#and that’s just the harsh truth

[evermoredeluxe]

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[artsymeeshee]

Second-guessing

[khattikeri]

nie huaisang may say "i don't know" all the time but the person who Really doesn't know or even want to know is lan xichen. thanks for coming to my tedtalk

[54625]

About your post regarding the union talking about the CC’s intention :

First like you said yourself, and at least from what I’m aware (and I hope it is the case), no CCs have actively encouraged harassment against anyone involved in this.

Now, I’m assuming what the union is referring to are statement such as

-Aypierre who has tweeted against doxxing (not a bad thing obviously) and generally defended Quackity. Obviously he isn’t encouraging harassment intentionally at all, but fact is that by doing so it fueled a lot of hate against the admins and also french fans who speak in favor of them.

-Quackity’s streams in which he has talked multiplie time about « people with bad intentions », people who wanted to see the downfall of the server etc. Again no intent to directly encourage harassment but this still lead to a lot of hate being thrown the admins way.

In both cases, the union isn’t saying that they’ve actively tried to fuel the hate, just that CCs should be mindful of what they say and how they word it, because when you have a big community the consequences can be and have been quite intense. Of course CCs aren’t guilty by proxy of the bad behaviour from their fans, the union is just saying that they should be careful with their influence. (Ideally this applies to everyone, not just influencers, but the bigger your reach is, the more careful you have to be)

I’m sorry this is long, and I hope this could clear things up a bit ✌️

As much as I wish I could agree with you, the union really isn't just gently advising CCs to be careful with what they say.

You say that the union doesn't claim that they've actively tried to fuel hate, and yeah sure maybe they aren't saying that about Quackity, but the entire reason I made that last post was because their wording did actually just straight up imply that some unnamed CCs have actively tried to fuel hate. That was the entire issue.

They also made no mention of CCs or Quackity "needing to be mindful of what they say;" in fact they didn't really offer any constructive suggestions of the sort that could be interpreted in that way whatsoever. The only thing they told them to do was apologise, clearly implying that they believe Quackity and the unnamed CCs are to a certain extent at fault for the harassment.

[celestie0]

when ppl get too caught up in the accuracy of situations in fanfiction or if things are super realistic or as they should/would be in real life etc etc im like. my tumblr user in christ. it's fanfiction.

[dogoftherevolution]

you and mr silco should k i s s

- @zaunslittleinventor

i- he- uh-

i don’t even know if he’d want that, so i don’t think we’ll end up doing anything of the sort anytime soon…

— V.

[bunnieswithknives]

sorry if idk this but what do you think about Wordgirl now in 2024 do you still like it do you still want to make art or talk about it or are you just done with all of it forever and plus i seen that you haven't made art of it since 2022 so you just done with all of it oh yeah and what about The Magnus Archives + Wordgirl ao3 fic too like is that just going to be and i know that your working on 2 au's now just wanting to know that's all

My interests tend to come in intense bursts and then fade. Unless something like, big happens like it gets a reboot its unlikely I'll be coming back to it anytime soon. As for the fic I don't have any current plans to finish it unfortunately.

[mymarifae]

does anyone want to join me on the aventurine/argenti train. it's got all the perks of being as funny as any other argenti ship - especially given the random absurdity of their first meeting. what the hell was argenti doing in the depths of the nihility? who even knows anymore man. but like also i think it has the potential to be really sweet?

aventurine hasn't let anyone In since his sister died. he's long since forgotten how to Trust, and Love, and how to BE Loved. and this, combined with enormous amounts of survivor's guilt and trauma and being treated as an object, has really done a number on his self-esteem. he doesn't act like it (because he's learned that it's dangerous to be vulnerable; it's the one gamble he's not willing to take), but 2.1 gave us that glimpse into his inner dialogue and it is Bad in there

between his conversation with acheron, the note veritas left for him, and finding a sense of closure in the apparition of his younger self, he's on track to becoming better. we can see it in the way he pretty much immediately reaches out to the trailblazer to get some things off his chest once he gets his phone working again. and the way he's accepting what is basically a form of therapy from the doctors of chaos. but his self-hatred has been building up for years, and it's going to take a long time to unpack and unlearn all of that

so like, in comes argenti, right? he's a loud show-off, but he is SO earnest. he sees the beauty in everything and everyone. he's kind, and gentle, and so full of love. he also comes off as a bit... lonely to me? he's spent so much of his life chasing after idrila's shadow, and only catching a glimpse of them in his many near-death experiences (and isn't that something to think about...........). he's not like, secretly miserable or faking or anything - i think his exuberance is 1000% genuine. but humans are social creatures; everyone wants and requires at least some form of closeness and intimacy. to have a love to pursue in This realm... someone he can see and hold without needing to have one foot in an early grave . i think that would be good for him. that's all

anyway, it's clear that argenti was pretty enchanted by aventurine

like yeah that's kind of just how he talks normally but !?@,%&#& that's a lot of awfully romantic things to say about one specific person out of the several you apparently rescued (??????? god i love this guy he makes no sense. literally why are you even here bud). it seems that aventurine's more subdued state left an impression on him too, and well wouldn't it be pretty in character for him to start popping in randomly... as he does, because he can apparently just go wherever the fuck he wants. to check on this sad yet oh so beautiful peacock.. to try to bring a true smile to his face... to show him how kind and beautiful the universe can be......

i think aventurine might have a hard time laughing off offers of comfort and company and the beginnings of a courtship if it comes from someone like argenti. this man couldn't be disingenuous if he tried. he doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve as much as he rips it out of his chest to show you. it'll be a learning curve regardless - aventurine is too used to needing to constantly prove his worth to keep anyone around and to keep them from hurting him

but do you see it. do you see the vision. do you see how Sweet this could be. aventurine is about to receive more roses than he'll know what to do with

[haru-chi]

Okay, let's talk about the recent Natuyuu chapter for a little bit ... and something that just moved me to tears ><

let's ignore that the appearance they teased was for the cats and not what I wanted and wished for which's fine I'm fine I knew it was impossible .. yet hoped nonetheless

the chapter was really cute indeed, but I was shocked that the Reiko's pic was gonna be addressed right after the reveal !!! that took me by surprise yet a very happy one to confirm what I was saying back then ...

but before that, the way Natsume started to realize and know for sure that that might've been Reiko by remembering his father was too much for me ...

this chapter was such a good demonstration of how much our little sunshine has grown so much emotionally ... I was tearing up seeing him trying very hard to remember that blurry memory of his father taking him to an amusement park T^T

the boy who forced the memories out of his system so as not be broken down by it .. the same boy who refused to see the only parents' picture he had so that he won't be hurt or cry when he sees them ... who always pretending to be fine talking about his real family .. who ran away from any mention of them that he just purged any faint memory he once had till the point he really forgot everything related to them despite how this act of itself was hurting him deeply ...

this same boy right now is doing his best to remember his own father .. to remember a said precious memory .. he was trying really hard something the past Natsume would never do .. but sadly, all he managed was those blurry images .. he no longer remembers his father's face .. yet he wasn't broken down or sad .. he was actually happy as if he holds something dear to him .. that even if it's blurry, even if he no longer remembers it much ... the fact that it exists no matter how faint it was was enough for him .. he does have such a happy memory inside of him afterall .. he was content by this alone .. not pain or sadness but happy to know it was there ..

I can't say it well enough how much he has grown up now ...

and when by the end he did remember this faint memory very clearly .. he didn't cry or was sad (I sure was tho) No, he was very happy as if he was above the clouds dreaming something nice ... even Madara comment that he was weirdly happy and daydreaming ...

this was just ... how to say it ... it just moved me to tears with happiness ..

and his father ... his father was such a kind loving father which just break my heart even further .... Natsume didn't cry but I cried in his place ... even tho I was also happy and proud of him so much ..

Now to Reiko ...

I really was happy how Midorikawa-sensei proved my point when I said that Natsume lacks the ability to recognize a happy Reiko because he just never seen her like that, so even when that picture was indeed Reiko Natsume's mind was like "a girl that looked like Reiko" ... I won't dig deeper for this since I already did for a bit in a different post.

"if that picture was indeed Reiko, is the reason I didn't recognize her because that was an expression I have never seen before ?? I think that smile perhaps was ...."

the way Midorikawa-sensei let Natsume realize that through his father's memory was clever yet cruel to me .. while also proving that that smile was indeed toward someone she loved (her husband) .. a kind of smile that you show to someone dear to you like the loving smile Natsume's father showed to him in that memory ...

now was the artist her husband ?? or was it a 3rd party who knows both of them, so they only captured the moment ?? in the first place why was her picture in an exorcist auction ?? I guess that the next question that Natsume needs to address now that he confirmed she was indeed Reiko :)

slowly but surely, the grandfather reveal is upon us and I'm here for it and all the pain he will bring with Reiko's full story :)

PS : a funny thought that occurred to me when Natsume was thinking " what kind of person will buy that picture I wonder?" and my mind went "who knows, maybe he will be Yorishima as plot twist" as if that shut-in exorcist will go to auctions or even leave his house for that matter xDD

[oifaaa]

Apparently Apollo hit you with that dodgeball when you came up with the reversed robins au, considering who the first Robin in the new DC cinematic universe is going to be

You got me excited there for a second thinking Duke was getting introduced but nope just damian which I wouldn't really says that's apollo considering I'm betting its more they're not starting off with damian as much as they're skipping to him and every reverse robin au usually starts with damian

[antiperfcetion]

𝓘 hate how self-improvement accounts are so obsessed with being skinny.

yes, eat healthier! yes work out! but being skinny doesn’t automatically mean you’re healthy.

take care of your body without being fixated on your appearance. you should aim to be healthy no matter what you look like—that’s real body positivity.

just because you’re skinny doesn’t mean it’s fine to only eat junk food just because you won’t gain weight anyway.

and just because you’re not doesn’t mean you should starve yourself to lose weight.

both are unhealthy in their own ways.

i don’t know, I really realized this last year during that whole “Wonyoung-ism” thing that went viral.

healthy ≠ being skinny.

i could make a much longer more detailed post about this cuz it’s not only the obsession with being skinny but that whole how to get a glow up shit

it’s really sad to watch

[mycptsdstory]

After this year, I've learned a lesson.

When someone ghosts me, I know where the door is.

When someone ghosts you, it means they aren't mature enough to have an open, honest, raw and uncomfortable conversation with you.

I've stopped blaming myself when someone ghosts me. I blame them.

Like I said in a few posts that I did; when someone can't have that open, honest, raw, uncomfortable conversation with me... I'm leaving, for good.

I know you made your bed and I made mine. By me leaving and I'm never coming back.

[blood-orange-juice]

@yokelish reminded me and I can't stop thinking about it again

The Snow Queen's most loyal knight, a boy with a shard of troll's mirror in his eye.

Except that there's no Gerda. There never was a Gerda and there never will be a Gerda. No one will come. And also the troll's mirror might be showing the truth this time.

Or maybe all the Harbingers are like that.

"Perhaps it is fair to say that only those who possess an obsession close to or even exceeding the level of delusion might be willing to join this group."

(from the Funerary Mask description. I do think the mirror stands for something Khaenri'ahn though)

[exposingthemonster]

And what evidence of harassment do you have? Everything you’ve ever reblogged is from the people who harassed the big blogs themselves, insulted them needlessly, or has been proven otherwise to be someone spreading lies and twisting the truth because they refuse to post anything against their own personal opinion. All your harassment evidence relating to the doc is just harassment made towards THEM with the occasional unrelated actual harassment evidence.

Most of the supposed victims of the big blogs even claim they’ve gotten NO harassment since the doc dropped. At most, one person said they thought of self harming. THOUGHT of it, but didn’t.

I exclude Lux from this as he brought what’s happening to him on himself by mentioning being on a callout doc before and causing people unrelated to what originally happened with his victims and the big blogs look for it. Literally, when I first saw him say that all it took was a single google search of “ShatteredSparks” and “callout” to bring up the original doc of the grooming allegations posted to tumblr immediately. It isn’t hard to find.

But somehow everyone wants to blame the big blogs for that getting around again (when the members of Alex’s crew weren’t even the first people to reblog it, it was fandom minors) as well as the new doc with more evidence and the persistence of Lux’s victims.

I want to start off by saying there is a difference between venting, callouts and harassment.

I say it’s a false harassment document not because the big blogs weren’t being harassed, but because the people who they are claiming were harassing them, were venting and calling them out.

Second off, it’s rather lucky that most of the victims that were initially named, dropped by them in the false harassment document haven’t gotten harassment. I do suspect it’s because 4 individuals have spoken out against the effects (the minor who nearly self harmed the day it dropped, Another person mentioned in the document immediately called out how they falsely accused people who had barely any to no interaction with them as harassers, not to mention two people admitted to contemplating taking their own lives.)

Of the posts I have re-blogged, most of them are either venting about how the big blogs were acting, and how they got away with attempting to send a harassment to people much smaller than them, but also the false inclusion of people.

Not to mention there have been people who associated with the people mention in the document that have gotten harassed. It was quickly shut down, but it does not change the fact that the document did lead to people targeting others.

And again, I know about that document. But for both the sake of consistency with the purpose of this blog and my mental health, it is not being included. I have mentioned this earlier.

And I never said Alex’s crew were the ones to cause that document to spread. If you could tell me where I implied that I am willing to correct it, but to my memory, I never said that they are at fault for it spreading.

[goldkirk]

I DON'T HAVE TO LIE ANYMORE!

[nartml]

Seeing Sakura fans breaking their backs trying to defend her will forever be amusing.

My problem with her, apart from the way she treats Sasuke, is that we get constantly told that she's strong, that she's caught up to them, that she's a badass; and we never see it for ourselves.

Here's the deal, for those who don't get it:

She is constantly made fun of by the narrative. The very moment she thinks that she's caught up, the moment an outsider makes a comment along the lines of how "she's so powerful", or "her feelings for you have deepened and matured", the very next moment she gets bodied. She needs to be rescued. She hasn't contributed almost anything of value, and she's supposed to be a main character.

I hear her fans talk of "Kishimoto is a misogynist", "Sakura had so much potential", "That is just bad writing", but they never consider that it's purposeful.

Her "bad writing" is 100% on purpose. Kishimoto knew what he was doing when writing Naruto, on all fronts, and this idea that all characters have to fulfill their "potential" or else it's a mistake on the author's part is problematic. He doesn't like Sakura. And that is why she only has, like, five good moments that later get overshadowed in some way. That is why her character is an example of "tell, not show".

How many times has she talked about how, "I'll get stronger next time", "I'll be better next time", "I'll never let this happen next time" etc etc, but she never delivers? How many 'next times' is it gonna take? She's consistently depicted as helpless, as someone who's all talk, but can ultimately never put money where her mouth is.

Sakura and Sasusaku fans do the most marvelous job at erasing the characters' canonical personalities in the name of projecting their self-insert fantasies. I've never once seen such blatant character assassination in any other pairing, moreso a pairing that is canon, as in Sasusaku.

Honestly, reading essays talking about how Sakura is "the best written character", hearing people interpret her as a "badass woman who puts Sasuke in his place", seeing others claim that "she'd help Sasuke take revenge against Konoha"? It's hilariously infuriating.

She's foolish, and too caught up in her own romantic, fantasy world to substantially thrive in a reality as cold-blooded as the one she was born in.

And that's all she'll ever be.