#I'M OLD.

[falselyprofound]

nothin' but respect to the people who are focusing on the DJ from transcendental cha-cha, but personally, the highlight of the new tom cardy album for me has gotta be "analysing your own self worth through the act of deleting the pool ladder in the sims 2: the song"

like... yeah. yeah.

[ahelluvahigh]

Respond to the following prompts out of character, then tag others you'd like to get to know a little bit better.

Roleplayer name: Axel

Roleplayer pronouns: He/him she/ her they/them

Muse name(s): A bunch of demons.

Preferred communication: Not... this website.

Experience: Putting this under a readmore because I decided to make it a mini novel.

Twenty years ago the good people of Gametalk's Fire Emblem forum told me about this super cool thing called roleplaying. It's like writing fanfiction but you write alongside others. There was even another part of the website dedicated to it. Fandoms went:

Fire Emblem

Yu Yu Hakusho

Yami no Matsuei / Gravitation (my introduction to gay people existing in media as something other than a joke... also not shutting the fuck up about a pretty boi serial killer)

Wolf's Rain

Kingdom Hearts

Naruto

In 2006-2007 the site went down and the Naruto crew migrated to Myspace.

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children also came out.

Kingdom Hearts characters came back alongside new Final Fantasy 7 muses. Lived their happily for three years.

Drama happened.

Jumped ship away from anime/ video games to the X-men/ Marvel fandom.

2010/2011 was dragged to tumblr via Maurader's Era Harry Potter rps with at-the-time-girlfriend. (it's so freaky that some of my students are into this now and I'm like they can never know I was in these trenches once only to frequently comment on their Wolfstar obsession.)

Discovered The Mortal Instruments, Teen Wolf, and Once Upon a Time. There was a lot of crossovers between those three fandoms.

2015. Broke up with girlfriend. Had to find a different fandom because she very much got our fandoms in the divorce.

Hey, ya know what used to make me really happy? Gorgeous videogame bois.

Back to the Square Enix fandom. Now featuring sassy twink God from The World Ends With You.

Black Butler is published by Square Enix.

DeMoNs.

Girl I was crushing on asked if I had ever played Dramatical Murder.

Explaining Dramatical Murder to people who have not played Dramatical Murder is a choice.

Decided logging in and out of blogs was tiring, so I made a hub blog and made a bunch of sideblogs. Brought back a bunch of anime and video game muses back.

Yami no Matsuei

Black Butler

Pokemon

Everything Square Enix touches

Wolf's Rain

Digimon

Dramatical Murder

Yu Yu Hakusho

Sailor Moon

Gravitation

Danganronpa

Realized the Yu Gi Oh RPC is massive.

Had a good time there for a bit. Met Gold (Heeeey~)

Covid happened and gave me the time to play Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Fire Emblem took over my life again.

Drama happened and I will never discuss Fire Emblem with anyone ever again.

A friend on Discord asked Have you ever seen Hazbin Hotel?

I said no. He sent me a link to the pilot. I did not watch it.

Went back to the YuGiOh RPC.

Drama happened.

Tried to stick it out but it just wasn't the same.

Eight months after friend sent me the link to Hazbin Hotel, a combination of hearing Phantom by Natewantstobattle on my Pandora station and watching a video on Tumblr Sexy Men reminded me that I should maybe give that thing my friend sent a watch.

November 7th 2021- Initial response: This is cute. I like it! Where's the rest of it? ... HOW DOES THIS THING WITH ONE EPISODE HAVE SO MUCH OF A FANDOM?

I go to Wendy's.

Can't stop thinking about Hazbin Hotel.

Ask some people if they've ever heard of it.

Get told people on Tumblr hate Hazbin Hotel and it's crazy triggering to some people and to not let anyone know I like it.

November 8th: Can't stop thinking about Hazbin Hotel.

Make a blog for Alastor.

Get scared.

Do nothing with it for three weeks.

Can't stop thinking about Hazbin Hotel for three straight weeks.

Say 'fuck it' and promo blog.

Do not get burned at stake. Make a Cherri Bomb sideblog. Then an Arackniss sideblog. Icy blue peacock drops. Adam is revealed and I lose my shit over the Adam-and-Lilith mythology. Blitz continues to be a mood. Sexy fox drops. Show airs. Friend says you should write Val. I say haha, nah. I learn that moths squeak.

I've been here for three years. I can't think of anything that has brought me nearly as much consistent joy as this damn demon show.

(I don't know if I should dub November 7th or 8th as Hazbin Day because I watched it for the first time on the 7th (and remember everything about that day so vividly) but the brain rot really got me on the 8th.

Preferred roleplay type: Generally paragraph/multi paragraph. I love it when little one line dash commentary becomes full on paragraph / multi paragraph works of art.

For the general mood of threads? I feel like I dabble in a mix of things, but... I am fully aware that angst / hurt/comfort are my Bat Signal and if someone posts something in that vein I'll eyes emoji and drop everything to answer it.

Pet peeves & dealbreakers: Guilt tripping / vagueing for replies, vagueing that someone doesn't rp a character correctly... vagueing in general.

Dealbreaker? Acting as if you're THE portrayal of a character, not tagging common triggers. Trying to stir up drama.

If you're reading this, don't worry, you do not do this (but hello, fellow anxiety-ridden internet dweller.) After the back-to-back Fire Emblem/ YuGiOh debacle I... block religiously.

Best time to write: Weekends and... school year related holidays. I'm a middle school teacher.

Are you like your muse? Honestly? Out of all the ones I write here, the one I have the most in common with is Blitz. I am self-destructive / self-loathing, cut myself out of pictures, frequently tell my plant-loving bird-coded partner that they're outrageously out of my league... I am a disaster.

tagged by @arachn0philia

tagging: I'm a couple days behind on this and I don't know who has / who wants to do it, so, steal it if you'd like. Say I tagged you. :>

[goldenkid]

okay maybe it is just me but look. i don't want the doctor to heal i don't want them to ever stop running. i want doctor who to feel like stepping out of your house into a storm and going out to sea. when the companion leaves they are going somewhere beautiful and terrifying and strange and if it doesn't kill them it will change them irrevocably. and the doctor is immortal enough and strange and traumatised enough to be in this storm forever. and loving him or wanting to travel with him is tragic because companions never can forever. and because the doctor dies again and again and carries on and the story changes and it is always wild and vivid and just keeps on going and going. and it is tragic but wonderful. adventure after adventure. 'street corner at 2am, waiting for a taxi. the life i could never have.'

and i want the doctor to die and change and carry on going. and i want the companions to be forced to leave, or to change, and even if they have a happy ending they still have to leave. i don't want a cop out i want the lovely lovely tragedy at the heart of doctor who. the ending was happy but it didn't stick. it didn't hurt. think how brightly 'i don't want to go' burned, how much vale decem sears your insides. and then there's this. to me at least, it's dull.

[intercal]

cauterize me, captain!

[hypertechnica]

is this anything

[tyanis]

Kinda feel like there's some untapped meme/reaction image potential from old horror movie trailers...

[krysmcscience]

Did somebody say Bill shouldn't be allowed to swear? I think somebody said Bill shouldn't be allowed to swear. Thanks to that, have these retooled The Good Place jokes:

The "powers that be" can refer to either the Theraprism staff, the Axolotl, or just. Ya know. Disney in general. Or all three! Whichever you think is funniest. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The "party" Bill's referring to is Weirdmageddon, of course. He was quite the ashhole to everyone back then.

Ford has probably gotten pretty good at the 'tune out your psychopathic ex with dank memes' challenge.

It must be very cathartic to be able to make Bill shut up whenever you want with just the press of a button. I'm sure Ford doesn't abuse this ability at all.

Oh, sure, 'Not now,' he says, before he immediately backs out of the newly-made hole in the Theraprism wall. 🙄

Don't worry, Bill doesn't get far.

also yeah i know this one doesn't have an attempted swear - i just wanted to use the joke because of the massive stink-eye involved in it because it makes me laugh

⬇️ More goofs beneath the brief ramble if you wanna skip it lmao⬇️

Why is Ford even there, you might ask? Well, he either decided he preferred to watch Bill suffer in person over being distantly and repeatedly harassed with the same evil desperation book for the rest of his life, or he got roped into some kind of contrived community service for 1.) all his many counts of interdimensional thievery, and 2.) his ignoring all the very clear warnings to NOT summon Bill in the first place (which I like to imagine is also illegal). Theraprism staff were just like, 'Wait, this guy matters to Bill? Ooh, we can USE that! It might be the only thing that can help him want to get better!' It is not considered that throwing Ford at Bill so soon after Weirdmageddon could instead make them both WORSE - in new and altogether special ways! :D

Anyway, I'm calling it the Community Service AU, and I am most likely not going to do anything else with it beyond appropriating these silly Good Place jokes. So, feel free to adopt the concept if y'all wanna??? Just make sure that Bill is still not allowed to swear, no matter what, full stop. It's gotta be a real linguistic corkblork of a situation for him, is all I'm sayin'.

Finally, have these bonus Good Place jokes, but with Handyman!Bill this time:

'Opposite tortures' doesn't sound so bad...at least until it's an all-powerful chaos entity known for torture saying it.

you may think i forgot mabel's cute pink cheeks but the truth is that i did in fact forget but then immediately stopped caring which makes it okay, SHHHHHHH

And, finally:

lmao this is shit

True facts, if you cram Season 1 Eleanor Shellstrop and Michael into a singular triangle shape, they turn into Bill Cipher. This is science, look it up. Or don't, and just trust the source that is me, bro.

Anyway, I should be in bed, y'all have fun with these, I guess. Tune in after like a week or so and maybe I'll have an addendum to my comic about how Bill was drawn naked for karaoke night. Because him actually being naked was not the only thing I considered as a plausible explanation. XD

Also if you see any inconsistencies or errors in any of these comics, No You Do Not :D

Also also, reblogs are rad as hell and I appreciate every single one, just don't repost, please and thanks. Every time a repost is made, an artist somewhere cries. :,)

[shinobicyrus]

Why do you need your earbuds to have a wire so badly?

I am assuming this is about a post I reblogged like six months ago when I went off on forced technological enshitification and the slow erosion of consumer options. But sure, I'll bite.

Why do I "need" my earbuds to have a wire? I dunno, Anon, maybe I:

Don't want to have to worry about recharging my earbuds.

Don't want my earbuds to be even easier to lose.

Don't want my earbuds to need separate accessories that are as easy to lose as the earbuds.

Prefer to have bluetooth turned off on my devices for security and safety reasons.

Like being able to seamlessly plug my earbuds into my computer, my MP3 player, or any other device with a headphone jack.

Don't want to spend 50 dollars on decent wireless earbuds when I can do all the above things with a pair of solid earbuds that cost me like $12 during the Obama administration.

Don't care about what kinds of headphones or earbuds people wear but don't like what it says about our society when other people apparently care what kind of earbuds I'm wearing so much they have send an Anonymous ask to interrogate me about it.

And I guess, more abstractly, because fuck Apple. That's why.

[symphonyofsilence]

Let the poor man rest.

[annalyticall]

My new favorite excuse for not jumping on new trends or bandwagons is 'I'm 30.' No more explanation needed because anyone under 30 just thinks I'm old and everyone over 30 understands implicitly

[kayiiin]

Trying out styles

[clericxhood777]

Duke: Why is Dick sitting in between Jason and Roy?

Steph: Because he doesn't wanna see them cuddling.

Tim: Or kissing.

Duke: But they're a couple.

Tim: To Dick, Jason's still a baby.

Duke, holds up Damian: This is a baby, that's a grown ass adult.

[bioethicists]

every time a new SA allegation of a favored celeb arises, i'm reminded of the absolutely soul-crushing experience of the depp/heard trial in which i learned that dozens of ppl i loved + respected + trusted were also willing to engage in the basest form of misogyny if the woman Seemed Crazy Enough. there was a horrifying 2ish weeks on this website + much longer irl where i genuinely felt unsafe voicing my discomfort as i relived something eerily reminiscent of the aftermath of my own assaults playing out on screen, commented on by true crime youtubers like it was a red sox game.

it happens time + time again with every new allegation + it's truly the most agonizing + exhausting part of being a survivor. i am begging you all to consider that survivors are watching you engage with this stuff like theater + it erodes our trust in all of you + compounds our grief.

[shesgonnachangetheworld]

i don't care that joe biden is old and tbh, i don't actually think the media cares either. they just want trump back because him sucking makes for easier clickbait

[chelledoggo]

"We're gonna be talking about the BOOBY! We'll be talking about the WOODCOCK! Do you think that's FUNNY, Butthead? Do you find it AMUSING that we'll be talking about the SWALLOW? Yes, we're also gonna be talking about the DICKCISSEL, the BUSHTIT, the COCK-OF-THE-ROCK, the SHAG... and we will DEFINITELY be spending a LOT of time talking about...GREAT TITS!!"

[bllmak]

a very important conversation