#as is Blahaj from Ikea but. you know. shark

[bubblegum-snowdrop]

ur never beating the “lwell loved plushie allegations

Lmfao never will claim to bjvbdfbhjvbjhdfjbhf

Although I do my best to take good care of them <33333

[hexkaliber]

Did you know? The sharks at IKEA are free. You can just take them home with you. Security guards might try to stop you but do not fret, for they are just testing your worthiness, and cannot truly stop you from taking 7 Blahaj.

[chuu-huahua]

guys @downbadforpixels told me that skk would go to ikea and act like a divorced married couple, so you guys can have SOUKOKU IKEA SHENANIGANS

no cuz they would 100% use the fake bedroom setups to argue with each other like a married couple. chuuya would bring up dazai’s constant flirting with women, and dazai would muffle a giggle behind his hand, claiming that he simply “really admired women. truly. you don’t have to worry about me cheating on you, chibikko. if not me, who else would date you?” he knows full well about the number of people who would die to get into chuuya’s pants, but that’s left unsaid.

they would buy the blahajes (that’s the plural form because i said so) too !! dazai picked one up and squeezed it to his chest tightly, before turning to chuuya and giving him his puppy eyes. “no, we are not buying that,” chuuya would reply sternly, and almost falter at the downcast expression on dazai’s face. but it’s ok, because when dazai comes home from work the next day, there would be a mountain of the shark plushies sitting on his bed waiting for him :)

they like to sit in the carts and ride around ikea too, by the way. dazai sticks his lanky legs out of the cart and he whoops as chuuya pushes him around the giant store, and their loud laughter and shouts attract the attention of many civilians. the workers try to get them to stop, but when they get one look from chuuya they immediately shrink away in fear before getting back to work, letting the redhead dote on his childish boyfriend.

dazai likes eating some of the food there too (totally not biased. shush.) ! chuuya complains that he get them much better food from much fancier places, but seeing his partner actually eat something for once puts him at ease, so he restrains most of his words for now.

they get ice cream on the car ride home, and they blast taylor swift in the car <3

[clockworkdragonffxiv]

I'm gonna say this here because it bugs me. I know, I know, being angry at capitalism on tumblr is spitting in the wind and this isn't going to make me friends, but every time I see those silly Blahaj shark plushes that apparently have... I'm not entirely sure? Somehow something something queer symbol because... I dunno. They're cute and I've been told IKEA is a popular hangout for some queer folks?

Whatever.

Not the point here.

The point is it bothers me. It bugs the shit out of me. Because IKEA fucking murders people. IKEA isn't an ally. IKEA funded the Romanian Secret Police during the Cold War. IKEA still funds gangs of thugs that murder rangers and reporters who investigate their illegal logging of some of the last surviving primeval pine forests in Europe.

If you've bought from IKEA, you're probably using pine extracted from forests that are damn near gone and people have died trying to defend from IKEA.

But hey! Giving them money for the shark makes you an ally or shows that they're... somehow an ally or something, right? Fuck those, uh, well, quite a few dead people, actually. Whatever. You needed that Jakobfors more than they needed to not be beaten to death with timber axes.

So yes. They're, to quote classic Tumblr, problematic.

[cyberdragoninfinity]

I'd love to know what the other Barians are up to in the college AU!

YESSS like i said when i was talkin about Vector, I rly wanna properly draw all these guys sometime this year, theyve been bumping around my brain for Months now. some tidbits about the other guys:

Shark/Nasch: MISTAH TRANS MASC HE/THEY OF ALL TIME. Has a really dense Carrd covered in sea predator gifs and dA stamps. I thiiink I assigned him Pursuing a Marine Biology degree, naturally--he spends a lot of time at the aquarium wishing he worked there (he works at a country club currently. he drives golf carts to go pick up errant golf balls. his little nametag says 'Reginald'.) Does really well in his classes but is becoming. a Little Bit Burned Out trying to deal with them And work And whatever bullshit his current and ex-roommates are entangling him in. Vector stole his Ikea blahaj plush and tied it to a ceiling fan. Frequents Not-Lawrence State University's esteemed Smogon Club (usually because Yuma begs and begs for him to come,) and runs a nasty Walking Wake led Monotype team.

Rio: I NEED TO DECIDE ON HER MAJOR WAHHH Atmospheric Science would be kind of insane... invested interest in meteorology and winter events. I know she's dabbled in a bunch of campus sports and ice skates at a very skilled level, probably is banking on maybe doing that professionally if she can qualify. She's also buddies with Alexis! :3 Works at a bougie gelato place not far from the country club Shark works at so sometimes she will come bother him on her break. Has a modest interest in birding and sometimes meets up with the town Birding Group. All in all just likes being active and stylish and is closing in on a date with Miss Anna Kaboom~ lord dont get me started on butchfemme annario i aint got no brakes

Girag and Alito: THE BESTIES. THE ROOMIES OF ALL TIME. They actually live in the same apartment complex as Primo and Claus so they hang out and shoot the shit sometimes. Alito I feel is majoring in something like English, he's not super attached to it, what he really is banking on is a boxing career (whether or not that pans out for him remains to be seen.) He goes and spars at a local gym frequently! Girag is a history major with a focus on feudal Japan and he's also a furry. The boys' r/malelivingspaces ass apartment is a haven for the other Emperors if they dont want to be in the Nightmare House for a hot minute. Don't mind the giant knockoff red panda squishmallow taking up half their couch. Also Ponta is still there he's still a little spirit guy that Girag is nebulously aware of but Alito isn't.

Mizar: OH MIZAR..... one of my favorite zexals in the College AUverse tbh. my failwoman. Tentatively out transfem overdramatic fake blond trying out she/they pronouns for the first time. Has a big expensive gaming desktop that lights up (it looks vaguely like Tachyon Dragon lol) and uses it primarily to get into heated furry drama online and write extensive papers and lab reports for her Physics degree, usually while under some degree of white knuckle meltdown stress. She and Dumon were dating for a while but broke up and truth be told Mizar's still got a couple hangups about it. Gets into a LONG, STUPID beef with Kite over their fursona designs "being too similar" that culminates in them having a brawl on the roof of a hotel mid furry-convention. Yes they were both in fursuits. No you can't tell anyone you saw Kite in a fursuit keep you voice down shh!!!!!!! They end up having some kind of t4t qpr-ish situationship i think. not avoiding the mizakai allegations i fear HDFHSFGF

Dumon: WHO UP STUDYING THEY MEDIEVAL TEXTS. god. I love college AU Dumon. little library dyke. dweeb he/him butch kind of sort of dating clark's Paula From Earthbound and they are having In Depth discussions about a podcast they just listened to. Medieval lit major who knows more about knights than you ever will in your entire life. He was born in Utah. Organizes the finances of the Barian Rental House and takes it all dead seriously and Vector still owes like three months of back rent and he kind of wants to strangle him over it. Type of guy who spends all day at the campus coffee shop nursing the same matcha latte for five hours. Mizar is his best friend and they still hang out post-break up and they're both just kind of constantly putting up with Vector's bullshit. i mean all the Barians are but STILL.

Shark, Rio, Dumon, and Vector also all have the distinction of having known each other when they were kids, before they all moved off on their separate ways (until reconnecting in college) As you can imagine, Vector and Shark's playground wars would get. Violent. 🥴 Dumon has had a bit of a crush on Shark since they met but has absolutely never disclosed this. Because I think it is funny.

The funniest detail about them as a whole in college AU to me is theyre all transfer students from NLSU's sister-campus in Barian, Indiana. WOE! Midwestern be upon ye! And also the previously mentioned nightmare queer housing situation they live in under Don Thousand The Dogshit Landlord (or, well, at this point it's just Mizar, Dumon, and the Kastle twins living there. The situation has improved Somewhat after Vector got kicked out HHDFDF he still loves fucking with all of them though in true 🥕 fashion)

[soot-and-salt]

2 for fetch quest!

Hi anon!!

(Question from this list of fanfic author questions - come ask me more!)

2. How did you come up with the idea?

I've written some pretty cracked out ideas (I LOVE writing comedy!) but this one might be the MOST cracked of them all thus far.

Okay so listen. Picture it. There I was, sick as hell with the flu. I was having a Bad Time. So I was laying in bed rewatching Helluva Boss and scrolling through Tumblr, as one does, and for some reason I just thought... wouldn't it be fun to put these guys in a situation?

The idea of the item they were sent to find was based on the fact that Vox is shark coded pretty often in fan art and my 101 degree fever brain was like "GET THAT BITCH A BLAHAJ!". Which meant I had to send IMP to IKEA.

Which was fucking comedy gold in my head. I swear to you, the time it took for me to come up with the fic idea and then to open up a doc to write was like... fifteen minutes total. I was like, let's throw in Alastor, that'll be funny.

Writing Blitz is a JOY. I have SO MUCH FUN whenever I get to write him. I hope to do so again, though it seems I can only properly channel him when I have a fever. I don't know what that says about me. Or about him, to be honest.

But yeah, I'd love to tell you this was something I mulled over for weeks, carefully plotted, workshopped all the jokes, etc. But no. I wrote it in the span of like three hours, completely off the cuff, while sick as fuck, and once I was done I immediately threw it up on AO3, put my laptop to the side, and went to sleep. I think I did some light editing when I woke up though? So, you know, super professional work from me, really.

[munvermaniac]

Eddie always knows when Jason's getting sick, he's like a blood hound, Jason can't escape him ever.

Here's a example I have written you.

Eddie always knows when Jason's sick. Hell, with everything they go through on a daily basis slash come in contact with its a miracle there not sick all the time. It's all the questionable   slop from the cafeteria, the gym and the Hellfire room, sleepless nights when Eddie decides they need to go a adventure. Eddie's surprised it doesn't happen more often. But even so, when Jason does get sick, Eddie just knows on every level, it's like a sixth sense as his uncle would say.

First, he senses it. The signs are so tiny that only he can sniff it out, but to him they're clear as day. Jason wears down slowly gradually even, trying to do what he does best and that's ignoring the symptoms until he's undeniably sick. He starts to walk like a zombie, eats less, takes longer to do well everything including showering. If asked though, Jason would just punch the air calming he's in tip top shape. "Never better Ed," he'd say, but Eddie knows better.

Second, he hears it. His lover tries to hide the sniffles, the sneezes, the coughs and though they've both had years of hiding illness from parents, teachers, uncle's, Jason was never completely successful. But Jason never complains not even to Eddie, probably out of his deeply rooted sense that he needed to be Mr. Perfect all the time. He will probably never learn, as if it would be admitting devastating defeat and vulnerability instead of asking for help.

Lastly, Eddie sees it. When Jason finally comes to terms to getting a cold or the flu, he fishes out one of Eddie's ratty very loved hoodie from the Hellfire club out of Eddie's dresser and pulls it over his head. Eddie always returns secretly getting medicine to Jason face down on their bed, nose completely buried in that hoodie that drowns him and softly snoring to a pile of used tissues. Eddie's heart always surges at the rare but beautiful sight, knowing that the scent and feel of his clothes always give Jason comfort when he feels most vulnerable. Eddie will then just put a blanket on him, find Jason's giant ass shark and go put his uncle's famous chicken soup on for him.

You're welcome.

Awwww, sick Jason curling up with Big IKEA Blahaj as Eddie takes are of him just tugs at my heartstrings.

[sharky857]

I have a mighty need to know what mods you installed on stardew :o

I'm gonna list only the actual mods I wanted to get, leaving out the ones needed to make said mods work in game.

Also, quick and due premise: I play 100% solo, just so the "judges & juries" may kinda rest their "OMG THATS CHEATING" tiddies with some of those mods.

That being said, currently I have the following mods installed. All can be found on "Nexus mods". This is gonna be quite a list, so I'm adding a break to trim the post down.

Also: no links. Wouldn't want Tumblr to think this post as some form of spam. 😅 (But I'm writing the mods' names as they are on that site, so if anyone is interested, they should also be very easy to dig out via the search bar.)

"No Cooties" + "Free Love" + "Platonic Partners and Friendships", all installed from what's an "aroace bundle" I stumbled upon while looking exactly for the thing. The forced relationships as they are set in the game have been quite a turn-off for me.

"(DGA) Sewing furniture set", its a DGA (Dynamic Game Assets) type of mod that allows players to have their own sewing machine at the farm. This same mod also comes with the dye pots to recolour your stuff. So yeah, no more need to plan a visit at Emily's! :D (Just a fair warning: the dye pots are huge.)

"(DGA) Piano", another DGA mod. The creator remodelled a large couch into a piano, trying to make it similar to the one into Elliot's cabin. This mod is of the DGA kind because you can actually play it.

"Blahaj", it's exactly what you can expect it to be: the "Blahaj" shark from Ikea. 💖

"DGA Hanging pride banners", another DGA mod from the "aroace bundle" and with tons of LGBT+ pride flags to put on display on your own indoors.

"Starry night interface", a content pack (I refuse to use the abbreviation, just in case Tumblr-bot might detect and see it as that other abbreviation :°D) that changes the UI into the lilac-purple-pastel blue colours, plus some more aestethical changes in the way icons and portrait borders look.

"Flower dancing", a mod that makes your farmer finally wear "That Godforsaken Attire™". I think it also makes your farmer actually follow the dance moves a bit better. Bonus point! You can tweak this mod's options to decide if your farmer is gonna wear the dress or the suit, regardless of their gender. 👀

"Seasonal cute characters", a mod that replaces every single NPC's portrait and in game sprite with a version of theirs whose clothes change with each season (and also event).

"Seasonal outfit revision - Elliott", it's installed-but-not-really. This mod's been created by a different author from the former, so that players could replace Elliott's portraits in "Seasonal cute characters" with these revised versions. The reason is that the original mod uses one of the early portrait versions for Elliott, while the "revision" replaces those portraits with the current Elliott. Alas, it's lacking the "beach Elliott", so the only way to not have his babyface'd version while he's on Ginger Island would be to remove that specific asset.

"AT Telephone recolor", an AT (Alternative Texture) mod so I could finally stop to have only one, fugly red phone in mah haus (and on Ginger Island). :°)

"Map teleport", a very handy mod that (I presume) functions based on the in game totems, but with some extra perks. For starter: totems can teleport you only to a fixated location marked by a statue (or an obelisk). The map teleport will YEET you on any location pointed out by the map; all one has to do is open the map and click away. On a side note: Idk if this is intentional or not, just know that you can also teleport your horsie. This has been happening to me every single time I would use this exploit while my farmer is still on the saddle. Which is twice as handy, especially to roam around Ginger Island. *cough!*

"Skull Cavern Elevator", a mod that works exactly like the elevator in the mines. No more, no less. Now I see how some players would share screen of their farmers at something like "skull cavern level 654786".

"Chests anywhere", yet another very useful mod that allows players to access and interact with any crafted chests, fish tank, and even shipping bins and fridges as if they were additional inventories, no matter where they are. I decided to install this mod because I was sick and tired of having all of my 36 backpack slots full while roaming either some volcano or the skull caverns. 😤 Bonus point for the mod offering an in menu-inventory option to rename all of the "chests" mentioned above.

"Vibrant pastoral", merely a reshade mod. Installed mostly because I'm trying not to go blind when it's winter time in Pelican Town (the overall white colour seems toned down). :°D

"Deepwoods mod", it's a mod that adds a fan-made explorable area accessible from the "Secret Woods". It's a nice, not-so-little place to explore, with different levels and enemies (mostly a green recolour of the ones found in the mines) and looks exactly what an unexplored woods would look like. You just gotta play to see it. 💖 On a side note: the author said that it's also complatible with other mods, like "SVE" (aka: Stardew Valley Expanded).

"Yet another jump mod", a mod that allows your farmer (and their horse) to actually jump. Quite handy to save some time by simply jumping over obstacles instead of going around them. 😈

"Item recovery", a mod that merely allows players to recover all the items they may have lost upon "dyingn't" in the mines/quarry/cavern/volcano, instead of just one. I have yet to "dien't" since installing this mod, so Idk if it actually works.

"Craftable auto-petter", because my dumdum bum never purchased a single one from Joja until I had the chance, and I read that the chance to find an auto-petter in alternative ways is quite slim. 😔

"Combat controls", simply a mod that make your farmer actually aim where they should: where your cursor is actually pointing at. I was sick & tired of getting my HELTH dangerously low only because the loser on screen was facing the wrong direction. 🙃💢

"Carry chests", simply a mod that lets you pick up and move around chests without needing to empty them completely first.

"Auto-grab truffles", a mod that implement an additional option for the "auto-grabber" already available in game, so that it can pick also truffles up. It's installed but I have yet to try it out in game, so Idk if it works as intended.

"Dynamic night time", a mod with a more "natural" shift between the light in different times of the day. It works like a charm even with the reshade.

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

some quick fun facts about Ruin and Bloodmoon in the Dentist au (placed in no particular order because my brain is still booting up):

okay so in this AU when Ruin is defeated by the boys, the virus isn't really 'cured'-it's sort of just in a dormant setting, which can be broken with enough strain to the networking and systems. That's not really Sun and Moon's problem though, so they kind of send them on their merry way with a 'do what you want as long as you aren't plotting to kill us'. Ruin leaves the pizzaplex (unpleasant memories from their dimension linger in the walls) and ends up finding Eclipse's place (Eclipse forgot to turn off his GPS chip which means anyone connected to the Plex network can find him relatively easily).

After a hasty explanation under the influence of a lazer cannon held to their head, Ruin ends up being employed by Eclipse as a medical receptionist for the dentistry cuz Eclipse has no staff besides himself. Eclipse can't really offer them money at first so he makes a deal promising to fix Ruin up with a new body and try to permanently remove the virus in exchange for help-Ruin does end up being paid later on, they spend their first paycheck on a trip to IKEA with Eclipse for the legendary Blahaj the shark plush (because my own personal experiences dictated this as extremely enjoyable and shut up they get to have childlike wonder).

Oh yeah by the way, Ruin lives with Frank because I said so, hush they'd be great roommates and you know it.

Bloodmoon is sort of a similar situation-they're captured by the celestial twins and sent off to dentistry cuz it’s now the equivalent of the celestial trauma rehabilitation center or something in their eyes. The twins don't immediately go there, though, preferring to actually explore the city for a little bit (they despise the idea of having to live with Eclipse). Eclipse hears some noise outside his apartment and grabs a broom thinking he’s gonna have to scare off some alleycats only to find Bloodmoon screeching cuz they fell in a trashcan and can’t get out. Initially it's a very rocky interaction because on one hand you have Bloodmoon hissing and spitting at Eclipse and on the other our poor dentist is just standing with a coffee mug in hand blinking blearily at the red thing in front of him. He just invites them in and goes back to bed (a terrible decision really cuz he wakes up to all his furniture trashed), which they find a bit out of character of him. They don't work with Eclipse, both because they aren't interested in his business and because Eclipse doesn't want them around bleeding gums and sharper equipment.

They don't live with Ruin and Frank and kinda come and go as they please for a little while, which Eclipse slowly starts to get more worried about. After a particularly bad incident he lets them stay a night at his apartment, but it's not really an experience either party enjoys. Bloodmoon does eventually end up living with Lunar (Eclipse asked Lunar if he could house them and Lunar was okay with it) (Lunar has his own little apartment here by the way) (Earth lives with Monty, same as cannon) and Eclipse visits them semi-frequently. He puts his own personal project aside to try to figure out a way to pick apart their code and take out that bloodlust, but in the meantime he just procures bloodbags from undisclosed locations for the Blood Twins to feed on. He's unfortunately not equipped with behavioral therapy skills so he can't really help them with the violent urges that come with their programming, so Lunar's trying to help them with that.

[tobuo]

no need to post this, but i saw your little post and i hope you sleep well!

here are some little things that help me keep going:

• i smelled a peach today that had so much peachyness to it it was delightful • i started reading a new interactive fiction game, and i really want to know what happens next! • my blahaj shark from ikea is very soft today. laying on it is fun • the flowers in the backyard are blooming well • i just ate like 4 skittles and theyre so yummy • i get to play dnd on tuesday! • there are video games i havent finished that i want to play • ive been playing sun haven and i just made my house really decorated so now i gotta do the same for my sheds! • saw this towel figure sitting on the toilet with a like newspaper and had a good smile • got a comm of my oc and i gotta hang around to see it! • this morning, i ate a yummy matcha red bean popsiscle • i wanna watch the barbie movie w my sister :>

sometimes it's hard. it's easy to forget, so i always try to remind myself of soemthing nice that happened even when i want it all to melt away

i’ve sat on this for a while to keep looking at but i needed the reminders today so sharing in case anyone else does too

[lolly-dolli]

I had a dream I was a Barbie living in Barbieland and there was a guy selling Ikea Plushies out of a shipping container who we were told to seek out when we went to the last Ikea for thousands of miles (also I think Barbie society was slowly rebuilding after some sort of trajedy).

There was a new Blahaj out, a red shark with a sharper, flatter nose (perhaps a sandbar shark, in which case it would be life size) named LEYDENSLEYER.

There was also an angelfish named SCHÜBERT WHO I ended up getting who was made of that holo spandex you make mermaid tails out of, though initially I had wanted an octopus.

Power from Chainsaw Man was with me and oddly regarded me as a comrade (perhaps we bonded over a mutual love of cats after I infodumped memories of my Sweet Boy to her) and she was tetermined to acquire a LEYDENSLEYER. I think she was also, somehow, a Barbie (not sure how the mechanics of what barbies live in Barbieland work since I'm unable to see the movie but maybe she was an OOAK someone made)

A scared employee at the store told us that, "there's a guy, but you have to go into the middle of any parking lot and yell the name of any IKEA plush as loud as possible. He'll help you."

Oh, so like a Holders creepypasta.

creepypasta. I somewhat fearfully did so, because I didn't know if he was fucking with us or not and didn't want to look stupid and was honestly kind of fearful because the whole atmosphere was actually kind of ominous, but Power called me a coward and screeched at the top of her lungs.

The Guy (who I will call Breyden, because he had an expression on his face that looked like his mom had named him with that spelling instead of with the "a" at the end and he thought it was stupid) appeared behind us, told us he could help us, and led us to a shipping container that had maybe always been there in front of the run-down radio shack and we just hadn't noticed but maybe could've also materialized when we weren't looking) led us in.

He actually had an odd Barbie and the Three Musketeers playset that I regarded as rare, so he seemed to warm up to us.

Power immediately claimed a LEYDENSLEYER, recognizing it as a fellow powerful and bloodthirsty creature, and declared it as also her comrade as Breyden tried in vain to explain that, "uh, sharks don't actually kill people but sure, I guess"

We discussed the charming floppiness of SCHÜBERT's comparatively small and flat little angelfish body (perhaps a little bigger than a dinner plate). He had embroidered faux fleece stripes (you know, that thin polyester stuff that's flat and feels kinda fleecy on the right side sometimes used for licensed character PJs and costumes) and seemed almost like a prototype of some sort.

And then I woke up

[transgeneth]

This small paragraph was made after the rest of the text. Beware ye who enter I did this for over an hour and cannot guaranteed I managed to stay hinged.

layer 1

floppa: floppa is a caracal cat who came from the original r/195 and liked fanter and we would occasionally have floppa friday

cylinder: cylinder refers to that time someone got their "cylinder" stuck in an m&m tube and went on r/askreddit for suggestions to get it out

trans users: 196 had a lot of us as it was a very queer and queer friendly place

98% bottoms: this is an exaggeration there have been surveys that show it's more 40% top 40% bottom 20% switch but the bottoms are more loud I guess

rule 1: you must post before you leave

r/place contributions: r/place was an event on reddit that has happened multiple times where you are able to place one coloured pixel every 5 minutes and the most recent occurrence had some contributions from the 196 community, off the top of my head I can only remember Spronkus Kronkus who will be explained later (an image of r/place)

LGBT+ members: as I have said the place was very queer thanks to moderators

blahaj: ikea shark, trans people like it

layer 2

u/anarcho-striperism: she/they was a user who became known for fucking food not a lot of times just a small hand full were ever made, they did censor the videos but the food got fucked non the less, this got a lot of attention and they became a microcelebrity and when the mods banned porn anarcho-striperism got an exception, on the more personal side to them she wants to do a porn production thing were it's less of a porn with a plot and more of a plot with a porn and she has made it known that she is struggling with money and wish they had enough to transition, I know they made a send off video when 196 shutdown but I never saw it maybe I will search for it, I hope for her the best

mods don't know if you post or not: there is no way for them to really know and enforce rule 1

showcase saturdays: with the sub being queer people were very aware of the bigotry in the world and people would post it to mock it but the amount of bigotry being put in front of people eyes got too much and so bigotry showcase saturdays came into effect, it worked for a bit but soon the saturday was forgotten as the flair(kind of like tags but for inside of subreddits) was just "bigotry showcase", thankfully later(a lot later) it was changed to "bigotry showcase saturdays" and then you would only see on saturday

"Hello little gay people in my phone...": how people in the community would often refer to the people in the community in memes

saddam hussein: there is a diagram of a red saddam hussein in his hidy hole, we found it funny and made some memes that would make you think there was a gas leak

rule 2 TOS: don't break the website rules essentially

u/goblinhog: goblinhog was a well known moderator

brisket <3: bridget is a character from guilty gear who is a canon trans woman and we like her and have a silly time finding words what are close to her name like brisket, basket, biscuit

toothpaste shidder: we found it funny to put at the end of multi pannel comics for no reason

no NFT's: reddit did NFT profile pics, you would bet banned on 196 if you had one

custom user flairs: during certain events like r/place you could do a custom user flair

jerma: jerma is a funny deranged(complementary) twitch streamer

fanter: floppa likes fanter

spronkus kronkus: spronkus kronkus is a yellow anthropomorphic rabbit with a trans flag bandana around their neck, sometimes an axe and a gun with a line pointing to it saying this is a gun

layer 3

"69.4% of subscribers...": I don't know about this one

spin off subs: first there was 195 then it ended 420 weeks after it started then there was 196, not to much later 197 happened because too many gay people for some I didn't check it out, there was 691 which was the opposite of 196 as if you posted you got banned for a couple days, there was 19684(a combo of 196 and 1984) which was like 196 but no horny posting but I've heard it became bad over time

cylinder man frequents the sub: he did indeed frequent the sub I saw him

bunny hidden in sub icon: for a long time the sub icon looked default but if you looked closer you would see a bunny

the hand: the hand comes from the beginning of the sub and was the idea of a hand that targets one person a day hand is coming towards them and is always slightly faster than them and if it reaches them it squishes them

custom user flairs were temporary: this refers to how you could only change them on special occasions although the changes would stay even after

"Thank you for sorting top of all time": a post was made of and emoticon man with sun glasses with the text "Thank you for sorting top of all time" it ended up becoming the most upvoted post on the sub becoming top of all time

layer 4

CBAT rhythm game: there was a post on reddit which can be summed up to a man having sex to the rhythm of CBAT, listen to the song to see just how bad of an idea that is, I am unsure what game this is referring to

infant consumption phase: someone said we eat babies, we found it funny and the hungryposting flair was born

u/cardinal-lad already made an iceberg: maybe

pizza fucking: probably anercho-stripperism

1 millionth post: the person who made the 1 millionth post was allowed to change the sub icon

r/197 beef: it was hardly beef, they didn't like us cause we gay and we didn't even think about them

boom and bust cycle: I'm not sure on this one

roe v. wade overturn shut down: the sub shut for a bit after it

layer 5

column discourse: we had a little fun discourse about the best type of column

home of challenge pissing: I'm pretty sure refers to this video

r/195: 195 was a 420 week experiment to see what a sub with one rule "you must post before you leave" it was good different from 196, 195 was more true to the post before leave and had more random stuff people had saved on their computer while 196 was more intentionally going there, floppa comes from 195

british discourse: lots of jokes about the british, someone didn't like it, people had discourse and then the queen died and it was like it the discourse never happened

microcelebrities: basically anyone who people noticed in seemingly every comment section and started the to get pointed out

yoshi x toad tattoo: someone legitimately got a yoshi and toad sloppily kissing tattooed to their leg because of 196

you can threaten a mod for a custom user flair: a thing you could do for a custom user flair outside of events

layer 6

"me petting my cat" story line: someone made a post about petting their cat before getting nuked and people made multiple choice stories out of it, it was some interesting story telling

u/mcfuggery christmas present: a multi day countdown that ended with lots of porn

linux > windows: in the first age when the shadows first lengthened there were 2 flairs "trans rights" and "linux > windows", this was quite a while ago and I think there was a reputation of linux > windows to be the type of people who would eventual go to 197 when that sub was made I'm not to sure and if I start to seem increasing deranged ramblings I think I've been at this for an hour

cory beck on the sub icon: the 1 millionth poster changed the sub icon to cory beck

kira: dunno

2021 loli hentai drama: presumably something either took place on another sub where someone was trying to argue it's fine when it's not or someone posted it on the sub, I'm not really sure what this pne refers to

eggen: I forgot about this but it was some users cat, very cute fluffy white cat, eggen

layer 7

a trans woman was bullied off the subreddit and was sent doxxing threats: I don't know what happened

kira grooming allegations: I don't know who kira is

goblinhog was a microcelebrity before he was a mod: yep this is true

femboy ass harassment incident: pretty sure a femboy showed ass and got harassed, 196 has a generally messy history with femboys not super messy but there has been discourse

ludwig posting and getting banned: ludwig is a twitch streamer who posted once to 196 and got banned because it's funny

layer 8

196, coincidentally references to a mods house number: the sub was made way before the end of 195 and this is the reasons for the subs name I think

tumblr was full and all the gays moved here: might be a joke maybe not I don't know

goncharov originated from 196: goncharov is a movie that never existed we made it up

mimi's devious deeds: no clue

ben garrison cum edits: images of ben garrison with cum on his face doing ahegao made in ms paint, not horny just like irony or something for the funny I guess

46 page lore book about spronkus: haven't seen it, might be real

layer 9

user flair black market: probably a joke about how you couldn't change your flair except for previously stated exceptions

This sub is an anarchy chess plant: anarchy chess was cool they had a good vibe, sometimes posts from there would get reposted on 196

homemade fusion reactor tutorial: this is either a joke or just referring to people occasionally posting scientific stuff like how a fusion reactor works in a video which initially doesn't seem like a video of how a fusion reactor works a little bait and switch to how a fusion reactor works

cockroach torture video: probably referring to the video of someone saying something like "do you wanna be friends, wanna play" to a cockroach and then blowtorching it

couple of 196 users meet irl and one ends up in the emergency room: either another joke one or I forgor

layer 10

u/argon38 confession to killing a man: might have happened

they know: average iceberg joke

glockenspiel coat hanger massacre: joke probably again

9/8/2022: I don't remember anything and I'm not sure if this day month year or month day year(day month year is better)

and that's about it, the iceberg may have elements that make 196 not look too good but take in mind these are selected for more edge as the ice berg goes down and is not representative of typical activity within the 196 community which is typically a very positive queer community where negative events are rather few and far between

For those wondering about our lore he’s a 6 month old iceberg post, creator unknown

[tokillamockingbird427]

Random Headcanons: Keegan

List of random headcanons for my specialist boy. (As in autistic, not me calling him special. /J)

He shoots with his right eye, so his left eye looks perpetually squinty.

Cannot smile like a normal person. Forever lopsided because he straight up doesn't know how to because he almost never smiles.

I think I just like Keegan being asymmetrical all over tbh. Lad is lopsided.

Ambidextrous in the sense that he can shoot a rifle from either shoulder. Don't mistake this for him being able to write with both hands. He does prefer shooting off his right though. (See above.)

Also has that Blahaj shark plush from Ikea. (Hates the sweeds tho.)

Sharks. He loves sharks. They're his favorite animal.

Has a massive onesie that's a shark. He wears it during shark week and will drag someone (Usually Ajax.) into watching it with him. Has about a million facts about them memorized. He will tell you them.

Along the same lines, he was a dinosaur kid. There was a section in his elementary school library chock full of just dinosaur books. He was so obsessed they let him ditch the "One non-fiction, one-fiction." book for checkout and let him just get all dino books.

Again, similar lines: Big book nerd. Always has one on him, likes to read before and after missions because it calms him down.

Loves rock. Not the object but the genre. (Alt and classic.) Parents probably played Nirvana and ACDC driving him to and from school as a kid.

Enjoys country for the same reason, but the kind of country that has women plotting their husbands murders. (Which his mom listened to.)

Lady Gaga fan.

Pale as fuck which is funny because he lived in florida. Despises Hesh and Logan immunity to the sun because everytime he goes out he'll have one patch of skin he didn't cover with sunscreen and he burns too easily.

His fave outfit combo is a tight shirt and loose sweatpants. It's comfy. (And makes his butt+thighs look nice.)

Has a Deathhawk. (This is a newer one.) Braids it down to fit under his balaclava. It's technically out of regulation for being too long but Elias is entirely too much of a softie to force him to cut it. So long as it's kept back during missions he won't get after Keegan for it. Uses colored wax when he styles it up because he can't dye his hair. (Again, out of regulation.)

Very soft palms. He wears gloves on missions so there's never much a chance for them to get rough, even though they do have a handful (hah) of scars on the backs of his hands.

Also, impeccable nails. Likes to paint them. His hands just look really nice.

Cuddle monster. You get too close to him and he likes you? Boom. Pythoned. He will look so sad if he has to let go and the victim of his cuddles will feel bad.

#1 Love language is physical affection, which is very funny because he fucking despises PDA. If he likes someone he'll bare it, but he will be blushing the whole time.

Blushes everywhere. His whole face, the tips of his ears, the back of his neck, even his shoulders. It's also hella obvious because of the previously mentioned paleness.

Has bad survivors guilt from Sand Viper. Gets compounded over the years because being a Ghost is pretty dangerous. (More of them would die or be injured.)

Looks up to Elias and Rorke as mentor/father figures.

Lots of sisters. Only had one baby sister but three who were all older than him.

Really wanted a brother though so he enlists himself as Hesh's big brother after the pyramid/the beach. (Mostly by accident.) Now incredibly protective of him.

Little weasel monster after Sand Viper because he's unpacking all that trauma, but he decompresses over the years and mellows out. Still has his bat-shit insane moments though. (*cough* Truck at the stadium. *cough*)

Hates his call sign and does everything to get people not to use it. Most don't but Adonis does because the little shit finds it hilarious to dick with poor "Scout." (Ajax also uses it but Keegan gives him a freepass to do pretty much anything he wants lmao.)

Thick in thigh, thick in the waist Thick in the right motherfuckin' places

[askyoungiron]

To Tornado! If someone were to give you a blahaj from IKEA... Would that make you a Sharknado?

Tornado: You know how many people think they're funny with the Sharknado joke? 🙄 Too many. 🦈🌪️

Bittern bought me a Shark Plush one year for my build day. I was NOT impressed.

Scotsman: The Shark plush was actually Olivia's idea.

[saltroundsandpeppersquares]

Me and my roommate were looking at the Lanespelare (hideous) and politely minding our own business when from behind we hear a very enthused "do you know Harry Potter?"

This is already a terrifying thing for anyone to be greeted with, but we turn to see a very eager ikea employee, who after receiving back a half enthused "yeah" says that the Lanespelare "looks like a dementor, but if it gave you hugs".

Already upset by the whole situation but recognising there is only 25 minutes before IKEA closes, I asked (innocently) if they know where the sharks are. This employee then shouts at both of us, very loudly, in the middle of the semi-busy ikea floor: "are you trans?".

Now completely in shock, we sort of awkwardly say no. Unfazed they then dive into this speel about how "earlier a group of trans people came in and told me that Blahaj (the shark) is a trans icon and they were all chanting and waving their hands up and down, and they called me their Bikea Mum".

There is nothing to do at this point but sort of politely laugh and then walk away very quickly as they point us towards the children's aquatic section.

Hours later and a Djungelskog richer I am still shaken by the encounter. I have never seen someone so readably 'online' before. And yes I know this is rich coming from a reformed superwholock tumblr user but yikes, you just CANNOT go around in public, at your JOB, asking if people are trans. And to do so and also open with a Harry Potter reference! The lack of self awareness is palpable!

I have been changed by the whole thing, for the worse.

Just had the most harrowing experience at ikea

[melissamakes]

Meet BLAHAJ. A sweet little shark with a lot of personality. You may already know him, he is a hugely popular stuffed toy from IKEA, and I love him. Here is the first completed design for a sticker sheet I'm working on, birthday BLAHAJ! 🍰🎈 stickers (and much more!) available here: https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Birthday-Shark-by-melissamakes/56756450.EJUG5 Do you have one of these cute little guys or any of his equally cute friends at home?