining little cry of “KINK-SHAMER” is pathetic. Oh no- someone doesn’t like my kink and doesn’t understand it and is in fact OFFENDED by it?? Well they’re trying to shame me because they don’t like something that is entirely despicable in a non-fictional setting SO I’M GOING TO YELL AT THEM.

NO.

FUCK. YOU.

Seconding the FUCK YOU with a side order of people like you are everything that is wrong with fandom and the internet. Stop trying to protect the fucking disgusting, indefensible rapefics you giant piece of fucking shit.

obfuscobble:

cruelfeline:
Dear People Who Insist that Bayformers Optimus is Some Sort of Monster,
Just.
Stop.
No Love,
Me

obfuscobble:
Dear cruelfeline,
I must respectfully disagree with your ultimatum. Upon critical review of the Tranformers movies, it becomes readily apparent that…

cruelfeline:
…dude, how did you even find this post?
Like.
I didn’t tag it or anything.
How do people even find my annoyance posts?
Good lord.
And man, I don’t have Optimus posts.
That’s not my territory; belongs to someone else. 

swindledagain:
We read things that are in our feeds, that’s all.

cruelfeline:
Which would make all this beautiful sense if obfu-whatever was a follower of mine.
Which it isn’t.
*fwee*

(I went to sleep last night before all this went down, so please excuse my tardiness in responding.)

I’m a man, and you had no way of knowing that, but please don’t refer to a fellow human being as “it.” I was alerted to your post when someone sent me an ask about it.  I wouldn’t have known about your post otherwise, but I wasn’t aware that the post wasn’t intended for discussion.  I found the post worth discussion, so I reblogged it, using the same “dear X-” pattern used in your original post, equally as tongue in cheek.  I use tumblr to share my art and to engage in analysis and debate.  I really like discussing ideas!

I am sorry that I caused you distress.

oh no you reblogged something that was posted on a public forum, what a goddamn calamity.

lizwuzthere:

decepticonsensual:

Decepticonsensual: Regarding Cybertronians and Humans

fierceawakening:

I’m not so much interested in the meta on humans as I am that sentence in the middle there:

(The only part I’d disagree with is that I see Megatron’s laughter at the destruction of the Omega Lock as bitter and disbelieving, not full-on fruitcake flapjacks crazy.  But I think that only strengthens the overall point.)

I agree.

Or — well. I agree and don’t. I suspect the TFP writers actually meant fruitcake flapjacks crazy.

However, I think they intended this because they are absolutely godawful at writing the type of villain that Megatron is.

Don’t get me wrong, they’re great at writing certain types of villains. They’re fucking amazing at Evil Snarker, for example, and I love the TFP Decepticons for that alone.

But they have no idea what a villain who is a leader should look like. They want Megatron to be strong and regal, so in the service of this goal, they give him a noble-seeming past. Then they reason that he has to be bad now, so they decide to make him crazy. And they don’t carefully character-develop descent into madness, with ups and downs and nostalgia and tragic half-awareness of what’s happening. They just give him scenery-chewing crazy shit to do, and call it good.

I think the laughter at the breaking of the Lock was that. “See? This guy’s loopy. Just in case you forgot. Loopy! See? We told you.”

Which falls so short of what the character could be.

I interpret the laughter in the same way you do — as a mad, bitter kind of grief that can only laugh wildly in the face of such horror.

I think it’s a valid interpretation. But I don’t think it’s what the writers meant. I just don’t give them that much credit, sadly.

However, I choose to say fuck the writers and think it’s a valid interpretation because… it makes more sense than what I think they intended.

Think about it. Megatron refers to the humans as “your pets” multiple times. He thinks the Autobots see the kids as… puppies, or something. Cute little animals they’ve grown to love.

He sees the merit in Starscream’s plan to get the Keys back by threatening the puppies. Losing the opportunity to restore Cybertron over three pet puppies is a bit extreme, yeah. But as Bulkhead points out, both the ‘Cons and the ‘Bots want Cybertron restored. As strategically disastrous as letting Megatron be the one to do it would be for the ‘Bots, Megatron reasons that Optimus might rather have a Cybertron that he has to fight for and his puppies than live with the guilt of his puppies dying.

And Megatron, as I see him, is still somewhat bewildered by Optimus. He doesn’t really get why Optimus turned against him. Not spark-deep. I don’t think he has the same hope of reconciliation Optimus keeps having and rejecting and having again, no, but I also think part of him doesn’t fully understand what the hell happened.

So, Optimus’s weakness is puppies. Optimus chooses to save puppies. Okay then.

But what destroying the Lock is isn’t just saving puppies. It’s doing the equivalent of putting puppies before humans.

If most of us had to choose between letting Earth become uninhabitable for humans forever and letting millions of puppies die… well, I think a lot of us would sadly pull the trigger. We love puppies, but most of us feel humans are a “higher” life form. I can only think of a few animal rights activist types who would choose the puppies.

That’s what Optimus reveals himself to be.

A well-written Megatron? Is shocked and horrified at that. A well-written Megatron? Thinks Optimus is going mad.

So I choose to interpret that laughter as shocked horror. Because as monstrous as Megatron has become, a choice like that is absolutely incomprehensible to him. He’s seen all kinds of abominations and desecrated just about anything to get his way, but something like that —

that’s just beyond even his comprehension.

Or would be if the TFP writers knew what the hell they were doing, anyway.

That’s very true - I don’t think “shocked and bitter” is what the writers had in mind, much as I wish it were.

I think you’re right about “loopy” basically being used as a character shortcut for Megatron.  And I’d also say that his reaction to the destruction of the Omega Lock - if you take it as crazed rather than bitter laughter - is an attempt to paint him as loopy AND purely obsessed with Optimus, which is essentially another shortcut when it comes to his development.  It doesn’t matter that he’s just lost his home, because hey! that means Optimus just lost his, too!  It even makes it sound like Megatron believes this is all playing into his hands.  And that bothered me, because I think that up until that point, we’d seen a Megatron who, yes, had a hell of a lot of emotional baggage and a pretty significant blind spot regarding Optimus, but who also still had a vision for Cybertron’s future - even if it had become twisted in the course of the war - and had drive and ambition beyond “make Prime pay”.

Incidentally, I definitely agree with your take on how Megatron isn’t able to even comprehend Optimus making the choice that he has.  I really wish the writers had shown us that.  One thing I think the writers did do well in “Darkest Hour” was take a decision the audience might have been expected to approve of without much thought - the Autobots saved humanity, yay! - and, through Starscream’s and (especially) Ratchet’s reactions, drive home exactly how that would have looked through Cybertronian eyes.  It was fairly bold to make the hero’s decision that ambiguous.  But Megatron’s reaction, and the way the destruction of the Omega Lock MUST have changed how Megatron looked at Optimus - I’d imagine from “deluded but redeemable” to “I don’t even know you any more” - should have been a key part of that, and they weren’t.  I’d have loved to see a scene where Megatron’s response even makes US wonder whether Optimus is going mad.

tl;dr version:  YES, THIS.

On the ambiguity of the Autobot’s actions- Let’s not forget that just awhile ago for their online awards show thing, the Hub included Optimus Prime sacrificing the Lock in their “Best Good Deed” section… I don’t think it was meant to be ambiguous. I think they wanted us to think Optimus was making a good choice in choosing humanity over Cybertron. I think we’re supposed to think Ratchet was wrong to even question Optimus. And I think that’s going to be very apparent in season 3…

As for Megatron. ugh. yes. I have so many issues with the way his character has been handled. The only explanation is SPACE MADNESS… and it’s just not good.
I WISH he had been laughing out of shock, but I know deep down in my shattered heart that that is not what what they were going for.

Chiming in on Ratchet’s reaction - I agree that the writers probably don’t want us to agree with Ratchet, they want us to be “But Optimus did the right thing in saving the humans!”. But I also think that they utterly failed in this, this time because of the strength of the voice acting and the character of Ratchet. His reaction to hearing his planet is now beyond hope was utterly heartbreaking and, along with Starscream’s, was the only believable and emotionally resonant reaction, especially on the autobot side of the spectrum.

Also for the entire season Megatron was in a “Who’s the most evil of us all” competition with Silas and Airachnid and eventually he came out on top as the most completely mwahahahaha-evil villain of them all. I can’t interpret that laughter as anything but a “look how eeeeevil I am” moment.