#but still. if i had a nickel etc etc it's weird that it happened twice!

[clumsyclifford]

faith in a stolen car

pairings: calum hood/ashton irwin rating: T word count: 1.6k important tags: crime, driving, complicated relationships, implied sexual content, springsteen references

“You only need to get caught once,” Ashton said.

Calum smiled. “Then I won’t get caught once.”

fic #2 written for @5sos-fic-fest and based on jean jacket by the summer set!

[bi-sapphics]

yet another grown-ass butch lesbian on twitter finding out that the femme they met on a dating app is actually bi and then getting angry about an issue that wasn't there before.

i'm getting tired ?! aren't you ?!

[metalandmagi]

Underrated Sports Anime Recommendations!

In honor of the summer Olympics, I wanted to make a rec list for some underappreciated sports anime. Obviously we all know the popular stuff: Blue Lock, Kuroko, Hajime no Ippo, Ace of Diamond, Slam Dunk, Haikyuu, Free, Yuri On Ice, Yowamushi Pedal, Skate the Infinity etc. But there are lots of great sports anime out there that go completely unnoticed. And who knows, you might find a new sport to get into. Just FYI, these are all on the newer side, since most of the older sports anime I’ve seen are the popular ones.

I think a big reason that a lot of these have largely gone ignored is because they focus more on interpersonal drama between characters and what is going on in their home lives, as opposed to a bigger focus on the technicalities of the sport itself. Food for thought. Anyway, let's get started:

Stars Align (Hoshiai no Sora): Stars Align is about a boys high school soft tennis team (not to be confused with regular tennis) who are constantly getting out performed by their girls team. Desperate to get people to take the boys team seriously and get results, team captain Touma tries to get a new transfer student Maki Katsuragi to join. Maki eventually agrees ... .on the condition that Touma pays him and covers any club expenses. From there we discover the messy family drama going on in each boy’s life, and I just love all of them okay? They’re my precious angel babies, and sure I had some problems with the show’s pacing at the end, but I still love them and I want another season!!!! 😭

Oblivion Battery (Boukyaku Battery): There are a myriad of baseball animes out there, but this one made an impression on me. Catcher Kaname Kei and pitcher Kiyomine Haruka are a badass, ace duo who dominated the field and made a fearsome reputation for themselves all throughout middle school. They seemed to be completely unstoppable…until Kaname (the brains behind the operation) lost his memory, became a total goofball, and the two ended up going to a no name high school with no real baseball team. So of course, we end up getting a rag-tag team together full of ex-baseball players with dramatic backstories who all help train Kaname up again. I love Kaname and Haru’s friendship, and the cast was very well rounded, each with their own interesting attributes to add to the team.

Re: Main: If I had a nickel for every sports anime where the main character used to be an unstoppable badass until he lost his memory, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice. Yeah, it’s exactly the same as Oblivion Battery, but with water polo and the main character isn’t as much of a goofball. I liked the characters, but I wished we focused a little more on the water polo side of things, since it’s not exactly a dime a dozen sport for an anime.

Mou Ippon: A girls high school judo anime from 2023 that nobody fucking watched! When former judo enthusiast Michi Sonoda enters high school, she wants to put judo behind her so she can focus on finding a boyfriend and enjoying her school life. However, after Michi suffers a particularly humiliating defeat in a match against the prodigy Towa Hiura, the two end up going to the same high school together. Naturally, Michi can’t just quit now that her rival is going to the same school! Cue the judo team shenanigans. This show is so down to earth and realistic. It’s 100% not a “cute girls doing cute things” anime where the girls are all blobs of moe that talk in annoying voices. They have different body types, different motivations, and different styles of combat. It didn’t blow me out of the water, but I liked it way more than I thought I would.

And speaking of different body types…

Hinomaru Sumo: That’s right, it’s a high school sumo wrestling anime. AND IT’S HYPE AS FUCK! You know how in Haikyuu, Hinata is short, and it’s a big deal because middle blockers are always tall? Well this is that multiplied by a thousand, because there’s a minimum weight to sumo wrestling, and our main character Hinomaru Ushio is definitely below it. But he’s not going to let that stop him from spreading his passion for sumo and becoming the High School Yokozuna, the strongest wrestler in high school tournaments…because becoming the Yokozuna is his only chance at going pro with his small stature. It’s impossible to watch this anime without feeling fired up!

Run With The Wind (Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru): Kakeru Kurahara, a former track star, is looking for a place to live after losing his apartment deposit at a mahjong parlor. Luckily, he runs into Haiji Kiyose, a boy who goes to his university, who offers him a spot at his apartment. Little does Kakeru know, Haiji’s apartment is full of other university students who are all members of the Kansei University track team! The story follows the quietly devious Haiji as he tries to get the boys to become a nationally recognized team by running the Hakone Ekiden, an extremely long and grueling relay that none of the boys have ever trained for. This is one of my favorite sports anime ever. Don’t get it twisted, I hate running. I don’t like doing it, and I don’t like watching it in real life, but this anime had me in a chokehold. Animation? Amazing. Characters? A+. Music? Perfect. It’s hilarious. It’s relatable. It’s heartwarming. One of the absolute best sports anime out there.

Welcome To The Ballroom: It’s a motherfucking ballroom dancing anime, and if you didn’t think ballroom dancing could be hype as shit, THINK AGAIN! The animation is great, and I never realized how much actually goes into the world of ballroom dancing. There’s not really much more I can say. High school boy discovers the cutthroat world of competitive ballroom dance. Drama ensues. Just ignore everyone’s oddly long necks.

And speaking of dancing…

Dance Dance Danseur: Okay, this one isn’t quite in a sports competition setting, but I still consider it a sports anime. All his life, Junpei Murao has suppressed his interest in ballet, choosing to follow his father’s path for him in the more “manly” martial art of Jeet Kune Do instead. But when he realizes the girl he likes is a highly skilled ballerina, he hardly says no when she recruits him to train at her mom’s ballet studio. The show follows Junpei as he must balance these two worlds and become a ballet master while dealing with the divisive image of “masculinity.” My only real critique is that Junpei is kind of annoying, and I was actually much more invested in the other characters. There is a big message about the horrors of the competitive ballet world that I didn't think it would dive into.

Overtake: Another show from 2023 that was terribly overlooked. In this anime, we follow disgraced photographer Kouya Madoka, who falls in love with the fast paced world of Formula 4 racing after watching high schooler Asahina Haruka. However, Madoka failed to realize that Haruka’s racing crew, Komaki Motors, is drowning in bills and underfunded as hell. So of course when he finds out, Madoka takes it upon himself to support Komaki Motors himself and get Haruka a place on the podium. This was such a great drama! Each character is so fleshed out and completely relatable. Even the antagonists! Hell, especially the antagonists. There is a great balance of drama and humor that make this feel like it could easily be a Hollywood movie. The longer you watch, the more you root for Komaki Motors and want to see everyone succeed. Madoka is best boy!

And last but certainly not least…

Tsurune: In this anime, we follow Minato Narumiya, a former kyudo (Japanese martial art that involves archery) prodigy who wanted to quit the sport after an incident in a middle school tournament. However, after encountering a mysterious archer one day, Minato ends up joining his high school Kyudo team, despite his fear of failing at the sport again. It’s Free with archery, except there are also girls on the team! It has so many good themes about perseverance and found family and getting in your own head. And there is a massive amount of homosexual undertones. Not to mention it’s made by Kyoto Animation, so you know it’s one of the most beautifully animated shows I’ve ever seen.

I just wanted to add a few honorable mentions too…

Cheer Danshi: A university boys cheerleading anime. I had problems with the pacing, but I still had fun with it.

Ryman’s Club: An odd blend of office anime with a badminton anime. I really liked this, but it’s sort of half sports anime, half The Office. But it’s the only thing on this list that features actual working adults and not students.

Megalo Box: I don’t know if it counts as “underappreciated” but this was a fantastic show all around. It’s a gritty, down to earth, sort of sci-fi take on the fictional sport of Megalo Boxing (boxing with enhanced mechanical arms). 

Ping Pong the Animation: Look, I’m going to be honest. I didn’t really like this show very much, but apparently I’m the odd one out because this is an underground favorite of the sports anime community, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t include it. It’s one part ping pong, two parts character drama.

Birdie Wing: Golf Girls’ Story: I couldn’t leave this out of the list. It’s the wildest golf anime you could ever imagine. There are lesbians. There are snake ladies. There are underground golfing yakuza. No amount of explanation can do it justice. Grab an age appropriate beverage and watch it.

[autumn0689]

Characters who SPECIFICALLY should be the ones to kill AFO

TW: Language

Listen there are so many characters (basically almost all of the characters) deserve to kill him but these are the ones who definitely deserve to do it.

1- Yoichi Shigaraki

Poor dude ended up with an obsessive brother who gave him his name because he was his first property!!!! Genuinely I feel so bad for him it’s not his fault AFO became obsessed with him to the point of wanting to wanting One For All just so he could have Yoichi back like seriously Yoichi should absolutely demolish AFO

2- Tenko Shimura (aka Tomura Shigaraki)

I’m using Tenko’s photo because truly he should be the one to kill him. Sure Tomura should also destroy him but Tenko deserves it more (I know they are the same person but they are at different points in their life) like Tenko deserves so much better

3- Yuga Aoyama

Honestly the Quirk that AFO gave him is enough reason for him to demolish him. He has been manipulated for his entire life and was forced to be a traitor by him. I can’t wait for the anime when he attacks AFO

4- Toshinori Yagi

Honestly AFO should’ve stayed out of the story after the Kamino Arc. He killed All Might’s mentor and caused his injury which led him to using the rest of One For All to take down AFO. So having that fucker return and be essentially the final boss is so upsetting like if I was All Might I would be so angry

5- Oboro Shirakumo and Shota Aizawa

A two for one. Oboro lost his life because AFO (okay it was Garaki technically but he was doing it because of AFO) wanted to have Aizawa’s Quirk and he ended up dying so he absolutely deserves to kill him and Aizawa also deserves to destroy him because he was the target (I swear if I had a nickel for every time an evil organization wanted Aizawa’s Quirk I would have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but weird that it happened twice, right?)

6- Izuku Midoriya

I mean he already did it but still it was deserved. Honestly Midoriya should’ve also demolished him with words as well as killing him. So glad he took him down.

There are honestly so many characters I could’ve included (Grand Torino, Nana Shimura, Basically all One For All users, Present Mic, all of UA, etc) but these six (technically seven) are definitely the ones who should have been (and were) the ones to destroy that fucker.

[h0n3yk1tt3n]

pink foam on play night sounds interesting

This was originally just meant to stay as a snippet of a hypothetical fic for an ask game but, like a surprising amount of things, spiraled into something way bigger (if I had a nickel, weird that it happened twice, etc etc)

The prompt was "realization of feelings at the Worst Possible Moment + boyf riends" (hi Luna) and naturally I set it during The Play, and the Pink Foam is from the Red Dew getting shaken and dumped out. Probably the only thing I've written that doesn't involve a Title Drop in the dialogue so far. Or ya know, the only one that has a title without a Title Drop.

BUT anyway here's the sort of,, I guess processing snippet?? Of feelings? Whilst the Worst Possible Moment is still kind of in effect lol. And it's long bc my writing style is yammering on apparently /j

Jeremy hated to say that while Michael was being blocked, he did more or less forget about him. But he didn’t. Not really. He’d always felt that something was missing. Something important. An empty space next to him, usually filled by Brooke or Rich before long, but the feeling didn't go away. There was still something - someone - that should’ve been there. He’d look at old blankets and knick knacks gifted to him and be tinged with an ache of familiarity. Where did he get this? When did he get this? No, his dad hadn’t given it to him; he would’ve remembered that. Wouldn’t he? Who gave him this blanket?

Jeremy might’ve forgotten Michael entirely had Halloween not gone so specifically wrong. Even now, he was remembering new things every moment. The character and weapon set Michael favored in Apocalypse of the Damned. His favorite fight scenes in film that he would sometimes act out when waiting for food in the microwave to heat up. Elaborate dreams that he would call to tell Jeremy about before he could forget them, a few of which they created characters from and stories for that Jeremy had jotted down notes for in a space-themed notebook.

He remembered schoolyard taunts that Michael would effortlessly deflect at as young as eight years old. Assurances that those mean kids just wanted to make him feel bad and to not listen to them. To listen to me. Because I like you. And I don’t want you to feel bad. And Michael proved as much, time and time again. Day after day. Year after year. Michael never stopped fighting for him. Not really. He researched from the sidelines. Worked in the shadows. Showed up in Jeremy’s time of need to help, like he always did.

It’s you, he realized.

This realization was interrupted by a SQUIP-driven Brooke tackling Jeremy to the ground, and while he had reservations about fighting her regardless of technological influences, he accepted that it would be another apology to pile onto all the others as he pushed her off of him into a costume rack; the broken one, that always got overloaded with costumes because the functional one was much smaller, with only enough space to hold the leads’ wardrobes. The lower bar collapsed and buried Brooke in costumes of questionable quality.

Michael held out a hand for Jeremy to take, slow motion taking hold of the moment. Jeremy’s hand falling into Michael’s. Michael’s fingers closing around his hand securely. Michael pulling Jeremy up off the ground. Jeremy watching the shine of the spotlight behind Michael’s head shift as he rose higher. Jeremy momentarily forgetting how to support his own weight when he was back on his feet. Michael putting his free hand on Jeremy’s shoulder to steady him. Jeremy wondering if he was short of breath because of his scuffle with Brooke or because he'd suddenly gained a sense of awe over Michael's smile after being without it for so long. Realizing that being the cause of Michael's smile gave him a sense of pride and happiness that little else in the world had been able to rival over the years.

It was always you.

[burr-ell]

Man, if I had a nickel for everytime a godly/divine group was called colonizers that deserves to die primarily by a niche of people trying to justify the morally questionable/lacking decisions of a fan fave character, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't much, but it's weird it's happened twice right?

That's been playing on a loop in my head ever since all this kicked up. (Especially relevant given the lunatic who's been running around claiming the Nabatean genocide was good and that all white people should die and then pulling Schrödinger's Joke when called out.) Fortunately, Imogen is a genuinely compelling character played by a real human woman rather than a cobbled-together mess written by a group of conservative corporate men who desperately want her to appeal to adolescent boys—but the "I support women's wrongs <3 unless I actually have to deal with their implications in the narrative" fan crowd functions the same for both.

And I know you didn't really ask about my thoughts on Imogen (TLDR: I enjoy her in canon a million times more than in fanon), but I had some:

To be clear, I like Imogen a lot! She's kind-hearted and irritable; caring and withdrawn; moral and cynical; clever and impatient; protective and ruthless. She does everything in her power to keep her friends safe, but she still looks at their murderers and wonders (in front of her friends!) if they have a point. She wants to keep innocents out of harm's way, but she doesn't seem to clock that the people of Gelvaan might be wary of her because she almost killed some of them. She never asked for her powers and is sometimes afraid of herself because of them, but she's also intrigued by what they can do and won't hesitate to use them for what are sometimes, in the scheme of things, rather petty reasons.

All of that is good—not because her unpleasant actions are excusable, but because they say something interesting about her as a person. And in order for unpleasant actions to actually say anything, they have to have actually been unpleasant, rather than handwaved away under mountains of blorbofied excuses.

It's the same with Percy, where in order to engage with him fully as a character I have to actually acknowledge that he's both a deeply flawed and deeply virtuous person who helped resurrect a child he'd never met and knowingly gave a cursed sword to his friend. Or, to bring it back to FE3H for a second, I wrote this meta a few months ago about why I find Claude to be more compelling than Dimitri, and the summary of it is that I actually enjoy the moments where Claude acts like kind of a dick because they're very grounded and it fleshes out his character—but I have to actually acknowledge that Claude was acting like kind of a dick before I can really appreciate that facet of him.

Plenty of criticism aimed at Imogen is just thinly-veiled misogyny, but some of it is also criticism that's been leveled at Percy, Vax, Caleb, and Fjord, so that's clearly not the only reason behind it. A fair bit of the complaints we're hearing (Main Character Syndrome, why is it all about them, [player] is hogging the spotlight, etc) are, at the end of the day, usually more rooted in "well why isn't it about my blorbo/escapism experience!". Ultimately though, the difference between the good- and bad-faith criticism is that every single person I've seen actually engaging with realistic implications of Imogen's flaws absolutely loves her and isn't at all shy about saying so.

I mean, y'know, people can engage with fandom however they want—but if you're only willing to grapple with negative emotions as far as "oh i made myself sad :(", you're going to have a very difficult time when someone else's choices make you a lot more than sad.

[tsukasa-tenma-officiall]

hes a twin and his brother was sick a lot as a kid (kinda like you ig). the doctors didnt think his brother (amane) would make it. one day, tsukasa discovered that the house was magic and could grant wishes for something of equal value. he uses this to get a ball he lost back, then a new book for amane. eventually, he trades his own existence in exchange for amane getting healthier. he was still living, technically, but part of him was bound to the house, which the protagonists of the manga find out when they see a little boy in a supposedly cursed house.

we dont really know much ab what happens to him until him and amane are 13. amane (for currently unspecified reasons, the manga is still ongoing) kills tsukasa, then himself. they both turn into supernaturals; amane into hanako-kun, the seventh school mystery who haunts the girls bathroom (dont ask) and can grant the wishes of the living (for a price, of course) and tsukasa becomes his yorishiro, the source of a school mystery's power and the thing they want to protect the most, who can grant the wishes of the dead (for a price etc etc)

i had a lot more but then the page refreshed and i am Not Typing That Again. i don't even like him that much lmao

// if i had a nickel for every time i infodumped in a pjsk rp blogs ask box, id have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but it's weird it's happened twice /ref

interesting.. i’m glad i don’t have to step foot in the girl’s bathroom anymore!

[khaleesiofalicante]

Sooooooooooo, guess what?? 😂

Of course I bring you hot gossip on Valentine's Day. I have a reputation!!

Lmao okok. This is long so let's get straight into it;) So, a lot of people today brought flowers, chocolates, etc. My friends and I are not much of that, but Josh gave us cupcakes!! (remember Josh? Idk why all the names seem so confusing even to me if I only have like 4 friends lol. Summing up: Mark: the one with book boyfriend vibes; Josh: cupcakes and generally nice; Andrew: well, you know that one lol; and Sarah: girl with strict parents but so freaking amazing) I am horrible at thinking of names SORRY 😭

Thing is, on our break, I came back to leave some things on my place and then I went with Sarah and another girl to take a little, but just as we were out, this other girl told us she saw someone leave a flower on one of our seats (all of us 5 sit next to each other). I told them we should go and see who was it. I was so fucking sure it would be Andrew's, because we all know a lot of girls like him, and I was ready to annoy him for the rest of the day😂

And guess whose place was it in??? FUCKING MINE!!

Sarah and the other girl just looked at me in shock and before I could stop them, they were looking inside🙂. We looked, and it was a red rose with a letter, with big and beautiful handwriting that just said "Happy February 14th. I hope we get to meet."

....WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING?? WTF???

And chaos unleashed from then on. They immediately went to search for the others and oh my fucking god, they are little shits bc they didn't stop bothering me with it for the rest of the day JDHDJDJKD

And they were so excited to know whose note was it. I was really curious too but I knew it would be impossible to know because we asked and no one saw who left it!! The only thing we knew is that they were two girls!!

They started gushing and smirking and winking at me, and asking who I thought they were and I literally have no fucking clue!!! And as I'm known to have the most weird love life, without actually having a love life, LET ME TELL YOU THEY HAD THOUGHTS!

I pointed out maybe it wasn't even for me, maybe it was for one of them and the person just got confused. But they didn't want to accept my theory:)

Anyway, I blush for almost everything, so you can imagine my face the entire day!! And I also laughed so damn hard. I won't recover from this😭

If I had a nickel everytime I got a red rose anonymously on February 14th, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird it's happened twice, right? But that's another story!!!

I'm still in shock. Were they a girl? Guy? Do I know them? Was it really for me? Was it for Andrew? Will I ever know????

Anywaaaay, of my favorite convos from today, because my friends had a field trip with this😂:

Sara: Ok, maybe you are right at it was actually for one of them (Andrew or Mark)

Mark: and why the fuck couldn't it be her? She could also be liked!

Sarah: I didn't say that!

....

Andrew: And do you expect it to be a girl or a guy? I mean not that it matters much ;)

...

Everyone: *chanting TeamNoah when we were discussing if it was actually for me*

...

Josh: Not that there's anything wrong with it, but with you it's more difficult because we can't even reduce it to just guys or girls😭

....

Shara: you are officially a heartbreaker. I mean, we can make a list! *Procedes to name every person I have had romantic convos with*

....

Andrew: Damn, I want a secret rose too😔. What are you doing to get yourself into this situations? Because I'll do it too!!

.....

Everyone: awww, you are blushing!

Me: of course I fucking am!!

This fanfic life has gotten our of control and I don't know how it happened!!!

@springlily25 you need to hear this😂😂

Yeah, so consider this a self-writed fanfic for Valentine's Day lmaoo

first of all what are these white-ass names i am judging you

second of all i didn't know andrew was a romeo and had a lot of girlies fangirling over him OKAY THEN

AND OF COURSE IT WAS YOU YOU ARE SO OBLIVIOUS YOU ARE A FANFIC CHARACTER (also your theory further confirms that you are indeed oblivious fangirl on the verge of an idiots to lovers trope)

ASLO A SECRET ADMIRER?? GIVE ME THIS SHIT. YES.

very curious as to who this is and i wanna know everything goddamnit this has become a priority and i shall not rest until you uncover this!!!!!

but whoever left it has fine fucking taste so good for them i guess 😎

happy valentine's day, you gorgeous gorgeous girl.

and why add @springlily25 is this not chaotic enough already???

[broodparasitism]

🖊️ for owain perhaps? 🖤💜

Thank you!!

Owain Traherne is the protagonist of my short story Maternity Colony. He was born in 1959 in a fictional village in South Wales, and so is about to turn 27 in the story. The village he was in was a mining town, but he got a job at the library out of school and never spent a day down there so isn’t feeling that same disenfranchisement that the other men around him have as per Thatcher closing the mines/the strike. He lives with his mother who is…considered weird by a lot of people, and the only other person in his life is their gardener who he sells weed too sometimes.

In terms of the creative process he used to be called Owen, had both his mother and father still in his life, and was originally from present day Wales instead (if I had a nickel for every time I changed a creepy small town story from the present day to the 80s, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but still weird it happened twice etc etc.) Where is he getting the weed from? I don’t even know.

[nicflurrymachinebroke]

MOM & DAD

"Mouth to dildo, dildo to ass, ASS to ass---HI BRENT!!---aNal bEADS."

I was DYINNNNNNGG. So slapstick it borders on Tom & Jerry so I originally said it reminded me of a Sam Raimi joint (Drag Me To Hell comes to mind) but it was apparently the guy who did Crank so that also tracks, yeah. Selma Blair fuckin KILLING ITTTTT. THE HORRIBLE PROSTHETIC NEWBORN LMAOOOOO. Loved watching them bond over the renewed plan to kill the kids 🥰 Watched him level that pool table like it was the Cocomelon & then the sledgehammering of the pool table while SINGING THE HOKEY POKEY was truly artistic cinema. THE SCREAM HE FUCKING SCRUMPT when peepaw stabs him in the leg one of the times is truly beautiful.

What a genuinely unlikable guy! I think that's what makes the actual mid-murder bonding so sweet, it's like a glimpse of what they used to be & made the performance actually have depth instead of him just being an asshole, like. Yeah, you didn't used to be this way, huh? You can see flickers of the relationship it used to be before kids/etc. happened & life got in the way & yeah, I think a lot of people end up becoming assholes cuz parenthood & the expectations of Adulthood™️ force them to sideline their actual selves & they weren't ready for that change cuz they still conceptualize themselves as the individuals they used to be & not the pronouns they've become.

I think a lot of viewers might dismiss that as hokey or a lame attempt at putting depth in what's essentially a grindsploitation filicide movie, but a) they are wrong b) i am right c) sorry your puny mortal minds aren't enlightened enough to understand horror as a medium for actual storytelling. These are the same reviewers complaining there's no ~EXPLANATION~ for the global parental heelturn. IT DOESN'T MATTER!!! & what you don't understand about literature could fill volumes

NO SEX SCENE EVERYBODY WHO SAYS THERE IS IS LYING TO YOU

if i had a nickel for every nicolas cage movie about parents being driven to murder their children by some unseen dark force i'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird it's happened twice

[sephirothmon]

i see a correlation between the backrooms and its fandomization to how it was with creepypastas. the backrooms started with a 4chan post, which introduced a scary concept of an out-of-bounds liminal space dimension. then kane pixel's video series on it takes the concept and expands upon it, using the concept of it but making it its own separate thing. same thing happened with slenderman. it started as an image post about a creepy figure captured in photos of children at a playground. then marble hornets was made, and used the concept of the character but made an entirely new and unique story with him, making it a separate creation from the original slenderman post but still incorporating the character.

then the same thing happens to both: the fandomization makes them less scary. i will admit first that i'm very biased into liking the creepypasta fandom bc i grew up really liking it. but anyways, fandomization of slenderman and other creepypastas, taking them from their sources, and making them into silly cartoon antic characters took away from the scare factor a lot of them had. this is why, understandably, many people who were a part of the original slenderman post hated when he got popular. because people were making memes of him, making silly art, drawing him in a big mansion with other creepypastas acting like a family (or other interpretation of slender mansion), etc. it was upsetting to see this mysterious creepy entity being turned into.. for lack of better terms: a meme, tumblr sexyman, and funny guy.

same thing happened (or is still happening?) to the backrooms. i will also be clear i was not into the fandom of it and know very little of this, i only know of the original post and the kane pixel series and the roblox game. as it got more popular, people in the fandom and on fan wikis added more and more layers and characters to the backrooms. it made it less 'creative' in the way where many ideas were based on something already existing and not wholly original. and since it was many people contributing, the ideas didnt mesh together. the cohesion of a single person or small team working on a project wasnt there. people also add in things that make it akin to scp's, but from what i've seen its almost never as scary or intriguing as actual scps (who have moderators comb through submissions to post). basically, because of many different people wanting to add many different things, and a lot of those things lacking intrigue, scariness, or original horror/otherworldliness, it made the 'backrooms world' very watered down very quickly. many people are upset because of this; something so scary in concept, that also got even more popular because of an indie video series around the concept, got way too popular, and the fans and resulting fandom watered it down, took away what made it scary, and turned it into 'everybodys playground'.

im not making this to say either of these fans or fandoms are bad, theyre not. but if i had a nickel for every time i saw this happen, i'd have two, which isnt a lot but its weird that it happened twice. i guess what i'm getting at is that i saw history repeating itself in real time. although the backrooms fandomization happened so much faster than the creepypasta one, im assuming because of how media consumption has changed in the past 5 or so years (memes last weeks instead of years etc etc). i dont have a way to solve it, and i dont really think something like this can BE solved. its just something i noticed and i wanted to talk about it.

[cheerlaura]

TEXTING: SCOTTY

Laura: …why do we know so many people who’s dads are running for mayor?

Laura: i mean! if i had a nickel for every time that happened i’d have two nickels but still! weird that it happened twice, etc.

Laura: i googled him and blondes aren’t my type actually!

Laura: i’d walk over a million isaac lancasters to get to you

TEXTING: SCOTTY

Laura: oh my gosh dude i’m so sorry scotty

Laura: that’s awful

Laura: i’m sorry i wasn’t there

Laura: i don’t know who that is? is he famous?

[gncrevan]

name a more iconic duo, death stranding and not knowing whether two people are related or lovers

[necronyancy]

one weird thing ive noticed about transformers prime fans is that they have a tendency to draw fan art of starscream in various jars and bottles

[theoriginofloves]

if they make...bucky barnes...canonically gay....that will be the SECOND character in six months that i projected on too much in my teenage/adolescence that is confirmed as gay WAY after the point that it would be meaningful

[cloud-ya]

I don't know why someone seems to like going through you to (I guess) shit talk Phoenixisthehottesthing, what they are talking about is someone asked about help for Elysian Realm signet builds etc, and Phoenix gave the link to the most popular community made ER guide, wich although is a great resource for gameplay guides is made by the reddit community as far as I understand, and as we all know reddit is horny and so the pics to click to shortcut to a specific character guide are usually either meme or zooms on the girls boobs, Nyx falls into the second category, I don't know how this anon has come to the conclusion the phoenix is supporting the thing in itself when past the obvious unfunny joke of boobs it's just the most common and useful resource for ER, thus being the handiest link to pass to someone in need of help with it

if I had a nickel for every time someone tried to shit talk phoebe via sending anonymous asks to me, I'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

I myself was recommended this guide by my friend and I do use it to have any idea what to pick for what valk. the main purpose of this site is showing recommendations for signets to pick to clear certain difficulty, using certain strategies and so on in elysian realm, so I assume that as long as it's not blatant uncensored porn the pictures attached shouldn't be something to focus on?

although yes I must admit that I don't really like the pictures chosen just because haha segs. still I don't find it serious enough of a problem to cancel that site