Plus if that had happened they'd have declared Dumbledore evil for that. And quite often patients came out fairly compos mentis so he could still have become Voldemort, just with memory fuckups or incontinence or something.
Tbh my feelings about Dumbledore are like... he's a fuck up, but isn't that part of what makes him fun? I wish more people playfully played with that more.
This is the specific thread which annoyed me. I'm kind of used to haters assuming Dumbledore was pulling the strings at the Ministry and/or forgetting that Tom was a creepy little monster long before Dumbledore even met him, but the psychiatry thing requires such a total ignorance of history (and, in fact, current mental health care standards and capabilities - even the docs who want to help are still basically flailing about in there with a wrench) that I was shocked.
boy... the infinity train shit really bothers me, i have to say Spoiler: s3, crew drama like, the crew saying 'we never wrote any neurodivergent characters on purpose' when one of the writers saying simon had npd and that's why he had to die before happened (which also strikes me as super funny to say about a character whose like 'yes ma'am' for most of his arc @ someone else/aka the actual cult leader. like, heck, you could write REAL reasons for simon to be unlikeable but saying he always has to think he's right is super funny when grace is the more key character for who that's a flaw and the story goes to show that despite that flaw she can work to improve herself. but anyway, and then that same writer walks back that statement today and is like 'oh that's just 'headcanon'' though to be frank, when a writer writes with that interp in mind, i genuinely also wonder at what point the two are enmeshed in the lore. it's a tough line.
This is entirely a personal gripe, but I feel like Italian-American-Humanstuck or just -naturally-accented Cronus Ampora ruins the canon joke that he actually doesn't naturally fit any greaser tropes and is forcing it.
Not really a gripe, but I'm completely puzzled as to why there's so much foot fetish art for Angel Dust, a character who doesn't appear to have feet.
The one from Hazbin Hotel? That's probably a combination of him being Deliberate Fetish Fuel in a variety of ways and also there being a relatively high concentration of foot fetishists in the furry fandom (which is absolutely being catered to by Hazbin Hotel too.)
I mean Those are lil pawsies. I'm 100% unsurprised there's foot fetish Art of any sort of the pawsies.
Honestly one should never be surprised at foot art. It's a very common fetish and there's enough variants of it and dimensions to it that everything you can think of can and will get fetish art foot wise. And the furry fandom is more than fine with taking creative license with designs as need be. I mean look what we do to Renamon.
I mean, what his feet should or should not look like, mans is wearing stripper heels in all of his appearances, so... We don't actually know what his feet look like! Personally, I like him with hooves, because I think everyone should have hooves. Even when they don't make sense. Spoiler: img
Dear Miraculous Ladybug Fandom, please stop arguing over whether sentimonsters are human unless you are actually getting into fun worldbuilding questions about, like, what is going on with them on the cellular level. (Do they have cells or are their bodies made of pure magic that takes care of digestion/respiration/etc? Do they have normal cellular processes? Do they have DNA? Is it typical for whatever species they resemble is or is it unique to sentimonsters? Is it related to the DNA of the person who created them?) The word I'm pretty sure you want to be using in >90% of this discourse is "person". And fun fact! The show has multiple nonhuman people (Markov, the Kwami) and the NY special has a human-shaped nonhuman person (Uncanny Valley, who is an android).
So someone offered to buy a commission off me, and now they're refusing to tell me what the idea they want me to write is. I asked them to tell me, and they asked me what I'd be willing to write, which is... an incredibly broad question, and a lot of things are on a case-by-case basis, so this is barely up from "i dunno what do you wanna write". I told them that and they still won't tell me what their idea actually is.
I'd say 'take their money and write whatever the hell you want' - there's a decent chance that's what they actually want - except I know how hard it can be to do that on demand in the first place...
