#edit: it’s not even a ‘weird thing’ like anon is claiming

[quins-makeshift-menagerie]

Looking back at some of your Sonic content and I couldn’t help but notice you have a weird thing for frail/sick children.

Probably because I was a frail/sick kid lmao

[shiki-jin]

YOUR CELESTIAL MAJESTY • SAGAU

(part 0 here)

was listening to TruE on loop while writing the last part of this, it's genuinely such a good song ugwvdya

also can you spot the contradiction ;D it's plot relevant i promise

not proofread, dont bully me ill write a thesis on why youre a meanie

—

you had long deleted genshin, since you had other things to do. you had wanted to go back to the game for a while now, now that you were less busy, but there was just one little problem.

it was now taking up nearly triple the amount of space that it was when you uninstalled it. around 300 whole gigabytes.

jesus christ, what phone can even handle this???

your phone, apparently. because as you opened the game to see if maybe a miracle would happen and that if maybe they would just, like, remove half of the things in the game, it just… kinda loaded?

no installing new files, no checking for anything, no nothing…. just an immediate pan to the gates of celestia.

you decided to check if it was the right genshin since this was just way too weird, but countering your judgement, every link you found led you to the same game, leading you to believe it not to be a bootleg or an illegal version.

guess i’ll trust it then.

you clicked on the gates which opened smoothly, and your screen turned white. then, the symbols of the seven elements appeared in gray.

and then the game just… opened. no loading time, once again. no getting stuck on the geo symbol, nothing. nada. just a smooth entrance into what you had to assume to be teyvat — but your surroundings didn't really support that claim.

the grass was brown and just looked off, the sky was gray. a darker shade than, say, mond’s walls, but it was like one of those game crashes.

well, except you could still move around.

you moved your current character around (the traveller? since when were they the only one in your team?) and decided to open the map after not figuring out where you could possibly be.

hold on, this is springvale? since when?

eveything looked dead, like it had been rotting for a century. you tried to ignore it though, and teleported to the inside of mondstadt. surely this was just some glitch, right? one that would fix itself if you teleported?

maybe the world loaded incorrectly, maybe the fact that nothing took time to load meant that it couldn't load, maybe this or that, maybe…

maybe this really was how the game looked normally. you hadn't done any quests though, so you wondered if it could be restored.

you took a screenshot of the your surroundings — the stone, worn down and dirty. the houses which looked to be in a horrible state, and… the npcs, all sickly and pale, like they were starving.

you went to reddit (yes, reddit), and posted the screenshot, asking if it was normal.

you closed the game and decided to take a nap, too tired to really deal with this shit any further.

while you slumbered, people replied to your post.

╰┈➤ lol me too anon, me too

╰┈➤ isn't the game closed or wtv? how'd you get this wtf

╰┈➤ they're trolling

╰┈➤ o makes sense oops

╰┈➤ So we’re all still mourning huh

╰┈➤ jokes aside that's a super impressive edit ngl

you remained unaware of the truth, but you'd find out soon enough.

actually, you'd find out now, apparently…

what the fuck?? why is my bed so hard now?

you groaned and forced your eyes open, seeing a dark, nearly black sky.

the only light was a single star, lingering right above you.

“since when was i outside...?"

a voice spoke to you, answering your question.

“you always have been, have you not? but would you like to head inside, my lord?”

... huh? i recognize that voice...

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p.s. place your bets on who it is, i’m thinking of one specific character but if there's a fan fav i'll make it them instead since i haven't written anything beyond this point (⁠・⁠_⁠・⁠;⁠)

p.s.s. don't expect updates to this series too quickly, i wish i could write as quick as i think of ideas but sadly that's not the case orz

[jkjmbtsarmy]

"Feat taeyhung" and it means it's #feat jimin instead... taekook together like a couple and jimin distant.

Anon you’re so funny. I said what I said and meant what I said. I guess you don’t know how to read and comprehend things. So let me say this very clearly for you. IT IS featuring Taehyung

Because it is Jimin and Jungkook’s show.

It’s not Taehyung’s show. It’s not the Taekook show. He’s literally in one or two episodes? Maybe three, depending on how many episodes the Jeju chapter will be. Therefore he is FEATURED in the show. As a guest. One that wasn’t even invited to be on the show. He literally INSISTED he HAD to be there. Maybe he was invited. We won’t know for sure until the episodes come out. But from the trailer we got..

Yeah…that really doesn’t come off that he was invited by anyone but himself.

Or are you going to call Jungkook a liar again like you guys like to do?

Answer me this Anon, is the show scripted? All fake? Just fan service? You guys keep saying it is. So since Tae is there, does that mean it’s no longer scripted and fan service? Can’t have it both ways. Just because another member is there it’s magically no longer scripted? Or is it just the parts between Jimin and Jungkook that are still scripted?

Clearly you didn’t watch the show. Or if you did you’re probably one of those people claiming Jimin and Jungkook are giving off sibling vibes. And I’m sorry no one acts like that with their siblings unless you’re doing some weird things with your siblings. Who are we kidding, you’re a cultist Taekooker. We ALL know you don’t watch original content. You watch clips that are edited to fit your cult perspectives. Just like you edit photos either cropping out Jimin or putting Tae’s head on Jimin’s body.

Just admit you all want Taekook to have what Jikook have.

“Jimin distant”

Does that look “distant” to you?

How about this one?

Literally every clip and photo we’ve gotten for the Jeju episodes Jimin has been in between Jungkook and Tae with the exception of one of the new photos we just got today.

“Taekook like a couple”

Please. How little do you all think of Tae? With all the things Jungkook and Jimin do together and for each other, you all think Tae is some victim who just sits back, sad and heart broken and lets his “boyfriend” do all these things with another man. Not to mention how little and poorly you all think of Jungkook to think he’s over here going behind Tae’s back all the time to be with Jimin.

Next time you want to come on my page with your stupidity and bullshit anon, do it with your username showing, so I can block you. Stay off my page. This is a Jikook blog. Keep your cult crap where it belongs. In your head.

[shinelikethunder]

Hello there! I hope you don’t mind me just dropping into your asks like this, but by all means def feel free to just delete this if so, it is kind of a weird ask.

This is the anon from the computer blog asking about a private laptop for collage! After doing (a small amount of) research into Linux, one thing that’s super confusing to me, is… how does one know which distro to use? You mentioned in the replies of the post that you use Ubuntu Linux, which seems to be one of the more popular ones. Would you recommend — and if so, why? Is it good for privacy, do you think? The best? Does the user need to have a good deal of experience with computers to keep it running? (I’ve never used a laptop before but I don’t mind trying to learn stuff)

Also this is an EXTREMELY stupid question my apologies, but how….. exactly do you put Linux on a laptop? OP from my ask said to buy a laptop with no OS but is that something you can do? I’d think so, since 0P works with computer and stuff as their job, but Reddit says that it’s not really possible and that you should just “buy like a Windows laptop and scrap the software”??? Is that… correct? How did you install Linux on your laptop — did y ou have to remove software off it or did you, as OP says, manage to find a laptop with no OS?

Again, feel free to ignore if you don’t wanna put in the time/effort to reply to this, I absolutely don’t mind — it’s a lot of stuff I’m asking and you didn’t invite it all, so ofc feel free to delete the ask if you’d like!

ha, you've zeroed in on one of the big reasons Linux is kind of a contrarian choice for me to recommend: the wild proliferation of distros, many of them hideously complex to work with. luckily, the fact that most of them are niche offshoots created by and for overly-technical nerds makes the choice easier: you don't want those. you want one of the largest, best-supported, most popular ones, with a reputation for being beginner-friendly. the two biggies are Ubuntu and Linux Mint; i'd recommend focusing your research there.

this isn't JUST a popularity-contest thing: the more people use it, the more likely you are to find answers if you're having trouble or plugging a weird error message into google, and the greater the variety of software you'll find packaged for easy install in that distro. some combination of professional and broad-based community support means you'll find better documentation and tutorials, glitches will be rarer and get fixed faster, and the OS is less likely to be finicky about what hardware it'll play nice with. the newbie-friendly ones are designed to be a breeze to install and to not require technical fiddling to run them for everyday tasks like web browsing, document editing, media viewing, file management, and such.

info on installation, privacy, personal endorsement, etc under the cut. tl;dr: most computers can make you a magic Linux-installing USB stick, most Linuces are blessedly not part of the problem on privacy, Ubuntu i can firsthand recommend but Mint is probably also good.

almost all Linux distros can be assumed to be better for privacy than Windows or MacOS, because they are working from a baseline of Not Being One Of The Things Spying On You; some are managed by corporations (Ubuntu is one of them), but even those corporations have to cater to a notoriously cantankerous userbase, so most phoning-home with usage data tends to be easy to turn off and sponsored bullshit kept minimally intrusive. the one big exception i know of is Google's bastard stepchild ChromeOS, which you really don't want to be using, for a wide variety of reasons. do NOT let someone talk you into installing fucking Qubes or something on claims that it's the "most private" or "most secure" OS; that's total user-unfriendly overkill unless you have like a nation-state spy agency or something targeting you, specifically.

how to install Linux is also not a dumb question! back in the day, if you wanted to, say, upgrade a desktop computer from Windows 95 to Windows 98, you'd receive a physical CD-ROM disc whose contents were formatted to tell the computer "hey, i'm not a music CD or a random pile of backup data or a piece of software for the OS to run, i want you to run me as the OS next time you boot up," and then that startup version would walk you through the install.

nowadays almost anyone with a computer can create a USB stick that'll do the same thing: you download an Ubuntu installer and a program that can perform that kind of formatting, plug in the USB stick, tell the program to put the installer on it and make it bootable, and then once it's done, plug the USB stick into the computer you want to Linuxify and turn it on.

Ubuntu has an excellent tutorial for every step of the install process, and an option to do a temporary test install so you can poke around and see how you like it without pulling the trigger irreversibly: https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-desktop

having a way to create a bootable USB stick is one reason to just get a Windows computer and then let the Linux installer nuke everything (which i think is the most common workflow), but in a pinch you can also create the USB on a borrowed/shared computer and uninstall the formatter program when you're done. i don't have strong opinions on what kind of laptop to get, except "if you do go for Linux, be sure to research in advance whether the distro is known to play nice with your hardware." i'm partial to ThinkPads but that's just, like, my opinion, man. lots of distros' installers also make it dead simple to create a dual-boot setup where you can pick between Windows and Linux at every startup, which is useful if you know you might have to use Windows-only software for school or something. keep in mind, though, that this creates two little fiefdoms whose files and hard-disk space aren't shared at all, and it is not a beginner-friendly task to go in later and change how much storage each OS has access to.

i've been using the distro i'm most familiar with as my go-to example throughout, but i don't really have a strong opinion on Ubuntu vs Mint, simply because i haven't played around with Mint enough to form one. Ubuntu i'll happily recommend as a beginner-friendly version of Linux that's reasonably private by default. (i think there's like one install step where Canonical offers paid options, telemetry, connecting online accounts, etc, and then respects your "fuck off" and doesn't bug you about it again.) by reputation, Mint has a friendlier UI, especially for people who are used to Windows, and its built-in app library/"store" is slicker but offers a slightly more limited ecosystem of point-and-click installs.

(unlike Apple and Google, there are zero standard Linux distros that give a shit if you manually install software from outside the app store, it's just a notoriously finicky process that could take two clicks or could have you tearing your hair out at 3am. worth trying if the need arises, but not worth stressing over if you can't get it to work.)

basic software starter-pack recommendations for any laptop (all available on Windows and Mac too): Firefox with the uBlock Origin and container tab add-ons, VLC media player, LibreOffice for document editing. the closest thing to a dealbreaking pain in the ass about Linux these days (imo) is that all the image and video editing software i know of is kinda janky in some way, so if that's non-negotiable you may have to dual-boot... GIMP is the godawfully-clunky-but-powerful Photoshop knockoff, and i've heard decent things about Pinta as a mid-weight image editor roughly equivalent to Paint.net for Windows.

[peachjagiya]

https://x.com/taekookiieness/status/1776155729562419570

What is this need they have to be glued to eachother all the time lol. They really are like magnets. Also maybe its just me but I feel like entangling your legs with someone is really intimate no? Like that is something I reserve for my husband, especially if I we are feeling clingy but in company, then our legs will do the talking lol. I get that the members are close on a different level than most friendships but these two will comfortably sit like that for long periods without even acknowledging what they are doing, it's like an unconcious thing and so different from the usual bursts of affection the members have with eachother. It's not like blatant flirting or anything so I get why people brush it off as nothing but gestures like these speak of a certain intimacy and lack of boundaries you usually see with couples.

🥹🥹🥹

I just went to watch a video of them all cuddling up and I noticed a few things:

👉 Joonie and Yoongi don't really seem to do a lot of this.

👉 Jin and Hobi will definitely climb on the maknae line in bed to wake them up or cuddle them but it's always with a purpose. Incidentally these two are most likely to refer to them as their babies.

👉 JK definitely seems to regard his hyungs as like four parents and himself as their baby and gets his cuddles from them accordingly. He's particularly happy cuddling Hobi and Jin, the self-described parents with mummy vibes.

👉 Tae seems less adhered to age dynamics and has his favoured cuddles, namely anyone who doesn't freely give it ie; Yoongi 😂 and trying to get Joonie to hold him in his sleep. Tae seems to enjoy receiving big demonstrations of affection. His Wooga hyungs cuddling him in bed, getting a morning kiss from Wooshik.... I think he likes to feel loved in that way.

👉 Jimin is at an awkward almost middle of the group where it's fair game with everyone.

Then you get to the maknae interactions when it becomes less about parent-child dynamics:

👉 Jimin seems like the cuddliest of the maknae line. Tae is unbothered by this but it doesn't feel like he seeks it out? He's curiously passive in a lot of these hyper cuddly moments with Jimin. But their general comfort levels say a lot about their bond. It's sweet to see. I get ZERO romantic vibes. Like if it's possible to be NEGATIVE romantic? 😂

👉 Jungkook seems less comfortable with Jimin hugs. I'm sorry that's just how I read it. I'm not saying I'm right. *Puts on a helmet* 50% of the time he's leaning away. I don't think this is about Jimin himself. I think it's about JK not quite feeling like baby or boyfriend with Jimin.

Edit: because someone thinks I'm painting Jimin in a bad light - I don't think Jimin is forcing anything and in fact I think Jungkook being like a grouchy little brother about it sometimes is a tried and tested friend dynamic and speaks to their closeness. I think they're close friends and value each other. Ok? Ok. Chill. Jeez.

So bearing their general puppy pile vibes in mind, why does it feel different with Taekook?

👉 The cuddliness is equal. People who claim Tae is all over JK while JK hates it are at best just wrong (and at worse wilfully trying to drag Tae) It's equally distributed between initiating and reciprocating.

👉 The affection is small so it feels more intimate. It's less showy. Never presented with any ceremony. It just seems second nature from their lack of reaction to the affection. No surprise or like "oof, we're hugging now!", just naturally fitting into each others space. It's not just JK getting hugs from his hyungs or Tae requiring outward demonstrations of love. With JK and Tae, it's just easy and natural magnetism.

(On a side note: Does anyone else remember Tae saying that he loves to cuddle in bed and the others are a bit weird about it but Jungkook thinks it's cute and cuddles him? Did I imagine that?)

Thanks anon. I loved this 💜

[dearweirdme]

I wonder what is it that made Jkkrs so confident about their ship "in the big 2024" as this jkkr anon claims. Cause to be honest I expected them to already become extinct.

Could it be almost two years of barely communicating, not meeting, not being involved in each others lives?

Could it be a female celebrity very openly claiming Jmn and making posts that indicate she lives with him?

Could it be more than 2 years of Jungkook spending time with another man (with whom he is suspected to have a non platonic relationship for more than a decade), in each others houses, in multiple private solo trips and with his friends?

Could it be the numerous occasions of them three being in the same event and Jungkook still remaining by the other mans' side and basically ignoring jmn?

Could it be their awkward dynamic when they finally spent time together while filming official content? Them being easily annoyed by each other, being kinda aggressive with each other at some times, admitting they didn't bother to meet outside this filming?

Could it be the fact that they used a military enlisting system that allows only friends and relatives to enlist together? maybe that it was actually jungkooks second choice? oh! it must be the fact that Jungkook immediately after the training period chose a military job that allowed him to work and sleep separately from jmn?

Oh I forgot. Jungkook slapped Jmn's @ss after pretending to punch him twice in the face so MY GOD they must be fcking.

Hi anon! So... I've been debating answering your ask... because while I understand the message.. I don't agree with your observations.

I've seen a bit of discourse on Jk and Jm and them not being actually close. I personally don't agree with that line of thinking at all. There's years of evidence to point at them being close friends. I know part of the discourse has been that there's a lot of fakeness.. but personally I think a lot about the member's bonds is actually real. You just can't fake being close for as long as they have been BTS.

Jk never ignored Jm.. just because they don't interact on camera on a certain event doesn't mean it's ignoring. There's seven of them.. there's bound to be instances where a member doesn't speak with another member for a bit. There was no two year period of Jm and Jk barely communicating or meeting. That's just factually untrue and when you perpetuate things like that you only give ammonition to Jkkrs.. because they would be right and you would be wrong in this instance.

I didn't feel like Jm and Jk were overly awkward during ays. You have to allow for them being unwell being a factor in the NY episodes. You have to allow for weird editing and for the fact that this show has a different feel because we are used to seeing seven members together.

Jk chosing to be a cook was a decision that probably has nothing to do with Jm. If he wanted to not be with Jm he would not have enlisted with him. Jk just wants to be a cook.. and that is nothing surprising imo.. the man is a foody.

Sorry for being this way, but I dislike when things get turned into something they are not. We don't need to do this. We're good.

Jm and Jk are friends. The way they interact consistently show them being friends.. and on top of that it consitently shows us they are nothing more than friends. Tae and Jk are level up though. That is what is important and what our focus should be. We really do not have to diminish Jk and Jm's friendship in order for Tae and JK to come up as 'winners'. Jk and Tae have shown us a consistency in being in each other's lives.. they have proritized each other in ways other members have not. They show a consistency in closeness on so many levels.. even Jkkrs can see it.. they are uncomfortable because of it.

Excuse my rant.. I needed to get this out.

[dontforgetyourmedstoday]

So you just steal artwork and don't care? Got it. Either that or my ask asking about sources from your posts on April 8th disappeared. Or I guess you could be off tumblr and not have been here for two weeks.

Hi Anon,

I'm assuming this is you:

If it is, yes, I did see your last ask - but life has been a bit shit lately and frankly, I didn't have the emotional bandwidth to deal with an accusatory email that gave me absolutely no details about what you were upset about so I could investigate. So today, despite it being an incredibly long and shit one that isn't over I'm going to reply.

*Takes a deep breath* From this point forward I'm going to assume that, like me, you are just a real-live human with feelings that get hurt and not someone who just likes to yell at people on the internet. So let me apologise that I have used your artwork without attribution, it was in no way my intention. Please take this apology as someone who was just trying to amuse themselves and perhaps help some other people out by reminding them to take their meds too. I absolutely suck at art-type things so in my mind, no one would think I did them or was claiming the actual 'art' part of them as mine. I realise now this is the internet, you guys don't know me, and so I should have been clearer that nearly all of these are edits. (There are a few waaaaay back I actually drew myself). Looking at the 7th, 8th & 9th of April (allowing for time zones and assuming that's when you saw your artwork). All of them except one have a link at the bottom of the image that links back to where I sourced the original image - I don't know if this is visible on mobile so I'll show it below (the bit circled in red)

So I'm assuming this one is yours:

It seems that one doesn't have the link. I don't know why. I haven't made any new reminders for this blog in ages (again - life) - it seems like most of the ones from early April this year were originally posted back in 2021. I got briefly excited about this blog again a few months ago and loaded up a bunch of old ones so this blog was still functional for the people that find it helpful. Going back I have noticed that others seem to not have credit either. It is possible I made a mistake and forgot to add them. It's also possible that Tumblr has a had a glitch/error/weirdness which means it's disappeared. I also used a bunch of images from the editing app I was using to add the reminder message and I wish I could remember what the site was called because I cannot for the life of me remember. Honestly, who knows. I have deleted the post(s) with that image - if it's not the right one please let me know.

I have always gone out of my way to ensure that anything I use is either free use, or non-commercial under Creative Commons. As an aside, I'm an academic and a person who has artist friends and my partner runs a business where our customers are largely designers and artists, so I do actually do my best to give credit. Am I perfect - no I'm not. Part of the reason I stopped making new posts was because of difficulty giving credit even on images that were non-attribution and finding images where I knew what the attribution requirements were (along with trying to remember everything everyone asked me to tag, and doing the image descriptions etc.) If anyone else finds something of theirs in one of my posts and there isn't credit attached please either dm me or send an ask and let me know which post and how you would like to be credited and I'll add it in. If you want it removed, I'm happy to do that too.

Sorry for the long post, hope it helps to clear things up. Finally, let me take this opportunity to say

"Don't forget your meds today my friends"

[radioactive-dazey]

In hindsight not the best post to send you. I didn’t really realize the gatekeeping aspect of the whole thing until you pointed it out—but is that even true that Thomas wants to keep the details of Ultimate Storytime under wraps? I haven’t been able to find any direct statements from him or the cast about it. Have you sent him an ask or anything?

Hmm. I cant say for sure that he's made a direct statement, but I do believe a throw away comment was made in one of these videos: I don't have a spare second to rewatch them right now, but it was something along the lines of leaving the details of the story out as to "surprise" viewers of the show. I *think* it was in the QNA video (first link)

Additionally, there are a few reddit posts asking about the ultimate storytime tour that make similar claims, so it is not the first time I heard something like this, which is why I didn't comment on it initially in your first ask.

No, I haven't sent an ask about it. I don't think I'll get a response. Thomas mentioned during an interaction I had with him that he doesn't get a lot of tumblr notifications anymore, for one reason or another. I also think it would be kinda weird if I sent him a message borderline interrogating him on the plot XD

If I ever get another opportunity to meet him, it is something I'll be sure to ask.

edit: also dw anon! im sure you weren't expecting such a passionate reaction to a fairly simple post xD

I have very many feelings about the patreon, if you couldn't tell

[inukag]

“Do you also find it unfair when inu/kik shippers claim that Kagome is Inuyasha's second choice and he's only with her because he sees Kikyo in her even though that was explicitly disproven in the manga?” Preach.

I find it weird how Certain people always have something to say about inukag fans supposedly downplaying inukik (which I honestly rarely see, most people are really good about acknowledging her importance all the while loving Inukag, I mean yes some have their reservations for the way inukik is portrayed but to each their own) yet never say anything when it’s the opposite, especially coming from that fandom that degrades Kagome almost regularly.

THANK YOU anon I'm so glad someone is with me on this lol.

People in this fandom always bad-mouth Inukag shippers like we aren't one of the most wholesome fandom out there. 90% of my inukag mutuals here respect Kikyo and the few that do dislike her at least back up their arguments by stuff that actually happened in the manga.

Meanwhile Inu/kik shippers constantly call Kagome abusive (but have no problems with Inuyasha punching children), talk about how they want Kagome to suffer (I've seen many of them celebrate the fact that she didn't raise her daughter in HNY), and they literally nitpick everything that Kagome does to villainize her (I've seen some people call her heartless because she stood up Hojo on a date lmaoo). Inu/kik shippers have reblogged my KAGKIK posts to hate on Kagome. They've reblogged my Moroha gifset to hate on Kagome and claim that Kikyo should have been her mother (or alternatively they make facebook groups dedicated to hating Moroha because she "would have been prettier and smarter if Kikyo was her mother"). I've met maybe 2 or 3 inu/kik shippers in my 10 years in this fandom who liked Kagome and they really struggled to acknowledge Inuyasha's love for her. Usually they're the type of people who think Kagome and Kikyo are the same person so Inuyasha "ended with Kikyo through Kagome".

Most inukag shippers just vibe and talk about inukag and when someone comes into our inbox or our posts to talk about Kikyo or Inu/kik we're called "insecure" for defending our ship. But inu/kiks are not insecure when they spread misinformation and lies, like when they twist Rumiko's words or straight up invent interviews to make people believe that she was forced to make inukag endgame? Or when they edit translations to make Inuyasha say things he never said?

Also Inukag shippers who dislike Kikyo are called misogynistic for disliking one female character but inu/kik shippers who says that Kikyo is the only good & strong female character in the series are not? I've also seen people get really mad at the theory that Inuyasha met Kikyo because her soul would one day be Kagome's because it's "misogynistic to say that Kikyo died so Inuyasha can have a girlfriend" but they're not mad at people who say that Inuyasha is just using Kagome as a replacement for Kikyo???

Be serious lol anyone who thinks we're so much worse than them has their head stuck in the sand. I'm NOT saying we're perfect but I'm tired of people bad mouthing my people. Coming back to the inukag fandom in 2020 after spending some time in other fandoms was such a breath of fresh air because this fandom is really overwhelmingly wholesome compared to all the other fandoms I've seen lol.

[darkxwolf17]

i remember following you at some point when you were arguing with this one proshipper, and at the time i was well... on your side. but lately, i've started thinking.. what's the point of all this discourse?? like... even then, there's a difference between proshipping and comshipping (proshipping- ship and let ship; block and move on) (comship -"complex" shipping; what proshipping in the md and other fandoms are usually confused with) so.. i feel like i've been adopting the proshipping mentality, though i wouldn't call myself a comshipper :] i know you're probably not going to answer this, but what's your full, honest opinion on the pro/anti ship discourse?

EDIT: Proshippers DO NOT INTERACT with this post i dont want you here get out

Hello, thank you for this ask, my opinion on the whole debate is actually more complex than what might be seen. Despite me being very much anti-proship (which I'll get to what that means later), I actually do not consider myself anti-fiction (though some proshippers may disagree with me and call me a "puriteen" or whatever).

Personally, I am in the opinion that the original meaning of dead dove and all that is something i can get behind. Before anyone calls me a proshipper, (I'm not and never will be), let me specify I said the *original* definition. This definition being "okay, there are some things that can be romanticized in fiction that shouldn't be romanticized ever in the real world." By this, I'm mainly meaning toxic relationships (I joke about toxic yuri, and it's because there are some ships that Are toxic i do genuinely enjoy, ie Voll), as well as some other kinks (that I won't get into because this is a safe for work blog that minors follow) that cannot be performed in real life. Fiction is a place to explore these things, and I am fully in support of using it as an outlet for the bizarre and weird.

My issue with proshipping is that, despite what many may claim, nowadays it really is just a fancy word for enjoying drawn csem. I don't care if it's "just fiction." Remember that thing i said earlier about how there are some things that can be romanticized in fiction? Well, children are not and never will be one of them. It is never okay, in ANY universe, to sexualize a child. I will stand by that firmly.

Other things i do not condone being romanticized in fiction is incest, or literal animals. Incest because it's a real thing that is traumatizing just like child abuse, and animals because, well, I hate zoophiles. "But Marven!" you may say. "You're a furry, doesn't your community have a good chunk who draw furry nsfw?" Well, to that I say there is a huge, huge difference between sexualizing an anthropomorphic walking talking consenting creature that is essentially just a human with fur, and a literal dog on four legs. If you can't see the difference between those two, that's your problem.

"But what about trauma? Shouldn't victims be able to express themselves through art?" Why, yes! of course. However, there is a difference between drawing vent art privately in closed circles and posting erotic material featuring children with the intent to arouse publicly. I am in full support of trauma survivors using any method to cope, but forming communities dedicated to drawing and getting off to images of children is not a way to cope. It's illegal! And normalizing terrible behavior, repeating a cycle of abuse.

So yeah, tldr; There are some things in fiction that can be romanticized that shouldn't be romanticized irl. There is some merit to a "Dead dove" label. However, if you do end up calling yourself a proshipper, just know that you will be grouping yourself with some very, very nasty people.

I hope I could be of some help, best of luck to you anon and I urge you, as someone who nearly fell down the proshipping pipeline, to please understand what kinds of people that community holds.

[pearlbowss]

cutting cameras and rushing home

↳ a fic requested by an anon! — ft. little!johnnie and cg!jake

summary : when johnnie regresses while he’s home alone with carrington, jake drops everything to rush home to his little

warnings : crying + a curse or two + nothing else!

a / n : 🤷‍♀️

divider credits : @saradika-graphics

it was a quiet day in jake, johnnie and carrington’s place — carrington was editing a video he and chase filmed, and johnnie was asleep. jake had headed out a little earlier today, currently streaming and yelling at some pigeons outside of his car, claiming they were ruining his ‘aesthetic’ food review. he was parked outside of some fast food place, chat spamming some comments and some laughing at jake.

back at the house, johnnie sat up with a sharp gasp, not a nightmare — his dream was pretty wild though. but, he did feel something else, not like his ‘normal’ self, he felt maybe 2-4. he whined and got out of bed, wanting one thing: jake. he wiped some eyeliner he’d forgotten to take off the night prior as he walked out. he went to the kitchen and the living room, searching for his caregiver, which he didn’t know wasn’t even home.

carrington had came out of his room after a bit, taking a break from editing his video. he ruffled the emo’s hair and received a grunt in response. johnnie turned around and carrington noticed his teary eyes.

“oh- sorry johnnie, what’s wrong?” he raised a brow and tilted his head.

“wan’ jay-jay!” the black haired man cried out, tears running down his cheeks.

a flip switched on in carrington’s mind, making him realize johnnie was regressed. carrington had only ever been around little johnnie a few times, and jake was usually there with them, but not today. “oh- oh- oh- uh…jake is out streaming, but! we can call him and ask him to come home! wanna do that?” he offered, smiling and pulling his phone out when he received a nod.

meanwhile, jake was showing the chat some type of pizza-bites he’d ordered. “guys- these actually look so delicious—like oh my god?” he made some expressions and laughed at some chats he’d read. he then took a bite and felt his phone buzz, he pulled it from his pocket and saw carrington’s name. “i’ll be right back,” he whispered in a weird voice to chat. he muted himself and faced the camera away so nobody could read his lips later on.

“hello?” the punk questioned from his side of the line.

“hey dude— so johnnie is regressed, i think-? and he’s like- suuuper upset and he really wants you and i don’t really know how to occupy him.” carrington quickly put out.

“oh— shit- uh- on my way, let me wrap up stream.” jake replied before hanging up.

jake turned the mic on and the camera back around, he came up with some lie about how tara needed him for something and he’d make a video at some point about reviewing the food again, which chat was confused with but he did successfully(?) end the stream. jake immediately pressed his foot on the gas and sped home as quick as he could with the lively traffic of LA.

carrington and johnnie were watching a movie, the little kept getting distracted with every noise from outside. “jakey?” he’d ask every two seconds, which carrington had to shake his head to and pray he wouldn’t upset johnnie even more.

both boys whipped their heads around when the door flew open and jake ran in, carrying leftovers which did get an eyebrow raise from carrington, questioning why his first thing was to grab the food and almost break the door off its hinges.

“jakey!” johnnie cheered and he ran to jake, tears falling down — mainly tears of relief — and he hummed when jake hugged him back and started rambling apologies for being gone. carrington sneakily made his way to the food and checked the boxes, hoping to find something good.

“wanna go play with dada, buddy?” jake smacked carrington’s hand from his leftovers while he looked at his little, carrington rubbed his hand while johnnie eagerly nodded and raised his arms to be carried.

carrington groaned dramatically in defeat since he knew he wasn’t getting any of jake’s food, and returned back to his room to resume his video editing, while jake picked the emo up and started talking to him while walking to the playroom.

[stcyadams]

Yo, I think you know the name Jias, he said you were one of his "best friends" and it was a part of his little "intro" in the AC:NL community which shortly became a copy pasta. Were you actually his best friend or was he just some noob who fantasized you? If you were his friend, were you aware of his actions that he did this year/last year? I forget when you quit, but I am asking for insight if you ever knew him like that. He got exposed a couple months ago for being a pedophile by the way.

Surprisingly, I’ve been waiting for this to become an “official” ask as I’d love to clear up some confusion about the whole Jias situation.

I’m aware of him claiming I’m his “best friend”. I’ve also seen the whole “I’m Jeffrey Fernandez, the number one hacker” thing on Discord (blah blah).

But to summarize it, I’ve always thought it was funny as for ages I didn’t even know him. Don’t get me wrong… I’d run into him on the islands here and there, but 9 times out of 10 I’d error; not because I had anything against him, but rather the fact I errored on anybody and hackers would usually get in the middle of my trolling.

I believe at the time it was more of an envy thing if anything. I’ve always thought it was weird, and honestly a bit creepy as I’ve never directly talked or messaged him. The sole reason why I never really let it bothered me is I couldn’t care less what he said. If anything it seemed a bit… desperate? (If that’s the proper word). I’ve always trolled alone (roughly since New Leaf started) so he came out of nowhere.

I’ve trolled on New Leaf for a LONG time. Pretty much beginning to end of New Leaf’s lifespan, off and on. I honestly couldn’t tell you when he started going to the islands, if he’s always been a hacker, etc. I know zero about him and keep/kept to myself in the community. *shrugs*

I know about 2-3 years ago (give or take) there was discussion if we were the same person or my “friendship status” with him but honestly, again, I’ve never really addressed it as I’m usually busy with in real life things. I can assure you though we are two different people.

About 6 months ago he did send me an ask on here about his new “Jiatendo” thing he’s making. I’ve never really had anything AGAINST him up to this point, so I DID respond and join his discord on it. Couldn’t tell you how it’s going though. I don’t check my discord or most of my gaming/Animal Crossing related socials a ton.

As for why I joined, it was more curiosity and to humor myself if anything. I have no idea about the legitimacy of his programming claims but I’m a “join and see what happens” sort of person.

THAT BEING SAID/TL;DR:

I haven’t heard any of these claims. I’ve only messaged him personally (messaged him back) about “Jiatendo” but I haven’t outside of any other means. I am curious about this though and am open ears for sure since honestly I’ve heard more about him than he’s probably even heard about me. If you have a Tumblr, feel free to direct message me about it. Otherwise, send me more asks as anon and I’ll read them. Let me know if you want me to post them or not.

Thank you for letting me know and letting me be aware, because that’s creepy as hell if the claims are true.

I’m also glad to *hopefully* clear some stuff up in the community about how I “know him” (I say that loosely) as it’s an excellent question, honestly.

(Edit: added some images from the ACNL Vapecord plugin’s discord. It’s honestly amusing to me how far rumors go as I’ve never cloned Jeffrey/Jias (I actually forgot he seemed to go by multiple names? Not sure if he still does) and just to come out on record in 2021 I attempted to clear the air a bit on various things, including Jias.)

(Edit no. 2: I did skim through more recent messages (last 5 or so months, give or take) on the Vapecord discord. I now do see other various members discussing him being exposed etc, which I was not aware of. I would like to make it clear I don’t check these socials as much as I probably should, so I live under a rock when it comes to the state and affairs of the ACC right now/recent. I’m very curious about all that’s happened, though.)

[free--therapy]

Anon again! I was just reading some of your posts about shame/guilt and they came at the right time honestly.

One of the things I've been struggling with recently is guilt and especially shame about the same old thoughts (again 😭) and you know I feel like I've really internalized it kinda. I usually get over it but then when I have any spiral again, I get new "what ifs" about those same thoughts/incidents again which make me worry.

(the incidents being the same mistakes or unfair somethings I did to people sometimes, watching that content or reading those hentai manga, random lie I told, random selfish thing I did and honestly anything I can remember that sounds even remotely wrong.)

(Recently I had a kinda breakdown because there's this instagram account that makes video edits of a game I play but the admin tends to sometimes delete some posts and there was this one post I really loved so I downloaded it in case they deleted it and sometime later I just posted it on my ig story on my personal account since it's a video I like, of course I didn't claim it as mine or anything but I remembered that recently and started overthinking if that was wrong of me? If I shouldn't have posted it on my story at all? Or if I shouldn't have downloaded it all? Then started wondering what I should do....like if I should tell the admin about it or if I should apologise and stuff. It might sound silly but sometimes spiralling makes me overthink and break down over stuff like that too and sends me in a slef-judging spree)

Of course one of the biggest concerns remains the need to be liked or accepted by everyone especially people I interact with on social media. When I'm not doing good mentally, and if I remember those incidents then I keep thinking "what if these people knew that I did that? Or that I watched that?"

And when I try to tell myself no one is perfect and these people might have things they have done too then my mind goes "yeah but it surely won't be as weird or bad as things you've done." It's like my mind always tries to convince me that my situation is more weird and worse than others or something

Thankfully I'm aware now that a big part of me thinking like that is just me subconsciously judging myself more than anyone else but I can't help but think about the what if you know? Like "sure I'm judging myself but still, what if they knew? Wouldn't they cancel me?" Stuff like that.

Worse yet, when I'm in one of such spirals, if someone on the internet tries to be nice/kind to me, it just makes me feel guilty like I don't deserve any of their nice words because my minds thinks "if they knew you did such things in the past or had such opinions then maybe they wouldn't say those things to you"

It feels weird and lonely when I can't believe or feel deserving of someone's nice words to me.

But you know, when I say something nice to someone, I don't think whether they deserve it or not or don't consider their past at all. Like if I say something like "I hope you'll be happy" to someone in real life or online, either way, I mean it regardless of anything. Because I know their past or personality or what they did and any stuff like that doesn't matter when it comes to being kind to them. I mean, if they're having a hard time, even if it is because of their mistakes, a hard time is a hard time regardless right? so if they need some kindness and I have an opportunity to give them that then I should.

Saying something nice to a stranger on the internet shouldn't involve taking their past or their mistakes into consideration at all I believe. They deserve a "good day" just as much as anyone else, I know this. Yet I can't apply this to myself....maybe I think that what if everyone doesn't think like that? What if the person who said something nice to me isn't like that? What if they hate exactly the thing that I did in the past?

So much noise in my head recently lol and I've been overthinking a lot but I also believe I'll be okay eventually. Even if sometimes I can't believe it, I'll still tell myself I deserve it all too. That I deserve being happy, deserve a good job, deserve people who love me and deserve kindness from strangers too. I just believe and hope that I'll be okay!

Though I do want to ask, is it common/normal for people to have spirals like these randomly? Especially if it's someone prone to overthinking?

Hey Anon,

I know it's hard to overcome the guilt you have surrounding a lot of the things you've done in your past, but comparing yourself and what you personally deem as "worse" than others is likely not true at all. I believe everyone has a lot of embarrassing things they've done that they would consider to be really bad and possibly a reason for others to reject them, but at the same time while they know and understand embarrassment, they're also more sympathetic to others that have embarrassing things as well. We are always our harshest critic and find it so much easier to forgive and accept others' mistakes/faults/flaws because we know personally how horrible it feels to know we're not perfect and that if someone perceives us as imperfect, they may potentially reject or chastise us. We'll always see our mistakes as worse than others when really everyone makes mistakes.

I hate that cancel culture is a thing on the internet. It's honestly such a cowardly thing considering everyone has done something in their lives that could easily be rubbed in their face to make them feel bad too, but some people just love the whole angry mob mentality because it's easier to criticize others instead of looking within. It's still not a nice feeling either, but I know it's kept a lot of people back from just being themselves because they fear the angry mob will reject you.

Anon, you have to stop believing that you need to be worthy of receiving love or good things. Love should always be unconditional and I'm sorry that people in your life have made you feel like it has to be something you have to earn. I'll tell you one thing, even though we're strangers and I know some of the things you've entrusted me about you and the things you hold a lot of shame around, I would never reject you or believe that you are ever unworthy of any of the good stuff you should be experiencing or feeling. I know that it's hard to believe that though because you don't believe it for yourself. You are a human being and that means you will make mistakes and have flaws, JUST LIKE ME! That's what makes us all the same and it's just silly to me that our society has made people think they have to fit into the box of perfection (which is an unattainable concept btw :P) I felt exactly the same way as you though, and I had to really figure out a way to convince myself and rewire my brain to believe that I am worthy of all the good things I wanted and that I didn't have to do or say or be a certain way to get it. If you can say it to someone else and mean it, you can definitely do the same to yourself and learn to believe it.

Though I do want to ask, is it common/normal for people to have spirals like these randomly? Especially if it's someone prone to overthinking?

Yes, your brain is trying to go back to old programming because it's familiar and what it's used to. This is why it takes time and continuous conscious effort to rewire the brain into something new and unfamiliar. There's no need to feel discouraged by it.

[wildgeese-badideas]

Is it cool if I ask why you’re completely deleting instead of orphaning? I feel like that’s a good way to feel less connected to something you feel is cringe, while keeping it available to people who liked it and may not know to find you on tumblr to preserve it.

I for one really like Homemade Mess. I think you capture Craig being bad at emotions and the kind of small scale things they’d probably disagree about. It’s cute. It’s fluff adjacent. It makes me feel good.

The thing is…this is South Park. Being in this fandom is cringe (hence why I’m anon lol). Maybe my standards are just low (but tbh I don’t think they’re *that* low) but if every good author in this fandom (like yourself) fully deleted a few things they didn’t personally feel were their strongest, we’d have almost nothing left. The sheer amount of scrolling I do before finding something readable let alone good enough to bookmark lol

Anyways thanks for bringing so much great writing into the world. And sorry is this comes across like overstepping (I truly don’t mean it to). And thanks for all the fics

Oh my gosh so so sorry for the late response! I was dying over a fic and rushed to messaging without noticing the ask notif. Anyway, totally fair question! I get where you’re coming from, but if my stuff is deleted (they’re actually in a private collection so they don’t show up on my homepage but I can still see them if I want to), I feel like I can still revisit it at a later date? Like I can always decide to rewrite it or use phrases/paragraphs/descriptions I liked in those fics for new ones. Versus if I orphan them, I lose all claim to my work and I can’t rewrite/copy without it looking like plagiarism.

I definitely don’t wish to cause annoyance or frustration, though, since I’ve also been devastated by deleted fics as a reader. But one of my favorite authors gave a heads up before deleting so we could save stuff and I always appreciated that, so I thought this was a good compromise? Like I’m totally fine with sending people copies so they can reread whenever if it’s a comfort fic. It’s just that some fics have me caught in this weird in-between of being icked out but I don’t necessarily want to cut off ties just yet in case there’s a way I can make them suit my current style more within the same premise.

If you like Homemade Mess in particular I can definitely take a look at rewriting/editing that to reupload soon instead of deleting. I’m open to redoing anything, it’s just that the “under construction” fics are the ones I was actively already working on redoing.

I hope this makes sense, and I’m really sorry for any discomfort that has brought you! Thanks for even caring about my fics, it means a lot and I don’t wish to demean that support or anything. You’re totally in your right to ask this, and I’ll think about editing Homemade Mess and Buttons, since those are the only two ‘permanent deletion’ fics that I wasn’t going to just combine with an upcoming fic.

Lots of love 💕 sorry for the inconveniences 💔

[sunhowler]

i know responding will only make this worse but i cant fucking stand when people just blatantly lie about me. you guys are Confused because you have none of the context and are making giant assumptions based off of like 1 anon and 1 tumblr post. so here:

A) i very much did not leave the internet, what are you guys even talking about??? ive been posting on main all day, i only decided to make my hlvrai account inactive. im literally right here. did nobody think to look at my main. did you all just assume i left the internet because i posted about making my sideblog inactive and literally said i would be posting on my main instead. What Are You Saying

B) i left One discord server because of this. One. because it was a public discord server and i have pretty severe paranoia issues currently. that other server that anon talked about and you guys all randomly decided to believe with no proof for some reason, i left days before the original post for personal reasons. it had literally nothing to do with you. i didnt leave every server im in, i didnt even leave every hlvrai server im in. i didnt leave the entire fucking internet over 1 post.

C) i had literally no reason to believe you would handle my concerns with any charitability or grace because you responded to my original comment so aggressively, and i have even less reason to believe you would now. i realized the comment i left was unwarranted, so i deleted it. i didnt think that this would cause you to lie about me in the main fandom tags. i guess if i had known that, i wouldve responded to you or something.

D) you never, never addressed that you straight up lied about me not tagging my nsfw art. literally all of it is censored, under a community label, tagged nsft, and not put under any of the main tags. you cant just fucking lie about that. thats a really serious accusation and i have no clue why you would make it if not out of deliberate malicious intent.

E) i wasnt upset because you "criticized" me (which. by the way. admitting to cyberstalking someone and lying about them publicly because they made one weird comment on one fanfic you wrote isnt criticism.), i was upset because you posted something inflammatory about me (everyone knew it was me. you did not have to say my name. dont try to hide behind that) in the main tags of a fandom that has historically loved to lie about me, harass me, drag my friends into their stupid petty complaints, and read everything i do uncharitably. i was upset because i knew people would take it at face value without a second thought and it would become a Thing, and look, it has! it sure has.

[edit: just realized i never addressed this part: i have literally never claimed to own transfem gordon freeman. you are just fully misrepresenting what i said. its not worth it to get into what i was trying to say with my original ao3 comment because i regret making it even aside from this whole debacle, but you know i never claimed to own transfem gordon. i said i dont own her like 5 billion times. i only ever claimed to "own" my specific fandomized design and interpretation of her, and even then i constantly acknowledged she was not technically my character.]

im not responding any more after this, and i dont want anyone to defend me after this either. to be honest i didnt want people to do it from the start because i knew that would just escalate it and make the lies and animosity grow and grow. my hope, and maybe its naive, is that people will read this and stop feeling the need to speculate wildly on things they dont know about while also not bothering to check if anything theyre saying is actually true.

is it embarrassing to write out a long response to this? yeah. is it a bad idea? yeah. but i dont have much to lose at this point and i cant stand that people are just saying random bullshit and believing the first anon that comes along with something to add. everyone shut up

WAIT OKAY RECAP FOR ME, SOMEONE WHO LITERALLY JUST GOT HERE: i saw you second post, peaked in to find the first, and was like 'huh, weird to ask someone to not use a name, you don't own it', then did a lil hunting of my own cause i Did Not know who you were talking about but i'm Nosy

and i saw the post that pup made and was like 'damn, sad they're not around anymore, but i got my own problems with the hlvrai fandom, have fun getting better ig' and i scrolled a bit on pup's blog and was like 'oh okay, you wanted a distinction between Your gordie, and other gordies, sure, you went about it weird but ig i understand. big ol miscommunication' and MOVED ON

and then. hours later. i'm scrolling. people are jumping down your throat ?? because APPARENTLY that big old giant long post was made Because of you being like 'that was fucking weird to ask me not to use a NAME' and ?? pup got SO FUCKING UPSET that they just LEFT THE INTERNET

i'm so confused. what the fuck.

THEY LEFT??? Anon, I'll be so honest, I made my posts as a one-off "hey isn't this kind of weird and funny" thing for my friends and the like 2 followers I have. I woke up today, sick as all hell, opened Tumblr and had hundreds of notifications from people either dming me like "Hey sorry you're being harassed" or sending me anon asks calling me insults for daring to have an opinion on Tumblr. I haven't checked pups account since I made the og post + have ignored most notifications I've gotten since I prefer to have discussions instead of being yelled at. I only knew that they left discord, not THE INTERNET. OVER ONE POST.

It only shocks me how chronically online someone has to be that a single post, where they went completely unnamed, got them so upset they had to LEAVE the INTERNET. And make a post that has made me be actually harassed by random people (most of whom that I can't block if I wanted to since they're sending anon asks) when my post was not harassment by any means and did not tell people to harass her.

Also since it WAS just a miscommunication she could've just... literally DMed me. "Hey Simon, saw your post, here's what I meant: [blah blah blah]" and I would've DELETED IT..???? They could've stopped this whole thing by replying to me on AO3 with an explanation instead of just deleting the original comment those months ago.

Anyways Thanks for being Just As Confused as this whole thing is making me. And for not calling me 6 bajillion slurs like most people in my asks see fit to do right now!

[dearweirdme]

I'm probably one of the few who thinks both Taennie and Taekook are possible at the same time. I think Tae wanted a fresh start with Jennie but couldn't forget JK. I remember Tae's To Find You live very well…he sang along to this song and seemed a bit sad : "She'd take the world off my shoulders If it was ever hard to move She'd turn the rain to a rainbow When I was living in the blue Why then, if she is so perfect Do I still wish that it was you? Perfect don't mean that it's working So what can I do?"

Hi anon!

There’s probably more that think like you. I know there’s people who think Jk and Tae had something loose, or who also believe they broke up at one point.. so that does leave the possibility of them with other people. Personally I don’t think they broke up. I think that would have been noticeable in the way they interact. In my opinion we’ve seen them be pretty stable these last years. Ofcourse some exes stay friends and have no problem working together. But I do feel this situation for Tae and Jk in particular would have been cause for some real tension. It’s one thing to stay friends with your ex, but it’s a whole other thing when part of the world also has their eyes on you…. and you have to be together as much as they had to.

To me Tae playing To Find You in his live was meaningful. Especially since not only did he mention Jk sings it for him, but even more because he specifically wanted to listen to Jk’s version. The meaning of the song to me also comes so close to what I feel goes on between them, but that’s less of a fact than Tae finding this a special song. I rarely link the songs they play or mention to it having a personal meaning though. Because where do we start? They play sooo many songs and I’m pretty sure we’ll get a confusing mix of meanings when we think all of them mean something. It’s a guessing game from fandom and you place in fandom probably decides which songs you think mean something to them. I think the clear Jk mention makes it more likely that this song does actually mean something to them. To Find You speaks of a promise, and I think it very well suits all they had to go through together.

I don’t believe in Taennie because I have seen nothing that didn’t include fakeness. The Gurumi leaks contained edited pics which came from an unidentified source, that spread them with a thought out plan. The word that would describe Gurumi is ‘untrustworthy’. And i don’t think there is anyone who can actually argue that, because we were dealing with an anonymous source from the internet who tried to play a game.

The Paris walk (which for many is the one thing that took it from ‘fake’ to ‘real’ ) was clearly planned. It’s also rooted in weirdness. The pap claimed to have permission to photograph them, yet a year later he was made to adjust or remove Tae’s name. All we got was far away and blurry footage. Tae and Jennie were walking around very recognizable, with their whole team, but they left separately. Conveniently, it was just a few days before Jennie’s series (which was already critiziced) debuted at Cannes.. and every article about the series mentioned Tae and her (hello clickbait). There is nothing that screams pr more than this. And sure, there are plenty of couples who use their relationship for pr.. but that is not what Tae and Jennie do and it goes against everything else they have done.

When Tae spotted Jennie at Harry Styles’s show he had a reaction of discomfort. Not one of being happy to see his partner even though they have to stay a secret. Tae did not do anything or say anything against the extreme hate Jennie was getting. And I know members don’t react to stuff like that.. and this is very much my judgement of Tae.. but I think he would have made a snarky remark (albeit vague) at one point.

I basically predicted the bua at one point. Because, it’s so clearly pr that you could just see it coming.

So I don’t believe in Taennie not because of Tae and Jk, but just because there is nothing that made me believe it. When I came into fandom Taennie was already a thing.. and I gave it no attention whatsoever because it was so clearly driven by fandom. The lack of realness is strong in this case I think.

Now ofcourse I look at this differently because I believe that Tae and Jk are together. I wouldn’t have questioned Taennie the way I do had I not believed that Tae and Jk are together. That’s pretty much what pr strategies count on though. They assume that people don’t question what they get shoved in their faces. People tend to believe media (especially gossip media) and they love the tension and excitement it brings. They played this right.. it got fandom attention for months! Engagement was high!