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Oh the girls are fighting…🙁🙁

This was supposed to be a warm up but I got really carried away and got locked into rendering and color practice 😭😭😭

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look man i’m sorry but the whole loki and sylvie being in love with each other is really just glorified sanscest. 2016-2017 undertale tumblr users know what i’m talking about

“but it’s representative of self love <3 that’s exactly how they justified sanscest, try again bucko

(also dw i’m just memeing, this is /lh and honestly i don’t mind them all that much LOL, i just thought this was funny)

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a swing and a miss

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cancel culture is performative activism in and of itself.

putting this under a readmore w/ general tw: discourse, negativity, transphobia/racism/antisemitism mentions

what good does calling out your favorite streamer for insensitive older tweets do? it makes you feel better about "solving the problem" without actually addressing the root cause of systemic oppression. your streamer apologizes, you pat yourself on the back, and no one trends the actual issues.

we have lots of evidence that sbi (and many other mcyts) are in fact very accepting, both in the general attitude and the more specific "can you say ___ rights/black lives matter", etc. (although that is basically asking them to perform activism -- being paid to say so-and-so deserves rights doesn't necessarily reflect their actual beliefs, and several mcyts -- wilbur and quackity come to mind -- have addressed that.) the fact that these content creators are not as outwardly liberal as you might be does not mean they don't believe or contribute to these causes privately.

in this case i think techno might've just been a little tone deaf. while "don't murder people" feels like it's making light of the situation, he still linked a petition and gave it exposure. and digging up tweets from years ago to prove your streamer is racist is silly, both because everyone is stupid at 17 and because they've clearly changed since then. a lot of his older tweets 1) probably made more sense in context 2) are obviously sarcastic. like "when i grow up i want to be racist". that's satire.

phil regularly blocks people that break his boundaries without blocking all the sbi critical fans. he's not mass-blocking criticism, he blocked a couple, and twitter's blowing it out of proportion.

with tommy... that entire ksi situation was terrible for reasons a lot of other people have said better than me, so i'll link their posts here: 1 2 3 (there's obviously more but these cover it pretty well)

the general trend of calling out content creators that have ever had contact with genuinely problematic cc's is unhelpful. most of those cc's would rather stick around and help educate their friends, and it's likely that they do that behind the scenes. we are not privy to that knowledge.

even if you do end up "educating" your streamer in between the floods of hate and incoherent yelling, you've not addressed the root issue. it's treating the symptoms of societal prejudice, not the root causes. sure, it's easier to attack your streamer: they're far more likely to agree with you and apologize than a right-wing conservative who's trying to bar trans rights, but it's totally ineffective for actually changing the way the system's run. when you get your streamer to publicly apologize for a perceived slight, what you've done is

stressed them out to no end for several days

accomplished something that lets you pat yourself on the back, and

nothing for legitimate reform.

your streamer has influence over people that think similarly to you. chances are the majority of their audience already believes in queer rights and black lives matter! twitter's an echo chamber of liberals agreeing with each other and conservatives agreeing with each other and the two sides refusing to compromise. if you're on the side of twitter that tries to cancel streamers for outdated tweets and dug-up evidence, everyone that's gonna cancel with you already agrees with you -- if anything, your behavior will drive your streamer further from your perspective, because people don't learn from mobbing and screaming.

additionally: step back and check whether you're speaking over minorities. for example: i'm chinese! i'd rather you didn't weaponize asian minorities (or minorities in general) when claiming techno's racist against asians because of a couple jokes in poor taste. the majority of people that are cancelling are inflating an issue that really doesn't need it. please save your energy for trending trans rights bills and immigration laws, for example. or even legitimate blackface and h*tler jokes from today, not five years ago.

i know it's exhausting to fight against the legitimate sources of discrimination in society. but attacking content creators is not the way to fix that.

(note: i'm specifically talking about the trend i've seen of digging up old stuff that you think a streamer should apologize for today. i'm not talking about things like schlatt's recent blackface or ksi's transphobia. please keep that in mind if you wanna add on to this.)

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a god and an angel blow shit up

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(cred @ ectofiizz on tiktok)

i present to you all:

UNDERTALES FROM THE SMP

discuss.

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harry potter marauder era except the marauders are replaced by the feral boys. discuss.

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obligatory new version of this meme because i think today’s been crazy enough

EDIT: no the stalkers aren’t fans, but ranboo has said that it’s making him a little paranoid in terms of people finding out his identity

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look i know i posted this theory here on tumblr already but i need it for context to this reply because i feel like twitter just didn’t appreciate it enough. anyways

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this was also posted on my twitter !! (in pinned)

not sure if this has been pointed out yet, but i feel that it is important to point out the similarities here:

ran = the other side

boo = the inbetween

if we run off the confirmation that ran and boo are in fact not two seperate people, but rather, one single person, then we can assume that the other side and the inbetween are one in the same.

karl isn’t safe yet.

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not sure if this has been pointed out yet, but i feel that it is important to point out the similarities here:

ran = the other side

boo = the inbetween

if we run off the confirmation that ran and boo are in fact not two seperate people, but rather, one single person, then we can assume that the other side and the inbetween are one in the same.

karl isn’t safe yet.

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Foolish was doing this bit where he auctioned off Dream SMP members and you'd think it'd be Dream but....the Techno millionaires are fucking unmatched yall

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just leaving this here for tumblr to enjoy (creds @ barnestwt on twitter)

also tubbo saying “ima pop-chicka-pop these cops til i’m free” is 100% within his character’s vocabulary and ability and you cannot tell me otherwise

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once again, ranboo is one of the funniest people on this server

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I edited Ranboo's ARG hint a bit...

I increased the contrast and turned the photo negative - yall is this an eye? a portal?? a piece to a larger puzzle we have no real grasp on??? I HAVE NO CLUE

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First post from the flight: Fairly Odd Phil AU!

Crack and fluff because you guys make it look like all I do is draw angst.

Crack being a Tommy wish because of course he would. I am far too tired to explain the Variable Law in this AU so just know that it’s a scientific explanation for why fairy shit happens.

Fluff being after a festival and Wil and Tech prepare to celebrate by themselves after they put Tommy into bed.

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he fucking WHAT

I love Jack Manifold because sometimes I remember that he got into Oxford and instead chose to roleplay failing to murder a child in minecraft