#THE REAL WORLD

[pride-flag-planets]

Sorry this isn’t my art but I’ve been so stressed about everything I haven’t been able to prioritize pride art. But if y’all are in the US, this is important.

Readers, make sure you have all your favourite Ao3 fics downloaded.

Writers, make sure you have copies of all the fics you have posted on Ao3.

I don’t want to be alarming, but things could get really bad really fast. OTW shared this today on Twitter, and I'm a bit worried about it 😅

Ao3 is a non-profit organisation. If they have to start paying taxes, I have no idea what will happen.

[ceevee5]

[myfandomrealitea]

About seperating fiction from reality, the wildest example is that guy who married Miku because:

He is well aware of his Miku obsession & Miku is a fictional character

Marries her anyways

He is still well aware that she is a fictional character & openly tell people that

His latest tweet says "I get criticized for having a wedding with Hatsune Miku, who is 16 years old. However, a fictional character set at 16 years old is not the same as a real 16 year old person. I always say, "Hatsune Miku is a fictional character." Please distinguish between reality and fiction."

Imagine getting scolded by the guy who is famous for marrying miku just because you can't seperate fiction from reality

I remember seeing posts way back when about Akihiko Kondo and laughing about it because haha funny, weirdo marries fake character, and then I remember seeing *this article, which honestly made me feel for him a little and lead me into looking into the story more.

Akihiko is honestly a legend of a man. I hope he continues to spend his days clowning the people who can't separate one's fictional interests to their real life existence. He helped to change my perspective on things a little and I hope he continues to have a long and happy marriage with Hatsune Miku.

*For those who don't want to click on a random link, the article references the fact that Akihiko married Hatsune Miku after growing attached to her helped him to survive a deep depression and personal issues such as anxiety and rejection sensitivity. His marriage to Hatsune Miku has allowed him to re-enter the 'real world' and gain confidence again.

[furiousgoldfish]

Abusive parents can sometimes create the 'us versus them' mentality inside of their family, where they convince you that anyone who isn't raising their child the exact way they are, is stupid, ignorant, spoiling their children and making selfish brats out of them.

They also convince you that the world inside of their house, and the world outside, are two different worlds, and only the outside is 'the real world', and it's a place you, according to them, know nothing about, and would never survive in. Outside world is at the same time filled with dangerous individuals, who would hurt you (unlike your parents, who also hurt you, but those outsiders would hurt you worse, apparently), and filled with stupid people who know nothing and are to be insulted and humiliated (abusive parents will often degrade homeless people, minorities, addicts and anyone they deem less worthy, and you'll be stuck in feeling like at least you're not them, but at the same time scared you'll become them, and then you'll be degraded just like that as well.)

In this 'us versus them' situation, your parents are the smartest, the only ones who know what the 'correct way to live is', and the 'correct way to raise children'. They'll tell you how you're supposed to think, behave, speak and act. Their words are the highest truth and not to be questioned or criticized; any criticism will be met with hostility and attacks, and insisting that any other way of thinking would convert them to the 'non desirables' (see above about the minorities and homeless people).

And the thing is, this is a tactic that cults use to make people unable to leave. Convincing people that the thinking and methods inside are vastly superior and better, that anyone outside who doesn't follow their methods is stupid, tainted, incapable of normal life, and that people outside are simultaneously stupid and wrong, but also dangerous, hateful, capable of doing intense harm to you, that's how the cults terrify people into belief that they can never live outside. That it's both dangerous and wrong to even want to.

If you feel scared and incredibly anxious of living outside of your parents home, and your parents have encouraged you to believe those things, you've been exposed to cult-level manipulation to prevent your escape.

[fever4theflavor69]

100% Truth.

[ranbiood]

everything to me. in the most normal way possible.

[sweettater96]

Guilty pleasure shows ❤️

[oldshowbiz]

MTV Road Rules (2000)

[deathtastegirl]

Frankie Abernathy in The Real World: San Diego

[firebound-press]

Next up is The Real World, by @pamiiap and @firefly464 (that’s me :D)

Lots of technical stuff this time around. First off, this was my first time doing a custom cover! The art was drawn by my good friend @nkhaotic, who had done some fanart for TRW back in 2020, and so I asked her if she would be interested in redrawing it for this. I’m so so grateful for her and her help with this project.

Secondly, this was my first time attempting a bradel binding, and I’m still stunned at how well it turned out. Definitely my best looking hinge and spine that I had done at the time. It just feels very clean and nice and I absolutely adore it.

Finally, I’m really proud of how the typesetting turned out. It’s extremely different from Passerine, since this is so much simpler and minimalistic, but I feel like it fits the vibe of the fic really well. I even went and typeset the letters at the end!

I did this as a gift for pami for Fanfic Writer Appreciation Day back in august. This was an event run by the renegade bindery server, and the goa was to send an author a copy of their fic to show how much you appreciate them!

Of course, I decided to send pami a copy of TRW because that’s how I met her, and she’s been an incredible friend to me and it was important that she know how much I appreciate her. I still have no idea how I was able to keep it a complete secret from her without her realizing what was going on, but I’m so glad I did. Her reaction to opening the package was so perfect.

You can read the original work here:

[dailystargatebooty]

[mice-and-moonbeams]

Not only is Mr. Blobby real ... He has a family! He has the capability to make more ....

Does that mean Bonzo could also have a family? Because I don't want more of him lol

[furiousgoldfish]

abusive parents: in the 'real' world--

me: ah yes, because your house where you force children into submission is an imaginary land, devoid of reality, a fantasy place where nobody has experienced an actual real-life event, and you yourself have transported this place out of reality only for me to be able to experience this imaginary world where you are the god and decide whats real and what isn't, as well as what past events can be revisioned to your liking. Which one of us isn't living in the real world again.

[carsonsweebabyturtles]

Carson Beckett in Every Episode - The Real World (S03E06)

[100-yardstare]

Thinking about The Real World AU again jfldsfjkdflsf

If I were to write this story today I would have put more detail in the beginning. Looking back, I really wish I would have owned the aspect of truly self inserting myself and integrating into the world of Wreck-It Ralph instead of playing on the wish fulfillment type story, but luckily I was able to catch that early on as I started writing Normal, so I guess they do say practice makes perfect, or at least better.

Any theoretical changes I'd make to TRW would be to have made my insert/POV character more involved with the research that was going on instead of being a bystander. Like, I have characters like Steven taking on the "smart guy" role as usual, but I feel like the POV could have taken a better wing man approach, matching and complementing what my brothers insert was like, and seeing things come together. Maybe signs something was wrong before entering the arcade portal.

But tis what it is I suppose. I don't want to mess with it on FF or AO3 because it's an iconic part of my fic writing progression and history, and I enjoy looking back at how far I've come when it comes to writing.