#i generally keep off the internet as a whole a lot more and deleting my account on that site was one of the best things ive done for myself

[princessrosalina]

delete your twitters

[thanatoast250]

Every piece of Bloomacncheez has slowly disappeared off the internet. YouTube, Wikia, etc. They’re entitled to their privacy but I’m just curious if they’re okay. Did they finish college? Did they reach their dreams of working in animation? Things I think about some time.

Hey there, Anon

Bloo's DeviantArt is still up along with her Tumblr pages (main and art here) and Twitter, but if she has started using social media again, it isn't under her BMNC moniker.

Her main YouTube page has been down for quite a long time due to some old Copyright issues. This was way back in the old day when Viacom and Universal were hellbent on striking anything and everything that had semblance of their properties, and her page got hit with a bunch of issues from her old parodies. She and I tried to fix it a long time ago but once College time got around, we were both just so busy that we didn't end up getting around to it.

Her Wikia page was deleted because I didn't feel comfortable with how it had been used in the past. When I found out that it existed, I was super excited because it was something I could have worked on and just been a nice thing for her. But I also found out that people were using it to allegedly stalk her; since Wikia/Fandom pages can be edited by anyone, there were anonymous users using it to talk about how she disappeared and how they "found her" and were "watching from the shadows". It was super creepy and I started to clean it up, making the whole wiki nice and pretty and cleaning out as much as I could that would lead people to trying to stalk her or The Classy Peanuts. I became the Content Administrator, so I had full rule over what would and would not be posted, and I made several pages about her, her parodies, characters, and the many people that were either working on or going to work on the stuff (including one for myself that I was going to finish up last).

But the longer I worked on it the more I felt like something was off, and considering Wikia/Fandom doesn't like it when Wikias/Fandom pages are made about IRL people, I reached out and asked a moderator/developer about whether the work I was doing was safe or not, since I didn't want to put either her or any of the other Classy Peanuts (or really anyone) in danger of stalkers and the like. He told me that if that Wikia/Fandom were made today, it would likely be shut down for precisely the reasons/concerns that I had, even though Bloo didn't ever post anything about her IRL life outside of her birthday (I knew about a little bit more about her life, but I never shared any of it, obviously) and there wasn't going to be anything about her or the Peanuts' IRL lives on there. So that being said, I figured that the safest course of action would be to delete the Wikia/Fandom. I have all of the pages downloaded/archived on my computers in the chance that I ever get back in contact with Bloo or one of the Peanuts reaches out to me and says it's okay, but as it stands, the Fandom is down and will not be returning for their safety and respect. So I personally apologize for that.

However, I was informed that I could probably make a page for her on Wikitubia (I think that's what it was called?) because her page has over 10k subscribers, which is the minimum requirement for having a page. I was told that Fandom has more moderation that would help with keeping people from stalking her or posting irrelevant or personal information. It's currently in my ever-growing list of projects, but it'll be up eventually. Probably.

As for the rest of your questions, I can't say. The last time I talked with Bloo was when she was still in college, but she was trying very hard to stay focused and buckle down for everything. There were parts of our interactions and conversations that gave me concerns for her. She was under a lot of stress, and her taking a break from Tumblr (and online in general) was a good thing for her. She was in her final year of college the last time I spoke to her, so I imagine that she did graduate. A lot of her courses and focuses were in Illustration, and she was phenomenal at it, so I like to think that she ended up working what she wanted to. She's a strong person, so I like to believe that she overcame the stresses she was under and did achieve her dreams. At the end of the day, though, I can't give you any direct confirmations though; the last time we talked was back in 2015 or 2016, and her email closed due to inactivity a couple years ago.

The only other people that I can think of that would be able to help you or anyone else more than that are the other Classy Peanuts who knew her IRL because they lived near her and hung out all the time. But the last time I talked to one of the Peanuts they just told me, quote, "if we don't share details about our lives with the public/internet, it means we don't want anyone knowing". Granted, I wasn't exactly level-headed when I asked about it; the last couple conversations I had with Bloo had me concerned for her safety and health, so I was kind of a wreck and very pushy with this person. It's definitely a conversation I could have handled better, though I suppose there's not much I can do about it now.

I think about BMNC a lot, too. I think about all conversations we had, all the times before then where we helped each other get through hardship, all the silly back-and-forths in the early hours on weekdays despite us having classes in the morning, all those fun times. They're good memories and help me keep going when I'm feeling crummy. I still send her Happy Birthday messages on her DA and Tumblr in the off chance she sees them.

I'm sorry I can't be of more help, though. I wish I had more answers for you and all of the people that come to me about it. I don't mind answering questions, I just feel bad that I can't give good and satisfying answers to them.

[just-a-carrot]

Hey! Just a heads up, I'm sending this to multiple people, since I wanna get as many different viewpoints on this as I can. I hope this doesn't bother you. Also, this is pretty long.

So, I have a question about gamedev, but more on the marketing/presence side.

Most gamedevs I know, even hobbyist ones, keep their accounts relatively professional. Sure, they may shitpost here and there, but it's mostly in relation to their games, the gamedev sphere in general, or very general inoffensive stuff. And, most importantly, I've seldom seen my favorite gamedevs (or any of my favorite internet personalities, for that matter) comment on random videos unrelated to what type of content they usually post.

All of my social media accounts are quite unprofessional. I've also had them for a long time, so there are a few things on my digital footprint that I'd rather people not see. I also, for lack of a better way of explaining, watch and read random shit and like to leave comments on it sometimes.

I feel like, I were to become a gamedev, I wouldn't be able to do that anymore. I'd have to treat my internet presence as its own balancing act, rather than a place for me to express myself unabashedly. I know this is working under the assumption that I would get big and that people would give a damn about me, but there is always the off chance of that happening. Of a random game you make suddenly blowing up because it hit the algorithm just right. So it's better to be prepared. And even if I don't get that big boom in popularity, I still plan to at least make games consistently enough to build a community of their own. Nothing like, huge, but I really enjoy the idea of people enjoying my work and sharing that enjoyment with others. But I don't want that to cross over into my personal life!

I know that's not an impossible feat, but I feel like it kind of destroys the purpose of the internet for me. To me, it's always been a safe space where I could express myself and easily connect with people with similar viewpoints, but I am now coming to odds with this concept as I consider how I want to become a gamedev.

There's also the side note that I don't wanna rebrand. At least not completely. I don't mind cleaning up my accounts or deleting some old ones, but I've grown very attached to being "Quamai". I can't imagine myself having any other online identity, even if there are some cringy moments attached to it.

So, do you have any advice for my situation? How did you personally go about your own online image, and what do you think is the best course of action?

Thank you in advance!

oh gosh what a question ldkjfadl

hmmmm

putting this under a cut because it got long and rambly lakdfa

for me personally i don't think i've ever made that many "right" choices when it comes to how i handle my online presence in game dev, it was mostly just me doing what seemed like the right thing to do at the time. it's also changed a lot all throughout my time as a dev

tho i guess the main thing is that i did create a whole new game dev online identity, so to speak, when i first got into game dev. this wasn't really due to any purposeful thought put into it though and was more just because 1) i didn't really have much online identity anyway at the time and 2) in the beginning i was trying to be more "professional" LOL

when i released easter, i did it without any presence at all. i had no accounts or anything. i literally just finished the game and threw it up on itch and gamejolt using the new studio name i had come up with based on an inside work joke. it wasn't until i started to get a few people talking about the game or linking to it/making vids that i was like hmmm i should have a twitter maybe LOL so like a week later i made a twitter. but i barely posted on it, it was just responding to other people. a year later when i released the 2.0 update i also made a few posts. then thought i might start using it more so started posting just a few random updates of new stuff i was trying out/working on (this was when i made my first couple of posts about early OW stuff)

but then when i shifted out of game dev again for a while, i abandoned it

it wasn't until august of 2021 that i began actively using my account again to post production updates for work on ow. but back then i was a lot more "emotionless" for lack of a better word. like i approached it in a more no-nonsense way than i do today. i also never got that much response from it either, usually lucky to get like 2 or 3 likes on stuff 🤣 over the course of that first year or so though i would change a lot in how i handled my online stuff, acting much more like myself, interacting a lot more with people, and getting increasingly more unhinged(???) LOL perhaps because i'd begun to see that being "super professional" when i'm just a little random person making a game all by myself there's no reason to be so stiff (and it's just much more fun and genuine to not be afraid to be myself and be a bit silly). over this time was also when i'd shift away from using my studio name and just taking the "carrot" identity. because i realized i didn't like people thinking about me as an impersonal studio and wanted to just be me, carrot, interacting with people, making games, and getting unhinged about my chars and stories

is this the right way to do it???? i have no idea. but perhaps since i never have any aspirations of grandeur and don't plan to be any kind of business, it's fine for me. and while it's true that i don't like to post, reblog, interact with, content unrelated to my games or other VN stuff, that's mostly because i don't want to annoy people who i know only follow me for game stuff (i worry about annoying people a lot, actually, it might be one of the core foundations for how i handle myself online LMAO). i don't have any other presence online though. once i started my game dev stuff, carrot became me, and it's all that's out there. so it's not like i need to "separate" anything. but also i'm not a very avid user of social media in general so it's not like i have an active desire to have different accounts so i can tweet about or comment on other stuff lakdjfasd i'm an old socially anxious duck who gets mentally exhausted just scrolling my feed. i don't need to spend any more time online than i already do with my game dev stuff hahaha. i do know some other devs though for instance that have private accounts on twitter just for their friends and more personal thoughts. so that's always an option too

as for what you should do in your own situation with your own online presence, i'm not really sure, as it all comes down to what you want. for me, since i didn't have much presence anyway, and because i wanted my game dev stuff to be its own thing, it made sense for me to create a new presence just for game dev (that eventually evolved into my entire self LKDJFAS). so it's hard for me to say what would be the best course of action if you already have an online presence that forms a core part of your identity that you don't want to lose. it also depends on what you want to eventually do with your games and if you see yourself really wanting to pursue it actively and make it a big part of your life. most devs that i know do have "game dev" presences for lack of a better word, where if you go to their accounts, it's just for game dev. or they create studios and studio accounts. i think no matter what you decide to do, even if you keep the name the same, it would probably be best to at least keep your game dev stuff separate, because people could potentially be put off from following an account for games but then their feed gets filled with a lot of non-game stuff from you that they don't care about

no matter what you decide to do though, i recommend being yourself no matter what. whether you keep with your same identity or craft a new game dev only one, still do what feels right for you on that account and be yourself and have fun with it!! game dev can already be such an isolating and hard experience, so creating a space where you can be silly and have fun with other devs and fun with your chars and ideas can really help so much to give you motivation and just enjoy your time creating games!!!

(sorry if this was a complete ramble that didn't even still fully answer the question; i can only speak from my own personal experiences that i went through after all and i don't really have any good or professional answers since i also have no idea what i'm doing most of the time 🤣)

[vylad243]

Honestly with the way the Goethals act in general it could be safe to say most of them go down the line of “Anyone I perceive as lower than me I treat like shit” with a few accepting members like Stolas

But speaking of Stolas, if you feel more comfortable going off of what is canon, then maybe the idea could spin off of him? We know him to be respectful and to have enough pull to get meetings with a Sin so it wouldn’t be too far off to say Ozzy asked Stolas to check out the hotel to sponsor it. Maybe during introductions he only bows to Lucifer, the Sins, and Vox and everyone is confused?

Just spitballing with the other anons idea! Whatever you go with will be amazing regardless!

Also just a small question cause I’m curious of what you have planned but how many prompts are you planning on writing/is in your Que? I have like a shit ton of prompts in my inbox and need filtering advice if you’re willing 😭

I am the goddess of fucking around and finding out

I don't mind canon or going off canon. My Alastor and Vox are very ooc after all, but I know the fandom tends to hold Helluva Boss in a higher standard. I never really liked it that much. I've watched it- but I'm Striker. Why does everything gotta be a sex thing? The two season finales were my favourite of Helluva Boss, which ironically included little to no Stolas

I could definitely see Stella and her brother treating the sinners and overlords are faith on their shoes while Stolas and Octavia hold the sins and Vox in higher regard

Ozzie would definitely be pulling the strings to get Stolas to visit the Hazbin Hotel if I go that route.

I like working off of your guy's ideas. It's very fun and helps me world build 🙏

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Ahahaha my ask box is also full of different prompts. I have omega-verse, the Vee's joining the battle, and injured Alastor are three I can name off the top of my head (because I'm writing them right now) but I think I have like 10 or 11 in there. One is also a beauty and the beast ay which I'm mulling over

As for how I filter them out- prompts are things I want to be able to enjoy writing. Some of my prompts have been quite large- and while I don't mind the large ones, it gives me a lot less freedom with them because I feel like I have to rewrite a whole story that was just in the my box. I never deleted any, though. I just put them in their in tag just in case I feel like writing them later- but ones I am writing right now/want to write sit in my box so I can shuffle through them. It keeps it organized

I haven't encountered any rude people yet- so I haven't had to reject anyone for demanding things from me (which like I'm always ready for a debate on the internet, I find them funny) and with how nice everyone is, I usually feel bad for denying them. It's way I take so long to deny people. I want to make sure this is actually something I don't plan on writing in the near future

My way to filter out prompts is

- I need creative freedom to write so I don't feel miserable writing. This is one of the main ones. My brain is very hectic and I find myself tapping out if I can't bring my own ideas to the table. It's also why none of my works are exactly like the prompts im given

- I have enough context to write a fic on it

- I would actually enjoy writing it

- it's a world/au I'm aware of or contributed to. Nothing is worse than being handed a fully built universe and being asked to write for it with little to no explanation on how the universe works

- the people are nice to me.

- I know I make a few jokes here and there, but I like to keep in mind that I'm making free work for people. I'm not being paid to do this, and people aren't paying me to write out the prompts. I love writing fanfiction and it's a great hobby, but if you're genuinely just not interested in doing something- you don't have too. Writing it meant to be fun and inspiration is a fickle thing. You don't want to push it too hard or it's going to shove back. I've learnt that the hard way

- bonus way to do it- sometimes people leave comments, and I find them funny, and I get creative with them. I censored a whole chapter of month in rut because someone told me to let the characters swear. I'm also a very petty person

This is just personal, but I keep my prompts 1k-3.5k words just so it's decently sized, but not overly large

Hope this helps!

[femconstellation]

I know how you feel about trans women (I’m not here to debate upon that, you’re entitled to your opinions) but how do you feel about trans men? Asking because while I don’t agree with terf ideology I want to know more about it (I like knowing the opinions of people I disagree with because being informed is important!)

Feel free to delete/not interact with this ask, i don’t mind!

Hi, thank you for the v respectful ask!

I actually am of the opinion that a lot of the trans children are mistaking/having their feelings of not fitting into gender stereotypes as being trans, and that quite a few trans adults are the same way. And while I usually do refer to trans-identified males in general when im talking about the fetishizing of lesbianism/being a woman, i dont think every TiM is doing it to fetish being female or a lesbian (…but there’s quite a lot and every TiM adult I’ve met is like that). I have sympathy for young trans people who were convinced that disliking their sex = changing their gender. But I don’t have sympathy for the TiMs that say that ‘feeling like a lesbian’ or ‘feeling like they like women the way lesbians do’ is the reason they transitioned. Or say that their whole gender identity is based on VERY sexist stereotypes about women. Or the ones who straight up admit to transitioning because they think being a woman is a feeling and not something I am literally oppressed for being.

And trans men specifically - I say this as someone who former identified as nonbinary for a while, and dipped into transmasc territory. And I also have many currently-trans men or formerly-trans men friends, so it’s something I’ve witnessed as well. A lot of the things they describe as gender dysphoria — literally the effects of misogyny or fatphobia or racism. (but mostly misogyny since it directly relates to sex — but i think it is very important to mention that fatphobia and racism are both things i have witnessed being part of the reason.)

I thought i was nonbinary because I was uncomfortable with how I was viewed as a woman. The way my friends treated me for being a woman despite them mostly being female. The way any male friends I had acted towards me. And while I knew being nonbinary didn’t change how society acted towards me, I felt like I distanced myself from that misogyny. In my head, they were now silly for calling me misogynistic things because haha, I’m not a woman!

And I’ve seen this with my friends too. Friends who go through sexual trauma, discomfort with the constant sexualization of their body, male harassment, etc. tend to lean into identifying away from being a woman because they’re at least partially aware that being a woman is related to the shit that happened to them and the treatment they get.

What’s crazy is how online, if you say you like being ‘masculine’ or ‘gnc’. Or if you say you hate your breasts. Or if you say you hate being a woman. You’re called an egg and THAT side of the internet convinces you you’re trans when 99% of the time, you’re just dealing with the effects of misogyny.

So in short I think most trans men are just females who are dealing with the effects of misogyny and shit in their life and think being a man is the solution when a LOT of them would do better if they had a mental health support system that went through trying to sort out that internalized misogyny before immediately jumping to hormones. But also I don’t think lesser of TiF for that; I just think they’re better off getting support that isn’t hormones first.

Idek. I worked 14 hours today and I am tired. 😭😭 I hope this makes sense.

Also irl I don’t ‘misgender’ (use he/him pronouns for TiMs, she/her for TiF) trans people. I don’t harass trans people irl. I keep my opinions to myself irl. I just let them out on here 🌝

[ririretry]

A Brand Freaking New Year

My mom told me and my brother that we have to come up with some New Year's resolutions by the end of the week. I haven't started thinking about it, which is totally fine.

"It's only Wednesday," she says with no idea with what she wants her resolutions to be.

I'm not one that believes in New Year's resolutions. I used to, but then sometime, somewhere, someone on the internet told me that they're unsustainable. MAKES TOTAL SENSE! I agree! We write down a bunch of fluff that we think we can tackle by the end of the year, and by the 3rd week, we give up. That and my favorite argument that I always used was the whole, "why do you need one day to define your whole year" thing. Like, someone can make goals at any day of the year, why does it have to be January 1st - "if you really wanted to reach your goal, you'd start right now." And yeah, I get all of the sentiment. I understand. We're all little weak-minded individuals that need instant change and gratitude and can't handle the necessary means that it takes to set goals, fulfill them, and continue trudging through a generally sucky world.

But, here I am! About to write down some resolutions. I really think that I can do it this year. Looking back, I did do a few things on my vIsiOn BoaRd considering I looked at that thing once. It was very pretty.

ANyway. On with it

1. Reestablish healthy levels of dopamine

My only issue is my phone consumption and automatically, my social media consumption. THROUGH the roof. Embarrassingly too high. Makes me sick, frustrated, and unruly. I hate going on my phone, but I literally cannot help it. It really do be an addiction, so I'm gonna do whatever it takes to actually not be obsessed with my phone. Starting rn!! Timers to Snapchat and Youtube were set. I deleted Instagram off my phone because that's honestly an easier one to delete. Twitter and Instagram are still on my laptop, and I'm gonna keep that because I'm easily less likely to go on my laptop to scroll on the media. I also don't watch Youtube on my laptop that much?

2. Become my own best friend

Haha! I hate myself! Nothing new, but I’ve been slowly becoming my own friend again. Not yelling at myself all the time - allowing myself to make mistakes - not expecting perfection - not invalidating my own feelings - trying to build my own confidence again - being sure of my words and self even if I’m unsure, being sure of my uncertainty..... A lot. Yanno maybe take myself out on dates and make time for me. I just want to trust myself again, and be my own friend. I deserve that level of respect and love to myself especially if I provide that for my friends. 

3. Invest in my hobbies, skills, and interests

With my newly established dopamine, I will also make more times for things that matter in my life such as: painting, drawing, guitar, bass, podcasting, writing on here perhaps, etc.. This goes hand in hand with my first resolution, so hopefully this comes naturally. I am a little nervous because I have neglected these things before as I’ve gone on this journey multiple times. I am going to have to figure out how I’m going to allot time to these things. These things require effort, and being on my phone did not. I’m naturally a tired person, but maybe that was my phone. I dunno! We will SEE!

4. Create meaningful relationships

I haven’t been the type to maintain friendships. I’ve gotten better. I have three solid lifetime friendships, which is more than most people can say and I’m so endlessly grateful for them. I have 4-6 solid good friends, which is also awesome, and a bunch of acquaintances that easily could be great friends had I put a little more effort. I’m not looking for more friends because I am very content with the people that I have, but I do want to make every interaction I have with someone meaningful and positive. This requires a little more effort in reaching out, keeping and making plans, and establishing a solid friendship even if it doesn’t last forever. I say this mostly because I’ve closed myself off to people - mostly unintentional, and I want to understand others more. 

5. Mind, body, soul

Journal/Read, exercise/eat healthy, pray

Seems self explanatory, I’m pretty decent at like 1.5 of them. Praying is gonna be tough, but I do want to appreciate it more. But that want must turn into action, so I will pray. Maybe just listen at first, which I have done, but seriously like. It’s another outlet. I love my religion and what it stands for, so I should make time. 

6. Understand my career better

 Side quest, but a very important side quest. I wanna know what I might get into. How to do it. What can I do to understand it, so I wanna take a lot of time to really dig in and invest in my future. 

FINGERS CROSSED FOR NEW HORIZONS

[chromegnomes]

I'm gonna delete this post later, but thought I'd put out a general Last Call in case any of my followers/mutuals wanted to join the beta reader group for my WIP series The Skeleton King over in the Wyngspan Labs discord.

Here's a temporary link to the PDF of the teaser I sent the existing group; it's about 6500 words long, and is a pretty good sample of what the rest will be like.

If you're interested, I'll put the Q&A I wrote for the beta readers below a Read More here, so you can know what you'd be getting into:

WHAT IS SKELETON KING?

Skeleton King is a novel* that I (Ross) have been writing on and off for over 10 years now, which began as a comedy serial I was writing for my college's writing club. This current iteration is the 4th draft.

*As of this draft, Skeleton King is no longer one novel, but a series of 5 short novels/novellas, each of which is stylized as an "Act" of a 5-act Shakespearean tragedy. This 5-act structure was present in the 2020 draft, but I hadn't yet accepted that it should probably be split into separate volumes.

CAN I READ THE PREVIOUS DRAFTS?

I'll probably post snippets from the 2020 draft when they become relevant, or if it would be funny to do so. The others will be buried with me.

WHAT IS A "SUB-ACT"?

Skeleton King riffs on story structure pretty explicitly throughout. Each book in the series is an "Act," but each book also has a traditional Act structure within it; most have 3 acts, one has 2, and one has 5. I'm not sure what to call these colloquially, because "chapter" feels insufficient but "act" is confusing. IMO it's easier to understand within the books themselves, because they're labeled like "Act I-1, Act I-2, Act I-3; Act II-1," etc

SO WHAT'S THIS BOOK ABOUT ANYWAY?

Coming up with a good elevator pitch for this book is literally the hardest part, and I'll be seeking guidance on that. On the surface, it's a coming-of-age road trip dramedy about four very strange high school boys, set in 2010, that gradually becomes a supernatural action-comedy; under the hood, it's an unhinged post-post-ironic Story About Stories that is trying to do way too much at once, but that information overload is, itself, one of the most important themes.

WHAT ARE THE MAIN INFLUENCES?

I think listing some of the books that have left the biggest impact on SK's style/tone will be helpful for giving people a yardstick to judge if it's accomplishing its goals. This list is incomplete, and in no particular order:

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams • Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke • House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski • A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville • Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood • Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett • A whole lot of books by Ursula K LeGuin • A whole lot of books by Kurt Vonnegut

If you put all of those books in a blender and then reassembled them into a love/hate letter addressed to the ghosts of Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung, you would get Skeleton King.

WHAT ARE YOU HOPING TO GET OUT OF THIS?

• Motivation to finally finish the series, because I work best when I have an audience • Knowledge of what's working and what isn't, so please be honest about how you react to things, good or bad • A first pass at sensitivity reading. Due to its setting, race, class, and queerness come up a decent amount in these books; I am trying to be thoughtful in how I address these subjects, but if I overstep, I'd much rather be cautioned/corrected by readers I trust before the wider internet gets their hands on it. • The ego boost of watching a scene/joke land as I intended it to • The all-important unspoken corrective of watching a scene/joke I thought would hit flop instead

IS THIS "ROSCOE WATSON" GUY SUPPOSED TO BE YOU?

Roscoe is neither a self-insert nor not a self-insert, but a secret third thing. It's complicated, keep reading.

The most I'll say is that a lot of his interests and mannerisms are based on a teenage me, but his life and upbringing are very different from mine.

THIS IS A HOMESTUCK THING, ISN'T IT?

I only read Homestuck very recently, and did so because people who read earlier drafts of Skeleton King kept pointing out the existing similarities to me. I would like to think that Skeleton King is less obnoxious than Homestuck, but both are definitely engaged in a similar kind of metatextual ADHD maximalism.

DO YOU ACTUALLY LIKE ON THE ROAD?

No.

[enneamage]

if this is too off topic for your blog feel free to delete - but it’s been on my mind lately contemplating why more dsmp fans don’t watch ludwig. hear me out. i feel like he’s such a great transitional link to get these people who got initially joined twitch/interested in watching streamers because of dsmp to explore outside of the minecraft bubble. he has been for me, at least. i feel like he’s such a natural entertainer with innovative content (chess boxing, subathon, mogul mail, live mogul money, etc.) but most of all it feels very digestible. the only dsmp i still consistently watch now is wilbur and jack if that puts any of this into perspective lol. not sure if you even watch him but thought i’d throw this out there anyways because i love your takes/analysis!

This is kind of a big topic because it deals with the ways that viewers do and don’t transfer over from watching streamers. I winged an answer, but as usual the Twitch/Youtube sphere is still mostly out of my depth :p. While I fully believe that Ludwig is good at what he does, I think he caters to and relates to his audience in a different way (cismen) than what would appeal to what the majority of DSMP fans want out of a stream.

Back when the balls incident hit Ludwig expressed confusion that anyone from the MCYT twitter sphere was talking about him because he himself knows that the gap between the audiences is pretty big. My thinking at the time was that the DSMP sphere kind of sees the Ludwig-and-co group of streamers as distant family, we don’t hear too much firsthand but if he gets publicly naked or arrested it will trickle down the pipeline. From outside looking in it seems that uncle Ludwig doesn’t want to see us outside of holidays and funerals and most of his following feels the same, and I think that’s where I’ll start, because the DSMP fanbase is sensitive to recognising when they’re unwanted. 

In the new wave of boundary culture, most fans want to feel like it’s possible to be in the good graces of their CC. Most of the DSMP culture is rooted in transformative fandom or at least what gets called ‘stan culture’ nowadays (that term has been watered all the way down to mean next to nothing) so it’s understood that they’re just not welcome to do as they’re inclined. I’m sure people go ahead and set up camp anyway, but you have to position yourself as counter to the creators wishes and the subculture itself if you want to enjoy that content in a way, and I think this round of MCYT blew up so big because the way that this style of fandom likes to move and interact was accepted instead of shunned. What’s left is people who are resistant to shame, which can be a lot of fun if you’re with the right people, but it’s more niche.

Not being able to commit to a streamer when watching livestreams is also an issue. There’s only so many hours in a day and it’s hard to half-ass an attachment to someone who takes that much time and attention to keep up with, so if someone or something else suits a viewer better, it makes sense for them to go to that person instead. I asked a friend and apparently some Dream Team people have crossover with his sphere which makes sense with the through-line of gamer-boyishness, so there us some audience overlap to keep people in the loop, but he’s far from one-size-fits-all for the whole fandom. 

The question left to ask is do people really want to ‘explore what Twitch has to offer.’ I ventured out of my bubble once while following a lead and I quickly found myself among demons, because some of Twitch is the whale bones of deep internet boysclub gamer-ish culture. There is a profound sketchiness in some of these spaces that DSMP fans generally don’t tolerate, and in that sense they’ve been a force for good on Twitch, but it makes them allergic to certain people who also don’t like them back.

I don’t have the clearest sense of everything that Twitch (or live Youtube) has to offer, but my sense is that’s true for most people. It looks like streamer careers are made on the back of external referrals from other websites (and by extension peers), so once you get into a social circle there’s not much hopping around. You made an unlikely leap from SBI-ish to hitting the luddy, so it might seem more feasible from your point of view, but the venn diagram overlap of appeal will vary over the general ‘DSMP fandom.'

I don’t think digestibility was ever as much of an issue as baseline appeal. Availability of content is half the battle, but people have to want what you’re selling to really stick to or bond with an audience. Ludwig isn’t hurting for viewership by any stretch so he’s finding the people that gel with him, but when I think of the DSMP fandom I think of primarily personality-driven content (and fandom engagement) that’s taken on a very particular post-2020 flavor, and that doesn’t seem to directly translate into what Ludwig does even if it's in the neighborhood.

[ardently-queer]

I got a variation of that comment a couple days ago on a fic I started writing in I think early 2020 and it's like beloved fellow denizen of the internet four years is not old. You don't have to apologise I love that you enjoyed this so much you wanted to tell me about it, especially specifically and at length do you know how GOOD that feels?

Writers with published books from the fuckin seventies still like getting fan mail about how those books made a reader feel because it's not about how relevant and immediate the comment is it's like, each time there's a new reader who comments that's a new person the story reached and touched somehow and that's really kind of beautiful?

AO3 isn't a forum. There's no interaction rules like no necro-ing topics, either specifically written or unspoken, because it's not a forum, that's not how it works. Your comments are a combination of a letter directly to the author (which is why you should still be polite and not an ass because like, yeah, we see all of it, there's a real person on the other end) and like if there were pages in books at the end of each chapter where each new reader could tell the next readers who came after them how that chapter made them feel. There's no time limit on any of that.

Just realising while writing this that my meds are wearing off which is PROBABLY why I'm made of feelings and ramble and oh god I can't remember synonyms for this but like. Yeah. If something you read, saw, watched, listened to, anything, made you feel good or helped you realise things about yourself or changed your perspective a little or provided you some catharsis and you have the chance to tell the creator and you want to? TELL THAT CREATOR. If you feel like sending hate mail you really probably shouldn't because that's asshole behaviour, that comes under if you have nothing nice to say then say nothing (this is about unsolicited criticism and hatemail not 'hey what the fuck this is really transphobic' or similar but honestly like even then, sticking that in the comments section of something on AO3 is honestly, there's not a whole lot of point like it's not wrong to want to tell someone that but it doesn't tend to DO anything useful it's honestly generally better to just kind of take a screenshot and chuck it in a friend's DMs and be like hey look at this bullshit i scrolled past while looking for something else because a cathartic bitchfest about it is honestly gonna do more for you than sending a rage directly to the author who will more than likely just delete it and if they don't they're gonna a: reply and probably not kindly and then freeze your comment thread or b: leave your comment thread open specifically so that every other reader who reads it and doesn't agree with you will tell you so, for ever, in your inbox, for ever. zero point even if you're justified in your distaste.)... But the flipside of that is like. If you do have something nice to say. SAY IT. PUT NICE THINGS INTO THE WORLD. LET GO OF THE IDEA THAT BEING EARNESTLY ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THINGS YOU LOVE IS CRINGE.

and to be very very clear like. yes. This absolutely applies to erotic art, writing etc like this isn't just a rose-tinted view of how you should do because I'm a naive asexual, sex negative or something, or based on my place in the section of AO3 where we write entire plotted-out novels with thought given to themes and writing mechanics out of love, spite, sheer nerdy fixation or a combination of the above.

In the cases of NSFW media, the creator will often specify in an author's note or similar what their boundaries are for the kinda comments they're comfortable receiving. Just because someone drew or wrote something ridiculously hot doesn't mean they want to hear about how many times you jacked off to it because being an artist, author etc of erotic media does not imply consent to anything beyond 'i wrote/drew/otherwise made a thing for people to read/look at/watch/listen to' like, do keep boundaries in mind and don't be a creep but. if someone wrote lovingly crafted erotica of many thousands of words you can tell them you thought it was hot and thank them for sharing it. if someone spent hours and potentially art materials painting something gloriously pornographic and you love it you can tell them that too. It's the same as with any other media: you are not entitled to a conversation with the creator, they don't owe you a response or reciprocation or even space in their comments section if you're being creepy or otherwise kind of an ass. But if you enjoyed it, they put work into it and shared it with the internet often for free and you can and should tell them that you like their work. And if they DO have a note saying they're cool with it, like, yeah, if you found it hot and ran out of vibrator batteries or lube or cramped your hand like there are people who are absolutely gonna love hearing that from you because that's also about how their work affected you and IF IT'S SOMETHING THEY'RE COOL WITH that's gratifying for an artist to hear.

thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines of "it's probably weird to comment on a fic this old--" no it isn't!!!! this is an archive I am literally just assuming you searched for a selection of specific tags or sorted by kudos or looked back on my pseud or any other number of completely normal ways to use an archive site ?? kill the tiktok ghost in your brain and comment on old stuff it's NOT weird

[grievedeeply]

Hey can I make a request with Emma from the quarry where her subscribers find out that she’s dating the reader? Thanks

this is a really cute idea :) decided to make this headcanons so i can explore it a little more. thanks for requesting and i hope you enjoy!

gn!reader | no tws

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emma mountebank's subscribers found out she's dating you

you've shown up in a few of emma's videos before, usually brief things that don't really reveal a lot about your relationship with her. the internet thinks you're friends, and that was that

eventually, she asks you how you feel about her telling her subscribers about your relationship. it might take a bit of time on your part for you to be willing but she makes a video about it

she won't ever force you into telling them about your relationship with her if you aren't ready. she understands and she won't push you into anything if you aren't comfortable with it

her video is only a few minutes long and it's titled something really simple like 'announcement' or 'important'

she's tempted to go all out for the video but she doesn't want to go too far with the reveal, so she decided to make it short and straight to the point

she tells her subscribers you're together and you're in the video for a few moments, smiling and nodding at the camera as she talks

she knows some of her fans have a crush on her, but she doesn't care. she doesn't know them and it doesn't matter to her if they're upset by it or not. it's her life and she loves you

most people are so sweet. the two of you already had people shipping you even before the video dropped so they're so excited for you both

people leave sweet comments for you and emma, telling you both how cute you are and how proud they are of you. it's really heartwarming, especially because you were worried about how they would react

there would be some people hating on you specifically, but emma deletes those comments as soon as she sees them. she doesn't have the time nor the energy to deal with people like that

she doesn't want you seeing it and thinking of yourself and lesser because of people on the internet

she would be content without her subscribers knowing, but it makes her happy that you're willing to let her share her journey with you— with them

she gives them updates on you all the time, and people have cute little pages dedicated to your relationship and to you in general. you get a lot of support from them

emma is very reassuring about the whole process and makes sure you know that it's okay to back out if you want to keep it quiet for any reason

she loves you and she wants you to be as comfortable as she can make you, online or off <3

[books-and-catears]

Hey! I love your writing and I was wondering if you could do the Brothers (+now datables if you can) reacting to a teen!MC that's like a sibling to them being bothered by someone over text? I'm 14 and recently there's been this guy that won't stop texting me, asking me to be his girlfriend and asking for...other things. Anyways, it's getting annoying and I tried blocking him but he made other accounts, so I just told my parents. It's alright if you don't do this, thanks anyways! Have a great day!

Oh my god. That boy needs to be reported ASAP. I'm glad you told your parents, little one. Hope they took action and you're safe. These sort of people are just ugh. Hope he isn't bothering you anymore?

And don't worry, the demo brothers would definitely protect you and take drastic measures against him.

The Demon brothers protecting Teen!MC

You were sitting in the living room with everybody else. Lucifer was near the fireplace doing some left over paperwork. Mammon and Asmo were arguing about who looked better in the magazine covers. Levi was enthusiastically telling Satan why light novels based on anime can also classify as literature. Beel was happily munching some new treats Luke had made while Belphie snoozed in his lap.

Diavolo and Simeon were listening to Solomon's adventures in the human world. Barbatos and Luke were talking about recipe.

You were smiling to yourself at the calm chaos around you as you surfed the internet when that brat messaged you again. "UGH LEAVE ME ALONE!" you groaned in annoyance as you deleted the messages and blocked the sender. The brothers all looked at you in suprise and worry.

"Is something the matter, MC?"

Sighing, you tell them your situation. And then chaos ensues.

Lucifer

The audacity of that ill-mannered little trout. He'll surely have to discipline him.

"Give me his number MC."

"Are you going to call and threaten him?"

"No I just need to track his location and pay him a visit. In my true form."

Legit pin drop silence from that end now. Like he never even existed.

Count on Lucifer to scare him off existence in general.

Mammon

Who dare keep annoying his human like that-

"Oi MC show me his face!"

"What are you planning?"

"I'm going to make sure he has nothing bad luck for the whole week."

From losing his wallet twice, dropping his phone on his face and then getting constantly attacked by crows at random points of the day, you were convinced he'd learnt his lesson.

Noone messes with you under Mammon's care anymore.

Leviathan

Noone treats his best friend like that without dire consequences.

"Give me his account names."

"Are you going to hack them?"

"Oh hacking is most harmless thing on my mind. What follows is going to be so much more fun. Just you wait MC."

Next thing you know, the annoying guy is a meme now. All the texts and everything were outed on his on account as he did them himself and was proud of it.

Levi's skills of internet audience management are no less than Asmo's.

Satan

Someone surely has the nerve to harass a human who's looked over by the Avatar of Wrath himself? This will be fun.

"How would you like me to torture him, MC?"

"Um..."

"Don't worry it will only be a nightmare. His worst one yet."

Oh Satan was very true to his word. He's now your guardian demon of sorts. Anyone who messes with you has deadly nightmares.

You got a hundred scared apology texts before his account vanished off the grid.

Asmodeus

Oh he's dealt with this so many times. Leave this to Asmo, honey.

"He's on social media right?"

"Yeah but what are you going to do?"

"Call him out of course. Nothing is more horrifying public shaming."

Your messages are flooded with comforting messages while that brat gets his accounts suspended for harassment.

Asmo is the master of social life, you're well protected from brats online.

Beelzebub

Isn't MC only 14? They are too young and they shouldn't be dealing with this.

"I'm going to eat him."

"Um, Beel-"

"Fine I'll just eat his phone then. And a bunch of other stuff."

This became a huge urban legend in the human world where if you harass a minor a deathly wild animal will come hunting for you.

Of course Beel doesn't know that, he's just happy you're safe.

Belphegor

Why can't humans just sleep instead of doing disgsuting stuff like this? See this is exactly he wanted to doom humanity. Well now atleast he can doom one problematic human.

"Beel let's go."

"You both are going together?"

"Two demons are better than one."

Yeah so the legend says the sleep paralysis demon doesn't just stand at the corner of your bed anymore.

Do tell him the next time another brat like this tries to annoy you. He'll happily take care of it.

Solomon

Ah these kind of humans ruin the reputation for the rest of us. So pathetic.

"I have a simple solution for this."

"Somehow I doubt that."

"No really all I'm going to do is curse his phone."

Yeah his cursed his phone alright. And every other phone he ever came to possess. Any text with bad intentions would turn into silly memes or unreadable typos.

Aw isn't Solomon a sweetheart?

Simeon and Luke

Sigh. See this is why y'all can't make it up to the Celestial realm.

"He needs a divine intervention."

"Like what?"

"You'll see."

He became one of those jokes on the internet where the people send wrong things to the wrong people. Whatever he was texting you went to his family group chat. All of it.

Simeon is pretty sneaky for someone who is bad with technology. Oh wait that was Luke. Still sneaky.

Diavolo and Barbatos

A problematic human, you say? Don't worry we're used to a lots of them.

"Ah just let us know who is he is we'll take care of him."

"You both have eerily big smiles on your faces."

"Nothing we are just going have a fun trip on Earth."

They drag him down to tell to personally apologize to you. In handcuffs, chains and everything. The demon way.

What else were you expecting from the crown Prince of Hell?

[kimchokejin]

this is about me/my blog i guess

howdy! 🤠 thanks for stopping by. this is a bts hate blog. i reblog a lot of gif sets, memes, text posts, etc. and talk too much in the tags. i don’t really make things aside from what’s already here

most of my personal info is already in my description so i’m honestly not sure what to say lol. i have tag game stuff and posts that resonated with me if you’re just trying to get a ~vibe~ but if you want to know more about me for some reason, feel free to message! sometimes i can take a long time to respond but i do like to talk to people! especially about bts or just music in general

believe it or not i am an adult 😬 so just in case i would like to ask that minors don’t follow/interact. sometimes i say things on here that i don’t think i should say in front of minors and i don’t want to put anyone here (including myself) in an uncomfortable position. thank you for understanding!

also just a heads up that i am white if that informs your decision of whether or not or how to interact. if you are white and reading this and have never heard of white supremacy culture (which is so much more prevalent and sinister than i think a lot of us realize), please check out this website (that blew my mind tbh and i’m just not sure how many people have seen this masterpiece?) and let’s talk about it 😊

ummm this was my result for my bts personality quiz that i am still embarrassed about yet still trying to improve. as you can see i project onto taekook a LOT luv u babes <3

ummmm i also made a bts song ranker

THAT’S_MY_(a few months ago)_OPINIOOOOOOON.gif

a long, unrequested, incomplete but occasionally updated list of things i will NEVER shut up about:

disaster libra jimin

rm drunk tweets

hobi’s (alleged) joints

tae’s espn

jin’s masochism

expensive girl namjoon interviewing pharrell for rolling stone knowing in the back of his mind that expensive girl exists and will never be deleted from the internet

yoongi being THAT fucking funny and no one noticing

namjoon never having some goddamn peace and quiet…ever.

vmin in the rm studio tour vlive

foreheard jin

feral tae

fluffy blonde jimin (my greatest weakness)

jin’s shoulders

namjoon spoiling everything

hobi’s frog doll with the tiny penis

namjoon. like just look at him i'm sorry

jungkook making fun of rrrrap monsta in the year 2021 namtaekook making fun of jimin's dance move in save me in the year 2022

daydream hobi SHORT HAIRED HOBI MORE MV HOSEOK YTC IN BUSAN HOBI

“let the beat in”

alt boy gen z icon jk

happy yoongi :)

lachimolala/carobonara (still)

tae in the glass case (and namjoon’s face)

tae having “just one bite” (and namjoon’s face)

jimin shy dancing

jin setting off fireworks in the morning

vmin sticker betrayal

rm putting rap monster as his legal name

rm insisting his sweatshirt is on right side out when the pockets were literally inside

rm not knowing they’re live

the spanking game

j-hope’s “keep one rolled” shirt J-HOPE’S CONDOM SHIRT

but also the whole keep one rolled/legalize it/heroin trifecta

when rm asked bts what food they liked in america that they couldn’t get in korea

jinmin fart skit

rm saying wow to yoongi’s butt

bts trying to cheat on taped run episodes

jungkook getting caught taking jimin’s tissue

tae pretending to get drunk off a water bottle?

anpanman 180524 (rip namjoon)

“oh hyuuuuung” *finger guns*

SHE SAID SHE SAID SHE SAID SHE’S FROM HAWAII

tata mic

“yeah baby i’m nervous!”

namjoon learning and growing over time <3

the lies behind your eyes fake love cover

the bwl dance set to juice by lizzo

this picture of 2seok

the memetic capabilities of the tragically overlooked bts hybe-sanctioned animated fanfiction universe story app

[wittyno]

I am a lawyer and THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE. Go talk to a copyright lawyer if you need help.

1) yeah it’s legally a grey area and courts, as they stand, don’t really look like they are going to side with the fanfiction authors of the world. One of the ways Ao3 keeps itself out of legal trouble is by not allowing monetization, because making money of of copyrighted material is one of the quickest way to get it taken down and sued.

2) Ao3 knows how to do math. The real problem aren’t the Anne Rices or George RR Martins of the world. While they do have a lot of money for legal counsel Ao3 probably (I’m guessing) has enough to defend against them. The real problems are the Disneys of the world. Who have money to burn. Which means they can fight a legal battle for as long as they want without batting an eye. Also Martin relies on his fans to buy his next book. Some of the most ardent of which write and read fanfiction. Disney couldn’t give less of a shit about pissing off fans because they’ve got the rest of the public by the short hairs. So many casual fans will watch whatever Disney puts out that pissing off fanfiction writers won’t be as a big deal. Plus their annual revenue is just so much higher than an individual author.

3) fanfiction is weird. It is one of my greatest loves. I think it is a truly human expression of love and says wonderful things about humanity. However, it’s fucking weird. While the public perception of fanfiction has improved a lot. When I was in Highschool ten years ago no one said they read fanfiction. It was just not done. Remember that post of someone‘s friend asking them if they read fanfiction and they looked then dead in the eye and said no. While having a ton of fanfiction tabs open on their phone. That was the general vibe. Now there are more depictions of it and some are even positive but the overall vibe is till „that’s weird“

4) one of ao3s main goals is stability. Because the internet moves so fast it’s easier to forget that fanfiction internet used to be the Wild West. The whole motto was „move fast break things“ so many archives popped up and ended with tons of drama and infighting. With someone deleting all the fanfics without notice. Ao3 has a program where they port over old inactive archives. To preserve the art.

5) it’s also an archive. Archives don’t work if they are shut down. They cease to do the archiving, which is what it sets out to do. It’s about preservation out creative output.

do you ever wish it *was* allowed to monetize fanfiction? obviously i know all the otw rules about not and stuff and why but it just seems ... unfair, i suppose?

[standard disclaimer that I am not a lawyer and this is as far from legal advice as it gets]

The OTW / AO3 does not allow monetization on their site. This is for two reasons:

1) the legality of it is still somewhat unsettled in the USA where OTW is based and 2) (my conjecture), the people who started it wanted a place that was not part of the capitalist ecosphere

However, the OTW having this stance doesn't mean that's just the way things are. Lots of spaces outside of AO3 monetize fanfic. It's a robust tradition in some areas of fandom. It's just the fact that AO3 has become so huge that people assume AO3's Terms of Service are the same thing as... I guess, international law? A moral code of fandom? Who can say.

If you want to monetize your fanfic, go for it. Just don't mention it on AO3 and don't link out to your monetized platform from AO3. Not because it's illegal but because it's against the site's Terms of Service and if you get reported, your fic could be taken down.

Create a commission price list. Start up a patreon. Sell printed copies of your work. Whatever you want. Just don't talk about it on AO3. Not in your author notes. Not in the comments. Not on your profile.

If you decide to write fic for money, you'll run the risk of the original creator potentially suing you, but Anne Rice is dead now and I'm betting George RR Martin has calmed down in the last decade or so. These days, fandom is seen as part of the capitalist engine. It's free marketing. Even if an author or show runner or director really does hate fanfic, they probably won't actually say that near a microphone in case that hype machine disappears.

[redvanillabee]

What is the worst meta you have encountered. What claim has been so preposterous that you have contemplated deleting the Internet. Please bless us with others’ failures of critical thinking

Trust me, Mundie, when I say I have wiped most of them from my brain. Otherwise I will surely have gone insane.

I do remember reading something that is clearly a headcanon being billed as a meta. I think it was something for TFATWS; someone was literally headcanoning what Sam and Bucky might have done during the off-screen downtime, either between episodes or in the time-skip in a montage. They were headcanons inspired by canon events and characterisation, sure, but they are theories, speculations, and creative writing on what Sam and Bucky have gone up to in that unmentioned time. Then that OP tagged the post as 'meta' and I just, *facepalm* my child, that is not meta. Meta is analysis. You wrote a headcanon post. Please learn the word.

The actual 'bad' take I've seen isn't one meta, but I see people keep trying to refute it, and it is: the idea that AC/AOS is somehow not MCU canon, and they need Marvel to somehow 'adopt' AC/AOS back and 'make it MCU canon'.

LIke, first of all, AOS literally is an offshoot of MCU; you have the same Coulson as in The Avengers (2012). Same for AC; you have the same Peggy Carter. Please. (Not to mention the fact that James D’arcy’s Jarvis has already been adopted into the MCU, a la Endgame.)

There was this whole deal about how AOS has split off from MCU from S5, and I really don't understand. They say that because Daisy prevented Earth from being shattered by her/Graviton, it has created a new branching timeline and therefore is no longer in the same MCU timeline.

Which. My brother in MCU. Allow me to point you to Agents of SHIELD Season 5 Episode 20.

Thanos was heading to Earth as the events of AOS S5 were unfolding. I really would say when Daisy prevented the Great Quakening from blowing Earth apart, she ensured that the real MCU timeline could continue, that there would still be an Earth for Thanos to land on and for the events of Infinity War to take place. How have they created a branching timeline please enlighten me.

Then those same people were saying that S6 was definitely not in the MCU timeline, because no one got blipped and the team did not address the Snappening. Again, my brother in MCU, do you know which other main MCU team didn’t get blipped? That’s right, OG6 Avengers. Just because no one got blipped doesn’t mean the blip didn’t take place.

As for the whole ‘the blip didn’t get addressed’ thing, I think we can all agree that Marvel is pulling a lot of strings in the background deciding what can/can’t AOS mention, but the plot of S6 does not suggest that it can’t take place concurrently with the aftermath of the blip. Think about how small the scope of S6 and S7 actually is. They were mostly in the Lighthouse, I think there was one park scene, they were in rural Ohio for a while, in a desolate temple somewhere...and then they travelled into the past! For all we know, while Daisy was busy containing that atomic bomb on Sarge’s death mobile, Steve could be out there holding a support group with gay Joe Russo.

There were some points made out there about continuity issues between AC/AOS and main MCU, but like—look, Marvel is three plot points wearing one big trench coat pretending to be one cinematic universe. There are loads of show out there with blatant plot holes or continuity issues, like Glee, but we don’t go around saying ‘x episode of Glee doesn’t count as canon Glee-verse’, right?

(Also. Since the beginning of the MCU, Disney’s been putting more and more Marvel attractions in Disneylands around the world, where the general premise is at least MCU-adjacent if not compliant. If you take a look at those Marvel attractions, you will find that AC/AOS are at least Disneyland-canon. In Avengers Campus Paris, there’s a restaurant furnished as ‘an old SSR facility’ that showed Peggy’s red hat from AC, as well as a picture of Michael Carter. In Hong Kong Disneyland, they put the Blitzkrieg Button in the Howard Stark section of ‘Stark Expo’, regularly play the AOS theme outside the SHIELD building, and feature the 0-8-4 from S1E02 in the SHIELD equipment room.)

So yea. This turned from lowkey dragging bad meta into writing essentially a counter meta.

[thelittlemermage]

(this is pertaining to the nsfw drama, so if you’re done with it, you are totally free to delete this ask!) i think it’s rich that people hide behind the “think of the children!!!” excuse for being angry at the very rare nsfw things in the main tag, even though they have content warnings and everything. because if they really care so much about the children, then why aren’t the parents who let their kids have access to the internet unsupervised not at fault in the slightest? especially nowadays, when there’s 1) still not a solid way to make sure kids don’t view nsfw content yet, even if it’s behind a wall, and 2) when nsfw content is more known than ever to exist online, and even has a market?

I think it's so crazy it seems like parents supervise their children on the internet less than they did like 10, 20 years ago even though it's a lot more dangerous. Like it's normal to just put a 2 year old in front of a tablet with no restrictions. And I think there's difficulties that come with that too. We have smart phones now so the internet is a part of our everyday lives and it would be abnormal and isolating for a teenager to not have that. So it's like...parents should be checking in on their kids a lot more than they do. But also how do you do that? I guess making sure the apps they're using are age appropriate is a start. Idk. I imagine there's a weird balance between violating your kid's privacy and making sure they're not running into anything bad for them.

But for pre-pubescent children anyway I think we really need to start locking their shit down. I'm so disturbed how every kid these days has a story about how they were exposed to p*rn at a very young age. I do have to wonder if some of the intensity of the puritanical pushback comes from unresolved trauma. I honestly can't imagine why else the mere mention of the words "ns//fw" would be so viscerally damaging to someone. It makes me feel lucky I didn't even have access to the internet until like....12. And even then I was on like Disney dot com or something lol. I didn't get into fandom and junk until my mid teens and by that age I think I was equipped to handle some of the stuff you run into. So yea, I'm inclined to think the internet is just not a place young kids need to be on. :/

All that being said, yea lol. If someone is keeping that stuff where it's meant to be, using the appropriate tags, ect, and kids are still getting into it, that's not on the content creator at that point. I'm not your mom, I'm not keeping my whole life child friendly just because children...exist. Like, for example, if you're looking for fanfiction, that is a platform anyone can access. And the rating system can go from G to M or whatever it is these days lol. I don't think it's the fault of the author if some 14 year old decides to turn on the M rating. Like it would not make sense to make that decision and then go "Oh man. The adults have bamboozled me again by putting their M fic on the internet. Wow. How could they do that when I'm a minor." I don't think the solution is to therefore wipe all M fic off the internet, or punish the author for writing it. I think there's some level of personal accountability here and the understanding that if you actively make a choice you know you shouldn't, the natural consequence is that you may see something that makes you uncomfortable.

Idk. I know it's not a very simple issue. But at the end of the day, the internet wasn't build for children. Maybe things will get better now that more tech savvy generations are having kids....maybe? I hope? We definitely need to start teaching internet safety in schools at a young age or something. x.o

[lihikainanea]

Tarot Hour starts now!

The HWIC (Head Witch In Charge) is in!

I’ll be taking questions for that one hour period (I’ll announce when I’m done), but then I’ll answer them over the next day or two depending on how many I get. Last time it was amazing how many questions came in, but it was too much to try and answer them all in one night. I was drained by the end.

The Tools:

Tonight I’m only using one deck, because it feels best in my hands:

- Gilded Tarot (borderless)

The Layout:

1) It’s going to be a three card draw for Tarot

2) Submissions can absolutely be on anon BUT I will need your name (or your nickname), your date of birth, and a tidbit about yourself. Something unique. I need to somehow connect to you over this gigantic vortex that is the inter webz. And if you’re asking about someone–their name/nickname, and date of birth.

3) Ask me a question. Try to be open-ended. Questions can be:

 - What is something I need to keep in mind this week?

 - What is the best way for me to navigate this situation?

 - What areas of myself need a little work?

- What steps can I take to manifest what I want to happen? (it would help here    if you specified for me if this is career, love, etc.)

4) Follow up questions will really depend on the amount of questions I get overall. If you want to send a follow up question, or if you’re asking me a follow up to the last Tarot Hour, link it for me babes. Or give me enough of a run down on it.

5) I will tell you the deck I used, and I will take a picture of the cards I pulled and interpret them for you.

The Rules:

1) Submissions can be on anon, yes. If you’d like your answer deleted after you’ve read it, please sign it off with an emoji and message me again to tell me to delete it (I’ll only get around to it after the hour is up, but I promise I won’t leave it up there endlessly.) Alternatively, if you’re comfortable submitting questions off anon but want them answered privately, just write that in the message and your wish is my command :-)

2) You don’t get to choose the deck. Hell, even I don’t get to choose the deck.

3) For the love of god, let me interpret the cards for you. I will tell you what I pull so that you can look further into it if you want, but please remember that what you google may not match what I read. Cards tell a story and should not be read independently. What one card means depends on the cards around it.

4) This is hard to do over the internet with literally no talisman to you. Your readings may not be accurate.

5) No dO tHeY lOvE mE questions. I don’t judge you–but my cards will. Be more original. Ask for insight on this person’s connection to you. Ask for clarity on their relevance and role in your life. In general, if you’re asking the cards a yes or no question–it’s because you already know the answer. You know it damn well. And the cards know that.

6) If I get any rude messages about this ever, or any criticisms on the accuracy of the readings, I swear to god there is a whole ARMY of people on my side in the beyond who are just waiting for a ripe ass to haunt. Don’t be that person.

7) You can submit your questions in advance. Just be reasonable, please. Try and send them as close to the starting time as you can (ie: please not like, now?), but I know we live all over this beautiful world and that’s not feasible. That’s okay. But a full inbox of questions gives me anxiety and yes I still have a lot of asks about tiger and Bill I haven’t answered yet and yes it gives me mega anxiety. I will put up a post when we’re live.

8) if you want to blacklist the tag so your feed is not overloaded, all of them will be tagged with #Lei does tarot and #tarot