#dopamine 2015

[memesandmylife]

getting into homestuck at the tender age of 14 was murder on my brain chemistry because there has never since been and never will be any piece of media that i can throw my entire pussy into like that. my mentally ill teenaged ass was wearing troll cosplay to school and playing fansongs from my phone speakers in the hallway like i was spreading the gospel. my undiagnosed adhd refused to let me think about anything BUT that webcomic for three whole years of my development, and all of this was enabled and magnified by the rabid culture within fandom at the time— we encouraged this kind of unhinged behavior in each other as acts of devotion, and baby i was dogging that kool aid

..and so now that i’m far past that and in my 20s, what is supposed to compare?

[pigaletta]

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[makingqueerhistory]

Reintroduction!

I realized I hadn't reintroduced myself since I changed my name, so here we go!

Harper-Hugo Darling

(they/them)

Balancing both fiction and nonfiction, I’ve been writing professionally since 2015. I live with my wife and three cats in Edmonton, where I watch drama videos and knit dopamine blankets. My heart belongs to speculative fiction, gory details, and queering as a verb.

I am the founder and head writer of Making Queer History, and my work has been featured in And/Both, Bustle, Hungry Zine, and Daily Xtra. It has also been mentioned in Vice, Slate, and Harper's Bazaar. Through my writing, I have been paid to speak at universities and conferences throughout Canada.

I was raised on Tamora Pierce and find myself endlessly inspired by authors such as Kat Howard, Elana Dykewomon, Akwaeke Emezi, Vivek Shraya, and Victor Hugo. All of my work is looked over and loved by my wife.

If you want to keep up with me as an author, you can do so here!

[eobe]

Captain Rex 💙

The one and only 🙌 I'm getting more and more into focussing on eyes and emotions in my art and I'm not gonna do something against that 👀 I love to stare in eyes, I love the feeling of it, I want to do more and I want to share. 🎶 Follow me down 🎶 🫠

This wasn't planned like so many of my current artworks. And actions. And thoughts. I’m feeling like out of the world at the moment – maybe because of all the portals the life gives me to decide if I should dare to go through 🚪💫

Haha 😂 From television to conscience ramble in under one parsec! 🪐 But this is legit, because what is it, letting us stay and drown in tales? Our own growth, the desire to process and progress is natural, so our nature attracts what our mind and soul needs to do so. Finding pictures, comparisons and related feelings to carry on in life. That’s the magic in a nutshell, isn’t it 😌 

Marni said „DO IT DO IT“ (in exactement those capital letters, thank you so much for the dopamine 🤩) and so here’s Captain Rex 🤷‍♀️ Somehow out of my wrist into Procreate before I could even gasp and again I have to see, there are moments where I’m only a pen on a surface bifrœsting art into this world 🖊️🌈

Is the Captain embarrassed? He is. Here (<-) you can see why. Not my fault, I was just staring, enjoying the show 😁🙌 But it's more. There is also some weight in here. He's on duty, he doesn't know if he's allowed to let go even for one second. Ah, my heart 💔

So, Rex came out of the beautiful art and inspiration CHAOS (I love chaos, it’s creativity soil) started by @ghostymarni, @lonewolflupe and @jetii and I saw it, felt it and I surrendered blissfully and hands up the incoming ORM ✨ (do you know what orm is? It’s basically a link to the ultimate creativity force from Walter Moers’ Zamonia universe, especially ‚The City of Dreaming Books‘) and I didn’t had any choice I just had to do this. golden. glance. in a slightly blushing face full of contradictory emotions and drowned in my own art the second time yesterday 😱 

Enjoy a closer look into golden embarrassment Oh Captain my Captain 👀:

Before Rex invited himself I was actually already done from another unplanned uninvited clone 🙈 What is the whole brainrot doing to me and I love it

My little drawing Padawan self already owling (flying, fluting, screeching, being artist crazy inspiration orm drunken 100% getting on my husband's and my cats' nerves) 🦉 in the woods because of him (<-) ignoring my yesterday's initial drawing plans with his whole intimidating attitude!

And this was so much more intense, because I accidentally listened to this song and now I set it on continuous loop to savor and drown in the energy surrounding me in these days ✨ For me and my current cinematic mood quite fitting for both artworks.

My personal ALT text mission (1 additional ALT-Text for a previous artwork with each new art posting!): 

Another clone Captain. Absolutely not insecure 😏

Taglist: @eclec-tech @bixlasagna @returnofthepineapple @sunshinesdaydream @covert1ntrovert @general-ida-raven @vrycurious @dystopicjumpsuit @chaicilatte

[gallusrostromegalus]

I apologize for going through and liking/reblogging half your posts back to June, but I like your vibes. Unrelated, after some time I realized you were into Bleach which I know absolutely nothing about, and I started casually reading one of your posts about it. After skimming over mushy elephants and coral polyps and life generating machines I got to this line: “the afterlife of Soul Society is Sort-of geographically connected to ‘About 12% of central Japan (centered on one city), part of the Black Forest in Germany and an exceptionally deserted section of the Chihuahuan Desert’”, and I decided you are a much stronger person than I am.

Idk what the point of this message is, I just love how tumblr lets me happily sift around in your basement for some trash while leviathans the likes of which I cannot possibly fathom rumble ominously overhead

NEVER feel bad for spam-liking/reblogging, that's what this website lives on.

ESPECIALLY do not feel bad on my part because my activity page has been broken since 2015 so I don't even notice.

I wouldn't necessarily call my worldbuilding "Strength" so much as "Mining All Available Dopamine out of a Hyperfixation while I go through a Rough Patch" (I'll be Okay, the worst of it is over it's just long and obnoxious and very, very boring)

...But I do have a 200lb deadlift so I may be stronger than you in a Physical Sense.

I am happy to have you sifting through my blog, but I am no Leviathan. I am a 5'4" thirty-something with bad knees and dogs that are smarter than me. We're all just people here.

[jcmarchi]

Brain pathways that control dopamine release may influence motor control

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/brain-pathways-that-control-dopamine-release-may-influence-motor-control/

Brain pathways that control dopamine release may influence motor control

Within the human brain, movement is coordinated by a brain region called the striatum, which sends instructions to motor neurons in the brain. Those instructions are conveyed by two pathways, one that initiates movement (“go”) and one that suppresses it (“no-go”).

In a new study, MIT researchers have discovered an additional two pathways that arise in the striatum and appear to modulate the effects of the go and no-go pathways. These newly discovered pathways connect to dopamine-producing neurons in the brain — one stimulates dopamine release and the other inhibits it.

By controlling the amount of dopamine in the brain via clusters of neurons known as striosomes, these pathways appear to modify the instructions given by the go and no-go pathways. They may be especially involved in influencing decisions that have a strong emotional component, the researchers say.

“Among all the regions of the striatum, the striosomes alone turned out to be able to project to the dopamine-containing neurons, which we think has something to do with motivation, mood, and controlling movement,” says Ann Graybiel, an MIT Institute Professor, a member of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the senior author of the new study.

Iakovos Lazaridis, a research scientist at the McGovern Institute, is the lead author of the paper, which appears today in the journal Current Biology.

New pathways

Graybiel has spent much of her career studying the striatum, a structure located deep within the brain that is involved in learning and decision-making, as well as control of movement.

Within the striatum, neurons are arranged in a labyrinth-like structure that includes striosomes, which Graybiel discovered in the 1970s. The classical go and no-go pathways arise from neurons that surround the striosomes, which are known collectively as the matrix. The matrix cells that give rise to these pathways receive input from sensory processing regions such as the visual cortex and auditory cortex. Then, they send go or no-go commands to neurons in the motor cortex.

However, the function of the striosomes, which are not part of those pathways, remained unknown. For many years, researchers in Graybiel’s lab have been trying to solve that mystery.

Their previous work revealed that striosomes receive much of their input from parts of the brain that process emotion. Within striosomes, there are two major types of neurons, classified as D1 and D2. In a 2015 study, Graybiel found that one of these cell types, D1, sends input to the substantia nigra, which is the brain’s major dopamine-producing center.

It took much longer to trace the output of the other set, D2 neurons. In the new Current Biology study, the researchers discovered that those neurons also eventually project to the substantia nigra, but first they connect to a set of neurons in the globus palladus, which inhibits dopamine output. This pathway, an indirect connection to the substantia nigra, reduces the brain’s dopamine output and inhibits movement.

The researchers also confirmed their earlier finding that the pathway arising from D1 striosomes connects directly to the substantia nigra, stimulating dopamine release and initiating movement.

“In the striosomes, we’ve found what is probably a mimic of the classical go/no-go pathways,” Graybiel says. “They’re like classic motor go/no-go pathways, but they don’t go to the motor output neurons of the basal ganglia. Instead, they go to the dopamine cells, which are so important to movement and motivation.”

Emotional decisions

The findings suggest that the classical model of how the striatum controls movement needs to be modified to include the role of these newly identified pathways. The researchers now hope to test their hypothesis that input related to motivation and emotion, which enters the striosomes from the cortex and the limbic system, influences dopamine levels in a way that can encourage or discourage action.

That dopamine release may be especially relevant for actions that induce anxiety or stress. In their 2015 study, Graybiel’s lab found that striosomes play a key role in making decisions that provoke high levels of anxiety; in particular, those that are high risk but may also have a big payoff.

“Ann Graybiel and colleagues have earlier found that the striosome is concerned with inhibiting dopamine neurons. Now they show unexpectedly that another type of striosomal neuron exerts the opposite effect and can signal reward. The striosomes can thus both up- or down-regulate dopamine activity, a very important discovery. Clearly, the regulation of dopamine activity is critical in our everyday life with regard to both movements and mood, to which the striosomes contribute,” says Sten Grillner, a professor of neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, who was not involved in the research.

Another possibility the researchers plan to explore is whether striosomes and matrix cells are arranged in modules that affect motor control of specific parts of the body.

“The next step is trying to isolate some of these modules, and by simultaneously working with cells that belong to the same module, whether they are in the matrix or striosomes, try to pinpoint how the striosomes modulate the underlying function of each of these modules,” Lazaridis says.

They also hope to explore how the striosomal circuits, which project to the same region of the brain that is ravaged by Parkinson’s disease, may influence that disorder.

The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Saks-Kavanaugh Foundation, the William N. and Bernice E. Bumpus Foundation, Jim and Joan Schattinger, the Hock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research, Robert Buxton, the Simons Foundation, the CHDI Foundation, and an Ellen Schapiro and Gerald Axelbaum Investigator BBRF Young Investigator Grant.

[stargazer-sims]

Simblr Gratitude Day!

I'm not a huge fan of listing people by name because I'm always worried I'll forget someone or that somebody will feel left out; however, I'm going to do this anyway. This list is by no means exhaustive and it's not going to be in any particular order.

Before I get started specifically mentioning people, I just want to say a huge thank you to all my followers (nearly 900 of you!) and to everyone who's ever interacted with anything I've ever posted.

This blog is eclectic, disorganized and generally chaotic (probably a lot like me), so I want to thank everyone for putting up with my nonsense for the past three years on this blog, and since 2015 on my old one. Thanks to everyone who likes my posts, thank you to those who reblog, and an extra-special thank you for people who comment on my posts. The comments give me the biggest and best hits of dopamine, I assure you!

Most of all, I want to share my appreciation for everyone who has the courage to put themselves out there, everyone who has a passion for this game after so many years, and the absolute abundance and variety of creativity I see on here every day. No matter what you're doing on here, every single one of you matters and each of your endeavours are worth it. Keep being creative, helpful, kind and generous. You make simblr a better place.

Here are some people I love to interact with, who I love seeing on my dash and who are just plain awesome people:

@dandylion240 @cawthorntales @rebelangelsims @ljfoxie @holocene-sims @lynzishell @wannabecatwriter @enniewritesathing @akitasimblr @igotsnothing @micrathene-w @simbico @simstrashkingdom @melsie-sims @papermint-airplane @echoweaver @happy-lemon @hannahssimblr @havenroyals @payte @honeybeenrw @gingerbeardmansim @natolesims @fayethegray @clumsyteddy @blithesometrait @108sims @citylighten @rebouks @wastelandwhisperer @ethicaltreatmentofcowplants @theosconfessions @simmillercc @bakersimmer @zosa95 @theageofsims

... and so many more!

[borzoibabe]

i need the dopamine rush of that night in january 2015 when the tumblr dashboard glitched supremely and we were shitposting to the highest heavens. or the day that the queen died. nothing else is doing it for me

[professorspork]

I hope this doesn’t come across as like a pushy “update pls” I promise that’s not how I mean it. I’m curious at what point you feel like a multi-chapter fic is ready to post? Do you write it in its entirety and then edit chapters in between updates, write and edit it in its entirety, write most of it and continue writing the rest between updates? I’m very curious about your process since you’ve been writing some monster word count fics

I really appreciate you asking!

The short version is that I've learned over time that what works best for me is completing a work in its entirety before I start posting; above all I like posting on a reliable schedule for my audience, and I simply do not write quickly enough (or coherently enough) to do that any other way. There are a lot of reasons for that and I WILL ELABORATE ON THEM AT LENGTH:

I have several multi-chapter WIPs from the Glee days-- when I was in college-- that I never finished because I'm a delicate hothouse flower when it comes to maintaining hyperfocus, and I found a new fandom to be in before I could complete them. Back then especially, I was much less disciplined about writing sequentially: I would write parts of the story wildly out of order, focusing on whatever interested me most at the time. That means my hard drive is a graveyard of unpublished content, which sucks-- not only did I never give my audience the resolutions they were looking for, but I never got to receive feedback on parts of the story I was really proud of. I found that really dispiriting.

Going to grad school for screenwriting really helped me focus on telling a story in order, because there is literally no other way to write a screenplay than one scene at a time; it's far too reliant on momentum and consistency to jump ahead to "the good bits" and come back. I also did several projects-- writing my multi-chap Frozen&Tangled polyamory epic for a friend's birthday; pre-writing all my 2015 Cartinelli Week one shots far in advance so I knew they'd be perfect come posting day-- where I had a deadline I wanted everything Done By, which got me in the habit of writing to completion before posting. It wasn't something I thought I was going to be capable of because I'm like Tinkerbell, Finn, I need applause to live feedback is incredibly motivating to me, but having the ability to go back and change things in chapter 2 if I realized they weren't adequately setting up what I wanted to do in chapter 5, or whatever, proved to be just as powerful a motivator in a different way-- it meant I could tell the stories RIGHT, if I took my time with them. I also learned to get at least one cheerleader I could leak snippets to as I went, so that I still got the dopamine hit of the feedback even though I'm ages away from posting for real.

I also found that, as a reader, I always really appreciated when authors could stick to an update schedule so I could look forward to new chapters like I would episodes of television. It's not a standard I expect from anyone, but it is something that makes me really happy-- and the two ways to do it are to either write fast enough that you're just constantly churning out new content (not an option for me, especially on the occasions when I'm actually employed and can only write on weekends) or to pre-write and then slow release. it gives me a feeling of... mastery, I guess? Like "hey everyone here's a gift I'm giving you," as opposed to writing and updating when I can, which makes me feel like I'm always chasing something (BEING chased by something?) and risking losing my audience/my own fickle concentration if I were to wait too long.

My "ONLY post after everything is done" rule is a new one, because I burned myself on rely on certain certainties, the last D/s epic I wrote (lmao can you tell this topic interests me). I worked on that for a year and was 132k in with no end in sight when I started posting, but I was part of a Kristanna discord at the time, and I wanted to seize the audience I had before it disappeared-- which is always the danger of movie fandoms, which never have as much staying power. I had hoped that because I had such a big buffer I could keep writing ahead of the updates as they came up from behind, but I tapped out at 172k when I finished the end of an arc. That kills me, because I have SO MUCH unreleased content for that story which will never see the light of day, because-- again-- I'd let temptation win and wrote ahead to The Juicy Bits instead of forcing myself to go in order.

So, two things I've learned:

Only ever outlining the juicy bits that come late in the game, instead of lovingly finessing their every word, is a great way to trick motivate myself into continuing to write in order so that I can GET to the juicy bits, full stop; if I don't exorcise them they keep haunting me and that helps me stick it out until the end

By holding stories back until they're complete, I give myself the ability to complete them because I'm able to dig myself out of holes I've written myself into. In the old days, if I got stuck because I realized the real root of my issue had come chapters earlier and that's why it's not working now, I'd just... be stuck at that wall, unable to move forward, and that would be that. The idea of going back and editing a published story for narrative content is mortifying to me and something I personally could never do, so-- this way I'm giving myself more tools and options, so that I can tell the story I want to tell and tell it right.

In terms of my actual process, I tend to work like this: my most productive time is when my ADHD meds are at full power, so in an ideal world I am writing new content from like 10am to 3pm or so, getting as far as I can in New Content. Evenings, when I'm no longer in Hyperfocus Productivity Mode, I'll go back and reread things-- sometimes chapters from much earlier-- both to entertain myself and to make edits and changes. Often, that's just moving words around here and there for cadence and flow; rarely, it's adding whole new moments or thoughts to the chapters. I try to write In Order as much as possible, getting chapters beta'd as they're completed. I'm a nitpicky perfectionist, so keeping a hold on my early chapters until everything is posted means I can change them over and over and over again without anyone knowing but me, which I love-- and those changes are getting made right down to the wire. even when the fic is "complete" and I'm "only posting" I'm still making edits; some of people's absolute favorite parts of Newsbees were added literally the night before, when it was the "get everything into AO3 and do the final pass for typos and formatting" stage. Like, Penny writing sudokus on the fly for Ruby at the hospital? Ruby thinking in Adam Font? Those were 11th hour strokes of genius.

So yeah-- that's a very long-winded way of saying that I've found writing to completion first not only makes me more likely to actually finish my WIPs, but it makes my WIPs BETTER because it gives me far, far more time with them. I know it's not something that works for everyone, but in terms of my own sense of like, duty and responsibility and goal-setting, it keeps me on track without risking Guilt completely paralyzing me-- which is what happens when I post as I go and then get interrupted.

THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY RAMBLE.

[macgyvermedical]

I'm back with another drug history request. How about abilify/aripiprazole?

Sometimes I look up a drug I think is going to be boring and it turns out wildly interesting (dextromethorphan). Sometimes I look up a drug I think is going to be super interesting, and it turns out to be kind of meh (aripiprazole).

Aripiprazole is an atypical antipsychotic. It is also sometimes called a second generation or even a third generation depending on who you talk to. It is used for treating schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, irritability due to autism, as an adjunct treatment for major depression, and tourettes syndrome.

First generation "typical" antipsychotics came out in the 1950s. They block dopamine in the brain. This helps to decrease "positive" symptoms of psychosis, such as hallucinations and delusions, but they can cause sedation and movement disorders which can be permanent.

Second generation "atypical" antipsychotics came out in 1994 and have a lot of different mechanisms of action, usually involving dopamine and serotonin. These decrease "positive" symptoms but also decrease "negative" symptoms like avolition and social withdrawal. These generally have side effects that are more metabolic in nature, such as weight gain and increased blood sugar levels.

Sometimes, dopamine stabilizing medications like aripiprazole and brexpiprazole are lumped in with second generation (they have a similar side effect profile), and sometimes they are put into their own category.

Aripiprazole was discovered in 1995 by Japanese scientists. It was approved in the US as a daily pill in 2002. In 2015 it became available as a once-monthly injection for people who had trouble remembering (or being willing to) to take pills daily.

Today it is the 99th most commonly prescribed medication in the USA.

[thorne1435]

Y'know, I find it really interesting that Tumblr has the inverse idea of the rest of the internet, when it comes to memes.

The rest of the internet (and this is best demonstrated by reddit) will stop laughing at a meme after it's hit a certain age, because the joke will get stale. They'll get tired of laughing at the same thing, so they'll run it into the ground and then move on to the next dopamine mine.

Tumblr? Not at all. I'm still learning about jokes from before I was on this platform, sometimes from a decade ago, sometimes longer! Most recently I learned about "The Colour of the Sky", which is a meme I hadn't even seen reach Reddit or any YouTube Tumblr post compilations.

If I made a reference to "Weed Smoking Girlfriends" (2015) on Tumblr, most people would probably laugh at it and/or join in.

If I made a reference to "Ugandan Knuckles" on Reddit, I would probably get downvoted into oblivion, reported to the Suicide Hotline Bot, and insulted for weeks in the comments.

That's really interesting to me. I find it fascinating that these two approaches to memes have existed side-by-side for so long, and I'm very curious what the difference in the users are that caused this cultural schism.

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for October 24, 2015; #97.

Feelies, The “Forces At Work”

DIIV “Dopamine”

Fergus & Geronimo “Earthling Men”

Miniature Tigers “Dino Damage”

Wesley Willis “Shonen Knife”

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone “Lesley Gore On The T.A.M.I. Show (VER)

They Might Be Giants “Birdhouse In Your Soul”

Hooded Fang “Ode To Subterrania”

Brittle Stars “Souvenir”

Nervous Patterns “Your Secret’s Safe With Me (Story Of The Fred P. Gattas Girl)”

Velvet Underground “I’m Waiting For The Man”

Eric Copeland “Babes In The Woods”

Nude Beach “Hey Little Child”

Quintron “Dirt Bag Fever”

La Dispute “Six”

Looper “Farfisa Song”

Battles “The Yabba”

Frankie Cosmos “Birthday Song”

Chicks On Speed “Kaltes Klares Wasser”

ADULT. “Nite Life”

Devo “Too Much Paranoias”

Deerhunter “Snakeskin”

Future Punx “Ahead Of Yourself”

Talking Heads “The Great Curve”

Ex Cops “You Are A Lion, I Am A Lamb”

Mynabirds, The “Semantics”

Of Montreal “She’s A Rejector”

Lotus Plaza “White Galactic One”

St. Vincent “Marrow”

!!! “Pardon My Freedom”

William Onyeabor “Good Name”

Deluxe rainbow and indie.

[kuroshitsuji-igurisshu]

New era

𖤐Hello everyone Kuronians𖤐

Since the 15th anniversary, I have noticed that Yanuzza's style has changed quite markedly. I'm not talking about the drawing style, rather the thinking behind every illustration or project she has done since the anniversary.

The beginning era

From 2008 to 2019, the illustrations in the magazine were beautiful. Just beautiful.They didn't tell a story, and the first ones in particular, were bare, without soul.There were of course some exceptions (also because change doesn't happen overnight) such as the 2012 magazine where we were first introduced to Soma with typical Indian wedding accessories, accessories that we later revisited. I brought this wedding theory to my Italian profile, so if you're interested in reading it, let me know I'll bring it here too!

The 2013 revue is also very interesting, not only because of the washed-out colours, but also because she starts introducing flowers: ornaments that she will make her own from the 15th.Furthermore, looking at Undertaker's figure, one could say that he tried to give us a hint of a spoiler that year.

The dark era

In 2014, he experimented with a lot of dark colours, resulting in illustrations with a more serious tone.2014 was a very important year considering that Kuroshitsuji was on the cover of G-fantasy six times!

The change era

I would call 2015 the year of change also because, in this very year, Kuroshitsuji had reached chapter 100 and... who knows, maybe it was just her wanting to change style? In any case, in the June 2015 magazine Yanuzza showed us how ruthless she can be but, cute and refined at the same time. The illustration in question we can say is about addiction to sweets, a food that Ciel often consumes because it happens to contain dopamine, a substance that makes us feel less tired and happier. From 2015 to 2019, he produced illustrations on this current, staying more or less in theme every month.

The medium era

I would call 2020 the year of the medium, in the sense that in the magazine (hence in the illustration) we find the characteristics of the previous magazines but with a hint of novelty that will carry over to the present day.I don't know if it is a coincidence, but in the illustration we can see Ciel particularly pale, as if dying. Perhaps this was the symbol heralding the drastic change in the series.

The change era

In 2021, change happens. Not only do we celebrate the 15th anniversary of the series, but the work takes a particularly profound turn, imbued with hidden and often unclear messages.This new vision is not only seen in the illustrations but also in the Black Labels. Before we had simple pop up stores, where the most inventive we had was with the Funtom Hotel (it had nothing to do with the story of the manga) while now with the BR cafe which certainly remains more in the theme, as well as focusing on the Bitter Rabbit (I will bring you an analysis on this later).

The illustrations created by Yanuzza in this period all have a double reading. Magazine of April 2023; where he dedicates a message of love to the magazine, associating their relationship with that of a couple married for thirty years (find the post on page) as if that were not enough, he associated the oyster and the rock with the two protagonists of the series, bringing a very beautiful message indeed.

In the coming days, I will bring you an analysis of the new illustration in G-fantasy magazine and the 15th anniversary illustration. As previously mentioned, these two illustrations will also have a dual reading.

If you are curious to see more of my posts, you can find me on IG as Kuroshitsuji_itaru 😈

[tubbs-is-innocent]

ok so i have never been part of the tubbs fandom but wtf lead to the "tubbs is innocent/evil/etc."

like i am very much feeling this:

I've been wondering the same thing to be honest! I was there, but it's been a while. I've got the details figured out now.

It seems like in November/December of 2015, Neko Atsume had gotten real popular, and people on tumblr started talking about Tubbs. There was a sudden influx where people took really polarized stances on whether Tubbs was Good™ or Evil™ because he's the only cat who eats all your food. It was fueled by joke blogs dedicated to hating him, and resulted in a bunch of blogs being created and dedicated to their opinion of him (or just to Tubbs in general). People were just arguing about Tubbs all the time as like, a hobby. And, if we're being honest, as a way to score some dopamine from a small taste of fame on tumblr.com.