#[anon is right on the money]

[lazylittledragon]

please keep doing the right thing by not calling out this or any other imitators of your art. if they're not impersonating you, deceiving people about whose artworks were made/posted first, or threatening your livelihood (which is a wholly seperate issue of economics), there's no material damage being done here. that just leaves the shitty feelings you get from being aware of the imitation, and i have faith that you can get over those and move on with your life.

fact: your art is technically skillful and broadly appealing to tumblrites both in style and subject (big fandoms, popular ships, familiar tropes and ideas). that's why it's popular.

fact: social media incentivizes creators to post whatever content gets the most engagement and viewers to engage with the same kinds of content over and over, regardless of who copied who.

fact: the only thing no one else can copy is the fact that your art was made by *you*. if that's not enough for you to feel secure in the inherent value of what you make, i'm afraid there's an part of you that fears that your work is replaceable.

the discomfort and "creepiness" you talk about sounds like you're stuck in zero-sum mindset: this person can only gain something by taking it away from *you*. and that's just not true. what do you feel you're "losing" to them in this competition? praise? attention? social media points? money (see above)? unpack that.

fact: your art will be harder to imitate and less attractive to imitators if you get weirder and more experimental with it. which i would love to see, btw.

i appreciate this !! but also i should clarify: i'm not upset because i'm jealous of this person getting attention or i feel like i'm 'losing' to them in any way. i'm very secure in my own work now and if this was a stranger i probably wouldn't care as much. this is not any kind of 'threat' to me and the amount that this affects my actual life is very minimal

i'm upset because this is someone who i gave the benefit of the doubt and actually befriended, who went from taking small stylistic choices i made to potentially ripping off entire characters/comics that i wrote, and did it to my face. and i don't think it's an overreaction for me to be weirded out by that

[stupidlittlespirit]

The baby

YOU MADE HIM????!!!!!! Does the talent in this fandom know no bounds???!!!!!

[call-me-copycat]

What is your Hogwarts house?

I don't like Harry Potter, not a fan of the author sorry! (⁠￣⁠ヘ⁠￣⁠;⁠) I have many trans friends I love dearly so I can't for the life of me even look at the series. In case you're unaware, I recommend looking up some of the things J.K.R has said and done about trans people (specifically trans women!)

(Also hasn't she recently said something about Ace people? Now I'm extra mad at her as an AceAro)

That being said... I don't want any TERFs on my blog (。-`ω´-) My fault for making a DNI I suppose

[oifaaa]

PLASEEE OPEN COMMS PLEAASEE OPEN A KOFI OR SONWTHING LET ME GIVE U MY MONEY 😭😭😭

my friend I have a kofi it's linked below but I will also be opening up commissions later today once I build up the nerves I need to do it

[cocksley-and-catapult]

they would be the kind of people to chant "NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE" while making hand gestures at you when you get high with them

[ii-meeple-confessions]

Something that's haunting my brain is the thought that--assuming MePhone and 3GS's emotional processors work close enough to human brains for this to work the same way--it will probably take them YEARS to even BEGIN to fully process their trauma.

I'm not sure if this is true of everyone, but I know that generally, your brain doesn't start fully processing things like trauma or grief until it feels safe to do so. (It's why you might be fine at a funeral, but then when you step into your bedroom you suddenly burst into tears. Or in terms of trauma, it's why abuse survivors have a risk of going BACK to their abusers because once they get away from them and get someplace safe, they suddenly start feeling WORSE, because their brain is finally unpacking everything.)

MePhone and 3GS? Yeah they got away from Cobs. But now they're left in a weird, uncertain position. MePhone wants to give the contestants space so he probably won't hang around the island. But where do they go from there? Meeple HQ? Maybe at first, but they're sure not going to feel SAFE there.

They'll probably wind up traveling someplace else they've never been before. Maybe they'll travel to several places before they find a more permanent home, or maybe they'll just become comfortable with a life of travel. Either way, it's probably going to be a while before they have a home, or at least a place they truly feel safe.

And THEN it hits them. Their processors have decided it's safe to do so, and begin to unpack their trauma, and it SUCKS. Just when they felt they were doing better, they suddenly feel worse than they have in YEARS. Worse than when Cobs shut 3GS in the closet. Worse than when MePhone lost everything and Cobs went all-out physically attacking him. (MePhone especially is going to have it rough because he had NO TIME to fully take in how bad everything was as it was happening. 3GS ironically might fare slightly better because he at least had time to think through things in that closet, awful as that was.) Hopefully at this point they'll have built up a support network of some sort so they can have SOMEONE to help them, but man, they're in for a rough time.

But that's how it goes. Things get worse before they get better, and hopefully things really will start getting better for these two.

.

[chrliekclly]

How did you get your job on sunny? I really wanna go into the entertainment industry.

iv told th story b4 but i got onto th show bcuz i just happened to b n th right place @ th right time

was working on smthn completely different nd drunk on th camera truck during one of our wrap days me, the DIT, nd the loader wer talking abt fave tv shows nd when i said tht always sunny was mine th loaders just like "oh lol funny im the 1st AC on that. i can get u some days if u want" ???

so i...did some days...then i did a season...and now im core crew i guess

[ithinkhesgaybutwesavedmufasa]

Just got an anon from an angry TERF. so, I donated $5 to our local transgender support group in your name, baby!

Anyway; here's the link if you wanna join me:

Stay mad. ✌️

[whumpsmith]

Due to a recent influx of spam I've temporarily disabled anon in my ask box in an attempt to discourage it.

If this continues I might just close it entirely again. My ask box doesn't really see a lot of action anyway lately.

[kodokberjamur]

....HUH?

WHAT

?????????

Why would you.

What.

ANON-SAN?????

????????????

WHY WOULD YOU—

AT LEAST LEAVE A MESSAGE???? HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SHOW MY GRATITUDE.....

HSKDJSKFJSFO?????? ISN'T THIS BADGE EXPENSIVE??????? ARE YOU SURE WHAT

Anon-san WHAT... No, really, why....??? JSHFKSHFKS

I don't know what I did to deserve this??? Because. This is. Extremely expensive????? But—

Thank you so much........ <33333333

JSHFKSJF?????

For once, I'm at a loss for words........

.....I'll never take this off..........

[ispyspookymansion]

If you can I would talk to a doctor about getting on or adjusting antidepressant meds. that “nothing is fun even things I used to be interested in” is exactly how I felt before I adjusted my meds recently and then I was like kicking myself for not doing it sooner because it helped so much

but what if i lose my sparkle

[a-manicured-lawn]

In case you weren't exaggerating about not getting a real ask in months, here's one:

What would your reaction be if the Spirit Tracks era appeared in the LU comic? I know Jojo mashed Wind and Spirit up, but I don't think that adventure has been referenced, yet? So, what do you think would happen if the boys *did* land in that era? And what would your reaction be?

WHOA LOOK AT THAT A REAL ANON ASK!!!!!

Honestly at this point, it’d be part giddy glee and part trepidation. I and the rest of the Spirit Nuts have built up our own ideas on the boy, and since Jojo is not in fact Lawn, her Spirit’s going to be vastly different from mine or, say, socialcl1mb’s Spirit. A real Spirit would be incredible in so many ways, but the sheer retconning I’d have to do (or plain up aggressively diverging the Spirits) would give me such a headache.

If the boys landed in New Hyrule tho? Chaos. Hylia’s dead under the sea, there’s enormous railcart tracks everywhere, no kinda soldiers anywhere but doofuses attempting to guard the castle, and depending on where they landed it could be DAYS before they actually see another sapient like a Hylian or Anouki or Goron because all the settlements are so far apart! Not to mention I think all the adult Links would have an aneurism at yet another baby Hero having to take up the mantle at Wind’s age plus the Princess also being like 12. She’s baby! She should be at the club! Not running a kingdom all by her lonesome after killing Cole the Usurper!

Anyway! It’d be fun! Amazing! And a MASSIVE pain in the ass! Thank you anon!

[bi-writes]

I wish I could remember where it was from, but I read something the other day about clashing disabilities, and the example the used was someone having a service dog and someone with a severe dog allergy both needing a space.

They both have a right to accommodation, but their accommodations will harm someone else with a disability. What then? There's no good answer. Someone is gonna have to compromise.

Having a disability sucks (I would know, I have several...including the dog allergy) but it doesn't make you the only person in existence whose opinions matter. And your right to accommodation should never come at the cost of someone else's rights to exist in a space.

Especially when said space is freaking Tumblr of all things

would kiss you if i could, anon.

[bitlngs]

Ashswag (Kaboodle SMP) stimboard under cut!

if you saw the wip no you didn't

🔌 -> requested by -> anon

👾 -> taglist -> @kolektsiakomah @gravestone-sys

🟪 -> requests -> closed for admin 🧨

[t4tails]

im too much of a dirty commie for my economics class goddamn this shit sucks

[pynkhues]

do you have any meta on lestat bottoming for louis within canon, i really like the dynamic in an au sense but i can’t remember any good textual evidence it (other than “you can be on top” which i have a different interpretation of) :)

Oh, anon, please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but this feels like a pretty bad faith ask from someone who probably hate reads my blog (hello! I know there are a few of you now!)

Look, I've said plenty on here about the fact that I think the show's pretty explicit that Lestat and Louis are vers (I raise your 'good textual evidence' of 'you can be on top' with Louis literally tongue-fucking, stabbing and biting Lestat in his mistress' house, three forms of narrative and sexual penetration of which I'm pretty sure the implication is there was a fourth, with Lestat being literally, canonically a brat, and Louis sliding into the role of a Dom in s2!), but regardless!

Anon, it's totally okay if you don't see it that way! I really appreciate so much of what anons send me, but on this particular topic, if you don't agree, I don't mind! This fandom being so divided on this issue is very silly to me, and if you have a preference one way or the other, that's great! Enjoy it! Have fun :-)