hunger games isnt a ripoff you stupid shit, blood sport plots have been around for ages. look up the long walk by stephen king. that was published in 1979. WOW BATTL ROYALE RIPP IT OFF!!
Dear Anon,
I’m glad that you feel the need to answer my post with rude language, poor spelling and insults. I did look up The Long Walk, but it seems to me that that book has considerably larger differences in the plot from Battle Royale/The Hunger Games than the two have from each other - most notably the fact that the contestants don’t have to kill each other. Stephen King’s novel also seems to have a different theme of confronting mortality and the resulting mental stress, versus the totalitarian regimes, the commercialization of violence and intrinsic human tendencies towards violence seen in the other two books. Again, I don’t claim to know everything about books which I have not read, and I would love to be proved wrong, but as it stands The Hunger Games seems like another vanilla Americanization of Japanese art. (Just take a look at the horror genre remakes of Japanese films if you want proof of this trend.) Battle Royale would never reach the same popularity in the US as the Hunger Games because of its brutalistic nature and sexual content (Americans don’t like to see 14 year old rape victims seducing their male peers and killing them while they’re jacking off…which, is understandably unappealing). However, to create a PG-13 version of an explicit piece of work is to undermine its original intent. Battle Royale is supposed to be that graphic. Its a commentary on how our modern society has become desensitized to violence in a way very similar to the dystopian future depicted in the novel. We are falling victim to the very same trap of the commercialization of violence as the people negatively depicted in the novel. It serves as a warning against our current lust for blood and gore. To be effective, the work has to be graphic and has to make the reader uncomfortable. The Hunger Games seems to fall short on this front. It gives the same unrealistic depiction of violence as the rest of popular American culture and, ironically, serves to maintain (and perhaps even promote) the “happy violence” it should be cautioning against. I hope now, Dear Anon, that you understand my frustration around The Hunger Games. Its not simply because it resembles Battle Royale, but that it distracts audiences from what I consider a more effective work. I’m terribly sorry that I didn’t make that entirely clear in my initial post and I’m sorry that it provoked you to send rude anonymous internet posts. Please, feel free to disagree with anything I have just said, I believe our world would work better if people took the time to have honest, open-minded debates, but please be respectful while you do it. Or at the very least, give a name along with your rudeness.
Lots of Love and Best Wishes,
Kate
Damnit you fucking rude ass anons, what the hell is your problem? I see way TOO much hate on my dash. These people haven’t done a single thing to you and yet you feel the need to try and tear them down any way that you can. Why do you get such satisfaction out of hurting somebody else? I will never, EVER understand why people attack others to make themselves feel better. It is beyond me how that could possibly work, but then again I’m not someone who stoops to such levels.
You have no fucking clue what people are going through and how much such cruel words can really affect them. Honestly, please find something better to do with your life then act like a bully.
To those of you who get these rude anons, I know it’s easier said than done but please don’t give them the satisfaction. Don’t listen to them. They are the ones with the problem. To me they’re actually the weak ones because in order to feel decent about themselves they feel the need to attack others.
okay, listen up, fucker.
There’s someone lurking around trying to stir up some shit via anon.
Seriously?
GROW. THE. FUCK. UP.
Leave my friends alone.
Is your plan to try to come between us? First, that’s lame, and second, we’re adults with functioning brains, and it’s not gonna work.
So just lay off.
Scotty isn't even that good looking and his music sucks. I rather listen to fat guys fart then fucking country music. its terrible. no one likes it where im from. haley was 10x more talented then lauren and scotty combined. He was like the worst person on idol. the only reason he won was because of you stupid fan girls. ugh you make me sad to be a teenage girl.
Well first off thats your opinion and im not mad for you saying that but what i am MAD about is how you could say that about someone, you know its people like you who cause all this bullying and bullicide out there, and if you dont know what bullicide is let me explain that to you, its when people kill themselves because they are tired of getting bullied, now how would you feel if Scotty read what you wrote, how would YOU feel if someone said something like this to YOU… and listen here i like country music, i grew up to it, i don’t care what you think of it, country music is nice, in my opinion some of it has good messages unlike rap music, which im not dissing cause some rap music is good too, but not all of it, now about haley i thought she was good, but not the best, and looks shouldn’t matter, in my opinion YES i think Scotty is cute, and thats my opinion, but looks arent what matter, remember that saying ”its what matters on the inside” now Scotty well he does have a good voice maybe thats why he made it to being the season 10 American Idol, now if you wanted Haley to win then maybe you should of tried harder to get her to win havent you thought about that? I guess not so grow up and get over youself. Oh and yes some opinion should be said and some should be kept to yourself and you miss your opinion should definitely be kept too yourself, so no dissing on Scotty McCreery, he doesn’t deserve to have this said about him, and if my blog or any other McCreerian support makes you feel sad about being a teenage girl well then go dress up like a boy and pretend to be a boy so then you can be pronounced as being jealous of Scotty instead of being some rude teenage girl who needs to do some growing up. Have a nice day (:
So I just got a really mean anon message in my ask.
I’m not even going to bother responding.
But I will say this. I’m not perfect. I never said I was. Recovery isn’t easy. I’m sorry I’m failing. Wait, no I’m not. Because it’s entirely my fault and my problem and the only person I have to answer to is myself. If my posts make you uncomfortable or trigger you and you need to unfollow, I understand. Yes, this blog is recovery themed, but that doesn’t mean everything is going to be rainbows and butterflies all the times. First and foremost, I need this blog as a place to be honest and express myself and vent because I have no where to turn in my real life. CONSIDER THIS A WARNING. Recovering in college has not been easy and I am currently struggling and on the verge of a relapse.
By all means, do what you need to do because the last thing I want to do is bring anybody else down or discourage people from recovery.
Just don’t send me rude, chastising messages because I’m already angry and disappointed with myself. I don’t really need your hate.
Rant::Stop&Read Please
Okay, hi, I’m not gonna try and make this a huge dramatic thing, but most of my followers are getting rude ass anons, and I am completely sick of it. For example: You’re fugly, go die, stupid whore, you’re a slut, and worse. I’m not trying to start anything, but come on Anons, first of all, you don’t know these beautiful people. Rude anons hide behind a grey face because either they know what they’re doing is wrong, or they just live to bring people down.
Just think, three words: You’re a slut. That could make one girl, one woman, one man, one guy, rethink everything about themselves. They could be one rude anon away from committing suicide. Leaving their life, their dreams, their girl/boyfriend, friends, family, dogs, cats, everything, because someone thought it was easy to type three harsh, false words. My boxing coach’s son almost committed suicide because of anonymous comments he would get.
We are all a family on Tumblr, we’re here for people with real life problems, we’re a second family, we’re not here to bring people down and decrease the beautiful human population, and if you don’t think that, then get the fuck off of Tumblr.
I know this message won’t really reach the people who like sending rude anons, and I know that this message is words and words hardly change the world, but I’m here for anyone, everyone. I’m a seventeen year old, normal insecure girl, and I will not tolerate rude anons to my followers, or anyone.
And like my momma used to tell me, got nothing nice to say? Don’t say anything at all.
can I just say?
people better step off my Hutchergirls. For real. I’m over here having a crappy night and for some reason crying my eyes out, then some anon starts messing with Whittlee?
I was all, “SOMEONE HOLD MY TISSUES!!!”
we mean it when we say: “mess with one, mess with all”
also, you’re not gonna be able to pull that shit in real life, so you might as well give it up now. Can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. Easy concept.
Rude Anons
I felt like I just needed to get this out there because it seems like there are quite a sum of rude anons lately, not saying you are haters, just that you’re well…plain rude and demanding at times.
You may think that you mean well or that you don’t mean any offense, but the thing is, the way you word your asks comes off as rude.
If you are a follower, a ‘friend’ or really just an anonymous person sending a message, it isn’t difficult to word it in a more courteous manner so as not to cause direct harm to someone. No matter if your ask wasn’t out of malicious intent or to cause hurt, the way you may have worded it could have rubbed someone the wrong way and they might’ve taken it harder than you expected because of how you said it and how it was interpreted.
On the internet, it is very hard to convey proper emotions, the way you thought it sounded in your head probably wasn’t the same way the person receiving your message may have read it as you intended and it results in misunderstandings or hurt feelings.
Someone may seem all right at first, but as they respond to the messages or think about it more, they start feeling a sense of hurt especially when thinking that the person sending the message was their ‘friend’ or follower. As a ‘friend’ or follower, you shouldn’t have to feel the need to go anonymously to someone’s ask box to tell them that what you feel they’re doing isn’t to your liking or that it ‘annoys’ you.
You should be able to talk with them face-to-face (I mean off anon, like blog-to-blog, you get what I mean >.>), in a mature fashion. This may be the internet and anyone can come and go, but really, even what is said on the internet can affect someone’s thoughts and what they think of themselves as well as others. They start to second-guess themselves on whether they should even continue voicing their opinions or posting personal posts because they start feeling like they will just begin to annoy others.
The demanding anons, you just have to be patient, each person here that makes walkthroughs, spends a great deal of time to play the games, then check and re-check that their walkthroughs work and get the ending that you so wish to achieve. They are humans and each person has a life outside of otome games, tumblr and whatever else people do on the internet, they aren’t to be prodded like animals in a cage to fulfill your demands whenever you want them to. Just be patient, they will get to it eventually and then everyone will be happy. Patience is a virtue, it won’t kill you to wait because the end result is that you will get that walkthrough or whatever you were waiting for. In the meantime, just do other things to occupy your time.
The point is, as I ranted before that these blogs are each persons own place to post whatever they want, their own thoughts, opinions, posts, what-have-yous at their own damn pace and free-will. If you don’t like what you see, you’re not forced to look or read it, all you have to do is either scroll by or blacklist tags or just don’t go to the persons blog.
I know I rant a lot, but really, this has been bugging me a lot because there seems to be an influx of rude anons. Please just word your asks in a more courteous matter, each blogger is human and humans have feelings that can be easily hurt and influenced by words said even on the internet. Thank-you.
Gotta admit, I love the writing community on tumblr.
But these “intelligent yet rude anons” are having me second guess all of you.
I’m not paranoid because I know how some of you operate.
You think since you used “you’re” correctly that your hateful comment is valid.
Well guess what.
It’s not, and you suck.
A lot.
Anons
Okay so, this is a rant. And honestly, I don’t necessarily hate anons, just the extremely rude ones. This is tumblr for god’s sake, we’re supposed to be a big family regardless of your blog type. How can someone simply press anon and send a message like “kill yourself” “no one would care if you died” “you’re worthless” or even “cut yourself”. These are all rude, and it’s shocking, but also really pathetic. How does one gather up the guts to press anon (which is exactly like hiding behind a computer screen, but even worse depending how you’re using anon) and then have the damn balls to type one of those messages. Honestly, how do you not feel bad? How can you live with yourself? Don’t you already feel low enough for thinking it’s okay to send those messages? These are the kinds of messages that shouldn’t be sent AT ALL, no matter how much of a shallow asshole you are or how much you hate that person. YOU DON’T WISH DEATH OR HARM AMONG SOMEONE. It’s wrong and shallow. I don’t give a fuck if you had a bad day, or even if you think you’re better than that person, or even if they did something to you in the past that made you dislike/hate them. Look, I enjoy anons, I really do. I won’t care if you send me hate, but if you send it to my girlfriend, I will have a problem with that, a huge problem. This is tumblr, there’s no room for hatred or rude anons. If you send hate, you seriously don’t belong on tumblr.
Rant done.
You know what, Its getting to the point where all this Anon hate is becoming an everyday thing. It’s not cool because I’m not here to deal with drama and negative comments. I’m just like everyone else on tumblr, trying to live a healthy and fit life. Nothing else.
I love the fitblr community because everyone motivates each other but honestly these negative comments need to stop. I don’t know if anyone else gets it like I do every freaking day. It really would be nice to see who are the people that send these rude messages. Cowards.
Sorry I had to vent.
Out to get my Moscato.
-Lizzie
