#BUT i hope this is okay!!! if not you have my discord iirc (and if not its in my about) and we can 100% chat!!

[quillheel]

[ storm; a raging storm outside, where sender insists receiver stays in ] (to wally from home; right i get the muse for the one that can't move, but at least home can shut its doors and protect him from the thing in the woods--)

Like a thunderclap to a small dog, Wally cannot stop moving.

Usually, Wally liked storms. He liked the low sound of thunder and the blinding light of lightning, even if the boom between air & between atoms sometimes startled him, his focus was one of awe enraptured. Rain pattering on the world like a hundred thousand marbles, evidence of reality, evidence of stability, evidence of the world changing in different; wonderful ways. Usually, Wally liked to watch and wait for a storm to pass. Usually, he’d sit — mostly quiet, aside from occasional murmurs to Home — and draw in his little spot perhaps on the porch or next to a window. Usually, it does not rain at night.

He feels as though he is forgetting something important. A thread tugged at the ridges of the seam, like bewilderment, like torture. A thousand miles of downpour. A thousand miles of fiber weaving unto fiber weaving unto-

He feels as though he is forgetting something important. What was it again?

— It makes him antsy. An actor forgetting his lines from just off-stage, he peers out from the spaces he can to watch the dark rain, how he can barely see it at all. Home’s insistence upon keeping him in does not help, and abruptly the entire house feels sinister by sheer virtue of what was being kept away ( inability to tell the difference between locked out, and locked in )

Home was not the problem. Wally was.

He feels as though he is forgetting something very very important. If he looked closely enough, maybe he could see it between the floorboards, like a shivering, terrible, oil slick black hand guiding a prop, like a snake writhing just loud enough to hear it, hear the hiss when he stepped on the right panels. Like being caught in a bad dream, Wally cannot shed the feeling that something bad is about to happen.

When Wally is afraid of something, he likes to remind himself that it can’t hurt him. He does not know what he is afraid of. Maybe that’s what he’s forgetting.

“ What’s wrong, Home? “ he asks, sat in his rocking chair after wandering up and down the halls as though seeking a breach in the wallpaper itself, in the plaster. The nerves don’t leave him, and he’s just a few minutes away from getting up again. “ I always draw outside. Why can't I go...? "

An inquiry that loiters on the edges of the anxiety that pervades, that Home is trying to protect him from, that Wally does not understand, was not meant to understand.

If he stared closely enough at the gaps between the floorboards, maybe he could see it. See what Home was trying to keep out. A basement that does not exist.

He does not want to see, but he has to know.

[dinosquad-central]

Okay, longer post about a headcanon that is completely integral to my enjoyment of Dino Squad. (Largely copy/pasted from my rant on the Discord server)

I think Caruso might actually be very smart. Genuinely, classically, academically smart.

I know that sounds like a crackpot theory, but hear me out!

He's in the same science class as Rodger (the guy who's explicitly stated to be the smartest kid in school), as well as Fiona (who's also clearly very intelligent), Buzz (maybe not top marks, but since it appears to be a biology class, and Buzz is especially interested in animals it makes sense he'd be in a more advanced bio-class). Max may not be a genius, but most schools require members of the school sports teams to maintain a certain GPA, and he’s on the football team, so he can't be a complete idiot either.

And Caruso is in the same class as them and therefore it's implied that he's at the same level as them in that subject! Because of this, and the fact that the classroom is a lecture hall and not a regular classroom, I also headcanon that it's an AP bio class, or at least honors.

Plus! When Caruso told his parents he was dinosaur, their one insistence was that he not neglect his studies meaning A) his family cares about his education and B) he probably gets at least relatively good grades already.

AND! It's shown in the show that Caruso regularly and *easily* manipulates his friends into doing his homework for him (episode: “who let the dog out”). He also manipulated others during the show, including a TV producer or show host, I can’t remember which (episode: “Zoom in on Zoom” I think). You can't be that deliberately manipulative and a complete idiot like Caruso appears to be.

ALSO Caruso has a line of beauty products which he both invented, and markets/sells himself (episode: “Scents and Scents Ability”), meaning he must also have a small company/business that he personally runs, and the quality of his products are good enough to have a whole spa treatment devoted exclusively to them, which is named after him/his product, meaning the products themselves must be well known and trusted enough to attract customers. This demonstrates that Caruso has some level of skill with chemistry and botany (iirc he made herbal moisturizers but it's been a while, so that detail may be wrong). In addition to that he must have a good sense for business, finance, and marketing.

But wait! There's more! When they were trapped in a cage with seemingly no way out, it was Caruso who came up with the plan to use misdirection and social engineering to trick Veloci into not only letting them go, but also donating a sizeable amount to a local charity as hush money (episode: who let the dog out”). It wasn’t genius Rodger, or leader Max, or competent female character Fiona, it was Caruso, “the dumb one”. This indicates that he can also think on his feet and come up with quick solutions to difficult problems.

Furthermore! A lot of highly intelligent people learn to act like they're stupid because when people know how smart you are, they have high expectations of you, and that's stressful to the point of traumatizing sometimes. There's also an interesting type of stigma around intelligence where people tend to think you're pompous or unapproachable when you're highly intelligent and become intimidated or resentful, which, since Caruso highly values his popularity, would be extremely distasteful to him. Given his fixation with fame and popularity, I don't think it's a stretch at all to think he'd dumb himself down, even around his friends, to avoid that stigma.

So yeah, there you have it. That’s all the reasons (that’s I can think of at the moment, anyway) why I believe Caruso is a big fat liar pretending to be an idiot so he doesn’t have to be responsible for anything. I hope I’ve managed to convince you all because I am 100% committed to this theory lol.

[zerostyrant]

Hello!! I hope you don't mind this ask, feel free to delete if it bothers you!!

I was wondering, how does one find out about what pronouns they like? And how have you found yours? It's genuine because I find it very interesting that you found your own pronouns with zey/hy and all!!

And also so confusing because of my own gender journey which I'm still exploring 😭

OKAY NO THIS ACTUALLY MAKES ME SO HAPPY I WOULD LOVE TO ANSWER!!! NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR BEING CURIOUS AND EXPLORING YOURSELF!!!

Okay so I have a lot more going on than just having neopronouns and xenogenders, as I am an endel/alterhuman and fictionkin. I won't get too much into me being an otherkin, since it's not necessarily gender related, but if you want to know more, then feel free to ask!

As for my neos and xenos, heres a somewhat cohesive list of all of them:

neos:

zey/zem/zeir/zeirs/zemself

hy/hymn/hymns/hymns/hymnself

ve/vem/vys/vys/vemself

alt/altself

sun/sunself

angel/angelself

cloud/cloudself

chaos/chaosself

xenos:

Humanish, coined by magitoki

Mascentity, coined by mogaihoard (iirc the original coiner for mascbeing is no longer on tumblr?)

Scribblespectric, coined by crystalcoiner

Clockworkmasc (cant find the person who coined this one...?)

I've collected these over the years as I got more comfortable and more well versed with neos and xenos. As for how I got my first preferred set, zey/zem, it actually started with the commonly used/seen ze/zir! Over time, I had morphed it into being zey/zem (adjacent to they/them) because it felt more right. I've been using zey/zem for nearly 2 years now! Hy/hymn was actually pretty recent and it was during a conversation about one of my ocs, Seraph. We had talked about how it'd be silly if an angel-coded character used hy/hymn pronouns and that's when I remembered how much I loved the concept of not-quite-right angels (thank you Mandela Catalogue, you forever haunt my personal narrative) and that I also would love to identify with hy/hymn! I don't quite remember how i got ve/vem/vys, but I do know that it is adjacent to he/him/his (as is hy/hymn).

Now I don't really use my nouns (noun/nounself) nor do I tell people to use them. Actually, I never force anyone to use any of my neos! If someone doesn't want to use them, for any reason, I simply say "just use he/it for me then!" My nouns are more personal identifiers for me, but the way they're perceived can vary from person to person!

As for xenogenders, finding xenos (and neos) are both a bit difficult when you don't know where to look, me personally, I found myself in a discord server from tiktok that was centered around neos and xenos. I was able to talk to people and learn a lot more about the community, as well as collect more neos/xenos. There are a lot of coiners (people who make xenogenders) here on tumblr, and you can definitely start by looking through some of the tags I'll be using on this post! You can also go to the accounts linked above to find some you like!

I also have a really extensive neopronouns list saved to my bookmarks that can give you some ideas! You can also make your own! There's no need for you to use ones already created; the whole point of neopronouns is for them to be new and special to you. (neo means new in latin, funnily enough, so neopronouns directly means new pronouns!!) Your neos don't need to be connected to any of your xenos, and you don't have to identify with any xenos to use neos, and vice versa!

I get really happy when people ask me about my journey with neos and xenos, so sorry for yapping so much, and I hope this helps a lot!!

[mariverses]

OKAY IM SO SORRY FOR NOT RESPONDING EARLIER TO YOU RESPONDING TO ME I WAS STUCK IN FINALS SEASON 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 BUT!!!!!!! I'M HERE NOW!!!!!! SO!!!! Your oc makes me so ill LIKE???? HE'S SOOO PRETTY please just one chance;;;;;; I want to know more about his backstory tho omg??? LIKE!!! HES SO!!!!! What happened on that one assault....... UGH I WANT MORE!!!! (also.... I do have some ocs but... HAKWHFJKWALKFJAWKJSKADKEA < insane....... I was lowkey considering posting oc art but um scary)

hai haiii ^_^ i hope your finals went well and that you're free now!!! don't worry about it euegzehehrhj you are not even obligated to respond ever ok?? ive also been very on and off ehe

ITS KINDA REALLY HARD TO EXPLAIN AJD KEEP IT SIMPLE BECAUSE THERES SO MUHC but basically there's like these hivemind things in the wotah called the seaborn and uhh their goal is survival.. iirc they got pissed that humanity was threatening their territory and uhh they're fighting. arknights atlantis created the abyssal hunters to fight against them (by . surgery-ing people with seaborn blood) and there was a really big assault on the seaborn by the abyssal hunters which uj. very bad i think. they got washed ashore and not a lot of them survived. they thought they'd had slain one of them but he just fused blood with a girl and is just dormant so uhhjhj pretty bad. I SUCK AT EXPLAINING STUFF IN SHORT IM SORRy

also. do not be afraid..... you should do whatever you want forever... you should post them iyw 👉👈 I REALLY WANNA SEE MSHDSDMSDBSM IM CURIOUSUSUSDUS AND I LOVE OCS OKAYYYYY (i think you also have my discord if you jsut wanna send stuff there ever 👉👈)

[pauein]

Ugh. my horrible sibling bribed me with Frivolous Snack Purchases to post this godawful string of discord messages i wrote regarding whether or not the Boyfriends from webtoons Boyfriends would survive the House on ash tree lane, going off half-forgotten memories of when i read boyfriends as a joke in 2022. SIGH.

"Ok. Fine. For starters. They all move into this house together and when stuff starts getting weird (likely as a result of the shaky foundation their relationship is built upon plus the weirdness with prep and goth) they all decide to investigate it together after some hesitation

Things seem to go mostly okay at first however they all get separated at some point- goth and prep find each other again and soon jock as well but they cant find nerd. Unfortunately continued search efforts have no avail at the moment, so they decide to call upon the Girlfriends (canonically more competent than them) to help out. Girl goth also had like an occult club or something iirc so thats probably the first one they called and she brought the rest of her polycule

However their assessment pretty much ends up being "you guys gotta gtfo" but they refuse to leave without nerd so they continue searching

I honestly dont know much about the girlfriends since they were a later introduction so i cant effectively wrap up their part here but i imagine the tensions between the two preps definitely does not help the condition of the house

Meanwhile nerd is still alive but barely and going insane. Through no fault of his own his sheer dependency on the other boyfriends is leading him into an untimely demise, a labriynth with no escape as he feels there Cant be an escape without the rest of his polycule

Also side note but about the earlier exploration before nerd went missing. Goth was one of the most eager to explore this first because dark and spooky shit but they Nearly got separated the first time, leaving him hesitant the second exploration. However the others still wanted to go back in out of curiosity, nerd in particular. Prep encouraged goth by pointing out that goth is the spooky things guy and its the opposite of going out in the sun. they all vow to protect each other but its a hollow promise against a threat they havent truly come face to face with. And they have already failed through this push to go back in.

Anyway so they go back in , girl nerd maybe stays behind with jock to keep track of things with the radio. The added hope of having the girlfriends along leads them to nerd, but hes clearly already in his death throes. However he attempts to kill goth and prep so they wont be apart. He fails, (might accidentally take out a few of the gfs, idk,) and when he realizes jock isnt even there he gives up, dying tragically, surrounded but alone. he never even finds out jock was keeping tabs on the radio

Goth and prep are stuck figuring out how to get back now, especially what to do about the dead bodies. Unfortunately on their own bringing back the bodies proves to be a very difficult task (girl jock was one of the ones who died and goth and prep are canon wimps strengthwise) and supplies are running low. But they refuse to leave the others behind

Love got them into this mess and theyre going to get out with love in tact, they think.

They just barely manage to reach the escape, however, just as they are, doubt sets in. The corpses they carry and the reality that things will never return to the way they are again stretches the corridor, pulling the door farther, and farther away. Can they truly say they escaped with their love? Like this?

Suddenly, behind them the hall feels like its collapsing, from above, below, all around. Prep panics, theyre both so out of their depth, and now theyre doomed to sink with the ship. However, goth thinks just quickly enough. Almost. He stages his last stand, shoving Prep through the door- sacrificing himself in the process. The bodies also do not make it.

The weight of this grief also collapses the house itself, foundation and walls not sturdy enough to support it. The survivors all escape unharmed, but can they say they really escaped in one piece?

It is unknown where the remaining GFs relationship ends up after this. However, Jock and Prep end up breaking up on despairing but amicable terms, believing nothing can be done to bridge the gap in their hearts. The last shot is of prep, more alone than he ever was, but just as alone as he thought he was before the polycule began.

Fuck you man"

I am not caught up with current Boyfriends lore and i do not plan to be so if i got anything wrong or inaccurate i am not sorry and in fact you should probably be the one whos sorry.

[evercelle]

hi i hope it's okay i ask this, but do you think em venti is better than crit venti? i've been flip flopping between my builds and no matter what i feel his damage just isnt enough?? so i was wondering what your thoughts were on it..? if you had any?

depends on your team comp, equipment, and constellations o:

if you're building EM, you're focusing on his swirl damage + elemental shred provided to the infused element. venti's burst applies 20 ticks of anemo dmg and 7~ ticks (single target) or 14~ ticks (multi-target) of swirl dmg. you're never gonna see huge nuke numbers, because it's many instances of smaller dmg + elemental shred. you should also keep in mind that swirl doesn't crit, and scales off EM and character lvl only. the value in these builds is swirl dmg and the ER+elemental dmg boost he provides to his team.

crit venti would be my suggestion if on a non-reaction team (only anemo/geo), if you have a high refinement skyward harp, or if you have C2+ venti, because his constellations significantly boost his anemo dmg & provide anemo shred. (iirc, the only other way to obtain anemo shred right now is c4 jean.) the 20 ticks of anemo dmg + his elemental skill are capable of critting, so imo super invested/main dps venti benefits more from a crit build than EM support.

for me, i tested my anemo crit vs an EM build, but crit out damages by a mile because of venti's cons + r5 harp. take a look at your gear and team comps and tailor your expectations accordingly. venti's kit is inherently optimized for subdps/support, so you're never gonna have hyper carry damage with him, but he provides invaluable support for his teammates or very steady base dmg on solo.

also i'm sure there's a venti mains subreddit or discord out there that is 100% calculated out and much smarter than me LOL you should take whatever i say with a grain of salt bc this is all anecdotal from my observations playing (':

[personallbest]

Hi Joanna! It's your MPN secret santa <33

This is so excitingggg okay so first question(s) - how did you get into maisie? What was your first favourite maisie song vs your favourite now?

Hope u have a wonderful day & month!!

- 🎄

P.s. I always read MPN in my head as meepen

hi!! I’m excited too 😄 iirc I found Maisie because spotify randomly played John Hughes Movie and I was immediately hooked so that was my first favorite song. my current favorite now is Glowing Review, I’ve literally been obsessed since I found it in April. tell me about you! how did you find Maisie and what are your favorite songs by her? hope you have a wonderful december too!!

@cascadeoceanwave I’m gonna change the discord name to meepen now

[incorrect-dnd-classes]

Hi! So... I've seen a lot about DnD over the years. I actually didn't know such a game existed until I watched Stranger Things but after I saw it I can't stop seeing references to the game everywhere. I know this might not be the place to direct my question but if I wanna learn DnD then where would I go? Where I live it's gonna be impossible to find a party to play with and learn in person but I'd like to learn about it if I can from online sources.

OKAY FIRST OF ALL: WELCOME!! i love finding people who are new to dnd!!

probably the best place to start if you're completely new to dnd is the player's handbook (phb). here's a free link. it's not exactly what I'd call light reading, but it has a decent amount of information on what dnd actually is.

if you want to learn how to play, your best bit is, well, playing. iirc there are subreddits and discord servers that allow you to advertise yourself as a player. one of them is our server, where we'll also try to answer any more questions you have!!

if you're looking to make character sheets, beyond is alright for beginners, but limits access to a lot of options. i'd suggest using a google sheet template, which you can find online, or the app 5th Edition Character Creator, which can be found on the play store.

beyond also offers new player's guides to the rules, forums, and the like. it's an excellent resource for newcomers.

final note - i have access to a lot of online sourcebooks, so i'll be updating our pinned post to give you all access to them

hope this helps, anon!!

[prionguy-old]

hello enderwalk arg people

so i saw a cool thread from @/ranbeans on twitter and it inspired me. so naturally i spent five hours straight analyzing ranboo’s lore playlist

basically i think it’s a timeline of c!ranboo’s life, and it fits kind of eerily

everything’s below the cut (and it’s a lot) :]

prologue from starkid 

 - more clock references. it’s literally just an instrumental of a clock ticking

 - instantly you think of the ender text in that pic he tweeted. like that, this could relate to dream’s clock, or foolish’s clock (reading 10:33 always iirc) 

 - note that butler in tales from the smp: masquerade kept staring at a clock

 - it could also mean a theme of running out of time, or fighting with time

 - in the thread i linked, the person also points out that there are 23 clock ticks in prologue, and angel number 23 means that you are meant to be a servant

 - this would be his beginning

introduction to the snow by miracle musical

 - the first of many songs from the hawaii: part ii album on this playlist

 - i’ve seen that album described as an arg and i find it funny if ranboo just went no. my arg now 

 - introduction to the snow only has one verse, and the rest is instrumental

 - the whole hawaii album has themes of loneliness and death, especially loneliness for this song

 - it talks about feeling isolated, which gives hints about his childhood maybe?

 - the “you’ll live forever tonight” lyric also gives off a hopeful vibe, like that of a child

dream sweet in sea major by miracle musical

 - starts with a changed reprise of introduction to the snow

 - "Rather than trying to “live forever”, it seems that the time has come for something else" from the analysis of the first part in genius

 - odd because this song is meant as a finale to the album, but it's towards the beginning of the playlist (could mean that there was almost an ending of sorts early on for c!ranboo, like a near death experience?)

turn the lights off by tally hall

 - okay this one confused me when i was first going through, but when the timeline started coming together it made more sense

 - about adolescence, and being uncomfortable with growing up, so it fits with the timeline playlist theory 

 - also about phobias and stuff like that in a way?? hm

the mind electric by miracle musical

 - the song starts out in reverse, then plays the stuff from the beginning normally

 - feels like a rls honestly i wish he could use this song

 - it's about someone put in an infirmary and condemned to electroshock therapy because they're insane. fun

 - this is where the timeline started to come together in a way. as soon as i saw the mood get darker i remembered ranboo’s line from the festival i think? “don’t let it happen again” or something like that

 - because of this, if the timeline theory is true, at some point before he joined the dream smp he did something which caused him to be condemned

 - also this

 - the mind electric isn’t the only song where the narrator glorifies themself in a way, we’ll get into this later

 - also the rejecting fanatical views,, i am thinking about that theory that endermen are servants to the ender dragon. if c!ranboo rejected that, the consequences could have been awful

live and let die by paul mccartney

 - if i wasn’t sold on the timeline theory before, i am now. after the mind electric, the mood changes drastically in terms of ideology and theme

 - this specifically made me say “holy shit” because like. that verse means that when you’re young, you’re open minded and say “live and let live” which resembles the optimistic but lonely attitude of the beginning of the playlist

 - but then when the world fucks you over, you begin to say “live and let die.”

 - “live and let die��� i take to mean as him no longer caring about the people around him. how before, he wanted to help others, but then the mind electric happened, and he just. stopped caring

 - fun right!! /s

ruler of everything by tally hall

 - there are so many clock and time references in this. we get it

 - "mechanical hands" when it says “mechanical hands are the ruler of everything” refer to hands on a clock, saying how time rules over everything

 - the narrator is talking back and forth with time itself in this, which is interesting because i believe he joins the dream smp in the next song

 - the narrator appears very insecure and looking for a quick way to appeal to everyone (like how c!ranboo at the beginning was trying to be everyone's friend)

 - this is the second song with the narrator glorifying themself out of insecurity. what are you trying to tell us about your character buddy

 - also we can’t ignore this shit

 -  i don’t need to explain why this scared me right. right

merry go round of life from howl’s moving castle

 - this is a change huh

 - god i haven’t seen this movie in years, but i saw looking it up that it plays at the beginning introducing the main character, sophie

 - this is before everything changed for her

 - maybe this is when he joins dream smp? and ruler of everything is him talking to dream prior?

 - or maybe im reaching who the fuck knows

 - but him joining dream smp to this song would make sense. it feels like a clean slate and starting over, which would match with how he doesn’t. y’know. remember things

 - which begs the question: if ranboo forgot everything from before this song in the timeline, and after that i’m assuming his memory issues started,, what happened to cause this?

 - i’d say the mind electric could have caused this, but it was awhile back in the playlist. so whoever he’s talking to in ruler of everything, which could very well be dream, i believe messed with his memory somehow.

killer queen by queen

 - c!ranboo girlboss arc canon??

 - i got lost here ngl. it has a very specific vibe that doesn’t match well with what i know of c!ranboo im sorry

 - but two songs later, i get a hint kind of which makes me believe this could be him burning george’s house with tommy

 - also this song is a banger and i’m pretty sure he put it on there to scare the crown arg people because of the “baroness” line /j

mr. bad guy by freddie mercury

 - literally just more funky villain vibes. i love this

 - no more angst only girlboss

 - since cc!ranboo has said he doesn't want to do a villain arc, i take this to maybe be how he sees himself?? credit to the crown arg discord for that idea they’re smart and cool

 - if that is true, i’d say this would be another song for the “glorifying oneself out of insecurity” list because the narrator is like. seeing himself as cool and The Bad Guy, even if he might not be

 - possibly the butcher army if the next song is what i think it is

ain’t no rest for the wicked by cage the elephant

 - i have been informed someone saw ranboo listening to and grabbing songs for this off of a playlist called "my villain arc" king i hate you /lh

 - in seriousness: the song is about how the world forces people into wicked roles for money. i am getting live and let die vibes, like how both blame the world for making them not care/do bad things

 - c!ranboo take responsibility for your actions challenge /j

 - this definitely reminds me of how when he gave techno his armor, he blamed it on peer pressure. if this aligns with that event, the last two would be burning george’s house and butcher army i think

i can’t decide by the scissor sisters

 - this is probably about enderwalk

 - i really hope it's about enderwalk

 - did mr ranboo commit murder?? manslaughter?? sir

 - i really feel like this is enderwalk or ive forgotten something

stardust crusaders from jjba 

 - thank god for jjba fans, i know nothing about this

 - apparently this is the main theme for jotaro, who's power i think?? is like moving faster than time

 - and his main villain thing is dio, who's power is stopping the flow of time

 - and we're back with the fuckin time references

 - this is pure speculation at this point, but maybe it’s like. him fighting against time in a way, which would draw back to ruler of everything

a mask of my own face by lemon demon

 - the song is about not wanting to take responsibility for their actions again

 - c!ranboo i am begging

 -  specifically this lyric

 - also this lyric draws back to the bidding, in which the singer wanted to be enough for someone and showed almost narcissism as a sort of "mask"

 - also just. mask can be correlated with dream or the masquerade, where the butler stared at the clocks

stranded lullaby by miracle musical

 - been awhile since we had a hawaii album song huh

 - and,, a memory reference.

 - that lyric is talking about forgetting things

 - the rest of the song is,, im not saying time traveler ranboo but time traveler ranboo (look at this post about that theory by my friend pspspspsp)

 - he's talking to a "you" this whole time, and i have no idea who it is lmao

 - there are mentions of dreams and stuff throughout, so i almost want to associate it with the prison visit, but then i think the next song is after the festival so i guess not?

 - might also be him losing the memory book

hidden in the sand by tally hall

 - this is, lyrics wise, a song about a man whose girlfriend left him for someone else and he's upset

 - but if you look at the music video, it shows a cruise ship, on which people are friendly with each other at first, but when it starts to sink, they turn on each other trying to escape

 - i am feeling a connection to c!ranboo's views on "choose people not sides" somehow

 - i feel like he's called people selfish in lore, but my friends and i are all ranboo kinnies so we cant fuckin remember. if he has, then yeaH this definitely correlates

now i’m here by queen

 - there's a very optimistic and nostalgic tone to this

 - this one’s barely annotated on genius so i don’t have a lot for it, but i feel like it's after the dream voice disappeared or something? timeline's gettin a little funky

 - it could also be right before the festival, as he used optimism as a shield there

& by tally hall

 - this. yeah. & deals with opposites, especially good and evil. the singer talks about how everyone sees the world from their own perspective and doesn't look from another

 - and that definitely ties back to how ranboo wanted l’manburg people, like tubbo, to see from techno’s perspective

 - i feel like this is right after the festival. it resembles a lot of ranboo's speech from then, where he basically told everyone “sides dumb. just vibe”

 - and then the outro changes tone, almost like a warning?? which. yeah. a warning to choose people not sides before doomsday, or else they won’t be able to stop l’manburg from being blown up

i’m gonna win by rob cantor

 - this song is about someone fighting their inner demons

 - sounds familiar!! looks directly at dream voice

 - specifically, the singer is optimistic about winning their fight with the inner demons

 - it seems kind of chilling to me though, but it's also late at night when i’m doing these notes so it may just be me

 - if the timeline theory is true, this is where c!ranboo is mentally atm, which tracks honestly

=), an unplayable track

 - ranboo why do you hate us

tl;dr: ranboo’s songs that he would use for lore playlist might very well be a timeline of c!ranboo’s life, from even before dream smp and that’d be super cool

if you read all the way through this just know i would die for you

anyways feel free to drop your interpretations of the songs in the notes :0

[astrxealis]

FF7 RM IS ON STEAM.. 2.4k 😭😭 itll be 70 usd next month if i remember correctly ??

oh man i started enstars like 2 days ago as well!! super fun i am DEEPLY inlove with hiyori and mika.. and niki mayb JSHDJS trying to fix my sleeping sched as well! been waking up rlly early for the past few days n im slowly getting used to it

hmm editinn community ;;; i agree w designign things is super fun as an editor mself !!!! gluck with that ✨ ill do my best to support ya ! 🫶🫶

wahhh sorry again for the late reply TvT </3 i lowkey lost the energy to redo answering this ask bcs it disappeared ya T^T <//////3

FF7R ON STEAM ... for that much ...... 😭💔 games r so expensive man, i do hope u manage to get it soon tho mayhaps :( ✊🏼✨

and ayo enstars hell yeah !! ;D <3 hee hee you have great taste >;) tbh i searched up hiyori after u mentioned him and realized i too like him a lot aside from mika and my other faves ... so ty fr that !! 👁👁 <3 and ayo more gl w fixing your sleep sched ✨ slowly heading there myself too, cheers to us both ! we can do this >< 💖

eeeee tysm kay !! 🥺💞 yeah, designing stuff rlly is so fun (also on a related note, i love the carrd you had ? on your discord !! ion think you have it on your about anymore, but the netflix/p5 theme iirc was super cool <33) tytyty TvT 💖 hope ure doing well !! take of yourself, okay? :O <3

[gingerbreadart1]

Ginger ramble about your irken conlang pleeaaaseee it's so cooool (I know you have on discord before but I want a Tumblr Post for Tumblr Reblogs okay? Okay.)

Omg!!!!! Oh gosh, I don't know where to start! I made a little inforgraphic explaining some stuff, it's a little outdated tho but for now I'll link it here

Anyway,,, I guess I can explain some stuff a bit more thoroughly? Ramble below :P

SO..... First of all, the language is called Irketsi/Irkib, depending on whether or not you want it to be more grammatically correct or cool (Hint-Irkib is grammatically correct) And as of this writing, I think I have about 4,100 words!!! Full disclosure, a lot of those were intially generated.... butttt I have put hours and weeks and months worth of time perfecting and fine tuning and editing and adding words of my own. Anyway.

Grammar Stuffs Irketsi is a SVO language (subject-verb-object), meaning a sentence like "Can I have an apple" would be "Can I apple have." Adjetives are post-positive, like in french (iirc), so for example, "the red rose" becomes "the rose red". Most verbs are regular, and the tenses are as follows:

Write : Gip

Past: written gipoízh

Remote Past: written (long ago) gipa'e

Perfect: have written gipuch

Future: will write gipítai

Nouns are gendered, with masculine, feminine, or neuter genders depending on word. this is important when it comes to conjugating plurals, because each gender has a different way of making a word a plural. Take the word 'broom' (dajeíp) it is a masculine noun, so it should be dajeípeích, but if it was a feminine word, it would be dajeípeí, and if neuter, dajeípa. Um,,,, head empty so now I'm gonna post some pronunciation samples, and a lil song I wrote. Mipta kaí 'akh thayvaonsí vaí rith? (Can I have hot chocolate please?)

Kaí khoweích ao. (I like languages.)

And the song demo

Hope you enjoyed! If you have specific questions, feel free to ask!!!!

[callmearcturus]

pure finale speculation

okay here is my prediction, based on discord convos and my own vibes

jon: will give his opinion of what they should do, but also elect to recuse himself on the basis of "well, I doomed the world, so I'm not sure I should have a say in this." and then hopefully gets push-back from everyone else pointing out "uh hey dunkass that wasn't your fault, either blame jonah or blame annabelle but it wasn't you"

georgie: 198 totally changed my opinion on this, but I think georgie is gonna be on team "lets take the deal" on the basis of her being upset at having lost her people again, and being tired of the suffering she sees.

melanie: 100% team Fuck The Web's Deal, I think. a lot of her frustration in S3 and S4 was how she was trapped working for an evil entity, and I don't think she'll be less frustrated as a tool of the Web instead of the Eye.

martin: COULD GO EITHER WAY, AND HAS KINDA BEEN SET UP EITHER WAY.

on one hand, he has spent the entire season trying to reach out to the ppl trapped, he's the one who keeps trying to show dignity to everyone, iirc he nudged Jon towards making that one guy a Watcher, so Martin has a lot of empathy for the people he directly connects with.

on the other hand, Martin's also always been very good at the Big Picture Idea of things, and may balk at the idea of dooming a lot of other people for the sake of his own world. BOTH ARE TOTALLY FEASIBLE FOR HIM I THINK.

basira: given basira's entire worldview got upended and shaken up, I have no idea which 'side' she would fall on for the debate. someone proposed that this makes her the perfect tiebreaker, and I agree. either she goes in with an answer ready to go, or she hangs back and offers her opinion last.

what i really hope they touch on is the ethics of having such a small group of people making a decision for The Fucking World. like, it's heinously unfair that this comes down to five people, all of whom are not currently trapped in a hellscape. do they have the right to condemn everyone to eternal suffering and fear to spare other they will never meet? is that the "just" decision? the certain doom of billions of people vs the potential doom of everyone?

also, is Annabelle Cane just a fucking liar

i want everyone's hands to get dirty figuring this out. and i'm super excited for what a potential third option would be.

[literaphobe]

another reason to limit the amount of white people associated w amigops/otv and friends is the stuff that’s come out about ash recently :/ like yeah people can learn and grow etc but if you’re still dropping slurs in your late 20s and casually racist even tho so many of your cc friends are poc... girl

ok im about to GO OFF im fucking pissed about little miss cigarette tray,,,, ok i’ve gotten a ???? vibe about her before a :/ vibe n it’s all the way back in rust group forming when i thought she was being a lil manipulative. n the shit she did caused so much annoying shit that literally could’ve been avoided

okay so rae corpse ash n sykkuno bump into toast n jack’s group, right? and they were all like we should all be together in one big group!!!! but then they were like wait what’s the group limit what if we don’t have enough space,,, and then they start experimenting n adding each other i guess? n it turned out they had space for everyone but one person (iirc?????) and ash suddenly was like oh it’s okay i’ll leave!!!! u can all be grouped together i don’t need to be in the group!!! n other stuff that was like v self destructive sounding n like oh no it’s ok no one wants me here anyway etc and syk was like ???? because literally no one had any plans to leave ANYONE out they were literally just trying to figure things out n suggesting ideas and she was over there tryna be the self sacrificial hero i guess?????

and then. people in chat got really mad and toxic hating on rae and sykkuno in their chats yelling about how ash was being forcefully left out or whatever which wasn’t the case at all n wouldn’t have been if she didn’t give that impression??? and then RAE thought that ash was GENUINELY getting excluded which made her ACTUALLY mad at her friends?????? who did nothing wrong???????? and then like weeks later when they talked about this ash was like “oh actually i was super upset about getting left out :/ but it’s all good now!!!” like GOD. NO ONE WAS TRYING TO LEAVE YOU OUT. U LITERALLY IMMEDIATELY STARTED ACTING LIKE SOME SELFLESS VICTIM N REMOVED URSELF WHEN NO ONE TOLD YOU TO LEAVE?? anyway at the time i gave her the benefit of doubt that she wasn’t doing it on purpose since i thought she was ‘nice’ but u know what? it’s a fucking ugly look that a white woman got a bunch of streamers of color hate for “bullying” her and “excluding” her when she was literally the one who chose to walk away n act selfless WHEN NO ONE ASKED HER TO DO THAT

anyway now that i’ve got that off my chest let’s talk about her racist ass comments in her community discord. she essentially made a bunch of anti-asian remarks, specifically many anti-chinese ones (1. i had Chinese food earlier maybe that’s why I feel sick lol 2. making fun of Chinese people for supposedly eating bats 3. calling corona the bat soup virus 4. continuing to be grossed out by what Chinese/Asian people supposedly eat and being all ‘oh maybe i’m just weird w food tho :/‘ n letting people get away w responding to her saying ‘Asians eat a lot of weird stuff no no u r fine!!’ + ‘Chinese people n their food bruh’ which. just. i am very disgusted 5. ‘guys my cup was made in China am I corona infected’ + some other stuff i’m too tired to recap here look at this twitter link)

she also talked about how the BLM protests were.... stupid..... and called people idiots for protesting......... said there was ‘a right and wrong way to protest and this is wrong’ and ‘it’s not like we just can’t have police officers’ ,,,,,, so yeah. and she also said the r word and she called someone the f slur on stream once and uh..... yeah she sucks!

honestly the shit cherry on top of this shit sundae is that she literally profits off asian aesthetics w her anime bitch ass v tuber thing n other stuff on her stream n her twitter handle is literally SUGOI_ASH??? also like otv n friends is a mostly Asian friend group who propelled her lily white ass to success???? she mooched off the success of streamers of color only to say racist ass shit like this???

anyway. she “apologized” by saying “I GUESS i’m sorry for being ignorant n I’m sorry IF YOU WERE OFFENDED. ANYWAY–“ and moved the fuck on and like just. fuck off w that shit. it pains me that she managed to get a larger following from all this in the few months she’s hung out w otv n friends and sydney a black bi streamer literally has less followers on twitch? like what the fuck is up with that make it make sense??? anyway i hope everyone unfollows ash tray n follows Sydeon on twitch instead :-)

also idk how many people in otv + friends know about this. i highly doubt there will be a dramatic kick out of ash from their friend group if it becomes a thing they all know about. i think ever since they kicked out f*dmyster they’re a little traumatized about having to publicly remove anyone from their circle in general? because many other streamers n content creators will jump on it and comment on it very heavily and make them all very vulnerable n i def don’t want that or expect that either. i hope they play w ash less from now on tho? some people commented that in the corpse lobby yesterday it seemed like people weren’t interacting w ash as much? idk if that’s really the case but i will respect whatever they choose to do if they even know what happened,, i guess if i see her show up in future lobbies i’ll just like ignore her lol

[sineala]

Hi! I know my ask is not Steve/Tony but you're the most knowledgeable person I know in marvel comics so I'm going to give it a try. What's up with Thor and Loki? I've stumbled onto a series with loki being a teen, being good and working with Asgard and now, Loki is evil again ( and older somehow) and is antagonizing Thor again? How os their relationship in the comics?

I am sorry to disappoint you, anon, but I’m really not the person to ask about Thor and Loki! I don’t read a lot of Asgard stuff, mostly because -- okay, I know this a terrible reason -- the lettering they use for the Asgardian speech bubbles is really hard for me to read. So I have never gotten into it.

I suspect you’re talking about Agent of Asgard? I’ve never read it. I know that Loki is most recently in the current Avengers run and I think his allegiances are kind of unclear so far; also recently (and very briefly) he was Sorcerer Supreme, because he’d stolen the title from Strange because IIRC he said he wanted to teach him a lesson and prepare him for unspecified evils of the future. Which sounds like he might be good? Or just ambiguous? Not sure.

I hope you can find someone to help you! (Someone on the Earth-616 Discord might know? I feel like there is someone there who knows about ANYTHING.)

[jecook]

I hope it’s okay to add onto this because I love this type of conversation about BNHA and have been thinking about it a lot! I love your footnote about “heteromorph” being the only word there is, I think it’s very indicative about a group that is yet to find their own positive identity they can align with since they are so often sidelined and prejudiced against. I looked into it with a couple of awesome people on discord once and iirc what we found was the official translation saying “heteromorph” and the fan translation using the word “mutant” and that upon further investigation, it seemed like the original word Hori used was much stronger, closer to something like “freak” in English. I’m just remembering off the top of my head but I thought you might find that interesting!

in chapter 271 dabi taunted both hawks and tokoyami by calling them chicken skewers — do you think that would count as microagression or just hori having fun with the dialogue and not thinking more about it?

I don’t know if I think Hori would call it a microaggression, but I probably would—though not as readily as I would if it weren’t in the context of Dabi doing his level best to kill Hawks and moments away from treating Tokoyami the same. Once you’re in that arena of open violence, I think you’re a bit past “micro” anything.(1) But I do think it’s using language that is coded in ways that have been explicitly demonstrated by the manga to be objectionable, yes.

More on this when I someday either finish my evidence gathering on the depiction of heteromorphobia in the series or decide how I want to start posting installments of it, but one thing that has thus far struck me as fairly consistent is that most animal-associated heteromorphs(2) don’t actually use animal language to talk about themselves. There are a few exceptions, Hawks himself most prominent among them, but by and large, if someone is 1:1 equating a heteromorph or their abilities with their associated animal and its traits, that someone is probably not the heteromorph themself. Also too, even the exceptions show a fairly consistent pattern.

Horikoshi may not have drawn a lot of attention to it, so I don’t know how much he’s really thinking about each and every deployment of the language. He is, however, an author who takes a lot of joy in language, one of his work’s more charming traits, and the fact that the way heteromorphs talk about themselves and are talked about by others is so consistent—along with an early comment of his that he likes to think about details of characterization and worldbuilding even if he’ll never get an opportunity to share them—inclines me to think that he knows what he’s doing. That still stands even if he may or may not be up on whatever kind of discourse (in the classical sense of the word) Japan is having about microaggressions.(3)

The thing about microaggressions is that they don’t have to be intentional on the part of the person committing them to count. Dabi doesn’t have to be consciously choosing animal terminology with the specific intention of being as hurtful as possible for him to be perpetuating heteromorphobia.

In Dabi’s case, given that he very explicitly had Spinner complain to him about exactly that sort of language, I do think he has cause to know better. But it’s not uncommon to see people who think their opponents (ideological or otherwise) are fair game for the kinds of dehumanizing or othering language that they otherwise agree should not be used—see e.g. fat jokes or misgendering of people on the other side of the political aisle. You see this even from otherwise quite liberal people, but it still counts as perpetuating whatever kind of -ism the language promotes. In that regard, I don’t let Dabi off the hook because he’s engaging in battle smack talk anymore than I would a character whose first impulse was to use sexist language to insult a woman opponent.

I’ve seen it said a thousand times on tumblr, but it stands for fictional characters as much as it does in real life: if you use language that denies your opponent of their humanity or identity, if you make your acceptance of those traits conditional, what you’re telling people on your own side is that they, too, can be denied in that way the moment they step out of line. If your acceptance is conditional, then it isn’t really acceptance.

Anyway, none of that is to say that I think Dabi is a horrible irredeemable bigot or anything. But I see little point in doing backflips to get out of saying that Dabi sometimes exhibits behaviors we could call heteromorphobic, just because that particular flaw is a little too close to the kinds of flaws that make a character Actually Problematic on tumblr rather than just a fun evil meow meow.

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1: I feel the same way about calling e.g. enemies trying to harm each other on the battlefield “abuse.” There are many kinds of relationships in the world, and many different kinds of terminology to talk about their dynamics. But using the terminology of one category of relationships in an attempt to discredit a completely different kind of relationship is one of my pet peeves.

2: I know Spinner doesn’t like the word, but as I will talk about more in that essay-yet-to-come, we don’t have any other words, so I do and will still use heteromorph until the canon gives us the more polite alternative. As it is, I think HeroAca!Japan just doesn’t actually have a more polite alternative, and Spinner doesn’t like the word they’re saddled with. I think his “don’t use that word in more polite settings” probably translates to “talk around it without acknowledging the obvious because you wouldn’t want to offend someone by using controversial language” rather than “use this convenient other word that academic circles have adopted that for some reason no one, including a number of self-identified heteromorphs, have seen fit to give us over the course of nearly 350 chapters”.

3: Some cursory research on my part suggests that Japan does have the concept, even called microaggression—an English loanword. I found some papers and articles that discussed the topic in a validating way, but also noticed that the Japanese wikipedia article has clearly been put together by someone who doesn’t much like the concept; it’s a brief explanation of the term and then the entire rest of the article is criticisms. A skim down the first ten or so hits on Twitter showed it mostly being used in the context for which it was intended—in particular I noticed someone using it to talk about bias against burakumin—and one person who was using an obvious-even-across-the-auto-translate-divide tone of, “Those dumb liberals today, making up words that don’t mean anything. Easily offended snowflakes, every one of them!”

[catbountry]

Further Discussion of Nazi Punching Ethics

Izzy: There are many many times when it's OK to punch Nazis.

Izzy: When they've committed no crimes, have never met you before, and have their back turned to you isn't one of them.

Izzy: Shit like that is how you get Weimar Germany.

Cat Bountry: http://pastebin.com/LVrdM2fd

Izzy: "HORRAY, NAZI GOT PUNCHED IN THE FACE! BTW guys be safe there's some Nazis that are being really aggressive for some reason, be safe uwu."

Minty: I want your opinion but actually I don't care

Izzy: So far this person is claiming it's a good thing because it emboldens the worse parts of the left-wing? The very part that's been killing the left from within?

Cat Bountry: Yes.

Minty: The neo-left

Izzy: " at the point where people are openly violent, it does more good to be violent back and show defiance then stay silent like in ww2."

Izzy: There were two bad moves by the left in Weimar

Izzy: The regular left refused to acknowledge the Nazis existence, much less debate with them.

Izzy: The equivalent of the modern "no platforming".

Izzy: This let the Nazis both spread their ideas unchecked, and made them look like they were saying something important and revealing big secrets, otherwise why would the powers that be try to censor them?

Izzy: And then the radical left fought them with violence.

Cat Bountry: So basically they're creating THE EXACT SAME CONDITIONS that lead to Hitler's rise in the first place?

Izzy: You noticed?

Cat Bountry: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA FUCK.

Cat Bountry: I wish it'd been you debating this lady.

Izzy: We even have a Great Recession, and a recovery that's only helping the upper class.

Izzy: And even worse, we don't have Communism as a radical alternative, because it's failed so recently, while Nazism and fascism, for the most part, failed 80 years ago.

Izzy: (Not to imply Communism was good.)

Izzy: The Commies fought the Nazis and their brown shirts with violence.

Izzy: Both sides happily instigated the violence.

Izzy: And it served to reinforce both sides biases (dunno if that's the right word to use here) and led to more people moving from the middle to the extremes.

Cat Bountry: BUT IZZY, WHAT ARE YOU SAYING PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE DONE IN 1940'S GERMANY, IZZY? I REALLY WANT YOU TO ADMIT I'M RIGHT ABOUT PUNCHING NAZIS IN THE FACE UNPROVOKED BECAUSE "RHETORICAL VIOLENCE."(edited)

Izzy: By 1940 IT WAS TOO LATE

Minty: But what do you feel about this Nazis

Izzy: Germany was already full Nazi and their War Machine had started rolling into the rest of Europe.

Cat Bountry: Yeah I pointed that out.

Minty: What do you FEEL

Izzy: We're talking WeimarRepublic here.

Cat Bountry: Keep reading, I'm sure you'll love it.

Cat Bountry: I had to share.

MissMarie: It's pretty bad,

MissMarie: they keep trying to double back and want you to admit punching nazis is okay.

Minty: @Septapus wormhole send "HORRAY, NAZI GOT PUNCHED IN THE FACE! BTW guys be safe there's some Nazis that are being really aggressive for some reason, be safe uwu."

SeptapusBOT: Message sent! You can use any wormhole 2 minutes from now.

Minty: Time to get anon hate via wormhole

MissMarie: I want someone to make a callout post on tumblr about wormhole messages

Minty: I still can't believe people are still sending communist propaganda through the wormhole

Minty: What have I started

Izzy: There are some actual communists out there.

Or Maoists.

Minty: The communist uprising of discord

Minty: I WAS JUST MEMEING

Minty: ITS JUST A PRANK BRO

Izzy: Wow, having a Trump icon next to my words in your screencap is not good optics. You can't tell that it's a messed up, mocking image of Trump I'm using in the cap.

Izzy: Hell, I'm not sure how obvious it is to you guys, at least without clicking on it and seeing the bigger animated image.

Cat Bountry: It's not animated.

Cat Bountry: It's just distorted.

Cat Bountry: Why, did you really try to make your icon an animated .gif?

Izzy: Yes, it showed as animated when I uploaded it and when I view it in my account.

Izzy: It's not a big animation, it's just contributing to the distortion.

Izzy: Yes, it showed as animated when I uploaded it and when I view it in my account.

Izzy: It's not a big animation, it's just contributing to the distortion.

Cat Bountry: There is literally no animation when I view it.

MissMarie: nope

Izzy: Is it animated (shaking) when you view my profile, at least?

MissMarie: It looks like Trump has 4 eyes.

Izzy: "rhetorical violence"? What is this bullshit? I've been seeing a lot of this lately from the far-left,

Izzy: Mainly to justify using physical violence or violent censorship against people who verbally offend them.

Izzy: http://4chanpol.tumblr.com/post/130041431174(edited)

Cat Bountry: That was the point I realized I was talking to a wall.

Izzy: There's such a thing as "fighting words", but those go directly to personal insults, and still don't legally justify violence. (Though I'll have to check the law.)

Cat Bountry: They're not protected under free speech though, I don't think, if they're implying an immediate threat.

Izzy: I'll have an answer for that in a bit.

Izzy: Also, IIRC, the left gained a handful of seats in Congress this last election, but not nearly as much as they assumed they would.

Minty: @Septapus wormhole send Making the mother of all omelettes here, Jack- can't fret over every egg!

SeptapusBOT: Message sent! You can use any wormhole 3 minutes from now.

Cat Bountry: I STAND CORRECTED.

Izzy: Google it and check?

Cat Bountry: http://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-are-confident-about-retaining-control-of-the-house-1478634160

Cat Bountry: You were right.

Izzy: "i think the right to freedom (general) and inherent human worth trumps the right to freedom (of speech)." That makes no sense? Freedom of Speech is one of the most basic freedoms.

Cat Bountry: I KNOW, RIGHT?

Izzy: "rights are social constructs" They're wrong again

Izzy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_and_legal_rights

Izzy: Only legal rights are social constructs.

Izzy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights

Cat Bountry: I don't think these people actually know what "social construct" even means anymore.

Izzy: "is the right to be safe more important than the right to express unpopular oipiinions without fear of violent retaliations?"

Izzy: "fuck no? "

Izzy: Well, you got them to admit it.

Izzy: I hope they remember that their opinions are unpopular too, and they've just justified violence against them and theirs.

Cat Bountry: Did I really mispell "opinions" that badly?

Izzy: Yep. I don't blame you two for mispelling tho, tumblr chat ain't great for that.(edited)

Cat Bountry: It's pretty hilarious, though.

Izzy: yah

Izzy: anyway, I have to run out, be back in a bit

Cat Bountry: Later, gator.