#getting banned from tumblr speedrun

[eddiejfigglepuss]

[gaylactic-fire]

Hi hello, I've got a question, what that heck happened this week?? I haven't been active in awhile and I just logged back in here to follow an artist from tiktok, and I happened to see the conservative discord server screenshots on my "your tags" section. Is possible to get the sparks note version of what happened? (Sorry if the ask sounds weird, not very good at putting my thoughts into words)

Sorry I only answered this a few days later! You might already know what's happening by now, but in case you didn't I'll give you a TLDR:

- Tumblr user alasse-earfalas makes a post on LU's main tag advertising a conservative christian LU / LoZ server. She claims to want a safe space for those with similar views. What really catches people's attention is a part of the post that speaks about "Pride ideology" and how such "predatory" views aren't allowed in the server. In the same section she talks about wanting a space where characters are not "queered into oblivion." The vibes are utterly rancid.

- LU fandom immediately begins spiteposting. Everyone and their mother starts making LU queer headcanons or posts showing their support for the queer community. The memes flood in. "Queered into oblivion." is immediately reclaimed and added to people's lexicons. People are speedrunning how fast they can get banned off the server. There's almost a unanimous effort to make fun of bigots.

- Further controversy ensues under the surface. As it turns out, several religious people in the fandom had been interacting with Alasse and other people in the conservative server. It was impossible to know whether or not they shared similar views, but you can't blame people's caution. When questioned whether their blogs were safe for queer people, some gave very vague answers that pretty much dialed down to "I love everyone" or "I don't wanna talk about it." Neutrality in such instances is not reassuring for queer people, especially when the other side is claiming we are predatory. Afaik some people have redacted their statements or gone on to further clarify things. But some people still take a firmly neutral stance on the matter. (Don't ask who I haven't been following closely enough to know).

- A few days later Alasse comes back with a follow-up statement addressing the server. She pulls a mix between "gay people I respect VS gay people I don't respect." and "I'm not homophobic I have a gay friend." By stating that the server is not homophobic, but simply does not support the pride movement. Which is allegedly pushing to show porn to kids in school. When asked for a source on such a shocking claim someone on the server cites Fucking Matt Walsh rather than a non-biased and or scientific article. The transphobia also pops out when she claims the pride movement is trying to push surgeries on children (It's not. Children do not get gender realignment surgeries. You can find this out from five minutes on google). Addressing "queered into oblivion." Alasse goes on a rant about "queerwashing" characters, stating the Links are canonically straight and making them queer invalidates their identity. Alasse conveniently forgets that Nintendo has never canonically given Link a partner. She also forgets that bisexuality, asexuality and other sexualities that may include romantic attraction to the opposite sex do, in fact, exist. The rest of the post is whining about people joining the server to troll and basically just her reaping what she sowed for advertising on Tumblr Dot Com.

Aside for further outrage and memes, that's pretty much where we're up to so far. Things are dying down and hopefully the bigots will keep to their own corner and or fuck off from the fandom entirely.

[realsafari]

Getting banned from the hogwarts legacy discord server official speedrun: 4 minutes, 13 seconds.

For those of you who don't know getting banned from HL discord is a tumblr status symbol ^_^

[spiritateababy]

Hi everyone, it's me (Spirit) once again spamming my work on tumblr.

Today, we'll explore the side of me I barely mention, my roblox building period. This post will contain some of my best works from this time.

Insolence Chamber (2021) (Piggy)

I was a massive Piggy nerd when I started out. So this led to me making most of my builds based on Piggy. This was for an idea of mine for a Piggy chapter. The idea was that [SECTION FOR PIGGY GEEKS ONLY PEOPLE OVER THE AGE OF 10 NOT ALLOWED] it would take place in a sort of nightmare realm for the player. It would just be them running from the spirits of Bunny and Doggy, as well as the deformed visage of Zizzy. It would all accumulate in the player getting over their "deaths" (which were really just them getting infected) and waking up. I never finished the map aside from a hallway and spawn room, as well as the models of main antagonists. I used the hallway for a showcase of a Piggy skin, speaking of which-

Wally and Jackie (2021) (Piggy) [Contact info in images outdated, refer to my card please]

Wally and Jackie were my third to last final Piggy skins. The lore was basically that Jackie had become sentient and, as a disciple of TIO (the big bag of Piggy), decided he would help in being a nuisance. Thing is, he's a puppet, and he needs legs to walk, where Wally comes in. Wally is sentient, he can talk and walk on his own, but he's bound to Jackie, so he's basically forced to help out with his tomfoolery.

Maggie Mae (2021) (Piggy)

Fun fact! I thought it would be funny to turn the skin's first image into a fake leak for the main-game and replace my credits with MiniToon's. Boy did I get bit back in the ass HARD for that one. Anyways, Maggie Mae is deformed as all hell, her design is somewhat inspired by siren-head and her name is from a Beatle's song. That's it.

Deepfreeze (2021) (Piggy)

Deepfreeze is a favorite child. He's my final Piggy skin and one of my most simplistic, which I like! His lore is that he was a military researcher basically left to rot, but his vengeance and ego brought him back to life how he is. He also had 2 cool showcase images, which I'm certain are now lost to time.

Subject Williams (2021) (Piggy)

Williams...I'm still pretty mixed on him. He looks great, but also weird. I made his head in blender, which probably looks like a polygonal nightmare considering how it was my first time using blender. He had an earlier version (see far right) which was uglier, and pretty confusing. The lore for Williams was that he wanted to help Mr. P with a cure for his wife, but having drank an early version of the potion that made everyone go insane, he went insane and turned into an abomination.

Alright, I'm out of things to be proud of. Piggy skin speedrun!

alright, my past in Piggy is out of the way, let's get to cooking!

Los Pollos Hermanos (2022)

Oh, that is actually dreadful timing. Dear god.

Welp, here's Los Pollos Hermanos. I made this in my free time and it was going to be turned into the centerpiece of a showcase game. I lost confidence after I started to worry about the building's accuracy to the real-deal. Fun fact! I got banned because of this game. I thought it would be funny to set the game's icon to this, and it got me banned for a week.

Hey, remember my post about the Lounge and Riot? (2021-2022)

Left to right, a factory that would've been a backdrop for RIOT, a store that would've had an arena inside, a naked render, and some conference room that the game's owner told me he would finish (he never did)

McMc (2021)

McMc aged worse than the Lounge, a lot of stuff looks very off now and it's very messy in general. I'm actually glad RIOT's owner didn't add this to the game (either way I sent it to him and I'm still a little mad about that)

and so ends part 1 of the mega post. Thank you for joining me on my journey thus far, and I'll see you again when I post the continuation.

[yazuto]

hey guys welcome back to my "get banned from tumblr or vanish in obscurity" speedrun any% 2.0 (a.k.a. using the site again)

[djpaige]

It's got me thinking though...

How would that feel IN UNIVERSE? If you lived in the world of the movie, you're just minding your own business one day, scrolling on your phone endlessly in quarantine, you haven't left the house in months because fucking Covid... and then the reports start rolling in. At first you think it's a prank. You maybe heard about it on Tumblr that that one rich fuck was renting the Mona Lisa, and everyone on your dashboard was upset about that (and rightly so) because why should he be allowed to do that? Why would the Louvre even let him? Rich people are awful and they can just do whatever they want. But then the next terrible thing happened and you forgot about it.

Until one day you see that stupid Supernatural meme. Castiel, tearfully smiling: "I love you". And you scroll down. Dean, stoic: "Miles Braun destroyed the original Mona Lisa". Instantly you're on Google. You have to verify this. There's no way that's true. But the first few results are from reputable news sources. Just little bites for now. "Billionaire's home burns, destroying the Mona Lisa. This is a developing story." Oh shit, for real? Everyone's scrambling. Everyone's hoping and praying that it's not true. Surely the Louvre wouldn't be that stupid? There's no way they gave him the real one? Surely they sent a copy? The Louvre is silent. You can practically feel the public statement being written. It's a day or two before they say anything, because surely they had to spend all that time getting the wording exactly right. And then yeah... it's true. They rented him the real Mona Lisa. And it's gone now. And oh god, the variety of opinions start flooding in. "Oh my god, he burnt the most famous painting in the world???" "It's just a painting, it's not sacred or anything." "HELLO? Why would the Louvre even give him that???" But one thing's for sure, everyone is talking about this.

More details start pouring out from this incident. His house blew up because he was fueling it like the Hindenburg?? And also he murdered someone? You just saw that news report earlier that day. That one business lady from the widely televised lawsuits a few months ago? She turned up dead? And now it turns out that Miles Braun The Billionaire murdered her??? But hey, it turns out that he also murdered that one godawful MRA dude who got banned from Twitch? Two murders and he burnt the most famous painting in the world? Holy shit, is this guy speedrunning The Worst Human Ever?

And it hurts for a long long while. You see the Mona Lisa in a movie from years ago, and it just punches you in the gut. Wow, that's gone now. You see it as a print on someone's tote bag. Went up like the fucking Hindenberg, oh god. You hear that song on the radio, because it's jumped to the top of the charts. I can't believe that idiot murdered two people and destroyed the most famous painting in the world. And there's this feeling of bargaining, of denial, of anger (I mean, pick a stage of grief, any stage), because it's like the end of an era. Last week you could have dreamed of going to France and seeing that painting. But this week? That's done now. Everyone who will ever see the Mona Lisa has already seen it now. No one new will ever get to lay eyes on the original painting. The world you live in now is one where that painting does not exist anymore. You almost want to believe the conspiracies that the Louvre just sent him a copy, because it's just so tragic to think that it's really gone. But it is. It's gone because of Miles Fucking Braun.

The thing is, lawsuits for billionaires end up being... predictable. The guy is so rich that he could totally buy his way into house arrest even though several witnesses have come forward with evidence of the murders. He should go away for life without parole, but this is the kind of thing that the ultra-rich get away with. Except that now... now it feels personal. He can't keep a lawyer. Keeps trying to hire them, but... dude, the Mona Lisa. Every lawyer he tries to hire comes up against the same thing: endless threats and criticism because seriously, you're defending the guy who burnt the goddamn Mona Lisa?? The court has a hell of a time trying to pick a jury, because nobody can be impartial in this one. And though really, of the crimes he's committed, the painting is the least of them. But it feels the most personal. And in the end, because of how gutted everyone is about that painting, Mona Lisa ensures that Miles Braun goes away for two murders, and that his stupid fuel source will never see the light of day. Miles Braun goes to prison. Cassandra Brand is remembered as the true genius behind Alpha. Her sister starts a foundation in her name. Not really a happy ending, but justice has been served.

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And outside of the movie universe? When you're watching a movie about all of this, and you're left thinking at the end of it "Oh god, I really wish that wasn't the real Mona Lisa, isn't there some way that it could have been a fake so that it wasn't really burnt???"

That feeling is exactly why the plot works.

I've just about come to the conclusion that the reason a lot of analyses of Glass Onion are so desperate to invent a film where the painting that gets blown up in the final act is a fake is because they've internalised the idea that people who destroy art are Always Evil (No Exceptions), so their only options are a. to arrive at a reading of the film where Helen Brand is secretly the villain of the piece, or b. to construct a version of events where she never really destroys any art – and quite understandably, they opt for the second one!

Unfortunately, in constructing a scenario where Helen Brand never destroys any art, they're missing what the film is actually doing – namely, constructing a scenario in which it's morally justifiable to blow up the Mona Lisa.

[lovingfunthing]

So what's the speedrun global best top score for getting banned from tumblr for a nonproblematic reason (no cheating)

[asters-garden]

I posted 6,611 times in 2022

That's 5,118 more posts than 2021!

20 posts created (0%)

6,591 posts reblogged (100%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@altroquinine

@wlttebane

@wrightfamily

@elytrians

@dingdongyouarewrong

I tagged 529 of my posts in 2022

#princess tutu - 35 posts

#stupid shit - 27 posts

#important stuff - 14 posts

#fakir - 10 posts

#video killed the radio star - 10 posts

#digital art - 8 posts

#lmao - 8 posts

#unreality - 8 posts

#aster prattles - 7 posts

#princess tutu ahiru - 7 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#i went to a roman-german museum yesterday and was surprised when other people didn’t know the histories behind the different roman emperors

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Im watching the VOD for Albans 200K fanfiction stream and this really is “speedrun fulgur gets alban banned from YouTube”

albanned 2022: like and reblog for otouto<333

2 notes - Posted April 23, 2022

#4

Can’t believe I’m in Germany while my friends are waiting for the dream 2022 face reveal

I’m not even a dream stan I’m just annoyed I can’t see their reactions in live time

3 notes - Posted October 2, 2022

#3

I made a bag!!!

I can Into possession of a new tarot deck (cough cough from my birthday cough cough) and I didn’t have a bag to place the card and book Into so I made one!

I used overflow fabric from a friend and ribbons that were actually the perfect size at the end of the spool so that my project didn’t require me to purchase anything new!

4 notes - Posted August 4, 2022

#2

Me when my gf starts eel posting about the eel guy on eeltok finally adding the eels to his eel pond and she just starts screaming “EEL” 😍😍😍

8 notes - Posted June 15, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Here’s my (belated) secret Santa for @averagejoey2000

A Chex themed playlist! Hope you enjoy!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3BrmYCr1Da2imOFzjUf16w?si=mY4lV9HcS-eP2PmwFyy5xg

16 notes - Posted January 16, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

[tenshindon]

I can see your account fine

yeah like i said tumblr's just being a cock holster as per usual

[calhanx]

Please let me make a fansession with these dumbasses. Do you have Dream moons or even classpects?

nothing official yet since im still in the process of adding more socials to the mix but for now my very rough draft is

tumblr — prospit (page of life)

4chan — prospit (prince of hope)

twitter — derse (thief of heart)

tiktok — derse (bard of time)

reddit — prospit (seer of rage)

instagram — prospit (maid of space)

deviantart — derse (heir of void)

youtube — derse (knight of light)

as for my reasoning, pages tend to suffer from their aspect being taken from them or suffering from other people's manifestation of the PAGE's aspect. tavros's agency was always taken away by vriska. jake was everyones crush in the alpha kids group (one of hopes domain is sexuality and crushes. so its like they had hopes for jake) and it ended horribly. and horuss was often told off by meulin to keep a facade of smiles and politeness (voiding him even FURTHER). or whatever i dont remember much.

and yknow tumblr is like. why the hell does everyone think this site is dead? its cause twitter got most of the userbase when the porn ban happened. then BAM suddenly folks wanna get a piece of tumblr cause theyre all suffering under annoying billionaires (luxury is a domain of life, but can also be a source for doom).

as for 4chan. well ok im not familiar with 4chan but their vibes pretty similar to eridan so lets go with that.

twitter is a thief of heart because they always steal content from other sites (technically most sites do this) and its got a culture of being mean all the damn time even to earnest (heart) things. and i guess because of the short shelf life of tweets and trends, its impossible for most of its userbase to really make an identity? excpet for the influencers on there lol idk. so theres this lack of their aspect, which is a thing thieves go through and is something that causes them to always seek said aspect. still tentative!

tiktok is a bard of time because they invite destruction to time. they waste your time. they waste other peoples time. thats literally how its built. even its trends and culture make ME (personal opinion) go "why am i being subjected to this i dont care stop wasting my time". they dont last long either or at least dont stay relevant (to ME)

reddit. idk thats the place where smarty know it alls go. and yknow the challenge for seers is that they have to learn how to be wrong and EFFECTIVELY communicate with their teammates (kankri failed on both accounts. kept shitting on porrim. pre retcon rose failed on the latter because yknow alcoholism. retcon rose eeeeeh didnt really have a choice in improving herself on her own cause vriska did it for her but hey if it works it works i guess). if you make reddit into a person, seer feels like an appropriate class. also i picked rage for them because rage = truth. also lots of trolls on there, both in provoking rage through silly funnies, real life stories, real life but Insane stories, or legit fucked up stuff.

instagram is the maid of space because idk its vibes make me think porrim would like it. tentative idk much about it. all i know is that its very prospit-y because it requires the user to have a looot of grit to maintain their acc because of their shitty "post regularly" algorithm. at least from what i remember.

deviantart is heir of void because they are like equius. i think you get it. horses. sweat.

youtube is a knight of light because its culture revolves around its content creators! and yknow ccs gotta put up a front to entertain ya. its light because of its content! they literally need and breathe your attention. sometimes has educational stuff (knowledge) sometimes is just shitposts (attention) sometimes its really cool impressive stuff like speedrunning and gaming (victory/luck) sometimes its just funny challenges (success over goals). so putting all this together and makin a person out of it its like oh! theyre going to be sooooooo dysfunctional

anyway lots of this is still not finalized but feel free to do what ya want! socialstuck is free to share and im always glad to find folks makin stuff about it :]

[caiinu]

Getting banned on Tumblr speedrun starting: now

Old artfight art from 2020 which I surprisingly still like

[zoanzon]

[2024/11/6]

What’s my expertise worth? Whatever you want it to be worth.

Anyways, my immediate thoughts of ‘what you can do’, if wanting any direction or wanting to see what randos on your dash are recommending you do. In short: learn opsec/infosec, make sure you know how to garden or fix things, and start thinking now of what you want (or need) to back up off the web. I don’t know where to begin giving you tips on how to get out of the country fast, but: whether you can or can’t get out of America, you might want (or need) to learn some of this shit to make it through whatever the fuck is coming.

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(Otherwise, feel free to shoot me an Ask if you’re curious about what a tag means or if the wording is original/pulled from somewhere! Always down to explain in more detail!)

New Subject/Content Tags

Apparently I didn’t have a proper ‘matters of ongoing censorship’ tag. I do now: where they have burned books (they will end in burning human beings)

For if certain Supreme Court rulings occur For how to survive Roe. v Wade being overturned: abortion resources, reproductive choice resources, and bodily autonomy resources (crosstagged in case any of these words ends up on Tumblr’s ‘blocked tag’ list for, you know, “purely coincidental” reasons)  

for protesting tips, keeping one’s communication secure, practicing triple redundancy on info-storage (but not too private info on stuff like GDoc), and similar ways of covertly surviving a Big Data world: opsec matters

for information/web-usage sanitation (like VPNs), and for general knowledge-resources for communicating: tips and tricks and warnings (communications and infosec)

the human urge to glorify and worship stimulants: to vibrate like a tuning fork and see the shadow people

stitching, mending, and patchwork: a stitch in time saves nine

for talking (semi-)hard SF, from space SF to military SF: grognards talking tinkertech

Outdated ‘Current Events’ Tags

twitter implosion speedrun and the tailspin of reddit, devoted to the respective social media sites blowing up live (hopefully not in prophecy for tumblr itself...)

pride month, wrath month, and a particular recognition of the fight on all fronts as of mid-2023: it takes a certain type of wrath (to laurel oneself in pride against the fangs that aim to strike us down)

USA Abortion ban threat Roe. v Wade actively being overturned: the assault on roe v. wade (and what might come after)

Tumblr Blaze: tumblr has enabled PvP mode

about everyone walking off their jobs, and the impacts that are becoming known: the old normal is gone & the new normal is not yet certain (now is the time of taking your chances elsewhere)    

CW possibly being sold: brought to you by the CW (for how much longer?)    

Dec 2021 Tumblr Tag-Ban:  the age of [redacted]

[retrocontinuity]

in the beginning was the cursed word (jjk0 movie)

I have a preference for the bold adaptation, the bolder the better. (Unpopular opinion: between the two extremes, I'd rather an anime do something ambitious while deviating from its manga source material rather than slavishly translate a manga into animation). Jujutsu Kaisen 0 the movie is not a bold adaptation. In fact, in many ways, it's disappointingly faithful. There are some beautiful movie-original scenes: a long wordless sequence from the beginning of the movie as Yuta moves through his new morning routine before showing up for his first day at Jujutsu High, a sentimental juxtaposition of Getou and Gojou caught contemplating the sunset and their school day memories from two different empty rooms, wide-angle shots of all the jujutsu users fighting during the Night Parade battles. For the most part, however, almost everything you see in the JJK0 movie is from the manga, with almost the same pacing, framing, and dialogue.

But the last third of the JJK0 movie is something more interesting, perhaps something only possible with this specific canon: it is essentially a meta post from the MAPPA staff, an animated Tumblr post or Twitter thread, helping tie together the original prologue arc with the Gojou flashback arc to tell the themes they think are important.

(JJK0 spoilers below; some hinting at Shibuya Incident spoilers)

JJK0 was written before the rest of JJK, in fact as a completely separate standalone series, and you can tell. Reading it is like condensing a whole shounen series into four chapters and then shooting it straight into your veins. It has all the Akutami hallmarks, but the speedrun version. I've tweeted this before, but JJK often reads like Akutami accidentally falls into character moments, like he didn’t mean to create such strong characters and they are fighting his breakneck plot to express their Very Strong Feelings. JJK0 isn't this. The emotional beats of Yuta's development are calculated, each time meant to be the catharsis/denouement of the chapter’s plot, and, sometimes, underplayed. Movie!Yuta telling Getou that his use of Rika is "pure love", complete with a cherry blossom pink explosion of power that’s both magical girl and Dragon Ball Z, feels like the mic drop moment it was always meant to be. In the manga, it doesn’t even get a splash page.

The Night Parade is a shockingly generous conclusion to the prologue arc (though, at the time, Akutami didn’t know it was a prologue). Getou and his two-pronged attack on the foundation of the mainstream jujutsu society is the kind of conclusion you would normally save for a mid-story arc. I wonder if Akutami ever regretted using it so early, which may explain why there are technically two versions of the Night Parade story: the one told in the prologue arc and the one told in Gojou and Getou's flashback arc. In the prologue arc, the buildup is implied -- Getou had done something that resulted in him being thrown out by the "mainstream" jujutsu society and banned from the grounds of Jujutsu High, he rescues Mimiko and Nanako, Gojou and Getou both reference but never fully explain a deep friendship from their youth. In the flashback arc, it is the fallout that is implied -- you don’t ever see the events of the Night Parade, but you know what happens next, after Getou walks away.

The movie could have just stuck with a straightforward adaptation of just JJK0. But it can't help but be a tiny bundle of fanservice, for both fans of the manga and the anime series itself. You spend time with the Kyoto students the night of December 24, for example, and indulge in a Nanami fight sequence that for the manga fans is a bittersweet taste of the grand finale of the Shibuya Incident. MAPPA cannot help but hint that JJK0 isn't the whole story of Getou and Gojou, but it also doesn’t have the luxury of telling the whole flashback arc. Instead, JJK0 omits all but a brief snippet of the Riko Amanai story and doesn't mention Fushiguro Toji at all. It ends up focusing on just one moment between Getou and Gojou during their high school days, and in doing so, reframes the Gojou and Getou story for me entirely.

There are multiple levels of cursed speech in JJK0, and like Getou casting a veil on top of Ichiji’s veil during the haunted elementary school sequence, they cover each other, obscuring each other. The most basic of the veils is Inumaki Toge, who is born with cursed speech, so afraid to accidentally bind someone that he only talks in onigiri fillings. The next level is Rika, who curses Yuta with a promise of future engagement. Then, on top of that, is the truth of Okkotsu Yuta, that he binds Rika to him by ordering her not to leave him. This is a connection that Akutami articulates, even hits you over the head with. See, Panda says, he worried about you, because both of you curse others with your words. Yuta's lineage and immense jujutsu power even allow him to appropriate the Inumaki clan's technique. You only see it happen explicitly as so once, when Yuta speaks into a cursed megaphone at Getou. But hasn't he been weaving that technique the whole time with Rika?

And is there not one other distant relative of Michizane Sugawara, one other collector of impossible techniques and boundless cursed energy?

Why did Getou do what he did? What went wrong? The flashback arc in the manga shows this as a culmination of many things. He saw Riko Amanai die, a pawn to a power struggle she was helpless to prevent. His best friend Gojou, the most powerful man he knows, is unable to prevent her death. His best friend holds the body of a young girl in his arms and asks him, should we kill everyone here? Aren’t they responsible for this girl’s death? Say the word, and I’ll do it. No, he tells Gojou, no. Don’t kill thse people. This girl’s death will be enough to show there is something wrong with the jujutsu world. Change will come. But change does not come. Instead Getou watches Gojou rise and feels himself sink. He is killing himself to clean up for a world that doesn’t acknowledge his pain. What is the use of being the strongest, if it cannot prevent pain? Then, right when he is at the height of emotional vulnerability and exhaustion, they send him to the sticks. They show him two young girls, caught up in a struggle they are helpless to prevent. And he asks himself, shouldn’t I kill everyone here?

By cutting out Toji, by cutting out Riko Amanai, by not showing you when chronologically Getou rescues Mimiko and Nanako, the movie makes this conversation between Gojou and Getou the only association you have with Getou turning his back, literally, on the “proper” jujutsu world. Gojou’s words, in essence, become the cause of Getou’s fall. It is the final layer of cursed speech. Like Yuta and Rika, Getou and Gojou trade places. The one who is cursed and the one who bears that curse. They end up assuming the other's mantle. They cursed each other with their own high school idealism. Gojou ends up the protector of the weak, the one who is forced to apply reason and responsibility to his power and the power of his students. He becomes the righteous one. Meanwhile, Getou sloughs off moral responsibility, the idea of any black and white morality at all. There is only strength. The struggle for the peak. The struggle to become Gojou Satoru -- on heaven and on earth him alone.

It's likely that Akutami only made Gojou and Yuta distant relatives as a funny throwaway punchline, but I think the movie casts even this connection as another level of cursed speech. Yuta binds Rika to him and we are told it is a curse, but viewed in another light, that’s just love. To have and to hold, until even death cannot do us part. Getou and Gojou had a friendship, a kind of love, but in the end, wasn't it a curse? As he dies, Getou and Gojou exchange last words. "You should at least curse me at the end," Getou chides Gojou. But didn't Gojou? Hasn't he been cursing Getou the whole time, just like Yuta did with Rika? Their friendship, Gojou knows, is the biggest curse of them all. They are each other's one and only. It is because they were each other's best friends that this happened.

This is why Gojou says to Yuta at the end of JJK0 the manga and the movie that Yuta was not the reason Getou came back to Jujutsu High. Gojou was the last veil. Yuta couldn’t have known.  

In the world of Jujutsu Kaisen, last words are a curse, so much so that Nanami as he was dying worked hard to make sure his last words would not curse Yuji. But Getou and Gojou's last words to each other are not curses. They are about their past together, the time they shared and can never go back to. Nothing about the future. Getou doesn't ask anything more from Gojou. The future is none of his business. They have already cursed each other to their heart's content. Just like Yuta and Rika, they did it when they were young, when they bound each other with friendship. The largest, most twisted, most powerful curse of all. There is nothing left for either of them to say.

Akutami is at his best not when he is trying to tell you why something happened, but when he is showing you how we live the surprise consequences of our own actions. MAPPA understood that. Jujutsu Kaisen is not a story about solving mysteries. It’s about untying these questions of what makes us human, what actions we should take in the face of immense danger to ourselves and others, what it means to save someone and what it means to be responsible. It doesn't matter what ancient fingers were pulling our strings to bring us here. The point is that we are here. The point is not that Yuta is the descendant of Sugawara, but that Yuta has always bound his sense of self-worth and self-affirmation in other people, so that when Rika died, he bound her to him, and when his friends were going to die, he let himself be bound to Rika. The point is not how Rika became the Queen of Curses, but that when time came to call Yuta on his bargain, she cut him free. (The point is that Rika is Sukuna and Rika is Tsumiki.) The point is not how Itadori Yuji ended up strapped on the trolley tracks -- just that he is. The point is that, no matter who was behind it or how they were maneuvered, Megumi feels like he forced Yuji to curse himself and then asked for Yuji to keep living with that curse. The point is that Yuji doesn't feel that way, that he thinks he chose his own curse and chose to live through that curse, knowing it will mean he dies. (You know I will always come back to them.) The point is that, even though he himself is a sum of circumstances and choices beyond him, Gojou knows it's his own strength that caused Getou's equal and opposite reaction, forcing Getou into doing something so horrible that it left him vulnerable to becoming an unwitting vessel for an even larger horror. The point is that Getou took Gojou's words and marinated them until they bloomed like a cursed lotus in the mud of ordinary, everyday human evil. The point is that if none of these people met each other, they would be lesser people, but perhaps happier.

The point is that it is a horrible curse, to love a friend and wish they could stay alive and stay with you always, and to know they cannot.

Misc. Notes

Getting Megumi Ogata for the movie was a stroke of genius, not only because her voice is so good at conveying vulnerability, panic, and unhinged strength but also because it makes you realize how much of JJK0 is basically the first half of Evangelion TV and most of Eva 3.0+1.0. I completely forgot that even in the manga, the higher ups talk to prologue Gojou from behind folding screens. In the manga, it could just be an accident, but in the movie, when you see Gojou surrounded by faceless, nameless old men telling him what to do with Shin-- I mean, Yuuta, It's so SEELE-esque it almost toes the line of parody.

Do you think Gege realized that the 0 of JJK0 looks like a ring?

I am a Known SatoSugu anti so I have to say that the movie is the one time I actually felt one (1) feeling for these two. The sunset sequence is pure, unadulterated pandering, and the perspective Gojou not attacking Getou as Getou walks away from, painted in dark blues and grays to contrast the bright reds and oranges of their high school years, is an obvious but fantastic use of the animation medium to do something the manga couldn't. 100/10, absolutely no notes.

In the elementary school and the Hapina Shopping District, the veil once cast turns the environment inside the dome dark and overcast, almost night. But when the veil falls over Jujutsu High when Getou attacks, you can see it blocking the red orange of the sunset and turning the inside into greens and a sort of hazy, dusty daylight. What's going on?

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Hi I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is getting banned from my partners Tumblr ask box

Speedrunning i see

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going to start stealing jokes from tumblr to speedrun getting banned on facebook

[mermaidchan05]

How my apprentices use the internet

Inspired by headcanons from elsyrel and nabesthetics, which are both amazing and super fun! Modern AU, of course

Meleia

Mostly active on tumblr, and has a mostly-fandom blog but will occasionally post things she just finds cute. 

Has never done a face reveal. Will never do a face reveal. 

The world may not know what she looks like, but they sure know her favorite movies and why she loves them. 

Unironically loved that old Disney Pixie Hollow thing online and misses it. 

Posts the occaisonal drawing, mostly of fandom OC’s. 

More often puts up sewing and crafting tutorials, mostly for making little plushie friends. 

Does have a youtube channel, but it’s ancient and only holds old AMV’s she made in middle/high school.  

Has an instagram account purely because Asra talked her into it. Barely uses it, saves it for sharing her cosplays and cosplay tips. 

(Still never shows her face, tho). 

When she’s not putting up cosplay pictures, she’s putting up silly pics and videos of her rescue dog, Forge. He’s an absolutely adorable shiba mix and has a following all of his own now. 

Has, like, three very obscure fics from equally obscure fandoms on A03. 

Sometimes puts up very long, all-text-post movie reviews. 

Damian

Has a tumblr account, but mostly uses it to reblog his friends stuff and occasionally promote his streams. 

Streams on twitch and youtube. Mostly needlessly complicated pokemon challenges, but he will do other games as well. 

His youtube channel also hosts deep dives into game lore that really doesn’t need to be dived into, but he presents it in a fun way. 

(Kind of like a combo of Smallant and Lockstin & Gnoggin) 

He gets his friends in on the action whenever he can. 

Has made a vtuber for Meleia so she can join him in the occasinal stream or challenge. 

They did a co-op speedrun of Disney Princess Enchanted Journey together once. It’s basically become a meme. Meleia spouted way too many Disney Princess facts and Damian (platonically) loves her for it. 

Any hate and you are banned from his channel. 

His bat, Oswald, is the unofficial channel mascot. 

Doesn’t post any fanfic or anything, but absolutely has a few fics of very random pokemon ships bookmarked. 

There’s fan art of him in his “gay-mer” hoodie that he wears to stream a lot.   

Once posted an hour and a half long video essay on why Awakening is his favorite Fire Emblem game. 

Chimalus

Not a huge presence online but active enough

Mostly there to keep track of their friends’ shenanigans. 

Used to have a pintrest, but then realized how terrible pintrest was and deleted that real quick. 

Fairly active on tumblr. Has a twitter account purely to see what nonsense is happening there

Quiet but firm social advocate, posts a lot of helpful stuff for LGBTQ+ and the like 

Supper supportive and always compliments any art they like in the tags 

Sometimes posts their own art, which is mostly abstract stuff 

Has somehow become the Internet Mom Friend and does not know how this happened. 

Their sister got them on instagram. They only share pictures of their bird, Skye. Sometimes in cute little hats and scarves. 

Has giant essays on obscure mystery novels hidden on their tumblr somewhere. Is always surprised when people find them.