#but snek memes won

[eksperimentgaj]

hey, look, I managed to draw something

danger noodle/medusa (with Lando being the biggest danger noodle in the picture)

inspired by Mr. Norris' Vegas helmet

[earlgraytay]

two very important conclusions about american politics:

a) we need a Head Of State that is not the President for people's tribal YES THE PERSON I LIKE WON reactions to latch onto. that way our chief executive can be a policy wonk and no one will care that they’re not the kind of person “you can have a beer with”

b) that Head Of State should be an adorable animal of some kind. i’d recommend a cat for the meme potential, but dogs, frogs, hamsters, sneks, ferrets, bald eagles, and naked mole rats are all welcome.

[im-a-space-gay]

Friendships DESTROYED

Gay Gamers AU. Also this is mostly unedited because I couldn’t muster up the effort to read over it.

Before Virgil went to Florida

~~~~~

“Hello everybody!” Roman said, running around the lobby. “Prince_Of_Creativity here, and today I am with the other Gay Gamers, Mor-Pal-Ity, CoolLogic101, and Anxie_Tea&Biscuits—“

“Hi!”

“Salutations.”

“‘Sup.”

“— and my brother and his crew, Duke_Of_DEATH, SneakySnekBoi, Sleepislife and Picartoons, and today we are playing Among Us. Now, I hear Snek is good at explaining things, so would you care to explain the rules?”

“Not at all. Among Us is an online game where there are four to ten players. The crewmate’s goal is to defeat the imposters, either by completing all their tasks or by voting them off. The imposter’s goal is to kill everybody they possibly can and sabotage equipment. There can be up to three imposter’s per game depending on the settings; however there will only be one imposter for this video, then the next will bump it up to two, and finally three.”

“Thank you Snek,” Roman said. “Now, let’s ruin each other’s trust, shall we?”

——

“Oh my god,” Remy groaned as Snek won. “Gurl, you always win when you’re imposter! How did we not guess sooner?”

“Don’t know, don’t care.”

“No joke, if I’m imposter next round, I’m killing you out of spite,” Remy said dead serious, and everyone laughed.

The next round started, and Virgil muted himself like everybody else before evil laughing.

“I’m the imposter! Now, over the course of the game, I have been analyzing everybody’s moves, and have a solid strategy. Nerdy, I know.”

Virgil pretended to do tasks as he explained.

“First, we’ll kill Snek, because most the time he figures out who it is lightning quick, and thanks to Remy, they’ll probably accuse him for killing Snek. So, Snek first, Remus next, and if Remy hasn’t been voted off by then, kill him, and then Emile. I’ll save the other Gay Gamers last because they have been quick to defend me the last few rounds when I was in fishy situations, and knowing them they’ll tear each other apart from the inside accusing each other. Then I’ll kill Patton, then Logan, and I’m home free.”

Virgil was quick to spin in a circle with Snek, a nonverbal way to pack together with trust before they walked away from everybody else.

“Of course, there will be other things screwing up my master plan, but oh well. It’ll end with me winning or losing, and I’m perfectly fine with either.”

They entered electrical, and Virgil killed Snek before venting to the other side of the map, where once he left the room he saw Patton and Logan together and stuck with them so he had an alibi.

A couple minutes went by before somebody found Snek’s body. Surprisingly, Remus found it and immediately shouted:

“REMY YOU SON OF A BITCH!”

“Wait wait wait babes I didn’t do it!”

“UH HUH. THEN WHY DID I FIND MY BEST FRIEND’S BODY IN ELECTRICAL OF ALL PLACES?! AND YOU THREATENED HIM LAST ROUND!”

“Okay, let’s think about how I’m not the only meme-y one—���

“I don’t know Remy that seems awfully suspicious,” Roman said accusingly.

“Dude, what about Anx—“

“HE WOULD NEVER!” Both Patton and Logan said loudly.

“Besides, he’s been with us for a while now,” Logan said, and Virgil smirked.

“Yeah Remy, I’m starting to think it might be you,” Emile said, Virgil smiling more.

“What’s Anx’s opinion?” Roman asked, and Virgil thanked his years in voice acting.

“Well, Remy does seem suspicious, but honestly we don’t have enough information for me to feel comfortable outright accusing him at this point.”

“I agree with Anxie,” Patton said, voting. “Let’s just skip this one until we have more evidence.”

They all agreed and Virgil tried not to laugh even if he was now muted, following Logan and Patton again. When there was an intersection, Virgil turned off the lights, knowing they’d be essentially useless when turning the lights back on.

He split from Logan and Patton, hoping they wouldn’t notice as he looked for Remus. It was easy enough to find him, snapping his neck before venting away. By the time he was able to kill again, he saw Remy trying to swipe his card and killed him as well before venting.

Virgil snickered. He could see it now; Remy yelling in the call for dead people while Snek laughed, Remus probably saying something crude. Remy probably going like “I told you so” as he followed Virgil, cussing loudly.

He walked around, killing Emile once he found them and actually managing to find Logan and Patton again.

It appeared Roman found a body, as a meeting was called and Patton gasped, probably at all the people dead.

“Okay, that is a LOT more dead people than I remember,” Virgil said, holding down his laughs knowing that the dead people could still hear him.

“So it’s down to us,” Roman said dramatically before continuing. “I think it’s Logan, because Patt is terrible at lying and I feel like we would know if it was Anx.”

“Actually, it’s you,” Logan said in the perfect way of saying Uno Reverse without saying Uno Reverse. “Because us three have been together since before the last time a dead body was found.”

And Virgil had to hold his hand to his mouth so he wouldn’t make any noise because one, they didn’t realize he separated from them, and two, he didn’t think about how that would affect their view of the Roman. Dear lord, he wish he grabbed popcorn.

After them arguing for a bit, Roman was voted off and he really had to not laugh at how the other two reacted.

He unmuted himself once his kill button became an option again, and he killed Logan before evil cackling as the victory screen appeared.

“OH MY GOD,” Roman shouted, as if the truth was surprising to him, which it probably was.

“ANX YOU ABSOLUTE SON OF BITCH,” Remy shouted as well, and Virgil’s evil laugh increased in volume and length as he listened to their reactions.

“You never saw it coming until it was knocking at your door!” He said like a villain once he stopped laughing.

“I gotta hand it to you, that was really awesome,” Snek said, being the calmest of the bunch. “Before you come back into the lobby, can you please explain everything to me; the strat, the outcome, everything!”

“Sure!” Virgil said, and he smirked when they all shut up, wanting to hear it for themselves. “First, I had to kill you, because you are damn good at murder mysteries. It was just really convenient that not only did you go to electrical, but Remy had threatened you last round.”

“Fucking piece of shit,” Remy mumbled.

“Then, act like I normally do, meaning I couldn’t agree that we voted Remy off, I just had to hope it happened. Shut off the lights because we’re useless fixing stuff like that, plus it gave me a chance to sneak away from Logan and Patton without them noticing. Killed Remus because he is way too reckless in voting people off meaning it was unpredictable, and Remy would most likely be voted off because Remus was the one who planted the idea in your heads that Remy was guilty.”

“Fucking. Piece. Of shit.”

“Upon realizing that nobody had found his body or turned the lights back on, I killed Remy when I found him, same method for Emile, and rejoined Logan and Patton and waited till somebody found a body.”

“Fucking simp. Leaving them and my brother alive,” Remus said, and Virgil smirked.

“Actually, it’s the other way around.”

“Huh?”

“Throughout my time of knowing and recording with the other three, I knew that they wouldn’t accuse me unless they had no choice. Therefore, I had to make them the last to go.”

“Genius,” Snek whispered in awe. “Absolute genius.”

“Honestly,” Virgil continued, ignoring the slight heat in his face. “Once somebody found a body I was going to insist to skip the vote, kill Patton, and watch the other two tear each other apart and ‘reluctantly’ side with one of them. I didn’t take into account one thing however.”

“It was just you and those three, meaning Roman was alone,” Snek said, and Virgil nodded even though he knew they wouldn’t see him.

“Yep. It was just too easy to vote Roman off and kill one of the others once I had the chance, winning my first game as imposter.”

“I feel tricked. I feel like a fiddle who’s been played with,” Roman said, utter betrayal in his voice as the other two Gay Gamers agreed. “I do not know if I could ever see or even talk to Anx the same way again.”

“Besides the utter rage I feel,” Remy said, cutting Virgil off from apologizing. “I have to admit that I am proud of little Anxie.”

“Don’t call me that,” Virgil said with utter venom, entering the lobby and running over to the other Gay Gamers. “Only Lo, Ro, and Patty can call me that.”

“Why?”

“Because you’re not as special as them,” Virgil said, smiling as he heard Emile reassure Remy he was special when he became upset.

“I take it back, this is still little innocent Anxie,” Roman said.

“Indeed. Still as harmless as ever.”

“Just a small anxious baby,” Patton finished. Virgil frowned, walking away from the others and to Snek and Remus.

“You’ve been revoked of your title of being special. You’re all evil and heartless.”

“You cannot escape us Anxie,” Roman said like a madman, following Virgil, prompting Virgil to run away, only for Roman, and soon Logan and Patton, to follow.

Virgil turned around at the last second to boop Logan before running away again.

“Tag, you’re it!”

“Oh, it is on.”

General Taglist:

@thefivecalls @antiredhuman

Gay Gamers Taglist:

@that-spider-fan-over-there @thatonerandomarmadillo

[irarelypostanything]

Unnecessary Arguments - Political posts on social media

Person #1: You know what I’m tired of seeing? Political posts on Facebook

Person #2: Why? That’s exactly where they’re supposed to be. What, would you prefer if we made them our Skype statuses at work?

Person #1: We’re community leaders. As such, we have a sacred responsibility to keep politics out of our discussions. It hurts our image

Person #2: WHAT? What are you on about? We’re not community leaders

Person #1: Everyone in the community, whether a firefighter, a post office worker, or a priest, is a community leader. Everyone in a community is a thought leader

Person #2: And so your response to that is to tell us to not make political commentary on social media? Sounds fascist

Person #1: If you work for the government, you take an oath that you will not post anything political on your social media

Person #2: We don’t work for the government. Maybe we should do the responsible thing and spam out political posts on Nextdoor, like mature people. Seriously, who the hell cares? We have free speech. If I want to make a snek meme, then that’s my God-given right

Person #1: There are a few things at play in social media. First of all, most content is fake...period. It’s created by outside agents

Person #2: If I believed mainstream media, every single republican in the country would be a secret Russian plant. Democrats would be 100%. Obviously your math is off…

Person #1: The algorithm is designed to favor engagement, meaning it actually bumps up arguments. The stupider a post, the more people will have heated exchanges. Social media is just a giant pool of garbage

Person #2: Then where should we discuss politics?

Person #1: Reddit. The subreddit called changemymind. You argue points, you get rewards based on a vote system if you actually changed someone’s view.

Person #2: That’s not what it’s called, and Reddit is social media. Social media is how we reach each other. How do you think campaigns get the word out? Well...with social media

Person #1: Yes, and THEY have every right to make political posts. But that’s not our job. We took a sacred oath that we would be nonpartisan, so that we could do our jobs in peace and not be swayed

Person #2: You mean like the maesters in Game of Thrones? Get your head out of your ass. No one is apolitical. If you think you’re capable of completely avoiding politics every day except voting day...I can’t believe I’m the one who’s saying this...check your privilege

Person #1: Damn, you said it. I guess I have to take a shot

Person #2: Political discourse is critical to any true democracy. You know what bugs me? That tech companies are now deciding this. They can flag conservative tweets as factually inaccurate. They can flag YouTube videos simply for being conservative. If we refuse to agree with the left on anything and everything, we’re cancelled and our opinions are invalidated. That’s why we agreed to start this blog, isn’t it?

Person #1: No, it was called “unnecessary arguments” because we were supposed to talk about stupid stuff...like Star Wars movies. It was “unnecessary” because it was supposed to be about things that were silly and inconsequential, not life or death stuff. Can we just stop talking politics? I’m sick of it

Person #2: Why? Your guy won

Person #1: He’s not my guy, I actually wanted Kamala

Person #2: YOU GOT YOUR WISH

Person #1: But...who cares? I’m so jaded by all of this. Every time you post a political statement, you’re just falling into the hands of the enemy

Person #2: I thought all republicans were your enemy

Person #1: No, the enemy is the unseen organization controlling all of this. The enemy is the group seeking to sew the seeds of mistrust so that democrats hate republicans and republicans hate democrats, making us incapable of actually fighting together

Person #2: Ah, you’re a conspiracy theorist. It all makes sense now

Person #1: TECH COMPANIES. They are the real evil

Person #2: Don’t you work for a tech company?

Person #1: Not the people in tech companies, the algorithms.

Person #2: You can’t be serious…

Person #1: No one understands the algorithms. The algorithms have gone beyond our control

Person #2: Did you fail “introduction to algorithms”? It was a required class…

Person #1: We think we control the algorithms, but the algorithms control us. Tech is out of control, a thinking, unfeeling thing that continually distracts us, divides us, and drains the life out of us. Republicans and democrats both exist because the algorithms allow it, and the algorithms keep us on opposing sides because if either side is defeated, the opposite will cease to exist. There’s no more yin and yang, there’s just algorithms. We fine-tune them to extract more attention, in doing so we make them favor division over unity, and before we know it they rule all and don’t even care

Person #2: You’re completely insane and you don’t know what the word “algorithm” means

Person #1: How can we stop this? Be civil. If you’re going to talk politics, do it on the phone or in person. Understand each other. Talk things through. Listen. And don’t do so with an audience so that people can downvote or upvote you, they’re probably not even real. They’re the algorithm putting your post in front of people who are predetermined to agree or disagree. It’s time to listen and stop the political posts on social media

Person #2: Nothing you just said made any sense, so I’m just going to leave no

[chiarodilunabella]

Me to me: don't feed into it Me also: plz don't spray snek :(

[shantiyen]

For the ask meme- 5 and 11?

5 - Favorite monster(s)?- Instead of my usual top 5, I’ll s/o the monsters who are high up there without being in that top 5, lol.

Gammoth - I wasn’t sold on her at first, but her theme won me over. It’s amazing and it suits her so well it’s kinda scary.Alatreon - Another case of theme making the monster, although I’m a sucker for dragons in general, even if fighting him is another story entirely lmaoTidal Najarala - A giant snek monster with one of the most beautiful colour palettes I’ve ever seen? Yes and again, pls

11 - What's something you wish the games had?- Adaptive AI on some monsters I suppose? Frontier has something similar, where a few monsters can learn from how you’re attacking them and change it up. It’d really keep people on their toes >:3c I don’t know the exact mechanics, but you have to admit the idea could be interesting.

I also really wish Frenzy had been more truly random in 4U. Like the symbol could be there, but you wouldn’t absolutely know until the monster succumbed. It was a bit boring knowing every Frenzy quest was guaranteed, outside of guild quest shenanigans.