#and the persons screenshots are catfishing

[florwal]

there’s a certain person that charges up to $50 a month for their full catalog of cc and that alone is fucking insane but the fact that the objects don’t look that great in game 💀

[galariangengar]

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[going-to-ikea-for-the-fries]

It's a Match! || 141 x reader

[ The Prequel ] || [ Chapter 2 ]

Pairing: Gaz x Reader || 141 x gn!Reader Words: 1K~ Summary: While overcoming recent heartbreak, you decide to join Tinder in search of a rebound. Your friends advise to just Swipe Right indiscriminately... What happens when 4 soldiers from the same squad match with you?

Chapter 1: Kyle

All of last night you and your friends spent time tinkering with your profile, putting up the sexiest pics of you that you had, some of them from Instagram, some from your camera roll, and filling in all the fields of info you could… 

And then you started checking out the profiles, definitely judging and roasting the men that popped on your screen (blame the alcohol), but always swiping right, regardless of what you (or them) thought of the most recent man on the screen.

But, once they left, you turned off the notifications and alerts from the app and went to sleep. You had acquiesced to downloading the app and making a profile, but the last thing you wanted was to be on that app constantly and get bombarded with DMs and Likes/Super-Likes…

The next day came and went and, as you sat in your kitchen after work, unboxing your take-out boxes of dinner, your group chat pinged with a text from Leah.

leah: How's Tinder going? 👀

You bit your lip and sighed as you typed out a response:

you: haven’t touched it all day bc i was at work. leah: Better touch it then!!

Rolling your eyes, you set the phone down on the table again, and locked the screen, as you began stirring the noodles you bought with your chopsticks.

Mia joined not long after with her own opinion. 

mia: ive got a good feeling about today! ur gonna find a hot bloke i know it 🫶 im sending good energyyyy!

“Yeah, right…” You grumbled. But, once again, you acquiesced and clicked on the little flame-shaped app icon.

The app lagged at first, for a good 5 seconds, and then a bunch of DMs and Like notifications pinged your phone.

You couldn’t help but chuckle to yourself… Oh, how predictable men are… They see a picture showing just a bit more skin and they try to chat the person up. But, at the same time, it made you feel quite good…

You skim through the DMs you’ve already gotten, over 99 of them… And none of them tickled your fancy. Plenty of them were variations of “Oi.”, “Hey.”, “Hi.”... Not to mention the ones that were just directly asking you to meet up right from the get-go.

Returning to the groupchat, you text your friends a screenshot of the 99+ counter on both the DMs and the Likes, which causes them to break into cheers at you.

leah: Look at you!!!! mia: i knew it. you: not into any of them tho. mia: then go back to swiping girl!

Biting back a little groan, you returned to Tinder and flicked onto the Swiping page.

Surprisingly, now that you were alone (and kind of doing it against your will), it was a lot easier for you to not get lost over-analyzing the profiles and simply… mindlessly moving your finger.

Right.

Right.

Right.

Right.

Ew, that’s a catfish of a famous male model, Report.

Right.

Right.

Right.

“Kyle.” You said softly as you read the name on your screen. He looked adorable, with a squinted ‘the-sun-is-in-my-eyes’ smile. “29… A soldier… a Brummie…” You mused as you slipped a Chinese roll past your lips and chewed.

You took a screenshot of his profile and sent it quickly to your friends’ groupchat before you returned to Tinder. As you clicked through his photo gallery, you saw the push notifications pinging at the top of the screen.

leah: HE’S STUNNING! 😫 mia: 👀👀👀👀👀 mia: smash.

Chuckling, you continue going through his pictures. “Holiday photo, holiday photo, I seriously hope those are his nephews or something, mandatory picture in uniform, and… JESUS CHRIST, a warning would’ve been NICE?!” You said to no one in particular as your jaw dropped open and you almost dropped your Chinese roll. 

“Bloody hell… Is that sweat or baby oil?” You asked yourself as you looked at his slick, bare chest in the mirror selfie he uploaded. “And is he cupping his-” You stopped that train of thought before it could go too far from the station.

Clicking the arrow in the corner you finally brought his profile into full-screen and proceeded to find yourself chuckling at his bio. 

His pictures were all wonderful, he looked like a guy who took care of himself, and he was funny which was the best part. 

Taking a deep breath, you press the Green heart at the bottom. A squeal escapes your mouth when the phone screen suddenly changes to the darker ‘It’s a Match!’ screen with Kyle.

Your eyes widen in surprise and, just as you press the DM button, intent on coming up with something to message him, you notice it.

Kyle: bought some shoes from a drug dealer this morning. don’t know what he laced them with but I’ve been tripping over myself all day and now think ive finally fallen for you 👀

The cheesy pick-up line has you closing your eyes and exhaling through your nose. It’s starting off terribly… But he’s the first bloke you felt inclined to text… That has to mean something, doesn’t it?

you: you fell out of a helicopter… i dont think its the shoes. i’m starting to think ur just clumsy. Kyle: holy shit you’re not a bot! let’s goooo you: a bot? you really thought that? Kyle: when someone has posted pics as cute as yours you cant help but have that worry in the back of your mind 😅 Kyle: or that ur a catfish 🤷‍♂️ you: i promise you im neither. you: and thank you. you’re cute too. Kyle: thats exactly what a bot/catfish would say 🙄 you: well how would a human talk then?? Kyle: cant tell you bc then ur gonna machine learn and start doing it you: well then how else am i supposed to prove im not either?? Kyle: let me take you out. let me get a proper good look at you. you: was that all a ploy to invite me out?? 🫠 Kyle: first time on tinder? you: that obvious huh? Kyle: a little. Kyle: so is that a yes? you: I’ll think about it. Kyle: i can work with that. 🥴 Kyle: hmu whenever youd like. no pressure. 

Maybe you would hit him up later… Once you gained enough courage to go through with the whole ‘rebound’ thing.

Biting your lip, you click off the DMs and return to the Swiping page…

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[seoktized]

hi everyone!! you might know junhanner/xinyanyan/neogreencurry here on tumblr, but i wanted to let you all know she is a catfish..! i wanna show everyone proof so she doesn’t try and make me seem like i’m in the wrong.

wednesday, i confronted her about the whole thing (with proof) and she kept up this lie which i didn’t believe for a second.

i asked her about a picture she said was her, where if you reverse image searched on pinterest you could find it, but there was an emoji on the girls face. so i zoomed in on the girls face and you could tell it’s been drawn over.

when confronted about it, this is what she said:

but yesterday, she sent these ppl on pinterest who uploaded the pictures she sent me of her face and said they stole her pics from xiaohongshu (a chinese pinterest basically)

so, i downloaded the app and did the little reverse image search and i found the original girl and it literally has nothing to do with “xinyan” on the account.

i had a feeling she’s from romania cause i have a clock in romania on my clock app and she’d send screenshots (most of the time she’d cover the times and say that her clock is broken) when she forgot, the times aligned with the times in romania. she’d say that her phone would reset and change to romanian time because she bought the phone in romania.

and today i asked her to send me a video of her face, she danced around the subject and only replied to smth small then blocked me.

she then texted me on instagram and was like ��i just have a very traumatic experience from this and something is holding me back from sending it” which confirmed it for me.

she was banned from the discord server we were in but proceeded to message every person she was “friends” with to try and see what i was saying & threatening to “expose” me by showing things that was said about a mutual friend. most of these conversations were initiated by her and i simply agreed.

i will own up to it, i was a asshole to a friend and i have since apologized to that friend. i’m very irritable person, so, i get annoyed easily and i said things i shouldn’t. i know i’m wrong and i’m not afraid to say that.

she also made a statement “defending herself”, which was just her yelling at me and trying to make me seem like a bad person.

the ootd pictures she’d send were also from xhs. i found her actual account and she follows the girl mentioned above and the girl who posts the dress pictures.

today she’s been nonstop dming me on tumblr saying she cannot send a video because she has trauma from such things. she compared it to an someone with an ed having to eat their fear food which seems a bit of a stretch and wrong to say.

i simply asked for a video to prove she’s real, but she’s stalled the whole time saying “idk what to do in the video” or bringing up the trauma. she called me insane though i have proof that she’s using someone else’s pictures and she won’t even send a video to prove that she’s who she says she is.

i’m just putting this out there for anyone who is friends with her and to tell my side of the story incase she tries to switch it up. thank u for ur time :3

[alexandraisyes]

Shitty Internet Rules Masterpost

For the past month, I've done an online safety awareness campaign where I posted tips on how to be safe online every day. Now that the series is over, it's time to put it all in one place.

Rule One: Screenshot Harassment

Rule Two: Direct Messaging Safety

Rule Three: Consequences of Online Behavior

Rule Four: Deepfakes and Fake News

Rule Five: Oversharing

Rule Six: Scam Awareness

Rule Seven: Internet Trolls

Rule Eight: Phishing Awareness

Rule Nine: Don't Trust Everyone You Meet

Rule Ten: Password Protection

Rule Eleven: Log Out of Public Devices

Rule Twelve: Treat Others With Respect

Rule Thirteen: Sketchy Ads

Rule Fourteen: Location Tracking

Rule Fifteen: Delete Doesn't Mean Gone

Rule Sixteen: Online Arguments

Rule Seventeen: Don't Share Your Location Online

Rule Eighteen: Keep Private Things Private

Rule Nineteen: Know When To Disconnect

Rule Twenty: Catfishing Scams

Rule Twenty-One: Don't Mix Personal And Internet Lives

Rule Twenty-Two: Downloading Safety

Rule Twenty-Three: Google Yourself

Rule Twenty-Four: Social Media Isn't Real

Rule Twenty-Five: Report Harassment

Rule Twenty-Six: Clear Your Browser Cache

Rule Twenty-Seven: Public Wi-Fi Has Risks

Rule Twenty-Eight: Credit Other's Content

Rule Twenty-Nine: Sometimes You Should Be Quiet

Rule Thirty: Use Strong Security Questions

Rule Thirty-One: Your Friends Can Be Hacked

Rule Thirty-Two: NSFW Is For Adults Only

[fdelopera]

Oh, by the way, if you interact with my blog, and then I see that you're reblogging the SCAMMERS who are catfishing as Gazan civilians, I will block you and report you.

Every single grifting, catfishing SCAMMER you reblog, you are taking money away from Gazan civilians who actually need help.

If you donate to a gofundme scammer, you are allowing that person to STEAL YOUR MONEY that could go towards helping people in Gaza.

And look. I get it. You want to virtue signal.

You want to virtue signal that you're "Freeing Palestine" ... by reblogging some scammer who is pretending to be a Gazan civilian.

But guess what! There's a simple way to virtue signal AND help Gazan people.

Donate to a verified charity organization, and then post proof of donation (without any identifying details) online.

Anera and Doctors Without Borders are two of the better charity organizations that are on the ground in Gaza. And yes, both of these organizations are in bed with Hamas. Hamas is like the Mafia, and when you're operating in Mafia territory, you're going to be complicit with the Mob. This is the unfortunate reality of any charity organization that operates in Gaza. But they're still better than donating to some scammer larping as a Gazan civilian. And they're better than donating to UNRWA, which is one and the same as Hamas.

Again -- don't doxx yourself. No identifying details. Don't post your name. You don't even have to post the amount you donated. Just a screenshot from the email saying "thank you for your donation" is enough.

Sure, maybe some of you will be tempted to fake this too, because all you care about is lazy virtue signaling, but it's still better than signal boosting these catfishers on Tumblr who are STEALING FROM GAZAN CIVILIANS.

[mrpibbleswildride]

Their new name is sunbeamfemme. Also pretty sure they’ve made a second account as femme-kiwi bc that account popped up around the same time they started getting allegations and they give off similar vibes

its actually @moonluvbugz now! (EDIT: IT IS NOW @miffystemme!) they change their name every 2-3 business days and sometimes even overnight when ppl are on their trail lol! the second their new followers start to catch a whiff of the heinous shit they've done they do a rebrand!!!

yeah i assumed femme-kiwi was them too lol femme-kiwi used to be venushartfemme (as in... sweethartfemme?) and then when ppl started getting suspicious and calling them claudia (same typing style and was liking/reblogging literally all of their posts) they changed their url to femme-kiwi AND ALSO came up with a whole new personality name and age. important to note that moonluvbugz (now miffystemme) was going by mars (along w a thousand other names they change names every time theyre caught) literally up until they made this alt acc and then they dropped the name and gave it to the alt.

if that wasnt enough to convince u they also type exactly the same (punctuation phrasing and spelling and grammar errors) and also femme-kiwi literally deactivated this morning lmaaoooo probably bc they saw ppl are onto them again and are tryin to cover as many tracks as possible i have the screenshots tho. this is what they do. they invent new ppl to try to trick everyone into forgetting what theyve done

heres my post about who moonluvbugz is trying to rebrand from if u wanna see a list of their offenses btw (racefaking catfishing as a minor on an nsfw acc and impersonating/gaslighting the list goes on)

[lover-of-mine]

Hi, hi, hello, I am here once again to sound absolutely insane while arguing something buddie, this time from Buck's side because I haven't done one on him in a while. I think this is a Buck needs to choose defense, but who knows really ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Okay, I've talked about this before, but Oliver is a really big guy, he's taller than the rest of the cast so we don't see Buck looking up a whole lot. In conversations where Buck would be in a more vulnerable position, they put all of the involved sitting down so they are on the same eye level, when he tells Abby about the catfish guy, when he talks to Maddie after the bombing, when he talks to Maddie after Red dies, when he finds out about Daniel, when he talks to Maddie after the thing with Jonah, when he talks to Bobby after the lightning.

Or they're both standing up, when he talks to Bobby before he quits before the tsunami, when he talks to Bobby after the lawsuit, when he tells Bobby he is one of the most important people in his life, when he tells Eddie about the fight with his parents, when he talks to Bobby after the crane, when he’s helping Eddie fix the walls (as I was typing this I noticed the trend of having him sitting down with Maddie and standing up with Bobby, which makes sense considering how much shorter than Oliver Jennifer is and how Oliver and Peter are just a few inches apart).

Or they have Buck being the only one standing up, or just at a higher level, so that he has the high ground in sense, when he tells the 118 about the thing with Daniel, when he yells at his parents, when he talks to Maddie after he messes up with Red, when he breaks up with Taylor, but it is a trend to not have him look up at people. (All of these have more examples, I just didn't feel like screenshotting every major Buck scene lol)

People he does look up to in vulnerable moments, moments actually end up leading to a fight? Ali and Taylor. He looks up at Ali when she's talking about not understanding what the job means and when he tells Taylor he kissed someone else. So he looks up at his love interests. Before a fight, but still looking up. Ali is the most intense example I could find in my quick skimming of the scenes I could think of, but since Taylor is standing up and he's sitting down, it counts.

This does nothing for my point but I do want to point it out. He looks up at Eddie before the confrontation at the gym lol. Sure that ends with Buck towering over Eddie, but it starts with him looking up at him and fits the trend (or actually starts it? Considering this happens before Ali or Taylor lol).

I could be wrong here, maybe there are other moments where he's looking up and I just can't think of them right now, but Eddie is pretty much the only person he consistently looks up to, when he clears with Bobby for Chris to stay at the station (not about him but he's looking up), the Hildy incident (this one is just funny but it happens), when he tells Eddie it would’ve been better if he had been shot, after Chim leaves to look for Maddie, after he dies. And it's interesting to have those last two scenes because he's going to Eddie for advice and they decided to literally have him look up at Eddie. 

Conversations with Eddie fit all types of categories when it comes to the two of them because they are best friends, just focus on these ones tho (you can read this for thoughts on framing in multiple scenes tho)

"But Anna you've said this before in at least 3 different posts already" I know, I know, and I have a point, I promise. 

I like taking season 6 knowledge and recontextualizing the previous seasons. What does Buck want in season 6? Answers. From the dude at the happiness convention to “I’m the guy with the answers, I kinda like that”. But it’s not crazy to say that Buck has been looking for whatever this answer is his whole life, but the main thing is that Buck keeps looking for answers outside of what he already has, the choice he makes is to look for something else to make things make sense and for someone else to tell him so he can pretend he's not responsible for the consequences. There’s a whole other discussion here and I was talking about this yesterday, but Buck doesn’t really make choices in his life (bisexual king 🫶), he fell into firefighting, he tripped into every relationship he had, he didn’t pick his apartment, he still hasn’t picked a couch. 

Okay, but why does that relate to the whole looking-up thing? I don’t know if this makes sense, but I think in a way he expects Eddie to have the answers in a way that’s a bit, not excessive, but like, bordering on too much? Like, for example, the way he takes what Eddie tells him before the tsunami and runs with it, the whole just move on thing that he is still doing (I’m kinda fascinated about the way that the end of the cemetery conversation gives the same message that Eddie tried to push onto him there and we all know how that ended for Eddie), the whole “somehow we manage to just suck it up, why can’t you?” and “a lot of I’s in there” and “you’re making it about you? again?” that does make Buck act as if having feelings about traumatic events means he’s making it about himself, makes him selfish, that makes him act as if he needs just to push through. He keeps following Eddie’s lead at all times. And I think that is something that needs to be addressed in some way before they can have a relationship. I do think post-lawsuit Eddie is trying, post-therapy Eddie is trying even harder to not lead them wrong or dismiss Buck’s feelings, and if Eddie asked Buck out, chances are he would say yes, but it would leave the question of whether he’s just following Eddie’s lead. Because Buck keeps tripping into relationships. We don't see him ask anyone out, we don't see Buck make the decision. The only way to fight this is to have Buck be the one to march to Eddie and go “I want this, do you want me?” and hope he’s doing the right thing while knowing he is the one who went for it. 

And like, I don’t really think Eddie would ask Buck, not for lack of wanting, but because he runs from fights he’s not sure he can win, dude retreats back to safety like no one else, and taking a leap with Buck is not safe. But, hey, we’re supposed to believe Buck is the one who keeps running into unsafe situations, so sure, have Buck do it. 

And I think the cemetery can be used as a start for that, because Buck keeps trying to get Eddie to tell him what to do, he keeps looking at Eddie and waiting for him to just give him the answers, but Eddie already retreated from the fight, he’s all “whatever you say, bud” so Buck thinks he’s doing something Eddie agrees on, but what Eddie wants is the opposite, the shift in the way Eddie is handling that conversation is really obvious and to have Buck go against it could be used in an interesting way. 

And the cemetery scene itself opposes the whole looking-up thing because Eddie refuses to keep looking at Buck while Buck keeps poking him to get him to look. Buck is all “*tugging on his sleeve* tell me I'm right tell me I'm right tell me I’m right” and Eddie is all “you’re right buddy *narrators voice* he doesn’t think he’s right at all”.

And Eddie is locked out of making changes in the relationship in a sense, because Buck basically told him “this woman is the one” so why would he risk the friendship when Buck has made it clear what he wants? In Eddie's head, it's a fight that's already lost, so why would he jeopardize the part of the relationship he does have for something he thinks is hopeless?

But Buck doesn’t have that, I think right now, the power is in Buck’s hands, Buck needs to realize he has it and Buck needs to make the choice to use it. 

Mr. Human Calculator I Have The Answers Now needs to accept that life has a level of unpredictability and go for it anyway. Start fighting the current he put himself in and getting the things he does wants not the things he thinks he should want.

Random rant about the cemetery if you feel like reading my thoughts on that.

Random post about Buck, water, and the way he just goes with it forever and ever.

Shorter post about why Buck needs to choose.

My tag for metas if you liked my brand of crazy. 🫶🫶🫶

[ursaius]

Hey so,

Claudia well now they go by Serenity, are talking about you on their Instagram. Some people are sending them anonymous questions to which they reply to by posting a story. Which are:

1. Someone asked how they were doing about the whole situation with you and they said “ Fine. I have lots of friends who don’t agree with him letting ppl just disrespect me and doxx me so I feel better about allowing myself to be angry about it now.”

2. Someone said that they had the right to be angry but so do you considering what they did to you and how they’re lacking accountability and how their friends are enabling them so this was their response:

“ I don’t control how my friends feel about the situation so..”

“for months” it was literally two months…I have no more accountability to take I took it all already??? I apologized to him both publicly and privately and he decided to take it to the internet?? My friends aren’t enabling anything their simply sticking up for me for being harassed and doxxed hope this helps”

“Him allowing ppl to doxx and misgender me is also hurtful and far more morally wrong than me catfishing him hope this helps”

I would also like to mentioned that they posted a screenshot of a convo with someone on their insta story and they were talking about how they were feeling anxious and paranoid and that they didn’t want to go out. And they captioned it “ literally may god himself take me out if I ever feel sad over a butch who made me paranoid to leave my own house”

And lastly on the anonymous questions they reply to on their story someone anonymously told them this and they agreed to what the person said:

“ people STILL trying to claim you not taking accountability like you didn’t write a five page apology to his ass. He is not traumatized or severely hurt by this if he’s already with someone new! His ass is fine. He is not being harassed or doxxed leave serene alone. Stop defending this white person he is no saint. And that’s so clear to see when he’s willingly putting a poc life in danger”

Another person said this as well which serenity also agreed with:

“People caring more about u catfishing him than him being the one not taking accountability and letting ppl doxx and misgender u says a lot..they’ll always defend the white person even when they’re the ones being malicious”

That’s all, I just thought I should let you know because it’s absolutely crazy that they’re telling their followers that you’re the bad guy here?? When they’re the ones that deliberately hurt you. And they claim to take accountability but what they have been posting on their insta stories says completely otherwise. And they are trying to turn this on you and saying you put them in harms way or are letting people do things to them. As if you have any control of what others do. Idk how the hell they managed to turn this all on you but it’s ridiculous. And they’re also saying that they’re the ones who are angry now. And the worst thing is that they are saying you’re morally wrong or a bad person. Like what??? I just had to share this with you bc it’s literally insane and they’re accusing you of things you didn’t do.

Anyway I’m sorry this person is literally saying all these things about you. And letting others say those things as well, it’s so messed up after all they have done to you and others.

I hope you’re doing well, sending love <3🫂

Literally no one doxxed them. Like at all ever. So that's very funny that they're using a lie they made up to make themselves the victim. And trying to downplay the shit they did to me and once again I am not the only victim here. I'm just the loudest. They also victimized Jess and Lottie by literally stealing their identities. The only reason they're trying to paint me as being the solo victim in all this is because I'm white so it's easier to paint the white person harassing the poc. The way they're deliberately avoiding talking about Jes and Lottie makes this obvious. And also I don't know what pronouns Claudia is using at the moment for all I knew they could have switched and starting using she/her I wasn't stalking their account and checking every five seconds. And given they have a history of using pronouns sets from people they're pretending to be this could have very well been the case. But still I haven't ever misgendering Claudia. And I don't owe Claudia more than that I literally fucking hate you and I hope you burn in hell I'm not gonna unlock you every five seconds to check what fucking pronouns your using to correct someone in an ask telling me that your trying to frame me as an aggressor. Get over yourself and grow up. No one fucking doxxed you. You were fucking lying about where your loved and people just said you could live in Arkansas or you could live in Montreal. That's not fucking doxxing. Posting someone's address is doxxing. You just want something to cling to. And assuming I'm overing it and not struggling because I have a new partner is hilarious ooh sorry I have people that love me I still tried to drown myself last month but thanks for that assumption. I'm still experiencing extreme bouts of hallucinating and I'm constantly scared for my life. But yeah no I'm totally fine and obviously not struggling because you someone know that despite what little I post about what I actually do with myself. And about me taking accountability for fucking what exposing what a fucked up person you are sure I'll take accountability for that. That's me I did that. I told everyone how youve been catfishing for years and how you pretended to be Jess since January even though you lied about it saying it was only since April. I told everyone you were confronted by Jes and told to stop in JUNE you said you would but you but you continue to do it anyway and you blocked her. I told everyone about some of the fucked up shit you did to Charlotte including claiming to have her first and legal last name. Including race faking as a mixed Latino Mexican/Filipino just so you could claim Latin cultures and imitate Lottie even more. Copy and pasting Charlottes post and trying to claim them as your own. Gaslighting everyone into thinking Lotties the crazy one when they made a post about you. To name a few of the fucked up things you've done. Claudia you've made three different people paranoid and afraid to leave their houses because you can't leave us the fuck alone.

And I even stated specifically before that no one should be trying to dox anyone and that's illegal so idk why your 1. Trying to pretend that even happened 2. Trying to frame me

And to anyone trying to act like they know me or anything hey fuck you. I don't talk about my mental health a lot here but I suffer from a lot I'm not well and I'm missing bolts. When I'm stressed or suffering emotionally I have visual and auditory hallucinations, I have depression and anxiety typical for a Tumblr user I know. I have bipolar and either some form of ADHD or ADD but I've not gotten tested because I don't have health insurance. So don't go around assuming I'm doing alright because I have a partner and I'm not posting about how I wanna kill myself every five minutes. I'm not out here throwing pity parties and trying to get everyone to feel sympathy for me. I don't need to anyone with common sense can see what Claudia did was wrong the way they went about it and tried to avoid taking responsibility for it and changing their identity once again just so they could avoid being associated with it is proof. If Claudia wants to paint me as some villain in his attempt to feel like he's not the world biggest douche than by God let the poor fucker I don't care. I mean I care a little but there's literally nothing I can about it because he has a victim complex.

[monstersinthecosmos]

I know you probably don’t want to dwell on the show and the negative but I absolutely hate what has happened on here and how hateful people are in the VC fandom it’s just very demoralizing and makes me want to retreat from anything besides the books completely. The discourse was spicy before the show but everything is just even more divisive now and it has sucked the fun out of it. Not really an ask more of a vent sorry

Hi there!

You’re correct that I don’t particularly find it fun to dwell on the negative stuff – as you said yourself, SOMETIMES THE DISCOURSE SUCKS THE FUN OUT OF IT. But I do understand how you feel and I want to say a couple things and I hope this helps you find a groove.

First of all, I did my best not to acknowledge it too much because I didn’t want to validate the folks who were being cunts to me lol, but please know that this fandom (at least on Tumblr) has ALWAYS been kinda fucking violent towards me LOL. I started VC tumbling back in 2016 and it’s ALWAYS been a fucking trash fire. It is hard out there for Marius stans lmfao.

Like, when I was first posting on Tumblr and acclimating to the Tumblr culture it was so much of like, me feeling brave enough to share meta only for someone to be RB’ing me to tell me I’m wrong, or me talking about how much I liked something about Marius only for someone to vague me, or it was me hosting the huge fandom Discord back in 2017 only for people to then come on tumblr and complain about how the Discord was way too Marius Friendly as if like, a drama-free space where we can discuss the books makes it a harbor for predators.

Of course I also had the gaggle of fucking morons who were constantly stalking me, catfishing their way into my servers to try to take screenshots and write call outs and cancel me, who would not stop preaching about how “all these big blogs” are “actually such terrible people” because “look at the things they ship” even when I’d never been unkind to them, even occasionally donated to their GFMs. These are folks who think they’re morally in the right for protecting the virtue of Armand’s poor teenage asshole and executed this justice by stalking and harassing an ACTUAL PERSON LOL. Like, listen. I’m sorry to burst ur bubble, but Armand doesn’t exist. He’s letters on a paper. I’m actually a real person and you’re up my fucking ass because I don’t’ even fucking know why, you’re jealous of my fucking Tumblr engagement or something? Which one of us is actually the creep here lol?? Is this a race to the bottom to be the valedictorian of clown school on the website for homeschooled clowns?

I’ve also had the pleasure of being on the receiving end of acephobic discourse, being told I don’t do enough to protect every individual in fandom from their own bullies as if it's my job to do that, being called ableist for how I wrote Daniel in my fics even though I was projecting and discussing my own personal experiences – I’ve also had a project collaborator have a tantrum and try to steal my work until I had to threaten with legal action, I’ve been put on block lists, I’ve had many people consume my fics in secret without actually leaving comments because I’m too toxic for them to communicate with in public.

BLAH BLAH BLAH.

This was all before AMC showed up LMFAO. It was not easy for me! It’s still not always easy!

And so yeah like, by nature of the fandom EXPLODING we are going to see more drama. More people is more drama. The nature of the discourse often hedges into real life issues that people are very opinionated and passionate about and there are conflicting needs inside the same space about how to hold conversations. Even just the other day I RB’d a joke about Anne Rice and OP got upset with me because they didn’t want actual fans interacting with it. Whoops! I didn’t know! I just thought it was funny. ;.;  

Even in good faith and with the best of intentions we’re going to step on each other’s toes, and we’re gonna find people we don’t vibe with. And that’s normal and it’s fine.

What ISN’T normal is this inability to disengage that I think we see often in online space, and I don’t want to get into a whole side essay about all the reasons why I think that happens. But sometimes you gotta be the bigger person and take it on the chin.

Like, yeah, it sucks. It sucks the fun out of the room when you share a space with such bitter people who can’t be kind to each other. But like. THAT’S A THEM PROBLEM, YOU KNOW? And I think we gotta remember that sometimes people like that do it for the attention or the spike of dopamine when they can pick a fight and honestly like, you don’t need to waste YOUR OWN time on it, but you’re also doing that person a kindness if you don’t enable the bad behavior.

And it sucks that Tumblr’s mute tools are awful!!!!! It would make navigating so much easier to be able to curate the dash a little better and keep the bad actors out of your space. I sometimes just fuck off and don’t even come online for days if I know I’m not in a good headspace and won’t have the strength to just fucking ignore it, because sometimes drama catches my eye and I get nosy and go down the rabbit hole, too – having ADHD makes it really hard to avoid sometimes LOL – but like I try to be reasonable and love myself enough to avoid it when I can help it. I’m not willing to make my own problems everyone else’s problem, and I hope that some of these shit starters in fandom will get there, themselves.

So yeah it blows when the vibes are fucking atrocious, and it REALLY blows when it’s a fandom this small where you can’t avoid it. Even when it’s a vocal minority it really just kills the fucking mood.

BUT WHAT I WILL SAY.

Whenever I say shit like “write what you want to read” and we’re talking about fanfic, or even meta or even silly headcanon posts or jokes, that also means draw what you want to see, it also means make what you want to hold, apply it to any creation you can think of. Put the thing you want to see into the world. And it counts for fandom, too.

I don’t want to be part of a fandom that’s constantly infighting and attacking people, so I don’t fight and attack people. I don’t want to be called a predator for being a Marius fan and so I don’t engage in posts that say as much, not even to argue, because I don’t want my followers (who might also be Marius fans!) to have to see that on their dash. I want us to protect our peace and create a space we want to be in.

Like I have a policy that any time someone says I’m a freak or any time I see truly godawful word salad discourse, I go out of my way to post something kinky and offputting about Marius LMFAOOOO  because I want to be surrounded by reasonable fun people who share my sensibility for fiction. AND SOMETIMES IT’S CRICKETS, AND SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO WORK HARD TO FIND YOUR PEOPLE. But at the end of the day I know I’m being my most sincere self and I’m trying to have a good time and just post fun things that I enjoy. And like, the book fandom is small as fuck and we’re all famished, but I think if more of us did that, we’d build a much more productive and tolerant space.

And for all the shit I’ve mentioned, all the drama and attacks and all the times people have harassed me or tried to make me feel small, you know what? I just got back from @apoptoses & @cup-of-lixx 's wedding and they met in VCblr! We spent all week with our VCblr friends! We all went to New Orleans together last Halloween !

When I used to work on ships it was like a fandom friend world tour! I had so many coffees in port with my vampire friends!

I’ve learned so much about writing from all the time I’ve spent here and the community of writer friends who supported me! There’s folks I met on VCblr that I talk to LITERALLY every day! They are such huge parts of my life and genuine life-long friends!!!!!!

Sometimes it seems like the ROI is garbage but like, so much of finding the joy is also learning to protect yourself from the negativity.

It IS out there. It DOES suck. And it’s lonely when you haven’t found your people yet. But fandom doesn’t have to be the 500 angry assholes arguing with each other about a fucking TV show, it can be your 3 besties in a private group chat having a great time.

Like I just drove @hekateinhell to the airport (met THROUGH TUMBLR!) and on the way back I was listening to an episode of Last Day and they were discussing the concept that “community is a life raft” and it hit me so hard man!!!!!!!!!!!

Find your people! Block the shit starters! Mute discourse buzzwords that you know are going to upset you!

Keep! Posting! What! You! Want! To! See!!

Fandom is self-generating, we can do this!

My inbox is always open and BELIEVE ME I have been motherfucking persona non grata in this place before and I know how rancid the vibe can be so please come talk any time it's grinding you down, I got you!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mjthenonc0nformist]

TW: for homophobia and stuff like that

I've already talked about this in a a discord sever but I needed to ramble about on this on here because it's literally fucking insane 💀 there's a ride the cyclone role play account that posts woke people dni interact content and it's the funniest thing ever beacuse of how wrong it is 💀 the person that's constance likes the Noel Catfish theory which is really fucking weird and most of you already know why that's bad cause it plays into a very bad stereotype which I won't dive into on here. One of their latest posts is an introduction for their new member and it's just.... Well you can read it. Another thing that makes me giggle is the fact that the people on the account constantly argue in the comments and on posts and I can tell if it's satire or not bc they said in their one post it wasn't.

Their username is ride_thecyclone_choir

THESE ARE SOME SCREENSHOTS FROM THE THING

[londonandrewsandme]

EVIDENCE 2

I have been hunting far and wide (hard-drives and USB’s) for video screenshot clip, the one that most of these screenshots come from. Because I want to find the moment where London Andrews say, ‘Hi London here…’ publicly. But I can’t find it ! So, I will have to go with what I already have.

First, and most importantly : London Andrews has repeatedly and vehemently denied she has had anything to do with the Naturist Lady, MeWe account and the catfishing, seduction and trouble that this account caused to me in 2021. I was not her !

Next, these events and the screen shoots are from 2022. This was from when I was leaving London alone online, but she would not leave me alone and most importantly was appearing and disappearing, abusing and trolling, at will. And this was before I had revealed the reason for the falling out between myself and London – I only revealed this in the summer of 2023.

Now, lets introduce some new characters, ‘dunder mifflen’ and ‘Even Flow’. These are avatars of the same person, running various porn sharing sites, across several platforms and is also a moderator for Reddit’s older ‘london andrews’ fan page...we will return to this fact later.

In the spring of 2022 the Naturist Lady account reappeared on my London Andrews, MeWe fan page asking for members to share their OnlyFans and Patreon photos with her. Note, I never ever blocked her, she could come and post as and when she pleased. Whereas, London repeatedly blocked and unblocked me, across all different social media, for disagreeing with the Naturist Lady account on MeWe – explain that ?

So, explain the following IF London Andrews had nothing to do with the Naturist Lady, MeWe account ?

1 – The Naturist Lady account publicly reveals that she is London Andrews and asks for members to post photos.

2 – Members reacting to this London revelation.

3 – ‘dunder mufflen’ directly contacts the Naturist Lady account.

4 – Then later the Even Flow account directly contacts Naturist Lady.

5 – Here is dunder mufflen interacting with Naturist Lady.

6 – Here is dunder mufflen confirming he is talking to London Andrews in private and has received subscriptions to London’s Patreon and OnlyFans. Go on, explain that, if Naturist Lady is NOT London Andrews ?

7 – Here, note what London, via the Naturist Lady account, is specifically asking for.

And also the Even Flow is directly contacting her. (yes I have posted this screenshot, but…)

8 – Now, I start to be attacked for not supporting London and supplying the items Naturist Lady requested. And also, here Even Flow denies that he had been asked for London’s photo sets – see screenshot 7 for the fact he had been !

9 – Here I (again) asked a question about why she was asking for her Patreon erotic photo sets.

10 – Following this, Naturist Lady confirms she has rewarded dunder mufflen (Again explain that, if Naturist Lady is NOT London Andrews ?) , while attacking me.

11 – Here Even Flow comes to Naturist Lady’s defence. And at this point, based the way things were going, I was worried I had been wrong and that Naturist Lady was a third-party who was collecting items to pirate them.

Oops ! Got these 2 the wrong way round..

13 – Here Naturist Lady is inconsistent with her story. At first she had said she, ‘..busted a hard drive and lost them.’ That just didn’t make sense to anybody involved, so she changed the story.

12 – So, she changes her story, she now has an issue with Patreon itself. Problem is I checked and her Patreon seemed to be working just fine. She also raised the fact I had promised to return copies of her old SnapChats. London had not saved any of them back in 2017/18.

14 – I then point out that I had long ago, sent her the Snapchats. I had directly emailed them to London...Also, explain how a third party, random stranger who was catfishing me, knew about the Snapchats emailed directly to London back in 2020 ?

15 – And that London Andrews has not downloaded them from the emails cloud storage attachment. Thus proving her to wrong – yet again ! Then Even Flow steps in the defend her, because he can’t deal with the fact I am proving London to be wrong.

16 – This post by dunder mufllen, from slightly earlier, asks why I had not helped London and caused disagreements. First, there is s difference between won’t help and can’t help. I simply did not have the items she was asking for. Next, yes I was cynical in my attitude, the ‘bad blood’ he noticed. I never explained why. I kept the inexplicable personal events between myself and London (Naturist Lady) in 2021, private. Lastly, dunder mufflen again confirms his belief that Naturist Lady and London, are one and the same !

17 – This is a very long attack on me by Even Flow. Why, for again proving what London was saying about me on social media (Reddit etc), to be wrong ! I defended myself against abuse and insults and proved what she was incorrect. That’s insulting and abusive apparently ? Anyway, after making contact with Naturist Lady account here on my MeWe fan page (see 4 and 7), he made London Andrews a moderator of the London Reddit fan site and wrote a glowing introduction to tell all the members about it. Sorry. I don’t have a screenshot of this, you’ll just have to take my word for it. And finally, the entire tone of his message is written from the point of view that he obviously thinks the Naturist Lady account on MeWe was run by London Andrews.

Explain that ?

And there is more to come…..

#londonandrews #londonandrewsmodel #beauty #sexy #beautiful #bbw #curvy #busty #voluptuous #glamour #kinky #curvymodel #photography #art #lingerie #erotica #model #onlyfans #patreon #londonandrewsproject #londonandrewsandme

[icouldntfindquiet]

Hi how are you!! Hope you’re doing well and that your trip was fun, I know i’m a little late to that discussion. BUT WHAT is going on???

Hey, I’m good! I’m a bit beat up from work today but I’m off work now. What about you? How’re you doing? The trip was great! Very busy because we went to so many places but I’m happy with what we did and saw. I already miss it, lol.

And Catfish are starting to tour on select dates in North America summer 2024!! 🥳 Well I’m assuming that’s the plan if everything’s on track. Joy was wondering why CATB’s IG follower count kept going up so she checked their recent followers and saw Wasserman (a North America booking agent). She found CATB under their new signings page but we didn’t know what to make of it so I forgot about it until someone asked me what I thought Van was up to. An anon had the brilliant idea of emailing their booking agent so I emailed him for info and wasn’t expecting him to respond. Well of course, the info spread like wildfire and I’ve gotten heat for sharing the emails so I apologized to Marty (CATB’s booking agent). People noticed a few days ago that CATB got taken off their new signings page but we don’t know what to make of it. And people did some digging and found that CATB signing to Wasserman was a recent thing and they re-signed with Primary Talent too (their European booking agent). So signs are looking good but of course it’s still silence on CATB’s end. People suspect we’ll hear from CATB sooner than summer 2024.

On a side note, someone brought up how I was mentioned in the comments section of this post on the CATB Facebook group. I want to clarify that I don’t know that person and have never talked to him before. I’ve only shared the screenshots on Tumblr. If it’s been shared/posted elsewhere, it wasn’t me. And I can assure you no one’s asked me for permission. I don’t mind though as what’s posted on the internet isn’t mine anymore but everyone’s. There’s just no need to make up stories is all. x

[opinated-user]

LO did NOT just receive a message from a blank tumblr claiming to be a mother to a 16 year old kid apologizing to her for her child's "obessive hatred over LO".... *facepalm* This is literally the "I received a message from a father who says his kids are in a incestous relationship and asked my opinion on what to do about it." That's just WAY too elebrate a narrative. A mom makes a tumblr just to send a message to LO, or any tumblr personality for that matter, because their kid is being mean to them???? Nah, smells like fish to me.

oh no, anon, you don't understand. this is absolutely one of the funniest thing that LO could do. if it wasn't because LO gave such a long and obviously crafted response, i'd even believe this is a random troll just messing around because it's that good. LO has never been funnier in her life. this, anon, this is quality nonsense. you have to appreciate it how utterly out of this world someone needs to be in order to do this and think no one will think weird about it. that's a great joke on itself. read how this "concered mother" is so very obviously southern and utterly polite. read how the mother tries to assure that her son "is a really sweet boy". read about how she's "concered" that her sweet baby boy is going to find a "problematic" person to hate online and this is bad, awful, horrible, because he might start blaming everything wrong on his life on this person. he hasn't done it. but he might someday, so the best course of action is to go to tumblr itself and make sure if that person is truly problematic. by asking that person directly. and obviously, everyone would admit point black to being a predator who has molested their siblings for years, catfished a friend, sexually abuse people, groomed a minor, etc, etc, right? right? that's a very smart thing to assume, right? so obviously, as a very reasonable, very maam, this woman is going to directly ask to the people accused of these acts if they're true instead of looking at any of the evidence. just read again how apologetic this woman is to someone she has no idea why people keep calling a predator. no, anon. this is gold. this up there with the kind of absolute nonsense that the whole "i was stalked by a online harasser and i drop kick him in front of my house in the street, i receive a concussion too but no medical assistance required, thank you" saga was. the cancer history can't compare. it's even funnier than the "concerned" father because that was just one random anon that maybe, if you really wanted to, could believe came from someone else. in this ocassion, LO made that account. she actually went through the trouble of making it. the answer of LO too is so funny. first of all, i need to ask: what does "minor therapy" even means? do they come in categories now? there's a "high therapy" that you only get once you have grind enough, i wonder. "reinforcing that he needs to do something else with his time" is so extremely vague that you might as well said "the solution to your problem is to solve it", but somehow making it this big declaration that is supposed to be the biggest help you can get on that situation.

she's treating this reply as it were this big moment of her declaring the truth of the matter... while addressing actually nothing at all. if you were a real mother who thinks your son is following someone that people are calling a predator... well, the first question is obviously why would you write that "predator" at all. but then the other question would be, is that actually a good reply? there's no screenshots, there's no archives, there's no proof of anything of what LO's saying. this is literally just "source: trust me" and it's meant to be taken seriously. LO has found LO innocent of all charges, as LO has declared. she thinks this is going to assure people that she's innocent. that's amazing. that's a great joke. the funniest joke that LO has never made in her entire career. i literally can't stop laughing just imagining LO doing all of this and thinking to herself "take that, Brittanies! now you won't ever doubt the harm you cause! even though i actually completely failed into portraying any real harm done, but nevermind that! take that!"

even in the case that this was a real person who saw her son's entire internet history and somehow felt necesary to make a tumblr blog just so she could message a youtuber out of the blue, LO's answer would mean nothing. if i was a parent, this reply alone would set a new field of red flags everywhere. and that's why it's so funny that LO still has this account pretending to be grateful for receiving what is essentially a big sandwich of nothing.

[fireworkss-exe]

3 14 21!!

doing this for ride the cyclone👍

3- screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr - someone once said that ocean can only be played by a white actor because she has social darwinist tendencies. last time I checked ANYONE can be a racist asshole so....... also the whole "noel is a catfish" theory that's just blatant homophobic garbage and goes totally against noel's character

14- that one thing you see in fics all the time - I don't read much fanfiction for rtc, but constance being boiled down to the "mom friend" stereotype. it pisses me off ESPECIALLY because constance is often played by a person of color and it just reminds me a LOT of the mammy stereotype

21- common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing - ppl complaining about the choir (minus penny/jane) not getting to live. tell me you didn't watch/listen to the musical without telling me you didn't watch/listen to it. THE WHOLE SHOW IS ABOUT LEARNING TO MOVE ON!!!!! THE CHOIR HAD TO LEARN TO MOVE ON OR THEY'D BE STUCK IN LIMBO FOREVER AND NEVER FIND PEACE GRRRRRRR

[hockeychatstea]

Okay so I need to know if there's anyone else who had this experience because it's been almost two months since it happened and I'm still unsure of what to make of it. 🧐 Late Feb I was followed on IG from an account that was either a) a Jeremy Swayman catfish; b) some kind of weird honeypot to catch puck bunnies trying to score with him; or c) his actual finsta. The account itself was private and had the same bio as his main, the same profile pic as his cameo account, 5 posts, around 25 followers, and was following over 120 people.

I never sent it a follow request back because I didn't trust that it wasn't fake, but I regret not grabbing a screenshot of it at the time because it kept changing names every day so I wasn't able to track it down after it unfollowed me a couple days later, I assume for not responding. I don't really interact with anything hockey related on Insta besides following a handful of players and official accounts, there's nothing on my profile that indicates I'm a hockey or Bruins fan, and I don't follow any other Bruins fans so I have NO idea how this account even found me, even if it was a catfish. The only thing I can think of is that if it WAS actually him, because it happened the same week the team had the Western Canada road trip (the account followed me on Sunday and unfollowed on Tuesday) and I live in the PNW so it could have been from a location tag. 🤔 So the timeline would track but even then I was ??? why me I'm not a model or tall or blonde or anything like what a player would typically go for.

Obviously I'm just some random anon so I'm not gonna be offended if people take this with a grain of salt (man I REALLY should have taken a screenshot 😂) but I need to know if anyone else had this happen to them because the whole thing was weird as hell and I don't wanna be the only one. Because yeah, either Sway has an impersonator running around IG catfishing people, it's a honeypot to catch bunnies (which is insane person behaviour ngl, speaking as someone who is very obviously NOT a puck bunny), OR he's got a finsta that is kept meticulously hidden and he's apparently secretly into openly queer art girls with weird-colored hair. Who knows! 🤷‍♀️

That's crazy either way lol