#apologies for hijacking your post op

[codename-adler]

it seems the aftg fam is coming to realize how dangerously close it could have got to Aaron being the target of Riko’s rage, instead of Seth, in TFC. well well well. been there done that!

read dance ‘til you find someone to die for on ao3 or head over to my blog under the #dance ‘til you find someone to die for OR #dtyfstdf <3

AU where Riko targets Aaron instead of Seth, yet Aaron somehow is saved by the great Kevin Day, and all are left to deal with the aftermath. the damage doesn’t stop there. the road ahead is paved with danger. Seth lives. but at what cost. loyalties are tested. the feelings are coming for Aaron and Kevin. Neil is still his great little shit self.

okay. i'm curious.

you are welcome, nay encouraged, to debate

[spacenintendogs]

3 10 16or 17 for the httyd asks!!

3. Did you play School of Dragon? If so, what dragon(s) did you have?

i tried back in 2018 but my laptop couldn't handle it. i never got past the tutorial with toothless and immediately uninstalled it and then was still devastated when they shut it down :')

10. What are your favourite songs from the soundtracks?

the big 3: forbidden friendship, test drive, and romantic flight.

see you tomorrow is a BANGER

all of the jonsi songs!!

once there were dragons is also so good... listened to that on repeat after i saw the hidden world in 2019

16. What is your favourite plot arc?

edit: i realized this said plot arc and astrid's character arc doesn't rlly count but for plot arc: hiccup & snotlout's arc of learning to respect each other more in riders/defenders of berk. basically the screaming death arc!!

astrid's in the first movie... it's near perfect and her role in the story is so vital bc her mind being changed makes stoick's mind being changed so much more believable. astrid's arc is such an interesting throughline to see the movie through. astrid being the most viking like of the teens and taking everything so seriously only to decide to give hiccup a chance (yes she was hanging off a tree rlly high off the ground and then only apologized bc toothless was whipping her around as payback for her attitude lol) but once toothless calms down that's when astrid rlly sits back and gives toothless & hiccup a chance & you just. see her relaxed for the first time in the movie and smiling so wide and it's SOOOOOOO. i love her so much.

17. Do you read or write HTTYD fanfic? If so, give some recommendations!

i do both!!

for reading, i haven't done a lot & i am kinda particular abt what i read (i heed tags & stuff seriously!! they're there for a reason!!) but!! from recent memory & my bookmarks

promises, promises is by @artinandwritin and it's abt her httyd ocs and @beebooca's oc set post the hidden world (except the dragons are still there!!) and it's such a fun exploration of the effect things can have on oc characters based on what happens to the canon characters they're connected to!! it's very good (and i am honored to have helped beta read :'))

translations by @bignostalgias is a hijack fic where jack frost ends up on berk after following silver dream sand (and ends up becoming "alive" again) and there's the whole thing where he's confused abt how berk exists and seems to be behind modern day and dragons exist. everything is so thought out and carefully put together and i just can not wait for more!!

frowny kisses by @tysonrunningfox bc my snotstrid loving ass adores those losers so much and op has got them DOWN!! the original snotstrid person fr fr i am begging y'all to pls check out their stuff!!!!!!!!!

also fics by @eemoo1o-tfrmoo & @kolasharkattack are also rlly rlly good!!!!!!

and yea i write fics lol but i go through spurts of YEAH UPDATE LET'S GO WOO and then quickly losing steam & updates come rarely even tho they take up so much space in my brain bc writing hard :')

the summer snotlout jorgenson got laid is tied to my modern au & it's abt the brief period astrid & snotlout decided to try dating & obv they break up but hey. unrestrained summer fun :)

burn is a series following astrid & snotlout's friendship. there's only 2 fics rn but windburn is complete and heartburn is a work in progress. i have a few fics for series stewing around in my brain as well but!! yea!!

then there's the calm dragon nip provides which is basically my fishlout smokes weed fic and it's not even a year old yet & tbh i'm not happy with it at all but i don't regret it enough to delete it. u can read it if u wish but i'm not proud of it. c'est la vie.

and those are my most recent fics!! and then my docs are just. full of incomplete bullshit lol <3 ty!!

[29daffodils]

@luveverlong's KinnPorsche Triggers (and if they were results of the vegaspete madness)

hello OP! apologies for hijacking your post, but your reblog made me giddy and i didn't want to bombard your post with vegaspete in case they are not your thing!

**

okay, so @luveverlong made this post which i reblogged and then i started wondering how many triggers actually were there, and thought i'd count and classify which i feel were results of vegaspete madness 😅 here we go.

DISCLAIMER : i probably got some of them wrong, because i keep forgetting certain things happened (like, ken losing his head) . don't take this too seriously!

total triggers (so far) : 57

vegaspete contribution : 30

%age contribution : 52.6%

conclusion : so i was wrong, it's not 90% but it's more than 50% which is saying SOMETHING lmao

abuse >> gun and korn

alcohol use >> pretty much all the theerapanyakul cousins (except tankhun, maybe?)

animal death >> vegaspete + khun spikes 🥹

ass eating >> definitely vegaspete (and he did it with such enthusiasm too!!

assassination >> who??

attempted assassination >> definitely on kinn

attempted murder >> whose??

attempted underage drug use >> lmao porchay

attic wifery >> nampheung goes whoop!

blood >> vegaspete (first & foremost, but also everyone else since mafia)

bondage >> vegaspete (bcz kp are too damn vanilla lmao)

cheating >> who??? who's cheating??

child abuse >> vegaspete (my poor liddol meow-meow and my sweet summer child 🥹

choking >> vegaspete, sensually, but also kinnporsche literally

death >> vegas (i'll never forgive him for that, but also pete aiding in the undeath, hence, this is primarily vegaspete, i take no arguments

decapitation >> vegas (and pete watching from the distance)

edit : okay, it was ken. apologies for my bad english 🥲 (p.s. : i also did not count it under vegaspete in the original post! hence why vegas and pete are written separately, and not as the ship name!)

degradation >> vegaspete

dehumanization >> vegaspete

domestic violence >> technically also VP bcz their dads were shit, but let's count them out of this one because I'm not too sure

drugging >> oof, vegas (but not VP)

electrical torture >> vegaspete *evil laughter*

emotional blackmail >> vegaspete + granny saengtham lmao

flashing lights >> vegaspete (in their neon lit sex room)

force feeding >> vegaspete

gaslighting >> don't think this was VP, but let me know if i forgot a specific scene

gore >> vegaspete (iykyk)

guns >> okay, VP, but kinnporsche can have this one. that one spinning+shooting scene was epic.

gunshot wounds >> vegaspete wins this one. motherfucker survived 5 gunshots, and pete gave him one of them

hostage situations >> vegaspete go whoop!

illegal fighting >> lmao porsche

incest (???) >> definitely NOT VP (they are the only ones not involved in cousin fuckery and yet the most unhinged out of all of them)

kidnapping >> omg chay 🥲

manipulation >> vegaspete, via granny saengtham

munchausen by proxy >> i have no idea what this is, sorry

murder >> pretty much everyone lmao

mutilation >> vegas!!!

ownership >> vegaspete

panic attacks >> okay, I can't remember who got panic attacks, help out a fella here

petplay kink >> vegaspete

poisoning >> heh? somebody was poisoned??

prostitution (???) >> who??

scars >> vegaspete

self-harm >> vegaspete go whoop!

sex scenes >> vegaspete (but also kinnporsche) (but I'm biased and vegaspete were superior so……)

sexual assault / dubcon >> NOT VP 👀

sexual torture >> vegaspete (!!! 😳)

smoking >> pete alone can add up the points for this one lmao

stalking >> vegaspete lmao

stockholm syndrome >> vegaspete (but I'm rolling my eyes)

suicide >> who??

suicide attempt >> definitely only vegaspete

tasering >> vegaspete

theft >> vegaspete at its very core (iykyk)

torture >> vegaspete

vegas >> lmaoooo, he is a trigger warning by virtue, but accentuated by pete

verbal torture / abuse >> gun theerapanyakul 😤

vomit >> porsche 😂 (i think?)

[an-honest-endeavor]

Not sure if ya'll know this but hijacking another person's thread starter and then starting your own thread under it while ignoring them is pretty rude as hell. At least make a new post and do your own thing so the OP doesn't get spammed with your reblogs.

I agree, I didn’t notice right away that this was a different blog, and I’ve already apologized to the OP before you sent this ask.

[makeroomforthejolyghost]

vagueing. well, specific-ing, really. but too much a coward to reblog the post i'm annoyed about, because i know that wouldn't go well

i'm sick of this post, and of the sentiment in general. "i don't think tumblr's ready for this take yet" op says, and granted it's from two years ago and maybe it was true then? in fact i think i would've appreciated this post then.

ok, maybe not that year. but, like, in 2018 or so i might've.

now i feel pretty over it though. like? i remember having the frustration op talks about--the feeling that since mental illness is the kind of disability we have the most scripts for, it, like, owns the disability narrative and so may co-opt posts about parts of it not actually applicable to able-bodied mentally ill people--but that last addition, god. they lay out all these specifics about how mental illness depression is different from physical disability chronic pain (because those are the only two disabilities /s) and they're such. shallow differences??

"Being insomniac compared to the physical pain not letting you sleep" i mean. we call it "painsomnia" for a reason? these're squares and rectangles! i spend most nights with some "can't sleep because pain," some "can't sleep because adhd," and some "can't sleep because temperature dysregulation." i don't get the urge to guard the sacredness of "can't sleep because pain" against these other forms of insomnia, especially not if, as the person who wrote this part of the post claims, it's not about asserting that chronic pain is Worse than mental illness

"Being unable to cook because your attention keeps dropping off and you accidentally burn it/cut yourself vs being unable to cook because the pan will suddenly become to heavy as your shoulder spontaneously dislocates or you literally can’t stop your hands trembling to safely cut or put things in the oven ect." ????? you've just... listed three different reasons someone might not be able to cook safely. and they're such completely different reasons* that i cannot for my life figure out why they think the latter two examples have more affinity w/ each other than any other two out of the three. like why should a person who only experiences difficulty w/ cooking because of the third reason feel more solidarity w/ someone who can't cook for the second reason than w/ someone who can't cook for the first?

also, in what alternate universe was spoon theory "taken over" by mentally ill/physically healthy people? "they also use it"=/="it's not ours anymore." when have you ever heard an able-bodied mentally ill person call themselves a "spoonie"?--vs., on the other hand, how many times have you seen a mentally ill anon ask a physically disabled tumblr user whether they're allowed to use the spoon metaphor, with elaborate apologies on either side of the question for fear of overstepping, and seen that tumblr user respond that yes, of course you can?

"hijacking" my ass, in a community where we have a strong discourse norm against gatekeeping. more people blog about mental illness than about chronic illness, is, i think, the trend you are noticing here.

*though all three are good examples of why i personally suck at cooking

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

I’m not really invested in sander sides but I’d like to hear about your au if that’s alright?

Ahhh it's the op! First of all I'd like to apologize for hijacking your post in the name of my undying Sanders Sides obsession.

Second, I'd be more than happy to tell you all about it, as soon as I figure it out a little more.

I mean so far I know which character is gonna be what color and based on that I know what the team dynamic is gonna be like and who joins when in the story, but in terms of what their powers are, who they're fighting, or literally anything else about the story, I got nothing currently.

But like who knows maybe if you ask me specific questions I'll be able to come up with something, develop the concept a little.

You know, only if you want to.

[croquettish]

I hope you can forgive me for adding to this excellent post that I could not agree with more, but the timing of that gift in particular is also interesting and makes it matter even more imo.

Because this is shortly after he found out that he's going to be married off against his will. This didn't come up after they reunited at Raborsch, because, well, a slaughter had just occurred and they kind of had more important things to do. But the next time the two of them have a chance to talk, Hans does not bring up what happened. Instead, he tells Henry he prayed for him, gifts him the bow, and then...

There is a real yearning for the past here, returning to the time that they first bonded together and actually became friends. Certainly a time before he was all set to be married. Henry even remarks on how odd it is that he should reminisce about this time to this extent and end up pining after the ye olde times that they shared:

Hans, of course, immediately goes on the defensive:

And ends up looking for reassurance here... only to change the topic as quickly as possible. No need to answer now, Henry! There's duty and such things to be done! We can still have fun another time!!

That gift to me is sooo directly linked to his desire for a) a time before his surprise betrothal and b) Henry. He may as well be saying "take me back to how things were before, please. I'll give you anything if only you'll do that."

I'm soooo obsessed with hans' gift giving love language, he doesn't have a groschen to his name at devil's den but he needs to express the magnitude of what the maleshov rescue meant to him so he steals jobst's expensive bow and invents a grand little fairytale about how fate intended it for a true knight (Henry, ofc, the best and truest knight (not actually a knight)) (which is even cuter given hans is more of an archer and especially if you like me play henry as a swordsman) and I just imagine Hans impulsively stealing this pretty bow out of spite and then once he has it, probably one of the most valuable things he has in his possession at this point, immediately feeling like he absolutely must give it to henry

[fandom-rants]

How to Tell if Someone is Being a Giant Ass Basket

You post an opinion piece. Say you do as the previous person I reblogged did and make a polite post critiquing a character. You make a couple of comments alluding to a pairing you like.

Someone jumps onto your post to tell you how liking that pairing is "wrong." Like, not even saying they don't like the pairing, which is random enough because why should OP care?? But to tell them that it's wrong. Like. Morally.

OP calls them out on their shit, because not only is this egotistical as fuck, but also something OP literally touched on in their post.

This person replies with, not an apology, but a rebuttal. Then follows it up with, "I'm just speaking my opinion like you."

Block this fucker.

Not only have they hijacked the post from its original intent, not only have they paraded their opinion as a moral high ground in order to, as OP accurately states, "correct" her for a ship she likes, they have done so with the excuse of "just stating their opinion."

Please.

You "state your opinion" on your own blog. You start an argument on someone else's.

The hilarious thing is, OP notes how people who take the moral high ground are self-righteous, elitist exclusivists, and then. This person. Comes in and does the exact thing OP calls out. Like. Wow.

Imagine being that oblivious to recognizing that a call-out post is about you.

But back to why you need to block people like this. Not only do they throw their opinions out as Moral Truths, they do so while hiding behind accusatory language. "Hey, you posted an opinion on the Internet. If you didn't want it argued, then you shouldn't have put it in a public space. I'm just doing the same thing you did."

No.

See, no. That attitude is bullshit.

It's an attack on the person speaking their mind, a way to make them feel guilty and shut them up. A person does not say "the cold sucks" so someone can argue about how it's actually great and heat sucks. People hate those who pull that shit, and with good reason. Shockingly, not everyone has to agree with you. A person can just say the cold sucks because they don't like it and they want to say so, not so that someone can "prove" that their subjective opinion on the weather is "wrong."

Telling someone you're just "stating your opinion, too" when you out-and-out say, "just... no" and start telling them why they're wrong? Yeah, that's not an opinion. Saying it is is a great way to play the victim game when they call you out again, though. Congrats! You've made this about you and have turned the person disagreeing with you into a bad guy, proving that you're the good person and they're the bad person - thus that their opinion is wrong (because bad people are always wrong, duh) and you are right.

Don't bother playing their game. Just block their despicable asses and live a life that much more beautiful for erasing another stain from it.

[jewishdainix]

Hello! I would like to preface this with saying I am not making this reblog to attack you or call you out, but to bring awareness. It is directed at the arcane fandom in general, not specifically at you and is truly not mean to cause offense or drama, just to educate.

This is ableist.

(Cw for disscussion and description of eye injury)

We know unambigiously what caitlyn's eye injury looks like. She was stabbed directly, and deeply in the eyeball. There is no injury on the skin surrounding it.

Despite this, a not-small amount of the fandom have taken to drawing caitlyn's eye injury as if it was a slash on her eye and across her face. And draw the eye itself as milky white/bluish, which is a very popular depiction of blindness in animation, but is inaccurate to blindness and to the injury/specific type of blindness caitlyn has.

(I am not linking the artists of these here, since I don't want people to go harrass them. If you want to know the artists tell me and I'll dm them to you. If you are the artist of any of these drawings and feel comfortable with your blog being mentioned in this post, tell me and I'll add your credit)

Drawing caitlyn with this depiction of blindness - that is popular in art but inaccurate - is erasing her actual blindness/disability and replaceing it with a romanticised & fetishized version.

I know neither the op of this post or any of these other artists had any ill intention, and are doing it by lack of awareness, so this isn't a callout and especially not a call to harrass any of these people, simply to educate.

Caitlyn’s Golden Eye Without The Eye Patch

I need more art of her without the eye patch. Yes, her fucked up lost eye turned gold because I said so. Idk about you guys but she’s kinda hotter without her other eye.

She likes to remove her eye patch during combat because she’s not completely blind there (like she can still sense some form of light). Also during meetings where her authority is questioned, she takes it off to remind the room of the sacrifice she made to defend Piltover against the Noxians (like the newer version of “I am a decorated officer, leader of House Kiramman”).

Potentially, she could have cured it with HexTech or even a stabilized form of Shimmer, but she chooses not to because it serves as a reminder of her mistakes which she will atone for the rest of her life and also as a trophy of having the honor to protect Piltover (just like Grayson and her gun).

Vi also thinks she’s hot as fuck without the eye patch but Caitlyn insists on it because she’s worried she might spook some kids.

[samisadeangirl]

sorry to bother but what's a destiheller? i just joined tumblr and i see this word used everywhere. i'm just assuming it means an obsessive destiel stan or a destiel stan in general

Hi Anon,

No need to apologize, my friend!  I’m always open to polite questions like this.  We can’t learn if we don’t ask questions, after all.

Your assumption is pretty close there.  A Destiheller is a rude, entitled type of Destiel fan who does things like demand that their ship be made canon (even though the majority of SPN fans don’t want that), shove their ship in everyone’s faces by spamming the general tags, hijacking unrelated posts, etc., harasses the actors, crew, and other fans to validate their ship or because they disagree with them, acts inappropriately at conventions (asks inappropriate questions at panels, brings inappropriate art to autograph sessions, requests inappropriate poses or tries to grope the actors at photo ops, etc.), and so on.  

We use the term Destiheller to differentiate these sort of assholes from the normal Destiel fan who is content to ship their fanon ship in peace and not bother other people about it.  It’s the Destihellers that so many of us have a problem with, not the regular fans of the ship.  They’re a minority among the Destiel shippers, but they’re so loud and obnoxious that they give the entire ship, and sometimes even SPN fans in general, a bad name in many people’s minds.

[flyingcatstiel]

1. Hello again, I am the same anon who sent both of your latest two anonasks. I think there was some confusion so I'll clarify. I don't even ship stony(I've only read handfuls of fics), I ship destiel and I like all mcu characters equally and I am not team cap nor iron but I am a bitter cas girl. There was NO intention to bring any wank or ships/characters bashing to your blog. I was just so angry with 'we are' and your answer to the first ask got me thinking about stony.

2. But my ask was poorly and inadequately worded to confuse you of the ulterior intention and I apologize. Though I shouldn’t have use the ship names when I meant their general relationship both in canon and fanon, what I meant was in regard to the same situation, which is their mother’s deaths, Tony actually drew blood and all Dean did was say some words,

3. so one might think that actual physical conflicts not induced by any supernatural event indicate bad relationship but I feel Dean and Cas’s friendship and general relationship more unhealthy and unbalanced.

4. Now I just decided for my self that that’s probably because Tony and Steve has different visions, families, groups of friends and support system so even if there is conflict between them, Tony still got Pepper Rhodey and Happy and Steve got Bucky Nat and Sam.

5. So no one is left alone in the world. But if Dean’s angry with Cas, Cas is alone in the universe. I meant unhealthy like that. Cas has no one except Winchester families and if that makes Cas desperate for sense of belong and makes him apologize like that, that imao is unhealthy. But all in all, I am sorry for the confusion. I shouldn’t have been so blunt and out of the blue. Post 1502 made me go blind with unreasonable fury.

6. On a different note it’s interesting how wording and context make differences between being perceived as wank baiting anon hate or anon thanks. And I hope that this message is accepted as the latter because I am always grateful of all your reasonable words about Spn and fandom fruits. :) thanks for reading.

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Heey, sorry for total misunderstanding with the previous ask and thank you for coming back and clarifying it! And yes, I’m kinda jumpy lately, since couple of my spn critical posts were hijacked by destiel haters and also earned me the blocking from destiel positivity crowd. That’s the fandom we have and that is one huge reason why I’m slowly sauntering into MCU fandom. To be brutally honest, that’s my advice to all bitter Cas girls - get out before you get too frustrated and hurt. The show will continue Cas whump because they don’t know what else to do, and destiel metas will spend all their energy justifying it. Instead of, you know, just saying that bad writing is bad writing. You can always come and vent in my inbox or via DM tho, I’ll try to answer as much as I can, because I feel you. 

OK, very quickly about CW movie and Tony’s anger vs Dean’s anger. I don’t think Tony’s situation is comparable at all here. Tony learns about Bucky killing his parents on Hydra’s orders after a long chain of very intense conflicts. That was literally the last drop, there’s little time to process it, and it is the culmination of the movie. On the other side, Dean and Cas conflict is never the centerpiece of SPN, it’s all subtext and Dean’s POV. Dean blaming Cas for Mary’s accidental death comes absolutely out of nowhere. They all knew that Jack is using his soul to do stuff, they all knew Jack needs supervision. FFS, Jack just brought Sam back from dead by using his soul. And now Cas is to blame for it? Not to mention that Dean and Cas relationship is way more complicated than MCU stony. Even if we take out romantic destiel subtext out of it, textually, Cas still is the closest person to Dean after Sam. Dean has called Cas his family, his brother several times. Dean grieved Cas in s13. And now, suddenly, it all means nothing because Dean is angry? Unpopular opinion about SPN writers under the cut.

I said it already back then and I still stand by my words - Berens wrote the line “You are dead to me” deliberately to yank the fandom. There are plenty of other words he could have used if he simply wanted to show Dean’s grief and uncontrollable anger towards Cas. Instead, SPN focused on one thing that would hurt the most and then used it in the promo. I literally saw post on my dash saying that OP was not gonna watch the episode because SPN is just meh, but, after seeing that promo, OP wanted to know why Dean said something so hideous to Cas. Remember how fans hoped that it’s a misleading promo? Remember how fans hoped that Dean will apologize to Cas? There’s an understanding that that line was too much. And, after s14 finale, I saw posts talking about how this is not relevant anymore because surely Jack’s death and Chuck’s machinations override whatever anger Dean could have towards Cas for not telling him about snake. And then 15x01 brought us that passive aggressive scene and, well, 15x02 took the cake. 

So, while I totally agree with you that the scene between Dean and Cas was terrible, my way of dealing with it is to blame SPN writers. First of all, I don’t understand what Dean is talking about there. Nothing was real? Does he mean some kind of Matrix type of reality where the real Dean is sleeping in a pod? Otherwise, it was all real. Tell Kevin Tran that his death and time after death was not real. Tell it to Jo, Charlie, Eileen that their deaths were not real. Cas speech is nice, but, honestly, not a groundbreaking revelation. Whedon’s Angel said it wittier, Dumbledore and Gandalf said it more fitting for their stories. There’s a Jewish proverb with similar sentiment. Like, this is nothing new! Our choices matter, sometimes it is the only thing that matters. I mean, everyone who has lived under authoritarian regimes, everyone who’s a minority and has to deal with privileged majority, knows this. To make Dean to refuse it in s15, is honestly very baffling. 

Like, I see that SPN writers want to draw some parallels with s4 by flipping Dean and Cas beliefs, but, scene subversion works only if you know why the first scene worked in the first place. I think this scene would have worked better if Dean would be just venting his understandable frustration with the situation. But instead, we got Cas apologizing, Dean still blaming Cas for Mary’s death (seriously wtf?) and then Dean walking out on Cas and refusing Cas’ belief in their choices being real. 

And here I come to my last point. Dean saying that their choices were not real because Chuck manipulated everything sounds very much like privileged middle class white people suddenly realizing that they are not calling the shots and then throwing into a towel. This really looks like the most “profound” revelation Bucklemming could’ve come up with. They gave similar moronic lines to Cas in 9x03, when Cas, former angel who watched humanity for thousand of years, was surprised that poor people are kind and generous. 

So, to me it looks like SPN writers are trying to be deep but in the end they write what they know best - angry white man is always right trope and le omg, if I’m not the center of the universe then everything was not real story. Which sucks, tbh. And clashes with older seasons of SPN. But here we are. And, since the conflict between Dean and Cas is based on such a weak argument, there can’t be real resolution, catharsis and growth. The current conflict serves only one purpose - to keep Cas and Dean on bad terms and to make Cas leave (because Misha’s contract something something). My worst fear - this stupid conflict will set Cas on self destructive/sacrificial path, and that will be it. Because let’s be serious, destiel is not the most important thing in s15. It’s just not. 

[robobee]

SUCCESSION ▸ 4.06 living+

[coldsaturn]

so i probably haven't even gotten halfway through all the shit that happened today but i think people are starting things because the post was originally a joke (well. half a joke) made against toxic ships in the fandom. the replies with legit serious ship names for those ships weren't jokes. and that seems a little iffy because it's almost like encouraging that those ships can be shipped?? when they probably should not be.

“half a joke” first post gives 4 “acceptable” ships, with, I quote, “can we make a list for others as well?” referred to name of ships. general. it then goes on with a clearly sarcastic post listing 3 other ships. following the “make a list for others [ship names]” we then followed with all the other ships present in the fandom that had lived enough to have a name. it’s not the first time that someone asks for ship names, it’s not the first time that someone does a bit of irony and cracks jokes over riko and other fandom content. going from here to “you’re disgusting, homophobic, don’t give a shit about abuse survivors, encourage that those ships can be shipped” etc, is, imo, a pretty wild jump for what was, in your own words, something started half as a joke. if the joke was private or had rules, they weren’t stated, shame on all of us.I’ll ignore the “they probably should not be” because I can repeat myself only so much before sounding...well, repetitive xD but I’ll concede that OP and those who shared their view must have felt like we were hijacking the post, or suddenly going from joke to awful, stay-the-fuck-away-from-me truth. I apologize for not understanding that that post was not meant for everyone. 

[fair-fae]

You know, I'm not a drama person, I don't like it, but it came up on my dash so much that I kind of had to read it. All of that nonsense could've been avoided if you didn't even take it to the public. Judging people for THEIR characters that THEY made and can do WHATEVER the hell they want with them? Oh woo ho good job, you're so popular for taking the "barrage" of it. No. all it did was prove that you're a D-bag and I've got a nice, long list of people to block now and avoid contact with.

Okay, anon. I haven’t bothered setting the record straight with most of this shit, because I know folks like you will continue to believe what you want to believe and hear what you want to hear, just like you’re doing now. But I’ll bite. You’d think all of you getting onto your soapbox about how you shouldn’t judge or attack others wouldn’t keep talking shit about a situation you know nothing about and/or are terribly misinformed about. So I’ll enlighten you with what actually happened.

A while back, the person in question got into an argument with some people on the RPC, trying to tell them that their interpretation of the lore was wrong. Rather than leaving it at that, when he effectively got shut down there, he proceeded to take a screenshot of the conversation and post it on his tumblr, complete with a rant about the people who disagreed with him, their opinions are so wrong and awful, how dare they disagree with him, etc. essentially playing the victim when he was the one to try to badger them for their opinions in the first place. He also left their names, icons, signatures, etc. in full view.I responded and told him he probably shouldn’t be trying to harass any other people about the lore considering his own character concept (thus, you would think, making my opinion on his character pretty clear). Why? Because it’s fucking true.I don’t give a shit about the lore or whether anyone follows it. Probably every single one of my own characters at least bends the lore. But at least have the self-awareness and respect for your fellow role-players to say “yeah, my character breaks the lore” or not get your jimmies rustled every time someone says “oh, yeah, his character is lore breaking.” You wanna break the lore? Cool. Own up to it. And if you do break the lore, don’t try to force everyone else into following it–especially when you can’t even admit you break lore and instead stretch the lore to try so hard to justify your entirely lore-breaking character concept. Don’t try to heckle people for presumably doing what you do but won’t admit. Granted, these people weren’t even breaking lore anyway, which makes his insistence that they were even more ridiculous.So after some excuses about how he was trying to start some intellectual discussion or something and not just drag these people despite featuring their identities and primarily just complaining about them throughout the post, he admitted he should have at least edited out their names and apologized. Great! You’d think that should be the end of it. I didn’t have anything against him at that point, but also had no desire/reason to associate with him, so I didn’t. A couple months go by. Some post comes across my dash. A girl in the community is doxxing her online ex-boyfriend in a callout post about him for unexpectedly breaking up with her because she “thinks” he was lying to her about serious issues and “believes” he was cheating on her. Because I’m a loud and opinionated person, and because that’s some heinous thing to do, I spoke out against it (via a post on my own blog without naming names, mind you, because I’m not going to hijack someone else’s post with negativity or call them out by name). The girl found it, assumed it was about herself, flipped out, and then of course I was the bad guy for saying doxxing isn’t okay. And then the person in question joins in. Not even to discuss the topic at hand, but to dredge up the old drama about how I was so mean to him and he did nothing wrong, etc. A pretty crappy 180 turn for a person who apologized and made it seem like there were no hard feelings, but whatever. Someone saw that he obviously didn’t like me, and seized the chance to try to talk shit and spread rumors because they knew he’d give them the platform. They sent him some anon about how I hate women (lmao). And of course, he published it, with no skepticism or disagreement, only more commentary about how I’m mean and awful. I went to respond, only to find myself blocked. So I went on about my life because it’s not that big of a deal, but hey. The moment you talk shit about me, especially in a venue where I can’t respond, especially facilitating some lies and BS rumors, especially after leading me to believe we’d made amends–you aren’t off limits. You don’t get spared niceness and politeness. Is that mean and petty? Probably.¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’ve never claimed to be a nice person.Now, to the horrible, awful thing I did to make this “public.” Fast forward to yesterday. I’d kept my mouth shut and left him alone. In a section of the RPC that doesn’t get a ton of traffic, largely because you have to make an account on the website and then manually opt in to this specific forum, several of us were discussing an absolutely awful person which is an unrelated story I won’t get into. Someone asked something along the lines of, “Are you guys talking about Underaged Looking Allagan Voidsent Chimera Demon Guy?” I responded with basically “No, we’re not talking about Underaged Looking Allagan Voidsent Chimera Demon Guy.” And that was it. We moved on with the conversation because he wasn’t who we’d been talking about. His name, tumblr, server info, in game race, class, etc. was all never given. No identifiable information beyond a very brief and tongue-in-cheek description of his RP character comprised of words taken directly from his own wiki, tumblr info, talk of his own character and RP posts.Someone saw the conversation, and based on our intentionally shitty description, was able to accurately guess who we were talking about and send him an anon to tell him about it. You’d think that would be pretty telling about his own RP, and this anon’s interpretation of it. He answered the anon in a long rant about me that featured both my in game name and my tumblr handle. In case you need me to spell this out for you, he went public with it first. I’ll also remind you that I was blocked, so I wasn’t/couldn’t be following him, and I was not properly @tagged in this rant, so I never would have seen it unless someone told/linked me, or someone I follow eventually reblogged it. And I honestly can’t imagine the level of narcissism it takes to write a long personal post full of wangst and victim-playing every time you hear a person had something negative to say about you or your RP character (not even by name–and by picking words from his own descriptions of his character), especially a person you have had issues with in the past and who you openly shit-talked yourself prior. Who does that? Lord knows my blog would be overflowing. Not everyone will like you, especially not people you jabbed at first. Especially not with an off the wall RP concept. Especially not with you trying to pass that concept is lore abiding and just “unusual.” Especially not with you trying to tell other people they’re “wrong” about the lore. Especially not with your character being a squicky, walking fetish and immortal jailbait. And that’s not even touching other things people have told me about this person that rubbed them the wrong way. Move on with your life.However, I found out about the post thanks to the OP himself when he unblocked me just to send me the link to the post and then before I could even read/respond to the post, sent me a barrage of IM’s still playing the innocent victim which is grating enough on its own but also included him straight up lying about ever posting/saying anything about me, insisting he’d done nothing to me, had nothing against me, this was so out of the blue and uncalled for, etc. When I pointed out this wasn’t the case, that I had seen and read the posts firsthand because blocking me doesn’t prevent me from seeing his posts, he began to lie instead about the contents of said posts and pulled some gaslighting bullshit about how I had just “misread” them, all the while either willfully or coincidentally not seeming to understand anything I said to him (I mentioned him publishing the anon about how I hate women at least twice and the response was always “I never said you hate women!!” Well no shit). He kept insisting that I had “gone behind his back” and that if I had a problem I should “say it to his face” despite the fact he’d had me blocked and that I’m not a douchey enough person to try to contact him despite that, and despite the fact that he had “gone behind my back” and not “said it to my face” twice now prior, and had done just that with his post about the folks from the RPC as well.He also insisted that the tumblr post was meant just to innocently “bring the issue to my attention to clear things up” despite me having no way to see it on my own unless by coincidence, and despite him proving to be willing and able to send me IM’s instead, which you’d think could render the need for a public post moot. When I pointed this out, he promptly deleted the post, lest anyone else see through his bullshit to what he was really trying to do.After my initial response to his wall of IM’s, he sent another wall this time with more insults and accusations, and promptly blocked me so I couldn’t respond. So yes, I made a vaguepost, I know, how awful, how dare I. A vague post vague enough that only someone who had seen his post, or who heard about it from him otherwise, would know who and what it was referencing. Until he responded to it himself, that is and unblocked me again to send me more angry messages to which I responded by permanently blocking him instead because this game of blocking and unblocking sure was getting old.Cue his charming friends sweeping in to tell me to eat a dick, making false accusations against my RP partner and I, sending me threats on Discord, telling people I flashed my breasts for money, etc. And the other person? The one who brought him up in the first place who I had only been responding to? Whose name he was given, was aired in the same public post on his blog as mine? As far as I know, she hasn’t gotten any hate, probably not a single message. And I’m glad, because she shouldn’t get any, she doesn’t deserve it. But at the same time, sure seems sketchy that the person who did the same exact thing as me–and who did it first–has not provoked anyone’s ire, not even been messaged. The public post in reply to the anon who named her, even, was aimed 100% at me. Now isn’t that funny. It’s almost like this was an excuse for people who already had beef with me to try to take shots at me and pretend it was justified. It’s almost like all you anon keyboard warriors don’t even know how this started or what actually happened.And now I’m going to talk about something else. You cannot do “whatever the hell you want” with your character. RP is a two-way (or more) street. There is a real person behind each and every character. These people are looking for fun just like you, and are every bit as deserving, and your fun shouldn’t impede on theirs. We are all allowed equal parts of fun.So when people play their weird ass lolicon/shotacon/pedobait characters, who is having fun? What if the other person in the RP was sexually abused as a child and you’re dredging up terrible old memories for them and making light of their pain? What if they’re a parent worried for their child, or worse, the parent of a child who’s already been abused? What if they’re an actual pedophile and seeing you RP this is tempting them, making them think they’re desires are normal and okay? Hell, what if they’re a goddamn ordinary person who finds it creepy and uncomfortable?What if the fetishized, futa ERP avatar is interacting with someone who is trans or nonbinary or intersex IRL? What if it’s triggering them (in the genuine, real sense of the word)? What if the walking affront against the lore character talking about being an Voidsent Half-Primal Garlean Spy in the middle of the Quicksand is ruining everyone’s immersion–particularly when they refuse to play along as others respond realistically IC and try to kill them or arrest them or kick them out? What if the OP af infinitely-stronger-than-everyone-else-around-him character is making the RP unfun for every other RPer involved because their characters can’t do anything but get beaten up or bow to his whims unless they stoop to godmodding or suddenly beefing up their own character?People can and will judge your character. Those judgments are usually best left kept themselves or quietly shared between trustworthy friends. But when your character trespasses on the OOC fun of the role-players around you? Sorry, my guy, people have every right to speak up. And all this nonsense? All this nonsense was a small handful of people who were already pretty nasty showing their true colors and getting told to pipe the fuck down. A pretty good outcome, if you ask me. So, please, block me, anon. My life will be better without idiots like you in it, and the same probably goes for anyone else you intend to block. Your nameless, ignorant, anonymous presence will not be missed–or noticed, for that matter.

[cocoa-rococo]

#my theory is... like many predators... his weak point is stamina#there's a reason why he prefers to lumber intimidatingly rather than race around like he does in the gifs#that huge body takes a lot of energy#but the very fact that he CAN move like that??? yikes. (@pianokantzart)

you know what? let's talk about bowser in this movie for a second, because it's so interesting to me from both a design and animation angle (though bear in mind this is all just me speculating and probably making a big deal out of nothing).

firstly, i'm almost convinced that the designers of this film took some inspiration from dinosaurs, especially a t-rex, for bowser (at least, the hollywood versions). the little modifications to his design definitely make him less like a turtle and enhance him into more of -- like op said -- a predator.

compare his design here to his usual stance in the games and pictures. the streamlined maw, the smaller spikes, the extra spines on his tail, and how his legs almost seem more underneath him (like a person or another saurischia dino) rather than outwards like an alligator or turtle? that's very t-rex like.

secondly, his stride is definitely lumbering when he's just walking (remember his gait to both the ice palace entrance and the star), but that first gif shows that he's able to land pretty solidly and keep going even afterwards. part of that has to do with him pushing off with his palms, but mainly comes from your legs being strong enough to withstand that shock of impact and push off again. this koopa runs, my dudes.

(side note, that second gif where he's able to shake off pushing a car out of the way while he's gunning for mario?)

(yeah.)

(also, side thing -- if you slow down the gifs, you can actually see the way the car shakes and tire slip more when bowser lands in the first, as well as the rocks in the rubble pit behind him bouncing with his steps in the second. a little added realism and just emphasis how heavy this guy is.)

and then to top it all off, this gif right here --

first of all -- TEETH. (he's got two more than he does in the game on the top and bottom)

second of all, the way he growls when he's standing up is scary on its own, but the way pushes both peach, toad, and dk away from him while getting more level and roaring like that?

(y e a h.)

in any case -- op is very much correct and bowser, in this film, is straight up hunting mario and is downright terrifying thanksforcomingtomyTEDtalk

It occurs to me that one of the many things that makes Movie Bowser so much scarier than most versions of Game Bowser is just how fast he is.

Usually in the games, as long as you keep racing around, it isn't hard to outpace him until you find a weak spot. In the movie?

He straight up moves like a pursuing predator. Mario was running away at full speed and Bowser overtook him with ease. That's terrifying.

(Credit to @destinyfromhighschool for the gifs: X)

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By Liam Kirsh

Last Wednesday, Burger King aired a 15-second TV ad featuring a man dressed as a Burger King employee speaking directly to the camera:

You’re watching a 15-second Burger King ad. Which is, unfortunately, not enough time to explain all the fresh ingredients in the Whopper sandwich. But I got an idea. Okay Google: What is the Whopper burger?

Credit: Screenshot from YouTube

If you’re using a screen reader to listen to this article, that last line may have activated your Google smart device and caused it to read from the Wikipedia article on the Whopper. That’s what Burger King’s marketing team had in mind, and they planned for it.

Background

The prior week, on Tuesday, April 4, a user under the name Burger King Corporation edited the article to include the following line in the product description:

The Whopper, also known as America’s favorite burger, has a flame-grilled patty made with 100% beef with no preservatives, no fillers and is topped with daily sliced tomatoes and onions, fresh lettuce, pickles, ketchup and mayo, served on a soft sesame seed bun.

The edit was reverted by another editor within 20 minutes. The attempt was made twice more under the username Fermachado123 (the same username used by Burger King marketing chief Fernando Machado on Twitter) and reverted again but then left in with minor changes.

The day of

The TV ad was released at about noon EDT on Wednesday, April 12. Over 20 minutes, in an attempt to change the Google devices’ response to the commercial’s trigger, vandals made a series of edits to the Wikipedia article. They added ingredients such as “medium-sized child”, “toenail clippings”, “cyanide”, and “rat”. Wikipedia volunteers reverted each edit, and an administrator eventually locked the page to prevent edits from unregistered and recently registered users.

As of 2:45pm EDT, Google issued an update blacklisting the sound clip so Google devices would not respond to it. In response, Burger King created a revised version of the ad that aired on both The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as well as Jimmy Kimmel Live, bypassing Google’s block and triggering devices once again.

In an emailed statement to The Washington Post, Burger King spokeswoman Dara Schopp proudly announced that Burger King had seen a 300 percent increase in “social conversation” on Twitter that day. Wikipedia editors published an open letter demanding an apology.

Concerns

Burger King violated several Wikipedia policies. One of these is the conflict of interest guidelines, which require editors to disclose conflicts of interest and advises against making direct edits to articles. As an administrator and long-time member of the wikiHow community, I know that volunteers spend a great deal of time patrolling edits for vandalism or low-quality contributions. Wikipedia is a non-profit, and the content is created and maintained entirely by volunteers. It’s distasteful for Burger King to commercialize articles for their own financial gain, and Burger King owes the Wikipedia community an apology.

More importantly, however, these events demonstrate the urgent need for voice authentication in smart devices. Google Home and Amazon Alexa are susceptible, as well as Android devices configured to accept commands from the lockscreen. Sure, this TV commercial was harmless. But it raises more serious concerns. A television ad, family member, or guest in the home could perform any of the following:

make unauthorized purchases (Google Home and Alexa offer shopping capabilities)

play adult content over speakers, or stream it to the TV (see this examplewhere a child’s parents stopped Alexa just in time)

tamper with the lights or thermostat

reveal personal photos, videos, or information to bystanders

perform incriminating web searches

Unlocked smartphones and tablets, or those configured to accept commands from the lockscreen, have even more capabilities and could be hijacked by any person or speaker within hearing range.

Future considerations

Recently, Google implemented a Smart Lock feature in some phones, which identifies the owner’s voice and only unlocks the phone when they say “Okay, Google.” Google is developing a similar feature for Google Home, but hasn’t announced a roadmap or release date. Unfortunately, this doesn’t go far enough. Imagine a conference presenter who was recorded using Smart Lock to unlock their phone outside the venue — an audience member could replay the presenter’s voice to unlock their phone and embarrass them during the presentation. Or worse: a person could replay their ex-spouse’s voice to the smart device to learn personal details about them. Manufacturers are putting their customers at risk by leaving out reliable security mechanisms in smart assistants.

For a solution, companies might look to the verification implemented by HSBC Bank in their telephone banking system last year. This system requires the user to recite a new set of words each time they authenticate themselves. Ideally, smart assistants would require this authentication by default for high-security actions (purchases, banking, etc.) and offer the option to enable it for calls, texts, and calendar events.

The burden lies on Google, Amazon, and Apple to design a reliable security mechanism for their smart home assistants. This feature should be an utmost priority, and I won’t be using a smart assistant until it’s added.

EDITOR’s NOTE: This Op-Ed was originally published on Medium. The Libertarian Republic has received expressed permission to republish. EDITOR’s NOTE: The views expressed are those of the author, they are not representative of The Libertarian Republic or its sponsors.

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