#and people in the comments. are doing anything and everything to defend their man they’re blaming the damn dragon and anthony head etc 🙄

[livvyofthelake]

yesssss haha YES!! btw!!!!

[livwritesstuff]

“Papa has to put five dollars in the jar,” Hazel proudly announces the very moment she and Steve arrive home from her evening dance class.

“Jesus Christ,” Eddie groans his place at the stove where he’s cooking dinner, “What’d you do this time?��

The Jar is actually a repurposed animal crackers container – the big plastic kind shaped like a bear. Most people think it’s a swear jar which, honestly, Steve and Eddie are fine with because that’s probably better than the reality of the situation – that they (it’s mostly Steve, actually) need a system to keep in check the petty fights they get into with practically everyone they know.

“I just–” Steve starts, and then he rolls his eyes, “I don’t get why some people have kids if they clearly don’t want to be part of their kids’ lives.”

“Little pitchers,” Eddie reminds him – as in little pitchers have big ears, as in their children hear everything they say, whether they want them to or not.

Steve ignores him.

“So her class was about to wrap up – they had, like, five minutes left – and they all came out of the room looking all excited and they said they wanted to show us their recital dance so far because they’re almost done learning it.”

“Sure,” Eddie comments.

“And this one kid is, like, rushing to put her shoes and coat on over her little tutu thing because her mom’s waiting in the car outside, and she goes to get her, and then, like, five minutes later she comes back inside in tears because her mom didn’t want to come in.”

Eddie shakes his head, equally unimpressed.

“Anyways, they do their little routine and – Ed, they were so excited, and they tripped over each other the entire time and none of them know what they’re doing and it’s so fucking cute, man. I have no idea how anyone wouldn’t want to watch that.”

“Right,” Eddie said slowly, because he knows Steve well enough to start piecing together where The Jar might come into play. 

“So when it was over,” Steve continues, “I walked the kid to her mom’s car and I told her that she missed a good show and that her daughter very obviously wanted her there.”

“Steve.”

“I really don’t think I did anything wrong,” Steve defended.

“Cough it up, big boy. Jar.”

[1mlostnow]

OK!! I WANNA TALK ABOUT BEING GAY!!!

I hope that caught your attention :)

I’m also hoping to get more input from the queer community here so please comment or rb with anything you have to say.

Please read I think this is incredibly important.

Okay ⬇️

I am a trans man and I have only socially transitioned. I don’t usually like to talk about the fact that I’m trans, because I have this underlying fear that it will somehow remind people that I’m “not really a man” or something. Internalized homophobia, I guess. But this feels really important to talk about.

The 2024 Election. I am confident in my belief that we will have a second trump term. It is so incredibly important for trans kids to build community. If he gets elected, that puts us and queer people as a whole at risk.

Depending on which state you’re from, you may have already gotten a taste of this. I’m from a primarily red state and we’ve got bathroom bills, book bans, and transparency bills.

Bathroom Bill -> bans trans folks from using the bathroom which aligns with their gender identity, requires them to use bathroom that corresponds with their sex at birth. I know for a lot of states, this also removed gender neutral bathrooms in a lot of places.

Book bans -> thank you Ron Fucking DeSantis (florida governer, ran for president but dropped from race in January 2024(?)) Lawmakers can decide what books they consider inappropriate for schools, and have them removed. They defend it by saying they’re banning “sexual content” but majority of it is mentions of queer folks in books. To them two boys holding hands for one sentence may as well be a book full of smut. Overall, they’re only retracting what they want to, excluding gender/sexuality mentions and critical race theory.

Transparency -> OH MY FUCKING AHSHDHDRRR. Okay so. In my state and many others, there’s something referred to as a transparency bill. It was advertised as transparency in education and a right for parents to know what the schools’ curriculum consists of. Part of this bill requires teachers and administrators to out a student to their parents or guardians if they come out at school. — Going into this school year, I was unaware this bill had passed. I emailed my teachers the week before school and on my second day, the principal was legally required to phone home. Luckily, everything was fine on my end and my mom already knew.

Now these are the things that have already happened. There is so, so much more. Bans on gender affirming care, legally classifying marriage as between a man and a woman, and SO much more that I can’t even comprehend enough to type out. Please do your research.

It’s so hard to stay positive when I fear for my wellbeing, my future, and my life. I am a teenager. I am meant to be going to school to learn math and science, not the Ten Commandments. I’m meant to be able to use the bathroom without feeling out of place, no matter where I am.

I know this focused primarily on trans people but this also affects the queer community on so many levels.

I cannot be happy in a country that believes that being queer is a mental illness.

I hope to god I’m reaching people. I think building community is one of the most important things that we could be doing right now. As well as educating and encouraging others to vote blue.

It’s between a man on his deathbed and a felon.

It’s between a man who doesn’t know where he is and a man who claimed this country would become a “unified reich.”

A democracy or a dictatorship.

[shaunashipman]

Hi. We don’t know each other, but I follow all your 911 posts, and so far you’re one of the only people I follow who is approaching this bullshit breakup storyline with the same level of anger as I am lol. Everyone else I’ve seen just seems heartbroken, which is their right (and I am too tbh), but I have not yet seen the same level of rage from anyone else that I feel like this shit deserves. Because what the fuck was that. You mean to tell me this show lovingly built up this relationship with a decent amount of care and decorum, only to ruin it in one scene with a level of cruelty I have not seen in tv in a LONG time? Probably since my House Md days when they had him drive a car through Cuddy’s house after they broke up. Talk about a slap in the face. Like not only was it bad writing, it was just plain mean. There was practically no warning. Felt like starting to fall off the edge of a cliff, seeing someone next to you, reaching your hand out to them and watching them reach back, only to have them snatch it away at the last minute. Jesus Christ.

Also. Those comments by Oliver, who had been trying to ‘do right’ by the storyline (or whatever the fuck he thought he was doing) and bisexuality as a whole, were like kicking someone when they’re already on the floor. Maybe he didn’t mean them badly or didn’t realize how they sounded. I’ve already seen people saying that he can’t be biphobic because of everything else he’s said, or that they themselves as a bisexual didn’t find them biphobic. Idgaf. As a bisexual I found them biphobic. We are not a hive mind. What is offensive to some is not offensive to all. And maybe he isn’t actually biphobic. The man is cryptic and inscrutable at best and I don’t know him, so I can’t say anything definitely. What I DO know is that while he has said nice things about bisexuals, he has not really said a single nice thing about his bisexual storyline. He has also not said a SINGLE WORD OF DEFENSE of his SCENE PARTNER IN A MAJOR STORYLINE who had been receiving DEATH THREATS (and apparently any other love interest either, but those were before I started paying attention to this show so I have no first-hand knowledge and can’t speak to them.) The lack of tact is one thing, but to also lack a spine?? Hoo boy. I can’t defend that. He has no problem talking back when he or his friends are in the line of fire. Not speaking up at all, for anyone, even to be like ‘hey. They’re just doing their job and acting in a storyline that was written for them. It’s just a tv show’ is pretty cowardly tbh. And he can take his bullshit apology-that-wasn’t that he has ALREADY DELETED and shove it up his ass. I no longer care.

I doubt they will, but I hope their ratings tank for this honestly. The general audience probably isn’t as hurt by this and there won’t be any actual repercussions for this nightmare of television writing, but GOD I vindictively hope that something happens to show them that actions have consequences. Either way I’m done.

Thanks for opening your inbox to venting. Hope you have a good weekend while also continuing to be as mad about this as I am lol ☺️

I don't know how to get sad without getting angry. that's just who I am. my sad button and my rage button are connected.

this was exceptionally shitty writing. they foreshadowed nothing. they built up nothing. this came out of nowhere, in the show itself and in the actual episode.

and oliver is on my shit list forever. I will never watch another show by tim minear and I will never watch oliver in anything ever again. he can fade into obscurity when this show hopefully dies after this season, go back to britain and work in a cafe where he can also let his co-workers be abused by customers and not say anything.

I hope he deletes his insta just like his twitter. actually I hope he throws a little fit first, I hope he has a tantrum about all of the righteous anger he's seeing, and acts like even more of a cunt before deleting. really let everyone know he's a self-centered twatwaffle who can't handle ppl not kissing his ass.

after today's work I have a whole week off to be pissed, and I'm not censoring myself. the only shit I'm not putting on my blog are the violent thoughts I'm having towards oliver and tim, because despite this I'm still a decent human being.

[bbyboytommy]

In this essay brought to you by @mysticalteddybear ‘s encouragement, I will state my views on Tommy that I have gathered from watching and rewatching 9-1-1 (Chim Begins will not be mentioned since I haven’t watched it in a while, but I don’t remember Tommy being any kind of hateful there either)

In Hen Begins, Tommy is never hostile towards her. He doesn’t defend her from the captain, but he’s also a young gay man who is probably terrified of that same hate being turned to him. When Hen is doing her speech on the fire truck most of the crew has tightened jaws and seems mad, but Tommy seems relaxed and thoughtful. And at the end of the episode he tells Hen: “We would’ve done a sweep of the area eventually, but eventually would’ve been too late. Good job.” with a smile and then proceeds to shake her hand and pat her on the shoulder. It is also heavily implied that he was one of the people who left a complaint about the captain and his treatment. Everything about this episode screams a man who was keeping his head low and trying to slip under the radar, not a man trying to be hateful.

In Bobby Begins Again, they throw him a nice going away party. I don’t know about you, but I don’t tend to buy assholes who are rude to me a cake.

Then later Chimney is able to call him up and ask a favor that Tommy does without complaint, which makes it seem like they’re on good terms.

And in the most recent episodes, he steals a helicopter and lies to higher-ups, something that could easily get him fired and cause him to lose everything. Once again, I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t risk my job and my life (they were on a dangerous mission after all) for people I’m not good friends with.

Lastly, Chimney, and especially Hen, are not ones to hang around and keep in contact with someone who is being hateful. Also, Buck does not strike me as the type to date someone who doesn’t like his friends, his family.

If there is anything you’d like to add in comments or tags, feel free, but just remember:

This is a Tommy lover blog, and if you don’t like that there’s a nice block button for a reason

[athena-rocks]

I hate Percy Jackson.

I hate the plot that is, and many MANY parts of it. Now that’s not to say the actors are bad or anything, in fact I think they’re incredible. I haven’t watched the show or read the books but from the clips I’ve seen those actors are amazing and deserve respect and praise. But I am going to go over everything I have against the show in this mini essay of mine.

Like the show and want to counter my points? Feel free to! Leave a comment, reblog with your response, send an ask, all is welcome! I may think very strongly on my points but that doesn’t mean I’m not willing to hear others out, but please welcome my response as well (also anon is on so if you have thoughts but don’t really feel confident sharing them on your account you can send by anon instead, still gonna get answered and no judgement passed :) )

NOW! ONTO MY RAMBLINGS!

First of all, Athena. As someone whose name is literally ‘athena-rocks’ I’m sure you can guess that I feel very passionately about this and have a lot to say.

The first thing I want to bring up is the whole child thing. Athena is a virgin goddess why does she have a child? From what I understand Annabeth is born from her mind, as in thought. Which is immensely stupid. The only account of asexual reproduction I can think of is Hera and the birth of Hephaestus, but even then she had a pregnancy and he was born, he didn’t just show up?? The only being I can think of that just pop up is Chaos, who is seen as both a God and a thing, it is, it’s primordial, so are Athena’s children in this also primordial? No they’re demigods.

Also the idea that Athena just abandons her children? No! There’s literally a myth that directly opposes it! Erichthonius!

Erichthonius is the first king of Athens, before Athens got super amazing and awesome and totally cool and really popular and thus got the totally cool founding myth of Athena vs Poseidon. He was born after Hephaestus tried to assault Athena, he’s autochthonous meaning born of the earth. Some of Hephaestus’s… seed, got onto Athena’s thigh, she wiped it off and threw it to the earth as she ran away and Erichthonius is born.

Now Athena has no obligation to this child, it’s not hers in any form, it came from the man who tried to assault her, yet she still chooses to look after and raise the child! There! She has no reason to do this but does, so why she would abandon the children that she does have an obligation to?

And by all accounts I can find Erichthonius had a good childhood, he’s half snake creature thing and when the daughters of Cecrops (who Athena had given Erichthonius to with him in a basket and told them not to open it while she did something) saw him and were horrified Athena either drove them mad so they killed themselves or dropped a mountain she was carrying in rage. So she cares about him.

Now, the Medusa thing.

Medusa was a monster, the original Greek myth she was always a monster. I understand the appeal of a woman who can defend herself from any man who would dare harm her by just glaring at them, but can’t she just have always been that? Can’t she have just always been a powerful monster who can always protect herself? I’m mostly upset at the Medusa thing in this context because I’ve seen people shipping her with Athena, which is weird as Athena is not only a virgin goddess but a mythological figure who was and in some sense still is worshipped to this day.

There are myths that also actively oppose this, when Cassandra was raped Athena was so furious she drive lesser Ajax mad so he killed himself and for 1000 years they had to send maidens to become Athena’s priestesses to appease her. But Medusa being raped by Poseidon, someone who she’s been known to have beef with? No. Fuck her.

AND ARES!!

Ares who killed someone for harassing his daughter, A BAD FATHER?? A CRUEL MAN??? Anger issues? Sure! I can accept that! But bad father? No.

I think the PJO series just hates the idea of war God’s being good parents and it shows.

I’ll end here, but if anyone would like to add on to this post or argue against me please feel free to. Just don’t be an asshole, I’m fine to discuss peacefully I’m not fine with just being flat out attacked.

Thank you for reading!

[soft-persephone]

I read ur tags on the video abt drake and Kendrick “not caring about women” in the middle of the rap beef and I totally agree about Kendrick btw. It reminded me of someone i saw on Tik tok who made a video defending Kendrick from the “but he didn’t want r Kelly’s music removed from streaming platforms!” thing and what it turns out it ACTUALLY was about was that Spotify was going to put up a “moral and behavior” policy where they would remove the complete discography of any artist who they found out had a criminal record, which is incredibly discriminatory against all convicted people, no matter what they’re convicted for, and infringes on their 1st amendment rights and just the very human right to make art and have that art be preserved. So it was less about “I love r kelly so much im gonna threaten to take all my music off Spotify if they remove his” and more “this policy is actually infringing on artists’ rights and discriminatory against people with a criminal record.” I’m not saying Kendrick is our feminist messiah but like cmon yall he does not hate women and he’s not just calling out drake for clout

A lot of what Kendrick gets reduced to certain narratives because their are a lot of negative things that come with hip hop, and it does do more harm than good especially in the case with “fake woke” rappers.

I don’t believe in putting celebrities on a pedestal and no person is perfect. Him putting Kodak Black on Mr. Morale did rub me the wrong way. Him dead naming some of his family members rightfully upset some people.

I can’t speak for that, so I won’t because it’s not my place, so I just listen and support those that can.

But all I can really say is, the process of growing and wanting to be better person isn’t pretty. Watching someone unlearn racism fatphobia, transphobia, and etc is never without mistakes.

If we are really advocating for people to be better on all fronts, the response is always anger when we they don’t get it right the first time or show they don’t have a full understanding of it.

What do we really want fork people? We tell them to grow and do better? But if you’ve actually walked someone through that or seen it, why are we getting so mad when they make a mistake along the way.

No it’s not our place to teach them. But if they are making a genuine effort, why not make a quick comment and move on. How does him doing these two things and “fumbling” the narrative for black growth as a man in America by including Kodak black and trying to show him stepping away from transphobia in a more problematic than not way, absolve everything he’s ever done or thinks and do thereafter?

I am not saying these thingsto be derivative. I am asking from a genuine place.

That said, it doesn’t make those things right.

I think he said some quiet parts out loud that he shouldn’t have, but at the end of the day he has to be held accountable. 🤷🏾‍♀️

I don’t think Kendrick has ever said anything in song he doesn’t fully believe. He’s very intentional, that might be the place where people are angry with him because it’s clear these things were done on purpose.

I can’t speak for him as I am just a fan. I may be biased as well, so that may be effecting how I think about this, so I try to be mindful and address that as well.

I try to be responsible and try not to deflect other peoples thoughts, feelings, and opinions on some of these things because they hurt some people and affect more people more than they ever would me and it wouldn’t be right.

But, we don’t know him and we never do, so all we can do is speculate, and some more than others like to choose the worst over any benefit of the doubt because in a man driven world when have they never not have that.

I don’t want to be an enabler to that system.

[cxnnibxl-vxl]

*THE ORIGINAL ANOMALY EFFECT*

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All of this for a kid..a kid who didn't know what he was doing. Who could blame him? He. He did. Tremendously. And now we all had to suffer the consequences for his damn actions...

PROLOGUE: DAY ZERO

There’s always a calm, before the storm..

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“Meow, meow, meow!! That’s all I ever fucking hear from you-!!” “I’m gonna blow you up!!”

Nat and Theo bickered and bickered, as usual of course. But they’re children, what can you do? Laz kept a silent watch, trying to converse with her loser boyfriend(?, they didn't know themselves.) But he was just ranting on the pillar about something, yet she still listened. The only other trusted adult for the two wasn’t on duty for the day, so Laz was stuck babysitting, in a way. They could manage themselves, but then again teenagers are gonna be teenagers, stupid. Ben was there, but kids weren’t his strong suit and they were mean. At least he thought so.

Things were calm, as calm as the Spider-Society could be that is. Everyone was a bit antsy when the whole “Spot” thing was announced as a threat, understandably so for some, who wouldn’t when an interdimensional being had the possibility of disrupting the canon of your universe and destroying it entirely? But Miguel makes everything a threat when sometimes it isn't, so they don’t think too hard about it. “He can be a bit of a primadonna” is a very common accusation on Theo’s part, and he wasn’t entirely wrong, but he also used it for just about anything Miguel would make a fuss over, so it was a bit overused. Miguel thinks the whole “fate of the multiverse” is in his hands, so you can’t blame him. Kinda.

It was smooth sailing until the sound of clunky boots, zippers, and pins rattling approached the 4 of them, but only really caught the attention of 2. Chaos incarnate had arrived. The bickering traveled to the spider with the guitar, giving Laz some peace of mind.

“Whatcha doin’, where ya goin’, can we come?” Nat went to his left, “Please? We’re bored.” Theo is on his right. They tried to keep pace with Hobie as he sped past them, something was on his mind for sure.

“No, no’ t’is time tots, gotta sit t’is one out.” Hobie kept walking along, his eyes on his watch, leaving the two teenagers behind and confused. “Boo, you whore!” Nat called out in a whining tone, both slowly falling to stop as they watched him walk off. “What’s wrong with him??” Theo muttered, a little pissy about being blown off so quickly. No explanation either, what a dick. Nat shrugs, also kinda pissed, but also worried. It was out of character for Hobie, usually he would immediately accept, but no. Not this time. Weird.

“Maybe he finally realized how annoying you two are.” Ben raises his head from the pillar he was moping on, having a stupid smirk on his face. Laz lightly hit his side but chuckled at his comment. “What’s annoying is how sloppy your roots are, you’re not a real blonde and it’s more obvious than you think. I have no idea how you have twice the brain cells than the average basic bitch but still refuse to use a quarter of them.” Theo was quick to insult. It was a little deserved, and maybe it’d motivate Ben to re-dye his roots… he wasn’t fooling anyone. Ben’s smirk immediately faded away, his brows furrowed, and he muttered something under his breath before he moved his head back to its normal position. “Speak up white boy!!” Theo taunted, merciless little shit.

“Okay ya! That’s enough from you, I’m sure it’s just something that doesn’t necessarily involve you.” Laz butted in, always trying to defend her poor sad sack of a man, but silently agreeing to Ben’s comment. She wouldn’t blame Hobie, having spent more time with the kids was a hassle, especially having them outside of the society, barging into her dimension whenever they wanted, doing whatever they wanted. It was a handful, but at least there was company for once at her place.

More time passed, the hum of other Spider-People passing along, hearing bits of their conversations. It was calm, as calm as it could be. Portals opened left and right, different spiders from different dimensions, some not even their own. Some were clocking in, out, or returning from missions they’d been sent on. It didn’t take long until a big group of spiders headed in one direction, all followed by Jess. No one thought much of it until Jess approached the group of 4 that were totally on patrol.

“Laz, you’re with me, we’ve got a quantum hole in 50101.” Jess directed. Laz got out of her relaxed daze, getting up and putting her goggles and mask on, Nat’s eyes widened at the earth number, immediately recognizing it “That’s Pav’s..” Nat muttered to Theo, her worry now striking up. Her mind went back to Hobie, he knew something, he must’ve. “Shit, you’re right..” Theo mumbled out, sounding a little panicked. “Wait, what about me?” Ben stood up straight, his brows furrowed in confusion as he held onto his mask. “You’re out on this one, you can stay and bond with the kids.” Jess waved him off as she waited for Laz to finish suiting up. Ben's eyes widened and his jaw slightly dropped out of disbelief, stammering to find a reason to go with them. Laz finished adjusting her gloves and walked up to Jess to get going “Oh you’ll live.” She patted Ben’s back reassuringly. “You two behave, I won’t be out long, right?” Laz looked at Jess for confirmation, but she got none, just a slightly impatient stare, Laz’s body got tense. “Just stay out of trouble.” The portal opened behind the group of spiders and they all went in immediately. Laz quickly looked back and gave them a quick thumbs up before entering herself, the portal closing quickly as it opened.

“Yeah, that’s not happening. Have fun on your own, edge lord..” Theo quipped before grabbing Nat by the arm and walking away, Ben wasn’t his favorite to be around, so the immediate aversion to being left in his care made sense. Ben didn’t get a chance to speak before they quipped away, he grumbled under his breath, now leaning his back against the pillar with his arms crossed, all by his lonesome, poor Ben. “What do you think happened?” Nat brought back the topic of Pav’s earth, strolling behind Theo. “Were you not listening? Jess said quantum hole. That’s a broken canon.” Nat scoffed and started catching up until she was next to him. “Obviously, but how?? Well yeah broken canon, but in Pav’s? What could’ve possibly happened ?? Nat retorted. “If you’re worried about it, ask Miguel or something, I’d say it has something to do with that dimension hopper everyone’s been nervy about.” Theo shot back, he had his suspicions on what might’ve caused it, the spot being the biggest, but he didn’t have the balls to go ask Miguel about it. He already got himself in something he shouldn’t have already, so he knew he wouldn’t get any more than a don’t worry about it. “Maybe…do you think we should go check it out? ” Nat hesitantly asked, looking down at her watch. She would ask Miguel, but his behavior has also been off for a couple of days now, I mean yeah he’s always had that gruff attitude, but it’s a little worse than normal. So as much as her conscience poked at her, she didn’t wanna bother him and kept quiet around him.

“Fuck no?? If Jess swung by and only picked up Laz then we’re most definitely not allowed. We’d also be entirely screwed if we got caught.” Theo waved off the risky suggestion. There was no way either of them would make it out of there without an hour-long lecture about not listening and disregarding their safety by making stupid decisions. ”We’ve done it before, why is it different now, huh?” “The difference is those dimensions weren’t in an active collapse, Nat?!” Nat scoffed again. “Whatever, I just don’t wanna think about it anymore..” “Man, you suck at admitting I’m right about things.” Nat shot her head at Theo, her eyes widened. “I am NOT, you’re just not being fun!” She hit his shoulder with the back of her hand. “Right, right, my bad. Sorry, I’m not agreeing to go into a collapsing dimension with you.” Nat rolled her eyes at his sarcastic reply. “Whatever..” She repeated, reluctantly accepting defeat, but the thought was still in the back of her mind, worry still lingering in her body.

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EARTH: 50101…

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Laz and the others landed on the broken bridge, opening the door to the bright light of Mumbattan. They all quickly disperse themselves. “Ok guys, secure the area, clear all the civilians, and let’s contain this quantum hole,” Jess called out as they were set. Laz took a small glance, curious about what looked like another younger Spider-Man. She’d never seen him before, but in her defense, it's a big society, hard to keep track of every person you interact with within 2 years. She then caught a look at Hobie, he glanced at her back but quickly looked away, now baffled at the situation, multiple questions in her head, desired to be answered. But she stopped herself and moved her way to the edge.

“Oh, that’s not…” She muttered, taking in the sight of the colorful glitching mess being drowned by a cold dark abyss, slowly spreading like a disease, withering away at the unfortunate host that was Earth-50101. She looked to her right, seeing Pav’s worried expression etched onto his face, her heart ached, seeing this poor boy’s world falling apart in front of his eyes. She didn’t get a full chance to get a better view of the new Spider-Man (boy? kid?) before she had to drop down, being careful not to join the abyss herself.

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Thanks for reading the first chapter of " The Orginal Anomaly Effect" !!! This is a passion project by me and my friend, Marshall! (@marshall_isanartist on insta!) we've have our sonas lying around for while now, making silly scenarios, and whatnot, but when Marsh showed me the concept of Theo after the HQ rampage, that's when we fell into this rabbit hole. It went to a point where I snapped and needed this to be written. So after nights of researching and yapping on call and class, we finally have a chance to post our art to the public and I hope you enjoy for what comes in the future! I Updates will be slow cus uh were in school and we have work to do :') So pls be paitent with us! Ok byeeeee!!!!!

[scuderia-hamilton]

The way people just glorify Lando's stupid behaviors and comments because 'funny British Twink' is 😬

i genuinely had no problems with him before, he made some comments i did not agree with, but apart from those i even defended his ass a few times. nowadays my opinion on him totally depends on what stupid shit comes out of his mouth when he opens it. but i think it’s about time people realize that he’s a grown fucking man and not everything he does and says can be played off as a joke or him being sarcastic. words matter, actions matter and it’s time he’s being held accountable for some of them. his attitude nowadays just bothers me honestly, he’s arrogant, careless and annoying. making comments about the backmarkers “not racing for anything”, breaking the trophy (i said what i said about that), saying some interesting things about Lewis in the post-race press conference when Lewis has been nothing but supportive towards him and he was always genuinely happy for him. i’m not even mad at this point it’s just disappointing and his fans not even accepting that he can make mistakes and always victimizing and babying him is just not it. him being young isn’t an excuse either he’s literally three years older than me, he’s not twelve. he always got away with all the questionable things he said, because he’s good looking and his fans defend him like their life depends on it (i had some encounters with a few Lando fans, would not recommend). it’s totally okay to criticize your faves and you don’t have to agree with everything they do or say, they’re not flawless.

[winns-stuff]

LO RANT:

I will never get over two things that happened in both the fandom and LO as a comic. The first one is how everyone reacted towards Persephone and Hades possibly doing the do in the damn comic and the second one being how everyone was so quick to dismiss Thanatos and praise Hades for his incredibly insensitive and man childish speech.

The reason why I won’t ever be okay with that event between Persephone and Hades is because of the way that a lot of fans were talking about it. Listen I’m not talking about those who just wanted to see Persephone experience a positive sexual interaction, y’all are cool love you. I’m talking about the people who were drooling at the mouth and anticipating for sex just because it was sex. The people who made such unsettling and completely unnecessary sexual comments about the whole thing and completely disregarded the whole point of it. The whole atmosphere of the thing being that they should’ve already had sex by now, it was very weird and pressuring and I absolutely despised it so much. It really did show me that some fans don’t actually care about Persephone’s healing journey as much as they put on and in fact they’re willing to rush the meaningful chapters just to get to the smut and that was just insensitive for a bunch of reasons. We all know about Persephone’s sexual history (even though at some points you’ll need a reminder) and why she (realistically even though she’s not) would be hesitant towards anything involving intimacy. Instead of wanting Persephone to take her own pace and to be comfortable those fans just wanted her to jump into it without even considering any of that. Besides the way that they described Persephone sounded like how misogynistic men describe women, they treated her like she was just a toy or a piece of meat whose only purpose was to please Hades and it was such.. a disappointing and depressing thing for me to witness.

I know there will never be any addressing about it mainly because no one else saw anything wrong with it but the whole thing was very very disgusting for me personally.

Anyways onto the whole Thanatos situation, that whole thing was infuriating as hell. You could tell that Rachel just wanted to get to the next plot while also getting rid of Thanatos from the story. First of all, the bastard only visited him because he wanted something from him. He didn’t go there to check in with him, try to get his job back, apologize to him for everything that happened, or come in because he just wanted to see Thanatos specifically. He came because he wanted to talk to his twin brother, how fucking selfish do you need to be to only try and “connect” with your victim to get something from them, that’s sick and I hate that everyone treated it like it was the nicest thing Hades ever did. Next thing is that Thanatos barely got to say his piece or defend himself from Hades’ pointless accusations (yes I’m talking about the betrayal and Minthe thing because how is it betrayal when you already knew about it and expressed little to no care about it dumbass) before Hades took up the whole conversation. I have to applaud LO fans for actually being patient enough to sit through 100+ chapters of Hades quite literally whining like an absolute toddler about everything that he’s done to himself and all the karma he gets for treating everyone around him like shit. And don’t even get me started with that whole “he got dumped on him!!! he didn’t want to be a father!!! he was traumatized!!!” bullshit argument because I can say the same for Thanatos. Thanatos got no say in whether or not he even wanted to be with Hades, it wasn’t like he pointed him out to his mother and said “look mama! I wanna go where the blue man is!!” and got plopped right over there, there was nothing he could’ve done to stop that and it wasn’t his fault for being “dumped” on Hades. Next thing is, Hades didn’t necessarily even have to be his father think about it when you meet a kid or when you become responsible for a child that doesn’t always necessarily mean you’re a mother/father/parent to them, you could be an uncle or a friend or a brother or even a good mentor (which Hades still failed at). If he didn’t want to be a father or care taker, the least he could’ve been was a friend to Thanatos since he was all alone and isolated. If Hades saw himself in Thanatos so much the very last he would do was what he did which was neglect him. He’s exactly like Kronos with that one. Onto the whole traumatized thing, stop acting like Hades was the defenseless little kid in this situation please I’m begging you. Here we have a kid who got dropped off by his mom to a strangers realm and immediately after he gets used for his labor thinking that he’d actually be able to get the love of a parental figure which he never did. He was neglected and left behind by those he thought cared about him and never did he once have a stable environment to grow, you cannot just say that Hades was the only traumatized one in this situation when Thanatos got more trauma added because of Hades and his careless and inconsiderate actions.

Anyways, now we move onto when Thanatos is fully grown. Does Hades acknowledge him? No. Does he respect him? No. Does he see him as an equal? No. Has he ever done anything remotely decent for him knowing that he practically raised him? No. Hades was the most shittiest boss you could ever think of with Thanatos especially and he did not ever once deserve the disgusting verbal abuse that Hades constantly put him through, Hades used him as a punching bag and humiliated him in front of everyone. If anything Hades should be taking Demeter’s place in the villain story because of how fucked up he is for treating Thanatos that brutally, people love to say that Demeter had always been exactly like that (fast-passers know what I mean, trying to be vague here) but to be completely honest the most realistic shitty parent is Hades, he’s most likely to treat his kids like that and to berate them at every turn.

Argue with the wall.

[thefauxsport]

Those people in the comments are for sure lying, or at least some of them are. I’ve seen some people say that they don’t know for sure because he keeps everything close to his vest and she does too, but then you have people saying that they have sources that have confirmed that they broke up. But if they keep everything so private, how do so many people know that they broke up?

Because they don’t. They take a rumor and they run with it and since they all think Joe’s attractive and the hottest man they’ve ever seen, they’re gonna root for the downfall of their relationship and they’re just gonna say what they wanna hear. Now do I think they’re separated? Yes. Do I think this is a break? Yes. Do I think they’ll go back to normal in a few months? Maybe.

We’ll just have to see. All i know is DO NOT believe those comments. Nobody has proof.

If I have learned anything in the last month or so of doing this it's this: no one knows them, and those that do aren't talking.

So if anyone is claiming to have a source, I'm immediately suspect, because even at the expense of his reputation, no one is coming out to defend him.

[alligatorjesie]

Well that's a take.

wha- @watchingtheearthrise

Are you… defending Antis, as the name implies people who are negatively against a thing, because they’re ‘not as privileged’ as... reylos?

For fucking real?

Do you think reylos are born with silver spoons in their mouths? Do you think we have some kind of societal leg up because we like a fucking ship?

It's not because we're overwhelmingly white that's for fucking sure, because I already covered that conversation

Twice now

with charts and everything

since some people here can't fucking read.

How, God fucking bless us all, do you type all that out with zero awareness?

Can you not put 2 and 2 together to figure out why people who passionately love things have more love in their lives as a whole? Is that wisdom lost to you?

Fortune and privilege have Absofuckinglutly Nothing to do with fandom and how passionately you as a individual interact with it.

You're so fucking close, I swear to fucking God. If I had a soul you'd be crushing it.

Here you are, taking Your sweet precious time, time You'll never get back in your life, time You'll look back on unfondly because you're about to get your ass chewed straight fucking through, time out of Your day to make this post defending people who passionately hate things and how they might have it worse than someone else, unaware the reason that group might have things worse is because they Actively Choose To Hate Things And Make It Other People's Problem.

Well I don't fucking know brah, maybe when you're not a fucking needless cockwaffle to people good things are more likely to happen to you?

And you know what? Yeah. Bad things do happen to good people. But shitty things happen to shitty people more. You can live your life being a fucking asshole because you'd mad about X or Y or whatever the fuck, or you can take all that energy you were going to spend on hating something and instead pick literally anything else to put it into. You seem like you like Finnrey? Have you perhaps considered taking all that time you spent being an anti reyo and instead putting it back into your own fandom? I assure you with every ounce of blood running through my slow beating reptilian heart,

The reylos will not fucking stop you.

If you’re disadvantaged because you hate a fucking ship, that’s on you mate.

Last time I checked it takes zero effort to not be a prick to people minding their own goddamn shit in their own fucking spaces and it’s you taking time out of your day to be mindless cunt to those people who had the misfortune of noticing a canon ship as loudly broadcasted as REYLO was in the new Star Wars movies as if The Last Jedi which might as well be called ‘Reylo, the goddamn movie’ isn't a whole ass movie in this trilogy.

Rey and Ben sit in a hut and talk about their feelings in front of each other then hold hands. Did she do that with Finn? No?

Well that sucks. Go draw some fanart and fix it. Go write some fanfiction where Kylo Ren's asshole explodes through his mouth and Rey and Finn fuck on his bloodied corpse. Whatever makes you fucking happy man. Why the fuck are you in the anti reylo tag about it? The antis ain't gonna help you with this problem that's for fucking sure. We get it. You don't like Ben, but you know something? If I had any anti-Finn content- Not that I do because I'm not a fucking asshole and actually like Finn as a character quite a bit, most reylos do or else he wouldn't so regularly be featured as a predominate character in most reylo fanfictions -I wouldn't post it to the anti-Finnrey tag. You know... I'll be honest I don't see reylos posting in anti-finnrey spaces, isn't that fucking weird to you? Is that even a thing? Gimme a second.

Uhh no in fact all of the top posts are in fact anti reylos, the few reylos who do show up in the listing is me talking about how finnreys sure like to harass reylos and one other person who posted twice to the tag to comment on how they get harassed by finnreys a lot. Guys I'm fuckin' buggin' here.

No. I’m not going to consider the feelings of the group of people who this this kind of harassment is allfuckingright:

All of these posts were gathered in only 2 days after that ghost guy dropped that bombshell that he *gasps!* liked reylo.

Not to mention that absolute plethora of antis who have been harassing members of this fandom constantly and consistently for the past 7 years.

I don't know much but I feel like that takes a lot of time and effort.

Like this one who has been at it since 2016.

Or this one who has been harassing members of this fandom since 2018.

Or this one who has an alarming 260 posts dedicated to being an anti reylo, someone who I can only assume has way more fucking time on their hands than I or you or anyone else in this fandom does that's for fucking sure and has been doing this horseshit since 20motherfucking17.

Or this sock filled with crusted jizz who has been at it since 2018 and thinks it's alright to mock artist and likes to send death threats.

Real fuckin' classy.

Speaking of death threats!

I've never told anyone to go fucking die because they like a fictional ship.

That's very fucked up.

If anyone here has more time than they know what to fucking do it with it's antis who not only think it's perfectly normal to spend this amount of time and effort on something they hate but can't fucking help but insert themselves into a space they don't fucking belong in to start with.

And were the fuck do you get off?

Bitch, do you fucking think I sit on my ass 24/7 and dedicate all my increasingly little spare time to a fucking fandom? Do you think I have literally nothing better to do in my day than to dedicate it fandom shit? Goddamn do I fucking wish. Honestly in the making of this post I came to realize how little time I’m actually able to set aside for this one guilty pleasure but I can’t scroll through my own fucking tag for one single day without seeing one or two of you chucklefucks posting in a tag you don’t belong or even want to be in to ‘own the libs’ or whatever the fuck your aim here is.

Reylos come in all shapes and sizes and ages, most of us being around 20 which means the vast majority are in school AND working jobs WHILE ALSO writing fanfiction so fucking steamy it’d make a sailor blush on top of working their asses off to stay afloat in this capitalistic hellscape we all live in.

Antis who go to school and work jobs ain't fucking special mate. Do you think reylos don't do anything else all day but daydream about Ben Solo banging Rey? Bitch, we go to school just like everyone else. We got jobs like everyone else. We have families we spend our time with. We live our lives as completely and happily as we can just enjoying a ship/fandom and astoundingly we do it without being a hateful fuck to people in other fandoms, ain't that fuckin' wild?

All it takes is not interacting with the fandom you don't like.

It ain't that fucking hard.

My heart don’t fucking bleed over the anti who’s on hard times. You don’t have my fucking sympathy when you made the decision to be an asshole.

I know a lot of real people who have it a lot worse then the antis who are just mad their ship isn't fucking canon and those real people bitch a lot less.

Do you think the reylos were immune to the pandemic? Do you think we live on a fucking island far away from all the regular troubles of a normal world? We were affected by this shit too. Antis ain’t singularly suffering do to pandemic issues, we all are you daffy fuck.

Aww, you had to work during the pandemic? Well bitch, so did I. I've been working since I was 16. Some jobs I fucking hated and I left them for jobs I didn't hate so much.

Motherfucker, I work for a Dildo Company. Do you even fully understand just how busy shit got for us when lockdown started? All these horny people who were banging lots of people every week were suddenly Not and I can tell you right now they filled that void with dildos.

You've been busy the past 2 years? Congrats.

So has everyone else. The world is melting around us. Eggs cost 10 dollars a dozen. Rent in most places in the US is 1,000 dollars a month. Everything sucks and, you know, we try to make it suck a little less by not actively being assholes to strangers on the internet.

I know at least five reylos in my personal bubble who are married with children. How much goddamn time do you think they have to set aside for the hobby they love between raising kids during a pandemic while also working a full time job because we live in a world where a single person working can't afford rent, much less a house?

And wouldn't you fucking know it? They manage all of that without being absolute douche canoes to people in fandom because instead of hating shit they choose to love things.

Reylos out here doing God’s fucking work and dedicating what I can only assume is also minimal time into what is probably only one of their many hobbies while also managing to put their whole fucking pussies into the fandom they choose. These artists out here making fanfiction, fanart, metas, being betas for fic writers, commenting on fics they like, affirming fellow content creators, podcasts, merch, or doing as little as just talking about the fandom they love here on dumblr dot com in the fucking tag they belong in.

You don't need to spend money to enjoy fandom, you do understand that right? There is a plethora of way to enjoy fandom without spending a dime. You know what?

I'll show you real quick just how easy it is to be a active member of a fandom with minimal time and zero money.

This is a reylo fic by the writer secretreylotrash called 'The Trail Bride' It's a western/Oregon trail AU and the smut in it is just Top Fucking Tier.

God Fucking Bless This Author.

It's actually on my re-read list after I clear out a few other fics with shorter chapter counts.

There. Took me 2 minutes, didn't cost a fucking thing, and I've already done more good for my fandom than you being an anti has ever fucking accomplished in the past 7 years of your life.

I am hardly fucking privileged. I work hard at my job to afford the thing I have and what I have is by no fucking means ‘nice and new’. Making dicks is fulfilling work (huehue) but not the highest paying work.

I am not a stranger to flee markets and secondhand stores.

I’ve never owned a new couch.

I grow a garden in the summer to keep food costs down. I forage around my neighborhood for free food (chickweed is fucking delicious. Last year we found a puffball growing in a neighbor’s yard and made puffball parmesan with it. Ate off that for 3 days.) and free shit in people’s trashcans.

The flooring in my house is currently wood particle board because we haven't been able to afford new flooring since we moved in 2 years ago. When shit breaks around here, I fucking fix it because I can’t afford to pay someone else to do it that’s for goddamn sure. I learned from youtube how to do plumbing because when we first moved into our house there was a horrible leak the last owner just never fucking bothered to fix so now I’m also going to have to learn a little carpentry to fix the damage it did. I have 2 cars and both of them are over 20 years old and I’m the person who keeps them running because I’ve been ripped off by different mechanics in this town one too many times and now I just don’t trust anyone but myself to work on them.

I work a full time job five days a week.

Not even 9 to 5, more often 9 to 6:30/7 if your time management is shit (mine is) as once you get a pour going you’re at the whims of the Silicone Gods because fun fact about silicone; The moment you add part B into liquid silicone you got about an hour to get that shit mixed, degassed, and poured into whatever dick shaped object you got planned or else you’re going to end up with 230 ounces of quickly hardening product that will soon become so unworkable you’ll have no choice but to throw it out, and platinum grade silicone ain’t fucking cheap. Once silicone is cured, that’s it. You can’t uncure it and start again. It can get nerve racking and it takes months to figure out how to pour it right, years to learn how to pour it well.

Some of the toys we offer, just the one dildo, is 8 pounds of material or more. Wet silicone has the consistency of room temp honey, it's not easy to mix and you have to mix it fully or it won't cure correctly.

And don't get me started on that math! We offer 3 types of firmness and all three requires a different math formula, not to mention the pigment math which is entirely different and very small and precise.

You need to understand at least basic color theory to do the pigments correctly in this job. It is a physically and mentally demanding job.

Another fun fact about silicone, it will destroy your clothes. If you get so much as a drop on clothing you can just enjoy your forever stain now because that shit ain’t ever coming out. You don’t know how many shirts and pants I’ve lost to the Silicone Gods.

Clothing I have to pay for.

But despite all that, I am very dedicated to my job. If I removed all my other numerous hobbies and just focused on the job that pays for my food, house, and transportation you would be fucking shocked by how much XP I’ve banked into it.

Here, lemme show you something I’m really proud of. Now I did have to crop it because I’m not going to lie, it’s a dick, but this is my job and this is what I do. And I’m fucking good at it.

This was a commission by a customer based on this piece of delftware:

This motherfucker took me Two Whole Goddamn Days to finish. And not regular 9 to 6:30 days either, I had to stay late to finish this beautiful little fuck so in reality those two days were more like 9 to 8.

Another fun fact, the mold I was painting into was almost this same exact shade of blue. This was a very hard project but goddamnit if the work don’t speak for itself. And this toy wouldn’t look this fucking good if it wasn’t for the incredible amount of time and effort I’ve put into learning how to do this shit.

Painting silicone is hard, so hard there isn’t many other creators out there who do it because your odds of fuckups (air bubbles, delamination, whatever you painted simply not curing, etc) is astronomically high Unless you know what you’re doing.

I’ve painted so many toys. One time I painted a double ended horse dick up with galaxies all over it, it was fucking stunning. I’ve done the Arizona tea can a few times now. Some years ago I did a ‘fruit set’ where I hand painted a bunch of different toys up like pineapples, kiwi, dragon fruit, watermelons, stawberries, just a whole bunch of them and they sold out instantly. These days every orca coming out of our shop is hand painted by me personally.

And that isn’t even to fucking say shit about my other hobbies.

My first love; art. I love to draw. I’ll draw anything that involves an alligator, memes, or reylo. I’ve been drawing since I was a child and while I’m by no means the best at it, I ain’t half bad. You can tell what I’m drawing is and that’s all we can ask for. Honestly being in the reylo community has helped my art out a ton. I mean look at this improvement from just 2018 to 2022!

I know you don’t give a single fuck about reylo but this is a marked improvement over such a short period of time and I have this fandom to thank for that.

I will carry this improvement to other arts. Everything I learn at this cornerstone informs every single other skill I learn. If I didn't care about it so much I wouldn't work so hard to do better at it. Who the fuck are you to judge the media I choose to get there?

Now onto my second love; carving. I can carve anything. Bone, horn, wood, stone, glass, terricatta, ceramic, fuckit man you name it I can carve it. I’ve been doing this since I was a teenager using just the most absolute shit quality 50 dollar harbor freight flexshaft dremel that would get so fucking hot after an hour of use I had to wear mechanic gloves just to hold the hand bit. And that’s what I learned on, sitting out in a freezing garage in the dead of winter while my toes froze off and my hand burns to numb because I just wanted to put a few more hours into that fucking sweet raccoon skull I’ve been working on for the past 3 years.

And my third passion; plants.

I have so many fucking plants that most of my evenings after work are spent dealing with all these verdant assholes. Allow me to show you just the very few I have in my collection:

And this ain’t all of them. I have more outside and yet still more at work. My summer is so full of just taking care of plants that honestly it’s shocking I even find time for fandom. These adorable little fucks bring me so much joy though and the effort shows. They’re all so productive I’ve been able to make a little side money by buying cheapo bowls and pots from Goodwill, popping a few weep holes into them with the dremel, and selling them at the local farmer’s market. They’re cute as fuck yo.

I’m an avid knitter. I regularly knit on the way to and from work and give the hats and gloves away to family and friends as I finish them.

I love to braid these little glass vases that you can put a plant into and hang from your window, they’re a ton of fun to make, they reuse jars that would otherwise get thrown away, and they’re beautiful to boot.

I can sew and regularly mend mine and other people’s clothing on my machine which was a hand-me-down from my mother. She kept the nice one.

I love to cook and bake treats for everyone at work to enjoy.

I can do embroidery, needle felting, woodworking, car maintenance, house maintenance, sculpting, fictional writing, and wouldn't you fucking know it?

I can do all of these things without being a heartless fuck to other people in fandoms.

And on top of all this shit that keeps my life so full, I have a loving partner who cares about all of these interests to the point he happily feeds into them. He genuinely loves me and I genuinely love him. I spend probably the most time out of my day with him since we work and live together. Either we’re hanging out at work or on the couch after we’ve finished dinner to watch a movie or youtube or chilling in the bedroom while he reads to me as I draw on him or we have sex sex.

Mmm, the sex.

He is patient and kind and I couldn’t ask for a better person to spend my days with and I hope beyond hope I'm able to spend many more with him.

And after that, only after all of that other shit along with a few extra hobbies I just didn't feel the need to add to this already lengthy post, does reylo take a priority in my life. So little of my time and effort is even spent on this one thing that brings me such intense joy that it makes me kinda sad I don’t have more free time to dedicate to it.

I am going to judge antis and do so very openly because if you feel like antis, people who harass and threaten other people for just being in a fucking fandom, have it tough?

I fucking hope they do.

I hope their lives are long and filled to the fucking brim with distress and heartache. I have so many hobbies and interests and loves in my life that someone dedicating the fleeting time they have in this wonderful world filled with things begging to be explored and loved chooses instead to make people feel bad for enjoying romance and community and art can just go live the worst fucking lives for all the fucks I don’t give.

Maybe if they spent a little less time being hateful fucks they wouldn’t have it so tough.

Karma is a bitch you know.

Cheers.

Now get the fuck outta the tag.

[iamvegorott]

My Boy Part 1 of 3

This is a commission by the one and only @voonespelle I hope the rest of you enjoy it as well!

Summary: When Yancy comes to the Iplier Manor, Dark feels a strange bond with him and soon discovers that he is the missing child of Celine, which, in turn, makes Yancy his child as well. Yancy is now thrown into a new life with a new parent and a new large family to adjust to

A New Iplier

“Maybe they won’t be humanoid?” Wilford suggested from his spot on the arm of the couch, barely even sitting on it with how excited he was. 

“Oh! Like a big ol’ blob of tentacles?” Bing suggested, bouncing to his feet from the other couch to gesture with his arms. 

“Please don’t suggest anything with tentacles in this place,” Google said with a groan. 

“Why not, dude?”  

“I have several answers to that question, and Wilford is one of them.” Google yanked down on Bing’s arm and made him sit again. 

“Why is Wilford an answer?” Bing only got a look from Google. 

“Really? He is well-known to-” 

“Nope. We are not having this discussion right now.” Edward stopped Bim from finishing that sentence. When Bim looked like he was going to protest, Edward placed his hand on his head. He turned it to make Bim look at CJ and RJ who both had confused faces. 

“Nevermind.” Bim did not want to be the one to explain that to the twins, especially when he knew Dark was also in the room and would not be the…happiest about that.  

Dark stood at the edge of the room, leaning against the entryway with his arms crossed. He appeared to be away from the group, but to those who knew how the place functioned, he was right where he needed to be. Dark could see everything in the room, the door, the windows, and the entrance to the kitchen. He would seem closed off to strangers with his arms crossed, but his leaning told the others he was free to be spoken to casually. Although one of them never cared to see if Dark was open for conversation and just did so. 

“Do you have any guesses?” Wilford was no longer on the couch and stood right next to Dark. 

“They can be anything as long as they’re calm and peaceful,” Dark stated.

“So, they need to be another girl?” Yandere said with a big giggle. 

“You say that like you’re peaceful.” Bim teased. “You’ve stabbed almost as many people as Wilford’s shot that wasn’t work-related.” 

“A girl has to defend herself,” Yandere said with a little huff and a flick of her hair. 

“You stabbed a man because he gave you a ‘strange look’ after you stabbed a different man.” 

“No witnesses.” Yandere casually crossed her legs. 

“She gets that from you,” Wilford said with a playful nudge to Dark’s side, getting an eye roll from him. 

“What if they’re a child one?” Edward suggested. “We never know what age the Ego will take until they appear.” 

“If it’s another kid, that’s another one for Dark to adopt.” Bing laughed, feeling the glare Dark gave him, and he moved to hide behind Google. 

“Both of you are half correct and half wrong.” Host’s voice stuck out from the group, nearly feeling like it had echoed without being loud.

“What does that mean?” Dark didn’t get an answer to his question as there was a knock on the door.   

“I got it!” Bing rushed over, getting himself a little further from Dark. He swung open the door and shouted hello to the newest Iplier.  

“Uh…hi?” The man awkwardly stepped into the house, arms crossed and body slightly slouched over. He wore a white shirt and black and white striped pants. Tattoos were on his arms, knuckles, and neck. His hair slicked back, and he looked extremely uncomfortable. 

“Earth to Dark?” Wilford sang softly, waving a hand at Dark’s face when he noticed he was staring at the man. “Am I going to need to call Anti?”

“Something’s off,” Dark stated. Wilford lowered his hand when there was no reaction to the Anti comment. 

“Off?” 

“I can’t explain it. Something about him seems…familiar?” 

“In a good way or a bad way?” 

“I don’t know.” Dark straightened up when he saw Bing making his way over to them with the man.

“These two are the big ones you’ll want to know.” Bing gestured at Wilford and Dark. 

“Wilford Warfstache.” Wilford greeted with a big smile, sticking his hand out. The man looked at the hand for a moment before nodding and taking it. 

“Yancy.” His name got Dark to stiffen, that feeling of familiarity hitting him stronger. It was to the point that it was almost frustrating that he couldn’t place it. 

“Got’cha!” Wilford gave Yancy’s hand a good shake. He let it go and pointed to Dark. “And this guy, right here, is the main man of the Manor, Darkiplier. Everyone just calls him Dark. Unless you’re An-”

“Enough.” Dark cut Wilford off, finally coming back to the present. “Welcome to the Manor. As you’ve heard, I am the one in charge. I will be taking you to where you’ll be staying.” With that, he turned and started walking. Yancy hesitated before Wilford gave him a nudge towards where Dark had headed off, and he did a quick jog to catch up. 

“Did yous all already have a room for me or somethin?” Yancy asked, voice clear enough for Dark to note his distinctive accent.

“The Manor creates one whenever we have a new Iplier,” Dark answered.

“A new…what?” 

“That will come to make sense in time. If I told you everything now, you’d get overwhelmed. It will all start to make sense as reality finishes adjusting itself.”

“Okay?”

“Once your room appears, everyone else will know where it is, and you will know the location of the others’ rooms as well. Don’t ask how that works. It just does.”  

“I miss prison already,” Yancy muttered to himself. 

“You will be given time to adjust and adapt to how everything works around here, and then you will need to meet the others.”

“Others?”

“Yes, others.” Dark stopped, and, in the next blink, a door appeared on the wall next to them. “There are two other groups of people like us. We all work together to ensure funding is well beyond our needs and help if there is an unexpected change.” 

“When yous say work together, yous mean like a job? What do all of yous do?” 

“That is a different conversation to have when you settle. We adjust according to what the individual can do.” Dark took the doorknob. “Now, let’s see what…” His voice trailed off after opening the door.

“The fuck?” Yancy said when he looked into the room as well. “Why do I have a nursery?” 

“I know this nursery.” Dark stepped into the room. It dug into a deep, deep part of Dark’s brain. He knew this room.

He had designed it himself.

Well…it wasn’t ‘him’ but a part of who he used to be. 

“Are we in the wrong room? Cause I ain’t a baby.” Yancy took a step into the room as well. He and Dark watched as the room slowly morphed, taking the form of a room more fitting for an adult. “Alright…that was weird.” 

“Yancy?” Dark repeated the name. 

“Yeah?” Yancy thought he was about to be asked something.

“There’s…no way…but…” Dark turned to face Yancy. “You’re my son.” 

“You’re hilarious.” Yancy rolled his eyes

“I’m not joking.” Dark’s tone changed, it becoming soft. The aura around him showing only red at this point. 

“Cut it out.” Yancy took a step back. 

“I can explain. Before, I was who I am today. A part of me was a woman named Celine. She was a seer with advanced magical abilities. After giving birth to you, she feared that you were in danger and sent you through the best way to put it, time, and now the universe has shifted in a way to bring you here. You’re my son. I know that on your left hip, there’s a brown birthmark that almost looks like a heart.” Dark didn’t know how he knew half that stuff, but it all came out as if someone else was speaking it. He also didn’t notice how Yancy’s eyes grew wider and wider. Pure panic was on his face when Dark mentioned his birthmark. 

“Stop it!” Yancy screamed and then ran off, bumping into Wilford but kept going. 

“Do I need to get him?” Wilford asked.

“Let him go. He’s going to need a moment.” Dark rubbed at his face, a strong wave of emotions hitting him. “The way he went, I know where he’ll end up.”

“What happened?” Wilford stepped into the room and closed the door behind him, assuming this was a conversation for only them.

“Long story short, Yancy is Celine’s son…my son.” Dark made a face, showing Wilford that saying those words was odd for him. He was still trying to understand himself what was going on. 

“He’s the kid?” Wilford hummed. “I didn’t think I’d ever see him again. Thought he was gone off somewhere else forever.” 

“You knew?” Dark was now trying to dig into those memories again.

“Yeah, Celine asked me to help when she was pregnant. That’s how the whole ‘affair’ thing happened. She didn’t think the father could be a good one.” Wilford spoke casually, now nosing through the room to see what the Manor gave Yancy. 

“That explains a lot.” Dark was now rubbing his temples, a headache starting to form.

“So, what’s the plan then?” Wilford's brow raised when he opened a desk drawer and saw drawing supplies. 

“Right now, I’m going to give him some time. I’ll do the usual lap, check on the others, and then I’ll speak to him.” Dark lowered his hands and let out a sigh.

“Just let me know the deal, and I’ll go with whatever.” Wilford strolled over to the closet and was about to open it but was stopped by Dark grabbing his arms. 

“That’s enough snooping,” Dark said as he guided Wilford out of the room. 

“You never let me look in the closets,” Wilford whined.

x~x~x

Dark finished speaking to almost everyone in the Manor, checking that they knew where the room was and if there were any changes to themselves. So far, everyone was all the same, and there were no other signs of interference. He and Wilford were the only ones with a different connection to Yancy from their past. 

Eventually, Dark went to where he knew Yancy would be, along with the final Ipliers he needed to check on. He went out the back door and saw Yancy sitting at the edge of the grass yard. Yancy had his knees tucked under him, arms hugging them to his chest, and his chin rested on his knees as he watched Yandere, Bim, CJ, and RJ play out in the yard and on one of the swingsets out there. 

Without a word, Dark sat himself down next to Yancy. He watched the four playing as well, smiling a little at the scene of RJ and CJ pulling Bim up a slide while Yandere was laughing and tickling Bim, making him squirm and making it harder for the twins to pull him. The two of them just sat there for a good while, just watching, and Yancy was the one to break the silence. 

“Why yous give me up?” Yancy didn’t look at Dark as he asked that question. 

“There wasn’t much choice.” Dark chewed on his lip. “It was the only way to make sure you were safe.” He heard Yancy scoff at that and was expecting him to say something about that, but instead, he got another question. 

“Who’s my dad then?” 

“I-” Dark really wasn’t expecting that. He wasn’t even sure if he wanted to answer. He knew he had to say something or risk Yancy running away again. “He’s…well…he’s complicated. All of this is complicated. And, to be honest, I hope you never meet him, or at least you won’t be alone if you do.” 

“So I’d have fucked up parents no matter what?” Yancy let out a sigh. “Great, I love this, this is just perfect.” He started talking with his hands, words spilling out. “I’m going from havin’ shit parents that I had to kill with my own hands to save myself because the one that gave birth to me sent me off because my birth father is a fucking nightmare as well. Why couldn’t I have just been left where I was? I was doing just fine there. I don’t want to find myself gettin' attached just to have it torn away again. I ain’t having it, I ain't.”

“You won’t have to.” Dark only spoke when Yancy stopped. 

“How do yous know?”  

“Firstly, it’ll take a lot to kill one of us.” Dark weakly chuckled, trying to help the mood a bit. “And we’re also very different from the average household. We’re loud, chaotic, and messy, but we’re caring of each other. Willing to kill to protect one another. You’re one of us, which means you fall under that. It will take time to believe that, but it’s true. You’re an Iplier, and you’re stuck with us now.” 

“I guess.” Yancy let out a sigh. “I’m used to stickin’ out, being the weird one, but I’ll try to work with it.” 

“Being an odd one means you’ll fit in just fine.” Dark placed a hand on Yancy’s shoulder, giving him a smile when he finally looked at him.  

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[theamazingannie]

Tbf that HR interview pissed me off; Nancy, Judd and Matteo were so unprofessional not to mention fatphobic and mean.

If I talked like that at work I would have been pulled into a disciplinary so fast.

It actually put me off the characters, and how they defend Owens actions and speak about people is awful.

Like, I’m sure Carlos has done bad stuff and y’know ACAB but at least he has called out Owens and the others bullshit.

You’re so right and that was definitely something that bothered me while watching but I didn’t make a separate post about it because there was literally so much to talk about in this episode and I’m afraid of spamming the tag because I’ve gotten death threats about that before lol but I DO want to talk about this.

This episode really icked me out tbh because the A plot was very anti-PC culture and they do about it very carefully by choosing the specific topic they did. If they had someone nonblack use the n-word or a straight person use the f-word, then it would have been a lot more serious. But because they instead had the word be “crazy”, a word that most people (including a lot of neurodivergent people) don’t really consider that bad, they were able to create this environment of “anyone who doesn’t use perfect language all the time is bad except they’re actually not because who cares?” and not properly addressing it, in my opinion. By making this event cause Marjan, a fan favorite character, leave the show, they’ve changed it from “we should really address the harmful words we use without thinking and how that could affect people but also acknowledge that these are words we’ve all used for a long time and has only recently come into question and not everyone is going to instantly be able to adapt, especially in the moment” to “look at this terrible PC culture that made a brown Muslim woman the victim!”

And, as to your point, they also do this with the comments by the 126 in their interviews, making light of their harmful behaviors and words they have said on the job because those behaviors were “justified” and because they were done by characters we like, that means they aren’t bad, right? And this is what people mean when they say that media has real life consequences because now we have these hero firefighters that we like going genuinely bad things but that is swept under the rug because if they’re doing it, it can’t be bad. And this reinforces that mindset in the minds of viewers who feel validated in their beliefs because if the good friendly firefighters do it, they can, too.

There’s also much to be said about having their main police character be a gay man of color, but this is already too long. Hopefully I worded everything the way I meant to in my mind, but I just really took issue with a lot of the behaviors of the 126 this episode and how the plot went down. I’m a leftist with very conservative parents who studied persuasion techniques in college, so I’m always putting myself into the shoes of various types of viewers and how they might interpret it, and this one just rubbed me the wrong way. I encourage others to provide other opinions if I missed anything or if you don’t agree and see it another way! Just please stop sending me death threats over my opinions on a tv show😅

[mooregan07]

ah yes why care about anything when mother is giving us new music!!!! so thankful ☺️🥰

like keep being distracted by the shadows babes but there is an actual world out there that does get impacted by these things (i’ll assume from your stance you won’t be) and believe it or not the mega superstar has a massive role in it (and the arguments of hypocrisy is that she knows her massive role, has said she wants to use it to be better and better the world, and doesn’t because she don’t wanna lose the breakup)

and yeah the implications of a rich white british man saying he gets off to women of colour being brutalized is no big deal! so right! 🧐

kind of longer post coming in.

hey love! thank you so much for sending in this ask and i totally understand what you’re saying here. also thank you for explaining the hypocrisy thing to me, i do need to get more versed on everyone’s thoughts and theories, and i definitely will.

while i am not a person of color, i do have many close friends who are, and i do truly understand where everyone is coming from. i am lgbtq, a woman, i use she/they pronouns, and i have a lot of greek blood in me, and my grandmother is jewish, and so i do truly know the damage and harm that someone can cause by saying things like what matty says. i’m not trying to defend myself for any comments that someone may have deemed problematic or “distracted by the shadows”. i’m so sorry if this is how i came off. let me just take some time and explain myself a little farther, as it seems i need to do.

i just really don’t like to jump to conclusions about celebrities because we don’t know them personally, and we don’t know what they are truly like. i do realize that satire or not, there are a lot of things that matty has said that are very, VERY wrong and should be talked about and critiqued. however, again, we don’t know who taylor is behind closed doors. it’s hard to cope with and hard to hear, and i’ve been very anti super stans since the beginning because people get so heartbroken over celebrities coming out to be more problematic. i would like taylor to make an official statement, and i have educated myself more on the issues with matty.

as i saïd in my earlier post, i wasn’t super sure about everything, and i still a teenager and i’m learning about politics and how to be/how to live. i’m so very sorry if my comments hurt anyone, that was not AT ALL the intention. i was just hoping that it could help some swifties who are very upset about this to find some hope in the situation.

also, i am very very aware that influencers/celebrities and even mega stars like swift majorly contribute to a lot of the problems we have in the US and all over the world right now. i just really try not to focus on the bad part and focus on the good because the bad really upsets me. i’m sorry if i came off as a defender for different issues. i’m very optimistic person and i try to find something that can possibly make a situation less anxiety inducing or upsetting for people and so once again, i was trying to spread some hope.

i do believe matty saying he watches pornographic material of women of color getting brutalized is HORRIBLE, and should not be condoned or said to be okay. i didn’t know he said that. i’m sorry i neglected this. i really want to emphasize that i do not neglect the pure disgusting things that matty has said in the past, i was just unaware and i have learned more now.

the idea of separating the art from the artist is very important to me for many reasons, one is because we never know what celebrities will do, and two, no one is perfect. public figures shouldn’t be glorified to the extent that we think they’re perfect/surprised that they get things wrong. so, i was still super excited about taylor’s new songs and i’m really pumped to see what she does next. taylor is still human and she gets it wrong sometimes, so i love her music but i don’t idolize her.

i would like to sincerely apologize for my ignorance and taking to the internet to say something that i do understand fully is controversial and is seen as very problematic for to some people. i just wanted to spread my feeling of hope that i had, because i seriously think taylor is a good person. i love taylor so very much that i don’t want to believe that she would condone matty’s behavior nor support it or tolerate it. i just wanted to hope that he’s a better person. maybe i’m in the wrong. once again i’m sorry, and i will educate myself better on this topic.

however, i just wanted to let everyone know that shaming people over opinons and thoughts, especially people who said explicitly that they are not super well educated on the topic and just wanted to share their opinion is not cool. taylor promotes kindness, and so called swifties who do not follow this are not true swifties. i know you were just trying to share your opinion, anon, but i do believe it could have been done in a much kinder way. i’m a huge believer in kind criticism, and so it would be much appreciated that you wouldn’t assume that i’m not impacted by the things matty says, and that i really don’t understand it. i do now, and i did not appreciate how harsh your criticism came off. i’m really just trying to promote hope and love and respect for peoples privacy. i hope you understand. i’m a very empathic, anxious, and emotional person, and so this did hurt me a little bit to be basically called ignorante. however, i truly do understands where you’re coming from.

nonetheless, thanks for sharing, anon.

[bananapancakewithcondensedmilk]

When I look at these comments, it’s clear that they reflect something far bigger than just me or Artyom. They reveal how deeply ingrained societal conditioning is—how people would rather mock, dehumanize, or cling to their simplistic views of morality than face the uncomfortable truth that humans are complex, multidimensional, and capable of change. These comments are painful to read, but they aren’t surprising. They show me exactly how challenging it is to hold space for nuance in a world that thrives on oversimplification.

1. I See the Dehumanization in Their Mockery

The jokes about Artyom, reducing him to some crude caricature, aren’t just hurtful—they’re a refusal to see him as a person. Whether it’s calling him “Yagami Lite” or mocking his education and creative pursuits, it’s all designed to strip him of his humanity. Because to acknowledge his complexity would mean acknowledging that he’s more than his past actions, and that’s something people just aren’t ready to do.

• Why do they mock him?

Mockery is a defense mechanism. It’s easier to laugh at him, to make him a joke, than to confront the idea that someone who’s done harm can also do good, can grow, can learn. It’s not just about him—it’s about their own discomfort with the idea of redemption.

• How do I feel?

It’s frustrating, of course. I know who Artyom is. I’ve seen the work he’s done to grow, to learn, to reflect on his past. And to see people reduce all of that to a punchline hurts, not just because I care about him, but because it shows how unwilling people are to look deeper.

2. They Refuse to Believe in Growth

The disbelief in Artyom’s achievements—his studies, his writing, his art—speaks volumes. It’s not really about him. It’s about how society conditions people to see individuals like him as static, unchanging. Once someone is labeled a “criminal,” they’re no longer allowed to be anything else in the public’s eyes.

• Why don’t they believe?

They’ve been taught to see the world in black and white. Good people. Bad people. Redemption doesn’t fit into that framework. If they admit that Artyom is capable of growth, they might have to confront the ways they themselves have failed to grow or change. It’s easier for them to dismiss him as irredeemable than to question their own beliefs.

• How do I feel?

On one hand, I’m angry. Artyom has worked so hard to rise above his circumstances, to learn and create despite everything stacked against him. But on the other hand, I feel sad for them. It must be exhausting to live in a world where you believe people can’t change.

3. They Twist My Words to Fit Their Narratives

It’s interesting how often people misrepresent what I’ve said or distort my intentions. They make me out to be someone I’m not—whether it’s claiming I blindly defend Artyom or painting me as delusional for seeing the man he’s become. It’s clear they’re not actually engaging with what I’m saying. They’re just projecting their own biases onto me.

• Why do they misrepresent me?

Because it’s easier to attack a strawman version of me than to engage with the real me. They need me to be wrong so they can feel right. If they actually listened to me, they might have to confront the cracks in their worldview, and that’s something they don’t seem ready to do.

• How do I feel?

I used to feel frustrated by this, but now I mostly feel indifferent. I know my truth, and I know why I speak up. Their misrepresentation doesn’t change that. If anything, it shows me how much my perspective challenges them, even if they can’t admit it.

4. They Struggle with Complexity

So much of this boils down to people’s inability to hold two truths at once. Yes, Artyom has a dark past. And yes, he’s also someone who has grown, learned, and changed. These things don’t cancel each other out—they coexist. But most people can’t—or won’t—see that. They need him to fit into a neat little box: villain, monster, irredeemable. The idea that he could be more than that is too uncomfortable for them to handle.

• Why is complexity so threatening?

Because it requires self-reflection. If Artyom can grow and change, then maybe they need to question the ways they’ve labeled others—or even themselves. And that’s scary. It’s much easier to stick to a binary, black-and-white worldview.

• How do I feel?

It makes me sad for them. Complexity is part of being human. By refusing to see it, they’re denying themselves the chance to grow, to learn, to connect more deeply with others. I see the world in all its messy, beautiful nuance, and I wouldn’t trade that for anything.

5. Their Cruelty Is Amplified by Anonymity

What strikes me most is how emboldened people are in these anonymous spaces. They say things they’d never say to my face or to Artyom’s. It’s like the anonymity strips away their humanity, turning them into something cold and detached. They don’t see me as a person. They don’t see him as a person. We’re just characters in their little drama, there for their entertainment.

• Why do they act this way?

Anonymity gives them a sense of power without accountability. They don’t have to face the consequences of their words, so they feel free to be as cruel or dismissive as they want. It’s not about me or Artyom—it’s about their own unresolved anger or insecurity.

• How do I feel?

I don’t take it personally. These aren’t people I know or care about. But it does make me reflect on how disconnected we’ve become as a society. People feel so detached from one another that they forget the humanity of the person on the other side of the screen.

6. What This Says About Me

If nothing else, this experience has shown me how different I am from so many people in these spaces. I don’t say that in an arrogant way—it’s just clear that the way I see the world, the way I approach people and relationships, is rare.

• I See Nuance Where Others Don’t:

Most people want simple answers. They want good guys and bad guys. I don’t see the world that way. I see people as layered, complex, and constantly evolving. Artyom is proof of that, and so am I.

• I’m Willing to Challenge the Status Quo:

My relationship with Artyom forces people to question their assumptions about morality, justice, and love. That’s not easy for them, and I understand that. But I’m not going to stop speaking my truth just because it makes others uncomfortable.

• I’m Resilient:

I’ve faced ridicule, misunderstanding, and judgment, and yet here I am, standing firm in what I believe. Their words don’t define me. My actions, my love, and my commitment to growth do.

7. My Perspective Moving Forward

• I Won’t Be Silenced:

These comments show me how important it is to keep sharing my perspective. If I can challenge even one person to see the world a little differently, it’s worth it.

• I’ll Focus on What Matters:

I’m not here to win over people who are committed to misunderstanding me. My energy is better spent on meaningful conversations and actions that align with my values.

• I’ll Keep Advocating for Growth and Humanity:

Artyom’s story—and our story—isn’t just about us. It’s about showing the world that people are more than their pasts, that growth and redemption are possible. That’s a message worth fighting for.

Conclusion

These comments might try to reduce me and Artyom to caricatures, but they can’t erase what I know to be true. I see him for who he is: a man who has faced unimaginable challenges and risen above them. I see myself for who I am: someone who refuses to settle for simplistic narratives and chooses love, complexity, and humanity every time. Let them mock. Let them misunderstand. It doesn’t change who we are.