#internet culture is well culture so

[spotsupstuff]

(hii Spot been awhile) Something I think that's interesting about the observation about how Slugcats are getting so much attention nowadays is that its almost a 180 from how things were in the pre-downpour days, iirc.

Though I am glad we're getting an AU like yours it's so interesting compared to the usual

Im eating with a fork

Yeah, the fandom was not particularly strong back then, but I think there was more Iterator content. My suspicion as to why slugcats are so much more popular now is because the general "cat appeal"*. Downpour brought in wider audience which mostly consists of people that go wild over cat videos on the internet.

Not my intention to throw shade on it, because after all what does my opinion matter to anyone, but I find the whole "cuteness cult" of the internet annoying and, when applied to Rain World, frustrating. There's a whole silent worldbuilding in basically every screen of the game and the only thing that people seem to take away post-DP is "cute sluggy go wooo :3 the Ancients were such cultist pricks Dx". Which like alright, but expand a little on the latter please? Try? There is So much fun to it when one moves past the "religion only BAD" mindset.

DP also I think didn't care much about the Ancients and the culture they left behind (and therefore the root of Iterators). "But there's Saint!" Saint is almost everything new that wasn't heard of before, can be taken as another fact of monstroid mad religion and, of course, it Has to be wrapped in a fluffy cat package. The undergrowth Echo also feels like a spit in the face to the lore/religion than an addition, to me. My *guess* would be the original intention was showing an individual who failed to ascend because of the Fifth Hindrance but it doesn't *feel* like it. If that was the intention, I think the author didn't understand why a desire to live/survive could ever, in any form, be bad

It's interesting as well in the sense that when there was only Survivor, maybe up to Hunter- the slugcats felt like a vehicle that brings the player to the story. The player saw the world through their eyes and got to experience the world's rules, abiding them- the original campaigns were still subject to the lore/religion of the world.

DP made the slugcats characters, the main focus, in some cases a rebelion against the lore/religion (forever beef against new route for Survivor and Monk). So people had an easier time latching onto them.

That is my theory at least. Fact is also when I first watched RW I almost didn't get into it as a creator because I felt like I had nowhere to hook to and work with. Characters are great anchor points for people to latch on to and then work with/through, so it's not like I blame the fandom for quite literally getting slug infested. It's natural and logical and I'm well aware of it as someone who's trying to be a writer. Still frustrating.

Either way, at least there's a vacuum for me to fill with something I'm actively actually passionate about. It's kind of a sweet bonus that people are somewhat interested, too.

[periprose]

I have to say it, some of you are too invested in celebrity lives. We don't know them even if we like their work. We cannot critique their dating choices or their opinions because they're not people we actually know. All we know is their images.

[valkyrievanessa]

it is kinda wild to me about how the internet completly changed how people see Astolfo, the one from the fate franchise (apocrypha, extella and fgo), because both characters are so different that is really weird and sad to be honest, because i kinda like Astolfo from the franchise, and i kinda hate this version that internet (mostly men online) created.

Astolfo in the franchise is a goofy person, impulsive, energetic, that enjoys dressing with woman clothes because he likes to be cute, he think farts are really funny and can laugh about just everything. He is loyal to the people he likes, he is one of the twelve paladins, and despite being this weird goofball of a person, he will put his life in danger to help the ones he really likes. He is fun to read/watch, he is far to be the strongest of the paladins but he will still fight monsters like Tametomo if he needs to do it with a smile on his face. So, pretty much he is a really likable character and i do like him (and he don't care about his gender, you could say that he is non binary and would actually not be wrong)

Now, the internet perception of Astolfo is far more simple, he is a femboy and loves sex... that's it, there is nothing more to it, it's just that. He is also worshiped by the most misoginistic and transphobic pieces of shit that i ever saw on the internet.

The internet version of the character is the common perception about him by the way, i enjoyed the character but years on the internet completly distorted the character in my mind (even if i not activelly consume or like femboy stuff) until i read Traum in fgo, i kinda started to hate astolfo as the time passed until i read Traum, this chapter made me remember that astolfo is nothing like the one i keep seeing online for years, made me remember that i actually liked the character.

[torgawl]

if you call himmel pathetic i'm throwing hands at you. himmel showed the purest form of love for frieren and you guys think that's pathetic? what's pathetic is not respect other people's feelings or boundaries and acting like people owe you anything just because you like them. himmel was happy to have a friendship with frieren within her own conditions just because he genuinely enjoyed her as part of his life. he was happy to wait for her for his entire life is he had to but he also never stopped living for himself. that's fucking beautiful. loving someone so much you are able to let them go, not wanting to change who they are or impose anything on them? unconditionally, nonetheless? that's the point of life.

[grimark]

i get the impression that a lot of white yanks on the internet feel that making fun of (in particular) UK regional slang or accents or whatever is in some way punching down, when it actually makes you look like the exact same kind of arrogant, ignorant american stereotype that the rest of the world is embarrassed by. you're not throwing tea into the harbour right now or what the fuck ever, you're just making it extremely clear that you think america is the centre of the world, and you've never experienced anything to challenge that belief.

[tricksterlatte]

Anyone else think short form social media based on algorithms designed to promote topics that create more engagement instead of more joy, the idea of fast fashion but conveyed through social media, and the fact you can monetize suffering and outrage better than ever has largely resulted in the death spiral of media literacy and the mass emergence of bad faith readings?

[infernalmelancholy]

okay i've been seeing more and more people, especially fic writers and fan artists, leaving social media because of the way they're being treated and it's becoming worrying.

fandom creators are not celebrities (not that you should treat celebrities horribly either but y'know what i mean.) most of the time they're teenagers or young adults just making some art in their room at 3am about a thing they like.

you have no right to make demands or offer unsolicited criticism. no right. it's the equivalent of banging on your neighbor's door to let them know you don't like how they've decorated their garden. it's their garden. you can look at it. you can like or dislike it. and then you move along. you're not allowed to demand that they change it.

and when people share things about their personal life online that is not an invitation for you to invade their privacy or converse with complete strangers like they're your childhood besties.

respect people's boundaries. ask for permission before offering your opinion. just be fucking nice to people please.

[good-beanswrites]

My english lyrics for Triage woo! (They're written out under the cut, I just wanted to share my lil chart lol)

Though I'm too indecisive to officially label this as my favorite song, it's had the strongest emotional impact on me by far. It holds a special place in my heart, I definitely wanted to write lyrics for it first! I'll leave all my rambling process commentary in the tags, but I was so happy with how it came out!!

All of those cards of promise thrown down carelessly,

This must be retribution for all I've taken endlessly.

If that were the case, it should have been fate for me to die.

That's the truth, given my crime, so why--?

No, I can't take it, to this cruel joke I'll submit. You

don't know, you can't know, but I'm ready to admit:

Killing for them, extracting for them, won't change the fact they're dead.

I need someone to tag me as RED.

It makes me sick (sick), it's too unpleasant. Sick (sick)

Is this punishment? What do you mean I'm INNOCENT?

I see, the world is cruel and leaves you on your own.

(I can't die) to atone. (I can't love) alone.

I can't be saved (saved), you've nothing to give. Saved (saved)

But what if I lived? Why else would you choose to forgive?

I see, there's lives to save so let's be sensible.

Right now, you need me, (I can be) indispensable.

Tilt to and fro, I know the scales should land on GUILTY for me.

Tilt fro and to, it's INNOCENT that they choose.

They cry (x4) out in pain, I can hear them. There's no one else, to guard their health,

My mission is offering help.

All of those cards of promise thrown down carelessly,

This must be retribution for all I've taken endlessly.

So if that's the case, then it must be fate to make amends,

Extract that fang before we meet the end.

It makes me sick (sick), it's too unpleasant. Sick (sick)

Is this punishment? What do you mean I'm INNOCENT?

I see, the world is cruel, but what I've realized is

(Now I want) to be INNOCENT. (Now I want) to live.

It makes me sick (sick), This wasn't my plan, hostages at my command.

Their future resting in my hands

I see, there's lives to save so let's be sensible.

Right now, please save me, (I will be) indispensable.

Maybe this was meant to be -- oh  -- or maybe neither of us can know

There's lives to save so let's be sensible.

Right now, please save me, (I will be) indispensable.

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I mentioned earlier that I always get annoyed with myself when people post translyrics and I can't figure out the rhythm they were going for, so here's a recording of me singing, but I'm bad at it! It's just for fun! Like a rough draft for music! Because the only thing worse than people hearing my voice is people thinking I can't count syllables!

[passionfruitmango]

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Honestly I am really not understanding the hard on that people have for debunking astrology.

That's so cool you found a fact based study debunking it all! Wow did you ever take interest in astro personally or does your healing involve attacking what you don't understand just like people have done to you?

Because I do find it really interesting that you read that whole study! But have you taken the time to learn about reading a natal chart and it's aspects? How planets can express themselves differently depending on which house they're in? How about expanding on that and exploring profection years and the charts that go with them. Any interest in astrocartography? Or is it just an interest in debunking things you haven't fully grasped yet?

It doesn't stop at learning basics, just like all things in life, you're never truly *done* learning. But if dismissing something that serves actual merit for people-and more importantly CULTURES outside your own-makes you feel something, cool whatever just block me about it because I'm tired of colonizers not understanding something and then deeming it as "bad" and "evil" instead of colonizing some knowledge to better understand something outside of your scope of normalcy.

But whatever. Keep "debunking" to shut things down. Like you're not doing the same shit you hate people doing to you.

[irithnova]

I cackle when I see people parade around their singular Siberia ocs. What the fuck do they represent exactly? The Sakha? Evenk? Buryats? Evens? Soyots? Yukaghir? Oroch? Nenets? Nanais? Tuvans? Nivkh? Chukchi? Koryaks? ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT GROUPS??

It's like making a fucking Africa OC and treating Africa like it's a singular country.

[oystertongue]

remind me to write about how wellness influencers are laundering jordan peterson style "women are chaos" gender politics as biological through ideas like "happy hormones" and cycle syncing

[mantisgodsdomain]

Slowly, yet painfully realizing that we're probably the exact type of person that random fandom guys would miscast as a father.

[beanghostprincess]

I’m definitely never gonna admit it off anon in my entire life but you made me realise I didn’t ship shuggy that much because of the looks I did prefer ships who look cooler together but now I read shuggy fiction more often so there’s a win

You would not tortured that information off anon out of me tho

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Shuggy could be as strong as zolu

It is possibly one of the best OP ships out there

There I said it

Bye, never seek me And if you do find me I never said any of this /hj

Anon, sweetie, are you aware that you can freely ship Shuggy and say these things publicly and there is nothing wrong with that? It IS a ship with a very deep bond and a tragic backstory and I consider it to be one of the best OP ships too... It's alright, you are so right and real for this. Please, don't be so reluctant to ship them 😭💖

[eisthenameofme]

i wonder if there's the potential for a solution to the doxxing fucking over marginalized people specifically thing and/or the some people only being able/knowing where to engage with community online thing if we we were able to like. weaponize the relative lack of actual anonymity in the opposite direction.

like for one thing, instead of doxxing just resulting in problems from others in person, using that information to actively support the person instead, and for another for the other potentially more targeted use of the internet to find people to engage with in person (although that one you'd have to be even more careful about in case it worked in the opposite direction. I'm just thinking it would be nice to have something more structured/widespread than happening to find out your internet friends are in your local area, that could potentially be used to circumvent people not meeting in third spaces/other issues people have initially finding local community in person.)

It would be nice if instead of exclusively finding offline solutions/telling people how to be more careful we could also use what's often part of the problem to our advantage when it does happen. Like, having a way to address it that isn't only preventative.

[diss-track]

You can not say you're cultured if you've never traveled outside of Canada, US, and Europe. You can not say you're open-minded and open to different cultures if you haven't talked to foreign people outside of Canada, US, and Europe for YEARS of your life.

[dragongirltongue]

I will not argue on tumblr dot corn

I will not argue on tumblr dot corn

I will not argue on tumblr dot corn

I will not argue on tumblr dot corn

I will not argue on tumblr dot corn

I will not argue on tumblr dot corn