#i also dont know where i would want them to go with this. im gonna think on it

[guns-blazing]

im gonna throw up ummmm uyhh

nuance/other

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everyone in thge tags talking about how she needs to see axis as a person first ✅✅✅THANK YOU at the time the game ends she does not respect him even remotely and she needs to cut that out if she wants to have amny kind of relationship that isnt hostile.but since everyone seems to grasp that i'll instead just say that in a hypothetical post-canon they can work through their issues and like each other. and now i'll go on to how axis feels. which is:

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First let's looka t that Other Thing too! (im imagining this in the canon space that kanako and axis were friends pre-integrity. if you dont subscribe to that idea just imagine this post without kanako mentioned it might work with just chujin ok? ok) does axis call chujin his father and kanako his sister?

uh holy shit? probably not? which is not probably an entirely ok thing?

the ketsukanes are a very traditional nuclear family

axis is not supposed to be ALIVE. the robots are not meant to be SAPIENT.

if axis had even thought to bring up being family to chujin once he would have been shot down. and if axis had asked kanako. well. lets jusr say chujin's the guy that raised kanako. but axis has very strong feelings towards both of them, and chujin created him and they care about each other, axis should at least have the space to explore that maybe chujin is like his dad, maybe kanako is like his sister! he doesn't have to feel like they are because why would he??? he isn't a monster! he can do things his own way, he doesn't need to subscribe to monster things like having a family. they can just be "creator" and "creator's daughter." but i think he should at least be allowed to consider that they're family and i do not think he would and i question, even after the game ends and he's "free", if he would allow himself to consider that, or even be able to question that? because how would he learn about family if he can't leave the steamworks and none of the other robots have family? how would he think about kanako being his sister if he doesn't remember she exists? (canon, btw, if you arent privy to my me it's canon that axis can't remember people after a recharge unless he scans them in and he cannot scan kanako in since she's truelabbed.) how would he feel about chujin being his dad if he hasn't seen him for a long time and how would knowing he's dead affect that?

and now this loops back to CEROBA again but we've already ESTABLISHED they need to get to the point where she sees him as a person. i feel like most of this would come after the barrier is broken, and kanako is now open about the fact that she knows axis and used to be very close to him. and kanako and axis would unpack how they feel about each other and if they're "siblings" or want to stick with "close buddies" or "the man who made me also made this guy." i dont think neither ceroba nor axis would even consider the possibility of labelling each other as family unless that happened, axis because theres nobody who better fits the definition telling him so, ceroba because... i mean, chujin never brought axis up and when axis brings chujin up he never callls him his dad so why would she even consider her being a mom? and in the case that kanako and axis are actually Not close and Never met and Don't meet after the barrier breaks. well good luck ceroba+axis they're never exploring anything

and now actually taking a step back to look at ceroba and axis in isolation. what would being a mother to axis entail? what would axis being her son entail? they've never lived together (i mean i've seen a couple post-barrier interps where they live together on the surface but not a lot and i've never seen one i liked but that's besides the point), age isn't a meaningful descriptor you can apply to the robots but he's certainly not a child who needs taken care of, and a lot of the problems he has she probably can't take care of simply because she's not an engineer. the only thing she has to offer him is advice–he's not particularly clever, and somehow i doubt emotional intelligence was installed in him. ceroba has to process, like, everything wrong with her life herself, but whether that takes a year or five years or ten years, axis will have been sapient for about a year or five years or ten years, which is not a lot of time to have spent self-aware and he'd still need someone to help him understand how he feels. i think ceroba'd be good for that! i think they have a lot in common. they'd be skipping over the raising-an-child part, but i'm sure ceroba could still hassle him over leaving his room i mean charging station a mess, or help him file his robot-taxes, or comfort him after a messy breakup with guardener. likewise, he could insist on making breakfast in bed for her on her birthday... okay actually i was gonna list more examples but i'm too captivated by the idea of axis making ceroba breakfast-in-bed. however bad i'm imagining it going it would undoubtably be worse. i need to see that can someone make that please

which brings up the question, like the one i stated earlier with chujin and kanako: in that case, would axis and ceroba be familial? everything they can do for each other are also thigns a friend could do. does their relationship have to be mother-son? and

IDK. nuance/other

Ok I called axis (beta)ceroba’s “son she hates” on my beta uty talksprite post as a joke but that does remind me of smth im curious abt

Timeframe for when they would start doing it if u answer the first two can be as long as u want it to be. Just as long as u believe at some point in time post uty canon they would likely do it

[metukika]

i wish this fic would write itself

[bf-rally]

2 guys dialogue in, 2 more to go!

[officialrapunzelfitzherbert]

in a very weird position where friends my age are starting to get married and i am close enough to be invited but not enough to be in the wedding party which i am cool with except for the only ppl i know who would be there Are in the wedding party which makes me. not super wanna be there lmao

[the-kneesbees]

uggh I'm gonna cry

[bee-ina-boat]

idk if this is an autistic thing or whatever but oh my god why is writing so HARd? like, im afraid of constantly implying things other than what they mean

"does this sound like im demonizing mental illness?"

"what if this makes it seem like i think the answer to struggling with mental health is suicide?"

"what if this relationship comes off as toxic,"

"does this seem like x character is trying to fix y? what if it reads like x is being manipulated to try and help y?"

"did i accidentally give x a savior complex?"

"does y come off as an abuser just because they did bad things out of desperation? what if giving y a happy ending ends up feeling like abuser sympathizing?"

"how do i make y's character arc without it feeling like they suddenly realized something obvious and were fixed magically"

writing is hard

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

While we're here, I just want to add an example of a good response to Harris' video.

In the first half of the video, Harris briefly mentions a creator called Lukeypoo (who now goes by Luke Stephens) who had plagiarised Harris' Bloodborne review, and his response at the time was to deny it, signal to his alt right buddies and insult Harris.

After the video came out, Luke Stephens made a post on his community page regarding it:

For those, who can't see the screenshots, it reads:

A video went up on YouTube last night that showed something I did 6 years ago in early 2017, of which I'm very ashamed. I've talked about it on stream plenty since then and try to be very open about it, but I know a lot of people haven't been watching me since 2017 or have not heard me discuss this before. I don't want to hide from my mistakes or deflect, so very plainly here's what happened:

I was just starting on YouTube and I ripped off a phenomenal video on Bloodborne. It was a fantastic video by hbomberguy and after finding it through a Reddit post I tried to take his 1.5 hour masterpiece and make my own suckier version at around 7 minutes. I copied the premise, jokes, structure, and then pretended like it was all just a coincidence that they were so similar. I was a 19 year old idiot who thought it didn't matter because "he's a bigger creator so it's fine" and "it's just the internet." When I was rightly called out for copying his video I dodged, lied, and even attacked and insulted the appearance of those holding me to account, including hbomberguy himself. I copied someone's video, in parts word-for-word, and I pretended like *I* was the victim and *they* were being unreasonable. Unbelievable. There is no question at all: I was in the wrong, fully.

Let me be very clear: I whole heartedly disown who I was back then and what I did. Politically, religiously, and even morally/ethically I was a person that I hate today. I was an extremist, a bully, a religious zealot, and above all, a prick. This event sparked a spiral in my personal life that I didn't document online, but that has led me to who I am today. Someone who tries very hard to respect my fellow creators, audience, and to uphold a high ethical standard for myself. I strive every day to be a better man for myself, my family and kids, and for the community around me. And that's why I'm writing this, because I don't think we should hide from our mistakes or pretend they didn't happen. I screwed up, big time, and I stole the hard work of an incredibly talented creator and for that I'm incredibly sorry. I was 19, hard headed, and above all arrogant and unwilling to acknowledge I had screwed up. It took a couple years after that before I could openly admit what I had actually done, and that it took that long is all the more shameful.

I don't expect a response or certainly forgiveness, but for what it's worth, I am truly sorry for everything, @hbomberguy

For the last 6 years I've been working my butt off to be someone I can be proud of being and I hope you all can see that the man I am today is not the shameful excuse of a person I was back then.

I've never watched a video or stream by Luke Stephens so I can't attest as to his content, but this is one of the best responses I've seen to any kind of accusation, and so I lean towards believing him to be a better man than he was six years.

I thinks it's important to highlight the good response/s to Harris' video, to remind ourselves that plagiarism is not such an immoral action that from which you can't redeem yourself (though in Somerton's case, I'm less sure of that) if you take accountability for your actions, and to remember that in most cases, we should give people space to grow and become better.

The swiftness and brutality of Hbomberguy’s complete evisceration of James Somerton’s career cannot be overstated.

[irradiatepositivity]

("european who can hop on a cheap train and pass thru 3 different countries without a passport on a day trip to get some coffee and who gets several weeks of legally mandated paid vacation a year" voice) god i cant believe most americans have never left the country. it must be because they are stupid and lazy and uninterested in visiting other countries :/

[evenmorecrows]

ramblings about my rook ahead.

i think the longer his and lucanis' relationship goes on, and the more he learns (typically inadvertently) about how lucanis was raised by caterina, the more it disturbs him. faust, having embodied 'if it sucks, hit da bricks', would start to fantasize abt living with lucanis away from all of this crow business and danger and violence as he learns more about what being a crow Really means and not just the public face they put on, but he's also not stupid. he knows treviso is very, very important to lucanis, and his family is important to him, and the crows as an organization is important to him. not only that, but to ask that of him, he's feels he too would have to be willing to leave his work with the shadow dragons behind and... he doesnt know if he could do that.

and i think faust would have a lot of reluctance at bringing any of these complicated feelings up. partly due to him feeling like its not 'his place' to. i mean, who is he to tell lucanis that actually this is all very fucked up when lucanis doesn't seem to think that way? but it still deeply bothers him. plus he worries that maybe his own experience clouds his judgement, considering faust ran away from his (adoptive) family closing in on his 16th birthday and has been no contact since. he knew his adoptive parents didn't truly want him, struggled with loving him the way parents should love their children, and does that make a difference? is it... somehow better that caterina loves lucanis? in truth that thought just makes faust sick. not to mention faust knows now, at least on the physical side of things, he never had it as bad as lucanis did growing up. nowhere near.

ultimately faust just wants lucanis to be happy, warm, safe, loved. when he realizes the grip theyre all in? the cycles that, in that grip, might require perpetuating? (if they ever had children, either adopted or surrogate, would those children become part of house dellamorte? would they get tortured to become crows as well? faust would love to have children with lucanis, he deeply desires to, but... he doesnt think he could ever stomach letting his own children go through that. like i literally think faust would be more likely to run away with the child, even if it meant leaving lucanis behind, if putting the child through crow training was the only option. it would break him. possibly irreparably. but he could not stand by and allow anything like that to happen to his own child.) and that he doesnt know how he could ever even get lucanis out of it? if hed have the right to? god

i think lucanis catches on to something bothering faust as it builds, but i think neve catches it first. which is necessary for faust to be able to properly put all his feelings into words. way easier to talk through it with neve than lucanis himself, at least as faust is still reckoning with it himself.

[cinnabeat]

augh english version of tcf novel is going to release soon...............i know theyre gonna call him alver.......must prepare myself for the psychic damage

[jackass-jones]

Had a very bad day Gotta eat gravel

[arolesbianism]

Sorry for failing to post more than once every 3 am anyways more stalien icons 👍

[sleepii-moth]

the fact that fnaf after everything with its creator still has adult fans and is getting new merch, games, and other things made for it is wild to me. regardless of how you feel about death of the author or whatever, the new fnaf content that is being made is getting less and less coherent plot wise and the gameplay is getting repetitive. From an objective standpoint i think that the first fnaf game was never meant to be what the series became. As someone who has a general knowledge of how games are made, especially when it comes to narrative driven games, it was clearly meant to simply be a gameplay focused horror game with a little story thrown in to give some cool backstory and add some mystery, and then maybe there'd be a few more games in the series that expand on the mechanics and elaborate on the story a bit but its pretty reasonable to assume that the story of the game was meant to be mostly up for interpretation and that as a series, it wouldnt be too long. Unfortunately though, it ended up gaining fame and people reading more into it which definitely contributed to the series being what it is now (and also yknow.. money is another reason.) It sort of ended up having a certain Supernatural (tm) effect where it kept getting worse but people still watched it which i guess answers my question of why people still like it (because people arent willing to let things they like go even if theyre bad) but that is an unfulfilling answer to me and theres definitely a more fulfilling one

so im wondering now.. are people (not counting kids for a reason) who still like fnaf holding onto the series because they liked the concept (of animatronics, a sprawling mystery, and other things) and have never found or heard of other things that share those same concepts? Or is it really just simply holding onto things that are nostalgic to them? Im genuinely curious because i have been into things that just got bad because they went for too long or tried to do convoluted things with the story that i just moved on from. I still remember when i was younger i watched supernatural with my sibling, and did really enjoy it, we got pretty late in the show before my sibling told me they thought it was getting worse and didnt want to watch it anymore. Of course as a kid who didn't really even know how to tell if a form of entertainment was bad, i was a little upset and didnt understand why but agreed anyway. And so we stopped watching supernatural and watched other things together like steven universe that we ended up liking way more. Occasionally there would be tv show or anime that just ended up sucking and from then on we just stopped watching it and watched something else.

I think the reason i fully stopped liking fnaf was partly that i recognized the content i was watching for it (like lets plays or theory videos) were getting worse and i also just grew out of it? As the years went on i got into other games like half life or portal that had way more fulfilling stories to me that i enjoyed a lot more so fnaf just became something i didnt care about. fnaf is like the cracker barrel of video games to me, i went there as a kid because other people liked it so i was supposed to also like it and mostly really liked it because it was restaurant food and to a kid thats better than anything you get at home (and also they have little toys), and then one day when i was older and had gone to more different places i sat down, ate my food, and thought "wow this is bad actually," and never ate there again. And all of that is to say i really do wonder if the majority of adult fans of fnaf still like it because its one of the few games theyve engaged with in their life, and that if they were to expand their palette, try new things, and look back on their interests, then theyd be able to more easily accept its (and its creators) problems and move on from it as purely a thing of their past. because i promise you, there are better things out there, not everything is cracker barrel or supernatural, theres genres youve never even heard of, games that no one knows about waiting to be played, theres the sprawling mysteries of Outer Wilds, the gut wrenching horror of Devotion, the captivating characters of Psychonauts, the expansive world building of Half Life, there are so many better things out there made by better people. Letting go of something doesnt hurt as much when you have more things to enjoy. There are better things out there, you just have to stop looking in the same place.

[salemlunaa]

"OH WELL, IM NOT GONNA BE HERE FOR LONG, IM GONNA SHIFT ANYWAY" girl...

let's break down why this mindset, although very common, isn't super healthy...

I saw a post earlier where op talks about how they are un phased about all the bad things happening to them because they "won't be here for much longer”, which is so real and it honestly made me laugh so hard but, i must admit, this way of thinking can also have an unhealthy side.

I, personally, have also been victim to this mindset, and honestly i can tell you nothing good comes from thinking like this. You experience something bad, hurtful, embarrassing, slightly traumatic (which, bear in mind, you wouldn't have experienced if you hadn't procrastinated and tapped in to the void) and you tell yourself "it's okay, i'm not here for long anyway", you abandon responsibilities (that, again, wouldn't be your responsibility if you would ve stayed disciplined and tapped in) and you tell yourself "it's fine, i'm gonna shift anyway" "i'm probably gonna get into the void tonight so it doesn't matter"

NO NO and NO

of course it's good to have the mindset of knowing, knowing that it's your last day here and knowing that the void is the only outcome for you, because that type of thinking is what allows you to shift consciousness and tap in to the void, but a lot of you say that shit without even properly applying your knowledge, a lot of you are gonna remain sounding like broken records, repeating this shit for years, i swear it will be 2028 and yall will still be saying "it's okay i won't be here for long", "im gonna shift anyway"

don't wait for shit to hit the fan for you to get serious about your desires, don't wait for your circumstances to get horrible for you to finally fix up and actually do something. If you really knew you were a god, you wouldn't be here reading this, you would be as pretty as you wanna be, and as rich and happy as you wanna be enjoying your dream life. Don't fall into a comfortable routine with your current reality, (which is really just your old story) because it's not worth it. I even see you guys making and scripting for a "better current reality" (another excuse to remain comfortable with procrastination), when you could have your DREAM life, you guys get swept up in your old story, just because it can be "alright" sometimes. And then when something bad happens, you repeat the same phrase "oh well, i'm gonna shift anyway", and then when things go back to being "alright", you get comfortable again, further procrastinating, when you could have ANYTHING. Who cares about your "alright", "mediocre" reality when you could have the best and more!!

like girl, don't stay comfortable until you're forced to get uncomfortable with a negative change in circumstances. You should be determined to shift consciousness ALL THE TIME, not just when things get tough or responsibilities pile up. Because again, if you had that consistent mindset you wouldn't be here.

get uncomfortable with what you have to achieve what you want, so that all you want becomes all you have

GET UNCOMFORTABLE NOW SO YOU CAN LIVE COMFORTABLY FOR ETERNITY, DONT WAIT FOR SHIT TO HIT THE FAN ᥫ᭡💋

[custardtartsfan]

Jason Todd head canons that have accumulated over time

many thoughts about the boy constantly rattle around my brain and i would like to share them ദ്ദി(ᵔᗜᵔ) nothing hanky panky ish for i do not like to think about that

general bullshit ᝰ.ᐟ

he doesnt trust modern technology. he has a Motorola razr. no he will not upgrade, stop asking

has VERY messy hand writing. straight chicken scratch. barley legible

smoked during his late teens (post resurrection period, he was going through it). tried quitting in his early twenties, he bought a menthol flavour geek bar but threw it out cause Roy made fun of him

it wasnt even one of the cool ones with a screen. smh

he has a weird nostalgic affection for the thrift

it reminds him of being a kid, in the rare moments that his mother was sober enough to take him somewhere. and it was nice, his mom was conscious, all was well

and he could get whatever he wanted! he wanted a toy? sure bud, its only a dollar. why the hell not?

he recently walked into a Goodwill and damn near burst an artery when he looked at the tag on a pair of pants. it was NOT like this back in his day

his hair is like wavy, like not curly but wavy. however, he has no idea how to really care for it. shits dry is what im saying

i think hes very competitive about stupid shit

not like he gets pissy about mario kart, he will race you to see who can fold their socks the fastest

largest of the batfam. vertically and horizontally. hes a beefy dude. a brick shithouse

i think hes also the kind of dude that needs to know someone very well before he could consider dating them. id even go as far to say hes somewhere on the aro spectrum

i think he has a very high spice tolerance. like youll pry his siracha out of his cold re-dead hands. he LOVES African curry (yes this one is based off me) thats like his perfect kind of spice

back to his hatred of technology, he collects cds to listen to instead of streaming

he has one of those hip disk players with the headphones. Red Hood has been seen with a walkman

also hates tv, but will watch the news willingly. he will sit down and watch Wolf Blitzer of his own accord

romantic (୨୧• ꒳ •)=:♡

remember when i said he has the handwriting of an 18 month old toddler? yea well thats a little unfortunate cause he LOVES leaving notes for his lover. when he has to slip out the window for a job in the middle of the night, he writes a little note - “had to take care of something, be back soon. with bagels. love, Jay :)” but its written so janky his lover is spending the whole time hes gone trying to decipher it

dont tell him that though, he might cry

hes not a talker particularly. words tend to come out wrong in his experience. instead, he likes gifts acts of service to show you he cares

shopping with him and youre eying a particular top for a while? guess what’s mysteriously appeared in your laundry basket

lowq doesn’t have motion though..soo it might have been Bruce card. but honestly? money is money who gaf

what he occasionally lacks in funds he makes up for in willingness to let you do whatever you want to him

he will waddle after you in sephora, freaking out the occasional employee cause holy FUCK who invited the punisher, letting you swatch whatever you want on his hand

if you’re concerned about the milk in the fridge being yuck, give it to him to taste. he’ll let you know

there is no mountain to high, no dubious forgotten leftover too unhappy looking

cannot cook for SHIT. but he loves to eat

he will mention wanting food and stare at you longingly until you go to the kitchen

hes not gonna be playing fortnite while you’re cooking though, he can chop stuff. you may not want him within 50 feet of a place where food is prepared but he will offer

bless his heart

runs hot like a furnace. probably because hes a large meaty boy

he will grumble like a pensioner when you tuck yourself into his chest at night when its cold, but we both know damn well hes gonna be giggling and kicking his steel toed boots when he tells Roy about it later

he had pretty mixed, strewing negative opinions, about his little white tuft of hair at the front. hes tried cutting it, it grew back the same. he bought box dye, it doesnt take. so hes stuck with it. and he cant say hes happy about it

until you came along, all full of love and life, telling him you loved it. you though it framed his face perfectly and suited him great. you and your fancy affection fuck you

(he was cheesing for hours)

okay lets get sad now

hes got BADD anxiety about hurting you without meaning to. its a reasonable concern, hes a big dude. and these hands dont do a lot of cradling as a rule, more beating heads in

he needs to be reassured, but would rather roll around in broken glass then swim in lemonade than let that be known. hes more of a stare at you until you sooth him

he likes to be kissed and cuddled and cared for. so what? hes only incredibly ashamed. it doesnt matter how many times you re iterate that he has no reason to be, hes a stubborn bitch

thats all ive got! i hope you enjoyed reading my real time jason todd related word association. most of these were typed in a fury on the mobile web app on the subway so..if the formatting is yucky thats up to god (-.-;)y-~~~

[peanutheaddd]

Hi! For ur swap au, how does Petey propose to dm? I could see dm beating him to it lmao

I LOVE BEING CRAAAZZYYYYYYYYY but this is about what i think it would go like HEEHHHH HAAAHHHHHH HAHAHAAAAHHHH IM SOO CRAZZYYYYYYYYYYYYY YAYYYYYY

oops got too excited and posted before i could finsih writing extra deets.

in my head theyre not rlly the type to do surprise proposals . like where they propose without ever talking about marriage or if theyre ready. so theyve alr talked about it all . the only mystery was when exactly eithier of them would pop the question

i also dont really think theyd make a big deal out of it . esp since dm is a more private person and he keeps to himself . petey Knows this so hes not gonna do something super extra and elaborate even if a part of him kinda wants to . there is lwk also some projection on my part bc ion rlly like the idea of huge elaborate fancy proposals . i get their appeal . js not my cup of tea . so in my head the proposal just happens on some random day when theyre js chilling at home or smth .