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ppl on twitter be like “tumblr is boring” my brother in blogging you MADE the dashboard
#ik its probably not that deep but#do people just expect to be forcefed posts#RANDOM posts?#i know they might be used to it but why would they Want that.#anyway on the offchance that ur a twitter user whos confused on how tumblr works:#follow more ppl#serve yourself#look through tags for posts about the thing you like#use tags if you want your post to be seen#etc#txt#1k
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what IS your thesis about? from the list of items im kinda imagining it's something about different communication styles relating to conveying information? (something something gaylor theory and TJLC as conspiracy vs a more authoritative but absurd documentary style with pannenkoek vs fanfiction making fans confuse canon with fanon vs reddit memes as some kind of "you're normal for thinking this"?) like that is an absurdly wide range of Things. what is he cooking ‼️
hehehe omg i did not expect to get multiple asks about this! paging @scatteredcloud and @the-rad-paramecium , who also asked about it.
my thesis is about the 2022 "nier church incident" wherein a user on the nier automata subreddit started posting extremely-credible videos claiming he'd found a new secret area in the game that no one had discovered before, and the fanbase went absolutely insane. i argue that the incident provides an interesting window into a possible religious studies framework for looking at video game secret seeking as a quasi-religious act of communal orientation and meaning-making
it's very fun to read your speculations about how all the stuff i mentioned could fit into it! unfortunately, most of that stuff is just mentioned in 1-2 sentences; the meat of the fun stuff is mostly related to nier automata, shadow of the colossus, or The Bible.
but, as requested, here is how all the silly things fit:
i use pannenkoek's video as an example of fans pushing the boundaries of games to create new mysteries that weren't intended by the developers. this is specifically in my section about how/why video game mysteries affect people emotionally!
gaylor theory & the johnlock conspiracy are both examples of (non-game) fanbases doing theorycrafting. fnaf/matpat is an example of video game fandom theorycrafting. all of these get like, a sentence each in the project
"hollow knight fanfiction" is because i use the hk fic "stag beetles and broken legs" as an example of fans writing fanfic based on fanfic (in the section where i talk about canon-building)
"kirby lore controversies" is also from the part where i talk about canon-building. specifically, i have a whole paragraph about how hard it often is to tell what video game "canon" is, and use kirby as an example of that
sorry there's actually only one reddit meme! the other one is a twitter meme. anyway, the reddit meme is this:
finally, random other fact: probably the funniest social media post ive had to cite is this one
like, it's extremely funny to have a bibliography that sometimes looks like this:
(please ignore the weird capitalization idk why zotero does that)
#i don't think i'll be able to like post this anywhere when it's done but i can probably send people copies#so if you wanna read it dm me and we can sort something out!#my post#academia#fandom#i'm making this unrebloggable just on the offchance that i get a lot of interested readers#i don't wanna be like 'well you can read it if you ask privately and also don't spread it around'#i'm pretty sure that's the policy? i shall ask about this...#asks
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about 2 annoy my professor so bad by putting this huge ginormous header in front of all my getters and setters
#mainly because if he takes off points for NOT including it on the getters and setters#i would want to attack him like a dog. so instead ill just waste eerybodys time instead on the offchance he'll be snobby about it
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When sam dies dean's frantic with his tunnel vision his mind and body practically shut down on all levels that matter and the only thing he knows is world-ending irrational desperation and his one-track minded sam-grieving tends to explode in his own face for the most part. He keeps it contained to himself or only a selective of people he's willing to sacrifice meanwhile when dean dies sam becomes just as frantic and desperate but with it he becomes way more orthodox, he's crazy smart and scarier than a lunatic is a lunatic who is calculative who is creative who can do evil in ways not even predictable. He'll come up with things and loopholes no human even dared think about like the immortal zombie organ trafficking or massacring every angel in heaven or unleashing a force even more powerful and dooming as god on earth. All to get his brother back. In his grief sam is a danger to himself and the entire world rather than have it explode in his face like dean he lets it absorb him and everyone in close vicinity (or not). If dean is a knife edge that cuts anything it falls on then sam is a fucking war nuclear in his brother-grieving
#sam was ready to kill the guy who was more of a father to him on the offchance he'll get dean back#he's so sexy like that#so its funny when some fans say he doesn't care about dean like dean cares about him#dean's like a coughing baby and sam is a hydrogen bomb in the lengths he goes for his brother#i mean dean has his fucked-upness he genuinely does a lot too and gets pretty immoral abt it but sam just raises the standard to impossible#it's what he does#mine#samdean
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☕️hobbies?
hmm most of my hobbies are super generic stuff like watch anime and play video games... I guess I do very much enjoy messing around in gimp and stuff, like just today I made this as a new blog header:
the trickiest part was converting all my screenshots from the game into just the card art, thankfully ImageMagick can just do the trick if you figure out the right command:
mogrify * -crop 198x264+415+154
so I just had to count the pixels correctly and no problem, all 105 cards nicely cropped properly^^
#asks#I could have also gotten high-res art from the wiki#which happens to have like the raw files extracted before they got pixellated for the game#but I actually prefer the retro pixel look kind of#lost kingdoms#rune (2002)#gaming in the moonsink#on the offchance anybody sees this and immediately rushes to call mogrify in their terminal#make sure you back things up bc this nice and easy command does just overwrite your current files#(there's a fancy thingy you can put into convert to make it automatically make new files with names based on the original one)#(but I am too lazy for that I just copied them into a new folder)
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watching la maquina again...i guess the Other People conspiracy thing does somewhat make sense if you (by you i mean gael garcia bernal and diego luna) decide you want to tell a story about a boxer who is going to win by losing, and then you have to reverse engineer everything from there...but i do not enjoy it. i feel like there's gotta be another way to get there.
#also unless i completely forgot this happening they just never address why esteban was basically targeted for this from the start?#like is this group just going around essentially orphaning promising young [insert athletes here] on the offchance that it'll be useful#at some point in the future??
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it's interesting to think how my interpretations of sorbet and gelato have changed over time. i've liked them for over two years now, and i've definitely improved with both my art and my general thoughts on them.
i think i'm pretty happy with how they are at the moment, but it's still evolving as i figure out new ideas. thanks to everyone who sees and likes my things too <3
#on the offchance that anyone who's found my older stuff has seen this: hi! i appreciate it but do check out my recent stuff!#feel free to say hi too <3 i'd love to talk about my current headcanons since a lot has changed since i first started posting about them#rosaposting#sorlato#<- just in case i want to find this post later. i may add onto it in the future
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idk which url i should change to or even if i should just stay 1610s 🧍♀️
#maybe not maddycho i haven't read enough of her yet. or moiramactaggart bc that's my name and it would be weird 👍#p#also on the offchance someone wants one of these just ask
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how is staff still doing "experiments" on different features and layouts when every single fucking time theyve pulled this shit before EVERYONE has hated it so much forever like what is going on in their minds and meetings to think we want any of this ever
#its truly fucking bizarre like ?????#literally ALL the feedback for YEARS has just been. stop doing new shit we hate new shit#and yet????#actively antagonizing your userbase for what? the offchance we'll all deactivate and you can sell the site ? die
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*taps the microphone* check, check is this thing on? *clears throat*
the truth about cas is. he is a pathetic meow meow. a sopping wet beast. a little bastard rat man. a babygirl haunted by the horrors. please stop making him witness the horrors. he married rex townsend, he has been through Enough.
paypal.com/casescapefund
thank you
EXACTLY!! EXACTLY!!!!! actually im writing 'a pathetic meow meow. a sopping wet beast. a little bastard rat man. a babygirl haunted by the horrors.' into this guide now bc thats a more succinct way of putting like 1500 words of this LMAO
#LIKE JUST. IMAGINE THE WORST MAN YOU CAN.#👍 AMAZING THERE YOU GO. THATS CASTIEL.#problem solved#also please donate to the cas escape fund guys 🥺 /j#he needs the money to uh. to uhhh. buy a flight out of the state asap. or on the offchance that fails#hes probably going to need rhe money to replace his crockery
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wait everyone shut UP. i miss kirihiko.
#went to check his tag on the offchance there was smthn new but then just started scrolling all of it oh my god i MISS him#hi to all like three people in his tag btw#oh my god wait tumblr needs to fix my shit NOW none of my art is in tags anymore. god.#✉️
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society if k/ny was good.......
#actively mad that i have to put a gif of it into my oc tags.#the ANN reviewer getting burned out on it this season was such a mood bc this manga arc is also where it lost me#entire next season is not gonna mean shit but will still be overhyped and overanimated probably#and last arc will fuck conceptually but ultimately this series is just agonizingly mid. as pretty as it looks#<- guy who is also just. over shounen after the jjks mess#and still being strung along by bnh4 on the offchance of overhaul/eri content............ argh#elia txts
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Had seen someone post a video defending the jokes and memes on the oceangate incident, how poor people can laugh and mock the situation bc they don't owe rich people empathy, when rich people never gave them empathy etc
I think my thoughts on it are this: not owing any empathy/sympathy =/= making jokes about it. Not feeling compassion doesn't mean you Have to make memes about it.
You don't have to respect who died or how, but like... You can do that without turning it into something to laugh at, you know? No matter what you've been through or what they've done, if you're turning death into internet lol points it's a reflection on you at that point. Not them.
Spit on their graves, speak their names with contempt, Eat The Rich by tearing them from their thrones. Turning it into joke fodder just.... doesn't accomplish anything, and is just as tasteless as the men you're ridiculing. They would do the exact same thing to the rest of the world, and if that's your instinct here then you're not as different from them as you'd like to think, just because you don't have the money they do.
Do they deserve it? Yeah, karmically. Do you need to lower yourself to their level and commodify their death for likes on the internet, as the only way to express your lack of compassion? .....Do you?
...Anyways. if none of that speaks to you, then maybe the reminder that a 19 yo son who didn't want to go and got dragged into that death trap against his will, will resonate. Yeah, people who deserved it got theirs, but not everyone in that damn thing necessarily Deserved it. If you don't think the jokes reflect poorly on you otherwise, then maybe you should rethink your stance with that extra info in mind.
And before anyone storms in to defend their stance: I don't fucking care. I lack any and all respect for you if you are going to continue to make the jokes AND will throw hands at me about it. Express your disrespect how you want, I'm not your goddamned mother. Just keep it away from me and know you can't rationalize it to me in a way that matters.
If you still come at me to argue - well. I'm just going to assume that means I'm right and hit a sore spot in calling you out. Because if you're angry enough about a stranger's post that means it hit you personally. Jokes are in poor taste, but lashing out for your own flaws is an even worse look, you know?
#honestly i doubt anyone would say anything anyways. im fortunate enough posts i write aren't seen by many strangers#im just nipping that route in the bud on the offchance bc if I get too confident in how I stay under the radar it Will bite me someday#blablablah#oceangate#not tagging further bc im not looking to attract attention. consider it a blacklist tag#gripegripegripe
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tragic ! I don't like my favorite pin makers current style !
#but great for my wallet n like. kirby interest is going dormant so 2 birds 1 stone#and shes doing a lot of Jumbo pind and i just. sure i mostly display but i dont want art pins. i want even remotely wearable in the offchanc#and like. i dont want to spend that much on a single pin LOL
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Will say it again. I will block you if you ship nellis full stop. Same with Zochelle. The age gap people. I hate that nellis is the most popular ship i want to hit my head against a brick wall. And dont go in my replies and be like “oughehgsgie my paretns met around theyre age! who give a fucky!!!! also theyre all adults freak” i think i have permission to kill you.
#post#l4d#ONLY putting it in the tag so ppl who do ship it can block me too#l4d2#i have to make this post every like few months cuz i just see it in the tag always#like when i think ive blocked them all theres... more#and also on the offchance anyone says some shit like. they dont have canon ages/some have vague ages i also have permission to kill you#you cannot look into my face and say zoey is 30#nellis is like 12 year difference
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i really dont like taking an ordinarily heroic character and just applying a random evil trait to them. like theres this one semi-popular sonic au ive seen where he just like. eats people? cannibal sonic? like. hello? im down for taking a typically virtuous character and finding a mirror or foil to the traits they have, but like. just applying a random horror movie trope selected by, I dunno, pulling cards out of a hat is not engaging to me. its like why? whats the motive, whats the goal, whats the narrative, whats the message??
#ramblin#i brought this up on my rp acc but ive thought about it more and i think ive conveyed it better here?#idk man im just spewing words into the abyss on the offchance that someone is listening
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