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[dwaterson21]

This. 100 percent this.

To criminalize thought is to criminalize being human. There is such a thing as "art-artist separation," as wild a concept though it may seem. To write something is not to condone it, and many times it's specifically to condemn it.

Vladimir Nabokov wrote "Lolita" to condemn the actions of serial child rapist Frank La Salle, who kidnapped 11 year old Sally Horner and forced her to pretend to be his daughter. He also wrote it in response to his own molestations at the hands of his uncle. I don't think he condoned what he wrote about.

James Dickey wrote "Deliverance" in 1970 to bring awareness to the rampant inbreeding of the Deep South, as well as the stigma and struggles of male rape victims. I don't think he would condone the horrible actions performed in his book.

Bret Easton Ellis wrote "American Psycho" as a graphic satire of the two-faced nature and dehumanity of the workers of corporate America. Last I checked, he wouldn't condone being a serial killer.

It's okay to dislike something. You have every right to dislike it. But also, they have every right to like it. Furthermore, (hopefully, at least,) nobody is forcing you to view any content you do not like. Blacklists and blocking exist for a reason. Use them.

Stop policing the thoughts of others, and start protecting your own.

Also, the people who say "But the bad things are bad, so you're bad for liking them!"

Allow me to retort.

In that mindset, if you like media with graphic violence, that makes you a violent and bad person. This means enjoying a show like Supernatural makes you a person who will go out and fight demons. That means liking "Fahrenheit 451" means you like listening to the Bible in your sleep and setting people on fire.

Need I say more?

Let people like what they like. So long as that isn't children, we're fine.

Just a warning, @/nenenene is a Kr*ttcest shipper.

Look, you are all going to need to read this- I am "fandom old" at this point in pretty much any fandom I'm in- I don't ship it, I CAN'T ship it, it goes against everything I personally believe in. HOWEVER, if a cute piece of art pops up that ISN'T actively showing shipping content, I'm going to reblog it because I can and will interpret it as platonic whether they want me to or not. This does not, and never will mean, I somehow enjoy incest shipping or that I am morally tainted because I happen to like a piece of art that happened to be drawn by an incest shipper.

Art can be interpreted and it does not put a stain on your morality or taint your soul just because you happen to like a piece of art drawn by a person you don't morally agree with. It's OK to enjoy stuff without attaching morality to it. 90% of the famous rock bands have killer music and also did 50,000 kinds of drugs, slept with underaged groupies and were shit to their wives, but we still enjoy the music. Separate the art from the artist, fam; unless they are actively using money and their art to cause harm by forcing it onto people they know won't like it or cause a hateful message etc, it's harmless.

It's a piece of art and I like that piece of art. There is nothing else to it.

Also as a fandom old, I've seen everything (whether I wanted to or not, and I mean fucking EVERYTHING) probably things that would make my ancestors die of heart attacks because I've been around for long enough to poke into all the nooks and crannies. Whatever you think is morally wrong and taboo out there, there's hundreds of thousands of well adjusted, normal adults drawing pictures and writing stories about it for shits and giggles. They will never murder anyone, they will never do terrible things to children, they just have a good time in their little sandbox with other people and they don't expect you to enjoy it if it's not your thing.

The longer I've been around, the more I understand that things will just exist and I'm not going to police people just for creating something I personally find distasteful and gross.

As long as the real life people these cartoon characters are based on do not see it, can live blissfully unaware of it, and are not being actively pushed into anything relating to it, who cares?

I KNOW people don't like hearing this kind of thing because recently there's this culture of BUT THE BAD THINGS ARE BAD! Yeah, in real life. Stories and drawings aren't real life. As much as it hurts, Naruto and Sonic don't have real feelings to hurt. So as long as this stuff stays blissfully away from the real people, it's not that big of a deal.

As a firm believer in the freedom to choose, I really can't start going to people and trying to police what they do just because I don't personally agree with it. And besides, MOST of the time when people are experimenting with concepts in art and written form that are taboo subjects, they don't usually condone it in real life. It's literally just a safe space to play in a sandbox. If I pop off a barbie'\s head I didn't kill barbie, you feel? And as much as they are made to be representations of the actual brothers, they're cartoon versions; they're superheroes who turn into animals, and that's what they're writing/drawing about. They're not thinking about the actual 50 year old men and even if they are, again, there's no harm in having your taboo thoughts as long as you don't act on them (IE try to get the actual real life people together or tell them about it etc.).

Terf rhetoric? Yeah block the bitches because they actively cause harm and spread harm to real people and they want to cause harm. But a person that's likely just throwing their weird ideas into the wind online because it's not really hurting anyone to do it? They can absolutely be blocked, but you can also just... let them be in their little sandbox. As long as your stance on it is clear, and they accept your boundaries, it doesn't do any harm.

Live your life the way you want to, but don't worry about random online shippers, my friend. Unless they're actively trying to get the real life people to do stuff or see the content which is deliberately trying to make people uncomfortable, are causing harm to children or other people, are pushing for violence against other people, or are actively trying to hurt you, allow yourself the freedom to just be like "not for me" and step away.

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i’m over 5'5 / i wear glasses or contacts / i have blonde hair / i often wear sweatshirts / i prefer loose clothing over tight clothes / i have one or two piercings / i have at least one tattoo / i have blue eyes / i have dyed or highlighted my hair / i have or have had braces / i have freckles / i paint my nails / i typically wear makeup / i don’t often smile / resting bitch face / i play sports / i play an instrument / i know more than one language / i can cook or bake / i like writing / i like to read / i can multitask / i’ve never dated anyone / i have a best friend i’ve known for over five years / i am an only child

tag game 🤭

rules: color the sentence that's true about you

i’m over 5'5 / i wear glasses or contacts / i have blonde hair / i often wear sweatshirts / i prefer loose clothing over tight clothes / i have one or two piercings / i have at least one tattoo / i have blue eyes / i have dyed or highlighted my hair / i have or have had braces / i have freckles / i paint my nails / i typically wear makeup / i don’t often smile / resting bitch face / i play sports / i play an instrument / i know more than one language / i can cook or bake / i like writing / i like to read / i can multitask / i’ve never dated anyone / i have a best friend i’ve known for over five years / i am an only child

this is a whole lot of yellow lmfao

no pressure tags: @marthawrites @schniiipsel @aemonddtargaryen @aemondsbabe @adragonprinceswhore @arcielee @black-dread @lovelykhaleesiii @aemondsbabygirl @valeskafics @connorsui

[dwaterson21]

I re-arrive from the quarks of the nothing void in the universe's center.

Finally sober, on a good medication regiment, and feeling better.

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Who’s your favorite Kratt out of the 3?

I can't choose, to be honest.

Martin is the eldest. He represents chaos, yet is also the most focused. He is a character too deep for just one series. Expect more of him in the future. I have an idea for a whole new story with him as well, possibly outside of the Reprogrammed universe.

Chris is the foundational stability within the meat in the middle. He represents stability. He is the rock, the combination of physical foundation and emotional stasis. Expect more from him.

Connor is the young gun, the teen with a mind forced to age faster than his body. He represents the very thing he despises: Change. I can't wait to write more of him in Season 2 and going into KACA Chronicles.

You can't make me pick between children.

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What’s it like having a co-author?

Co-authorship allows me to treat the series almost as a published roleplay, and it helps form a brain-trust that allows us to expand our ideas into readable, audible, and tangible experiences on the page. It allows us, together, to better perform the art of writing. I love it, and I love my co-authors @actualaspie, @feathersketch, and @sabyfangirl16. I consider them all artists of the highest regard, and you should check all three of them out, as well as my other co-authorship work on AO3 (unfortunately, they are not on Tumblr.)

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Here’s a question for ya: Why include Gourmand only to kill him?

[TW: Mass shootings and serial killers are discussed below. Be advised.]

I was inspired to create my version of Gourmand based on studies I had done on deviant behavior psychology, specifically on those of Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, and mass shootings such as Columbine, Texas, and especially Virginia Tech.

I had always harbored a deep hatred of Gourmand as a kid, and (since there was already going to be a main villain for the series,) I felt there would be good reason to use him to progress the story with his death. He's an utter pariah, a character who can ground everyone's opinions through hatred. See: King Joffrey from Game of Thrones and Commodus from Gladiator. Also, it allows the team (e.g. Connor) to grow through the granting of the power over life and death, two major themes throughout the entire series.

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How’d Koki and Aviva meet in this world? We know Jimmy’s a pilot and vet, but what’s the girls’ story?

Martin chose the two of them to work on the Tortuga. Aviva created the suits and the neuro-spinal DNA chip. Koki was a controversial podcaster for UC Berkeley's radio station. They met when they were brought onto the team.

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It’s cute that Connor has a stuffed animal! But why’d he freak out when Aviva had it? I get not wanting someone to touch a childhood toy but it was kinda outta character for him to just grab it (unless that’s another autism thing, no hate)

I cannot actually explain the full story of Raveena, as it is a story beat in Season 2 that ends up forming its beating heart. The answer I can give is: Raveena is very close to him.

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A little about what inspires me.

I know y'all wanna know about me, the head author of Wild Kratts: Reprogrammed, and the guy who runs @wk-reprogrammed. Well, here's some things that inspire my work. Musicians/Bands: Dream Theater, David Byrne, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Porter Robinson, Laurie Anderson Composers: Jonny Greenwood, Dmitri Shostakovich, John Mackey, Frank Ticheli, Krzysztof Penderecki, Gustav Mahler Artists: Maurizio Cattelan, Andy Warhol, Vincent van Gogh, Julie de Graag, Piet Mondrian Directors: Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan Authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ray Bradbury, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Anton Chekhov YouTubers: DankPods, Graystillplays, RTGame, NileRed, Local 58

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A small reminder: I am still accepting questions! I always will be!

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Stop this person immediately

Eat popcorn off a plate just to spite god.

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What does everyone do to relax?

That's a good question. I'll have to look into what they'd do in more detail, but:

Martin does photography and filming. And other things. Read First Stripes.

Chris plays guitar and livestreams himself on Twitch sometimes. That will be a Case Story one day.

Connor, idk, ask @actualaspie.

Jimmy reads and writes poetry.

Aviva skates and does street art. She's not the best. But she's DOING her best.

Koki helps Chris stream, and plays keyboard.

[dwaterson21]

Any plans to use an original suit? One NOT used in the show?

I'm not entirely sure. With the episodes in place for Season 2, maybe not, but in the Case Studies? First Stripes? KACA Stories? Maybe.

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Any plans to write Paisley?

Yes! She will be in Season 2, but...maybe not in the way you think she'd be used.

You'll just have to wait and find out, though.

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WHY WOULD YOU KILL OFF GOURMAND?! HE’S LIKE THE BEST VILLAIN!

I got inspired to write a villain based off of Jeffrey Dahmer. Then, I wrote a character so utterly horrendous that I just wanted him dead. So, we killed off Gourmand.

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Will you also be writing the specials? (Eg. Creature Christmas, Hero’s Journey and Creepy Creatures?

We will be, as one-shot Case Studies.

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What’s everyone’s favorite powersuit (or animal if they don’t have a suit)

MK: Otters

CK: Falcons

Connor: Wolves

Aviva: Owls

Koki: Lions

Jimmy: Capybaras