You’ve no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they’re not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn’t give you that right. Having more weapons doesn’t give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn’t give you that right. Nothing does
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Suzanne said “y'all did not understand my criticism on society and the glorification of war and violence” then wrote a prequel shoving it all in our faces and i for one think that’s very sexy of her
I’m so glad Lemar mentioned how power just makes you more of what you are, because it was a clear call back to what Erskine said to Steve: the serum only amplifies what’s already there.
With Steve, it made his inherent goodness into greatness. With John, it accentuated what he always was. And that doesn’t necessarily mean that John was always some bad guy but what I think it does say, is what this show has been saying since literally episode one through Sam and Bucky’s actions: you cannot replicate Steve.
I feel like there’s this assumption that the serum will make you like Steve, when in actuality, the serum can ruin you if you already have darkness in you. Look at the Red Skull. Fuck, look at Walker at the end of this.
Steve’s goodness is impossible to reforge, even with the serum. Steve was special. Before the serum and after. Steve was the anomaly. And no matter what John tries, regardless of how much he says he doesn’t wanna be Steve or what have you, he does. He wants the respect. He wants the power. And so he thinks the serum will get him closer to that ideal. But the serum doesn’t turn you into Steve. It turns you into a magnified version of what you already are.
And that’s why I love how Sam said he never was tempted to take the serum, because Sam knows. He knows he doesn’t need the enhancements. Sam doesn’t need or want to be like Steve. Sam is Sam and worthy of the shield and title without the serum. Whereas John needs it to feel worthy of the title.
tumblr is apparently rolling out a beta for a new post editor that essentially makes it so there are no longer post “types” (text post, audio post, photo post, etc.), and instead all types of content are better integrated into a single post. pretty neat, right?
…until you read the fine print.
The maximum number of total content blocks allowed in a single post is 250.
i emailed support and asked whether each paragraph counts as a content block. i received this reply:
SO. each paragraph counts as a content block, and i’m only allowed 250 content blocks in one post. the solution provided was to reformat my fics by using shift+enter after every paragraph instead of simply enter. which is already unnecessarily annoying in of itself, but then you come to the second hurdle:
The maximum character length of a single text block is 4096 characters.
so–what?? besides spending my time writing thousands upon thousands of words, i’m expected to copy-paste it and then reformat everything, counting every single one of those words to make sure they fit within the restrictions? or i’m supposed to chop my fics up into multiple parts, even when i don’t want to? how exactly are writers supposed to write on this platform?? as you all know, my style tends to run pretty dialogue-heavy, so i start new paragraphs (and, thus, content blocks!!!) pretty damn often. i did a quick check, and let it snow, at almost 19k, is 550 paragraphs. with this new system, i would be forced to upload it in three (3!!!!!) posts! even my shortest chapter of ego, at 8.8k, is 350 paragraphs, and i’d have to split it in two.
this is honestly a formatting nightmare as a writer, and this is a decision that is liable to drive content creators away from the site and change fandom culture as a whole.
please. if you enjoy reading content on this site and want to continue enjoying content on this site, please don’t let tumblr make things harder for writers! since the tumblr team is supposedly eager to hear what everyone thinks, it would really help if you could message support and share your concern about the issue–maybe we can stop this disaster before it starts.
fake relationship is such a good trope. they have to act in love and they are in love but they think the other isn’t in love. oscar. pulitzer. nobel prize
I will never. EVER. be over Ancient Cosmic Being Castiel Angel Of The Lord CHOOSING to be domesticated by two lumbering men who are bad at communication. It’s objectively comical and it’s also just so sweet it makes me absolutely insane
