#bit of earth

[theteablogger]

One of my favorite YouTubers just did a video on Bit of Earth! It’s a great summary with plenty of primary source material, including Abbey’s blog. She also did a great job countering the transphobia in Jeanine’s book and sorting everything out in spite of its non-linear structure.

It sounds like she’s going to do a part two on DAYDverse, so keep an eye out for that sometime in the future.

[unmask-strange-aeons]

The Croaker movment revealed.

So here is my take on the Croaker movment. Its a giant reference to more then even one story that Strange already made videos about. Such as, Ms Scribe, Hivliving, Bit of Earth, DAYD and kind of the Snapewives. Lets break it down.

Ms Scribe is combined not only through the smut fanfiction but also through the idea that many of his followers are really soft puppets.

Hivliving had a very committed fanbase that was connected to it because of the condition she allegedly had. And while the muppet as of today hasnt claimed to have any illness, it would be in character for the muppet to do so.

Bit of Earth / Dayd, the religous cult that is his following is based on the following of Andy Blake the cults he tried to build and those that he had for a time.

The Snapewives, The muppet is connected through an religous cult aspect but not like the Andy Blake following. The Snapewives aspects are the Astral pojections, the Muppet joker fiction kin types, and the soul relationships.

My personal theory still is that the muppets following isnt a soft puppet army but is just Father Stranges Patreons. Which would make sence. Its still something she has the full control over, and the people who are in it are people who actually pay money to be there. Its a notes pusher, do YOU want your 15 minutes of tame well all you need to do is to join Stranges Patreon, and she will reblog one of your posts as the Muppet and boom hundrets of notes within the hour. If its a post about Xyz about fandom xyz the followers of that fandom/aesthetic also get draggeed into the muppet blog.

Its flawless. No one will ever come thorth to report on it because they paided money to be in it. And maybe its just a teature for the older Patreons.

Why am i thinking this? Because gathering such a devoted following does seem to be inpossible. A following that is following all those rules, all those Video topics to the extreme. And once again while looking at it form one perspective it all could be an coincidence, but its just too much to be an coincidence. There just is too much evidence to be something else at this point.

@strange-aeons is @the-muppet-joker, pass it on.

[anythingbyadriannelenker]

hey guys if you're looking for a place to go you can join me in this new Yahoo!Group i just found:). its the first fan discussion forum dedicated to the amazing, selfless character samwise gamgee!!! were actually planning our first charity event where we are going to build a garden with support from sean astin! our assistant director (mrfrodo AKA jordan wood) is a little weird but once you get to know him, he's a really smart, caring guy. i don't foresee this developing into any sort of insane microcult. :) hope to see you there!!

[geek-or-something]

yeah your boyfriend joined BitOfEarth. he’s in this weird thing called the mind hole. He’s channeling hobbit characters and speaking some weird language. Don’t worry there’s still hope for him. What’s that? He moved to Oregon? Oh, sorry.

[armandmollloy]

I think the weirdest part of watching @strange-aeons new video about Cult Leader andy blake and Bit of Earth is going Oh My God i saw this guys posts when i was in the SPN fandom. OH MY GOD i remember this guy from CritRole fandom. Oh Holy Shit.

[nightmare-chaser]

Between the final fantasy house and the bitofearth events, it strikes me that the internet and fandom culture in general has unlocked a new variety of abuse and cult

Both of these stories involve a person claiming to be a character from a piece of media, either through past lives or alternate universe or whatever other magical means, and then using that to gather a small household of people forced into a highly abusive environment, involving waking them up in the middle of the night (thereby constantly depriving them of sleep), sending them on some sort of "quests", doing some form of rituals (which ranged from just kinda strange to actively harmful) to make the victims "reconnect" or better "connect" with some fictional character they were assigned/told they were, making them pay for the lifestyle (often resulting in extreme poverty or horrible living conditions), isolating them from friends and family, etc.

A lot of this is just cult tactics, like genuine brainwashing, but the fact that the specific way these two apparently seperate abusers justified and dressed up the tactics is so similar, i cant help but notice it, like individually the narrative they each tell is bizarre and insane, but put side by side, the incredible amount of shared points feels more sinister than crazy

(Idk how actual cults justify their rhetoric, what story they tell, but I'd be interested to see if it also follows this pattern of "this person is special in an insane and magical way, and so are you, and they can show you proof of your magical specialness if you do what they tell you")

I'm a very firm believer that fandom can be a very good thing, its just shared interests yknow?, but apparently its also opened up a whole new way people can get dragged into cults and that feels important to acknowledge

[xtremelyonline]

THE DASHCON EPISODE

[austinausten]

Beyond a Theatre Review: The Secret Garden (Shaw Festival, 2024)

[icarusxdemise]

wow 😯

[verflares]

(click for higher quality!) draconified link concept ive been chipping away at this past week ..... here's my funny little compendium concept for him:

"A heroic spirit has taken the form of this bestial dragon. Unlike it's kin, this creature exhibits an extremely aggressive disposition. It appears highly territorial, and will relentlessly chase down those who disturb its skywide patrols - of which it seems to be endlessly searching for either a long-time vassal or foe. Unfortunately, it seems the spirit within has long since forgotten exactly who it was looking for…"

[theteablogger]

Do you think the reason Andy planned the cons

Was to stress out the people he was living with so they wouldn’t notice the things he was doing to them or do you think he actually thought he the cons would work out

The stress that trying to arrange all of the Bit of Earth events caused the Bagenders definitely made it easier for Andy to manipulate them, but I don't think that was the reason he planned the events.

I think that on Andy's part, the point of Tentmoot (as well as Hall of Fire and Lost Palantir) was for the Bagenders to meet celebrities, and for him to get credit for making that happen. He only seemed to care about the success of those events in so far as he could get celebrities involved.

It seems likely to me that Andy initially did believe that he could pull off Tentmoot, but there had to be a point fairly early on when it became obvious to him that there was a lot more work, money, and logistical detail necessary to put on a convention than he'd realized. Rather than admit that, he piled lie upon lie, made escalating demands of the Bit of Earth staff, and continued to try to get anyone involved who was connected to the LotR movies and could even remotely be considered a celebrity. He definitely knew that there was no way the convention was going to work out as planned, but I think he'd decided that if he could get at least a few celebrities to show up, that would be better than nothing and he could somehow lie his way out of whatever fallout there might be. He clung to that idea right up to the point that Turimel canceled the New Zealand actors' flight reservations.

[hoofpeet]

Finally finished this study 👍

[lazylittledragon]

taking all my american followers by the shoulders. listen to me. just because you have a more promising candidate now doesn't mean you just assume it's going to be fine and don't bother voting. assuming trump wasn't going to win is how you got here in the first place so you go out and fucking vote for harris and give everyone a fighting chance.

also if you're still in the 'they're both as bad as eachother' delirium, please take your head out from between your cheeks and consider that your options are an imperfect president and the literal worst person alive who is going to get masses of people killed. i've said it like this before, but it's like deciding between maybe getting food poisoning or definitely having a brain aneurysm. take your pick i guess but don't be surprised when you drop dead.

[scattered-winter]

finally made rwby meme slides. after like a literal fucking decade

[paintedcrows]

Some Fords! (and Martin K Blackwood is also there)

[gascreates]

a new star