#(to make it clear for the misinformed

[frownyalfred]

hello. this is a PSA. ao3 is NOT releasing your browsing history, despite what you may have heard on tiktok.

if you’re signed into ao3, your history is viewable in the dashboard tab. it always has been, nothing is changing. please don’t believe everything you hear on tiktok.

no one is able to view your browsing history unless they are signed into your account.

[redladydeath]

A very vague summary of what was in the Hazbin leaks

Last night, part of what compelled me to seek out the leaks was the anxiety of not knowing what was in them and if any of my favorite characters were involved. Thankfully, there was only one huge bomb dropped, and the rest was stuff that we either knew would happen eventually or isn't too big a deal, plot-wise. My goal with this post is to give an extremely vague, factual overview of what was in the leaks so no one else feels compelled to search them out to assuage their own anxieties, or gets caught up in a game of fandom telephone.

The leaks contained...

The reveal of who Alastor got his power from. Includes one song. A mix of stuff that was already confirmed in pre-series content and new information. (Do not click on any B&W animatic clips that include Alastor unless you want to be spoiled)

Sir Pentious’ human backstory (it’s a little unusual, but nothing too wild, don’t worry)

Scenes of Heaven struggling to come to terms with Sir Pentious’ ascension; includes three songs (nothing huge or unexpected)

The introduction of two new Heavenly characters (they seem like they’ll be important, but aren’t anyone mind blowing like God or one of the archangels)

Very brief clips of the Vees trying to use the media to misrepresent the hotel (nothing huge or unexpected)

Various out-of-context storyboard frames and ref sheets

There are also two “leaks” that are confirmed to be fake: one frame of Husk and Angel Dust kissing, and a Russian script exert of Vox preparing to sexually assault Alastor. If you see anyone talking about these as though they’re real, please let them know that they’re not.

Note: The episodes that were subject to this leak are E2, E4, E6, E8. So far, the entirety of E2, ten minutes of E4, a few seconds of E6, and only two contextless frames from E8 are available. There’s still plenty of plot/character stuff that’s yet to be revealed. Hopefully nothing else will leak and we’ll be able to go into the season relatively unspoiled.

[merp-blerp]

I know it's late to say, but I hope that Hbomb's video will encourage people to not only cite their sources but also have a good source to begin with. Don't tell me Snow White is 14 years old and then show a screenshot of a featured snippet from Google that leads back to Screenrant.com. Don't tell me Judy Garland was forced to take drugs and smoke 80 cigarettes a day by MGM and have your source be social osmosis or "Hundreds of other videos say so!" Where's that info from? Does it's source truly make sense as a source? Are there more reliable routes for sources to take outside of looking online, like reading books about the subject from people involved or seasoned/trusted in the topic? I know "Google is free", but that doesn't mean it's always good for research. Try Google Scholar at least...

[amelikos]

To make my stance clear for my posts on here, this blog is stricly a spoilers yes leaks no zone.

[macaiv]

I have seen a lot of comments recently saying that compared to Esteban, his teammates were able to adapt quicker to their new team. But context is very important when discussing Esteban's 2020 season, so here are a few points I would like to make:

• He spent about a year and a half not racing and barely had any testing with an F1 car during 2019. If I remember correctly, Renault gave Fernando a lot of testing in both the 2018 and 2020 cars in 2020.

• He only had 2 full seasons in F1 prior to joining Renault whilst his teammates in Renault/Alpine had (7) Daniel, (17) Fernando and (5) Pierre. So experience-wise, Esteban had significantly less F1 experience compared to them when they first entered the team.

• 2020 wasn't a typical year (Covid obviously). The season was fast paced to include as much races as possible but also had to work within health and travel restrictions. The season was filled with double and triple headers where it became difficult to have time to assess and analyse data and adapt after race weekends, especially for someone new to a team, a new car and even a new engine manufacturer. Note that even the Imola race took place over a two-day race weekend, with one 90 min FP session. I don't remember if there were other race weekends like this.

• When Daniel had both his podiums, Esteban had technical DNFs during those races. During the year, he had a total of 4 mechanical DNFs while Daniel had 1. Thus, making the points difference between them more than it should be. Note that during these races, Esteban usually qualified 1 or 2 places behind Daniel bar the Styrian GP and Imola GP.

Final Points Tally: Daniel - 119; Esteban - 62

Points Tally on Races where both finished: Daniel - 73; Esteban - 58

For those curious, here are the qualifying grid positions during the 4 races Esteban DNF'd:

Styrian GP - DR: P9; EO: P5

Tuscan GP - DR: P8; EO: P10

Eifel GP - DR: P6; EO: P7

Imola GP - DR: P5; EO: P12 (Note: the Alfa Romeos who qualified P18 and P20 finished the race P9 and P10; Checo, who qualified P11 finished the race P6)

[lord-squiggletits]

Man, it doesn't matter what the medium or fandom is, truly the debate that ruins fandom discussions the fastest is when people try to decide which characters "deserve" what. Especially when it comes to them deciding which characters are evil, how evil they are, and how severe their punishment should be for their evil deeds.

It's really annoying/harmful on multiple levels. For one, morally speaking, the line between "evil, but can repent/compensate for their deeds" and "evil, cannot be redeemed, suffer and die forever" is harder to define than you think, and who has the authority to define it anyways?

But also, fictional stories (especially the better, more nuanced, more mature ones) are rarely ever about "deserving" and don't divide their characters neatly between the "good" and the "evil." Every time I see fans debate about "how evil" a Problematic Fave is, or if Fave 1 is better/worse than Fave 2, all I see is people ruining their own fun and stirring up bad blood between other fans. Why would you add this dichotomy of "deserving" to a FICTIONAL story and start real life beef with people over it? At that point you're getting more invested in your discourse over imagined good/evil binaries than you are invested in watching/reading/consuming the actual story itself.

[eternal-moss]

Hello :) I just wanted to say that this account will probably only serve as an archive for me to reblog stuff anymore, and I’ll be cleaning it up a bit.

[2soft2sensitive]

saw a post going around claiming 53% of white female voters voted for Trump, but that statistic isn’t actually accurate- it’s based on exit polls of only ~27k voters. the real number is white women voted 47% for Trump, and 45% for Clinton- which is still bad, but it’s important to be accurate with this stuff.

source: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/08/09/an-examination-of-the-2016-electorate-based-on-validated-voters/

[oncillaphoenix]

taking a "collect as much information as humanly possible about the new hyperfixation" approach to fandom is terrible because you'll find yourself looking at people who do fandom in other ways and going "ugh what do you MEAN you don't know [random easily-missable piece of information given by a side character in supplementary material], it's so key to the themes and it's throwing off your whole character analysis >:/"

and they're literally just. chilling so you have to just bite your tongue

[avatarthelastairgender]

griping time but the other day i saw a video on instagram of this guy going through a popular unofficial online am-i-autistic quiz and talking about why the questions were really flawed (e.g 'one of the questions was 'do you hate ambulance sirens', you mean the things that are literally designed to be as annoying as possible??' 'one of the questions is 'do you enjoy collecting facts about your interests' and this is something literally everyone who has an interest does')

and all of the comments were like 'who's gonna tell him' and 'dude is so autistic he rationalized his way through a whole autism test' and it's like no you fucking dinguses, the dude was making some incredibly valid critiques about how memeified tiktok neurodivergence culture is built largely off of mass misinformation and barnum effect type overgeneralized statements that could apply to literally anyone (see: 'getting songs stuck in your head is a sign of adhd'). he was literally right!!!! the huge prevalence of 'if you have ever breathed it means you have trauma' style beliefs is exactly what he was critiquing and the comments assuming experiences every human has had are actually signs of neurodivergence were proving his point.

[thatyellowfinch]

-Someone posting misinformation on tiktok-

Me: wtf is wrong with you die

-Someone posting misinformation on tumblr-

Me: yeah I'll reblog that

[anarcho-masochist]

I need to finally admit that I only have so much time to write and thus need to decide & commit to writing one particular thing instead of researching everything forever in the hopes that I will one day have time to write All the things. You have no idea how nuanced my internal discussions on the topic have gotten at this point, though. The next post will be a poll on what to write or post about first.

[bangthedoldrums]

the performative activism on TikTok actually makes my blood boil

[chuchayucca]

Discussions of implied fictional CSA & SA

I recently been wondering if there’s a chance Richard thinks Roy’s aggressive and distant behavior is normal and not a sign of CSA because he acted similarly to Roy when he was younger

Reasonings in the tags

[sonknuxadow]

ive seen so much talk about the spanish dub of the i heart you too shadow scene that makes me feel like im the only person on earth whos actually watched that clip. "sonic says te amo to shadow in the spanish dub!! they turned that scene into a serious love confession and sonadow is canon in spanish !" what are you TALKING about he did NOT say that. im all for making that scene gay but at least work with whats actually there instead of exaggerating and making stuff up come on.

[badolmen]

I think the internet youth need to remember that they can - no, SHOULD - lie online.

Back in my day, I was a 40 yo man in Rhode Island who was a bartender. Sometimes I was a recent graduate of UCLA working on my first screenplay. Another time, in my omegle days, I would pretend to be a Lithuanian grandmother trying to contact her estranged YouTuber grandson who made omegle reaction videos. There were moments in my internet life, even here on tumblr, where I would blatantly lie about who I was, what I was doing, and where I was doing it.

Keep ‘em guessing, keep yourself safe.