#but yeah this is a Functional Website

[riacte]

Going on the Ao3 subreddit makes me such an annoying contrarian like. Fanfiction is a hobby and it can be serious but it's also a hobby. Oh you don't like it when people use emojis and think it means the author is young and immature? Idk maybe one day there'll be an insane emoji hieroglyphic fic that veers so hard into irony it starts to become unironic. Oh you're completely rinsing someone for saying they format their fics exclusively in italics? Well you know what, that seems like a fun challenge! Maybe that's the vision of the author! Maybe the paragraphs of slanted words is the point! Suggesting someone to not write an April Fool's crack chapter because it breaks immersion or whatever? Well you know what else seems like a fun challenge? Idk man for a creative hobby let people be creative and break the unofficial rules! Y'know for a subreddit dedicated to transformative fanwork it doesn't seem very open to, y'know, harmless transformation of existing fanfic norms.

Maybe people won't read what you write but you can write whatever you want. Forever. I love you Unconventional Formatting I love you Metafiction.

[right-there-ride-on]

Sbr is only mildly morally ambiguous and that’s okay

okay so the title is misleading 🫣 this is just a short examination of Johnny v Valentine (and Johnny & Valentine) with a little analysis of the confrontation.

for me valentine’s defining character trait isn’t his patriotism but that’s he’s a massive fucking liar. excellent writing for a politician. the only promise he ever kept was the one he made to lucy not to harm steven. and even then valentine is also super vindictive, so even though he didn’t kill him he made sure to torture him a little. Valentine is not at all the magnanimous man he presents himself to be and the constant discrepancy between his words and his actions proves that. when he’s trying to trick johnny into ending the rotation he hits all correct appeals but johnny knows in his gut that this man is a liar.

sometimes ppl act like sbr proposes a huge moral quandary about valentine’s intentions and whether he was the one “walking the righteous path” all along. but there’s really not. that’s Johnny’s internal battle. Since nick’s death johnny believed himself to be a curse / burden / bad person, but through the race he undergoes several trials that end in self-improvement and learning to have grace with himself. by the end of the narrative Johnny has evolved into someone who does have the strength of character and integrity necessary to judge the actions of someone else, whether he believes it or not, and regardless of whether he feels the right to. So yes, johnny was right to kill valentine. there’s no ifs or buts about it. the true brutality and cruelty of Valentine’s ideal world was very clearly portrayed in the way D4C Love Train functions. the corpse appeared to ‘choose’ Valentine by granting him Love Train, but at the same time it was also healing Johnny. if we look at the corpse through the lens of it primarily being a tool used to achieve the collector’s desires, we see that it empowered both Valentine and Johnny and indirectly or not set them on a collision course with each other. Perhaps there was a question of who was ‘righteous’ for the corpse itself, but the narrative itself tells us over and over again that it’s Johnny.

look at it this way. Johnny, who for most of his life believed he was spiritually and later physically damaged beyond hope, was empowered through the corpse and ended the narrative with a new chance at life. Valentine, who desired a world where not just America would prosper, but where he would be the head of said prospering state, and embody the power behind it, was granted the ability to achieve that world. Yet during their confrontation, the callous cruelty and negative consequences of Valentine’s vision is made apparent over and over again. First with Lucy, then with the innocents killed ‘somewhere else’, and lastly with Gyro and Johnny. Valentine’s actions always betray the truth of his intentions; once he proposed the deal, should Johnny have accepted, he intended to backstab Johnny and kill him the moment he got what he wanted. If he had truly been the ‘righteous one’, he would have kept his word and left Johnny alone once the rotation was reversed. But leaving Johnny alive would have meant he was no longer the most powerful man in the room, and that idea is something Valentine can’t stand.

Valentine is not a good person with good intentions. He claims to care about America, yet throughout the story discards his men and citizens like bugs (consider the train engineer). His actions continually demonstrate the reality: Valentine is power-hungry, petty, vindictive, ruthless, and above all else, a manipulative liar.

Valentine’s patriotism is the motivation behind his actions, but his brutality and deceptiveness defines those actions and is evident in everything he does. The implicit reason Alt!Diego failed was because he believed Valentine. By the end of the story there shouldn’t be a question on whether Valentine or Johnny was in the right. Valentine was the villain and he needed to be defeated. His ‘righteous’ world was, unequivocally, wrong.

[dailypokemoncrochet]

I have so much admiration for you and this project. Like 1) to even come up with this idea in the first place is cool, but 2) to mcfucking execute it? And have them all come out so good? Like. Your talent. Your skill. Chefs kiss. Incredible. Hope you're having a good day.

Thank you!! 1) I used to think it was not that novel of an idea to want to crochet every Pokemon, but I've come to believe that it is actually not as common as I'd hoped. I am always searching for other people doing the same thing, and there's less than 10 I've found but as far as I can tell none are as far along as me. But also finding stuff on the internet is harder than it used to be, so there could be so many more people out there crocheting all the Pokemon and I just can't find them! (Honestly, I can't even find me and my own Pokemon that I've definitely crocheted when I use more generic search terms and search results in general are low quality anyway) 2) Thanks!! I appreciate the compliments and hope you're having a good day too! ^^

Oooh Swadloon is definitely a cutie. I made sure to get the expression right :D

[impossible-rat-babies]

vierapril day 24--fear

"it wasn't until alisaie fell in the ghimlyt dark--when they were carrying her body back to the forward camp, and further still to the rising stones--when the fear truly set in. when the loneliness rose up to fill the gaps where the scions used to be, and the crushing weight of it settled in.

[baldursghaik]

I'm getting more into Emperor/Stelmane thanks to you 🙏 criminally underrated couple tbh

Thank you thank you thank you 😌😌😌 One day y'all will see the vision I do

The "partnership" might have begun by force, but even modules like DiA and MiBG assert that when they worked together, they worked together, a seamless unit of perfect economic domination. That's fascinating to me!

[warmfuzzyanimal]

How do I get gayer?

Also for some god forsaken reason it's making me look like I'm sending this from your profile, idk if it'll look that way when I send it to you but if it does this is ram.

when you make pierogis, take sour cream and mix a spoonful of chili crisp in it (the sour cream neutralizes a lot of the spice so don't be scared of chili crisp's passion and beauty,) then use it as a dip or spoon it over the pierogis. especially good when the pierogis are pan fried and crisped nice n golden so that the cream contrast the crunchy.

also be as weird as possible. forever

[hana-bobo-finch]

TOO MUCH TO CATCH UP ON RIPPING MY HAIR OUT!!!! I’ll get to most of the posts in the morning wauughhh. anyway hi guys, ive been working a lot on my neocities PDBC site these past few days and I have a question: when it comes to the site, it’ll mostly be lore-dumps and character bios like I’ve been posting here (along w my minicomics obvs), and I’ve been fooling around with a bunch of different ideas for the writing style of the lore dumps and I want to know which seems best to you:

1. Objective, such as I normally do with my lore dumps (e.g. no personal biases, all info laid out rather plainly)

2. Written in the style of an “official” fincg island website (e.g. written in the pov of finch describing his Amazing Super Cool island and stuff)

3. Written by Domitone post-main story (e.g. something akin to a historical document explaining The Horrors of fincg island after the fact)

[arttsuka]

do you still have 20 asks in your inbox?

I mean, it shows that I have 20 but it's a glitch. In reality I have 43

[birdmenmanga]

Hi, um I have a Chorus related question! I was wondering if you have any plans for updating the web page? I know you have a pretty busy time rn, and it says that website is under construction, so I really don't mean to rush you. I just couldn't find the info about it, and reading Chorus on web is my fav place to read it <3

Hi, originally I had no plans, but seeing as you're the second person to bring it up with me I feel like I SHOULD do something about it!

For some context, the website I currently use to host CHORUS (https://arsquare.art/manga/chorus/#p1) is a website that a friend built for me completely from scratch. I put in a lot of requests for what I thought a good web manga reader should have ("it needs a dropdown chapters menu!! you need to be able to scroll through it by pressing arrow keys!! if you click the image you should be able to see a bigger version of it!!") but the part that kept tripping us up is the update function.

Long story short I couldn't directly edit what went onto the website, everything is placed in a Google Drive that the website periodically checks (every Tuesday and Friday at Some Time), and because it was built from scratch there were a lot of peculiar issues that kinda popped up with it (old pages not updating even when the Drive file is changed, busted queue system that I can't pause or schedule, etc. etc.). My friend had just been working on it for fun, and when she got busy with her job I didn't really have the heart to bother her about it.

ANYWAYS all this to say that I've updated the Drive folder that all the images live, so whenever the website does the Tuesday-Friday weekly update all the pages should be up!!

I can certainly try to keep things up to date on the website to the best of my ability, but I suspect I might be an update behind every so often.

Thanks for getting me off my ass about this!!

[lemondoddle]

You put that tiktok function back where it came from or so help me!!!

[leatherbookmark]

i am very flattered that people keep on subscribing to my one-shots but at the same time *gently takes the kind reader's hand* please trust that i know my own capabilities

[lookwhatyoumademelou]

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[theharlotofferelden]

Trying to redeem a reward from a kickstarter project I backed last year.

Won't let me log in on desktop.

Go to the chat to ask for help.

They direct me to a "Contact Us" section.

Type briefly what the problem is.

Hit send.

"We had trouble processing your request please try again later :)."

In that case: Try to see the project on my phone.

It logged me out.

Go to log in.

Enter credentials.

"Please log in."

End up in an infinite loop where the website refuses to sign me the fuck in.

?????

[berrymeter]

ok gonna turn asks off for a bit to see if my inbox returns to normal. i legit cant see any asks

[grungepoetica]

you know what, fuck it. i'm finishing my neocities page and signing up for cohost and queuing all my stuff for the rest of the day. possibly longer.

i don't know what i'm gonna make my cohost handle yet, or how often i'm gonna use it, but the predstrogen situation has left a really bad taste in my mouth

the more i think about it, the more i don't want to deal with the performative tomfoolery this site enables within its staff

but yeah. send me happy shit in the meantime because this is fucking depressing.

[driftveilcity]

Glad to see Palestine trending on here over the m*t g*la. Stuck up rich people events are tedious at the best of times but it REALLY grates on you with something so tragic happening at the same time