#i know that there are some... people... on this site

[inflnite-survivor-choco]

Expanding onto some of these.

Minimize chances of getting hacked or doxxing yourself.

- Use a VPN. Mullvad and Proton are good ones. Forget CyberGhost or Norton, Israeli terrorism and scams are involved and they suck.

- Use a Premium Antivirus. No. Antivirus programs aren't useless and people saying it are largely Timmies parroting what a few tech conscious people have told them before it got misconstrued, what I do is use my Bitdefender two weeks trial and once it's over switch to another mail I can make. so I have infinite ones for free, (Like I said, I'm a Pirate) try it out if you want. Used to have Kaspersky but it's no longer Available.

- Passkeys. Always. Forget about passwords with Passkeys. Whether Hardware or Software keys. If you do use passwords have a Password manager. SMS Verification is relatively weak.

- Discord Token theft. No giving out Tokens ever.

- WPA3 Wifi security on your router. Update the firmware. If not possible then WPA 2 AES is the next best thing. Anything TKIP or below forget about...and please avoid dual connections. (Ex: WPA/WPA2 personnel.)

- Pass the Cookie attacks suck. Wipe up your data on whichever site you browse with. DuckDuckGo is the most private one with the exception of Tor, speaking of Tor. Don't let it be demonized, its only downside is it's less private the more you use it. So small amounts per session are okay. TOR over VPN are especially good if you know what you're doing.

- Forget about VM over VM and DMZ setups. Unless you're a professional don't overcomplicate your defense-in-depth. Standard tools used correctly are better than advanced stuff you don't know about.

- Lie about your age. You're born in 2010? no, not anymore. You're now a 36 year old Scientist named Krueger who loves molten lava cakes. The only times it's not appropriate to lie about someone's ages online are (1) an adult talking to a minor pretending to be the latter and (2) A minor pretending to be an adult to sneak in such spaces to talk to them, with the exception of those cardinal rules you're encouraged to lie.

- Beware of your Digital Footprint. It's next to impossible to fully remove it.

i feel like we as a digital society have forgotten the important rules of the internet

Don't feed the trolls

Never give out personal information

Anonymity is the best defense

Don't click suspicious links

Don't click popups and ads

Just because it's written doesn't mean it's true

You are responsible for your own experience

There is porn of everything, act accordingly

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Hi sex witch! I'm in my early twenties and I figured I should get vaccinated for hpv since why not. I texted my mom to make sure she hadn't gotten me vaccinated for it even tho I was pretty sure she didn't. She said no and sent a lot of antivax bullshit that she says came from my old doctor and basically said if im not a whore I'll be fine and that a girl I went to school with almost died from it, and I blocked her number. But I brought it up to my sister and she also said I don't need it because I'm not sexually active. Which, yeah, and that's probably not going to change but you never know and I'd rather be safe than sorry. I just wanted to check in with someone who's not antivax. It doesn't cause complications right? I should get vaxxed right?

hi anon,

the HPV vaccine is very well-tested and generally well-received. the only common side effects are those that are common for any vaccine: a little pain or swelling around the injection site, dizziness or nausea, some flu-like symptoms for a day or two after. rarely, some people experience allergic reactions to the vaccine. serious, life-threatening side effects are exceedingly unlikely.

[idolomantises]

Since you mentioned Twitter before, I was thinking that since I've been following your profile I've seen you showing your frustration with people's persecution and accusations about you being a "gooner artist", especially on Twitter.

I don't mean this in a negative way, but have you ever thought about abandoning that site? I know that your work depends on the audience on your social media, but wouldn't it be better for you to prioritize your mental health and those who follow your work with affection on Tumblr, bluesky, etc...?

I’ve been thinking about abandoning it since 2022 🤣, but I have a huge following over there and I’m holding on hope that eventually SOMEONE will take the website away from Elon.

I don’t use the internet as often as I used to anyways. So Twitter isn’t really a big issue for me. Besides, annoying people are on every social media platform. I dealt with some unhinged people on my tumblr as well. Shit happens ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[anstarwar]

Can you tell me how you post your art on Ao3? I keep trying and failing. Maybe it's my image hosting site?

Hey! Sure I'll attempt to explain. It's possible it's your hosting site, but hard to say. I use a site called Maltshop, or more accurately MLTSHP. It's been working great for me since I started using it but the downside is that it is a paid hosting service at $3 per year. I know not everyone can do that though, but if you're able to throw them $3 per year it could be worth it. At that tier they allow for up to 300MBs per month uploads. They have a $24 per year tier that is unlimited file size uploads. Another benefit - and this may not apply to you, but maybe someone who's reading this - is that they allow for Adult/Mature/NSFW whatever you want to call it image hosting.

Here's my process - and keep in mind this is just for adding an image. If I'm adding an image to a fic then I start a new post on Ao3, paste the fic in first, then add the image in the body of the fic where I want it also following this process:

I go to MLTSHP and upload my image. It thinks for a second then gives me two URLs. A "post url" and an "image url." I copy the "image url"

2. Then I go over to Ao3, click "new post," add all that necessary stuff it asks you to add like title, tags, summary, etc. then in the actual Work Text editor box I click "Rich Text." That's key as it defaults to "HTML" editor when you start your new post and while some people are awesome and good at HTML, I am not that "some people" and need my Rich Text editing box.

3. When you're in the Rich Text editor version of the Work Text box, click the little image icon

4. A dialogue box will pop up where you can paste that Image URL link from step 1 above. You can then add your Alt Text (called Image Description) and adjust the size of your image, then click save

5. Then I futz with the sizing for a bit, make sure all the necessary post info is included, add text if there's any to go along with your image - ya know like if you have a whole fic you're posting, then preview, then post the image and voila!

And that's my entire image posting on Ao3 process! I hope it helps, but if you need further help, feel free to DM me!

[disarmonia]

Right, basically Tumblr Support said my page was "restored full functionality" after being shadow banned for weeks and falsely flagged as spam. Turned out my posts are STILL not visible under tags, any of them, including my own name. This page was my hope to grow some following and share my art after the bird site turned into a hostile hellhole and started suppressing my posts based on where I'm from. Will likely take weeks again before Support people get back to me. Just so tired of this. I just want to share my art with people. I don't feel like posting something new when I know barely anyone's gonna see it. If you have a minute to file a support ticket on my behalf, please do, maybe it will speed up the process. Thank you. :(

[alexandriaellisart]

one of my current favorite obsessions are the devonshire tapastries, a set of four late medieval, (the v&a says sometime around the 1430s, though some of the group might be dated to later) tapastries showing groups of nobles hunting different animals. i know they sound awful, but they actually are the best thing i've seen i promise, just look:

they're broken up as: the boar and bear hunt, the deer hunt, the otter and swan hunt, and the falconry tapestry, (again this is all from this article from the v&a site).

generally speaking rich people (the patreons of the arts, as always) in the medieval ages weren't super into paintings, and the ones that come from the medieval period are rarely secular (non-religious) in subject matter. The truly favored medium of the medieval period was tapestries, although, being fabric, they as a group definitely did not survive very well into the present day.

I just love all of the details, the intricate details on the clothing, the way the figures all interact with each other. It's quite reminiscent of a giant comic strip, although it's probably closer to a single panel frame than a multi paneled story.

they're just so fun to look at!! ^-^

[besttropeveershowdown]

The Guilty Pleasure Trope Showdown

Hello, everyone! After my 2-month hiatus, I have returned with our next tournament, which won our last poll for what the next tournament on this blog should be: the Guilty Pleasure Trope Showdown! Have a trope that you absolutely love, even if you're a little bit embarrassed to say so? A trope that you think is objectively bad, but that you get a kick out of every time? Submit it here!

Below is the submission form. Submissions will be open for at least 2 weeks, closing on Sunday 3/30, though I may choose to extend this deadline.

THE RULES:

To be a guilty pleasure, a trope must be something that A) you enjoy, and B) is a little shameful in some way, be it because it's typically considered bad, because it's associated with "trashy" media, because it's considered problematic, etc. Tropes that are universally considered good or a sign of good writing do not belong in this tournament! If it's unclear why your trope is a guilty pleasure, please specify in the propaganda section.

Additionally, all rules from the BTES apply, including:

TVTropes is a site for tropes found in all media, including medium-specific tropes, but for this tournament we're going to ask that you stick to tropes that can be found in any story regardless of the medium it's told in. So no video-game-specific, musical-specific, movie-specific, or any other medium-specific tropes. (For example, the I Want Song is not a valid submission because it is only found in musical media)

Genre-specific tropes, however, are fine and okay.

Tropes can be as obscure as you want, but remember that the more popular a trope is, the more likely it is to get votes.

Regarding sex tropes: While I don't want this tournament getting too NSFW, I also recognize that sex often has a narrative purpose and plays a unique role in the story. Thus, my general rule on that front is going to be: no tropes about specific sexual acts or parts of the sex act, but tropes about sex in general are okay.

Propaganda is highly encouraged and makes the tournament far more interesting for everyone involved (both on the submission form and in the ask box throughout the tournament).

For this tournament, I'm going to soften the rule around offensive and problematic tropes, because I know they can sometimes be guilty pleasures: for example, the gay-coded villain trope might be a guilty pleasure for queer people who like to see queer characters being epic and evil. So, the new rule is: offensive and problematic tropes are allowed in theory, but will be rejected by default unless there is a good enough explanation in the propaganda for why it makes a good guilty pleasure.

Resubmissions from both seasons of the BTES, the WTES, and the MATS are allowed, with the exception of the BTES winners (Found Family and Odd Friendship).

Have fun and happy submitting! Tagging @tournament-announcer.

[artist-issues]

do you think that it’s bad for a people group to keep thinking about the impact slavery had on them in the past?

I think the only utility in it is learning your history: that mankind is depraved and can sell and buy one another, and treat one another like less-than-human, and so watch out for the signs that a society is starting to blur the line about what makes a human a human in the image of God.

and that’s it.

I have a friend who said something really good about this when we went to Togo. After we visited the historical site where the Togolese sold one another to the colonists and saw the places where those people were treated like hated cattle, we were discussing the topic. But my friend just sat there and didn’t join in. And we were all kind of wanting her to, because her family has lived in our hometown for generations, and our hometown was on the map at the historical site where the Togolese were sold out of. So you know. Odds are, her ancestors were from there, where we were standing. Or at least they suffered the same fate from ports like it all up and down the African coast. We wanted to hear her thoughts in particular. But she didn’t say anything.

And afterward I was nagging her about it, I was like, “you have to say something in moments like that, we all want to hear you!”

And she (is not your ordinary person) just laughed at me and said, “I knew it! Every time one of you said something (about the historical site and the slavery topic) it was like you would glance at me to see what I thought or if I was passing judgement. But why should I have anything to say? I don’t speak for everyone else. Especially people who died hundreds of years ago. It’s horrible, and it’s sin, but that’s (slavery’s) not me. That’s not my identity. It’s not yours either. Just look at what God’s done since then.”

I wish I could introduce everybody to this friend of mine. You’d see she’s like that all the time. I’ve known her for almost ten years now and she’s one of the most insightful, chill, wise, fun (she can quote all of Barnyard and SharkTale) people I’ve ever met in my life. I think she was totally right about this (she’s also been right about everything we’ve ever talked about, for context.)

I’m quoting her because if anyone had a right to be thinking about ancestral slavery any type of way, it would be my dear friend. We were standing in the place with a high likelihood of being where her specific greatx grandparents were stolen from their homes and brought to this country as slaves. But she thought about it healthily instead of unhealthily.

I mean we don’t do this when our family-history has a good, prosperous chapter in it, right? When your great great great great grandfather builds a thriving company from the ground up, and generations later the wealth of your family still speaks to the prosperity he had—but if you try and say, “I know about sacrifice! I know about hard work! My grandfather went through all this stuff to build this company!” Most people would roll their eyes at you and tell you you’ve been privileged, that just because your grandfather experienced and lived through some major stuff, that doesn’t mean you’ve earned the right to claim that major stuff. You didn’t go through those experiences.

That’s what we do with positive family history. But with negative family history, what’s going on? Why do we make that our whole identity? “My ancestors were slaves!” and then we don’t say “so that gives me authority to speak to this/so I know how it feels/so I deserve [this-or-that]” but we live like we’ve somehow inherited what happened to them.

And we haven’t. We just haven’t. We haven’t. It’s part of history. It’s not part of our experience.

When we went to that place in Togo they lowered me down into the hole the slaves were lowered into under the colonist’s house’s floorboards and had me squat there, in the dark, for just fifteen minutes, unable to stand up or stretch out or see, while they explained from the floor over my head that I should also be imagining that I’m naked, surrounded on all sides by crowds of frightened grieving people in the same predicament, packed in so close that we can’t even move sideways, either. And other horrors, of course, like the fact that there’s no bathroom, their own tribespeople helped put them in this hole, and the food only came from the hole itself, so if you were furthest away from it in the dark under-the-floor-of-the-house crawlspace, you could just starve to death because it never reaches you. You hope the other sufferers around you are kind enough to pass you food, but you don’t all speak the same language because you’re from different tribes all over the continent. And this is all before you’re even put on the boats away from all you’ve ever known. Just fifteen minutes, I curled up where they were forced to curl up.

Guess what I learned?

That it was just fifteen minutes.

That what I experienced in the moment I could get closest to their suffering was still nowhere even close to what they experienced.

That nothing in my life has ever approached imaginable levels of that suffering. And it’s arrogant and misguided to claim it as any part of my identity. That level of suffering is foreign to me.

And thank God it’s foreign to me.

If you want to claim other sufferings, be my guest. If you want to say, “I’ve experienced a feeling of not belonging as I waited in the line at Wal-Mart,” or “I’ve experienced my teacher using a slur to refer to me,” or “I’ve experienced the grief of a lack of justice” go for it. But it’s not the same as what they experienced.

Our ancestors who suffered through horrible things, do you think they’d want us to be going around, making our whole lives about their sufferings? Making all of our value-judgements on stories we’ve been told about what happened to them? I mean, geez, in fantasy movies when the defeated villain raises his son to burn with a lust for revenge, we think of that as a bad thing he did. He should’ve let his son grow up free, not saddled him with your hatred over experiences he was blessed enough not to have. But we don’t use that same understanding when it comes to unhealthy thoughts about our enslaved or abused ancestors.

It’s not “no thoughts at all.” It’s “think rightly.” What happened to them was an atrocity, and it should never be repeated, and if we see the seeds of that atrocity cropping up in others’ minds or our own minds—specifically a tendency to view one another as less-human-than-ourselves—we should nip it in the bud.

But we shouldn’t make that the crusade of our lives. It’s just turning yourself into a ghost. What happened to them isn’t happening to you. Live your life as if good has happened since then. You get to have friends, loves, communities, where your skin color or language or where you’re from doesn’t get to be the one thing that defines you. They didn’t get to have that. Don’t shackle yourself to an experience you never had; don’t assume that’s what your ancestors would’ve wanted you to do if they could somehow see a vision of you in the future.

It’s just common sense.

Now.

For everybody who wants to reply, “What are you on about, people groups today may not be enslaved but they are still dealing with the f***ing consequences of slavery!!! They’re still dealing with prejudices and racism and!!!” Knock it off. That wasn’t the question. The question was “should people groups who were enslaved still think about it.”

If you wanna ask me “okay then, should people who have ancestors that were enslaved/abused/massacred/discriminated against/ARE being discriminated against themselves in the present-day—should THEY think about it?!” then roll up and ask me that. But it’s a separate question. And I’m tired of this grandpa

[assassin-artist]

I love Eleanor!

I'm really curious to know (everything) how Cecil feels about the daddy issues she's working through. I mean he (and whoever in the GDA draws up reports about the Greyson family mental states) has to be clocking them from a mile away. Because honestly who wouldn't be messed up after having Nolan as a father.

Does Cecil feel like there's some manipulation going on? Yes he's genuinely there in his role as mentor/boss, but does he also feel like an ass sometimes when he's reminded that she's just a kid seeking validation from an older male authority figure? (Not that that's Eleanor's main motivation in being a super hero by any means).

I don't think he'd be outright manipulative. I think he genuinely cares for people like when he tries to comfort Mark and Debbie etc, but it's probably part of a contingency plan of his if need be? I could see a desperate Cecil/GDA trying to make her more codependent as a means to control her. (Maybe they tried something like that in your bad end au)

Honestly I just need to know how he feels about her GDA inspired suit. Proud dad vibes? Relief that one of the twins is still willing to work with him? Mild embarrassment? Completely oblivious? Does Donald clock the resemblance first and tease him about it lol

Does Mercy ever look back on that suit design in the future and feel a bit embarrassed (like when you look back at your previous style that was influenced by friends or a celebrity and cringe?). Since it would also be symbolic of when she and Mark were having their fight over their different viewpoints.

Does she always keep the new colour pallet?

Anyways thanks for sharing your OC!

Cecil when Mercy shows up in his colors after splitting up with her brother. Thank you for this ask, I love rambling about Cecil especially, hehe... Looong rambles below the cut!

firstly, you're absolutely right that her family issues (daddy issues especially) is a well known topic in the GDA by the time she's in her 3rd suit. In fact, I think it would have been obvious from the day Nolan first left earth. I think Cecil is aware of the mental states of all of his top agents, he's definitely trying his best to keep tabs on them with on-site psychologists and such - but I think he'd have an extra careful eye out on the Graysons. He already states several times in the show that Mark is "the strongest hero we have on Earth", which is what makes him so desperate to keep Invincible in his pocket/under his control, and in the world where Mercy exists, she's stronger than Invincible by season 3 as well. So he's keeping a closer tab on Mercy than he does any of his other heroes, regardless of whether she would approve of how closely he's watching her.

Largely I think he'd feel some compassion for her about it - he has a heart, after all, even if it tends to get buried underneath his stern exterior and the things he's been forced to do over the years. She was only a kid when they met, and even though it's been a little over two years by season 3 and she's a legal adult, of course he's still gonna look at her as a kid. I think he feels a strong sense of "I need to look after her", not only because of her young age, but also because all the shit that went wrong in her life started after she started working for him. Maybe he feels like her dad's actions and the trauma it left her with is possibly indirectly his fault - but he definitely feels like Mercy and Invincible splitting apart is his own fault. He doesn't regret it because he's always going to do what he thinks is necessary for the good of the world, but he does still feel a bit guilty about how it tore apart this family that was working for him.

But there's also this idea I had that if Cecil visited Mark/Debbie's house some time after Mercy moved out but before the big falling out with Invincible and the GDA, Debbie absolutely would have scolded him and then talked his ear off about making sure Eleanor was well taken care of. Not just financially, as he tries to assure Mrs. Grayson - make sure she's eating properly, getting enough sleep, don't let her drink so many energy drinks before a mission like she does when there's an exam coming up. Debbie can clearly tell that Ellie is pulling away from her out of grief and trauma, and although it hurts her to not be there for her daughter like she wishes she could, she knows better than to try to force her way back into her life. So instead she goes to the person that she knows Ellie will listen to, and makes sure he has a good idea of what her daughter needs. So Cecil feels another sense of "I need to look out for this kid" because Debbie personally asked him to as well.

"Does Cecil feel like there's some manipulation going on?" Oh, absolutely there is, and he's aware of it. I don't think he's a cruel man by any means, I think he'd prefer it if people worked for him out of their own willingness and not for any other external reasons - but with the Grayson twins, he can't take that risk. They're too strong. He saw how one Viltrumite could ruin a major city and wrack up a death toll of, what, over two thousand lives and many thousand more injured in just a few hours? And later learning that more Viltrumites are going to come to Earth for a hostile takeover? Yeah, he wants to be nice - but now is not the time for niceness if it might sacrifice having the most powerful pawn on his payroll.

His compassion in daily conversations is real - him asking her if she's doing alright and if she' ever needs to talk's had enough to eat today - but his compassion when it comes to making decisions about her life is calculated. Paying for her utilities so she feels like she owes him, offering to take care of her family despite being attacked by two members of it so she will think of him as her best supporter in times of need... but most of all, subtly reminding her of the damage caused by her father and brother. Not in a 'look at what your family did' to make her feel guilty kind of way, but more of a 'look at what you're capable of' way. So even she thinks she needs someone to make the tough decisions for her - so she never feels tempted to pull away like Invincible did.

He's troubled by her mental state partially because he cares about her as an individual, but also because that means there's a crack in a very dangerously powerful weapon. He's glad for her seeking validation from an older male figure because it means she looks up to him, listens to his advice. It means he's still got her where he needs her to be.

He does genuinely care for people, like you said. I don't think Cecil would be Director of the GDA if it weren't for his overwhelming love for humanity and the planet they live on - it's not just self interest because he lives there, too, it's because his heart aches for the pain that others go through. Him keeping Mercy by his side by whatever means necessary - well timed compassion, a shoulder to lean on, financial compensation, etc - is good for both of them. He needs her strength and durability, and she needs a strong foundation to lean on in her darker moments.

And now, finally "I just need to know how he feels about her GDA inspired suit". My first thought was that, honestly, I don't think he would have ever made the connection lol. I mean, he sees the new look, but he never stops to think "this was directly inspired by me specifically". I think he'd just perk up one eyebrow and say something about how she's lost her bright colors in the new look. Donald absolutely clocks the resemblance, though - that man is specially trained to spot anything vaguely Cecil-looking lmfao. I think if he ever brought it up, Cecil would just go, "What? No, it's not based off of me. There's a ton of navy blue suits in the GDA, you don't know it's based off of me. I mean... ah, hell, it's based off of me.." I think he'd feel a little bit embarrassed about it in the beginning, like when you realize someone kind of idolizes you and you think 'why would you look up to me of all people', but he'd keep it under wraps pretty well. Kind of think it's sweet, also kind of thinks it's another good sign of her attachment to the GDA.

I don't think she will always keeps the new suit design. Mercy and Invincible are meant to be in parallel to each other - not exactly the same, but when one goes through a major change, so does the other. She got her new suit roughly at the same time Mark got his new suit, and both of them changed because of their growing and shifting viewpoints around morality. The palette itself, though... hrm, I'll have to think about that. I can see her leaving the palette behind to have a fresh start and branching out eventually, but I can also see her wanting to keep it because the GDA, and Cecil specifically, are such big parts of her formative years and helped develop her worldviews a lot as a teen/going into adulthood.

I'm not entirely sure how future Mercy would look back on her older design, since I make her story as we go along with the show and comics. So the only answer I have for now is that she'd probably look back at the suit and frown because that was the time where her and Mark split apart. How much she either cringes or feels pain about that memory depends on whether the two of them ever reconcile or if it just gets worse from there on out... We'll see (:

Thank you for the ask!! I love talking about Cecil lol

[meloveanimeforreal7604]

I'm doin this.

@8thekat @toxicmask @midnightrey yalllllllll get pinged

So. I recently found out from looking through some of Killer!Sans' comic and just the Killer!Sans tag here in Tumblr for a specific Killer meme I didn't find it so wtv. BUT I found a different discovery about my fav skele.

Warning for discussion of blood, death/killing, and medical and psychological issues involving vampirism.

Killer drinks blood.

Ok? Ok. So at first I'm a little unnerved by this and I run to some friends I was trying to find a meme for specifically and that was when I made this discovery and booked it to them and they called Killer a vampire.

But I'm really curious as to what this condition is. So, I did some research. To discover that Killer has a mental issue called Vampirism. Yes, the name is derived from the fictional vampire.

Although, the people who do have vampirism aren't doing it on purpose like the fictional vampire. Those who do have it or seem to have it have been diagnosed with mental issues that correlate with it or have deep-rooted trauma but often times (not all the time) don't believe themselves to be a vampire cases in point. But have issues with figuring out what is reality and what isn't. (Sounds like a certain skeeeleeee)

Auto-Vampirism (consumption of own blood) stems from a younger childhood-age traumatic event relating to blood and mixing the blood with pleasure. This pleasure can be anything, physical or emotional. Either way, the mind mixes it up and becomes very confused, and it chooses to correlate that physical/emotional satisfaction with consuming a persons own body. Small things like this can be picking open scabs to even bigger things to cutting deep in locations where veins are to satisfy that need for their own blood.

What I think Killer has is General Vampirism (Consumption of A Different Organisms Blood)

This roughly stems from the same thing, though it correlates more with schizophrenia/necrophilia the only difference is patients with General Vampirism, they are having a current episode of schizophrenia and can't get a grasp on realty or in a case where it felt like they HAD to their mind completely turning against them and had to satisfy the need for blood by committing violence towards another being. This can be animals and people. General Vampirism is also developed around heavy trauma relating to blood, just not during childhood.

Do with that information with what you will. This is some real stuff that I research on legit medical site about a case study and general info.

How does this relate to Killer?

As I said at the very start, Killer is found to be drinking blood, from a mug in an ask. (I'll post the images at the end) He exhibits schizophrenia often to the point where he gets confused and has to do reality checks by touching people as a way for him to figure out that they aren't another of his hallucinations. I think he may have vampirism. I'm not too sure which one, because of the fact that we, as the viewer, don't know who's blood he's exactly drinking in the image. While it may be leaning towards General Vampirism, because there isn't really any childhood trauma that comes to Killer as what happens to him lore-wise he is still a Sans from a child up until Frisk falls down into the Underground. Killer having killed a lot of monsters with Chara (eventually killing her as well) has that traumatic events relating to blood, as the blood was likely used as a source of pleasure or something to seek as a goal because of the mass amount of killing and causing suffering towards those he hurt with/without her. Including the amount of time spent with Nightmare, he may have even allowed or forced Killer to do it because it adds to the whole emotionless killing machine persona that he wants to build for Killer to be the perfect tool for him and to prevent others to try and reach out to Killer but to fear ever being near him. Personally, that is terrifying. I wouldn't want to be near a skele notorious for mass-murder, fully capable of doing it without a blink of an eye socket!

Either that or Nightmare may just think it's repulsive and disgusting in general and would punish Killer for doing so. Who knows.

But that is my thoughts on why I think Killer has General Vampirism sorry if it's really angsty angst but I enjoyed writing this and I like learning abt the different medical and psychological stuff abt my fav characters.

Said images I was referencing

I'm not losing my mind abt this- that's BLOOD RIGHT THERE- he has stated that he DONT EAT AND CHOOSES TO COLLECT HIS VICTIMS BLOOD AND DUST- WHAT HE IS DRINKING IS BLOOD IM NOT CRAZY-

[mgu-h]

is it always that bad in twitter after lando win? i feel like everyone wants to discredit this win, already saw at least 3 landogates with a lot of likes just started watching f1 and its already so shitty i had to go outside and touch grass

yes :( i personally had to quit using twitter about halfway through last year because i found the site to be just intolerable. don't use it for anything related to f1, especially after races. i know there are funny memes and some lando fans on there, but the entire site is designed around rage bait, and is full of fans of other drivers who simply cannot stand lando succeeding when their own driver fails. he seems to bother people an extra irrational amount, and the algorithm is designed to show you that. it wants to make you feel the need to fight back or to make you so sad you're unable to look away. you have to delete that app or log out, especially after races. not that f1blr here is perfect by any means, but you are in control of who you follow, and there's not an algorithm that actively tries to hurt your feelings. i personally don't know about any of the landogates at all, and it's not my responsibility to know about them as his fan. their hate is their problem.

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hey okay back with more fact checking.

The ig likes were of women older then him, actually of all ages, people only focused on the younger women to create a narrative of him going after younger woman. He was not targeting anyone.

He was a single guy. Living his life, why is that a problem. Geez when I was single I was also liking ig pics of guys.

Also, people are lying about him meeting Antonia on raya. No one knows how they met. Supposedly it was a mutual friend from B who introduced them, but like I said NO ONE KNOWS HOW THEY MET. So it's pointless to keep speculating.

About raya, you can get banned if you take any screenshots, but if anyone did why has no one shown it. Ik I already mentioned this but, Raya does not display any information about a user's preferences, including age or gender preferences, on their profile.

If luke was on raya ( again it's a dating app nothing wrong with it). This rumor only came from one gossip new sites that has a bad rep (dailymail). And they also said " allegedly ".

Soho house is visited by many celebs including bridgerton cast like Nicola, Claudia and other celebrities. Whenever luke attended he was always in group situations. So, too much context missing to even assume what these haters are saying, it seems like people wanted that narrative to be true so just ran with it.

ALSO, IG LIKES DOES NOT MEAN HE WAS SLEEPING WITH ANYONE ONE. ( sorry for the caps, but necessary for those who keep saying that)

If there's anything else I'll will look into.

Hi, thank you for coming back! Especially with such a dose of reason and logic that this fandom desperately needs.

I agree with everything here, sign under it even though I've not been around back then. But this sounds much more plausible than the narratives woven by the haters so I know what's my truth.

But to add a few things, I never understood why the whole ig likes thing became such a big deal. Because it literally isn't? We all interact with photos, including thirst traps, especially when we're single. And the whole narrative here makes it sound as though those photos were like nudes of underage girls... and that's not it at all? So why are we doing this in the first place?

Similarly, this fandom should learn that Daily Mail isn't a respectable source. It's something anyone who knows anything about the British press would tell you (and I studied journalism in the UK so 💁🏻‍♀️).

Finally, the beef some here have with Soho House (or even that part of London in general) is hilarious. It's literally just a chain of restaurants/clubs where lots of actors and socialites hang out. Not some nefarious place full of sin and hedonism. And Soho is the cool part of London that I personally adore for it's eclectic and queer atmosphere. So there.

Thank you for this! Never hesitate to come back with more logic.

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I’ll add my two cents here haha

• in 2016, we shifted from “welcome windows”, which were somewhat random times every few months that spanned 6-24 hours where the site was accepting new people, to “welcome weeks”, which were always right before the festival during any given month. The userbase would get together and do a huge welcome party for all the new users, often with specific welcome threads in flight forums.

Now this is speculation on my part, but that concentrated effort plus the new users probably made people more ‘into’ the site culture as a whole, right before the festival! I don’t think it’s a reach to say that some people might’ve thrown something together when swept in all that hype.

• now this is my bias showing but I think we were on the whole younger w more time in 2016 lol

• the G/T ratio was also 1:500. Skins that didn’t win were easier to print after

• we had WAY more user engagement from staff in the 2016 era. We had somewhat regular familiar coloring contests, we still had swipp skins and MP skins, and we thought those contests would come back! We also often had tooltip writing contests that we haven’t seen in several years now. It’s hard to retain user engagement like this when the ONLY thing to do is skins. Users are drifting away before the contests they’d enter even come around.

• the attitude towards staff is frankly, significantly more hostile, and this spreads to festival entries. Around 2018 (the skin market boom) there’d risen a sort of, feeling? Among users that staff plays favorites. That they only pick popular users. That “staff would never pick me, so I may as well not enter”.

-perhaps it’s pertinent to point out that this is something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. You can’t win if you don’t enter!

I think this all culminates in a userbase that’s burnt out and disinterested, despite the sheer volume of more people we have. (When I joined in 2015, earth only had 5000 users, and a significant portion of those were people who never picked a flight after making an account!)

I don’t really know how staff would fix this. Is it even something they’re interested in fixing? Is this a bug? I cant answer these questions because I just don’t know!

Festival Skin Entries by Year

Me and my friends who regularly enter festival contests have felt for the past few years that the number of entries per contest have dropped. Today we finally decided to compile every single festival submission thread since 2013 and see if that's true! This was pretty interesting, so we wanted to make a quick post to share the results. You can find the spreadsheet here.

*Note that 2013 only had 6 festivals contests, and we are only 3 contests into 2025.

2015 had the highest amount of total entries that year.

Arcane 2015 holds the highest non-2013 record of entries at 45 pages.

The flights with the highest number of entry pages total is Arcane at 285, Light with 280

The lowest pagecount total is not actually Earth but Wind with 178 pages!

The total number of entries per festival has definitely been in drastic decline since 2015. What's the reason for this?

Contest prize went up to 1.5kg for Plague 2014, then to 2kg for Light 2019.

Fest entry slots scaled these fests: Light 2013 - 6 slots Fire 2013 - 8 slots (+2) Plague 2013 - 10 slots (+2) Fire 2014 - 12 slots (+2) Fire 2015 - 14 slots (+2) Light 2023 - 16 slots (+2) Light 2024 - 20 slots (+4 - 2 permababy 2 general)

Light and Fire in 2013 did not have separate submission and discussion threads. We filtered the pages into those that contained an img and those that did not.

2023 Rockbreakers is an outlier. Entry pages are unusually high for that year (29 pages) because we ran a 500g giveaway to enter the contest.

...although, 29 pages would've been the norm in 2015-2016!

Pretty interesting data!

My own thoughts:

The observation that started this off was that Nature remained consistently high in entries over the past 4 yrs while every other flight seemed to decline. This is still true! Nature is the only flight that remains able to break the 20 page barrier!

Why has the userbase doubled, but festival submissions grow fewer and fewer each year?

What was going on in 2016?

Here's a link to the submission thread compilation on FR; I can't add the links on Tumblr, the site thinks I'm a spambot.

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"tiktok refugees" what if i slammed your face into the ground for using the word refugee like this

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All of the 141 collectively shed a tear when craigslist personals was shut down.

I just know that Captain John Price was frequently perusing the 'w4m seeking sperm donor 4 natural conception' posts :/