#I made a joke about the 2 main characters being gay and then bam

[cringeisthemindkiller]

also yeah I did watch Saltburn. It was aight. I worry I maybe missed like some key point because I still am kinda confused w the character motives. It was cool tho very pretty and very very gay (Not in a derogatory way its just a very gay film)

Also I enjoy coloring words too much I need help anyway happy new years

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Look, I just got off work, it's quite late and I'm tired (not to mention a bit sick) but I simply cannot go to bed tonight until I've given my campaign statement for The Cashier cause that's my number one guy. So apologies in advance for whatever strange rambling mess this turns into because I'm honestly not fully with it atm.

Anyways this guy is so crazy that I haven't stopped thinking about him once since 3 months since season one ended season 2 when despite the fact that he's like in 1.5 scenes and doesn't have a canonical name

So to set the scene, everyone around the world is currently watching the moon expanded and explode and are told that there are only a few hours left before the world ends. Enter The One, who is having fun with all of this and goes to a local convenience store that is still open. Obviously he asks him about it.

And then this guy's first line in the entire show is telling him that his drink is 666 baht. Now this show uses all kinds of references to Christianity and is absolute batshit (think Supernatural but 10 1-hour long episodes and thai) so this literally could just be a little nod to The One's alignment or just an actual full on hint that this guy is like the Anti-Christ or something lol. But also iconic first line to have in a show

Anyways even though the world is ending this dude still makes people pay for their stuff which is just very hilarious to me.

And then The One questions him further and the dude is basically just like "the world sucks already it might as well end" which is a big customer service mood

The One questions him about his fear of death, to which he says he doesn't care since it's inevitable. And then The One is just like "oh you don't know what it's like to die" and when the cashier questions him about THAT he's just like "oh well I'm Death :3"

And like for a moment he seems like he might have idk a normal reaction to having a guy enter his store during the end of the world and claim to be death but then he just laughs it off and reaches over for the drink that The One hasn't paid for yet and opens it and hands it over and says "it's on me" which every time I watch just makes me yell "THE RITUALS!!!!" (the gay ones to touch the flesh of other men, not the actual cult rituals to resurrect God that are happening in the show at the same time)

Anyways in the 0.5 scene that he's in, it's been like approx 8 hours since The One entered and he's still just chilling there eating noodles and the cashier is joking about how they've still got time before the world end until BAM The One's body (that he is currently stealing from like Adam from the Bible) gets taken over by a different supernatural entity and the cashier is obviously freaked out cause wtf is going on (but also hehehe not so apathetic about suffering and death now are we) and then "The One" bolts out the store and the cashier calls after him and that's that. Never see or hear from this guy again.

Anyways he's a barely there character in the final episode that's main functionality was for The One to drop the line about being Death for the first time now and not later during his villain monologue. But still I'm 1) obsessed with him and 2) convinced that he and The One for sure made out during that 8 hour time skip.

Anyways pretty please vote The Cashier for me and also if you haven't watched Midnight Museum, the production company has it for free on youtube fully subbed and it will definitely be one of the stranger 10 hour rides of your life that's for sure

Group E Round 4

[image ID: the first image is of The Cashier, a Thai man in a white or light blue polo shirt and black cap. at least one of his ears are pierced. the second image is of Stag Malinay, a young man with auburn hair and yellow-orange eyes. he's wearing a black shirt, black pants, and black, lace up knee high boots with belt straps. he's sitting on a red and gold throne. beside him is written his name, "Stag Malinay." end ID]

The Cashier

The world is literally ending. The moon is exploding. And this guy is still working as a cashier at some convenience store because the world might as well end anyways. He still insists that people pay for what they get from the store even though the world is going to end in a few hours. Then this strange guy shows up and questions him about it and asks him if he's afraid to die. The cashier is like "no not really" and the guy responds "well clearly you don't know what it's like to die" and the cashier responds "well have you died before" and the guy is like "no. I'm Death >:3" so what does the cashier do? he buys the man a drink and lets him crash at the store for the next several hours until the guy gets possessed by a different supernatural entity and runs out of the store to try to save the world. The cashier is just such a chill guy and insane customer service worker I love him so much I wish he had a name in canon.

Stag Malinay

Very self confident, bisexual manwhore with a troubled background he doesn't like to talk about. Said past is the cause of all his anger issues which he regularly takes out on the MC, initially. They become friends later, so it's okay. Also, he has a Tumblr account! @stagmalinay, run by me, the author. Can't really get more obscure than only selling a few copies of my entire book so far. [additional propaganda 1] [additional propaganda 2] [additional propaganda 3] [additional propaganda 4] [additional propaganda 5] [additional propaganda 6]

[recurring-polynya]

This is very random but I love the cast of random side characters that you made up (like Seike and Ohno) -- so much so that i am sometimes surprised when they dont actually appear in Bleach?? Anyway love that kind of consistency...would love to see it in my own writing someday skjfjsjsj

Ah, thank you so much! You are a great writer, and this is a very achievable goal!

Ha ha, believe it or not, Seike is actually canon?? I am pretty sure his name only appears in We Do (Knot) Always Love You, but I have always assumed it’s this guy:

Anyway, here are some tips for creating side characters! It’s way easier than you think!

I hate making up characters. I hate it. Much the way all great programmers are very lazy and therefore work to minimize the work they have to do over their entire lifetime, I work very hard to never have to make up anything about my characters.

Here’s a tip for names: I am not Japanese and coming up with Japanese names is hard for me and makes me nervous. If I am naming an important character, I will go to the trouble of giving them a meaningful name and working out the kanji, etc etc (by which I mean I go drop hours of my time into https://japanese-names.info/). If they are a side character, I will look up the Wikipedia article on “Japanese entomologists” or “Japanese Olympic figureskaters” and pick one surname and one given name that have the right “ring” to them. I will usually do a quick Google to make sure that name isn’t the name of an important character in some other anime/video game I wasn’t aware of. Bam. Done.

You can also cheat by naming everyone in Squad 6 Kuchiki, Ohno, or Gotou because they are all Byakuya’s relatives, or having there be six guys named Maki in Squad 11 (there are already semi-canonically 2). If you make a joke about it, everything thinks you’re a very funny person instead of just incredibly lazy.

I keep a spreadsheet. Every time I make up a detail about a character, I try to log it so I don’t have to look it up later. Here’s what the Squad 6 tab looks like:

Be minimalist. The less you make up, the less you have to remember later. Every time you bring in a character, say to yourself, what are they here for? You really don’t need to go much further than that. Ohno and Choei got introduced in one of my first fanfics, because a) I needed some exposition, and b) I wanted to show how Renji interacted with his squad. What I wanted to convey was that most of Squad 6 is lazy snobs who enjoy the benefits of nepotism and Renji’s presence is really cramping their deal: hence, Ohno. However, Renji is very likable, and I also wanted a contradicting voice that thought Renji was cool and fun and livened things up: hence Choei. I made them the 3rd and 4th seats because he would work with them a lot, and I would be able to reuse them. Ohno should be kinda important, so I made him the heir to the largest Kuchiki branch family, which explains why he’s snooty, but also always angling for Byakuya’s approval. Choei’s basic characteristic is his chill bro-ness and lack of ambition, so I made him an extraneous fifth son. He’s on the futsal team, because that gave him additional reason to like Renji. He’s openly gay because gay people are cool and I felt like it. That’s it. Two characters that I have gotten incredible mileage out of. Every story or so, I add another detail if it makes sense to. Ohno is, surprisingly, fond of dogs. Choei’s zanpakutou is a warhammer. Ohno’s dad is a huge bitch, which explains a lot about him without me having to explain anything.

My OC’s are primarily there for my protagonists to bounce off of! Like Plato’s shadows in the cave, they really, really, do not need to have a richer inner life than what our protags see of them.

One of my characterizations of Renji is that he’s very personable and knows everyone. When I’m doing his POVs, I name almost any character he comes across, and often include a fact about them. Conversely, when I’m writing Byakuya, who doesn’t notice people who are beneath him, I will frequently not use names, even on people whose names he should really know, like referring to Kira as “that dour fellow from 3.″ It’s also really interesting, particularly in the case of Squad 6, to examine the way Byakuya interacts with his underlings vs. the way Renji does.

One of the things having bit characters does is to make your world feel bigger. A related thing you can do is to casually namedrop places-- invent a name for the restaurant your characters like to go to, or refer to different parts of your setting like you are describing them to someone who lives there (”up near the art musuem” or “that noodle place north of the Eleventh”). When I write about the Seireitei, I am always thinking about my Local Large City, and how I would describe where things are.

Reuse bit-part canon characters interchangeably with your own! This works very well in confusing your audience as to who you made up and who is canon! As I mentioned, Seike is actually canon, although we don’t know much about him. Ichigo’s lesser-known classmates, like Ryo and Michiru are similar. I tend to think of characters in tiers: in my stories, the protagonists are Renji, Rukia, and to a slightly lesser degree, Byakuya, so that’s my A-tier. The B-tier are the other Bleach characters they interact with the most-- Izuru, Momo, Shuuhei, Ikkaku, Yumichika, Hitsugaya, Ukitake, etc. The C-tier are characters that are of lesser importance in the canon story, but I like them, or they are relevant to the story, so I use them, like Hanataro, Akon, Rikichi, Kiyone and Sentaro, etc. There are also the characters that are important canonically, but just aren’t as important to my stories-- Soi Fon, Kyouraku, etc. Then, there’s the D-tier, which should contain both throwaway canon characters, like, Seike, and your made up cast. If you can keep them at the same level, you’re doing the right thing! If you use any character enough, they can move up a tier! There’s also an E-tier for characters that are just a name and some minor details. It’s good and okay to have these, too! You can think about this in terms of tags, as well: your primary audience is clicking on your story for your A-tier characters, and many people may be clicking on it because they are thirsty for content of your B-tier characters, so try to scale their roles according. You’re trying to make the C-tier characters happen, and your audience is just gonna have to deal with it, so it’s your job to convince people that they are Good, Actually. D-characters are there for flavoring, and I guess if you can make people like them, that says something about you (me, I guess?) as a writer.

When I wrote Between Tides, I cut my protagonists off from their main cast so I *had* to introduce some OCs at the B/C-tier and I hated it and rolled around on the floor wailing about it for 3 months. I have gotten so many compliments on Rukia’s intense, overbearing boss, Sunadori, and Renji’s no-nonsense cooking mentor/witch friend, Mrs. Kuwashima. I have no explanation, except maybe all the anguishing did something. I think I invented them more by feel than anything else-- Sunadori’s role was to get Rukia used to the idea of being a vice-captain, and Mrs. Kuwashima’s role was to let Renji be someone’s soft son for a bit. This is more important than any particular bit of backstory. Mrs. Kuwashima didn’t even have much of a backstory, now that I think about it, and the only reason Sunadori had one is because it tied into the plot.

Also, I am a dialogue-ist, and I let my characters establish themselves through their own voices, rather than trying to enforce personalities from above.

Ha ha, I think that’s long enough. Thank you for this opportunity to bloviate about my own writing. The upshot is, worldbuilding is not just magic systems and fantasy governments, it’s also deciding that the lady who goalkeeps the Squad 6 futsal team is also Byakuya’s cousin who once pushed him in the mud as a child.

[thebestplltheories]

PLL The Perfectionists - 1x01 Pilot LIVE REACTION

WE ARE BACK!!!!

Ok I’m gonna do what I was doing for PLL where I react as I watch. But before I copy and paste the live reaction, I want to give my quick overview. That was by far a 10/10. That achieved everything a pilot should achieve. It introduced us to the characters, each of their stories, and the relationships each character has with one another. It set the overall tone, that this is a murder mystery with twists and turns to come. It established what the show is about. And it had occasional small shocks (I say small because there’s only so much that can be shocking in a pilot when everything is brand new). This was exponentially darker than the PLL pilot and for that I’m so grateful. We are cutting the high school airy-fairy (is that word used outside of Australia?) drama and going straight to scandals and a murder. I’m scared to see the ratings tomorrow because I want it to do well but hey it was trending worldwide on Twitter so that’s a good sign!? The show looks SO promising. I think I’m already in love with the cast. I just want to know more about everything and everyone and omg we are back!

LIVE THOUGHTS:

Love this intro! It sets the scene very well about the whole theme of perfectionism.

WAIT IS DYLAN PLAYING POKERFACE BY LADY GAGA HAHAHAHAHA

Okay sorry but that song ain’t it (“two can keep a secret if one of them is dead”). Why does it sound like an auto tuned choir? I’m happy for change. I actually don’t want the exact same version as the original series. But this one ain’t it. Is it too late to change it???

Wait, why is Alison walking around her new apartment like she’s walking around Jenna’s school for the blind in 710? If she lived 2 years of happiness and freedom of A, there’s no need to be so sceptical of danger every time you walk into a room. Anyway, doesn’t really matter.

Just the backing music throughout the scene is very PLL-esque! Yes, there is such thing as PLL backing music. And this is it.

Mona making a grand entrance!

I feel like Ali’s reaction to seeing Mona was a bit... underwhelming? If they haven’t seen each other in 2 years I expected a bit more of an “OMG”, and a “how did you get in my apartment”, etc. But they go straight to the point and cut the fluff so I don’t mind overall.

Mona recruited Ali. I knew it. And she works at BHU, we already knew that.

Emison is having trust issues. But she wants to do this for the kids. Ok I expected more detail there to satisfy the Emison shippers but whatever, I won’t cry at night.

Ok so Mary and Alex escaped Mona’s “dungeon”. That’s fine by me. Maybe that’ll be the storyline for a PLL movie later, who knows. It’s quite a vague answer but what did we expect... Mona to ADMIT to Ali that she captured her aunt? No. Mona could never explicitly say to Ali what she did. Hence the subtle pause before “... escaped me”. Only us the audience know the true meaning of that and I love how subtle yet meaningful it is.

Why do I feel like this security system is gonna play a massive toll throughout the entire series?

Loved the little Easter egg of seeing Mona, and Mona in the mirror (2 Mona’s). A subtle symbol/reference to her split personality in PLL.

I LOVED the scene of Ali teaching in the classroom! I got How To Get Away With Murder vibes...

Remember when we all thought Taylor’s death would be the main death of the show because of that memorial with her name on it... lol. Okay I’m calling it now... come back to this in the apparently mind blowing season 1 finale... Taylor isn’t really dead WE HAVENT TECHNICALLY SEEN A BODY

Love the complicated friendships going on between Dylan, Nolan, Ava, Caitlin! There’s a lot going on about faking being friends and faking tasks to uphold the image of being perfect. I love this theme and I feel like it’s super relevant to today’s world. Like especially social media. Everyone’s instagrams are always filled of their highs. And they’re mostly edited. No one ever posts/shares their low moments.

So no one knows of Ali’s past. Hmmm. We’ve had this discussion before, I don’t think it’s realistic that no one knows the name Alison DiLaurentis - surely that was on national news when “dead girl isn’t dead anymore” made headlines. But anyway. If they wanna pretend no one watches the news, it wouldn’t be the most unrealistic thing PLL has done.

Is Dylan the gay male character Marlene said she was going to introduce in PLL season 5B? Lmao about time.

WOW that flashback of Caitlin and Nolan just gave me PLL season 1 Alison flashback vibes! Nolan plays the bad manipulative guy so well just like Ali played the bully so well in flashbacks!

Two moms don’t make a right hahahaha who wrote that

Sofia looks FLAWLESS in the pool scene OH MY GODDD. AND her voice is so soothing what the hell

Love how the first scene of Nolan’s mother shows her standing on top of the staircase and the camera panning up. Great directing there. Showing she’ll be like a supreme leader. And then the camera being over her shoulders looking down on Nolan. Again great camera work which conveys the message that she is the boss of this town. I think she’ll be our new Jessica DiLaurentis lol

“I’d like some time for myself” ... “to do what?” OUCH why is that so iconic

Eli is... doing great. He comes across very confident. A star in the making?

Love the cinematography period. And Portland is beautiful!! Better than the Warner Bros lot.

Omg Nolan’s mother gathering “attractive” people for her photo op. Lol, they really are big on presenting a perfect image.

“You saw somebody else” NO CAITLIN, ALISON SAW YOU wow these kids will adamantly lie to uphold perfectionism. I keep saying that but I just love this theme!!!

“I know a little bit about manipulation” hahahahaha Ali

Omg Ali is so good at learning their lies. Of course she is, she’s had years of practice

The woods, Nolan? Nothing good ever happens in the woods.

Lol when Nolan tells Dylan to “kiss me” and Dylan actually contemplates it (and does it). That’s the type of power Nolan has over people.

I love how Ali is trying to help them! I can see a bond eventually forming here.

This scene where Nolan cheats on Ava isn’t shocking since they unfortunately shared it in the promos but hey a douche is a douche.

WHAT THE FUCKITY FUCKING FUCK IT’S TAYLOR WHAT DID I JUST SAY ABOVE

OK I KNOW I GUESSED ALEX DRAKE BUT THIS IS A NEW RECORD FOR FASTEST THEORY TO COME TRUE

Well it wasn’t really a theory I was just joking that she’s not really dead because we didn’t see a body but still do I get a point? Lmao

Nonetheless that shocked me! I love that they’re trying to take down their own family, that’s so dark and it’s only episode 1!

Yes Alison is already getting suspicious. Solve this one please Ali

Sorry I put my phone down during that scene in the woods. I just knew it would be juicy and I wanted to immerse in it properly. I frickin adore this scene. It’s creepy in tone, set in the woods like classic PLL, they’re referring to Ali like a friend and my PLL heart is content, and this is the first time they’re all bonding over one thing: wanting Nolan dead. This is probably my favourite scene in the whole episode.

So I’m guessing the vibes are that they were being recorded in the woods about how they want Nolan to be killed? But didn’t Nolan turn off the security?

Mona gets in her car and chucks a big bag in the back seat. Where was she and what was in the baggggg

Ok that was a bit dramatic Ali (“why am I really here”)

Lol I had to rewatch that for a sec. I thought Ali said “and his dead sister who I just saw pick him up” and I was like wait what Ali knows Taylor’s alive??? No, “dead sister who I just saw a picture of”.

OH MY GOD WHAT A MISSED OPPORTUNITY!!!! THAT SCENE WHERE THE 3 OF THEM ARE WALKING AWAY FROM EACH OTHER... NOLAN’S BODY SHOULD’VE FALLEN TO THE GROUND IN THE MIDDLE OF THEM RIGHT THERE! That would’ve been iconic. Like “oh well we were just kidding about all that, good night xx” then nope bam dead body. But I guess he had to die with poles through his chest as Caitlin said.

Oh Marlene. That’s a LOT of dialogue for a death scene. I hope you can back up and explain what Nolan is talking about before he died. Don’t you dare tell me that was an interpretative dream. Again that’s a lot of dialogue for a death scene. You better know who that killer is Marlene! Don’t make it up the day you write the finale!

I don’t like how we didn’t see Nolan ACTUALLY be killed. They play it safe because they don’t want to show us the killer in action. they basically copied the format of Mona’s “death”. Just change the scene to a flashing ambulance with a lame transition lol.

Another missed opportunity. Mona should’ve said to Ali “they found a body”! That would’ve been iconic in every way possible. First it was Ali’s body now Ali is finding a body and hearing the news and ugh oh well

My god that’s a violent death. And pretty early in the series for a Noel-Khan-level death. Too bad the photos leaked online and we knew that Nolan would not only die, but die like THAT. Those extras/fillers on set really should get charged for having their phones on them and leaking shit. Isn’t there copyright laws or something???? idk

Ummmmmm what? What kind of sci-fi, dollhouse level bullshit is that? That’s kinda over the top. Ehhhh. We’ll see where that goes.

My brain right now instantly got to thinking if Nolan’s murderer will be the “A” of the series or if the killer will just be the main mystery for season 1? Is “who killed Nolan” going to be the overarching story of the entire show or will they answer that sooner rather than later and then start a new mystery? I wonder what the format of this show will be. That’s where my mind is right now as the credits play.

[justmickeyfornow]

1) gay things and-stuff I'm sick and drowsy rn so idk if the way I word this question will even make sense but we'll see. So I was wondering if you're going include Argo city being alive/not destroyed (idk what other words to use) In PI? I was thinking about It because Kryptonian culture and Kara's past seems to have played a very big part of the storyline for PI, what with her sharing that part of her life with Lena.

Wow! Now this is my type of ask! The second part of your ask is actually a super brilliant idea btw! Why didn't I think of that! It could be like

Paranoia Incarnated Season 1 - - > Defeating Fright and Lex Luthor

Paranoia Incarnated Season 2 - - > Lillian Luthor is back

Paranoia Incarnated Season 3 - - > Resisting the pout of Leia Danvers Luthor

Oh God! I could literally see it happening! It would be such an awesome project. But it would also make PI 100 chapters longer wouldn't it?!! I don't know if I'm ready for that commitment to be honest. My commitment issues are tingling! But I'm also at the same time really tempted to do it!!

As far as how long I expect PI to go on... Well let's just saaaaaaaay.....

This story was supposedly supposed to be only like 5 or 6 chapters long!

Definitely not 40!

But now that's its 40 chapter long, I expect it to last until maybe - maaaaaaaybe - chapter 50. Basically in the next 10 chapters I have to include the following list of things

Defeat Lex luthor

Cure Kara

Plan a first date for Kara and Lena (can you believe 40 chapters later and they STILL haven't gone on a single first date??!! Talk about complicated!)

Have Kara and Lena say "I love you" (yup they still haven't said I love yous yet either!)

Adopt Leia

Maybe have Kara and Lena get married or something

+ a bunch of other plot holes that need to be tied that I can't remember at the moment (if you remember any, send em my way)

And I figured I could probably fit all of that in about 10 chapters so I've decided 50 would be the number to stop.

(I say this with the upmost uncertainty since I tend to change my mind like a teenager changes moods... A LOT!)

But, your idea seems like a nice way of extending the PI universe while at the same time putting an end to things in a way. Season 1 would be over but season 2 we would see a new villain just like how TV shows are usually. Don't know if I would be able to do it, but I'll definitely think about it!

And now moving on to Argo!

Let's get into it shall we! Now as we all know, Argo City is supposedly not "dead" per se, but is actually the only piece of Krypton still intact (and I say per se because eventually it does die... Sorry if that was a spoiler for some people). Protected by a dome around it, Argo City was saved from the destruction of Krypton by Kara's parents Zor-El and Alura. Not too sure how the CW Supergirl writers explained it, but this is what I know from the actual comics.

When I wrote the Krypton Chapters - which can I please mention that they're probably my favorite chapters!! - I had no intention of bringing back Argo City. At least not in the semi-plan I had in mind when it came to PI's plot. I knew that Argo was "alive" and I toyed with the idea of maybe putting in a small detail that acted as foreshadowing that Argo was still out there. But then I felt it would distract me from Fright and her arch, so I decided against it.

I figured maybe somewhere in the very long run, maaaaaaaybe. But I didn't have it planned that's for sure. Truth be told, the main reason behind the Krypton Chapters was that I I needed what I like to call "The Calm Before the Storm" type of chapter.

Basically it goes something like this. Your readers are reading a conflict filled story with a villain on the loose that hasn't been defeated yet. As a writer, you give them a little something to make them feel safe, some happy moments, some laughs, some making out on the couch, make them forget about the villain a tad bit and then BAM! You bring back the villain, shoot the main character, unleash hell, kidnap the love interest, evil laugh here, evil laugh there, and a gun to the head!

You wanna make it even worse for your readers? Tell them what's gonna happen! Show them the horrible thing before bringing the happy moments. Sorta like what I did in PI. I showed the scene where Kara got shot and then ended it on a cliffhanger. Then made the next scene to be a flashback just before the scene where Kara got shot. I put in two whole chapter of beautiful bliss, where Kara and Lena were never happier, having ample amounts of sex, making out randomly while preparing dinner, talking about their childhoods to one another, jokes and laughs, and pretty much all the good stuff! And then BAM! The next chapter is the scene where everyone was left at in the present time!

At the same time, I wanted Kara and Lena to really really connect after the whole reveal fiasco. A lot of my readers were a bit confused after the reveal as to how they would get back together when everything seemed like shit. If you recall, back in the chapters about the reveal, Lena was in a very very dark place. And Kara was equally in a dark place for feelingg guilty about lying. And many people thought that it would be impossible to build that trust back. And the Krypton Chapters were written on the basis of rebuilding that same trust. The first part of the Krypton Chapters was Kara telling her about Krypton and the second part was about Lena telling her about Lex, the Lex from her childhood. And that was something that Lena had never done before, not with anyone.

So, to answer your question, no I don't have a plan to bring Argo into PI. At least not yet. If I do, then get ready for PI to be extended to 80 chapters!

For now, I want to close all the plots I already have opened! Maybe take the two on a proper first date for God sakes!

[captive-eve-blog]

So uh... I just saw the most bullshit callout posts in the history of ever and I don’t think these people are as smart as they think they are...

Okay, feck it. Lemme explain why. I won’t say the handles of the call out posters, if you look it up you’ll easily find them.

Pornhub post

This was a JOKE. Hate the joke, love the joke, this isn’t proof of anything. Also, I’d really love to know how someone could know that a majority of Fish’s audience is under the age of eighteen. And more on that note, Fish is under no obligation to protect their audience from anything, even if they’re under eighteen. 

The Fucktoy post

Also bullshit. Just seems like your average nineteen year old post. Goes like:

Fish: “Call me your fucktoy and destroy me!”

Fish: “oops! haha! wrong blog!”

Fish: “dont let me stop you though!”

Again... Average nineteen year old joke. I’d go as far as to say I’ve heard these jokes in middle school. MIDDLE SCHOOL! Not to mention, Fish has tagged all of their posts appropriately. Still want proof over how they have a largely minor fanbase btw.

The Discord Server 

In my opinion, this is by far one of the worst ‘proofs’ I’ve seen. The screenshot ‘proof’ for this one is literally just a mod ranting about how aged up character porn isn’t pedophilia, and I’m of like mind to agree with them because guess fucking what?? Pedophiles are attracted to CHILDREN. Aged up character porn does not count as cp for that very reason. I never would’ve thought I’d have to explain that but here we are.

Are you gonna sit there and tell me that teenagers have never talked about stuff like this before? Or even far worse? Not to mention, how is it that “ADULT mods” is proof for you? Adults generally (I say generally, I know there’s exceptions) have more responsibility than teens or children. WHY IS THAT YOUR PROOF???

And the lolicon twitter account

After looking this up myself, I have to say it’s one of the dumber points. Those two screenshots had to have been dug out because amazingly?? There’s TONS more SFW work than there is NSFW. So yay, thanks for trying to warp the ‘evidence’ to suit your narrative. Guys, PLEASE do your own research before blindly believing anything.

Not to mention, scrolling the ‘loli’ artist, I don’t think the main focus of their account is lolis. I’ve found plenty of art of made up characters that look far older. You have to dig REALLY deep to find lolis in slightly NSFW ways and so far? I’ve yet to find it. I can believe it exists but what I can’t believe is that it’s as much a problem as people think it is. You can make ANYTHING negative if you try hard enough.

 About the second artist? I go to their twitter and BAM! 

“The characters I draw, I am trying to depict them older than in their source material so that they are not underage. and I will NEVER support any sort of harrassment or creepness towards kids or children”

This... Doesn’t look good for the callout post, tbh. I know some people will believe it regardless, but the ones that actually do the research will notice THIS on the artist’s twitter.

There’s also a point about how Fish ‘manipulates’ their fanbase and refuse to apologize. I’ve personally seen them apologize a good deal. And the point about the patreon is... Weird, in and of itself. People with patreons aren’t obligated to give you anything in return. Patreon is just meant for the AUDIENCE to support them. It’s nice if the person with patreon gives back but they’re not obligated to. 

I don’t subscribe to Fish’s patreon, so I don’t actually know what goes on there but that point was still weird to me regardless.

Also there’s a point about how ‘Fans of Fish have a cult-like devotion and it stems from a campaign of love-bombing and gratification’... This is literally taking whatever you can think of and make it negative.

People love Fish because of how sweet they are to everyone. People are drawn to them (reasons of many) because of how ready they are with compliments. That’s.... How is that automatically culty? You could LITERALLY call ‘cult-like devotion’ on any fanbase... That’s taking something positive and making it negative. Like I’ve said countless times, you could take ANYTHING positive and make it negative.

On the second one---- The second callout post also had some bs screenshots.

The first one made the claim of believing in reverse oppression. Now, I don’t immediately understand this one but I have two possibilities, both of which are bs. But first, the post.

“If you demonstrate any form of hating cishets, you will be kicked.” 

1) Callout person is making the claim that reverse oppression isn’t a thing and I would agree, not for the way they’re saying though I would think. Basically me saying it’s ALL oppression, no need to put reverse in front of it lmao. But if this point is the case then I would think that they think it’s not possible to oppress cishets since they’re... I dunno... Privileged?

2) Believes that the person in the screenshot is calling for ‘oppressing’ LGBT... I could be wrong on either account, it’s a weirdly phrased point.

To me, it looks like the person in the screenshot is against harassment rather than being for ‘oppression’. Of course, there’s no fecking context here but god...

Again, the point about aging up characters... I’ve made my point about that long ago.

The next point is about someone (apparently) thinking MAP is a sexuality. Now, this screenshot is weird in and of itself? I think Discord screenshots are sus period because of how easy it is to masquerade as other people and crop out useful information but I digress...

It’s basically a screenshot of a screenshot? It still has me going, “Okay... Is there more context?” 

Also..... The screenshot about Fish supposedly claiming lesbians are violent. Excuse me? I make these jokes with my friends and we’re as gay as can fucking be. It’s just another case of someone taking a joke way too far.

But well, that’s all I’ve got to say on this subject

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The Great ATOG Reread; Grey part 1

And after almost a week, and after rereading Lodestones, I am back with Grey.

Chapter 1

And holy shit, it hits you like a ton of bricks.

Chapter one is the breakdown of the team. You kind of got to meet everyone and how they feel about our heros- and oh, how much you regret supporting Kurt’s choice to join the team.

As he bangs the door open he hears Psyche mutter, "Sidekicks." It doesn't slam even half satisfyingly enough.

It also introduces one of Blaine’s main problems in this story. This story is a heavy load of miscommunication and lack of self-confidence. Both of them will have to face some obstacles (mostly mental) on. their. own. 

I remember first reading this and I had a lot of trouble reading Grey, mostly because of Incendiary and Psyche’s bullying. Yeah, they might try to excuse their behaviour, but it’s bullying. No kidding. Incendiary is just butt-hurt she got caught and Psyche can’t handle not being Agent Sylvester’s HBIC anymore.

Luckily, others tolerate him.

Cheer Girl seems to like him, with little enough reason to - most people who've been haunted never want to see him again. But she seems perfectly happy being around the Ghost, sits next to him and doesn't mind his occasionally visible flinch, talks to him and doesn't mind his stunted, nervy replies; followed him once holding the end of his cloak up as they walked like a bride's veil and said, "Isn't this hard to shower in?" and the Ghost looked back, looked, for a fraction of a second, like he might laugh.

It also shows the contrast between the Ghost and Phalanx. Phalanx has so much hope for this team to work out, the Ghosts doesn’t like them because they can’t get to know him.

And gosh, these women use every little thing just to hurt the Ghost. Ladies, get a life.

You know who else needs to get a life? Fucking Rachel. I remember writing during my ATOG reread that Rachel’s naivity and innocence can get her killed. That, and her reluctance to listen to sanity. She’s finally okay with supers, but yet, she still thinks Kurt is selfish for basically protecting her.

Chapter 2

Rachel screams through her hand, "She wants to meet you!" Blaine says, "Does this make it okay for us to sneak into the concert using your powers?" Kurt says, just quietly, "She's terrified." They stop. They stare at him. And then they stare at Mercedes Jones. Fixed, hollow smile. Hands pressed so tight into fists that they look painful. Panic, like the host might be holding a machine gun, behind her eyes. Kurt knows terror when he sees it. Kurt knows terror.

Mercedes Jones.

Actual superstar.

Oh, and Phalanx is kind of dying? Jeez, how many times do they almost die? All kidding aside, this shit was terrifying. A giant snake monster (fucking Brody from all glee characters) is killing him, and he will be semi-paralysed for longer than a day.

And I'll do it again, he thinks, closing his eyes in weary knowledge of himself. I'll do it every time, just in the hope that this time it will help. Because if I'd only known to try to comfort the monsters way back then instead of just being afraid of them, everything might be different; all you can ever do is try . . . . . . Phalanx is going to kill me.

I always say that the Ghost is the rational one, but honestly, I don’t even know anymore.

Speaking of rational thinking, at this point, Blaine can’t. He goes into full panic mode when he thinks he’s lost his powers. That shit was even scarier than him almost dying.

Chapter 3

We’re no longer playing around. Chapter 1 was about introducing the team, chapter 2 was about getting back to action.

And now we’re done with the (re)introduction. Now, shit is going down.

And Blaine understands before he really understands what Cooper's asking them. It takes a couple of seconds to sink in, and then the sickness reaches up from the ground, takes him by the knees and pulls him down. He sits on the floor, nauseous with shock, still hanging off the door handle with one hand, because his brother just asked him if he got drunk and attacked his boyfriend, and Blaine's head is too heavy to cope.

Can you blame Cooper? Not really. Cooper and Kurt were right. It was actually kind of amazing Cooper asked Blaine, but yeah, it’s awful. Why?

Because Blaine almost killed someone once. Blaine is very aware of the fact that he’s perfectly able of killing someone.

And because of that, he sure as fuck has the ability to abuse his boyfriend. And yeah, writing it down like that makes me realise how fucked up this is. Blaine. Can. Kill. Someone. Even. Kurt.

Their relationship is based on mutual trust, and they know they won’t hurt each other, but Blaine’s afraid. He’s been low key afraid of himself ever since he found out that he UHM ALMOST KILLED SOMEONE?

Is that the only heavy shit? Oh hell no.

I think the tricky thing with Grey is that this story starts to mess with your head. As a reader, at one point you see the Ghost, Phalanx, Kurt, and Blaine as four different people. I don’t talk about Kurt when the Ghost has his mask on. Even in writing you notice. The moment they put on the mask, they’re no longer Kurt and Blaine.

They’re joking about this, but as a reader you know that this will kill them.

Almost literally.

"Blaine," Kurt says, like he really needs to cut him off, "Blaine - please, think about this. Kids? How the hell could we bring kids into our lives?"

Here’s Blaine’s second problem. He’s slowly realsing that the choices he’s made in the past might not be the choices he wants. He... well... can you say he starts to long for a ‘normal’ life? 

Idiot, not to realise that Blaine would want children. Of course Blaine would, Blaine would be the best father in the world, and Blaine isn't Kurt, Blaine didn't spend years thinking he would never have any kind of normal relationship, Blaine assumes normality. He still does, Blaine's the one who wants them to take the night off to see a movie when Kurt feels guilty and anxious and desperate for telling him that he can't, he took the last night off so they could catch up on sleep and he can't, can't leave people alone like that again -

Sure, he loves being Phalanx? But what about being Blaine? What about family, and date nights, and fucking class?

He starts to see himself with, I guess, two personalities. He’s either Blaine, or Phalanx. There’s no in between, and except for Kurt, no one knows. Not even Cooper. That’s why it hits Blaine. He knows Cooper was right to ask him about the bruises around Kurt’s neck, but Cooper doesn’t fucking know that he can be Phalanx and that he’s capable of doing that.

Chapter 4

Oh Mr. Conti! Oh no!

The Ghost feels like he’s failed people he sees as family. The entire family thing is so messed up, especially since Phalanx admitting he wants kids starts to fuck with his head?

They can’t.

They really can’t.

And not because they’re gay af and that shit, because oh wow, adoption and surrogates exist, but because... how could they do that? Every night could be their last. What if they don’t come home one day?

But this is a terrifying thing to ask, because what Kurt's asking is if he's enough, and whatever he tells himself and the world, whatever he says and acts out with his head held high, is he really supposed to believe that himself? His whole life long he's striven for perfection because he's always found himself inadequate, and now he's supposed to ask Blaine how much of Kurt's failing he's willing to put up with, forever?

They’re strong. Jesus Christ, these two love each other no wonder Incendiary wants to puke because shit son, they are huge saps. But are they strong enough? As a reader who, I assume, has read Grey before, you know they are. But they don’t.

The Ghost squeezes the bridge of his nose, eyes closed. He says, "Those two insults are a contradiction in terms." and they disappear.

Homophobia hits Phalanx more than the Ghost. In my week of absence (aka not reading this) I spent a lot of time thinking about them. Their superpowers are caused by emotional trauma. For the Ghost, it’s sexual intimidation. Again, assuming you’ve read both stories (IF NOT WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE???), you know he uses his powers not only to save people, but also to cope. 

For Phalanx, it’s a mix of violence and homophobia. He ha shields to protect other people from it, but words cannot be shielded (unless a person is d/Deaf/HoH). In the beginning, the Ghost got really upset every time Phalanx fucking dropped a victim for their homophobic language. ‘Oh, you don’t want help because I’m a f*****? Cool, have a nice evening, I hope you bleed to death.’

The Ghost used to condemn these actions, but I think that at this point they’ve both realised that this is Phalanx’s way of coping. He does not need to be exposed to homophobia. Then why sould he stay?

This kid was once again another wake-up call. They save people, but sometimes, not for long term. The Ghost saved this kid, he believed in this kid, and now he will rot away in a prison cell.

This also leads to the return of...

He holds his hand, and says because he knows it, "We'd give our kids a good chance. Saving the world one person at a time, right?"

Really, why can’t Phalanx understand that they. can’t?

Kurt feels like he’s suffocating. Phalanx really doesn’t see. Blaine fucking Anderson doesn’t see. And BAM that leads to Kurt’s major problem in this fic (we’ve already seen two of Blaine’s):

Because he just ghosted. In front of Cooper. Without planning to or wanting to. And he hasn't done that since he was a teenager.