#but i've been thinking about this screenshot all day

[chungledown-bimothy]

At first I was just gonna ignore this, because it absolutely did not pass the vibe check from the jump, but I realized that that's an equally unproductive kneejerk reaction.

So I went down the rabbit hole on this one. I checked out every blog I could find that seemed to know what's going on, and the information is unreliable and vague.

The only "source" I've been able to find is this low-quality screenshot of a discord message with absolutely no information in the picture itself indicating where it's from. They claim that it was posted in the Wrong Organ (game dev for Mouthwashing) discord server, and a friend who is in said server sent the screenshot to them:

Who is lmao? Is there any indication that anyone's actually going to listen to them, let alone en masse like people seem to think? Who is the friend, and do they or the person who initially posted it have motivation to lie?

God knows I don't listen to every post in discord servers that tags everyone, and I'm sure that's a far from unique experience.

I saw some people on Reddit saying that the tags had been flooded with horrible shit a while back, which does in fact suck, but from what I could tell, it seems like one asshole with a handful of burners, and I couldn't find any indication of asks being sent.

I found absolutely no proof or even mention that stardew valley or any other fandom tags were impacted by this outside of the post screenshotted in the ask. The poster of which admits to not really knowing anything solidly.

What happened before was horrible. I'm not downplaying that. But there is not even a single shred of reliable information indicating that anything is going to happen in a couple of days.

If there really was a plan cooking on discord, is it really at all plausible that no one else is providing any sort of evidence? I've looked through multiple posts with 3-5 digit numbers of posts about this, and I haven't seen a single person give any corroborating evidence, anecdotal or not, not even through-the-grapevine rumors.

I've been here a very long time. I've seen this song and dance many times before. I recall it not being fake exactly once, with 4chan in 2014. I do not go to Mouthwashing or any Wrong Organ games, but I'd bet pretty heavily that they don't have the numbers that 2014 4chan did.

It was much easier to post, well, everything, back in those days, and even then, the bark was orders of magnitude worse than the bite.

I could be wrong, and I'm not saying don't take precautions if you feel the need to, but the seemingly mindless parroting of vague and unreliable information, in some cases elevating it to "it could happen to ANYONE!!!!!", reeks of overblown hysteria.

If it's not real (which I vehemently believe to be the case), this is just causing a lot of unnecessary distress. If it is, this amplification and panic is exactly what they're looking to accomplish. If the scope of the past events is anything to go by, it's far more effective than what they could do with the very small group, if it is even more than one person, they had/have.

Hello dear!

Sorry for bothering you, but it's important to remind you to turn off your asks for a few days! Bad things are going to happen on Tumblr soon...

Don t know anything about this but BETTER BE SAFE EVERYBODY!!!!!!

[cementcornfield]

this screenshot means everything to me 🥹

[simplepotatofarmer]

this pic is so 'girl covering for her drunk best friend in the bathroom of a shitty dive bar where the stall door doesn't shut'

[batsplat]

Sepang 2006: After an exhausting race, Valentino Rossi brings a chair to the podium and sits down. Loris Capirossi joins him to sit on his lap.

[sevenlascaras]

@girl4music Heyo! Both @boopblep and @sevenlascaras are my accounts, I just realized I've been talking at you from both accounts interchangeably without ever specifying lol

Spent a while looking for the post that I was reminded of, but never found it 😔 I remember it being something like, in the moment after Catra throws herself into the fire for Adora, Adora responds with a joke that while probably intended to diffuse the tension from her pov, but instead Catra seems to sink at a joke in a moment where she was being pretty emotionally vulnerable, something that's already hard for her.

Though I didn't find that post, I *did* find a lot of interesting posts by searching through everything I had reblogged and tagged, so in lieu of that, I present to you:

(also this is very long and i will be adding to it via reblogs)

Diana's Mega Ultra "So You Just Finished She Ra" Round Up

Analysis Posts

Note: Self plug~

Yeah, so Catra just ran into fire for Adora. Or what she thought was real fire but was actually just an illusion.

Still the sentiment of that well…

You know what it reminds me of.

True love at its greatest and grandest.

I mean there was no true love’s kiss but it was still romantic and beautiful. It still got across the point.

[hazelkjt]

"Another life, another you. Just as similar, yet just as different."

[jichanxo]

how it started:

how it's going:

[unproduciblesmackdown]

has happened plenty around iconis goings on but what an all-timer

[icewindandboringhorror]

Recent things.. mostly just writing screenshots lol

[montrosepretty]

Montrose having a special interest in ephemera compilation

[fragmentedblade]

I have so many screenshots of Kalpas' face I could reconstruct his face at this point, and I'm afraid to say I'm not sure his face is scarred

[thats-a-lot-of-cortisol]

✨ someone ✨ broke their oath the other night

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

(major s-class heroine spoilers)

made the mistake of briefly considering reed/hestio, and then thinking about how hestio might react to learning that the mass murderer in front of him was once his extremely kind and upright friend who always gave too much of himself to others. i got socked in the gut by the throwback to my own grief when discovering that reed=tesilid.

like. what and how much has he gone through that he has thrown away the morals and self-sacrifice he internalised so much. what do you mean he killed his younger self in the most cruel and painful way he could think of. what do you mean that even he himself was not kind to himself. that, even after a hundred lifetimes, he still hasn't learned the slightest shred of self-love and is acting only in self-preservation. what do you mean that he has been running on fumes and desperation for several lifetimes? he probably hasn't had the time to even grieve and cry for himself. has there been anyone who could even do so for him? what do you mean he's tried every means possible to save the world, and then just himself, and then had no choice but to try to kill himself, but even that didn't work so now he's forced to try to kill everyone else too. what do you mean that this isn't just an issue of mental health and of convincing him that life is worth living? there is genuinely no conceivable path forward for him. maybe the world should just burn or something idk.

[leavemetoplaythesims]

yeehaw?

before:

[astramachina]

elaborating on that previous post somewhat, i know we all meme on the books and whatnot but words cannot express how blindsiding it was to read a paragraph so haunting that i had to put my phone down and stare off into the middle distance to truly process it.

the language was so simple and straightforward but it tackled such a big concept that i on god thought "huh...i never thought about it like that" and it kind of hearkened back to some therapy sessions in which it would take me 30 minutes of trying to explain A Big Emotional Concept only for my therapist to whittle it down into a single, manageable sentence that enables me to tackle it.

i think YA is really good at doing that. and i think adults should dip their toes into it every once in a while, because it feels like the older we get the easier it is for us to forget lessons learned from our youth that might not seem relevant on our day to day. yeah these big literary books can impart some serious emotional catharsis that paves the way to wisdom, but sometimes we need to experience it through the "simplicity" of getting our knees scuffed while running away from a haunted mall.

[breezybeej]

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