#linking isn’t working for me for some reason but Reddit has a link to the download :)

[tomatoart]

Do you have lollipop chainsaw on a disc? I tried looking at the digital playstation store and I'm not seeing it 😢

ITS SO SAD it only works for ps3 and Xbox 360 😭😭 which I didnt have/was not allowed to play these games when I was 12 so I actually just watched a full playthrough of it and then did that over and over whenever I missed the game😔 most ppl use rpcs3 to emulate it though ! but you’ll have to play around with the settings FPS to be something ur pc can handle without being too much for it (lots of flashing unfortunately) IM PRAYING FOR YOU ITS SUCH A SILLY GAME I WISH MORE PPL KNEW ABT IT

[luckykiwiii101]

Heyhey

First of all,

Much love to you. I know you've helped a lot of people and on behalf of everyone you've helped..a big thank you!

I found something on reddit and it made everything just click in an instant. I'll put it at the end. (for some reason I can't link it) I am sending this to you in the hope that this will really help some people who feel lost.

Sidenote: I know it's basically what you and other blogs has been preaching about, but this is rephrased differently and may help some people understand and truly apply (and stop overconsuming lol)

I CANT BELIEVE IT TOOK ME ALL THIS TIME TO FINALLY GET IT…  Tips & Techniques I’ve known about the Law of Assumption for almost four years, and now I finally get it. I always thought that when I closed my eyes to imagine something, it was my false self—let’s call her Ella—doing the imagining and experiencing the desire. But that’s not true. Ella only exists in the physical realm; she’s just another object in awareness. The one who’s really imagining is awareness itself—God, consciousness—the only thing that truly exists. Now I understand why imagination is immediate and real. It’s not Ella’s creation because she has no access to awareness. Ella’s role is confined to the 3D world. Her job is to make sense of life through logic, past experiences, and sensory input. So, when I imagine something, Ella can’t “see” it because imagination operates in the realm of awareness, not the physical. This is why thoughts like “Where is it?” or “It’s not working” arise—they’re just Ella panicking because she didn’t witness the creation happen. Ella is fixated on time and the physical world, so she doubts anything beyond her perception. But her panic doesn’t mean anything because she’s not the one imagining. She’s not capable of understanding or influencing what exists in awareness. This realization leaves no excuse not to trust my imagination. Imagination is beyond Ella’s capabilities, and its reality is not dependent on her understanding. This isn’t an invitation to hate or fight Ella—it’s about recognizing her limitations and letting her be. When I notice my mind being logical or thinking doubtful thoughts, I can let them pass because that’s just Ella doing her job. There’s no need to argue with or control her because it’s like bullying a blind person for not being able to see. She simply can’t perceive what’s happening in awareness, and that’s okay. Let her do her thing, knowing it doesn’t matter. The real work is already done in imagination, which is the realm of the infinite.

Someone answered:

Yup, Ella is herself a manifestation of consciousness and there is only consciousness. We think we are Ella, when we are consciousness, perceiving things through Ella's perspective. Good job. And that's exactly why manifestation is instant, the moment awareness becomes aware of something through your imagination, it happens. Because everything is awareness. You already are living that reality from the moment you imagined it. Ella will keep thinking. You need to not react to those thoughts or feelings of Ella, observe them, take care of Ella when she feels down but laugh a little at her naivety. Most people imagine and forget that they're not Ella but consciousness and become aware of something else by giving attention to Ella's limited perspective but guess what? Ella is a well behaved child, she will learn as soon as you discipline her. Her thoughts would slowly get on board too and so will the feelings. So let Ella be, don't react to her thoughts and emotions and become aware of something that's not what you want

People need to read this!!! Thank you so much for sharing!!

[crowleysgirl56]

Updated with edits!

Timeline of the last 12 months 15 months of the Good Omens fandom.

July 2023 - Good Omens season 2 drops. Fans watch on the presumption this season is based on the sequel idea Terry and NG spoke of in the 90’s and 2006. Reactions are mixed but mostly positive. We’re happy with fluff. Initial thoughts: “I don’t see how this story could have been fleshed out into an entire novel, but I guess it was only ever just initial ideas, so I suppose that works.”

July 2023 - THE KISS.

Fandom reaction: NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

August 2023 - NG responds to fandom

NG: “Season 2 isn’t actually based on the idea Terry and I spoke about.”

Fandom: “What?”

NG: “Season 2 is just a bridging story to get us to season 3. That will be the story that Terry and I discussed.”

Fandom: “What!?”

NG: “Season 3 hasn’t been greenlit by Prime yet so we might not get it.”

Fandom: “WHAT?!”

NG: “Also I wrote the kiss that way by giving the fandom what you want without actually giving you what you want. So like, stop asking me for things or I won’t write them.”

Fandom: “AAARRRGGGHHHHH!!!”

August to November 2023 - The fandom, now lost and depressed, mope through the halls of Tumblr and Reddit, desperately clinging to any piece of information dropped by NG, sharing fan art, creating headcanons and theories, and writing the angstiest of angst fanfiction ever written. Some weep in a corner mumbling about the South Downs. Most just trudge through their daily lives, listless and despondent.

December 2023 - Prime greenlights Good Omens Season 3.

Fandom: YES! OMG HOORAY! WAHOO! Dancing in the streets. Fanfiction turns to fluff and smut. NG is active and happy, answering many questions without actually answering them. Gives us the hilarious gift of Dottie and Sadie.

January 2024 - speculation of when season 3 filming will begin commences. Realisation that it could be quite a while starts to sink in. Actors and writers strike has caused delay to the scripts being written. David and Michael have taken on theatre work which will delay their filming schedules. Douglas McKinnon announces he’s stepping away as director. Fandom has slight freak out, but NG reassures everyone it’s nothing to worry about, and linked to the recent strikes.

Early to mid 2024 - “The invisible and unbreakable line that joins Crowley and Aziraphale”.

Fandom: AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! We inevitably become even more feral. Much fanart is made.

March 2024 - David hosts the BAFTAs and Michael helps him during the opening. David is then nominated for TV BAFTA for Good Omens.

Fandom: OMG YYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAYYYY!!! Much dancing and celebration is had once again. We are so in love.

May 2024 - filming schedule for GO season 3 is announced. It will commence January 2025. The fandom reacts.

Fandom: “That’s still so long away!” “Michael and David will have their hair dyed white and red for the awards season!” “Going by the previous production schedule this means season 3 won’t reach our screen until 2026! No!” “Cannot wait for this to start filming we are going to be so feral!” More fanfiction, more fanart.

June 2024 - David hosts Pub in the Park. Michael joins him.

Fandom: THEY ARE SO CUTE! HOW CAN THEY BE THIS CUTE, WE DON’T DESERVE THEM.

Early July 2024 - horrible allegations are laid against NG and the fandom comes to a terrible crashing halt. Much debate and discussion is had back and forth: “Believe the victims”. “Separate the art from the artist”. “Drop the fandom entirely”. “Step back for a moment”. There is a lot of arguing, but there is also still a lot of love. NG has fled all social media.

Late July 2024 - until it’s January, and the show actually starts filming, Good Omens season 3 has now become Schrödinger’s Series. It both now exists and doesn’t exist. Prime at any moment may pull the production due to the backlash against NG. The fandom now re-examines McKinnon’s departure speculating if he left for other reasons. We once again despondently trudge the halls of tumblr and Reddit feeling the same feeling of this time last year.

This section of the post was made in late July was this was original posted: And that pretty much brings us up to date. Anything could happen in the next six months, which is why I feel we’re all worried. It’s why I’m worried. So instead, keep sharing the art, keep writing the fanfiction, keep speculating with theories and headcanons. Let’s be here for each other. Because we created this fandom for each other. It doesn’t belong to NG anymore. Let’s do this for Terry. Personally, I can’t wait to come back to this timeline and add January 2025 - filming begins.

28 July 2024 - Michael Sheen, the absolute angel that he is posts a picture of his tartan socks clad feet alongside the caption “To our world”. Such a beautiful, beautiful man!

10 September 2024 - Amazon Prime announces production for season 3 is paused. Everyone loses their shit. There is much lamentations.

Unsubstantiated posts start circulating that the show is cancelled. People who have a friend whose cousin’s gardener’s former roommate claim they are involved with the production and therefore they KNOW the show is cancelled. More lamentations.

Amazon stays silent for EIGHT. FUCKING. WEEKS.

The fandom walk around in a god damn haze again akin to what August to December 2023 felt like. Will we be left with the final 15 forever?

Mid October 2024 - for about 3 days straight the fandom receives information that is akin to a rollercoaster of emotion. Head graphics designer Mickey tweets out a now deleted post that everyone is going back to Scotland. Then Peter Anderson Studio tweet out a now deleted post referencing the South Downs cottage. Then random casting company updates their subscription website advertising Good Omens: The Finale a TV movie. Entertainment website releases an article referencing this. The fandom LOSE. THEIR. SHIT. AGAIN. We honestly can’t take much more of this.

25 October 2024 - Amazon finally announces the news we’ve been half expecting half dreading with positive and negative ramifications. Neil Gaiman is gone. GOOD! Season 3 will still happen. GOOD! But now it’s just a 90 minutes finale. WAIT, WHAT, NO! But it could have been worse. It was a hairs breath away from being completely cancelled. GOD BLESS RHIANNA PRATCHETT AND ROB WILKINS.

It’s been a wild ride everyone. I’ve already posted earlier this morning (25 October 2024) my thoughts about the whole situation so go read that there. But for now? Gaiman is gone, and we get our ending.

For now here’s to seeing our boys with their red and white hair again.

[jamespotterenthusiast]

mini 70s fashion resource masterlist

I'm working on bigger projects (that might never see the light of day because I can't figure out formatting, links and other stuff) but I wanted to provide some sources for those interested in fashion, specifically for writing 70s fashion in fics and books.

I love 70s fashion and it hurts my heart to see so many characters in bell bottoms, bright colors, converse and leather when those weren’t even the biggest parts! I like to use pictures from real people and their lives, as well as magazines. I like to stay away from the costume style that’s often portrayed in movies. 

these are sorted from my favorite to least favorite

Reddit- Yeah yeah I know it’s reddit, but there are so many good resources!

r/TheWayWeWere is MY FAVE!!!! It’s literally random people’s pictures from any era! Their focus is on people in everyday life, so it’s perfect. Go to this subreddit, type your desired era or use the flair and you have hundreds of real life pictures from real life people in your desired era. 

r/70s is a lot, it’s everything 70s so you get some good stuff and some bad stuff, but it’s authentic for sure

r/vintagefashion and r/vintage a lot of this is really good, but some can get gimmicky, overall they are good resources

r/TheGoodOldDays hit or miss but it’s okay

r/fashion and r/mensfashion hard to sort through, a lot of the advice tends to be a little gimmicky

Sewing Patterns- A lot of people sewed their own clothes in the 70s

Readily available, easy to find, with the variety you can find super popular stuff and less popular stuff

Simplicity Sewing Pattern, Vintage Sewing Pattern Company, Vintage Sewing Patterns Wiki, there’s SO MANY websites out there

Magazine articles from the 70s- this is the advice a lot of people followed so it’s good for me! 

A big big reason for this being second is that it’s a bit inaccessible, I haven’t had much luck but I am not the most technologically advanced individual

The best way to view these is at a library that has them archived on microfilm, if you have a good, large library near you then you might be in luck

There are some archived and digitized online, but they are mostly behind a paywall or incomplete pieces.

Large magazines have vaults, like TIME and Vogue, but some they can be a representation of the upper class and the very rich which isn’t the target of most authors

Movies/shows from the 70s- ehhh pretty hit or miss. movies from the 70s tend to be a pretty idealistic representation of what people were wearing. it HEAVILY depends of what kind of show

Movies set in the 70s- this is a super broad one so some are great! some are bad! i would suggest looking at other sources, at least for a while, once you notice the trends then you can notice what’s realistic and what isn’t.

[bishopinblue]

Old fandom drama time!

It has been about 3-4 years since I had been as active as I was in the Nefarious fandom (Indie game/comic). I have gripes with multiple people in that fandom, but one/two of them thought it was a good idea to make a "call out" blog a few years ago about the Official Server, the RP server, SoR, and myself. Unfortunately for them, I remembered and felt the vigor to do what I should have done as soon as this shit was published. 

Let me start this by saying I am about 95% confident I know who is responsible for this blog. Because they thought it was okay to name drop me I'll be doing the same under my assumption and dissection as well.

From here on, my own replies will be italicized to differentiate the caps from text. Please know this is going to be a very long post. 

If you read it in full, thank you for your patience.

So hello chaoticmelody3805 and khimer_zherki. I have full reason to believe you two are the ones behind all this belly aching.

I will mainly be referring to Melody in this post due to the knowledge and proof that she has talked about most of the points in this blog to a near identical degree in private. All the while, Khimer appears to have been more of a support than a driving force. Considering he also hasn't done much harm to me I will be overlooking him. Still, I think acknowledgement is due for my reasoning on this.

To start, I think it is important to mention the fact that I was a mod in the Official Server and only that server. There are some references later on stating I was a mod in the RP server as well, which are false. I was never a mod in SoR and only held a sort of Teacher Role for a whole of 12 hours before asking to have it removed. This was early on when I was still fresh into the server.

With that being said, let's get to it.

Iceberg Post link for reference.

I want to address the reddit post first and make it abundantly clear that the creator himself was the only one with the power to edit, delete and monitor the reddit page. I don’t even have a reddit so being responsible for deleting it isn’t possible. When this iceberg was posted, Josh was the one to see and delete it. No one else. That is the only thing I wanted to address in the opening remark.

These two points have to do directly with the Official Server, as shown in the iceberg image.

"Bugs in the game"

No shit. It's a small indie game with the efforts of a handful of artists and coders to complete it. Even then, the plot was fun, the characters charming, and gameplay was enjoyable for what it was worth. It's the first stepping stone to the fandom and was often asked for a second game. 

This entry is simply pointing out the obvious for most, if not all indie games and is just mean spirited towards the creator for his efforts. 

The comics came after the game, buy the way. The server mostly pandered to the comic over the game. 

"Bot raids"

Bot raids happen on bigger public servers. This is not something that was 100% preventable and precautions were put in place to MITIGATE the amount of bot raids that occurred. All things considered, it would have been leagues worse without the clearances put in place once the initial raids kicked up. 

I say mitigated because for it to be 100% safe, the server would have to be private invite only.

I was a mod during some moments in the Official Server where I had helped think up ideas to help keep users as safe as possible. Once again, not 100% bullet proof and some still found a way in. They were dealt with swiftly each time, however.

Once again, only applicable to the Official Server.

"Important comics are Patreon exclusive"

The creator does these comics and the game as FREELANCE WORK. Of course he has the right to put some of the content behind a paywall! It's his main source of income! You and other users like you are lucky there was even a public version of the comic. 

Instead of complaining about a freelance artist asking for compensation for their creations, maybe you should be happy with the free material he gives you in bulk.

"Comic is an incoherent mess"

 This is an opinion, not a fact. Like all stories, some things bounce around and some details are hidden for later. Is it perfect? Hell no! But it's also not a damning factor either, let alone one valid for a fucking slander post.

Both of these points are opinion driven and hold no weight against their argument. Honestly, it feels like it was put in just to be mean and spiteful towards an artist who wants to make a living off his work. Pay your artists and show appreciation for the work they do!

This level can be applied to both the Official Server and SoR, despite one being only for the Official Server in the diagram.

"Bullying fan content that doesn't fit canon"

Josh has been very encouraging to artists and fans to make content they like for the fandom. The only times he has kept his mouth shut on details are for parts of the story that haven't been made public yet. He doesn't want spoilers. 

There haven't been any caps provided to support this claim for him. This can be disregarded as opinion as well.

On the other hand.

SoR was notorious for restricting content allowed in its server, but also had a harsh vetting process that prevented most players from utilizing the creations they made. 

Do you remember the Vetting Document? The one users had to fill out and then be judged upon if their muses “fit the universe enough”? I do. I also remember telling the mods to go fuck themselves because they wanted to change an aspect of my OC they didn't like. They didn't attempt to do that again.

If anything, SoR was much more restrictive in regards to following cannon content and even frowned upon most ideas that didn't adhere to the timeline. The worst of it was when I first joined that server, but over time it lessened a bit as more ideas were entertained. Only a bit, though. It was still a suffocating environment to play in thanks to the regulations and time slots for rping.

"Gaslighting"

For something as serious an accusation as this is, there are no caps. No proof. No nothing. 

If anything, that makes this a null point too. To accuse someone of gaslighting, there needs to be proof or examples given. You have provided none.

Speaking for myself, I would say I was a victim to this multiple times in SoR. By mods and users alike. Even in the three posts of this blog it's present. It did lasting damage to my mental health and stability. So, while I will not acknowledge this point due to lack of proof, I will agree that it was done to me in SoR and the after effects show in my daily life. This is my own opinion in return for yours. Tit for tat.

"Comic released on Pride Month about an 'insane' character with rainbow hair"

One of the other mods answered this more gracefully than I could. A copy and paste of their answer is below.

*Lark does have rainbow hair, and she was in  an asylum, correct. Her relationship preferences are unknown, and she is in fact- not insane- there is plot reason on why she is there, and it gets explained in the very same comic.*

Also, there is a cannonly gay character named Owl. One of Crows brothers. Macks fathers are also gay and married. Mayapple and Malice are also together and lesbians. There is plenty of LGBTQ representation in his comic if you want to claim it's only there as one moment of negativity.

"Being 'Progressive' for money"

Another opinion rather than a fact. 

The above paragraph shows examples of the LGBTQ representation in the comic. Healthy ones at that!

You can say many of the characters in the comic are touch and go, sure. Something multiple fans have also noticed. But it's not just for LGBTQ ones.

There isn't much development on already existing characters and their relationships outside of Crow. So you can't pinpoint this just to a proposed lack of LGBTQ material when a lot of other characters outside of this lack the same attention. Malachite is a good example! One of my favorites when I was still a supporter.

It isn't being progressive for cash. It's focusing on the main character and developing the world around him. Albeit, in a quick paced way, in my opinion, but not one meant as a cash grab.

"The K&B incident"

This

Is where I get longwinded.

This was the thing that pissed me off the most.

As I stated at the start of this post I was NEVER A MOD IN SOR and was ONLY A MOD IN THE OFFICIAL SERVER. I don't know who started this rumor, but it is blatantly wrong. On top of that, no one had ever come to me to confirm it! This Is coming straight from the horse's boney mouth now. I have no reason to lie about this.

I had just as much power in that rp server as any other user did.

In regards to the Official server, however. 

After leaving SoR, once I finally came to terms with how toxic that environment was and how two faced the head moderator, Fancifool, was, I did still want to rp and interact with some of the friends I made in that rp server. However, I did not want to use the Official Servers rp room as that was a place Fanci could still see me and I didn't want that. I like the privacy a private server gives.

Most of the strife, lies, rumors and manipulation all stem back to Fanci and I believe fully that any of these false accusations were fabricated from her to make herself look better, and me as a monster. (Another very long post for another time.)

Once I left, I kept away from anything to do with SoR and her. I wanted to mind my own business on the main server and enjoy the fandom. Even then, she was the one who persisted in watching and going after me whenever it seemed she could.

From things like trying to sabotage me making a pin design for the Official Server to spreading lies about why I left the rp server, she continued to harass me at a distance to the point my friend, Kaly, had to step in. She came in hot and told Fanci off before blocking her. Approaching with courtesy and a calm nature didn't work before and I continued to be targeted for minding my own business. Enough was enough. 

That is where Kaly unfortunately got her big bad rep from Fanci, despite being more than polite to multiple people who didn't deserve it in the end. The ones who made this blog are examples of some of them.  

That is all I will say about that aspect of my experience for now. SoR was an entirely different kind of trauma I had to go through and this post will never end if I tried to fit it all in here.

So back to the point at hand.

I brought up in the general chat in the Official Server that I was thinking about making my own server for folks who still wanted to rp with me, because I was NOT stepping foot back into SoR. I wanted to gauge who would still like to play with me outside of the server after I left. Not once did I say I wanted it to be a server to rival SoR nor be dedicated to Nef content. And I absolutely NEVER wanted to hog the unused rp channels in the Official Server. The same server they would host an rp in once a week or so as a type of stage to flaunt their writing outside of their server. If there was one thing Fanci loved, it was an audience. Which is also why she got so bent out of shape about the rp rooms being archived.

Fanci took this turn of events as me trying to undermine her stage, despite me saying that was not its intended purpose. She went to the SoR server owner and made up the hairbrained assumption, that you typed in this post, to get people riled up. 

As a matter of fact, I still have the original transcript of the ENTIRE CONVERSATION IN THE MOD ROOM THAT OCCURED ABOUT IT!

I was at work at the time and couldn't join in until the very end, but I think this speaks for itself well enough on how little these people actually listened to anyone other than themselves. I also have caps showing that in their group chat after the fact. 

Also, it was a majority of the OTHER moderators in the Official Server that wanted to shut down the rp channels. I was one of the only ones who tried to convince them to keep it open after Fanci demanded an audience with them. But the majority ruled and in the end I did agree with their choice as well. 

In reality, it was Fanci who ultimately pushed the mods to decide to close the rp channels due to her persisting that it would be unfair to them to have BASIC RULES IN PLACE. Rules you can read in the doc transcript at the end when I was finally free to say something on the matter. Thus, the rooms were archived and a direct link to SoR was put in its place in case anyone still wanted to join their server. That archive is long gone now.

This is just one example of how facts were twisted to make certain parties look better than they were. Making mountains from molehills to make a group look better than another.

TLDR: Fanci made a spectacle over me wanting to see if people still wanted to rp with me outside of SoR, made up lies about what my PRIVATE INVITE ONLY SERVER would be used for, and ultimately why the rp rooms were shut down.

By the way, I still made that server and it's still invite only for close friends. It's called Blue Lagoon and it's beach themed. Don't worry. I'm not stealing her number count.

"Complaints about anything on this being ignored/excused"

Any issues or complaints brought to mods from both servers were handled to the extent they thought it appropriate enough to do so. This isn't their fucking day job! It's a damn fandom server. 

I will admit, SoR neglected its own 25+ page rulebook often so they could keep numbers up. Because I was only a mod in the Official Server towards the end of this shit storm, I don't have much I can add to this point. But also, once again, no caps. No proof. No examples.

Another opinion rather than a fact.

"The Purge"

I was not around for this event and know nothing about it.

One thing I will make very clear is that the Syndicate of Roleplay was NEVER THE OFFICIAL RP SERVER FOR NEFARIOUS!

Josh never deemed it so and never once considered it a direct branch of his server for him to foresee. He has stated this multiple times. This was a self proclaimed title that held no weight in the servers validity.

"Sexualized art"

People make 18+ content. This is universal. Literally every server ever made has this happen from time to time, but at least there exists an 18+ server for the Official Server where it can be isolated to. Whether people use it is up to them. The mods usually followed up about that too. In both the Official and RP servers. Your second post actually proves that on its own.

"Provoking suicidal people" 

I don't think I know of this instance so I'm skipping it. No comment via lack of information and proof.

"ERP with minors"

You can say this was in regard to Dusty and you, Melody. I don't know what really happened between you and Dusty in that timeframe, but calling him a pedophile during a time when he was also young and unaware of some things is downright malicious. In fact, I did the math at one point and I think he was ALSO a minor during that time. So referring to him as the ADULT in this point is painting him in a worse light than he was.

Is he an asshole? Absolutely! I will not disagree with you on that. But I will never label someone something as extreme as a PEDOPHILE unless I know for sure they are one. Going to such an extreme label like this is alarming, but something you are known to do.

It's perfectly valid if you regretted that interaction with him, though! I've had moments like that in my time rping and interacting with different people. There was a lack of consideration from him and that's one of his major faults. He's inconsiderate.

As for how the mods responded to this instance. Once again, I was not there for this and there's no proof, once again.

But if this is true. You did not deserve to be treated like that and their response is more alarming than Dusty's idiocy.

"Exposure to drawn child porn"

My brother in Christ.

This is one of those instances of 'makes a character that's fully grown, but was Freshly Brought To Life recently'. I can't comment on this fully because it is also a matter of opinion in a way. One I also am not fully comfortable with. Yeah. I also don't like this trope. I think it's too close to the line in the sand.

In regards to the Event that provoked this bullet point.

It is so fucking easy to post an image or text in the wrong chat. I have done it so many times because, guess what? HUMANS CAN MAKE MISTAKES.

It doesn't matter if he had to press "several buttons" to post it if he didn't see he was in the wrong server. Which is what he said after it was all said and done! It was a huge screw up on his part, but the big takeaway is he didn't do it ON PURPOSE. He was extremely embarrassed by it after the fact and you even showed that in your second post.

Just say you want a reason for everyone to hate him as much as you do. To make him out to be a horrible person rather than someone you just don't vibe with. Cause my dude, I also don't vibe with him, but I'm not going around making shit up to make him look like a perverted pedo. That's fucked up and frankly you're fucked up for doing that!

"Active Pedophile in the community"

This is literally your last point in Level 5 just jumbled with different words. 

However, I will agree that Dusty usually had risqué muses that didn't fully belong in that space. Which once again, should have been properly addressed by the mods in that server and weren't. If anything, instead of saying Kaly gave him passes for this, what about Fanci? His best friend and overall main power holder of the server who was letting him get away with it long before Kaly even entered the server. 

But once again. No caps. No irrefutable proof. No evidence.

That's all for that post!

Now onto the second.

Accusations Post link for reference.

This part only has to do with the RP Server and the bullshit that happened in it. 

What I will be doing for this post is simply debunking the outlandish claims made in them about ME. I'll explain why they are framed in ways meant to demonize rather than inform of anything actually malicious.

I'm not going to touch the top of this post as it's just another jab at Dusty and his idiocy. The guy's inconsiderate and I'm leaving it at that.

Where I will start is right here.

Allow me to start by genuinely asking WHAT SUICIDE BAIT?????

Where??

Do you even know the meaning of that word because I don't think you do! 

And once again throwing around extreme words and phrases without understanding what they truly mean as well as the extremity of them. There isn't a single instance of that in any of these caps!

The only thing I can feasibly piece together that is close to that is when Dusty say's he's going to kill his phone and then himself.

Out of embarrassment. 

A phrase that is so commonly used that everyone has heard and used it at least once in their lives. No one is being fooled by this. It's NOT suicide baiting. 

I will go over the following main accusation against me (number 1) and why it is completely false, written and framed in a way to try and make me look like a horrible person. I will NOT be speaking for Kaly in this as her experience differs from mine. But I will touch on a few things involving her.

All the caps below are the extent of the conversation taken from this post as "proof".

Now.

I find it very convenient that the actual offending pic wasn't captured and that is because these caps were not taken at the time of offense. Not because you didn't want to capture it.

I know Khimer is most likely the one that took the caps before he left the server about a year or so ago. The reasons I think this is because of two things.

1. The date of each post alone is a baseline. This indicated that these caps were taken WAY after this happened.

I also want to point out how none of these caps are full screen caps that hide the full story and and additional context. To me, that devalues them and makes it look like certain things were framed or cherry picked. Something Melody is notorious for and also did often to make others look like unsympathetic assholes. Notably, something she attempted to do to Kaly and got caught for.

It's manipulation and gaslighting. Something she accused so many other people of. So yeah. Projecting much?

2. If you look at the first cap you will see chaoticMelody's name is one of the only ones that are white. This means that she wasn't in the server at the time of the cap being taken.

Based upon the timeline of her ban and when I knew Khimer also left the server, I can safely assume this was taken during my time still in the server considering my name isn’t in white like hers, but most certainly AFTER she had been banned and Kaly was no longer a mod.

This narrows it down to a chunk of time for me and deduces that it was not taken during the time Kaly WAS a mod in that server. While I was never a mod, Kaly was and demoted herself because she was sick of all the bullshit. She was never kicked from the role. She stepped down herself. I know for a fact this moment happened after she took that step down into just being a normal player in the server too. And if that’s hard to believe, then the proof given isn’t viable either as it says otherwise. I’ll get to why.

And no. The one user below Melody is not white as well. It is a pastel yellow. One of the other tiers they had in the server was that color and this user had it as their main color. The whole role system was a gradient from light yellow, to orange, and then purple. Purple being the owner/mods, orange being the standard users/players, and yellow being other roles like artists, viewers, etc. These were also the main colors of the main character in Nefarious, Crow. 

That's not important really, but just a tidbit of logic behind it.

My username is orange just like all the other standard users. The moderator, Fancifool, and server owner at the time, Lock Jaw, have distinctly different purple colors to their usernames and that is because Fanci was the main mod at this time and Lock Jaw was the owner with the same privileges as the mods. Even when this cap was taken they still reflect that. 

They were the ones responsible to handle this. Not me. Not Kaly. 

If this were the case, then users like MasterofMemes, who was also orange, should have been on the chopping block too, no? And what about the blatant ping in the same color as Fanci and Lock Jaws usernames? Any discord user knows the role color matches the role, so how do you deny that one?

Even then, Memes and Fanci both acted before either Kaly and I did, so in either retrospect, once again, why am I being targeted for hate in something I wasn’t even responsible for, let alone was too late to get to? Is it because certain people coupled me and Kaly together as one entity? You all sure treated us like one, which was just fucking rude and demonizing.

With this information, this accusation that I 'favored' Dusty and let him get away with accidentally posting an nsfw pic in the server flops like a dead fish. 

It’s so easy to take a cap, put it out of context and say whatever hate comes to your brain. But this was sloppy. Really sloppy. I didn’t say anything or engage with you on it for years because anyone with eyes and half a brain cell can put 2 + 2 together to make 4. Well… almost anyone, apparently. 

And allow me to state again, because this seems to continue to not be committed to memory.

I WAS NEVER A MOD IN SOR!

Not once. Never wanted to be. Never was.

On top of this, the event happened in the middle of the day when most people with jobs were AT SAID JOBS as well as school. (Don’t think I need proof of that.) We weren't tethered to our phones for any beck and call that may happen. Assuming people with lives outside of a fucking discord server will come running at any instant is, frankly, ridiculous.

But it looks like it took Fanci and Lock Jaw roughly “2 minutes to get on scene” in this instance. 

It doesn't matter if you have screenshots if all you're going to do is use them to make up lies about someone. None of what you know about me is even close to true. You can’t even dig up one cap that shows my username in the purple color Fanci’s is in because it doesn’t exist and won’t ever exist now because that server is either shut down or private.

Either way, this was a long time coming and I know by now Melody is probably in her early 20's. No longer a minor as you loved to flaunt about like a shield. So how about you act like a big girl and mind your own damn business from now on and stop spreading lies? You must be mature enough by now to do that. After all, your Harry Potter blog has been on hiatus for quite some time. That’s a good sign.

I will never deal with this brand of bullshit ever again. Not from the likes of them or others in kind. If anyone tries to stir up anything else aside from what is already on this blog I will no longer hesitate to act upon it.

If you're done embarrassing yourselves, then delete your blog and never utter my name again.

[lybrasastar]

Hi everyone, here is a master post of witchcraft authors to avoid, as well as some reasons why. (May be edited in future.) This will continue on multiple posts to make it easier on me. Also, although some is in my own words, admittedly a lot of it isn’t, and a lot of it is the same words found in the links. I apologize, but sometimes I can’t explain it as good as other people did. 

Aidan Kelly: was a sworn to secrecy oath bound Wiccan, although there is a debate to this day with traditional Wiccan community on whether or not he did in fact break the oath. However, he published the real names and addresses of other initiates without their permission, which is a direct violation to the oath he took. For more reading: https://www.reddit.com/r/pagan/comments/12pr8wu/why_dont_wiccans_like_aiden_kelly/?rdt=50360

Aleister Crowley: his dictum “do what thou wilt thou shall be the whole of the law“ could be misinterpreted as endorsing selfish/immoral behavior. Self identified as “the great beast 666“ and has been dubbed “the wickedness man in the world“ by the British press. Someone on my witchcraft discord server also said this “feedback on crowley! he wrote what most people consider to be *the* writings on kabbalah. the issue is that kabbalah is a jewish practice thats so closed that most jews dont even practice it. beyond that, he was also a *raging* antisemite. one of his closest friends openly and vehemently rejected his jewish heritage and crowly still called him slurs in letters to him. so his work on kabbalah is about the same amount of respectable as an oil baron writing about how to build solar panels” but to be fair, I have not seen more sources regard to this. If anybody has any, please send them.

Arundell Overman: quoting from a Reddit post “though his historical sources seem solid— he himself is a bit egotistic and has openly supported the Muskrat on social media. Well that doesn’t automatically turn me off to his occult writings as a potential source, it does speak about his personal ethics, and that is something that won’t support.” (Muskrat refers to Elon, but you’re political beliefs are none of my business. I’m just putting it here because it was recommended to me.)

Raymond Buckland: created the Seax-Wica tradition because when his wife wanted a divorce, he asked Gardner for her to be kicked out of the Gardnain tradition, which Gardner refused. makes claims that have no historical evidence, absolutely none. Told initiatory secrets of Wicca, and use the G slur against the Romani people. https://michipeachiii.wordpress.com/2018/11/16/witchcraft-authors-to-avoid/

Christian day: claimed to have given Charlie Sheen cancer for referring to him as ���warlock”. Claims to have destroyed Raven G’s house and then claims to have killed Raven. Has stopped and doxxed other witches.

DJ Conway: Jason Mankey, in his article “5 Worst Witch Books Ever (Possibly)” on Patheos, critiques Conway’s Celtic Magic and Norse Magic for presenting romanticized and historically inaccurate views of Celtic and Norse traditions. He notes that these books are essentially Wicca 101 texts with superficial nods to the respective cultures. “Her book on Norse magick don’t even mention seiðr, its just neo-pagan and neo-wiccan rites with norse deities names in it. Conway is famous for her book on dragon magick, yet from what I can tell, she leaves out all the info of living traditions of dragons; people still worship dragons, dragons are still religious entities in parts of the world. I could go on and on about how her books are full of blatant misinfo and ignore the actual traditions she claims to write about. Besides the crap content of her books DJ Conway makes it very obvious that she has a deep hatred of men, she talks about trying out spells on shitty men, talks about her first marriage and how much of a “living hell” it was, and also how controlling her mother was.” https://michipeachiii.wordpress.com/2018/11/16/witchcraft-authors-to-avoid/

EA Koetting: Rips off Order of the Nines, and his information in his books are BS. He claims to be at war with Haitian Vodou Houngans on his YT (could not find specific video, it seems it was removed).

[freeuselandonorris]

*hypnokink safety PSA*

hiiii so i’m sure you absolutely did not know this but the reference you used for your nortrell bimbofication/hypnosis fic– Bambi Sleep– is actually like. like idk how to describe it but there’s this huge controversy cause the files are “dangerous”. i found them on reddit after i read that fic cause i was really intrigued by the idea (awakened strange beasts within me etc etc) and i was having a great time with them until i decided to do a little more research into hypnokink in general- just for fun- and i learned about all these side effects that come with those particular files… basically they’re extremely powerful and a lot of the training has to do with replacing the host’s personality with the new slutty personality without the host’s consent. kind of horror-game doppleganger vibes. i mean obviously hypnosis isn’t magic but there is of course a deeply psychological element to it and sort of a “if you want it to work it will work” factor… anyway as i was messing around with the files is as like “well i’m SURE this would never happen to me because I Am Different” and then lo and behold a few weeks in i’m like. okay i think i should quit while i’m ahead this is getting a little much.

so anyway as i’ve said i’m sure you didn’t know the full extent of that, and obviously it’s not like you linked the files in the fic i went down that rabbit hole by myself, but idk maybe it’s worth a brief little note at the beginning or end of that fic? like i know you’ve already got the “this is how not to negotiate a mind control kink” (and i’m always grateful of how considerate you are to your readers) but maybe a precautionary “if you’re gonna practice this kink do not use *the specific Bambi Sleep files* because there are other more wholesome stuff available” or something like that.

i mean all in all i really enjoyed it because hypnosis is still something i’m having a fun time exploring and learning new things from fic is always interesting but i just figured this is something you should know.

love your work!! cheers <3

hey anon!

actually, i am aware of the controversy around the bambi sleep files; i've spoken about it on here before. it's referenced in the notes at the end of the fic but i have now updated it to include the article i link to above as i agree i could have been clearer about what that controversy involved. it's also partly why i made the decision to rename the files in the fic.

however. i do just want to gently remind you that it is not a fic writer's responsibility to ensure your safety if you choose to explore what's depicted in the fic for yourself. fic isn't meant to be instructive or something for you to learn from. it's for entertainment and to get you off. just like you shouldn't use porn as an instruction manual.

the buzzfeed article i linked above is the fifth google result for 'bambi sleep'. if you're exploring a kink that promises to change your mental state, you need to be researching that shit before you dive in! i can't be the one to do that work for you; for a start, i don't use these files myself because i have researched them and come to the conclusion that it wouldn't be safe for me to do so. secondly, i can't judge for someone else what constitutes 'wholesome' or not. honestly, i would have thought it was clear from the tone of the fic that the files it's based on aren't wholesome. like, the dubcon tag is on there for a reason.

i hope you understand that i'm not writing this to have a go at you or deflect blame. i'm writing it out of concern because some of the kinks you (general 'you', not you specifically) will read about in fic are dangerous, and you shouldn't just be leaping straight into them without understanding the risks involved because the fic writer didn't explicitly warn you not to.

i'm always happy to answer questions about kink on here and provide recommendations around safety and teaching to the best of my ability, with the caveat that i am in no way a trained professional.

i'm really glad you were able to keep yourself safe and draw that boundary around using the files when you realised they were becoming too much, and i hope the experience with them hasn't unnerved you too much 💕

[unnervinglyferal]

Saw a thing that made me think of you for some reason. Gonna paste the entire reddit post here rather than link it, because you need to read in real time for the funny:

"My (31M) wife (32F) and I are in a healthy and happy relationship. That said, we’ve been together since high school, so we both feel that we missed out a little by being each others’ only sexual experiences. We’ve talked about this at length and decided a few years ago that we’re ok with having a few hall passes in our relationship, since we very much intend to stay together the rest of our lives and don’t want any resentment over missed possibilites. Plus it’s pretty rare that we could even find such an opportunity, as it’s a little hard to find hookups when you’re in a committed marriage and don’t go out much. We even gave each other advance approval in case a situation arises, so long as we’re safe about it and tell each other immediately afterward. We’ve both used one HP, each with someone we knew well enough but would never see again, and no issues came out of it. In fact, it’s only made us more secure in our relationship and how much we genuinely appreciate being with each other.

Recently, I had to travel to London for work. I don’t normally get to travel for work, so I decided to make a trip out of it and spend a few extra days of my own time in the city after the project was done. My wife couldn’t join because she didn’t have any vacation time left but was very supportive of me taking some time to explore since I’ve never been to London and she has. Being cheap, and being a pretty outgoing guy when I’m so inclined, I decided to stay in a hostel. I was interested in meeting other travelers since I didn’t know anyone in the city and love being sociable with new people. I chatted with several of the people staying there, and in particular a very attractive French girl (mid-20’s) who dressed super goth.

For context, I love the goth girl look. I’ve been sucked into the goth gf propaganda online, much to the annoyance of my wife. It isn’t her style, but she has been nice enough to cater to me by putting on a sexy goth outfit on occasion, since she’s knows it’s a huge fantasy of mine. Still, I pester her constantly to be more goth because I enjoy it so much.

Anyway, I ended up spending a little bit of time with goth French baddie - we both went to the hostel’s happy hour event and hit it off there. I found out that she was recently single and was in London for an art show. It turned out we were both into emo music, and we talked about our favorite bands. I had the thought that she was acting a bit flirty towards me, but didn’t think too much of it, until I later found myself sharing a sink with her in the hostel bathroom.

The hostel was co-ed, so each floor had a small shared bathroom with a communal sink, and a door that was meant to be kept open but which people frequently closed for the sake of having more privacy than just a stall to shower in. So I’m brushing my teeth while chatting up the real-life version of Shadowheart (who, mind you, is wearing an extremely low cut top), when she suddenly closes the bathroom door behind us. In my mind, my wildest fantasy is about to come true. It’s even more exciting because of the adrenaline rush of being in a semi-public setting, and a girl being so into me that she would make such a bold move. I can’t believe this is actually happening to me. I instantly get hard. Then she turns around and asks “Are you interested in learning about our lord and savior Jesus Christ?”

She had me cornered for 10 minutes trying to talk me into salvation, while I grew increasingly despondent and immensely disappointed, with the whiplash of going from what could’ve been one of the crowning moments of my life, to pure and utter dejection.

When I told my wife this story, she laughed for a solid hour. She said it’s karma for annoying her about wanting a goth gf.

TL;DR life dream was to bang a hot goth girl. Thought I was getting the opportunity, but got cockblocked by Jesus Christ. god is real and he hates me."

The fucking mood whiplash. I was reading this nodding along like okay yeah I guess that could be us in like 10 or 15 years, who knows, neither me nor my girl are the jealous type or anything, and then it fucking struck. The christians have weaponized goth girls. Fucking lost it laughing, it's been a rough 24 hours, thank you.

[drsteggy]

💝what is a fic that got a different response than you were expecting?

🤍what's one fic of yours you think people didn't "get"?

You sent this twice, anon, so I’m gonna answer the first question now, as I’ve been thinking on it, and the second later.

And hey TW: mentions of pregnancy loss.

I don’t know that I ever have an expectation when I publish a fic. I don’t write the tent pole stuff people really like. Like half of what I do is genfic and most of it is so far down my own personal rabbit hole I’m happy anyone responds at all. I’m not writing chapters of ZeLink batting their eyes at each other. I also think I tend to muse about stuff the average fanfic reader isn’t interested in, and that’s fine, it’s not meant as a put down. There are days I just want my pairing/specific trope too, and frankly, that’s most of them.

So when I’m not being an insane/insecure person about my writing (which I keep wanting to say I’m beyond, but it never quite seems to be true) I do think I can keep a good boundary around what I secretly hope a fic will do.

Last year, at about this time,I was, for some reason, mulling over the bit of my own version of Zelda’s backstory that includes a miscarriage. It is sort of obliquely mentioned once or twice if you have read absolutely everything in the Faroreverse but the bullshit Zelda deals with in her 30s has never been something I’ve published about. I’ve written a lot but none of its cohesive enough to even call a draft. I must have had friends who were on social media mourning children they did not have, all full of deep sadness and what if and potential that never got to be and maybe this kicked me over.

I’ve never been pregnant. I never will be. But I shepherd people through very sad and tragic things almost every day I’m at work. I had one of these sad things coming up on an anniversary and although Maple was not my dog, and I only met her people that one day, it was such a horrible a awful day, and that might have been on my mind too.

So I very carefully wrote The Risk of Love where an older Zelda shares the loss of her daughter who would have been sixteen the day Link pulled the sword if she’d survived with Link and let him deal with it. He has had a lot of time to learn to be an emotionally mature person by the time this fic happens in his story and I’m very pleased by how he has learned to lean and give support.

I really did not think anyone was going to read a short sad story about a lost pregnancy retold by a middle aged woman. The surprise was the people who did read it. I had people fandom blind read and and tell me how they hurt for Zelda. One woman on Reddit who read just a snip messaged me to tell me about her own loss.

I really, really love how this fic came out. It’s one of those things that wasn’t FOR something and I feel I do my best work there. The fact that it resonated the way it did was the pleasant surprise.

Original fic ask post here

[dearestdumpsterfire]

Hey y’all.

I dont talk about my life on Tumblr, usually for good reason.

Unfortunately, I have become homeless and been put into a position where I have to ask for help. I have always been uncomfortable asking for help.

My mom kicked me out in the middle of the night Friday night. I have some resources available to me but my focus right now is on the fact that I have no money.

And thats where this comes into play.

I put the full story in the linked Reddit post, which I have copied and pasted at the bottom of this post.

My GoFundMe link is here:

The post:

I got kicked out and I have nothing. What should I do, where should I start?

Note: I do have a job. I apologize for not mentioning that in here, I thought I had.

I’m eighteen years old, finishing my senior year in high school. My mother kicked me out at midnight in the freezing cold where I walked to a friend’s house to stay there for the night. Now it’s the next morning and besides going to work today, what the hell do I do? Do I file for some sort of government assistance? Is there anything I can do to help my situation? I live in Virginia Beach.

**Update for details**

I do have somewhere to stay, I don’t have 100% guaranteed transportation but I have enough where I’ll need it. I think I should start a gofundme or something. I literally left in the freezing cold at the middle of the night with two trash bags, a small duffel bag, and a little cardboard box of very sentimental items I didn’t trust my mom to let me go get, as well as all of $1.10 in my bank account.

Thank you all for your advice. I have contacted my guidance counselor and started looking into the Senton Youth Services.

***Update #2: Why I got kicked out & my gofundme***

My mom has mental health issues she refuses to speak to a professional about. This isn’t the first time she’s tried to make me leave. She can never accept when she has done something wrong and will explode if someone says she has. (tw for this bit) I am in very rocky ED recovery and my sister consistently jokes and does everything she can to make me hurt over my body, even though she saw me when I was so thin you could count all of my bones. My mother got on me because I told the sister that wasn’t okay, that she knew those things bother me and she specifically said it to hurt me deeply. This sister just so happens to be mother’s pride and joy, the infamous golden child who does no wrong.

Now I’m here, laying on my friends floor typing this. I set up a GoFundMe for this if anyone is interested.

[rewiredthethirdblog]

Comment by Last-Cantaloupe2095 on Reddit

Listen honestly y’all are all overthinking this bullshit vit k2 has been medically proven to increase bone density and growth and in combination with d3 it helps supplement absorption, the bones on our faces react and respond the same as the bones on our body now obviously you can’t drastically morph your jaw structure instantly but k2 makes your already existing bone structure denser and giving you a way more defined and thicker jaw and cheekbone structure because the k2 calcium supplementation and as all of you know the more calcium your bones absorb the more growth and dense they will become and the same applies with the less calcium you intake your bones will become weak and not grow properly as far as height growth in full grown adults It won’t change much it only helps height growth in kids and teens but everybody is different and as far as thickness and size YES it will work excellently even in the face all it does is give a thicker and enhanced look to your jawline and cheekbones and promotes growth ,looks vary person to person.If your mewing and doing all that facial improvement stuff this will help your forward and structural growth potential due to the extra calcium absorption help definitely benefit and help the process depends on how your body respond and where your at structurally and what your doing for your face. Now YES I take this I’m an athlete this shit is essential and its beneficial in a lot of ways I just turned 20 and I’m a guy my body’s hasn’t reached its full growth potential cause I’m still growing in height for some reason and my facial structure is pretty nice but it’s still developing I’m not even in my prime yet but every person’s body is different results vary and it’s all on how active you are physically cause that the main thing that helps with this and also how your body responds to the supplementation. This stuff works well for me otherwise if it didn’t I wouldn’t be wasting my damn time typing all this, no matter what type of things you take there’s always gonna be studies on how it’s effective and and how it’s not as effective it all falls on if you tried it and what did YOU notice or experience your not gonna get anywhere if u just go based off of what everyone thinks try it and be the judge, Now for the people that are saying this flat out does not work or is just hype and linking your little burner articles Sincerely Stop being a Dickhead and try the shit out for yourself if you have never tried this out your opinion or reasoning does not fucking matter at all it’s shit I don’t give a fuck if theres limited research and anecdotal claims mothafucka actually try the damn thing and be the Judge then you can go talk your shit and if you aren’t satisfied then that’s your right but if you’ve never even touched it let alone even used it for a good amount of time do not speak anything on it or link some bullshit cause y’all just look tenacious as fuck going off of burner articles grow a dick and try it RESPECTFULLY, and for all my women reading this don’t worry beautiful k2 will benefit you this isn’t really directed towards y’all. And for anybody hesitant in doing this don’t worry this won’t hurt you in trying some people respond better like me and some may not respond as good but it still works this also applies to mewing and things of that nature etc don’t go off of peoples opinions and articles as long as there’s no crazy risk stated for whatever you wanna try take the Leap and do it ,don’t limit yourself and ur potential cause someone that’s never done it has links or from someone’s opinion this applies for me too to some extent. Have a nice day .

[saintmeghanmarkle]

Radical view: Harrys the more creative one by u/Mickleborough

Radical view: Harry’s the more creative one Looking at the recent revelation of Harry’s ideas for documentaries and podcasts, it seems to me that he actually had quite good ones.Putting aside an instinctive hate for Harry, let’s look at them.- The misinformation project: a documentary about misinformation, presumably by the media to the public. If the basic tenets of journalism were followed, it potentially could be quite interesting: Who does misinformation - it’s not just the press. Why do they do this - it’s not just to sell papers; governments can be toppled. Where does this happen? When has this taken place - hint: thousands of years. Why - the reasons are myriad. How - from town square gossip, to newspapers, to social media.- A podcast on veterans: I’ve heard it described as talks with Invictus participants and how they haven’t allowed their physical limitations to stop them. This can be inspiring and important to people in similar situations.- A podcast about someone new to living in America. Fish-out-of-water shows aren’t original, but can be entertaining - say Paris Hilton’s The Simple Life or the 2015-20 sitcom Fresh off the Boat. This concept might be tied in with the report of possibly co-hosting a show with the comedian Hasan Minhaj, a first-generation American of Indian descent.- Interviewing famous people about their upbringing and childhood, and how they became who they are today. Suggested guests include Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and Mark Zuckerberg. A bit ambitious, but if he could pull it off - who wouldn’t tune in to listen to Putin saying that, as a child, all he wanted was a teddy bear? And let’s face it - these people more likely would come out for Harry than for Meghan.- A show centred around fatherhood. Not original, but relatable. Presumably Harry would focus on being a ‘girl dad’, so that could provide some insights.- A podcast where each episode‘s about societal changes, including climate change and religion - say with the Pope. [What about the head of the Church of England? Asking for a friend.] Climate change is of course topical and divisive. And religion affects more people than one assumes, perhaps. And what did we get from Meghan? A series ‘where we investigate, dissect, and subvert the labels that try to hold women back’. Er, hasn’t female opportunities been addressed? Affirmative action, quotas, legislation - women may be being held back today, but I’d say it’s not by labels. The failure of Harry’s grand plans was due to the devil in the detail. Was it Tom Bower or Valentine Low who mentioned this sort of behaviour when they were working royals? Something along the lines of coming up with impossible notions; expecting instant implementation (by other, natch); and being annoyed when it was explained to them why their ideas were impractical. Nothing’s changed then, not even when they had to take responsibility. They couldn’t even determine something as basic the format of the misinformation project - a documentary? a mini-series? There’s the added problem that they‘d make it all about themselves. As the aural soporific podcasts by Meghan have shown, they’re not that interesting. They could’ve been - Paris Hilton‘s all about her: the difference is that she makes fun of herself.And lastly - there’s a skill to be a good interviewer, starting with curiosity and an interest in people. I think Harry would be better equipped - he seems to interact well with people - whereas Meghan isn’t interested in anyone. [‘Enough about me. Let’s talk about you. What do you think of me?’]Sources:Daily Mail archived / unarchivedWall Street Journal archived post link: https://ift.tt/xOpPq6K author: Mickleborough submitted: June 28, 2023 at 06:06PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

[suzalulubf]

Glamrock Freddy is not possessed by Michael Afton - a FNAF Theory

glamrock freddy is not possessed by michael afton - and that’s because i believe he is possessed by henry emily.

tldr; in my opinion, henry emily makes a lot more sense than michael afton to be possessing glamrock freddy from a satisfying narrative perspective. and, he has just as much chance as michael afton does based on the pre-established lore!

click below to read the theory!

so first off, to preface this, maybe this was a little clickbait-y. i am not normally a serious theorist... i’m no matpat ill tell you that😭 this is just a fun theory and despite being a fnaf fan who’s followed the lore since 2014, i don’t know everything and i can make mistakes. BUT i do really enjoy the idea of this theory and while i’m not saying it’s necessarily more likely in the lore than the theory of glamrock freddy being michael, i just think from a satisfying storytelling point of view it's what makes the most sense !!

also, i’m not the first one to bring up this theory, far from it, but i just wanted to spread it around as it makes the most sense thematically to me.

so to refresh your memory, henry emily was the co-founder of fazbear entertainment, alongside william afton.

he is the father of charlotte, who you may know as the soul possessing the marionette. (charlotte is also the protagonist of the silver eyes trilogy) but most importantly, henry is also the cassette man who instructs you, the player, in FNAF6.

at the end of the completionist ending in FNAF6, henry will give his iconic monologue to william, michael afton (his son and the player character) and the animatronics before burning the place down, killing everyone in the process.

he does this to release the souls trapped in the animatronics, and to kill afton. from a lore and narrative standpoint, this was the ideal conclusion to the storyline, and fnaf as a whole. after defeating afton, henry & michael were able to provide peace to the children's souls.

this is also why i have a problem with security breach's approach to the narrative, and the return of afton as the major antagonist, but that's a problem for another thread someday

anyway, this is important, because the FNAF6 location is the same pizzeria that’s directly below roxy’s raceway in Security Breach. for the story to give a narrative reason for ruining the closure of FNAF6, glamrock freddy should have the soul of either henry or michael to justify afton in this game. and thus, the popular theory that ‘glamrock freddy is michael afton’ was born as a brother theory (no pun intended) to the ‘gregory is crying child in some way/form’ one. but this is where this theory divulges from the michael one, because thematically that just doesn’t work for me.

from the beginning of the FNAF timeline, the motif for william afton was always springbonnie. the motif for henry was always fredbear. michael was always more associated with foxy instead, as seen in the FNAF4 mini games, and later on with the funtime animatronics in SL.

in my opinion, i believe that it is michael possessing the blob during the afton ending of SB, who in the end gets to deal the final blow and ‘defeat’ afton one final time.

another thing that indicates it’s henry possessing glamrock freddy that was pointed out by u/dismal-ad-7471 on reddit:

lastly, this isn’t backed up by anything, but in general the overall temperament and personality of glamrock freddy just aligns more with henry than michael to me, as he was a very loving father to his daughter before and doted on her, similarly to how GF does for gregory in SB.

lastly again just to reiterate, i’m not saying this is canon. but it just makes more sense to me than anything else!! also if anyone noticed anything else linking henry to glamrock freddy, or any mistakes i’ve made, pls let me know! xoxo

[sometimes-men-need-help-too]

@egalitarianchica sent me the links to this post and on Instagram 

So this wife was posting on the relationship advice sub on reddit because she was upset with how her husband had taken her ‘joke.’ She went on to say in the original post how he’d complimented another co-worker’s lunch (which the co-workers wife packed for him). She thought it was disrespectful because she (OP) packs her husband’s lunch. He tried asking why it was disrespectful but stopped and they went to bed. The next day she was packing his lunch and decided to be petty so this would teach him to appreciate her lunches more. She packed him a clean diaper in his lunch (but made it appear as if it were full). She also says she didn’t fully do it out of anger. 

Well it seems that i messed up majorly because hes extremely cold, first thing he asked when he came back from work was "do you feel avenged? You satisfied now? Laugh, go on" and went to play with our daughter. He responds if I ask him something but doesnt look at me let alone touch me. This morning when I was making breakfast i went to pack his lunch and he took it from me and told me hed rather starve than take anything I made again.

Hes not responding to texts (like have a good day texts I usually send him) and I just feel very down and I know it was petty but isnt he taking it a bit too hard?

There’s a bit of clarification in the comments. A lot of people were wondering what he said to make her upset and she said that they were just talking about lunches in general and he said that his co-workers lunch looked beautiful but hard to eat (his co-worker has a bento box and apparently there was a lot of food in it). She added that she didn’t pack any food in his lunch, just the diaper. 

Some people were upset because she’s packing his lunch and wondering why a grown man can’t do it himself. That really isn’t the point. There’s nothing with (in this case) a wife packing her husband's lunch. It’s one thing if she was forced to or he wasn’t being appreciative, but that isn’t the case. She even said that she doesn’t mind doing it; she’s on maternity leave and she’s already making breakfast at that time anyway. Normally, she said, he does do it himself. He meal preps and packs it. 

She went on to blame her post partum hormones for this, because she wasn’t upset when she woke up, just when she remembered it as she was doing his lunch. 

What baffled me was seeing so many people who think they’re both at fault here. Her for obvious reasons and him for his reaction. Some said that he reacted immaturely and should have just laughed off the joke. 

He is allowed to be upset. Now if he continues to just ignore her then that would be a problem. But I don’t understand why other people are acting like he’s in the wrong. How would you feel if your S/O embarrassed you for no reason?

Let’s go over the facts again: 

- He made an innocent comment. He did not try to make her feel guilty for the lunches she provided nor did he demand that she do better. It was nowhere near disrespectful

- He was most likely embarrassed. Someone at his work probably saw the diaper

- He might not have been able to eat for a certain period of time. She doesn’t mention if he bought food or not so we don’t know 

- She doesn’t fully take accountability. I wasn’t even sure she felt remorseful. It doesn’t sound like it in the original post. Not until I read one of her comments where she’s expressing frustration at how many people are focusing on her making his lunch and she says she wants to fix this. Furthermore, the blame can’t lie solely on her hormones. Hormones aren’t an excuse. Yes, they can contribute to things but that still means you have to take accountability for what you do and say

[girlontheball]

@gvardiol Sorry to tag you in something out of the blue but as the anon asked you about stuff for learning Croatian and I think this might be the best way to get it to them! I also feel like they’ll be other people who want to know, I definitely started learning because of 2018 and I imagine it’s going to happen again.

So Duolingo hasn’t got a course (booooooo!) but 

Mondly is worth it for the daily lessons, it will give you vocab that’s completely randomised but it’s still vocab. Premium opens up all of it but it is PRICEY

Drops is my go to, it has topics that you work through in the 5 minutes a day you get (sometimes they give you more as a “gift” for like streaks, it’s Christmas or another holiday for example) I feel like this is the most coherent for beginners. Isn’t random vocab like Mondly, isn’t throw Grammar at you at least not in a “HERE! GRAMMAR!” way

Memrise. There’s no official course for Croatian on Memrise but there’s plenty of courses that teach you words which are important for speaking (3,000 words makes you conversational, and knowing words makes grammar examples way easier to figure out)

Outside of apps there’s some other useful resources

Croatian reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/croatian/) for language learning, specfically the films link they have on their resource list: https://croatian.film/en/

If you want to do a course, there’s also this, which was made with a native speaker: http://www.easy-croatian.com/

Depending on how serious you are, hunt Langblr for resource posts and you’ll probably be able to books for a reasonable price COUGHFREECOUGH that wouldn’t otherwise be readily available. Just throwing Langblr into the search finds you a bunch of neat people too 

And just from someone who learns languages for fun (including Croatian) if you really want to learn beyond the 5 minutes on Drops or the 15 minute lesson then interact with the language in a way that is fun for you. There are sites out there that have recorded football matches (Footballia comes to mind but you didn’t hear that from me) maybe try to find some with Croatian commentary, some definitely have Croatian leagues. I learned a lot of my language through songs and watching my favourite TV shows dubbed. It’s gonna make no sense at first but trust the process. Also if you want to speak then don’t neglect your speaking, it’s the hardest part, especially the less access you have to native speakers so even if you’re talking to yourself you’re still practicing.

Okay language nerd out, if you have any questions feel free to pop on my blog and ask them 

[babycharmander]

If you think you have never stolen artwork, read this post.

So, art theft. If you've been a follower of mine, you've heard my barely-coherent rants about this before, but I thought it might be more productive to make a more coherent post on the subject.

If you're wondering about the title of the post here, it's because I feel like a lot of people aren't really grasping what exactly art theft is, and a LOT of people, even well-meaning ones, do it without even realizing it.

"But wait," you say. "I would never STEAL from an artist!! I never claim it as my own!" And that's all fine and good, but you're missing something here.

To start things off, what IS art theft? (It's not what deviantART said it was several years back, I'll tell you that much. *cough*)

We all know what art is, so let's talk about theft. Dictionary.com defines "theft" as "the act of stealing; the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods or property of another; larceny." Okay, makes sense, but what about that other word there, stealing? Dictionary.com defines "steal" as "to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force."

From those definitions, we can go on to define art theft as, specifically, "taking art without permission or right." In the context of art, that typically involves reposting it (not reblogging--reblogging is different) or using it for other things.

And there, my friends, is the issue.

If something is taken or used without permission, it is stolen. Permission is the important thing here--if an artist says "oh yeah, you can go ahead and use this!" then it's not stolen. You have their permission. But if you DON'T have that, then it IS stolen. It IS theft.

"But I'm not claiming it as my own!" you say. But you don't have to claim it as your own--the act of taking it in and of itself is an act of theft.

"But I said 'credit to the artist!'" The "credit" thing is a whole other conversation, but here's the short of it: The entire point of credit is to direct people to the source of something. If you are not directly linking to where you got the art from, you are not giving credit. "Credit to the artist" is not actually credit of any kind whatsoever. (Also, Google and Pinterest are not sources.)

"But I DID link back to the artist!" Okay, now this is where it may get confusing, because you may think you're covered because you actually did give credit. Here's the problem: if you reposted it or used it without permission, regardless of whether you gave credit or not, it's still stealing.

I'm bolding this because it's a point that a lot of people get tripped up on. Let me explain it this way: If you went into your neighbor's house and took something of theirs without their permission, but you told people "oh yeah, I got this from [neighbor]'s house!" that that would still, of course, be stealing, and it's no different for art.

Another thing is that even when you credit, people don't always check the source. Very recently I found a case where someone had reposted a piece of artwork of mine to Pinterest that was deliberately made to look like it came from the source material (it wasn't meant to confuse anyone, though--the description of my original post made it very clear that it was fanart). The person who reposted had linked back to my original post. The problem? The comments had people asking if this was official, where it happened in the source material, etc. Despite the fact that the source was right there, no one thought to look at it.

Even if you link back to the source, if you did it without the artist's permission, it's still stealing, and still causes problems for us artists.

"But I just posted it to my Pinterest--" DO NOT DO THIS. DO NOT POST AN ARTIST'S WORK TO PINTEREST IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THEIR EXPLICIT PERMISSION TO DO SO.

"But this artist friend of mine says they're okay if I post their work to my Pinterest so long as I link back to them!" Good for your friend! But the fact that your friend is okay with it doesn't mean that all artists are okay with it. For me, personally, I am very not okay with my work being posted to Pinterest, and say as much on my art blog description and posts (which people tend to ignore).

The problem with Pinterest--and reposting art in general--is that we artists don't know when it happens unless we're told, or unless we find it ourselves. It causes us to lose control of our art. And because of this, our art can spiral further out of our control, because when our works get posted to Pinterest or other similar websites, people who have no grasp whatsoever on how art works will just take it as "free art" and then use it for whatever they want.

That's how a piece I spent 20+ hours on was used as a poster for a paid event, without my permission, and without any payment or credit to me.

If an artist has said nothing about Pinterest (or other similar image sharing sites), your default should be to assume that they don't want their artwork posted there.

"Well I didn't repost someone's art, but I did use it for my avatar/RPing icon/video/fic cover/photo edit--" That's still stealing. If you're using it without their permission for any reason, that is stealing. Not to mention, the artist may not be cool with what you're using their art for anyway. (Looking at you, people who use platonic art in your shipping videos.)

“I MEANT to ask them for permission, but I forgot!” This can ONLY happen if you used the artwork BEFORE you asked for permission. You can resolve this by asking for permission BEFORE you use it, rather than assuming the answer will be “yes” and using it before asking.

"But it took me a really long time to make that icon/video/cover/edit!!" How long do you think it took the original artist to draw their piece? It doesn't matter how much work you put into modifying someone else's art--if you're doing it without their permission, you're still stealing.

"But I couldn't find the original artist! I tried to find them, I really did, but I couldn't. Is it okay to use their art then?" No, because you still don't have permission, and by reposting it anyway, you’re continuing to make the artwork spiral out of their control.

"What if I found the artist, but they speak a different language from mine? I can't ask them for permission, so is it okay if I repost their art anyway?" NO!! DO NOT DO THIS!! If there is a language barrier, use Google translate or find someone to translate for you and get a hold of the artist that way to ask them for their permission. The language barrier is NEVER an excuse to steal artwork. There are plenty of non-English-speaking artists who have taken ALL OF THEIR ARTWORK OFFLINE because the art theft was completely out of control. (And this isn't just exclusive to English-speakers stealing art from people who don't speak their language. It happens artists who don't speak English stealing art from English-speakers, too, but as this post is written in English it doesn't do much good for me to rant about this here.) If you can’t ask their permission, do not use it!!

"But what about reblogging?! Isn't that the same as reposting?? Should we not reblog art at all then?" No, reblogging (or retweeting) is not the same as reposting. If you reblog art, you keep all the information that we attached to the art, including our blog name and the description attached to the art. Reblogging/retweeting actually helps us artists A LOT, so as long as you're reblogging from the original artist (and not someone who's reposting their art), by all means, reblog our art!

"What if I just want to share someone else's artwork on Discord or show it to a friend?" This one's a bit different and is not actually as problematic. If you want to share our work on Discord or whatever, just link directly to where we posted it. Please don't post the art itself, unless you're doing it alongside a link because Discord won't show a preview or something.

"What about a forum or a site like Reddit?" This one's a bit different, since due to the way Reddit functions, if you LINK to the art, you have to go directly to the artist's original page to view it. (At least, that’s what it’s like the last time I was active there.) In a way it's roughly the same as with Discord--be sure you're linking directly to the actual post rather than just uploading the art on its own--but I would also ask the artist if they're okay with it, because they may be a member of the subreddit or forum and want to post it themselves, or they might not want their work shared to specific communities. (Some communities have a function where a bot will repost the artwork to Imgur, and some artists don't want that done with their art.)

"What if I'm saving it to my computer/phone to look at later, or making it into my desktop/phone wallpaper?" IMO this is fine, since your computer/phone files aren't public, and neither is your wallpaper. It's only a problem when you post it to public places without our permission.

"What if it's art I commissioned?" Well... like... in that case, it's art you paid for, so unless the artist you commissioned laid out very specific terms for you, you should be good to use that art. Like, at most, the artist may ask you to credit them somewhere in your blog description if they drew your icon or something, or credit them in a fic description if you commissioned a fic illustration from them, or something to that effect. It's really something you should have already worked out with the artist beforehand, but for the most part you should probably be fine to use art you paid for however you like.

"What about art I requested?" This is a bit different from commissioned work. Just because the art was drawn at your request doesn't mean it's explicitly yours (unless it's like, a drawing of your original character or something). Some artists take requests more as suggestions, so the art they draw in response to a suggestion or request is still theirs. Treat this as you would any other artwork and ask the artist for permission first before you do anything with the artwork you requested from them.

“What about NFTs?” ... Okay this one I can’t really go over too much because I barely understand it in the first place, but NFTs are BAD for artists and are a form of art theft. Do not turn people’s art into NFTs. This is a crappy thing to do. (If you want more information on this one, you’ll have to look it up yourself. It’s a form of cryptocurrency and it’s confusing.)

“If you don’t want your art stolen you shouldn’t post it in the first place.” This is fascinating logic. Try applying it to something else and see how it holds up. “If you don’t want your merchandise stolen, you shouldn’t open a booth.” “If you don’t want to get poisoned you shouldn’t eat food.” “If you don’t want to get punched in the face, don’t walk outside.” Yes. Flawless logic. Truly.

"Why do you care so much, anyway?! I'm sharing your art because I like it! That's a compliment! Shouldn't you be happy?" Well, we're certainly glad you like our art, but the problem is... as I've said before, reposting our art causes us to lose our control over it. When we lose control of our art, that damages our livelihood. As I said before, other people have made money off of my artwork. As well, some artists lose jobs because when their potential employers check out their portfolio, they may find artwork that's been reposted everywhere online, so they cannot hire the artist because they believe they may have stolen the artwork in their own portfolio.

Your reposting an image you thought was cute to Facebook or Pinterest could cost an artist their job. Think about that.

So, tl;dr, keep this in mind: you need the artist's permission to repost or use their artwork. If you do not have it, it is stealing, even if you credit the artist.

I know this post is really harsh in places, but this is such an important thing for all artists, and there's so many misconceptions about art theft online. And I feel like one of the biggest problems is that when some people see posts on art theft, they ignore them, because they think they've never done it or would never do it, so that's why I worded this post the way I did. I'm not trying to hurt anyone--I just want people to understand what art theft is, how it affects us artists, and how you can avoid it. Thank you for reading.