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[saym0-0]

i have this disease where i make up bits they could have done in the ten year anniversary show where they were all together one time only. like tiny aus that are only different because this one specific show has a different setlist and different bits. just because i like all the bots interacting on stage a lot. anyways i think it would be really funny if somehow bobby darin got brought up sonehow and upgrade the jon and rabbit all snap up like BOBBY DARIN?!?!!!???!! and spine just immediately goes NO WE ARE NOT DOING THIS TODAY as hatchy and zer0 look on in bafflement

[itgirlgyu]

would this txt guy punch me if i ask him to?

context: toothache. warning: gaslighting. violence.

✷ yeonjun!

no!

honestly i think he's too much pussy to punch.

he'd be there like, with sweat running down his forehead.

his fist shaking, and his voice trembling.

if we pay even more attention to his cowardice, we could hear his teeth chattering and his chin wobbling.

his wussy behavior would put me off

instead we just visit the dentist on his debit card

he can't be more thankful for that even though now he's in debt because of it.

✷ soobin!

he's been waiting for a chance honestly.

"soobin could you punch me bro i hav—"

"aight square up."

he's taken the right position to land the perfect punch.

he's hunched back and has been pulling his wrist back while supporting it with his other hand.

and in that moment he looks like he's actually taking his vengeance instead of helping you

there's a literal twinkle in his eyes.

that's not the soobin we know.

i fear for my life so i will be fleeing that scene

and ending my friendship.

✷ beomgyu!

he might.

some gaslighting and emotional blackmailing needed tho.

he's like, "no how could i?"

while removing his rings and freeing the tension in his wrist, getting ready to hit the mark.

might shed tears as he measures the distance and the amount of force he might need to excert.

enlightenment hits like this man would actually end up caving my jaw in

so i refuse with a flower in my hands as peace treaty 🌹

he agrees and we both hapilly live together while planning an extensive plan to get shit done on someone else's bill.

✷ taehyun!

straight up refuses without even listening to the reasoning.

refuses even more vehemently after listening to the reasoning.

like he too is a hater of capitalism but apparently refusing to going to the dentist is something only an imbecile would do

sure taehyun that doesn't sound like hypocrisy at all 🙄

might start lecturing on dental hygiene and then gives an array of things to help the ache

okay but i would literally bite my own tongue to stop myself from making even a bit of sound in front of him

bc you make one sound and he's looks like he'd grab your hair and drag you to the dentist.

✷huening kai.

yeah lmao he wouldn't.

although he'd empathise

but that's all he would do.

does a lil "oh poor you" everytime he comes in and then back to going whatever he had been doing.

might ask after a day or two like oh how's your toothache?

probably uses this chance and make a gift list with whole mouth wash, and pain killer and all that basket for christmas.

doesn't eat anything sweet in front of you bc he thinks it's rude.

oh my poor hyuka ily

but a true blue idgaf king.

i do not apologise for shit posting. ⋆

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[dragons-hoard-of-fandoms]

(Murder Drones Episode 7 spoilers!)

THEY CHANGED THE INTRO V IS OFFICIALLY DEAD FUNERAL'S ON THURSDAY

Cult. It's a cult. This is definitely a cult. They probably don't even realize it but it is undeniably some kind of cult.

Nori what are you doing. Nori why are you like this.

The cross is a USB??

They're keeping the Drones themselves in the lockers??

Of course the unpaid intern whose opinion doesn't matter is the only one with any sympathy for them.

Pink Solver core?? SOLVER LIZZY?!?

Ah great, the Envy shippers are gonna be using this as "proof" that he's still in love with V.

HE IMMEDIATELY APOLOGIZED HE LOVES HER SO MUCH

Tessa. Stop. I was willing to give you the benefit of a doubt but you're not doing yourself any favours.

And now she's being racist. Way to go.

"The power of a black hole in the palm of my hand."

SEE TESSA ALL YOU DID WAS MAKE EVERYTHING WORSE

THEY'RE BACK THAD AND LIZZY ARE FINALLY RELEVANT AGAIN

Did they change Thad's VA? He sounds different.

Was that V? Is she already back?

N BABY NO DON'T SAY THAT YOU DON'T DESERVE THIS

Eldritch V??

I can't wait for people to meme about his perfectly cut scream there.

Not going near the corpse. Smart move.

Cyn stop. Cyn stop. CYN STOP PLEASE I'M BEGGING I WANT YOU TO BE SYMPATHETIC

She hugged him. That's probably a good thing, right? That's probably proof that the real Cyn is still in there somewhere, right? THAT PROBABLY MEANS SHE MISSES HIM AND IS GENUINELY SORRY RIGHT

Nothin' like a good old-fashioned Robot Uprising Apocalypse, eh? In other news, Skynet is suing the Solver for copyright infringement.

Those admin privileges comin' in handy. Unfortunately they don't do much in the physical world.

Uzi has absolutely no reason to be crawling and scuttling around like a creature right now except for the simple fact that she wants to. Never change, little gremlin.

Oh I don't think you should watch that. N was right, y'know, there's probably stuff down here you don't wanna see.

Why does this remind me of the garbage maze in FNaF Security Breach?

Okay so it's not some kind of disembodied Solver Lizzy core. Don't blame me, the lights looked pink before and the cat ears headphones reminded me of Lizzy's bow.

Familiar?? Nori??? DID N ACTUALLY KILL YOU AND WHY AREN'T YOU BRITISH/MOMMY LONG LEGS

Khan? A hunk? In the words of Professor Membrane, NOT SCIENTIFICALLY POSSIBLE!!!

"How do you know my daughter?" "Well y'see, it all started when we tried to kill each other..."

Oh it was J. Is it bad to say I'm kind of relieved?

Are we getting the cool edgy Khan from the concept art??? Bro why are you so nonchalant about it being the end of the world.

INB4 people go frame-by-frame through the list looking for the most Russian-sounding name and say "THERE, THAT'S DOLL'S DAD"

Tessa was that really necessary? You're giving really bad vibes right now.

Patch? So the Solver can be removed? And she knows? Again, major bad vibes.

*FNaF 2 Foxy jumpscare*

I'm starting to suspect Yeva either can't or chooses not to talk.

Is she saying the Solver wiped her memory of the labs? I guess that would explain a few things.

N being so polite and cute as always.

What do you mean, "found its way back?" Where did it go? Is the timeline completely wrong? Did it start on Copper-9 then go to Earth then return to Copper-9? I'm so confused.

Nori why are you so casual about the prospect of your own daughter being a planet-eating eldritch abomination. This is exactly why I'm worried about the fandom giving you the Rose Quartz treatment.

I told you not to watch it, Uzi.

Welp, so much for Doll. Consider this karma for killing V. But "fight back?" Does that mean it can be resisted?

So now we know where Uzi gets it from.

Tessa no. Tessa stop. Tessa STOP. TESSA STOP YOU'RE NOT EVEN TRYING TO PRETEND TO HELP ANYMORE

YEAH N SAVE YOUR GIRLFRIEND

Whoa, didn't see that coming. No face reveal?? Does that mean she really is a Drone???

WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LET THEM BE HAPPY

Imagine meeting your daughter for the first time and she's currently being possessed by an eldritch abomination masquerading as her boyfriend's dead sister.

Every time I think this episode's about to end on a cliffhanger it doesn't.

EVEN WHEN SHE'S BEING POSSESSED BY AN ELDRITCH ABOMINATION MASQUERADING AS HIS DEAD SISTER HE WOULD RATHER DIE THAN LET HER BE HURT AND IT WAS ENOUGH TO SNAP HER OUT OF IT FOR LIKE HALF A SECOND HOW COULD ANYBODY SAY THEY'RE NOT IN LOVE

Oh no, now people are gonna write fics about Nori being vored by her own daughter.

"Hang out" is code for "date." "Hang out" is code for "boyfriend and girlfriend." "Hang out" is code for "madly in love with each other." "HANG OUT" IS CODE FOR "WE MAKE SWEET AND PASSIONATE LOVE TOGETHER EVERY SINGLE NIGHT WE'RE ALREADY PLANNING THE WEDDING AND I'M GONNA WEAR THE DRESS AND WE'RE GONNA NAME OUR KIDS GLOCK AND BAYONET"

Literally smacked the sense back into her.

Imagine meeting your mom for the first time and you don't know who she is and she's a gross little fleshy crab-spider-thing similar to what your boyfriend's jerk boss turned into so you punt her into a bottomless pit and she makes a dodgeball noise.

LOOK AT HER REACTION SHE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT "HANG OUT" IS CODE FOR SHE JUST DIDN'T REALIZE HE THOUGHT OF IT THAT WAY TOO

My last two brain cells while watching this episode. Now would be a really good time for you two to kiss.

Oh good gosh she's not dead. Okay it wasn't at all necessary to put your head on backwards.

CYN IS HUMAN NOW??? OR IS SHE WEARING TESSA'S BODY LIKE ENNARD DID WITH MICHAEL

NO JUST LEAVE THEM ALONE ALREADY

Sorry J but you're still not plot relevant yet, you're not allowed to participate.

J: *sees the railgun* *has war flashbacks*

UZI YOU CAN'T SACRIFICE YOURSELF RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM AND TELL HIM TO "DIE MAD" AS YOUR LAST WORDS THAT IS LITERALLY NOT OKAY

*Uzi falls* *screen fades to white* *UNDERTALE*

The Void???

Glitch I beg of you please don't make us wait another half a year for the next episode. And Liam please don't let it end after one season.

[flam-kish]

We're reaching a point where Anti-AI people are becoming more annoying than the Pro-AI bros. Personally, I'd rather draw something than use AI, but some people just see the word "AI" and pretense of being a decent human being leaves their body.

AI is only a product of the real issue, capitalism and how since forever, automation and the idea of removing human workers for the sake of expediency has always been a thing. That's the real problem here. Going after a person because they used AI for a thumbnail, a comic, or made some Family Guy AI song doesn't achieve anything except making you look like an asshole. You want to protect artists? Go to companies and organizations and make an actual effort to make sure AI trained compositions are ethical. Why not do something to make sure that voice actors are paid and/or compensated if they consent to their voices being used? Why not try to encourage more people to draw without it turning into something rude and giving useful advice? The answer is they won't do any of this, because it's all reactionary. The real reason the everyman uses AI is because it's convenient, not because they hate artists or want to replace them. I'm sure there are outliers like that, but people like that exist in everything. The price of living is getting higher and people are broke. Why would someone commission a $50 dollar drawing or sub to a Patreon when they can get an AI composition for $10 maximum? I get it, artists have to eat too, but the issue with AI is rooted deeply into our society and how much we rely on products being cheaper/convenient to use.

The unfortunate truth is that society does not value artists very much, despite how many we have. Animators are infamously underpaid. Being an artist isn't sustainable, and banning AI won't make it so, because again, the issue is with society, mainly capitalistic ones itself. Making copyright stricter doesn't help the average man, but companies like Disney. If you want to quit art because you feel discouraged by AI, maybe the issue is a lack of internal motivation. Society doesn't give art meaning, you do. It's okay to walk away from things for a bit, or even to quit.

[tomorrowusa]

« Fellas, we gotta talk. A lot of men seem to think that Donald Trump is some kind of tough guy.

He's not.

I mean, look at him, he wears more makeup than Dolly Parton. He whines like a baby. The guy's afraid of birds.

Donald Trump had his daddy pay a doctor to say his widdle feet hurt so he could dodge the draft.

Look at that gut! It's like a garbage bag full of buttermilk.

He sells imaginary baseball cards pretending to be a cowboy-fireman. He’s barely strong enough to hold an umbrella.

Will ya look how he drinks water — like a little pink chickadee.

He’s got jugs. Big ones. Like Dolly Parton.

He cheats at golf, and creeps around beauty pageant dressing rooms.

And you know that little dance he does? He looks like he’s jacking off a pair of giraffes.

He’s moody. He pouts. He throws tantrums. He acts like a 5-year-old behind the wheels of a truck.

He bends over for Putin. He's cattier on social media than a middle school mean girl.

The guy needs help walking downhill. 'Almost there, grandma!'

This November, let’s stop kidding ourselves. Donald Trump is afraid — of rain, of dogs, of windmills, of Meryl fucking Streep, and being laughed at.

And mostly, he’s terrified that real, red-blooded American men will find out that he’s a weak, tubby toddler. What's wrong, tough guy? Did someone grab you by the pussy?

…whiny little bitch. »

— Actor and former pro wrestler Dave Bautista on Jimmy Kimmel Live. That is a world class burn. 🏆🔥

Here's the entire opening segment including Jimmy Kimmel's comments and comedy. Dave Bautista appears towards the end.

This is just the last few minutes – with all of Dave Bautista's clip.

^^^ EDIT: HEADS UP! The clip from Jimmy Kimmel which includes only Dave Bautista after a short introduction was removed for copyright reasons by YouTube. However, you can go directly there in the official video by clicking here to save time.

It's difficult to imagine why anybody would consider Trump to be a "tough guy". Such people are either total idiots or as easily duped as those who attended Trump University, took Trump Vitamins, or bought Trump Bibles (printed in China).

If you know any "bro" types who like Trump, send them the clip.

NOTE: I couldn't find a complete transcription of Dave Bautista's remarks, so I did it myself. Hope there aren't any errors. I did NOT include bits spoken by Trump or by Jimmy Kimmel during that piece.

[discrepancybot]

Some guys think Trump is a "macho man" because he plays that song at his disastrous rallies. He's really just a large glob of orange putty whose lies are so big that they would make Joseph Goebbels blush.

Dave Bautista has some eye-opening comments which reveal the true Trump.

EDIT: The excerpt from Jimmy Kimmel was removed by YouTube for copyright reasons. 🙁 But it is still freely available on the vid below. If you wish to go to the Dave Bautista portion, it starts after an introduction at 17:55.

^^^ Forward this to the bros in your life. 😉

[themuffin2649]

👁️ Forgotten ✏️

MC gets suspicious

—————

Wait, this was impossible! He can’t just Not exist. Yesterday he was pestering him, wanting to be his whole world, now he’s just gone…

I tried reloading the page again and again, but still no trace of Vincent, in fact, his parents never had any children.

Maybe they hated him so much, they removed him from the page (a very cruel thing to do)

I searched through Google again about his family, from old news articles, to even sketchy gossip sites trying to pin some dirt on their name.

Nothing.

This has to be a game mechanic thingy, he can’t just blip out of existence, the game is already a published and copyrighted story! Even if the creator erased him from the game, people still have copies with him as a love interest!

But then, why doesn’t my Brother, and especially Leon, not remember him?

“What is going on?!”

I pulled up my phone to try to contact Vincent about this, only to realize that the contact was gone.

“The hell? There’s no way.”

Nothing was making sense, the whole world treated him as if he never existed, but why was he the only one who remembers? What made him special?

Maybe it’s because I was transported into this world, so I’m not affected by whatever supernatural magic poofed him out of everyone’s memories.

I tried remembering what he looked like, but for some reason, the more I try to remember the details of his face, the more it hurts.

“Ahh! What the?!”

Wait, why does it hurt to remember him? It wasn’t like this before! No no no! I can’t forget him! This whole disappearance spell could affect me too!

I rushed over to my desk, grabbed my pencil, some colored pencils, the nearest sheet of paper, and started drawing. I recollect every feature that I could bear to remember, his red heart eyes, strong chin, ponytail, roses, and…..

“Dammit Vincent, why does your hair have to be so damn hard to draw?!”

After nearly bursting an artery in my brain, I finally got the hair to not look like a sewer rat covered in ketchup.

If Vincent were to somehow see my drawing of him, I bet he would blip back into exsistence just to kill me for slandering his image.

“I hope this helps me remember. Sigh, if only I had a reference somewhere, then he’d be more recognizable. It’s like drawing somebody from a dream…”

I looked at my phone again before shrinking into my seat, it was already 3 AM. How long was I researching and drawing?!

“Ugh, waking up tomorrow is going to SUCK! I just know it.”

I sigh as I turn off the computer and head to bed, hopefully a full cup of coffee tomorrow would keep me awake.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

Huh?! Didn’t I JUST lay down to go to bed?

As I got up and rubbed my eyes, my brother comes into my room.

“C’mon, I’m making sure we’re not late aga-Woah! What happened to you?!”

yawn “what do you mean little bro?”

“You look like a zombie, no offense, did you even get any sleep last night?”

��Umm, yeah, I think…” I said, rubbing the crusts of my eyes and getting up. Unfortunately, one of these crusts got in my eye, causing me to run to the bathroom to rinse it out.

Before Newt could rush to see if his brother was alright, he looked at the strange drawing on his desk for a moment, then left the room.

“Big Bro, are you alright?”

“Just caught something in my eye, I’m alright. I’ll get some coffee on the way to school.”

As soon as I finished washing my face, I looked in the mirror to see that the eye was still a bit red.

My brother, of course, wasn’t satisfied with my behavior.

“Tomorrow’s the weekend, Promise Me! That you’re going to take the time to rest. Even Leon is getting concerned over the bags under your eyes.”

“Wuh… how did you know that?”

“He told me.”

“Ok… so maybe I’ve lost some hours of sleep, but I need it to make up the homework.”

“Since when have you struggled at homework?”

I’m REALLY starting to Hate this Protagonist now!

“It’s, Nevermind, let’s not be late for school today.”

My brother opens his mouth to say something before closing it and huffing.

As usual, we meet Leon and head to school by train. However, I can’t help but notice my brother give glances at me, probably in dissapointment at the fact that I keep destroying my (his brother’s) sleep schedule.

“Hey! You look pretty tired today.”

“Oh, yeah…”

“Please have get some rest over the weekend, it’s very unhealthy to be sleep deprived, it’s just as unhealthy as smoking.”

“I will, I just need to attend classes for one more day.”

“Ok…”

Aww, now I feel bad, he looks so concerned, they both do.

“Actually, I could take a nap right now. Can you look after me?”

“R-Really?!” He said, face rosy pink and eyes widen in surprise.

“Yeah. I don’t want to pass out in class.”

When we arrive at school, I thank Leon again, then promised him to take it easy after school. He then stated that he’ll visit me during the weekend to make sure I’m keeping that promise (really?!)

Once I get in class, I started pulling out my drawing and asking a few of my classmates if they knew Vincent. However, nobody even recognized him. Next few classes weren’t that different.

On the way to lunch, I was going to give up. Everybody’s responses confirmed that Vincent was gone from existence, so I started to put the drawing away until I spotted a familiar flutter of yellow and pink.

Wait a minute, Reme! She’s a main character in the game, maybe she still remembers him!

“Reme! I need to ask you something!”

“What is it?”

“Do you know of a guy named Vincent who looks like this?” I said, pulling out my drawing of Vincent from memory.

What is that Abomination?! “No, I don’t recognize him at all.”

“Not even ringing a single bell? He was a popular kid here!”

“I’m sorry, I have no recollection of that man, have you tried asking others about it?”

“Yeah, but nobody recalls him, not even Leon for crying out loud!”

“And why would Leon be someone who remembers him?”

“It’s because Vincent is, uhh…”

“… I see.”

“Anyways, thanks for your help!”

Before she could say anything back, I spirited off, leaving her to watch me run.

“…That’s strange.”

As I went into the lunchroom, I spot my brother sitting with Jon, but no signs of Leon.

“Hey little bro, where’s Leon?”

“Oh, he’s right behind you.”

I turn around and find Leon hovering over me.

“Ahhk! Leon! Where did you come from?”

“I was looking for you, you took a while to get here.”

“Ahh, I was just talking to some classmates. That’s all!” I said, as I sat down at the table to eat.

“So, what are your plans for the weekend?”

“I thought I was supposed to rest for the weekend.”

“I meant, how are you going to take a break?”

“Oh, uhh, I guess I’m going to sleep, obviously, but I’m also going to do some cleaning and homewor— uhh. Wait, how am I supposed to take a break without doing my schoolwork?”

“I guess you two can do it together.” My brother says, chiming in.

“But isn’t that cheating?” Leon said.

“It isn’t if you don’t give each other the answers… I just meant like a study group.”

“Ok. Just making sure, I don’t want any of us to violate academic integrity.”

Wait! Does that mean that Leon’s coming home with me after school?!

“Are you ok with that?”

Ah shoot, my monologue covered what he said, I think he asked if I wanted him to come over.

“Yeah, sure!”

“Thanks for understanding, you know how much time basketball can take.”

Wait, that wasn’t his question?!

“I’ll still be able to visit over the weekend once practice is over though.”

“Oh, great…”

Why am I so worried? Vincent is no longer here to threaten me. I’m practically safe… well… safer than when he Was here.

The school bell rings, and Leon waves goodbye, saying that he’ll meet up with me tomorrow night.

As I was walking down the hall, all of a sudden, I spot a peculiar non-blue figure in the distance, which contains some red, pink and brown, the familiar colors of Vincent.

Shoot! Is that Vincent?! I thought he was gone!

I wait for the whole crowd to clear for a bit before following him, he seems to be going towards the principle’s office, but I need answers on what the heck is going on with him.

“Vincent, what is going on!” I said, turning a corner to meet him.

When he did meet the man face to face, it was Not Vincent at all. He was slightly taller than Vincent, his hair was a darker shade of red, and he was older seeing his wrinkles. He looked like a relative, his father perhaps?

He didn’t even have time to speak before the man angrily grabbed his collar and pulled him up to his face.

“You! What have you done to Vincent?!”

“Wait, you REMEMBER Him?!”

…

……

………

Why does he still remember, he shouldn’t be able to remember him! I made sure of it!

—————

Note: Yes, to make the drawing accurate to the story, I did draw Vincent by memory.

[soweirdondisney]

I've heard that Disney+ will be removing some of it's content. Do you think there is any danger they will remove So Weird, or other disney channel shows or movies? I really hope not. The disney channel stuff was a huge part of the reason I got disney plus, since I probably own most of the theatrical movies anyway, so I don't need disney+ for that.

(For anyone who hasn’t heard the news, Disney plans to decrease what it creates for Disney Plus in the next two years AND remove content that doesn’t get a lot of views in order to save money. Think of what happened with Warner Bros./Discovery/HBO Max last year.)

I think there’s a 60-40 chance right now that So Weird could be removed. The DCOMs are probably safe though.

Disney Channel celebrated its 40th anniversary a few weeks ago and one of the PR tactics was to have ESPN ask a question about DCOMs and then have their other Disney-owned properties answer. I don’t believe they would have bothered doing that if they had it in mind to cut them out.

Also, Disney wants to cut royalties and music licensing fees. They’ve already gone through the trouble of replacing songs in their DCOMs (Bewitched in Rip Girls, Youngstown in Genius, etc.) and in the case of The Other Me where *NSYNC was replaced at launch now the movie is gone entirely.

So Weird’s original music belongs to Disney BUT it was only the second season - with SheDaisy and The Moffats - that went missing back in 2019. Those songs are "live" performances cut between scenes so the rights would have to be paid.

Other than EvD, who is mostly remembered but still out of the spotlight, there aren’t any “notable” stars. (No offense to Dionne and Mackenzie but it's safe to say Disney isn't keeping the roofs over their heads.) And despite the similarities and connections to Sulphur Springs, Halloweentown, Parallels, etc. the show is rarely included as recommendations along with them.  

Note how Double Teamed - with EvD and Levis costar Mack - isn't even first.

What might help is that the residual checks are small (i.e. budget friendly) and with the upcoming Goosebumps series, having So Weird as an original, dark 90s throwback could be useful if Disney wants to maintain some sense of history in their quasi-rebranding to “expand their audiences”.

Plus (no pun intended)

they did include it in their original launch lineup to begin with

we hear often from people who say they watch it frequently

so while little watched it is consistently so

season two did return shortly after

and it's been left alone since

to the point where our livestreams marathons haven't been hit with copyright takedowns

I imagine the highest payouts go to Henry Winkler for being an EP, but what monster would keep a check from that guy?

Then again, we've spent more time watching So Weird OFF Disney-owned platforms than we have with the last three years on one. And if WB can scrap a $90 million dollar movie now would be a great time for Disney to erase any memory pre-2001 in favor of "general entertainment".

As for other Disney channel shows, it might be a case by case basis. There's also the possibility of a "Disney" show moving to Hulu or vice versa until the merger is done. And that won't be until after January 2024. The news only broke this week.

Thanks for the question.

[riverreacts]

Fucking LMAO bro! I am yet again being absolutely assfucked by copyright on YouTube in a way that BASICALLY NO OTHER REACT CHANNEL SEEMS TO BE! And you know none of the companies doing it are buying me dinner or even a fucking coffee first. There are fucking scores of channels that post basically the entire fucking thing they're "reacting" to, and I put reacting in quotes there because tons of these "creators" also do fuck all to actually react. They don't have interesting expressions, they don't provide any sort of meaningful commentary during or after the episode, you're lucky if you get an unemotive "oh wow 😐" out of them during one of the most climactic scenes in the series! Most of these fucks are also not the least bit funny or entertaining, they don't do anything interesting with their editing, and I frequently wonder if they actually even pay the fuck attention to what they're watching given how absolutely piss poor their understanding of the original content is.

And yet for some reason! All of these videos stay up. These types of mediocre (at best) "reaction" videos are deemed entirely legitimate instances of fair use and aren't struck down and removed due to copyright, but for some fucking reason, I can't get comparable treatment. I have had to struggle and re-edit every fucking video the entire time I've tried having this channel regardless of the series or the company that owns the rights to it. I have had so many videos never see actual viewership because no matter how I try to appease the fucking corporate overlords of copyright it doesn't. Fucking. MATTER. So much wasted time and energy when I'm just trying to have some fun doing things that tons of other people are doing, but with what I consider to be a better sense of professionalism and higher standards. But since I don't know the magic fucking words that I can only assume every other fucking reaction channel on the fucking platform is familiar with, I can't keep most of my videos up to save my fucking life. What the fuck ever man...

And since I know Tumblr is the only place I can do something like this without everyone getting their panties in a wad taking it too seriously, here's a poll!

[consistantly-changing]

[Image descriptions in order: a twitter thread by @/ajaromano "let Polly do the printing" (verified) which says "A weird thing happened today; I got an email from someone wanting to know why there's a chapter of my most popular HP fic missing from Fic-tion Alley, the HP fanfic archive. And I'd completely forgotten about this. This missing chapter is a relic from a CRAZY BYGONE FANDOM ERA.]

["The reason Chapter 9 of my fic, Love Under Will, is missing from FA is that in 2003 when i was writing it, Warner Brothers contacted @travelingheidi, the site owner, to tell her that they were okay with FA hosting slash (queer fanfic), except for 3 popular fics in particular!

One was a (great) fic called Tower With a View; i'm not sure what the other one was (was it Irresistible Poison? Heidi, do you remember?), and one was mine. BECAUSE THEY WERE JUST A LITTLE TOO SMUTTY. ahaha.

This is hilarious given the state of Harry Potter fanfiction at the time. In the wilds of livejournal, people were writing the most insane, obscene, blasphemous, explicit fic imaginable, but on Fiction Alley, my fic where two teens had sex was too much for Warner Bros. 😂]

["This was actually a milestone moment in the history of fandom as we know it. Warner Brothers also approached another fic archive along with FA, the Restricted Section. Only in their case, the WB sent a C&D to the archive as a whole:" attached is a link to a fanlore page.

"It wasn't uncommon at all for fanfic archives to get cease-and-desist notices; I wrote about Star Wars lawyers doing it in the 80s, again regarding queer slash fic, here:"

Attached is a link to an article on vox.com, titled "What a pansexual Lando Calrissian reveals about the evolution of Star Wars".]

["But this was the "modern" era of fandom and the internet, and J.K. Rowling was supposedly cool with fanfic.

So Fiction Alley and the Restricted Section did something that, to that point, no fanfic archive had really ever done before: they collectively told Warner Brothers no.

"No, you don't have the right to ask us to remove these fics because they are Fair Use under U.S. copyright law, and no, we are not removing them.

This was roughly equivalent to challenging a DMCA takedown notice on YouTube; but this process was unheard of at the time.

"And Warner Brothers was kind of taken aback by this show of resistance from the fans, but the company also did something unprecedented at the time - they backed off, in exchange for a few compromises from FA and the Restricted Section. One of them was that I had to edit my fic.]

["So I wound up ultimately removing the chapter where the sex scene happens assuming that people would just go read it elsewhere. This was actually a hugely formative moment for me: the tacit threat of Warner Brothers policing fanfic archives to make sure they were suitable.

"This moment where the HP fandom resisted the WB's takedown attempt was a huge turning point in the cultural history of fanfiction. It's now pretty much unheard of for a major franchise to target online fanfic, but that hands-off stance developed bc of fans asserting Fair Use.

"Even at the time, in 2003, C&Ds felt like relics from the distant past. It was so strange to have the WB come for anyone's fic, let alone *my* fic. And the result, as happens so often with this type of fandom policing, was censorship: 15+ yrs later the chapter's still missing.]

["The moral of this story: fans, appreciate the Archive of Our Own. Be thankful for this space where the organizational structure is *entirely* dedicated to protecting your right to write fanfiction, and where the entire project is funded, not by outside interests but by you, fans."

/End ID]

Link

A reminder that this is what censorship leads to and that it wasn’t all that long ago when purity culture was going after ships that antis would consider to be “normal” today.

Also I thought Fiction Alley was that one archive that Msscribe got shut down with her shitstirring

[brilliantweb3]

TV Is Dying, but Decentralization Is the Cure

American television and video heritage are at risk.

There’s no reason to believe that your favorite shows or your favorite team’s games will be preserved for future generations; in fact, there’s reason to be concerned.

Some of our most valuable cultural records have disappeared or are in danger of being lost. TV, now arguably the best cultural barometer of any medium, has determined what we know, how we think, believe, and perceive ourselves and the world around us.

Web3 tools and protocols could play a critical role in preventing a digital dark age by providing decentralized and resilient solutions for storing and distributing digital content.

Let’s rewind

TV has always been a highly ephemeral medium.

TV preservationists have long been at a technological disadvantage — just look at how many early live television recordings have been wiped. It’s telling that one of the best records of television comes from activist and archivist Marion Stokes, who planned her diary around the TV schedule, successfully archiving over 71,000 tapes worth of TV over 35 years.

We now live in the golden age of television where viewers are spoiled for choice and ease. But in today’s streaming era, fan-favorite programs are also subject to the whims of corporate mergers, content removals and the ever-expanding detritus left behind from earlier generations of the web.

Last year, HBO Max (now just Max) quietly removed a cache of films and series following the Warner Bros. and Discovery merger, with animated projects and family shows taking the brunt of these changes. Even Sesame Street, a beloved pillar of American pop and education culture, was unsafe from corporate cuts. Last year, about 200 episodes of the series — mostly older ones — were removed from the record.

We are subject to the increasingly precarious nature of our digital media. We can’t easily distinguish between content leaving a platform and content vanishing from existence.

A generation of art risks extinction if the companies that own streaming services can’t financially justify preserving their vast libraries.

The real killer app

Streamed information is, by definition, ephemeral.

The Internet is hemorrhaging valuable content; today, only 7% of the world’s generated data actually gets stored, and that ratio is decreasing over time — that number will be down to 5% in the next five years. IDC estimates that the datasphere will grow to 175 zettabytes by 2025. At this rate, the current cloud storage infrastructure can’t keep up.

But there are currently some efforts underway to save more of our content.

The Internet Archive and their Wayback Machine is a heroic nonprofit effort that has backed up 800 billion web pages, filling a few hundreds of petabytes (note, there are over a million petabytes in a zettabyte), on top of its other projects like a free digital ebook library and a historical software library.

The Internet Archive also hosts the Filecoin Archives, a community-led project to curate, disseminate and preserve important open access to information often at risk of being lost. The project would allow anyone to upload and access books, music, films, and other cultural artifacts without fear of them being lost or destroyed.

But the harder tasks of digital preservation and rescue still lay ahead.

We, the public domain, are about to experience a massive influx of new works, as copyright laws for many iconic films, books and songs begin to expire, and the potential benefits of preserving these works for future generations cannot be overstated. We need a decentralized, resilient system for archiving and sharing these works, ensuring they remain accessible and free for all to enjoy.

It will likely fall to librarians, archivists and the Web3 technologists — the monastic orders of the future — to ensure that something of the heady days of our “digital revolution” remains interpretable for future generations.

Preservationists could create digital tokens representing ownership in the preserved TV content and allow supporters to contribute to the preservation efforts in exchange for these tokens.

NFTs can also be used to track authenticity or ownership rights. Smart contracts could be used to establish transparent and immutable ownership and distribution rights for TV content, making it easier for preservationists to navigate the complex legal and ownership issues associated with old TV shows and movies.

TV is one of the most powerful generators of our collective memories, the most addicting and shocking reflection of society (sometimes a black mirror, if you will), and the most virulent incubator of social trends. Our heritage will diminish if this vast record of our culture is allowed to vanish.

Preserving our cultural history — whether it be the television shows that shaped us or medical journals with breakthroughs that saved us — will be Web3’s killer application.

Get our news the fastest way possible. Join us on W3W Web3 CRM and follow us on https://w3w.ai/

[im-not-a-simp-i-swear]

I have an idea for a funny post: MC superglued a harmonica to the brother's mouth while their sleeping as a prank.

(This is not an original idea, I got this from Youtuber Ben Phillips. I hope this doesn't count as copyright! ☹️)

I dont think this would be considered copyright but if anything thanks for sharing the youtuber who came up with the idea :)

SUPERGLUEING HARMONICA TO THE BOIS

As the quality prankster you are, today you've decided to do a little something to your favorite demon bros for some funsies. You saw the idea on deviltube and thought it'd be fun to do it yourself.

💙LUCIFER

- good luck trying to even get near a sleeping lucifer. He is either awake or he will wake up when you enter his bedroom

- the most likely result of doing this prank to him is that he'll catch you in the act and it'll back fire TERRIBLY

- punishments can vary in any form depending on what his mood with you is however dont be surprised if he attempts to superglue the harmonica to YOUR mouth

- if you suceed though then you better pray to god himself that he doesnt figure out it was you cause he'll be pissed and everyone will be losing their minds in the HoL and RAD, you'll embarass him publicly to a whole new level and he will not be soft on you when he finds the genius behind the prank

💛MAMMON

- easiest one to prank since he is almost with you at all times, all you need to do is to have him sleeping near you to pull out your magmum opus of a prank

- once awaken he'll lose it, of course no one is taking the cursed noises seriously but still, he'll be angry

- he isnt the second strongest of the brothers for nothing pal, he'll show his anger and it wont be pretty either

- be sure to recieve revenge from him once the harmonica is ripped off of his lips, and no, it wont be nice at all

🧡LEVIATHAN

- betrayed, hurt, angy, how could you take advantage of his sleeping self like that MC?

- if he barely left his room before than be sure he wont leave it now, not until he figures out how to get it off of him

- the only annoying part of pranking him in this case would be to wait for him to fall asleep cause gamer man over here sleeps very late, and i mean VERY LATE

- his revenge should be arriving short after yours so stay tuned until then

💚SATAN

- another complicated individual to prank.

- unless you have a death wish then dont even bother to do such a thing to him. Lucifer has s o m e mercy with you because idk, but the avatar of wrath is the avatar of wrath for a reason.

- he either already knows how to undo the superglue by all of the books he has read or he will rip it off of him out of pure rage

- run.

💖ASMODEUS

- *plays that one tiktok audio* congratulations you just won the prize of ✨🧓who's going to the retirement home🧓✨

- ok but seriously how could you? How dare you ruin his beauty sleep and how dare you ruin his gorgeous demon lips? He is p i s s e d

- will cry and will resort to the softest way posible to remove it from his lips, like come on, do you expect him to ruin his face because you thought you were being funny?

- nice try MC but this boi is definetely taking revenge

❤BEELZEBUB

- first thing's first you need him to not be dreaming about food. Second thing's second you need belphie to not be around to stop you

- once you've sticked the instrument to his mouth you'll be able to unlock a very sad beel you monster

- how will he eat now?his mouth cant open. He is hungry MC!! You have doomed the entire devildom!!

- please help him get it off and make sure to have a sorry snack plan with you cause he is hungy and sad

💜BELPHEGOR

- would beat Mammon on being the easiest to prank, he sleeps so much you just gotta be stealthy about it

- at first he'd feel the murderous tendencies rise when he realizes what has happened to him. Then he'd give up and adapt to his new lifestyle. Yep, you arent getting a satisfying reaction of of him

- once you grow tired of the lack of reaction from him you'll have to remove the harmonica yourself cause he is too tired to do so.

- also keep an eye open for a somehow worse revenge prank from him

[frugalkubal]

Even if you're not an art thief (or you don't repost independent artists' stuff without permission), you're still part of the problem if you still like/share reposts and/or follow repost accounts.

"It's not my problem, so I don't really care. It's not a life-threatening matter, so it's no big deal." Okay, then let me wish nobody would help you when you get robbed. It's not like I wish you'd die,right? It's okay, no big deal.

// If you don't have the guts to call out the reposter, then at least report and block them AND like and/or share the original artist's work.

"Fan artist don't deserve credit because they're stealing someone else's characters! It's illegal!" Bruh. We aren't stealing anything. lol Fan art is literally an art made by a fan. We don't claim those characters as ours. We even mention where they're from. As far as I know, making fan art of characters from shows/media made by big companies and some manga is totally acceptable. Making profit off copyrighted characters, though, is illegal; however, independent artists are often ignored because those big companies don't really mind if you sell those 'lil merch of yours in cons (be careful selling online tho lol). Also, most Japanese companies/creators (mangaka) consider fan art as advertisement.

Anyway, the bottomline is that those fan arts are owned by the fan creators because they made it. The characters may not belong to the fan artist but the fan art does. Get it? ಠ‿ಠ So, shut the hell up if you're just going to justify any repost for the stupid reasoning that "it's jUsT fAnArT, bAsiCaLLy thE sAme as mEMEs!" 🥴🙄

"Don't post it online then! Someone's going to steal it anyway."

Seriously, instead of telling fan creators to stop posting stuff online, you should just focus on reporting and shunning reposters. Help in stopping this shit instead of justifying it and blaming the victims.

Reposters be like:

"We gave credits anyway!" If the artist didn't want it to be reposted, then DON'T REPOST IT.

"We gave you exposure! You should even thank us!" Again, if the artist doesn't want it to be reposted, DO NOT REPOST IT. You're not doing a favour. YOU'RE the one who owe us a favour for the undeserved attention and support you get out of reposting our stuff. Besides, a lot of social media folks are lazy bums who don't even give a damn about the original artist so they'd just settle with the repost they see; thus, that exposure you're bragging about isn't even worth mentioning.

"Don't be so stingy!" Would you like it if I say that same thing after I take something of yours without permission (basically stealing)? No, I don't think so. So, delete that damn repost now.

"DM us if you want us to take it down." 🤦‍♂️ You should've asked for permission to repost BEFORE you reposted it. A YES, UH-HUH, AFFIRMATIVE, SURE!, GO AHEAD should be given before you repost it. Simply asking to repost without being given the go signal is not a permission, bro. You just asked but a permission wasn't given. WTH

"CREDITS TO THE ARTIST." THAT'S USELESS. Zero credits has actually been given to the rightful owner. You're just trying to make yourself seem good with that. You think you did good enough by saying that but that shit's offensive as hell to the artist, especially when your repost got more engagement than theirs. If you don't know who made it even after searching thru saucenao.com or whatever, THEN DO NOT REPOST IT. That CTTO isn't doing any help; and even if you did find out who made it, you MUST ask for permission to repost first.

*adds in their own watermark* You contributed nothing in making that art. Have a bit of shame. ಠ_ಠ

*removes original artist's watermark and act as if they made it* Congrats, you're a full blown art thief. 😬 I hope you step on a lego 3x/day.

[dragonanarchist1155]

if we are sincere, "AI" doesnt mean shit. Calculators can be AI, your phone's autocorrect and predictive text is AI, anything that does anything computerwise is AI.

What the current "AI" trend tools are is text and image generators, sophisticated at that but literally just that. "machine learning" and "deep learning" is just mass scraped data neural networking. and neural networks are a REALLY old concept, that we just have the computing power to better utilize today.

Fueled by capitalism, these tools have been turned into mass plagiarism "bots", when they could have been useful tools for creative processes. Take midjourney for example, it slowly works its way up from blotches of color into a trashy plagiarized work of "ai art", when if bundled within an art program it could be a useful artist assistance tool, but that would require the neural model to have been created FOR art creation (recognizing things like strokes, sketch lines, layers, shading, etc) and not for art "generation" or "replication", which means we are stuck in a hell of trying to fight and poison these models before they damage the feedback loop and sustenance of art itself.

Tech-bros like to mention the printing press but fail to understand reality. Before the printing press, calligraphic and scribal work was an important, valuable labor that was integral to the registration, maintenance and exchange of information. The printing press did not completely supersede it but rather removed various niches of repetitive work where it existed, however the creation of new typesets, fonts and lettering in general still NEEDED the work of calligraphic experts. Let me repeat that more clearly, to create ANYTHING with a printing press FIRST you needed the art of calligraphy. Also, if we go further, the thing that made computerized text editors actually be useful was the addition of principles of calligraphy, fonts, text size, bold, cursive, etc. Computers became a tool where calligraphy is made too, not a replacement for it. Calligraphic work was NEVER replaced by the printing press.

Now with "AI art" you have capitalism deciding "cheap is enough" at a cost to everyone. Its "shitflation" (a delightful word), the degradation in the quality of the things while the price keeps the same but on a mass scale. If AI art and AI tools replace actual artists it'd be a degradation in general of the qualities of anything that uses anything audiovisual, and people would pay the cost of the profits earned. Not to mention how sanitized, puritan, restrained the models are, or how racist biases exist in the data, or how incredibly susceptible the AI tools are to poisoning themselves, since AI data is cancerous to AI models and quickly create massive degradation. This last bit is also one of the reasons why the current models will start to fail.

Unless they restrict to pre-ai data or start being selective with data used for training (lol, they wont do it to avoid copyright, they wont do it for this), the models will begin to experience quirks and loops which snowball into model collapse. AI art needs Human art to exist. The quicker the Artist Plagiarism model of these companies collapses, the quicker these models can be turned into tools which open new uses and capacities for artists, the better it will be for everyone, so being against "AI Art" is actually in a way good for "AI"

In the end, the "intelligence" behind "AI" that's making this whole issue for everyone is not the neural models or the machine ghost, but the human failure of greed, in capitalism impersonated, through the owners and stockholders of the companies that keep focusing on making AI fit its round body into the square hole. That's to say this is the attempt at the replacement of Art, a sophont activity, with algorithmic programming based upon the mass scraping of already made things. It is a task sure to fail. sure you can probably call it a new form of art (like dada is art) but its never going to be able to replace art. Its time will pass.

What if we call what is currently considered "AI" virtual intelligence (VI) instead? I mean, what we currently have is more akin to virtual intelligence rather than actually artificial intelligence, after all.

Makes sense but consider we go back to calling them programs and stop acting like its some kind of brain seperate to humanity and we start calling shit like chat gpt and midjourney what they are: plagerism bots.

[crowsent]

the man hasnt even started the stream yet and his chat is spammin “technolate” truly the best and most supportive fans

amazing

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i have to make my own fences like a loser

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“tommy is this your credit card? let me read the numbers aloud tommy”

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“they keep dying on my thorns”

then fucking remove your armour mr technoblade??????????? you have the option to remove your armour

i know you have trust issues and that the last time you removed your armour tommy tried to kill you but like

you can remove your armour, find someplace else for your zombie villagers to be in, and then put the armour back on

you have options mr blade

you can make unenchanted armour for the purposes of moving your damn zomvillagers out the way if you really dont wanna be armourless

you have the materials

you have the opportunities

fucking seize them

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mr blade: “my sleep schedule is terrible”

my dumb ass, waking up at 10pm on a monday after falling asleep on a 6am the same monday, after not sleeping for 2 days on sunday and saturday: “damn right your sleep schedule is terrible”

i have good self-awareness

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mr blade: “im not stalling”

proceeds to stall:

• “happy new year! i forgot that happened”

• reads donations

• begins to try and cure his zombie villagers

• makes fun of skeppys “clickbait” title (it is clickbait by the way. the video is not structured like an actual manhunt vid. totally not a technosimp but techno was a fantastic hunter in the skeppy v techno manhunt. yep. techno was v fair about the entire thing go watch it if you havent hes great and skeppy was also there /lh)

• talks about chess

• talks about the Gifted Child™ Syndrome without ever saying the words Gifted Child™ Syndrome

• DONT DISRESPECT CHESS

(hes a fucking athena kid. im fucking TELLING YALL HES AN ATHENA KID and if i have to fucking write a goddamn academically cited paper to prove it with actual fucking receipts i goddamn will)

• even when tommy came on stream, techno immediately proceeded to discuss the Kings Fianchetto opening

• “i dont know what kind of science textbooks youve been reading, but youve spent too much money on them. those are trash. those are TRASH”

exactly mr blade. exactly. see? athena kid. hes smart. he went to college. he knows the score. mmmhmmm. yup. checks out mr. blade

• types “You’re talking sounds” -tommyinnit (genius)

• into the mc chat

• “Tommy, you’re talking words, but the only universal language: is sounds”

IF SBI NON CANON WHY THE FUCK DOES THIS READ AS AN OLDER BRO MAKING FUN OF HIS YOUNGER BRO EXPLAIN MR BLADE

Techno fucking lists out languages that do not have sounds like: sign language, written language, braille

and then fucking thomathy “tommyinnit” minecraft hits us with “and russian”

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST FOLKS

RUSSIAN IS A CATEGORY OF NON-SOUND LANGUAGE

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and for a good few minutes, mr blade and associate tommyinnit talk about crimes and the fbi and using it to farm views. big brain moved here today

(and then tommys alexa turned blue when he said fbi and then they both freaked out it was great)

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new york-ian

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mr blade and tommyinnit just IMMEDIATELY trying to pander to new yorkers once they realise the population size. they out here fucking complimenting the statue of liberty (even tho its in new jersey), the empire state building, the bronx, queens, fucking SPIDERMAN

if they arent brothers

why they have this energy

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prime to tommyinnit

sub to technoblade

yall

my heart

i love these two terrorists so much

(for legal reasons, i am obligated to say that they are video game terrorists please and thank you)

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tommy, about music he wanna sing: its from nintendo

mr blade: nintendo copyrights EVERYTHING tommy they got like SUPER COPYRIGHT

tommy: well, technoblade, every last one of my videos uses nintendo music

mr blade: DUDE YOURE GOING TO DIE. nintendo will KILL you

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“new york is not canon in the dream smp universe”

mr technoblade over here just fucking ruining every new yorkers day huh

yall hear that? new york is non canon

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you want cock to join the revolution

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tommy out here trying to be intimidating but hes stuttering, knocking himself off of things...

its great

its great

i love their dynamic

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im spawning the wither, somebody get me my sword

techno “one-liner” blade ladies and gentlemen

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techno using the wither to vandalise lmanberg is very poggers of him

amazing mr blade

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tommy is such a delight in this stream

“i dont know this man”

“why would you bring this near me im WEAK im FRAIL im LIKE AN OLD LADY”

thank you mr innit

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if i had gotten this stream live yall bet your asses i would be chanting “blood for the blood god” with chat

chat is BLOODTHIRSTY

chat is feral

chat is amazing

thank you chat for being the chaotic fucking bastards yall always are

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“lookit muh muscles. BITCH”

tommy

i love him

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so last stream, techno and tommy waterboarded a hostage who died by a spider immediately after he was released

THIS stream, techno and tommy waterboard an orphan fox until he cries

good times

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fundy drowned

ha

canon?

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wait

i just remembered

FUNDY GOT DROWNED BY HIS UNCLES

TOMMY AND TECHNO ARE FUNDYS UNCLES BRUHHHHHHH

these two fuckers legit said “what if i waterboard my nephew to the point where he drowns”

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i find it really funny that techno is the one fanon portrays to be this remorseless out of control entity when the entire time during the fundy waterboard torture, techno is the one holding tommy back and saying that hes going to far

and last time, techno is the one chiding philza when philza just casually murders and slaughters his way around the map

bruh

techno has more of a moral compass than fandom gives him credit for

where is my "techno is actually the moral compass of the sbi” fanfic

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the only dirt we have on dream is his dirt shack amiright? eyyyy hes homeless

techno

techno

so funny

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“useless, annoying, loud, british. you know. the worst combination” techno says

then he fucking makes tommy weapons, gives tommy the helmet, makes tommy weapons and tools and armour...

yeah. 

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“i will not rest until that entire country has been completely obliterated for what it did to me and phil, tommy”

ME AND PHIL

ME AND PHIL

technoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

bruhhhh

mr blade please

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LMANBURG IS MY UNFINISHED SYMPHONY

tommy what the fuck

what the fuck

tommy

tommy

what wait tahgjkjxbglsjbnouafsfv

WAT

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“you could actually be, dare i say it, a friend” TECHNO

TECHNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

BRUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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“technoblade ill join you”

ANTARCTIC ANARCHIST COMMUNE POG

YES BITCH

YES BITCH

SBI

SBI

SBI

SBI

SBI

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“this bodes poorly for the eventual sbi meetup”

shut up

shut the fuck up

i cant handle this

i can handle the dream sapnap meetup conspiracy

but i CANNOT handle the sbi meetup conspiracy

techno please shut up

i cant

dont do me dirty like this man

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you know how tommy keeps saying that hes weak and shit but like

he fought in wars

he has fucking armour, weapons, potions, gapples

he can hold his own in a fight

do

do you think tommy keeps calling himself weak bc DREAM calls him weak? like. his self-confidence and belief in his abilities is just eroded by dream so tommy thinks hes weak even if he isnt?

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“we have sand at home”

at home

at home

at HOME

bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

techno literally out here singlehandedly giving me serotonin

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beak on

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bless you

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one of us

one of us

one of us

one of us

one of us

one of us

[winnerloser]

idk who needed to hear this today but 

if you use fanart for anything, you give credit for it.

usually i would just implore you guys to at your own discretion but. 

i think sometimes people forget that if you use fanart without explicitly asking for the author’s permission, that's stealing. but obviously no one has ill intent behind it with this hobby, which is why crediting is important. it’s the least you can do.

it doesnt matter how much you use the fanart. even if it only appears on your blog once. even if it’s just a throwaway icon for a gag. even if you replace the icon with new icons from somewhere else. if it was on your blog at some point, and you don’t intend on deleting it, and it’s still on there, you give credit for it.

there’s maybe some leeway if you commissioned the art and/or the artist already cosigned you to using it without giving permission. but that’s the only special instance i can think of.

in that same vein, please just look on artist’s profiles to see if they allow reposting in the first place. if their account says no reproduction/no reposting/DONT USE MY ART.... don’t use it. if the bio is in japanese, chinese, korean, whatever- google translate it. i know google translate can suck but it’ll easily convey what you need to be looking for. 

if you’re one to think that you don’t want to use source media like screenshots or mangacaps because fanart is prettier, don’t ignore the fact that the people providing you the luxury to do so are just that- people, who spent hours to draw what could amount to just one or two icons. who could’ve drawn what you were using as a commission for someone else. who more than likely posted the image without any idea what you’re using it for-- more importantly;

without any idea what you’re using the image to represent, what messages you’re trying to convey- with their image. the fact that the subject is a copyrighted character/isn’t theirs doesn’t change the fact that the drawing in and of itself is still their creation.

it would behoove you to start keeping tabs of the sources you intend to pull from. if you see a piece from pixiv you think you’ll consider pulling from- pluck it, save it, so later when you open photoshop you’re not sitting with the pulled image thats titled computer jibberish with no artist’s signature.

YOU KNOW WHAT? i’ll go you one even better than that.

When you save an image from pixiv - this one for example, by default it’ll save it as 78827921_p0_master1200.jpg.  78827921 is the image ID. https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/78827921 will take you back to that image. Plug in any other ID, and it’ll go back to its source. There you go. Easy if you accidentally forgot to keep tabs.

nobody is entitled to the usage of another person’s art, and if you use the excuse that [just by virtue of OP posting it on the internet, it’s free gain], that’s bullshit.

if you post anything- even a text post or roleplay thread- going by that same logic, anyone should be allowed to reblog it, remix it, go to town on it; it’s on the open internet, after all... right? No. you’re entitled to security in the things you post. you don’t really need to say “don’t/ask to reblog” in the tags for people to get the hint to not or ask first if they feel inclined to. if you believe you’re entitled to that comfort and respect, i don’t see why that mindset can’t be translated to fit the situation of artists. even if you don’t give a shit how your stuff gets circulated, at least try to look at it in the way that not everyone is you.

and not everyone is me, so some may be wondering still why they can’t just go ahead and do what they want so long as they’re not hurting people/keeping it lowkey. i mean, at the end of the day, there’s nothing i can do about it either. you can totally do whatever you want, im not denying that. but just know that you’re not 100% in the clear from getting discovered by somebody. you’re not impervious to being found. and reposting/art being used or transformed without credit or consent is a very real reason that artists get upset or even sometimes lock their profiles, delete, or stop drawing/posting, or stop making their art publically available. this is NOT just a western philosophy. asian artists do this just as well- hell, you could even say that some are even more stringent about etiquette when it comes to treating their works with respect. that includes reposting policies.

if you’re too tired/busy/lazy/forgetful/cursed to credit, that’s 100% not an excuse lol. or if you’re thinking, crap, i have all these nicely done assets that i’ve created but it’ll be too difficult to go back and retroactively find the sources!

idk what to tell u but tough titties bro thats a you problem*

uh, so to end this:

再版ポリシーが破られている場合は、お知らせください。すぐに画像を削除します。このブログから利益を得ることも、失礼することも意図していません。再版は許可されているが、クレジットがない場合は、お知らせください。修正いたします。ありがとうございます、失礼します。

如果违反了您的转载政策，请告知我们。我会立即删除图像。它无意从此博客中受益或无礼。如果允许转载，但信用不正确，请告知我们。我会马上改正的。谢谢，不好意思。祝好

this is in my credit’s page at the bottom. i can’t vouch for the japanese, but i can say with more certainty that the chinese is legible. if someone is better at japanese and has any adjustments they’d recommend, please do so! it’s just saying that i don’t intend to cause harm or disrespect by borrowing the artwork, and that at any of the artists’ discretion, whether i’m violating their repost policy or not, they are urged to reach out to me and tell me to remove their art if they don’t want it on my blog. feel free to snatch it and use it for your credits page, or write something similar in lieu of that. i’m 100% in support of that.

please be conscious and considerate of the people who work hard and do a good deal of the heavy lifting for you to be able to make your blog pretty and aesthetic in the first place. i think the bounty of beautiful and high-quality art for the pokemon fandom- or for any popular fandom for that matter- sometimes makes us forget that it isn’t a commodity. it’s something that when taken for granted, can genuinely affect others who work hard to provide content for people to enjoy. at the end of the day, they do this to make themselves and others happy. seeing others take that work without any acknowledgement to them is demoralizing, don’t think that they’ll get enough recognition from others to compensate for you. that’s frankly not how posting art on social media works at all.

i mean, even if this doesn’t convince you, i can only hope it’ll spur you to be more conscious in the future. 

*i get that things happen and this isn’t meant to shame you if you happen to be one to do any of the things other than credit. but know that you don’t... really have an excuse when there’s so many different options, shortcuts and alternatives available to you. you don’t really cite from a shitton of different sources for your paper and then go back to pick through every individual quote to find where it came from to avoid plagiarizing. you just.. make a note or works cited. it takes like, 15 extra minutes. if you’re going to spend hours on photoshop or writing fancy infoposts, you can spend an extra 15 making a works cited.