#i genuinely thought when I started this blog that I'd never get over 20 followers so you can imagine my surprise at reaching 50

[solaris-amethyst]

50 followers?!😭 I genuinely can't believe I've reached 50 followers here on this blog, might seem insignificant or small to some but to me this is huge, like what do you mean 50 people find my writing to be good enough to decide they want to follow me🥹💓 Feels surreal to me so thank you everyone from the bottom of my little heart🥺🫶🏻❤️

[dearweirdme]

https://x.com/Kverosa_/status/1737838665983021315?s=20

Rain, I wanted to send this because I know you've been infested with jokers lately and I wanted to highlight the kind of delusion that is behind some of this rhetoric. We've seen it here with people accusing Taehyung of some really unfair and unfounded behavior. This account (not the one I shared but the one, they're calling out) is a burner from a popular Joker with over 2000 followers.

I know not every shipper is bad or would condone this the way I don't condone everything some Taekookers do but the person behind this vile behavior would have seemed like one of those 'normal' shippers before being exposed.

You get a lot of jokers here pretending like they're here for a discussion or asking questions like they genuinely want to know the answers but only doubling down when they get answers they don't like.

But considering some of the asks about Taehyung and some who even claim to be doubting Taekookers, I wanted to show an example of what is really driving some of these people behind the masks of reasonability they like to pretend.

So when people read your asks from these losers, they can see first hand what kind of person might be behind it and what their motivation for coming here is (and I know you've said you don't use TwitX so maybe this is your first time seeing this shit too)

And unfortunately, this isn't exclusive to jokers. A popular Taekook account with 7k followers has just been exposed in a group chat for making horrific accusations against Tae and wishing death on him over Taennie rumors. This person stated in the chat that they didn't want to address it publicly because they didn't want to lose followers.

Too many shippers cross boundaries. I think this is one of the most reasonable and fair blogs but maybe we all need to ask ourselves sometimes if it's even worth the energy and engaging with people who might, and most likely do, have ulteriror motives and just want to access any platform that will get them attention and get more eyes on their nasty messages (and hands up, I'm usually one of the first to bite and take the bait)

I really like this blog. I even like the idea of healthy and fair discourse with other reasonable people who might not see things like I do but some of these asks have just not been that and while I'd never tell you what asks to answer or who to indulge (like I said, I'm usually the first to clapback in the ask box) I'm just wondering if it wouldn't be better to just ignore them and remove their platform completely while focusing on JK and Tae and their relationship?

Because I really think a lot of these jokers and even some 'doubters' are asking questions that they really don't want to hear an answer to. They just want to engage us all in a cycle of negative discussion and in our desire to defend Taekook, as a ship and individuals, I'm starting to feel like we might be a little too hasty to heed the call sometimes.

Hi anon!

Oh trust me, I’ve seen it all. Talk like that has reached my inbox numerous times. I don’t even post half of the straws I get. There’s many blogs and accounts who care more about having followers than about the members. I know my blog as well isn’t for everyone. I can feel how people try to pressure me into following a certain train of thoughts at times. It was difficult for a while, but in the end this is my blog and I enjoy this space because it is where I can share my thoughts freely.

The difficulty for me is that I don’t want to only look at Tkkrs thoughts on this. I like to have different points of view, because I feel it keeps me saner in all this, and .. I do get baited at times because I can’t stand the insanity 🙈.. I’m human 😂. So that’s why I also post Jkkrs and anti’s and neutrals asks at times. I don’t want to be someone who sees only one side of the story, because to me the whole story matters.

You are right in there probably being some actual jokers around. It’s difficult to filter them out at times. I suspect it’s going to be less and less from now on. Less content means less debate usually.

Edit because this was such a non answer (i’m super tired 🙈, gonna go to sleep soon): I don’t think I’ll completely stop posting straws and anti’s, but I’ll try to filter out the really bad ones better.

[goon]

I started using Facebook when I was 8 and I used it almost exclusively (outside of my personal Twitter I made when I was like, 12) until I was 14. I was in the meme/anime page community, where we grew and monetized Facebook pages.

The people in those kinds of communities at the time were very right-wing and "anti-SJW"; pretty much 4chan users. This is 2012-2014, and I would've been 12- 14. They would dox, SWAT, etc. It was a toxic place to be and I was active in this community for three years.

Over that time, I started to develop the same 'anti-sjw' / 'anti-feminazi' ideas and just all around I was not a nice person. Everyone there was essentially just a reactionary to whatever sociopolitical content came out of Tumblr, because Tumblr was popular for having different opinions. And I wasn't any different. I was very edgy and just as weird.

There were pages that screenshot and posted funny Tumblr posts, so I knew of its existence, but just assumed it was a 'hellhole of annoying sjws'. Anyway. I started being less active on Facebook because the page community was dying, and I started to get more into anime. I pretty much only had seen Naruto at that point, but then I got realllyyyy into Attack on Titan.

I almost tried to reset. I made a new Twitter account, but the sole purpose would be that it's for Attack on Titan. Twitter wasn't really that big at the time, at least the anime communities weren't. They were mostly roleplayers. I started talking to people and trying to make friends. I only had, like, 20 followers or something.

I ended up seeing a Mikasa roleplayer/cosplayer and we became friends. I still talk to her every once in a while, actually. I complained about the lack of anime content on Twitter, and she agreed. She said she only uses it for roleplaying, and that I should make a Tumblr account and follow her.

Apparently, I had already made an account in January 2014. It was completely untouched because it confused me (lol), so I reset my password and set it up. We followed each other, and I started to use it pretty much daily from then onwards.

I started off with just reblogging anime and stuff for the first couple months. At this point, it would be early 2015. I would be turning 16 in June. The campaigning for the 2016 election is about to start picking up. I made a LOT of friends on that blog and in that fandom, a handful of which I still talk to daily.

Listen, I know I was a child, but I wasn't stupid (well.). I'd see weird conservatives getting dragged for supporting Trump, and obviously all of the posts supporting Bernie and explaining what he's all about. So I would never open my mouth about my opinions or even tell my new friends my opinions. I ignored it for a few months, or I thought I did anyway.

I genuinely just started to learn over time. Coming to this website and being exposed to ideas I never cared enough to learn about made me a much better person. Now, I consider myself a communist. A surprising twist of events coming here as a right-wing Facebook reactionary.

Next January will mark my 10 years on this website. And I do think that I was able to find a 'home' here. It just feels comfortable and familiar. Even after all these years, it hasn't really lost its charm to me. It's the place I'm the least inactive, and if I do become inactive, it's never for long.

There's a lot of Tumblr history I missed out on because I was too scared of coming here earlier, and it's a little sad. But I was able to make my own history here in a way I'm comfortable with, and I think that's really neat

[booperbeanv3]

ok i know this ask game is from Þe Olden Times but.

everything except 1, 2, 7, 8, 30 and 31. covering all the bases

“Homestuck Isn’t Dead” Tag

jesus a full faq here

Well I'm incredibly vain and love talking about myself so here goes

3. Do you call your s/o a matesprit? 4. Do you call your best friend your moirail?

S/O, no. Best friend, sometimes.

5. Are you “kin” with any characters or commonly called a character?

I've never taken kinning seriously and never will, but I strongly related to Dave and Karkat thanks to that "born wrong + childhood neglect" flavour. But my friends (SIDE-EYES YOUR URL) have holed me into Jake English, so, y'know, whatever. Not everyone can be davekat, I get it

6. God Tier?

Knight of Light!

9. Do you roleplay homestuck? where and how often?

I haven't been able to do it often thanks to the circumstances. I'm too scared to use dreambubbles.xyz. But if you're interested, my discord is boolean2390 and while I main alphabeta boys (i.e. Dave, John, Jake, Dirk), I have RPed Dave and Karkat before in actual, concrete examples I can show you.

10. Do you cosplay homestuck characters? Who and where?

I was gonna cosplay Karkat before Omegle shut down.

11. Are you apart of ask blogs?

I am not and I have actively avoided this! I'm gonna be real here, I'll never top the current set of kid ask blogs, so I'll just watch from afar. Plus, it's quite a bit of work when my faves are so popular, and therefore will not fill any real niches. (a jake english would be kinda funny even if it already exists tho)

12. Are you in any homestuck groups?

Hoesslut server on Discord

13. Favorite character?

you can make a tri venn diagram of all my faves with the headings "waifu", "literally me" and "actually good/interesting character" with some mild overlap

that said

objective best is jade and personal fav is karkat

aradia is super based also. best part of act 5 but utterly forgettable afterwards. served cunt, died, served cunt, revived

14. Least favorite character?

tri venn diagram of "obsessive hatred", "boring" and "annoying"

most of my "least favs" disappoint me from lack of potential being utilised effectively

idfk doc scratch??

15. OTP? 16. NOTP? 17. BROTP?

JANEROXY 4EVER!!!! that's the only consistent one. i can like any ship if given some good enough motivation (even if it's my dick).

that being said i scour johndave and johnkat most often. however i am THE blackrom vantas and johnkat/davekat must be spades ONLY. spades johndave is fun but no one writes it. dude i just love spades

18. Do you want homestuck to just die already?

No, I just got here!

19. Are you following up with hiveswap? Do you play? Watch YT videos?

I don't, and I don't care.

20. Tell us how homestuck has affected you in real life?

Locked myself in my room and did nothing but read Homestuck for about 2 weeks to a month. I finished it during this time

Got so high I tripped balls thought I killed my best friend and got stuck on Prospit while Homestuck music was playing in the background. Last summer!

Started laughing uncontrollably in the middle of a psychotherapy appointment since I was being so Davecore

My karkalicious x wannabe remix is on my friend's playlist bc she genuinely enjoys it. This remix also haunted me during an important art project I was doing and singlehandedly cursed the entire thing

Wore sunglasses IRL for a bit. (It does help.) Would keep doing it if I didn't lose my clip-ons

My sister thinks I sell Karkat foot fetish art now. She follows me here

21. Have you met anyone through homestuck?

IRL? No. Online? Duh

22. Have you left the fandom before?

No, I'm a total newfag

23. How many times have you read through it?

TOTAL newfag. Only once

24. Did you ever skip intermissions/dialog/animations?

I'd scan over them, but not totally skip. I also read act summaries in full when they were there because I am a baby with goldfish memory

25. Opinions on the fandom?

Depends... I think it's gotten a lot better from my observations, but of course, Twitter is still a cesspit full of retarded babies that shit their diapers. But that could be said about any fandom that's majority kids. Also any stridercester that thinks theyre oppressed for liking shota boy twincest should btfo and jerk off in peace. Which in fairness, most of them do! But to the ones that don't, GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY NOTES FAGGOT

Besides those, I think it's great, but I also main Tumblr, so...

26. Opinions on the comic?

Personally I enjoyed it a lot, but I'll get a more rounded impression once I re-read it. All plot shenanigans aside, Homestuck's main selling point has always been its characters, and its method of introducing and developing them is one of my favourites. Also its humour

27. Do you favor the trolls, humans, or carapaces?

Humans, because I'm a boring fucknut who reads sci-fi for the humans and will put them in an office building and say "imagine if they did IT"

28. Favorite moment of all of homestuck?

29. Least favorite moment of all of homestuck?

beginning of act 6 felt like i nodded off on dope and woke up in the hospital. retcon was kinda mid

[ut-poppy-askblog]

The Future of Omega Timeline: Poppy's Story

I am writing this way in advance, I have finished animating all of the main cutscenes, and I'm mainly working on the music for the "Act 1 Finale", as I write. I wanted to write this to talk about the fact I even got to this point at all, and what comes next for this project.

For starters, like most usually say when they reach a milestone such as this, I never thought this project would reach this many people.

I started this project with the mindset that no one was gonna really pay attention to it. The concept has always been pretty niche, so I was mostly doing it for myself. ... And yet, two years later, the blog is nearing 900 followers.

I'd like to thank everyone that has stuck by these two years, seen the asks, read the story, done fanart for the AU...

... Of course, let's not forget to thank all of my lovely friends and team members (Dihze, Lolika, Doku, Cap'n Toad, Tyrone, AJ, Cerulean, SKL, Mrky) that helped me throughout this whole thing. This would have never been possible without them.

... I cannot stress this enough, really.

Half of the fun of working on Poppy, for me, is always the back and forth between me and my friends. Talking about hypothetical plot points, how characters would answer asks, how they'd feel about other characters, or the OT should look or sound— that is and will always be what brings me the most joy about working on a project like this.

Not to mention all the friends that I've made through working on Poppy. Jakei, Yugo, poody_blue, Cerulean, blaize.mayes, and so many more I can name off the top of my head that have influenced Poppy to become much bigger than I originally intended.

Even though I will be the first to say that this AU is not perfect, and really, it never will.... It has reached so many people and inspired others, even brought more attention to the Omega Timeline itself, that I am honestly glad it exists as it is.

Originally, I was planning to do just like, 5 sprite comics and end it in less than a year. But now I've made 3 sprite based animations, totaling around 20 minutes, and many comic pages, a 30 long original soundtrack, and the blog has almost reached 900 followers.

It's hard to believe I did all of that, even if I had a lot of help along the way.

Regardless of how reception turns out (I'm still quite unsure on how people are going to feel about it...), it's honestly a huge thing for someone like me to have reached this point.

If you don't know my history with the Undertale community, I don't tend to finish or see through most of my projects.

But now that I've finished this video, I feel I am confident enough with saying that I am going to see this project through, one way or another.

Regardless, I figure people are going to have questions After the finale is out. I've lined up some of the ones I can think off the top of my head:

"Is the blog over?"

No, not yet, obviously. It's why it's called the "Act 1 Finale". There will be more in the future.

"How many acts will there be?"

3. What the other two are like, I cannot tell you, but we have a promising outline.

"What will happen to Poppy and the rest?"

All in due time. Did you read the ask above?

"What about Poppy Buys Milk?"

Like I've said before, the game is going to happen. It canonically takes place before the events of act 1 finale, specifically before "Happy Birthday, Mon" (Present), so most of the characters are unaware of what befalls them later.

"Are there plans to redo the act 1 things?"

Only the Dusted and Poppy spar. That is genuinely the only comic I'd like to remake in some fashion. It's bad and dumb.

As for more scenarios that ocurr during Act 1's time, though, I have no comments yet.

"When will character asks return?"

Once Act 2 starts. But that will take a bit to get it out.

To make up for it, though, I will likely be posting scrapped concepts, concept art, unused or old music, and story drafts, so I hope that'll hold everyone over until we can start.

... That's all for now. Again, huge thanks to everyone for sticking around and checking this little blog. If anyone has any Omega Timeline and otherwise out of character questions, you can send them here. (I've cleared out the ask box, so I'll be able to catch them more easily).

[sonjaohno]

Democracy in America

Hello dear friends and family,

October is off to a crisp start and I've been busy squirreling away at the library. It's already been one month since I arrived, which makes it high time for some reflection. I've been working hard to come up with clever answers to the question of "what my impressions are" mainly because (and a list of so-called impressions follows):

I thought Finns were insecure, with their country branding workshops and whatnot, perennially worried about what other people (read: the Swedes) think of us, but I can tell you, Americans are worse. In all the years I've lived in Berlin, not once has a German person (nor a Berliner—these are two completely distinct groups of people) asked me to tell them what I "think" about their country, or what my "impressions" are. Maybe they know better than to ask. Maybe they really don't care. Americans, on the other hand (including New Yorkers, though a similar non-equivalence exists here), cannot get enough of foreigners' interpretations of their country. I think it's because they genuinely don't know what to think about their country themselves and are waiting for somebody to tell them what the hell is going on here. So, what are my impressions so far?

America is home to some really great things. So far, my top three list is i) cinnamon-flavored chewing gum ii) hazelnut-flavored filter coffee (a mystery but a delightful one) iii) pecan-pumpkin-spice-flavored filter coffee (again, I don't know who came up with this or what they do to make coffee taste like a Hallmark card but I fuckin love it) iv) ditto, snickerdoodles (both the word and the pastry). Oops, that's four.

There is, however, clearly something wrong with a country that has to keep toothpaste under lock and key at the drugstore. I mean, toothpaste is expensive here—$5.99 for a tube, are you kidding me?—but it's still not exactly a luxury item. I literally have to ring a bell at Duane Reed to get an employee to open the toothpaste safe for a tube of Colgate. I wondered about this out loud to a New Yorker, who told me it's because the Duane Reed I went to is located at a "minor transportation hub," in the corner of W 110th and Broadway, which presumably means that this ludicrously wealthy Upper West Side drugstore frequented mostly by Columbia students and faculty is some kind of a crime hotspot. I should probably start carrying a gun.

Americans are loud. I feel like shushing people all the time, which makes me feel like a bad person. If anyone asked me to, I'd be more than happy to provide instructions for adjusting the volume of one's speech to different situations. It'd go something like follows: i) When outdoors, use what you would consider an "indoors voice." ii) When indoors, use what you would consider a "library voice." iii) When in the library, shut the fuck up. Pretty simple, huh?

The American economy would collapse if people stopped living on takeaway meals and coffees. I have never seen people so comfortable dishing out $20-50 per day for food they don't like and coffee they don't need. I mean, I'm not even able to get out of bed without several cups of coffee in the morning but I'd find it really hard to justify a $10 daily budget for iced-mocha-swirly lattes and another $10 for dumplings, when you can just pack a sandwich. The number of students able to afford this kind of lifestyle is just astounding. (This is Columbia, I am aware that the people without trust funds constitute a minority.) I feel positively frugal with my leftover lunches and thermos bottle of coffee (this week it's Donut Shop Roast, which disappointingly does not taste like donuts).

Americans like to think of themselves as libertarians and are famously opposed to state-imposed regulation—but I've never felt as regulated and rule-bound as I have here. It's just that the rules aren't handed down by government officials but by the various enterprises, including private businesses and universities (the latter is included in the former but deserves a honorary mention of its own), who would rather impose elaborate codes of conduct than leave people to their common senses and be sued when something inevitably happens. As one particularly pointless example, I have to complete an online covid-symptom checklist every morning before I'm allowed to enter campus—a "Daily Attestation," it's called—where I solemnly swear that I did not have a cough or a sore throat that morning, either. The only conceivable purpose of this useless exercise is to ensure that if somebody does show up on campus sneezing and wheezing their viral particles around, Columbia can't sued for not having done everything in its power to prevent the virus from spreading. Airing out rooms, though, is strictly out of the question—presumably because it's against some other rule designed to stop students from committing suicide by jumping out a third-floor window. As a person who is physiologically unable to follow pointless rules, I find this kind of self-serving, counter-logical box ticking absolutely infuriating.

It's not all bad, though. Yesterday I went to a Japanese jazz speakeasy around Midtown. We had to stand in line for about an hour, between a group of 17-year-old musical theater majors and 27-year-old jazz enthusiasts. The former were bursting out in spontaneous, perfectly synchronized song every few minutes, the latter were debating scales or keys or some such—I'm telling you, it was like walking into a badly-written scene of Glee. It was worth it though. At one point, during a several-minute-long drum solo, I experienced what can only be described as a moment of pure transcendence. People were all around me were yelling over the music and gesticulating wildly and, for a few seconds, time compressed to something graspable; a thing crackling with energy. An oceanic feeling is, in the words of turn-of-the-century mystic Romain Rolland, “a spontaneous … feeling of the ‘eternal’ (which can very well not be eternal, but simply without perceptible limits, and like oceanic, as it were).” If eternity can be found in a midtown basement, Manhattan can’t be all bad. (Below a video clip I took discreetly when entering.)

P.s. A friend of mine said that I should write an Alexis de Tocqueville -type report about my time in America, which explains the title of this post. For the literary agents and non-fiction editors reading this blog (jk, apparently it's my mum and three of her friends who read these entries—hi!!!), you can email me at sonjaohno at gmail dot com for a book deal.