#if you're accusing me of posting a bunch of these because they're easy to make

[youling-the-ghost]

sfth incorrect quotes pt.6 because somehow I'm the most productive in the middle of the night (the generator)

Tom: Why is there blood everywhere?

Luke: I may have aggressively poked someone with a knife. Tom: You stabbed someone?! Luke: No, no. I aggressively poked someone with a knife. AJ: Hey, what are you reading? Sam: This is my magic book where any ink spilled shows a scripture of the future, however it bears a curse making it broken, and as such in order to make any scripture appears, I have to do it myself. AJ: Impressive! I must have it for myself! Tom: So it’s just a Notebook? Sam: It’s just a Notebook. Tom: I’ve become a bread crumb dealer to four crows at the lake. They pay me with a bit of everything. Like shiny things, fabric, or pens. But recently they paid me with a 20 dollar bill they found somewhere. So I decided to buy them some more expensive bread. They loved it. So they understand what to do. Give me money. I’ve probably racked up about 200 dollars at this point. Is it morally wrong though, I mean. They’re the ones who steal the money from others. Or perhaps they just have a big pile laying somewhere. Should I keep on doing this? Luke: You sound like the start of a Batman villain.

Tom: I'm going to take a shower, I'll be right back. Luke: Why are you telling me this, I don't care. Luke, right after Tom leaves the room: I miss him already. Luke: Assert your dominance over your friends by kicking them in the face, and then giving them a little smooch on the forehead! Luke: You don't think I can fight because of my height! Sam: I don't think you can fight because you're in a wedding dress. For what it's worth, I don't think Tom can fight in that dress either. Tom: Perhaps not. But I would make a radiant bride. Tom: Why are you late? Sam: A technical error occurred, causing an unexpectedly long bout of unconsciousness. Tom: Overslept? Sam: Overslept. Tom: Is anyone going to tell me what's going on in here?! AJ: It's kind of complicated, but Sam and Luke- Tom: Got it. Forget I asked. Sam: Luke is a perfect cinnamon scone who’s never done anything wrong in his entire life! Tom: Never done anything wrong?! He set a city block on FIRE!

AJ: What's the signal when something goes wrong? Sam: We yell, "oh shit." Tom: ...That'll work. Luke: I bet you can’t make a sentence without the letter "A"! Tom: You thought you just did something there, didn’t you? Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but numerous sentences could be constructed without employing the first letter of the English lexicon. AJ: Fuck you. Sam: I’m totally useless. Tom: You’re not totally useless. Tom: You can be used as a bad example. AJ: When do you usually go to sleep? Luke: Whenever I collapse is entirely up to the gods. Tom: Is… Is that meant to be on fire? Luke: No… not really. Tom: Are you going to do something about it? Luke: Hm… nah. Tom: Luke learned how to fold origami penguins from Sam the other day. I told him, "I feel a little bad for the penguins, it’s hot here." And the next day he put them in the fridge. Sam: I just found out that humans are capable of fitting a light bulb into their mouth with ease but can’t take it out without shattering it, and now I have to physically restrain myself from putting a light bulb in my mouth. Sam, barging in: Syphilis! AJ: Sam: AJ: Pardon? Luke, carrying a box: What would you say if- if I, hypothetically, came home with 7 kittens one day? Tom: ... Tom: What’s in the box? Luke: What woul- Tom: Luke, what’s in the box? Luke: I think you know. Sam: Today at 7 am, Tom poured a Monster energy drink in his coffee, said "I'm going to die" and drank the whole thing. Luke: I watched Tom brew his coffee with Monster instead of water. Three cups in two hours. I think he ascended into the astral realm. AJ: The survivability of the human race never fails to amaze me.

[anameistoohard]

Oh boy, lets open that can of worms

There's a LOT of discourse with endo vs anti-endo stuff (endogenic system=plural system not formed by trauma if you don't know 🙂). Like, death threats coming from both sides kinda thing. We try to stay out of it. But it's easy to accidentally stumble into it if you're not familiar with some of the nuance. So we want to share some observations as like, a crash course. (And apparently we had a lot to say lol.)

This post isn't really to debate how plurality forms. Just to give some context as to why so much hate is flying between these two groups.

Basically, you have 2 extremes. (And everyone in between obviously)

On one side you have people making up extra rules on top of the diagnostic criteria to exclude and gatekeep anyone who doesn't meet "their level" of disordered. (I've literally heard people say "you can't be a system, you're not as traumatized as me"). A lot of accusations of faking come from this bunch. Too much internal communication? Faker. Too many non-human alters? Faker. Too many or not enough alters? Faker. You can't win with them even if you have a diagnosis.

We've noticed a lot of parallels between this group and transmeds. You need to have x level of dysphoria to ride this ride. You can't be trans if you don't want xyz treatment. You need to reach my arbitrary bar of "trans enough". Enbys and everyone else are fakers. That kind of bs.

But on this side you also have a lot of people who just want to be taken seriously. They want to be validated by their diagnosis and feel hurt when people say or do things that they think will compromise that validity. They, at least initially, come from a place of sincerity not malice. But they fall into the trap of trying to be "one of the good ones".

On the other extreme you have the wild west. Things people treat as fact aren't codified with the same scrutiny as the DSM-5 or ICD-11. This breeds its own confusion and misinformation. We've seen people conflate plurality with things like maladaptive day dreaming, lucid dreaming, adhd, and (applying it to other people with ferocity to the point of harassment) metaphors of all things.

They have a spaghetti at the wall approach that reminds me of a less extreme MOGII (an attempt to define just about every possible form of gender and sexuality). It's a messy patchwork of ideas. We've seen 8 different labels that all mean the same thing and are being used by exactly no one. Redundancy and hyperspcificity, that's the name of the game. But frankly we like this if for no other reason than we want to see what sticks, what becomes mainstream.

We've seen people from this group attack people as badly as the anti-endo group. Openly mocking people for having trauma or saying vile shit like "traumagenics kys". They feel threatened by the exclusionary nature of diagnoses. But instead of taking their frustration out on the systems of power they take them out on normal people. After all if you're diagnosed, you "represent the system"... I guess. Equally bull shit.

But this is also where the edge cases go, the exclusions, those that don't fit into a neat little box. The DSM excludes people whose plurality is accepted as part of their culture or religion. These people don't suddenly stop being systems just because they're accepted, but they're distinctly not disordered. They don't meet the clinical definition of DID or OSDD. Same goes for someone whose symptoms are mild enough to not cause "clinically significant distress". You also have people who don't want to be pathologized or have been failed by the medical system.

So lastly, a warning: When dealing with plural stuff, it's very easy to go stumbling into a mine field.

Tldr: I would always rather land on the side of letting too many people in than exclude people who needed the support. However, no matter your in-group, some people take things too far. Like, ffs don't attack people. 

-Taylor & Mark

[scuttling-claws]

question 6

hiding under a read more bc this is a hate post LOL

literally, hitchannie shippers ruined the whole thing for me. a bunch of them spent literal MONTHS harassing me for preferring a different hitch ship and honestly, i just have a whole host of issues with them :/ i feel like for the most part they're annie fans who don't care about hitch, and only ship it because they think hitch is hot...i've seen literal HA mains not be able to come up with a single reason annie would like hitch besides her being hot. the few fics i've read always center around sex and give hitch 0 personality beyond being hot & loving annie. and honestly i feel like the subfandom is MAD ungrateful :/ they fight with people who don't have the same hcs (for example i got shit on bc i hc hitch as bi and they were mad and accused me of being a lesbophobe for that lol) and just...never seem grateful for what creators put out. like, when the episode when annie got out of the crystal first aired, there was a HUGE art boom and instead of being excited most HAs were crying about how it was gonna end and they wouldn't get content again soon. i'm talkin 5 minutes after the ep aired they were already hand-wringing. also they're more interested in putting them in boxes they don't fit in rather than talking about what actually makes them an interesting & good ship. like the grumpy x sunshine thing....anyone who genuinely believes hitch is a sunshine girlie is illiterate lmfao and everyone who ships HA for that reason actually ships minannie. i find them mad hypocritical, too. constantly shitting on aruani and calling armin a pedophile for being interested in annie since she was in the crystal and didn't age but turn around and ship her with hitch. nobody has to like a ship obvi but making up moral reasons to oppose it when the ship you DO like has the same pitfall is stupid. and honestly i feel like they're so OBSESSED with shitting on marlowe and mischaracterizing him? like in what world would the guy who's interested in justice & equality be a homophobic right winger...like if you're not interesting enough to come up with a compelling conflict homophobia & making him some creep who can't take no for an answer is easy i guess lol. and there's this obsession with proving that hitch hated him which is insane?? you don't have to ship them or anything i really & truly do not care but the way people are fucking illiterate and say with their whole stupid chests that she hates marlowe or doesn't care about him is nuts.

honestly, i still do like HA and sometimes write for them, but i only enjoy them in the privacy of my home. i will literally NEVER post more HA bc i don't want to feed that shit community any more than i already have

[paradoxicalcurio]

Okay, let's break some shit down! I recommend just skipping over this post unless you're one of the three dozen or so people with enough personality issues to create callout blogs.

Okay, let's take this apart bit by bit.

>cries about getting blocked, calls it "selfish"

It is selfish. I don't know what the fuck happened to the concepts of communication and respect, but it seems like a lot of people don't follow them anymore in favor of completely avoiding anything that makes them even a little uncomfortable. All I want is the chance to clear up misunderstandings before they explode into situations that draw uninvolved people in. I try to give that to people, after all!

>antagonizes people in IMs people who reblog callout posts instead of unfollowing them

Related to the above point. I definitely wasn't 'antagonizing' or 'harassing' anyone, I was politely pointing out the corruption inherent in callout culture, which so far you have failed to convince me is fake. And if you happen to see this, Soy, just know that it's only a matter of time before someone tries to cancel you.

>brings up neurodivergence for no reason

Bitch, we both know that mentally ill people make prime bullying targets. Don't try to pretend otherwise.

Maybe if you actually read the callouts or followed what you preached you wouldn't be on your 10th block evasion blog.

Why would I want to read a bunch of uninformed accusations based on misunderstandings, exaggerations, carefully cropped screenshots taken out of context, and outright falsehoods? I've seen enough to know the basic formula. And it's quite bold of you to accuse me of trying so hard to block evade, when there was only ONE incident that only occurred because I didn't realize the person, who was following my Nerissa blog, had my OC blog blocked until AFTER the fact, and tried to bring that up only to have the door slammed in my face. There are plenty of other reasons to delete and remake blogs, such as wanting a fresh start, or in my case, because of DEPRESSION. So this accusation only proves my point about misunderstandings and falsehoods.

Maybe don't gloat about following someone who was outed for being manipulative and turn around acting like the people mad at you for going "all callouts bad".

This brings me to another issue I have with callouts: I can decide for myself whether someone is bad or not. I don't need someone who's already biased against the person trying to convince me that they're Satan. And also, you remember that dumpster fire with all the trans women being targeted, reported, and harassed, just a few weeks ago? Yeah, that was callout culture. Even if I believed you people had everyone's best interests at heart, it is way too easy for bigots to use this tool to turn public opinion against marginalized people.

at this rate you're going to defend someone who actually did something akin to sexually assaulting someone with concrete proof-

I highly fucking doubt that. Especially since you people don't care about concrete evidence.

-and then double down while acting smug before deleting your blog and coming back again so all the people who blocked you before need to re-block you.

See my above point, re: more likely reasons for deleting and remaking. And if that does happen, those people won't need to worry, as I'll have already done my part and re-blocked them first.

[keikakudori]

✿ What do you think about public call out posts?

♒ Thoughts on the fandom you're currently rping in?

❣ How salty are you feeling right now?

the salty af munday meme

✿ What do you think about public call out posts?

i don't like them. never have. never will.

it's far too easy for people to make up bullshit out of nothing and toss accusations about with nothing substantial behind this so-called callout. and, quite frankly, public callouts come off as very witch hunt-y to me. nine times out of ten, i will blatantly ignore a call out post because i've seen too many of them being used to smear someone's name or inspire slander against them, along with encouraging mob mentality to dogpile the person in question. and a lot of the time, it can ( and has ) come out that the entire thing was complete and utter BULLSHIT.

and of course, by the time that it comes out that this was indeed a smear campaign, the person who was targeted has possibly lost all their friends and has decided to quit whatever they're doing.

now, that's not to say that i am against people going "hey you should be cautious when interacting with X because they have shown some behavior which is troubling" but there is a world of difference between quietly going to a friend and giving them a heads up or cautioning them over interacting with someone you've had experience with and that experience wasn't great versus dropping a massive callout post so people can consume it for what feels like a very soap opera menality. it feels more like the point of callout posts is to inspire drama and rip friend circles apart sometimes.

but if someone IS being blatantly predatory? then there had better be more than just "oh, i'm saying this because they're writing things that make me uncomfy." i'll buy a little more into a callout if more than three people are sharing similar experiences. once is chance. twice is coincidence. three times is enemy action. just block them and move on.

people can make their own judgments.

and if ten or a hundred people see the same event, then you will have ten or a hundred different versions of what actually happened. even if a person is toxic as all get out? then just tell your friends so they can block them. it does not need to become an absolute circus of "HE SAID/SHE SAID/THEY SAID" and so on and so forth. i think that callouts are tied into cancel culture and i'm so tired of them both.

i believe in giving people a chance to learn from their mistakes and grow as a person. not everyone will; that's the sad, simple truth of life. but i absolutely do not believe in holding something someone said in ignorance or whatnot against them. everyone deserves the chance to better themselves and if they're condemned or attacked, then that won't change anything. people should be able to be told "hey, what you said wasn't great; could you not repeat that in the future?" without being attacked for it.

just don't do it again, yeah?

♒ Thoughts on the fandom you're currently rping in?

honestly, i consider the bleach rpc to be pretty chill for the most part. i feel like it's not a very big rpc and i'm always excited to see new people in it, or people returning to it these days - ESPECIALLY with the blood war finally being aired. but it does feel like everyone knows everyone and we're all a bunch of friends getting to sit around and tell our silly stories to each other. sure, there's been a few people that i've interacted with that i probably won't do so again, but i feel like a lot of the drama's petered out and that's not a bad thing.

besides, i've met some amazing writers in this rpc ( besides cas ) and i'm so happy i have. this is a very comfy rpc for me! it's a homey sort of place and i'm glad that people have fun here. have i seen some bad takes? yeah. have i seen drama? yes, absolutely. but overall, it's a genuinely pleasant rpc these days. no need to really change anything, i feel.

❣ How salty are you feeling right now?

maybe about a 2 on a 1 to 10 scale. lmao. i'm feeling "i need a nap" more than anything.

[just-messing-around]

Pro can mean a lot of stuff. Professional, being in favor of something, Public Relations Officer, ect.

But for some reason, I've been seeing 'pro' be used for 'pro'blematic all over twitter.

'If you're a pro shipper, don't interact. I hate those people!'

Yo! 'Pro' shipping means 'I'm not gonna get in an argument with you if you think (insert characters) should be in a relationship instead of (insert other characters). I'mma just gonna let you do your thing'!

It was never meant to be 'I like to put characters into problematic or toxic relationships'!

I have no idea when people started to link 'pro' with 'problematic' or WHY, but I'm getting tired of seeing people get bullied on social media because a bunch of people don't understand what it means. I could just be scrolling through twitter and all of a sudden, people are being accused of being supporters of VERY bad relationships when in reality; that person just means something like 'I enjoy this canon ship because those characters make a really great couple in my eyes, but if you like one of the characters with another character better, I support you and am not gonna bite your head off over it'.

They're 'oh, yay, love between fictional characters! Let's have fun! I can't wait to see why everybody likes the relationships they support!' They're not 'I'm going to take these characters and put them into an incredibly toxic or problematic relationship'!

Some pro shippers are also 'problematic' shippers, but not all pro shippers are problematic!

I'm a pro shipper, not a 'problematic' shipper! I'm also a multi shipper!

I'm:

'Well, I'm not a personal fan of this ship, but I'm glad you like it'

And

'I love Luz x Amity, but Luz x Hunter seems interesting, too. Oh! Amity x Luz x Hunter x Willow??' (Just as an easy example)

I am not:

'I ship this minor with this adult (or insert other problematic or illegal thing), heheh, I'm so problematic and love all kinds of illegal stuff in my ships and will try to force this stuff onto others'!

Like, what?! Stop confusing it! Who linked 'pro' with 'problematic', when and why?

Innocent people are getting a bad reputation and being treated bad because of assumptions just because people are misunderstanding what 'pro' is meant to stand for!

If I put 'pro shipper' in my bio or something, I mean 'feel free to talk with me about your ships. I'm willing to listen, but if it makes me.uncomfortable for some reason, I'll ask to talk about something else'. But if I put that, people will think I mean 'problematic shipper' and all of a sudden, I'll be blocked by a bunch of people and possibly even open a social media app to see a bunch of hate mail or posts!

[sugar-and-spice-cl]

Lewis: compliments Charles after Silverstone

@slow-button-off : omg he's so petty!

Max: says this year's fight for the title is respectful while last year it wasn't

@slow-button-off : omg he's so right!

🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

First of all, there's no fight, even Marko wished Charles a race without strategy fuckups because Ferrari is a joke this year. Saying this nonexistent fight is respectful is condescending and disingenuous at best. It's easy to be gracious when you are on top of the standings and are more or less certain to remain there.

Second, it wasn't Mercedes or the Hamiltons throwing murder and drugs accusations at their rival driver and making fans feel justified in their racist abuse of the only black driver, it was RB and the Verstappens.

And they have the audacity to say "how dare British journalists say last year wasn't respectful!"?

And call Lewis petty but Maxie the best guy ever even though he says slurs and defends racists????

Max apologists are a bunch of hypocrites. They should check their biases and racism cause they're obvious to anyone.

Hey! This is the second ask calling out slow-button-off's racism that I received in like 3 weeks, and like the fifth post all together that I see about it, so it's obvious that there's an issue here with this individual, I'm not trying to dismiss you! But I'm sorry, don't know this person. There's nothing I can do about this. Maybe we interacted in the past but I honestly can't remember because I'm not on F1 tumbrl much (which makes the fact that I've already seen several posts about it very concerning).

Anyway this isn't the first time I'm asked about this blog, so I'm going to address it.

I absolutely agree that Lewis and his family were as respectful as they could be when faced with the racist shitstorm RB threw at them. iirc Lewis had to hire security because he was receiving so many threats. Anyways, I remember Lewis' father congratulating MV after the race that shall not be named and Lewis spraying MV with champagne even though he was robbed due to "human error" (ahem, let's call it that, since it's what the official sources say; we all know it was a deliberate choice by Masi).

Lewis didn't storm off the podium, didn't incite or condone abuse, didn't ignore awful fans behavior. He even called out fans who cheered at MV's crashes.

You'd literally have to hold a gun at MV's head to hear similar words, and HIS fans are the ones sexually harassing people, throwing racist and homophobic slurs around and burning Lewis' and Merc's merch in the stands (which is incredibly fucked up and concerning).

And they do it because they don't get reprimanded in any way for it. Because their hero doesn't say anything about it. MV can't control people of course, but he - being their hero - can influence them.

And we're all seeing the results of such influence.

In general I 100% agree with you. There is no fight this year. Not with MV. Hopefully Charles can keep his p2, but with new upgrades coming for everyone, who knows. Perez had some bad races lately but today's data showed that he's still quite fast (third fastest after Charles and MV iirc).

Charles problem is one and only one. Unfortunately, it's a massive one: Ferrari.

So yeah, MV calling this a respectful fight makes me laugh honestly. If Charles were 10 points behind or ahead of him, who knows what he, his family and team would say. Last year they were so vocal...

Or maybe they would say nothing because Charles is white and doesn't fit the stereotype of the angry, wannabe killer, drug addict black man that RB and the Verstappens went for last year 🙄

As for the blog you're calling out, I truly don't mean to sound dismissive, but I just don't know what to do. I'm sorry!

But if them or anyone like them is reading this, I hope you understand that if you don't call out terrible behavior, even when it's your fave that perpetrates it, you're part of the problem.

The fact that MV can say slurs, defend racists, not call out his violent fans and people find a thousand ways to justify him, but Lewis can't compliment Charles without people calling him petty or a snake is just concerning.

[spiltcandycoatedpunkblood]

more on your turn table au, [grabby hands] hand the angst over

you're in luck, I've got a whole bunch more already, i was about to post but i go hype for asks so i'M READY. it's all coming together nicely. asks really get me going too, so this is perfect

- it gets to a point where the rest of the crew apart from Mac are assimilated. before, some of the crew were in protest and doubting themselves even before the first argument, but they were still doubting when it happened and either go along (pretty much involuntarily, through fear) or get turned soon after

- the crew don't just end up making accusations based on him being a Thing, they bring up dirt on him as a person just to make the whole thing worse, especially the whole idea that he's putting on this front, probs thinking he's better than people and thinking he can just tell them what to do (the turn tables indeed); it also ends up making him sound less convincing when he tries to argue back and they make his reaction as proof that he's both a) not worth it and not good enough and b) a Thing so clearly he's not trustworthy even to begin with

- even throughout some of the crew start to question but manage to hide this for fear of who could be a Thing, but unfortunately it's not easy and they get forcibly assimilated as a result

- even though you can't always tell who's a Thing without proper tests, it sucks that Mac has seen proof of the crew being Things and that he's been accused by potential things of something he's not and his own crew are being potentially dragged into securing his own demise because he's the main guy, he keeps on top of things and his own emotions to keep the peace. if he falls apart or if he gets killed, shit's gonna go wild and they can take over the base and go from Antarctica

- the guy who sabotaged his helicopter?? totally Blair. thought that would be a cool parallel from the film, besides the fact that we don't know when he got assimilated and what his destruction of the base was about

- when he does discover his helicopter's been sabotaged, they're clearly waiting for him as he moves away from it and they do it in a very dystopian like way, like, "it'd be better if you weren't able to do that, we don't know who or what you are" and "we're doing this for the best" and though he's like "bullshit, no you ain't", inside he's like "they can't trust me and I don't know who they are, what the fuck do I do" and the distrust and paranoia just makes leaps and bounds from there

- he can't tell who, if any, of the crew are not Things, and he has a feeling to appeal to one of them but he's not sure if a) they're a Thing clearly there to trap him, b) a human being manipulated and not able to help him because they'll get done over too or c) a human clearly manipulating him to get him trapped by the Things themselves

- obviously none of them can tell who the Things are, but none of them are willing to take risks to bypass their decision to kill Mac since they'll probably get done over whether that be because they'll be accused of being a Thing or colluding with Mac and therefore not on their side (the whole 'us v them' mentality)

- the whole scene with the dynamite?? almost happens, but they get to it before him and dispose of it, mocking and making threats about how if he doesn't go with them, but he manages to lock himself in the storage area in the process and has to figure out a way of defending himself before they break the door down because clearly he's fucked out in the snow without his helicopter

- it's obvious he doesn't want to go quietly so frankly they corner him at one point, or surprise and knock him the hell out, either way, because Things are bastards and will weaponise anything, even your friends against you, to take over the base, and we get this nice swap where he's the one restrained to the couch this time, and he has to bank on someone being human enough or even someone who's a Thing to find a window of opportunity to appeal to before the worst comes to the worst

- although they decide to test his blood, regardless, it gets to a point where the tables are turned yet again and they're going to kill him anyway because he's just that much of a threat and no one's gonna be able to fend them off now as they take over the base, especially it now being harder to tell who's a Thing and who's not, and frankly it was neat that they could turn the tables and make him understand whilst he couldn't do shit

- Mac is hoping to find most appeal in Windows (besides the fact I ship them, there's clearly that bond between them) although he fears the worst knowing his anxious disposition and the idea that the Things would find it easier to tell where he really stood and that his connection to Mac would make him a threat and saw him as easily disposable (and potentially able to be a manipulator that way due to Mac's tenuous but still clear appeal to him for help)

yoooo, I'm really liking where this is going!! I'm so glad I could throw some more angst at you concerning it. that's pretty much it for the moment, though it's obviously already a lot. I loved doing this, thank you so much!!