#its one thing if someone else insults it but when the creator

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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE STOP REPOSTING GIFS.

“bu…bubu- but they’re just wittle pixels and digital images rwight 🥺” no. we spend hours on gifs or even one singular gif to make edits for FREE on tumblr dot com. name a person who asked us to do this. no one!! exactly!! we make gifs bc its enjoyable and fun but people like reposters suck the fun out of it!!! and do NOT go and tell us that “gifs aren’t that hard to make” baby girl what do u think we do? go online and search for a video downloader and download it at like a crappy 720p and go to like literal ezgif dot com and all the gifs just MAGICALLY have their effects, typography, colouring, blending, animation, quality all up and ready? why dont u try and make a gif. hm.

and also, @ all of you “gif collectors” or some fanfic writers. lemme tell u a secret. an itty bitty secret. did u know… theres this really cool thing called PROPERLY CREDITING? im not talking about a stupid “credits to the owners” no. it isn’t that hard to properly source the creators or accounts.

that wasn’t so hard, hm?

also oh my god, do NOT go around saying you made these gifs when it is so obvious you didn’t. no bff, it isn’t a coincidence we have the same sharpening AND colouring settings.

and hey, i’ll stop my angry typing for a minute and just say that if you wanna learn how to make gifs there are plenty of amazing accounts and tutorials that are incredibly detailed. here are a few i recommend:

how to: make high quality gifs by sith-maul

giffing 101 by cillianmurphy

giffing and colouring tutorial by sashafierce

how to fix and avoid orangewashing characters by maxchapman

how to fix and avoid white/pink/yellowwashing by jeonwonwoo

how to: colouring east & southeast asians by blueshelp

pastel gifs: a tutorial by completeresources

how to fix and avoid whitewashing in pastel gifs by fadenet

and for those who don’t want to pay/ t*rr*nt photoshop:

free giffing tutorial by ashleysolsen

photopea gif tutorial by lacebird

and @usergif has a bunch of directories and navigation for tutorials and inspiration!

again, there are so many useful tutorials if you’d just look.

i know this probably won’t stop all reposters (unfortunately) but i hope those reposters that are reading this realise how messed up stealing gifs are. it isn’t funny or cool to see gifs that you’ve spent so much time on only to be reposted here or on other sites without credit or being claimed as someone elses.

we’re just asking for a proper credit on your post or maybe even stop reposting in whole. im sure you had good intentions in making those posts, but you have to understand how much it hurts. at this point, we have to put our watermarks in the middle of our gifs to avoid people cropping them out.

and please, PLEASE reblog edits. you have no idea how diminishing it is to see such a crappy like to reblog ratio. remember this hellsite has such a crappy algorithm so reblogging is essentially one of the only ways to give posts more traction

AGAIN. dont repost gifs. dont steal gifs without credit. dont belittle gifmakers. just stop being so disrespectful and rude and have a brain for once. thank you for reading.

edit: ive noticed ppl asking why i kinda like insulted those who use 720p and ezgif, im really sorry if i made it sound like a bad thing !! i was just very angry writing this aaaadjskdks gifmaking, HQ or not is valid and nobody deserves to get their creations stolen !

[radiosummons]

Even though Wolfwood is very much not an actual Catholic priest, I do find it compelling that Vash--someone without any religious beliefs and minimal exposure to "Christianity," courtesy of Rem (OG Trigun)--is the most faithful of the two.

And by "faithful," I don't mean so much in a religious or Christian sort of sense. More that Vash holds onto his faith that there is good in people and that everyone is worth saving. That the taking of a life is something so unspeakable to him that it will literally cause him immense mental, emotional and physical pain when he is forced to do so. His unshakeable belief, i.e. his faith that every life is precious and no one is beyond redepmtion irregardless of how morally corrupt an individual may be is so foundational to who he is as a character.

While I've only really experienced this through anime and various other Japanese based video games, I do enjoy seeing depictions of Christian iconography and concepts form non-Western creators. I love the art and memes of Vash being a "biblically accurate angel" (even though Plants aren't angels, I am so fucking happy that people are picking up on the unintentional symbolism) and I do enjoy the amount of, again, art and memes of Wolfwood being a cringefail Catholic priest.

But I also love the non-Western depiction of Christianity in Trigun, or rather the apocalyptic remnants of it. Despite the fact I have lost my ability to have faith in a higher being (and my own personal beef/distate with the Catholic Church/conservative Christianity as a whole), I find the worldbuilding of Trigun fascinating in this aspect as it provides its audience an alternative form of a global religion that's very relevant to our daily lives.

In Trigun, Christianity is very much a shadow of its former self, a leftover remnant of humanity--more specifically, a remnant of an old forgotten belief system--that has been essentialy been lost. Save for a few remaining Bibles and some memories of particular Catholic iconography/symbolism.

But overall, that's all that remains. Just familiar symbols and various rituals that some people are able to recall from their former lives.

So the decision to pair Vash up with someone like Wolfwood, someone who has lost his faith in humanity as a whole but has resolved himself to protect those that he can (or rather, deems worthy of saving) ... I find that relationship absolutely fascinating. Because I'd argue that in most Western depictions of a holy man (typically Christian and typically Catholic, let's be real), it's usually the holy man that is doing the saving. Or at the very least, is usually helping guide the other characters on their own paths towards redemption.

Despite the fact Wolfwood isn't an actual priest but instead an assassin trained by a mercenary group using the guise of an old religion (again, that most of humanity has clearly forgotten about), I find it to be a wonderful storywriting choice to make Vash the "holy man."

They're both incredibly tragic characters that burden themselves with crippling destinies. Destinies that ultimately lead to their own destruction, but hopefully all for the greater good. Vash holds faith that maybe, just maybe, he can make Nai realize the error of his ways and turn over a new leaf.

Understandably, Wolfwood finds this way of thinking horribly childish and naive. He even takes it as a personal insult when Vash continues to insist that killing people, even if it's for the sake of protecting someone else, is wrong.

But Vash isn't wrong for wanting to see the good in people. To borrow a quote from Everything Everywhere All At Once: "You tell me it's a cruel world, and we're all running around in circles. I know that. I've been on this earth just as many days as you. When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. It's how I've learned to survive through everything. I know you see yourself as a fighter. Well, I see myself as one too. This is how I fight."

Granted, Vash doesn't express his beliefs as eloquently as this. But that doesn't really matter, though. Because Wolfwood doesn't need Vash to make express himself this way for Wolfwood to finally understand him. Vash, by the simple of virtue of being himself, is a good person who chooses to see the good in others.

And Wolfwood ... Wolfwood is someone who chooses to see the bad.

Wolfwood cannot quite bring himself to view the world the way Vash does. And Vash will never be able to share Wolfwood's opinions regarding who is worthy of living, either. But they respect each other and understand where the other person is coming from.

It does take Wolfwood a lot longer to understand Vash as a person, let alone his faith in humanity. But when he does, it's so satisfying to watch Vash become someone important to him. Someone that he wants to protects. Because if Vash won't defend himself, Wolfwood resolves to be the one to protect Vash.

Even if Vash doesn't really want that.

It's so fucking amazing to see these two clash over their ideals, whether it's in the form of playful teasing or straight up beating the shit out of each other. But they stay together and hold each other in such high regard despite their conflicting beliefs.

To me, one of the most beautiful aspescts of Trigun is that Wolfwood--a man of faith but only in name--gets to have such a close connection with Vash--a man of faith through and through--and that because of their relationship, they both inspire a existential AND spiritual crisis within one another.

Because in a world that makes no sense, they both find faith in each other. And if that isn't the most beautiful shit you've ever seen, then I don't know what is.

[penumbramewtwos]

Secondary Character ref-sheet master post

Even though I've posted these guys separate, this is to keep things neater on the pinned post.

Below the 'Keep reading' is all their information written out again, in case it's difficult to read for anyone ^^

Effigy (Mew):

Height/Weight: N/A [multiform] DOB: 4 BIllion years ago Birthplace: Kanto region Sex, & gender ID: Intersex, Genderfluid Sexuality: Aroace (Aromantic, Asexual) Nature: DOCILE Food Likes: N/A Food Dislikes: N/A Characteristics: Quick to flee

Other Info [Point list]

Effigy is the hive mind of all Mew-kind manifested into a multiform spirit.

They reside on Utmost Island (Faraway Island) where the memories of every mew can be accessed like a database.

Any Mew can talk through Effigy, dead or alive; but is most commonly used as a way to communicate to the other Mew that is currently out of hibernation.

There are two Mew's left on earth populating the planet. One is A Shiny.

Effigy was a gift left behind by the Origin Mew as a way for Mew's to communicate their culture, and purpose in life as a creator of all pokemon eggs.

Rotom (Okita's Rotom phone):

Height/Weight: 0.25M / 0.21kg First opened: 30/04/2044 Birthplace: Aunura Region Sex, & gender ID: N/A, Non-Binary Sexuality: Aroace (Aromantic, Asexual) Nature: Impish Food Likes: Sour Food Dislikes: Dry Characteristics: A little quick tempered

Other Info [point list]:

Rotom was a birthday present for Okita's 10th birthday. Okita became upset when she was told there was a pokemon living inside it; even though it could deposes at any time.

Okita began writing software for Rotom so it could use its pokemon moves freely in its phone possessing state. In doing so, she accidentally trapped the pokemon forever inside the phone.

Rotom's personality is a combination of being a complete drama queen, and unapologetic towards everything.

Rotom and Okita have a friendship based on insults, but are highly defensive of each other when someone else gets involved.

After Okita jailbroke Rotom with the homemade software, Rotom's now able to adjust its ability, pokemon level, and pokemon moves via the internet; as well as downloading TM's at will.

Rachael Lyn (Okita's pokemon trainer):

Height/Weight: 178cm / 57kg DOB: 01/10/2033 (October 1st, 2033) DOD: 15/02/2098 and 28/03/2099 Birthplace: Galar Region (moved to Aunura age 4) Sex, & gender ID: Female, Female. Sexuality: Bisexual Nature: Rash Food Likes: Dry Food Dislikes: Bitter Characteristics: Proud of its power

Other info [point list]

Rachael owns 6 pokemon: Metagross (first pokemon), Gardvoir (Male), Alakazam, Chimecho, Ninetails, Mewtwo (Okita).

In the Aunura region, she's known as the "One-Hit-Wonder" as her pokemon style is to use over levelled pokemon in gyms to take her opponents out in one hit. Including Okita's parents a year before they met.

Rachael badly suffers from ADHD. She's known for never stopping/always moving, talking very fast,

Rachael and Okita have a strained relationship in the early days, growing to be inseparable over time.

After capturing Okita, she bragged about capturing the most powerful pokemon in the world to her friends, only for Okita to not know how to use pokemon attacks when brought into battle. Rachael usually battles in 'underground' arenas around the world to challenge herself.

[gatobob]

As a black person, i seriously dont see how she is racist. I havent seen her say anything harmful towards the black community or anything like that...

Her deciding to not ban the moderator in that discord server was her decision. I mean, they apologized, what else are they supposed to do? People say insensitive things sometimes. Its fucked, but things happen. People can change.

No. Most people don’t go around making fun of a Jamaican’s hair, their accent, and calling them a “Blob monster” on the rare occasion.

It was reported on multiple occasions directly to Gatobob that Melon was saying nasty things about this person.

She was fully aware that this was going on, and instead of nipping it in the bud like a responsible content creator would do..

Well, she awarded Melon with a position as a moderator. Fully aware of the comments they had made prior. She knew about this.

Instead? Gatobob blew up on the victim, berating them for yet again coming to her about Melon’s racist remarks.

Because, in her words:

It is not up to you whether or not you determine the things Melon said to the victim as racist or not. You are not the victim, you do not speak for the victim.

If you wouldn’t take issue with those comments being directed towards you in a “safe space” where people are supposed to be respected, nobody will argue with you otherwise.

But, Gatobob shielding a racist ( because they are friends ) is not a good look, and I don’t know about you, but “Sorry for being cringe on main” and trying to blame “filter issues” is not an acceptable apology.

Racist things wouldn’t “slip through” unless she was so accustomed to saying them in the first place. You don’t randomly drop an offensive stereotype on a practical stranger out of nowhere.

Their second apology didn’t even address what was said, why they said it, or why they thought it was even appropriate to make remarks of that nature in the first place.

It was vague, confusing, and insincere. It read like every bad youtuber apology that has come out so far.

An apology can only carry someone so far when making amends, and with bad ones like those, it would’ve been less insulting had Melon not even issued one to begin with.

Casual racism is still racism. It doesn’t matter if Melon had good intentions or not, she was still racist. Ignorance is only an excuse for so long.

I’d carefully examine why you are so willing to go to bat for a woman who didn’t give a hoot that Melon would call another Black person these things?

Do you think you’d be exempt from Gatobob’s apathy and annoyance if Melon called you those things instead, or something even worse? Because you wouldn’t be.

[crusherthedoctor]

It's really sad how people keep going after your group just because you defend yourselves

Apparently, the statements "I'm generally content with the quality of my personal stories" and "I spot many issues with this comic" justify getting spammed with graphic death threats and ableist insults

Yet it's insisted that you're the ones who are too harsh? It's straight up unfair.

Who would have thought that a group of people might occasionally get upset after being crucified and ridiculed by countless strangers?

Funny how they NEVER have a justification beyond "well shut up no one wants to hear you"

Somehow, it's always YOUR fault that a part of the fandom goes rabid whenever someone doesn't conform to the current "right" opinion, and YOU'RE to blame for THEIR ungodly behavior. That doesn't make any sense, does it?

This fandom is vain and abhorrent to the nth degree and y'all deserve better. That's all I wanted to say.

Par for the course, innit. They'll lash out at us. They'll hand out death threats. They'll make disgusting ableist comments about my autism, and similarly terrible comments towards my friends. They'll threaten to bomb SEGA HQ and stick Iizuka's head on a pike, among other wild declarations of violence. But don't you dare make a goofy meme about Surge not living up to her hype. And whatever you do, don't even think about criticising the unprofessional antics of the IDW crew. What are you, a monster?

They dismiss us as insignificant one minute, then fearmonger so hard that they see fit to give us a boogeyman-esque moniker the next. I'd be surprised if they could walk in a straight line without contradicting themselves.

As for "You talk so much about your fics!" ...No shit. I'm a guy with a blog. This isn't a movie production with a budget, I don't have a team or advertisements backing me up. And unlike fanartists, I don't have my own art to catch people's attention. I kind of have to talk about my writing in order to get it out there and inform people of its existence, and while I try not to sound too much like an unskippable YouTube ad, what else am I supposed to do? Upload them silently and then never refer to them again? How is showing passion for my work any different from official creators showing passion for theirs? Just because fanfic tends to get less attention on here than fanart doesn't mean it's not worth sharing, do they want fandom to flourish or not?

When I compare my work to a certain comic, I do it to highlight the dissonance. If fanfic writers - plural, not just myself - can understand the importance of keeping the characters recognizable, and making the universe faithful despite any necessary differences, then what excuse do official writers who have been involved with the series for over a decade have? If someone who doesn't even love Sonic that much compared to other characters, finds him annoying and unfunny half the time (no, not just in the Pontaff games, in general), and even finds it a pain in the ass to write for him at times and has more fun writing other characters because of this, can still attempt to write what made him appeal to fans... why do writers who supposedly love him so much keep fumbling so hard with him?

I compare for the sake of highlighting why these off-kilter portrayals are so easy to spot. If Sonic Twitter only gets "He's just stroking his own dick" from all of that, then they haven't been paying attention.

The most ironic thing about it all is that they've only gotten more vitriolic as most of us have mostly moved on from the height of IDW discourse (cause the comic goes in circles at this point, and is very likely to be running on fumes due to IDW's financial troubles, so there's no point). Yeah, I'll still criticise it now and then, and make a meme on occasion, but I rarely make lengthy ted talks about it or participate in ongoing Lanolin Is A Bitch/Silver Is Uwu-ified/Whisper Is Trauma Bait/etc back and forths anymore, because it's just tiring now. And since most current Sonic stuff has been putting me off in general, combined with growing fatigue and frustration at not being able to criticise certain games without people waving the finger at me (especially SA2, since the Year of Shadow has made it the center of attention yet again...), I've took a step back from intense Sonic discussion to focus on Stellar, as well as other fandom projects, like my recent brainstorming for Paper Mario or: How I Learned To Insert Eggman and Love The Vivian™.

In no way can you say I've been up in their faces as of recent. Yet they continue to cry otherwise, because they want people like me gone completely.

[wild-at-mind]

A common type of crowdfunding fraud is someone setting up a gofundme or similar 'on behalf' of someone else who is in need. It may be someone they know, such as a family member, so they can include lots of real details of the treatment the person needs, real photos etc. It can sound really authentic. And then they just...don't give that person the money. There was a case I remember from a website called gofraudme drawing attention to crowdfunding fraud, about a man who needed money of surgery/treatment, and he set up a GFM campaign. His estranged sister also set one up for his medical care. For whatever reason, the randomness of the internet and what gets seen etc, her GFM was much more popular and got to its goal. His GFM stagnated at a smaller amount. The sister did not have any intention of giving her estranged brother the money, though of course the people donating didn't know this, or that they were estranged. We only know this because the brother revealed he didn't see a penny of the money.

The point is, being concerned about crowdfunding fraud isn't the same as doubting that the cause described in the text is real. There have been cases in the UK of random unrelated or only slightly related people setting up crowdfunders for tragic events they heard about in their community or on the news. There was a case of a little girl who lost her entire immediate family in a tragic accident, and someone tangentily related set up a crowdfunder for her (in a vague way- maybe for her care when she lives with a member of her extended family but it wasn't specific). The campaign started making a lot of money and its creator started doing insulting updates about how well she was coping- a really gross thing to say about a small child a few days after a family loss of that scale. People were even writing comments asking for updates down the line about the poor child, which they now felt entitled to thanks to their donation. The person setting it up was I think the parent of the child's friend, and it didn't seem like anyone had asked them to do anything like this. It was just something to do to 'help'. It remains to be seen what will be done with the money.

The gofundme campaigns for the evacuation of Palestinian people cannot be set up by the person needing evacuation because GFM isn't supported in Palestine. There has been a lot talked about vetting these campaigns, as in the person/people the money is meant to go to. I have not seen anything about vetting the 3rd party setting up the GFM. This concerns me. A lot of the GFMs are written from the point of view of a 3rd party, which is to be expected, and these people often say they are a family member or friend of the person in question, which makes sense. However they frequently introduce themselves with a name that is different to the one in the section at the bottom of each GFM campaign that tells you who set it up, and who they money will go to. The campaign text often doesn't explain who this person is. I talked about this before but I've also seen the same name cropping up on multiple campaigns. If the person setting up the campaign is the person named at the bottom, why do they introduce themselves pretending to be someone else, and most importantly why do they never explain how they will get the money to the person in Palestine who needs the money?

None of these doubts have anything to do with not believing that people in Palestine are in need of money to evacuate the country, you will notice. Though the tumblr vetting isn't great- I've seen posts promoting campaigns on tumblr where multiple people listed as vetters are in the comments asking for their url to be removed from the list because they didn't vet the campaign. Someone I follow got an ask saying 'hey can you vet my GFM campaign?' and they responded saying no I can't because I don't know you (to their credit- and they also including a link to an organisation that could help if the asker is genuine). But the vetting of people the campaign is for has been discussed a lot on here, and I've never seen the vetting of the campaign creator discussed.

How do we know the person setting up a campaign on behalf of someone else will get the money to them, in full after fees? We don't. However I would steer clear of Palestine campaigns that are not clear upfront that someone else is setting up the campaign. Ideally their name would match the one in the GFM section about who is setting up the campaign, and they would also state which GFM supporting country they are based in, which would also match the one stated in the creator section on the campaign. They would talk about their relationship with the person needing to evacuate Gaza and (gold standard) how they will transfer the money to that person. If the campaign reaches its goal, they would provide proof of the transfer of the money in full minus fees.

All of those things can be faked. You can never be 100% sure the person setting up a campaign will not pocket the money. It is a large amount of money these campaigns raise, a tempting amount. An amount that brings out the opportunism in some people, especially if they also have needs that a large amount of money could help with. So we can never be sure, but we can at least ask for a little more transparency from the campaign creators.

I saw a response to someone who had shown their vetting process for campaigns using one they had verified themselves in detail, where the benifiary was a Palestinian academic. They got a comment saying that their method was classist because it wouldn't have worked on someone not mentioned on university websites, as this woman was. Which...I guess, but it shows the fundamental flaw in using crowdfunding as a primary way of providing aid for refugees of war and natural disaster globally. As I've discussed at length crowdfunding in this way requires, first and foremost, a contact in a country that supports crowdfunding platforms. There are so many people in need around the world who do not have this. Those people are no less in need because we don't have photographs of them and their story in a few 100 words. That's why reputable aid organisations can be an extremely good choice for donations to a global cause you care about. Crowdfunding in general requires the campaign creator to use an emotive level of detail, and whether consciously or not due to the very nature of crowdfunding they have to write the text tp make their subject stand out, to show why they are worth supporting over the subjects of other campaigns- to show they are worthy, essentially. No one should have to do this in order to get aid. In situations like US medical care, we can understand this as a sticking plaster on a societal problem, but with international crowdfunding the complications involved mean its not the best at being a sticking plaster. Aid organisations are sticking plasters too and they are not perfect (nothing is) so look into their work before donating, but with people on the ground they stand the chance of reaching a much wider net of people than individual crowdfunding can.

[mask131]

You know, there is one thing that annoys me - and I know that is goes against the current, where everybody praises the "death of the author" concept - but it truly does annoy me how fans sometimes decide on their own they have more authority on a fictional work than this work's author (given I am into liteature, we'll take books as an example).

I am not talking about situations such as "The author forgot that they wrote that in the first book, and wrote something contradicting it in the third, and the fans pointed it out and deemed it bad writing" - no I am not talking about this kind of situation.

I am rather talking about situations such as for example: an author's work gets adapted. The author loves very much the adaptation and finds it faithful or at least that it works well on its own. Some fans dislike it and declare it unfaithful and a bad adaptation. And if the author's liking of the adaptation is brought up, the fans will over-rid it as the author's opnion being wrong, and theirs being right.

The first situation (the one I do not talk about) was about facts, textual facts, internal logic, writing problems - and this is all part of the fan's domain. Because the fan, the reader, is all about accumulating the information given, piecing together the elements created, the fan reflects the author's work in that regard, and thus it is the fan's natural right and duty to point out things such as incoherences, bad writing, plot problems and the like. But the second situation (the one I do talk about) is about opinion, and this changes everything.

We live in an era (well mostly Internet era since it all happens over the Internet nowadays) where, as I said before, the "death of the author" becomes a rule and is encouraged. And the death of the author itself is not a bad thing - in fact, it is the "natural state" of reading a work. When you discover a new author, a new book, a new series, you don't know who made it, what this person is about or for. You just read a story, judge it, and make your opinion out of it. We also live in an era where fan-content (fan-art, fan-fiction, fanzines, fan-games) are even more visible, encouraged and thriving than ever before. They are even reused by the industry (for marketing purpose) and by creators themselves (to share the love and appreciate between them and their audience). But somehow, with such a mass-valorization, with such an effort to make it all common and mundane, something changed, and fans started to think themselves equals, rivals or even superiors to the creators.

We live in an era where fans believe their headcanons and theories can be used as rightful demands, as words of command, as orders over creators of content. We live in an era where fans are somehow so mad at authors they actually insult them for not following their fanfction ideas and for not doing what the fan wanted. This is a new form of tyranny where fans that get invested too much in something mistake their "fan-creator" rank for "co-creator" and believe in some sort of delusion that the work they are a fan of belongs to them and that they can dictate how it goes, as if it was their story and not one someone else created and placed their blood, sweat and tears into.

I do wonder if this bizarre switch of thought on the Internet wasn't partally due to the "Potter-trauma", when J.K. Rowling's political comments completely destroyed and ruined the perfectly "united, happy and peaceful" Potterdom, this entire subculture that had grown over the Harry Potter books and dominated a few generations. This faced the people of the Internet (but especially Americans, who didn't had centuries of literary wars behind them) with the dilema of "What do I do when I love a work, but I hate the person that makes it?". And one of the many answers, one of the many "solutions" to this problem, that was widely accepted, was "Well, make the work yours. You have centered your life around it, you love it, you study it and know it better than the author herself. Just ignore her, ignore her words, cut her off and make the books yours." An answer that was logical and reasonable at the time, in front of the given situation - it is the very simple "Consider the work, not the person behind it" logic behind fiction that is however still hotly debated today.

But ever since, it seems that people have taken this logic to its most extreme ways, and turned into some sort of mania. A mania where people will claim to know better what the author truly wanted to say than what the author themselves say ; a mania where people will contradict what the author says about their book in interviews, promotions, and the like, and clearly consider that the author's words have no weight outside of their own book ; a mania where people will see whatever they want in a story, and completely ignore things such as the context or the intentions behind the release of the book.

I know things are not all simple or black and white. My example about the author's opinion on an adaptation of their work is one that works generally well - because who is on the better position, and on the first-line, to judge a book's adaptation? The author of the book of course! However, to very example there is a counter-example, and I have one right there. Stephen King hated Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining, despite Kubrick's movie being one of the greatest horror movies ever made in America, and King's book being quite flawed (great book, but there's definitively big flaws typical of early King in there). This is a counter-example where myself include I recognize the author can be wrong about such matters of opinion, due to the author's own biases, own personal involvment and vision of their work. In The Shining's case, it is because there is the very nuanced situation of a movie that is objectively great on its own, but is actually a bad adaptation of a book (it does happen sometimes that you have good adaptations that are bad works on their own, and bad adaptations that are great works).

But here's the catch and the result of this discourse: doesn't matter that the author is right or wrong, the importance is that an author's opinion MATTERS and should be taken into account when it comes to their own work. Because they are the FRIGGIN CREATORS and MAKERS of this work - you are not. It is their work, that came out of their mind and hands, it belongs to them, they can change it and decide its fate until their disappearance from the surface of the human world [not accounting for the editors ex machina], and you can do nothing about it. Because it isn't "your" work". If you dedicate your entire life making excellent fan-content of a book, it won't make it "your book". All the fan-content will be yours, for certain, but the original material will stay "not yours".

Yes an author can leave things open-ended, leave questions unanswered, encourage theories and head-canon, and people coming up with their own answers. But it doesn't mean that when the author eventually decides one day to solve their own mystery or resolve their own riddle, you get to insult them and harass them because it isn't the one you imagined! Of course you can criticize an author for coming up with a bad solution - because as a fan you will note for example how unsatisfying such a resolution is, how anti-climactic it feels, or how a story worked better with an open-ending. But only some spoiled bratty child (or child-minded person) would come up to an author and say "I don't like your idea, because it isn't mine, and it doesn't fit this drawing I made of your character - which by the way is mine now". I said it before and I will say it again - we live in the "Misery" era. Stephen King's Misery, where Annie is walking everywhere down every streets, and where all popular authors are at fear of being locked in a bedroom with their feet broken by some lunatic wanting them to write an "official fanfic" with their OCs and personal planned "happy ending AU".

You can argue one thing against this entire speech: But, aren't critics, and literature historians, constatly imagining new meanings and new messages inside literary works? Aren't university teachers and literary students constantly reappropriating works in new ways the author never intended to? Aren't they all just placing their own ideas and biases and interpretations inside books, and then proclaiming it the "good way" to read it? Aren't they the one who decided that a curtain isn't just blue? And to that I will say yes and no. Yes because, indeed, it is their job, as researchers, as studiers of literature, as investigators of the life and works of authors, as theorizers of the book industry, to constantly bring new things in old stuff, and to unravel ad dig up things the author themselves did not plan to have in their work. So "yes". But also "no", no because such a caricatural view only comes from a simplistic overview of literary criticism and literary studies, and even from some anti-intellectualist ideas.

Because this entire world of literature teachers, and profesionnal critics, and scholars of authors, has something that (at least in French) is called the "fairness of the researcher". These people can say the wildest, craziest theories, interpretations and readings of a work, as long as they recognize that A) it is their words, their puzzle, their solution to a mystery they sometimes make up themselves B) there is a context, a life behind the work and things such as publication constraints that were involved in the shaping of a book and C) they have proof, evident and obvious proof of what they advance, and that encourages such a reading.

People who just waltz in with their own personal theories about why "X author wrote a subtle criticism of the sausage industry throughout their three main novels" need to have something to back it up, else they will be mercilessly mocked, ignored and have the door slammed in their face. This is why literature high-studies is such a competitive and "harsh" world, because people constantly look at each other in a rivalry designed to keep in check those that would go a bit "insane" and make everybody doubt their words and recheck their papers to make sure they are not imagining things. On the bad side, it also explains why university-critics and book studies are so slow to change and evolve over time, because due to this need to take into account every influence and context, and to bring solid proof to back up one's reading or theory, it can sometimes take a century or so to realize what is obvious from the beginning if you know where to look.

But even then - even in this context of encouraged, widespread and even accepted interpretations of text, people still do NOT believe the works of these authors somehow belongs to them! This is the true aberration that is festering on the Internet today, and the apex of the "bad fan" behavior. You own your fan-made content, you own your physical copy of the book, you own your hand-written copy of the novel you took five years writing with an ostrich feather - but you do not actually own the book until you bought its rights from whoever has it! And even beyond a mere question of "owernship" - because we all know how big corporations just buy over the rights to everything and fuck them over massively due to not understanding a single thing about what makes them great - it is a question of the author's symbiosis with their work, something that cannot be questioned and that only truly stops when they die, because the author can't create more of the work or express any more opinion or control over it. But before this death, people seem to have forgotten that authors are creators - that they made the work, that without them the work would not exist, and that they made this work with a certain goal, a certain plan, certain intentions more or less subtle. And that the fate of a work usually should rely within the hands of this author, not within the hands of the fans, who are only here to support, love, criticize, hate or judge a work, not act as some sort of board in a big company!

Authors are not your pals that can do you a favor if you offer them a drink (well... scratch that, there's a lot of authors who would do a lot of things to you if you gave them a drink). Rather - authors are not your employees. Yes, authors will work for you technically because they will write for their audience and for their fans - but authors also write primarily for themselves. They are selfish beings who write because they want to tell the stories they have in their head, and they want to do the work they always intended to, and they only want to use their character with their tory, their world, their plot. If you want to tell your story, become an author, but fans should honestly stop pretending they have just as much authority and owernship of a work as their creator just because they spent too much time daydreaming about it.

[hyperfixationtimego]

hi that post about the Velma plot synopsis is literally very obviously an excerpt from a biased third-party article, not what the show is actually about. You can tell via the way the last sentence of the excerpt is worded, as it’s intentionally condescending and meant to portray the show itself in a negative light.

Not to mention, that excerpt gets a couple things wrong, actually. In referring to Daphne only as an “orphan,” it’s effectively omitting the fact that she has two adoptive mothers who are indeed present in her life and have good intentions, regardless of whether or not the effects of their actions are ultimately positive or negative. To be entirely clear, they’re a bumbling pair of lesbian cops who are bad at their job. like yeah acab whatever but my point is that Daphne isn’t the cruel, miserable one-note character that excerpt makes her out to be; it’s all just facets of the character that the show hasn’t even gotten the chance to fully develop yet, because we only have 2 episodes out so far.

And the implications of Fred’s portrayal as rich, white, and privileged…..yeah? i mean, he is? but again, that’s not the only facet of his character we get to see, and it’s very clear that the show has at least some plans in mind for his arc and character journey. You’re not meant to just hate him completely; I’m fairly certain the intent of his character is to watch him slowly change and connect better with the other mystery inc members as we get further into the show.

Because that’s the thing! I’m pretty sure the characters are meant to be assholes to each other right now!! This is a prequel - therefore, we already know they’re all going to end up being friends with each other. VELMA is just showing us that, in this continuity, they weren’t always that way towards each other. That’s the whole point of the show; it’s showing us the journey!

Is it perfect? Absolutely not! Not all of the jokes land perfectly, and I personally think the storytelling & pacing could use a fair bit of revision, but it deeply saddens me that everybody seems to be more focused on insulting the show and its creators rather than engaging in constructive criticism of it.

there are a lot of issues and controversies surrounding the show, I know, but I do have to point out that the exact moment it was revealed that three of the characters would be reimagined as POC, people started tearing the show to shreds, and we barely knew anything else about it! So forgive me for taking all the egregious hatred and disgust people have for it with a hefty grain of salt!!

Ugh, I’m trying to cram as much into one post as possible, but here, let’s talk about the TERF thing. The accusations I’ve (very suddenly) heard of Kaling’s bigotry are DEFINITELY an incredibly important thing to be aware of, and I have no intention of defending her or her behavior, but I am positively BEGGING you guys to look into these things yourself rather than simply taking some internet rando’s word as bible for what is and isn’t ethically pure to consume. I’m literally a trans person, but I’m not going to assume someone’s evil because I saw ONE screenshot of them supposedly liking a transphobic tweet; that’s not a reliable source of information!!! Research her and her actions yourself before coming to a conclusion!

If the things you find out about Kaling make you uncomfortable with engaging with the things she creates or contributes to, that’s entirely your call! HOWEVER, it’s also not an inherently bad thing to watch and engage with things made by people with contrary perspectives to your own; when you keep an open mind and engage with things critically, you’re exposing yourself to various viewpoints, styles, humor, & perspectives that, even if they aren’t necessarily your thing, are still important to understand and be aware of.

by no means am I telling you that you have to watch the show; I’m only asking for everyone to be a bit more open-minded and a bit more civil in their discussion of media as a whole.

[sorcerous-caress]

Hi! No rush or anything, but do you know when requests will reopen?

Short answer: no I don't know.

Long answer:

I closed them because I was getting overwhelmed, I would get more than 10 requests per day and if I replay to one another one immediately gets sent and takes its place.

And at first it was fine yk? I love writing and I love talking, I answered as much as I can of them per day and gave up hours of my life just to write some drabbles or fanfics.

But then it became apparent that they requests are just there for the requester to talk about their own stuff, not to have a discussion with me, not because they value my work and not because they plan on listening to what I have to say.

Even then, no matter how many I posted or replied to, I would be lucky to get a small thank you from someone. A nice comment or reblog was like a fever dream that happens once a week.

Instead I just get more requests, with total disregard to the work I just posted, just asking for more without any tact or politeness. And If I didn't reply the way they wanted? They would complain to me afterwards or send me a long anon ask explaining how I misunderstood their request and here is everything I did wrong.

And those same people would never send a similar long anon ask of what i did right, of if they even appreciated the work I've put in.

I felt taken for granted, both the rude people and the silent people who would just ask for stuff or come talking about their own ideas and never mine were just as horrible in my eyes. I felt not appreciated and just used.

Like I said before, why am I doing free work to people who aren't nice to me? We are not friends, no matter how friendly I am to any requester. We will never be friends, that's a parasocial relationship if you think we are. And I'm not a content creator either! This isn't content I'm posting because I'm literally gaining nothing from it. No money, no coms, not nothing and that's how I want it to be.

I share my writing because I want to, and it's a hobby, I never plan on opening commissions or using monetization. The least someone could do is appreciate the time and work i put for free to the thing they request of me, but no one does that, do they?

There is a different between being a nice person and a decent person, juet because you were decent to me and didn't demand or insult me during the 10 requests in a row you've sent without even leaving a comment on any of them then you're definitely not a nice person.

And fuck I hate talking about this, I hate having to explain myself or my feelings or why I closed requests as if I owe anyone in here an explanation, as if I'm not already taking time from my life for this blog. Time that I could've spent playing videogames or doing something else equally as fun as writing but this time at least I get appreciation back in form of in-game rewards.

I hate seemingly needy and this effected by something as meaningless as comments. But those same needy feelings are what impacted my writing the most, you don't get to enjoy my writing then turn around and condem the same traits that made me write this way in the first place just because those traits started affecting my creativtly negatively.

I'm just tired and fed up, I'm not replying to asks that have nothing to do with me or my writing, I'm not doing any requests when I'll just be met with radio silence. If people who read my work are planning on ignoring me either way and just leave likes then i might as well write what I want and be as self indulgent as much as I want.

And if you think "oh this isn't about me, we are on good terms right?" Then I promise it's definitely about you, it's about each and every single one of you who sent a request and barely sent any appreciation back.

I thought if I was nice and gave everyone the benfits of the doubt, then they'd appreciate me back. Clearly, if I just worked harder, I'll get recognition and love, right? Fuck no, all I got was more work from the same selfish people.

And it stings so much more when it comes from fellow artists and writers you know? You fucking clearly know how this feels like so why are you treating me the same way?

And if you're asking "so what you expect me to always write a comment on the work I requested? I don't wanna spam you and wouldn't it just get redundant."

Then go re-read the fact that we are not friends. I am a stranger to you. You only treat your friends with this level of familiarity and take their nice treatment for granted. I expect you to always be polite, even if it's redundant.

What fucking irks me more is when I go to their profile and see how many fanarts they reblog and leave nice comments under, how it clearly shows how little they value writing in comparison to art.

I posted my writing almost every single day for almost three months and not once did someone acknowledge how hard it is to keep my creativity from drying for this long, how annoying it must have been to cut my own free time in half just to answer a request or post a new work.

I'm not gonna pretend fanartists have it any better, I've seen firsthand how the thousands of likes get 10 or 20 comments at most, and half of these comments are jokes while the other half is asking for permission to repost or use their work.

God, you people have zero tact, and you'll only witness the domino effect of your actions when everything is behind a paywall or on exclusive discord servers that you need to jumpt through hoops to get into.

I'm really fed up. If you think that "well I'm just one person" then you're part of the problem too.

This rant, essay or whatever won't change shit. No matter how many times I keep re-explaining this. It won't change people's minds or views and even when it does, it will only last for a day or two where everyone is suddenly nice to me and walking on eggshells then it's back to the same silent treatment as if this is a tantrum I'm throwing for attention rather than a serious problem that's killing my blog and writing.

It's only you who can change your own mind. You have to sit with yourself and activity change your mindset, you have to keep your own self accountable when you read something and never leave a comment or when you send a request and never send anything nice after it.

And most of you won't, it's sad and hurtful but true. Because you're losing nothing by taking artists for granted, you lose nothing by being selfish and rude, you lose nothing by always asking for stuff and never giving anything back.

Except when you eventually lose the artist or the right to freely request from then, all of the sudden this is effecting you so much and you need an explanation on when the request will be open again. Gosh writer why are you being so selfish and keeping us from demanding free work from you? Aren't you done yet? Instead of actually motivating you by appreciating your work or sending a sweet ask, I'm going to directly ask you when the requests will be open! But it's fine and totally not rude because I said it's not rude!

Of it wasn't for that single anon sweet ask on the Gale interactive story I would've just stopped posting it. A single person single handedly is responsible for motivating me to finish the story while the remaining 50 something voters in it did jack shit and just sat on their ass. You all should be grateful for that one person who sent the ask for giving you the story, I was fully planning on not posting any new part this day.

A single person can make a difference. I remember everyone who left a sweet message after their request, I remember everyone who didn't. I remember everyone who comments or leaves a reaction.

And I remember when a seemingly nice person stops being nice after leaving one nice ask then start spamming requests and never leave anything anymore. It happens more often than not, especially when I make exceptions for them since they were so nice and they take it as free permission to go ham.

I don't know what's causing this, is it my bpd? Is it just December making my depression hit rock bottom? I don't fucking know.

But what I know is that requests won't be open. Not until I decide to.

Drabbles too, i was too latent and expected people to behave better. Instead they started requesting full works but add the word drabble at the end as if it will make it any better.

If your ask isn't related to my work I'm not answering it.

If you don't like this, or think I'm being mean or too demanding, that's fine. Just leave.

Because that what most requestors do after you answer 10 of their asks, they leave to the new shiny artist they find. Not a thank you not anything.

My work has been dying since I closed requests, much less interactions. And that's fine that's okay, I rather be forgotten than used.

Also hello! No rush or anything, but do you know when you're going to start treating me like a human person instead of a fic bot? Do you know when the ability to comment or give feedback is finally unlocked? Do you know when people will understand that a request is a one per person rule until your old request is done, so don't spam me with them?

You don't know? That's fine, have a great day anon! This wasn't meant to be rude or anything because i said it wasn't so that makes it valid right? It makes it okay since I can claim I didn't know better right?

[muzanswaifu]

Clarification

Hello again everyone, I’ve noticed there was a bit of confusion on my last post involving whether or not I would be leaving tumblr/ao3 based on how many messages I've received asking about it 😅, and I would like to clarify what I meant when I said i would take a social absence in this post

I am not leaving tumblr and I’m not ceasing my writing. When i said I was taking a break, i meant I am taking a break socially, so my inbox is closed and I won’t be interacting too heavily with other creators besides my immediate mutuals. I am still writing and will continue to write, I just don’t want to talk much right now, I want to finish writing these goddamn requests that I’ve put off for far too long, especially since I have the time over winter break from school.

Ik what happened was a lot for some people to take in all at once since I did kinda let it build up for a while instead of slowly addressing it (I’m not going to make a sudden accusation, I like to do my research first then deal with the problem), so I apologize to anyone who was taken aback. It just really grossed me out that someone tried to rope me into something so immature and hateful, especially since I'm a lot older than them, a smut writer, and an adult who knows wtf I'm doing and why. I also read the "apology," and actions speak louder than words. You know what you did and why you did it, and you regret being caught, not hurting others. If you regretted hurting others, you would've apologized a long time ago. Do not interact with me again, I want to write what I like and talk to other adults who think like adults and don't try to bully people on the internet. Please delete the apology post, it made me very uncomfortable as it was hardly even an apology as you just insulted yourself throughout the entire thing, acting as if you were the one most affected by your own actions. You weren’t. And considering you were sending your usual asks and messages to other creators not even a hour after you made your apology post, i think its safe to say you’re not too broken up with yourself ab what you did.

To everyone else, a lot of stupid shit has happened guys and I think all of you who were uninvolved and watching everything come undone deserve a reward, so I am going to post my Vexing Love fic tomorrow. I wanted to wait until the rest of my requests were finished but fuck it, we all need a pick-me-up right about now, and i haven’t given you guys content in ages.

[anonover]

*sigh*

fandom is a community, not a social media. creators (writers, artist, playlist makers, podficcers, etc) do not owe you content. they make things because they love a thing so much and want to share it with their community. so when you engage with creators, like leaving comments, reblogging, etc, you are being part of the community.

if you're RUDE to creators, then they can just as easily say NO. no one owes you fic or art or music or what have you. if come into someone's house and insult their decor, you think you're going to be invited back?? especially when you do it consistently?? no. because ive seen 3 fic authors nuke their ao3's this week alone because of the consistent rude comment they would get. hi, hello, this is a person, and they have the right to tell you that their 'community' has been treating them badly.

you don't like something? don't interact! it's literally that easy! dont give critique's when its NOT ASKED FOR. It's RUDE. so i guess if you're 'new' to the fandom, here are some basic rules to keep yourself and the fandom happy. You curate your own content. Don't like something? Don't read. Exclude filters are there. You can block. You can unfollow. You can simply be like "hm, i'll look up another tag" and just choose not to engage.

There's a very old fandom adage of DLDR: Don't Like, Don't Read.

And here's another: fandom is hobby. If this is causing you stress, anxiety, anger? Step back. Go do something else. Because this has now become an unhealthy hobby. Just geeze, please stop being rude to creators.

[taringill]

Hey quick question, but does the cucumber guy who claims Leo is hetero and that it is cannon, realize that creators have never said anything about sexuality, have not confirmed anything, never said posted or said anything like?? I swear to god, the TMNT community is so willing to attack anyone for having a different opinion 💀 If cucumber headcanons that Leo is hetero it's fine but don't shove it down peoples throats. Seriously people are annoying. Sorry you gotta deal with the dude. Letting you know the block button is your friend.

Thank you for these words♥️

I agree with you. I don't mind other people's headcanons, I don't mind if you see Leo as heterosexual or gay or transgender. It's not that this cucumber sees Leo as heterosexual, but the fact is that he imposes his headcanon on others and passes it off as a canon, because he confuses these concepts. And I decided to do some kind of experiment or something like that😅 I looked at the Pinterest posts where Leo is on the background of a gay flag. I was wondering, does anyone else write about Leo's "canonical" heterosexuality besides this cucumber? And this cucumber is the ONLY ONE who writes that Leo's heterosexuality is a canon. The only one! Makes you think

I also like cucumber's pathetic phrase so much, which, like, should make me believe him. "At least I'm aware of what Nickelodeon is saying"🙄💅💅And that's ALL the evidence he provided me with. That's it, nothing. Nothing else! And that's all he answered me a MONTH LATER when I asked for proof. Is it obvious that Leo is heterosexual according to the "canon" or what? I didn't notice something. This cucumber is quite toxic. He hasn't insulted me personally, so far. But this does not negate its toxicity.

You're welcome, admire

Someone asked: "How obvious?" By the way, yes😂I support

"Accept the truth~"😎 Evidence? Noooo

Ohhh, he's wrong. He shouldn't have done that..!

✨Toxic vibes✨

And the most... delicious💀

Insulted a person just like that, for fun, for nothing. In short, some Pinterest user posted a post where, according to his headcanon, Leo is gay, NOT A WORD about Usagi! Cool, right? Does this cucumber think that if someone makes Leo gay or bi, then that someone will definitely ship Leo with Usagi? I also like the double standards of this cucumber so much. You're an idiot if you draw rottmnt Usagi, because he's not in the rottmnt universe. BUT! At the same time, under my art, where my version of the rottmnt Mona Lisa is drawn, this cucumber writes that he likes Mona Lisa and she is a cutie. Thank you, it's a pleasure, but... According to his logic, I am also an idiot, because I draw the rottmnt Mona Lisa, although she is not in the rottmnt universe. Is this some kind of personal dislike for Usagi? This cucumber hates the Leosagi ship because it's not canon. BUT! At the same time, under my art about rottmnt Ramona, this cucumber writes that this is the best ship. But why? This ship is not canon! Why do you like this ship? Well, you get it. I propose to ban all headcanons, since it is not canon!

I still like it so much. As cucumber writes: May I express my opinion?😭 YES! But then why does this cucumber impose his opinion on others and pass it off as a canon? ✨Hypocrisy✨

And after all this verbal diarrhea, this cucumber writes to me:

💀💀💀

It's just arrogance! Don't comment! I will be only glad! I tried to discuss everything calmly, I didn't offend. But cucumber stupidly ignores the facts. It all seems to me, f*ck. Guys, hang up. It all seems to us. We're all just hallucinating. Why do normal people perceive cucumber as toxic? Because it's his own fault. This cucumber writes mostly only negative and toxic things. But no, it just seemed to us. Of all this toxic and negative shit, I only remember 2-3 positive and adequate comments.

According to my headcannon, Leo is bisexual! And I will continue to ship April and Donnie! And I'm not imposing this on anyone. Get the f*ck off me!

(sorry)

[dhul-qarnayn]

Deep Sea Creatures

Its only after you do the [controversial action] then leave it for the sake of ---- that I interpret as being used for purposes of encouragement to seek out that which could substitute for what was perceived as a loss

but what about if you don't participate in the controversial action in the first place, for that same reason, is that of value to the humans? It is of value to the Creator we are told in the Qur'an the reward for leaving off . I believe it of more value for the person and maybe that person alone.

to speak about things that might encourage man to forgo x for a greater purpose. - in certain cases a spiritual gratification and connection beyond this world. Could also be Out of Love --so not exactly a "giving up" …It hurts to write a word I do not vocalize.

There are those special humans who through intellectual and heart discovery --find it on their own..and others who watch what the well known do in relation to what they now leave off… I'm not able to conclude that sharing what one leaves off is encouraging to others on a general level.

I experienced derision from both genders at a certain stage of life though nothing physically, I could tell, changed, an opportunity arose decades later that would have been a public response to those insults. It ended up answering something of much more value.

When I signed my K, I added 3 no clauses ---all 3 were of which I would be best suited [lol] for. Butt, "accidents" got through to me.

What is encouraging to me as a Believer, is that I was at Major crossroads - at that time, there was no excitement even when I accepted work, for this, I knew immediately what I wanted for my life when the opportunity came.

we have a prayer - what I received was beyond tailored to what I needed to know about myself and what I needed to do.

Focusing in on one aspect of this is difficult.

What was it?

Before it went diverse, pre-"inclusion" - a sports publication features a once a year edition for swim- made an offer.

I had purchased this 1x many years ago because of a basketball edition and was vaguely aware that this aspect of edition even existed as I was being offered, if you asked me prior - in my mind, this feature was throwing a bone to the ladies in the form of a "sales catalog?" ( i never opened one) that featured women aspiring to be athletic in some way. I would not be able to reconcile if asked why a woman would purchase it and never considered men did.

Oddly enough the model --around a decade prior, invited me to a celebration of her being on the cover. I was sad to miss out on her friendship --I was just coming off the most challenging year of my life. I hadn't even made the connection 1. what her celebration was for or 2. that when my time came-years later... it would be at the second most challenging time---how interesting-- at that 2nd low pt, where no person 'of regard' or invitation to - came but I was frozen, I was floored and busted.

Praise the Lord, Those times are over.

What prompted me to recall this {screen shot souvenirs of it occasionally circulate my home screen --hard copy is probably headed to the dungeon/scrapbooked which is no longer needed) is I noticed there was some discussion of what else is being uncovered now in terms of conversion - an exploration of what makes someone so steadfast and committed in times of disaster.

There are lots of conversions being featured now, celebrities, other faiths, in what they fully participated in but THEN left off...and that interesting case of those researching it for fact, then being subsumed. Probably not unlike those during 9 eleven. As Muslims - nothing to be happy about because those best situated should be generating more invitation person to person rather than making it difficult for those but who possess rare faculties and blessings to reach it on their own ---only after such tragedy.

So it seems like a search for the truth is uncovered during pain not during joy. One is not prompted to know oneself during periods of ease. I feel that derivation fully enhances moments of joy when they do happen and in fact sustain them for longer periods with a longer history of "pain" if properly directed.

It helped with the derision… Next year will be a decade later and it is a case where I know and experience my inner world with something else …all that was the generosity of time and pain.

even getting me into a position to hear such words…

would be impossible for most.

There are many things between us that gives me quiet amusement --even what happened today. I don't even recognize x until someone points it out.

I feel almost guilty in experiencing. It try not to get off on it - at all.

I want to add about who else I did it for but I can't.

I want to scream it -

[untethereddreams]

Stone Soup

[Story starts below the ~~~ if you wanna skip the commentary/updates]

Guess who finally had enough spoons to type up the second sample story for the translation project! First story can be found here. If you want to be tagged for future updates please interact with the original project post or comment/message me to be added to the list! I seem to be on an up-swing right now so hopefully the first new translation piece, based on the stories behind the 36 Military Tactics collection of folk knowledge, will be done soon!

This story was another piece I wrote that was intended for oral storytelling at a specific event, hence the mention of a menu. I could have reworked the intro to cut that out but it would have taken more spoons than I have at the moment. Since this was intended as a performance piece the pacing and wording is a bit different from my purely written works. Still, it’s a story from my childhood that I'm excited to share with you all (historical accuracy not guaranteed, I’m literally telling it the way I remember it)

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When I first saw that stone soup was on the menu it stuck with me: I couldn’t stop thinking about it, and the more I thought about it the more I knew that there was a different story I needed to tell, a story about a different kind of soup and how it led to the creation of a city.

Growing up, I’ve only heard one person, my father, tell this story, and it is in fact a tale told only by the inhabitants of my home town Xining, the capital of Qinghai, a province caught between Mongolia and Tibet. Until very recently it was an out-of-the-way place renowned only for its proximity to other things, so you can imagine what it was like a long, long time ago, before the city’s creation, all the way back in the Ming dynasty when this story takes place.

It was the Emperor’s birthday and the capital city of Nanjing was gearing up for a celebration like no other. Everywhere you looked decorations abounded and delicious smells permeated the streets. What you didn’t see were the brightest inhabitants of each street, for they were shut away, wracking their brains in secrecy for the glory of their neighborhood. The Emperor had declared that there shall be a Picture Puzzle contest in his honour and every street and neighborhood in the city was to participate. He, his Empress, and his concubines would judge the entries and the winner would receive honour beyond imagine.

One by one, the streets hung up their puzzles and government officials and peasants alike thronged the streets, gawking and guessing at solutions. Soon, one puzzle in particular drew the Emperor’s attention, but what rained down upon its creators was not honour but retribution, for all the Emperor saw in that clever, colourful painting were insults against his beloved Empress. Back then Emperors were akin to Gods, and the wrath of a God is a terrible thing indeed. In his rage, he ordered the entire street banished to the hinterlands at the very borders of the kingdom.

That night, as the oblivious city celebrated around them, every body on that street, no matter how young or old, packed what they could carry and fled from the guards. Fled from their homes. And so, they began their shameful journey to the end of their world and beyond.

It was a long, arduous journey across increasingly desolate landscapes. They sought help whenever they could, but people were wary of drawing the Emperor’s wrath so help was few and far between. Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months, and as the miles piled on snow began to fall. Soon, it was Chinese New Year Eve, the biggest celebration of the year, full of light and warmth and hope: foreign concepts now to this ragged band of unfortunates. Soul-weary and despairing, they huddled around a tiny fire and began to give up.

But as the children began to cry, the adults roused themselves. They all still had to eat. Someone produced a pot; they stuffed it full of snow and set it to boil. Someone else found their last hunk of dried meat and dropped it inside. One by one, the people gave what little they had to the pot, and as they watched the dancing flames and steam their spirits rose and they were, for that night, creatures of light and warmth and hope once more.

They shared the soup just as they shared their hardships, and when the fire died and dawn broke the horizon the warmth remained. Eventually they came to the foot of the Himalayas, the end of an almost 2000 km trek, and settled there. That settlement became a town, the town became a city, and the city became a metropolis, but those first families never forgot. Every New Years they would gather, make that soup again, and pass on the story of that darkest night, but though they were now warmer and their ingredients richer they could never match the taste of that first pot of soup.

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Lol the stories about the child sacrifice and abortion parallels plus the boy wanting and mutilating himself to be an animatronic as a trans allegory are pretty based and at least the last one seems quite likely to be based on that if the original creator was the one who came up with the idea. how in hell did people even find out he was a registered republican voter? how do you even register yourself as a voter for a particular party?? in my country, things don't work like that so I'm lost. your vote is completely confidencial so it shouldn't be possible for anyone to know such info unless someone close to him decided to spill the beans.

I think i've heard before something about the creator of fnaf being cancelled but for some reason I had the idea it was for being christian, perhaps i'm confusing him with another game creator...

like i said i only play minecraft and pokeymon, but notch, the creator of minecraft, has also had his heated gamer moments too. he said trans women aren't women, he said people who didnt believe in a straight pride parade deserved to be shot, said feminism was a social disease and called a feminist a cunt, said there was nothing wrong about white pride (then later kinda recanted by saying something like "I didnt know there were only some groups allowed to feel proud of who they are"), and something else about not giving in to mentall illness in reference to transgenderism, though later kinda apologized saying he didnt understand trans identities very well. obviously, references to his name got erased in many products and even the game itself, only visible once after you beat the ender dragon, and microsoft banned him from their events ever since.

pokemon creators havent had these type of controversies which i attribute to having a better pr team and not growing up alongside social media and decide it's a great idea to post any thought that passes through their head. theyve had some though, like with jynx believed to be a racial stereotype (supposedly though she's based on ganguro fashion and the "fat lady" of an opera) so her skin was changed from black to purple. interestingly, ludicolo is a very obvious mexican stereotype yet nobody cares lol.

i do think its kinda funny when these authors get cancelled but they stil keep them/their product around to milk it to death.

and I might or might not watch the video. ive watched some youtube essays before but never that long, so we'll see...

I mean only mentally ill people like me would be dedicated to watch a 9 hours lore video essay, so I don't blame you anon lol

I am too very confused about the registred political alignement thing but I gues that's yet another dystopian US lunacy. In my country this stuff doesn't exist neither. I heard some celebrities/influencer get flack for being Republican (Jaclyn Hill comes to mind) but I have no idea how people/haters manage to get this information. I guess they are available on public record or stuff like that.

Since FNAF has a VERY dedicated fandom, I am not surprised some fans went as far as to sleuth this info out.

That minecraft guy sounds like a legit asshole though and he deserved to be canceled idc I HATE when people make foul out of themselves for the whole world to see, and then act shook when people don't want to have anything to do with them anymore. I hope he didn't have the audacity to whine about "Mh fReeDoM oF sPeeCh" because dude was apparently saying it was ok to kill people for having disagreeing opinions🙃

On the opposite, Scott Cawthon is SUPER lowkey & private and never explicitely said anything rude or insulting. People just started hating him for being Republican and allegedly Christian (which I think nobody found actual evidence of)

And animatronic aren't allegory of trans people, it was only the B-7 story of a boy butchering himself as one. The whole FNAF story is Scott Cawthon creation. He just co-writes the book with a female author, but only him creates the lore. Animatronics are regular robot who are possessed by the spirit of dead children.

I didn't know they changed Jynx color 'o' I never thought anything about this design - I felt like she didn't even have skin, but but more like a void lmao (like these spectre type pokemon)

I roll my eyes at article defending this design à la "oooh but Sugiomori didn't want to offend anyone uwu" ok but Pokémon is now a game with an INTERNATIONAL audience. If Nintendo wants to keep making bucks out of their game, they have to adapt themselves to foreign audience. This sort of "purity complex" when it comes from japanese cultural assets coming into the West is insufferable. No culture is immune to criticism.

Ganguro started around 1996 which is the year when the first Pokémon game came out...so I highly doubt Sugimori would be already aware of this trend during the game development. Japan already had a weird thing with dark/black skin, so Jynx simply might be yet another design celebrating this brand of "quirkiness".

[void-dreaming]

Fandom spaces are public and are meant to be enjoyed. I understand why you would have that opinion about Susie and personally don't have a problem with that, which is why I'm not going to block you, spam you, disrespect you, or talk about you behind your back in any way. I intend for it for it to stay that way.

The real problem is imposing ideas onto others when no single interpretation is fully correct. What you said about Susie being scummy might be correct, but you have to keep in mind that she was working for someone else and later told Kirby to destroy Star Dream, and of course there's that Star Allies mistranslation (the English version straight up made up the fact that she was still mechanizing stuff, and the Japanese one says she's bringing back the company to "punish evildoers", with nothing outright evil being stated about her. Nothing wrong with that.). Sure, you may be partially correct about her doing bad things and never getting a true redemption arc, but there's nothing outright proving "nice Susie" people wrong that isn't a head-canon or a very specific interpretation of a specific situation. It's the same thing the other way around.

You're saying that you're not gonna go around crapping on people, but that's basically what you're doing by encouraging people to actively create conflicts. I'd say the main reason why "nice Susie" has become so popular is because people that had the same opinion as you basically went around harassing us. Have you seen a "nice Susie" person harassing the other side? I think not.

Also, hurting people's feelings in general is a bad thing. Notice that, even though I'm criticizing you, I never said anything outright insulting you, and that's because I'm a mature individual that knows if I'm disrespectful to you, you're going to hate me and use that against me. If you're being disrespectful to people who people who have a certain opinion on a children's game by ridiculing them (and yes, it comes off as ridicule), that automatically makes you look bad to anyone who's not on your side. They'll think of you as that person that was immature enough to state misinformation and put out ridicule just to mess with a side of the fandom of a kid's game. That's not a good image.

In conclusion: Never in my life have I seen anyone get mad because someone talked crap about Susie. Whenever I see people get mad, it's because someone who thinks crap about Susie went around harassing them or trash talking them (which seems to be something you support?) because of their opinions.

No hard feelings? And hey, you should probably get into the DMK fandom. If you actually got to know it better, you'd be surprised at how passionate his fans are about him!

Hello, Anon, I appreciate your civility, but I do feel as though you misinterpreted my post to a degree where I felt the need to respond, which I suppose is my fault, I've never been good at clearly articulating my thoughts, so I'd be happy to try and talk though what I meant.

I'm not sure how making a statement is inherently imposing an idea, but I understand why you thought this, so let me be perfectly clear: I'm fine with any interpretation of Susie, what I was speaking on was what was presented in Canon media, but if you have your own interpretation of Susie, that's fine. And sure, I'll conceed that there was a mistranslation, it's not like I'd know right off the bat about there being a mistranslation for that particular quote. I'd like to apologize for not inherently knowing that there was a mistranslation in regards to a quote that I then went on to make a statement about whilst not having all of the facts.

I, however, will not conceed on you last paragraph, because I have seen people going after atleast one creator for depecting Susie as being evil and doing evil things, and while yes its only one who was harrassed to my knowledge, where there's one, there's probably many more, and even one is too many if you ask me. Further more, you're saying that I support harassing people when I stated multiple times that people shouldn't be harrassing each other over dis/liking a character? I am so sorry, but I don't speak your particular brand of reasoning. My post was in regards to those who go out their way to harass people for not depicting Susie in a way that they like, which there are, whether it's by separate people or by one, remains to be seen because I've only seen it occur through anons.

In conclusion, I respect your opinions anon, though I don't agree with your logic and reason to an extent, further more, outright saying (or insinuating?) That I support harassment is just a blatant lie, my post did not call for harassing people, what I did call for was for people to respect each other and not harass each other over differing opinions.