#literally my hubris. my fucking hubris

[nerice]

my vague plan was to do lhnh after having a working main book draft but the recent. decisions abt framing [a path we know its end...] leaves me kind of no choice but to go right into dream game after.. no words can express the amount of rip

[arabella-strange]

not to "AND ANOTHER THING!!!" forever about the Wildmother here but — nature hates hubris. nature punishes hubris.

Oh you'd like to cross the ocean in an enormous steamliner and cut corners with the manufacturing to make money? Enjoy that iceberg

You're an imperiled masculine millionaire who thinks he can avoid safety regulations and go deep-sea crawling? At least your death from an insane pressure implosion will be quick

You're here to colonize an entire island and import a new species of cheap crop to harvest (via slave labor)? Lol, when your new crop collapses the ecosystem and becomes impossible to uproot in a span of ten years (as the indigenous population tried to tell you), it's your funeral buddy

Climbing the highest mountain and refusing to turn back at bad weather? Ignoring the evacuation orders simply because you think they're silly? Wanna pet that bison? Well I'll be sad but I won't be surprised

Nature is terrifying. Nature punishes hubris. And nature will win—unless there is nothing left.

[cybercasket]

Guys. Guys Ben Drowned's canon last name isn't actually Lawman

I've known this for a while, and more I think about it, the more it makes me feel like I should say something 😭

It was a misconception that started with an older version of Ben's page on the Jadusable Wiki. (It was never used for any non-ARG version of Ben prior to this.) I remember spotting Lawman being used as Ben's last name around 2016-2018 or so, and it has been edited out of his page since 2020. (It was on the page they have for the dead child rather than the Network/entity. I think it might've happened before they moved off Fandom wiki, because I think I remember seeing comments and their new wiki doesn't have those).

During the second arc (2011-2012), Jadusable mailed some bonus material to people who donated to him. One of these bonus materials was a section from a newspaper, which describes the murder-suicide of two members of the Lawman family along with their son, with some tampering to the article that appears to have been done by BEN.

You can zoom into the image and read it, or check out it's page on the wiki here (which I highly recommend as it has some added information, like what all the censored words are.) It's a very interesting piece of lore that's fun to analyze--however, I wouldn't recommend reading it if you're super squeamish or sensitive to graphic details related to death. (The method of the killing itself isn't mentioned.)

While this seems to be about Ben on the surface, it's actually not. The only way we can tell is by the date of the newspaper: In the column to the left of the "Spring Is In The Air!" paragraph, the year 2011 is mentioned, but we know that Ben died on 4/23/2004. The wording of the Lawman event feels recent (as if they're talking about an event a few months prior), when Ben's death would've been far gone by now.

With what's likely BEN tampering on the top right (where they creatively use block-out poetry to say "You shouldn't have done that," among many other things) combined with the mention of someone's son dying, it makes a ton of sense that the wiki editors assumed that Ben is a member of this Lawman family that appears here. At some point, screenshots of the wiki ended up being circulated and the larger Creepypasta fandom accepted Lawman as being Ben's "real" last name.

Lawman is actually the last name of a different (and much less relevant) character, Tyler, who appears briefly in the first and third arcs. It's not entirely clear what happened to him or his family, and I think the Newspaper Article is intended to be fun bonus material for Jadusable's donators rather than something that's meant to supply important information about the ARG characters--something like Ben's last name would be crucial for puzzles and passwords, and would give the 50 donators who received the article an unfair advantage (and Jadusable isn't the type of creator who'd be okay with that). Regardless, it carries some interesting implications about the Behavioral Event Network, and Matt's initials are also here for some reason. It's probably one of the most head-spinning materials in the whole game.

[constellation-skirmishes]

they're arguing over the best paramore albums

anakin: All We Know Is Falling & Brand New Eyes & This Is Why

ahsoka: After Laughter & Riot! & Paramore

ani: of course i'm right you overgrown, hairless tooka-kit

soka: NUH-UH !!

[sp1resong]

hate developing a complex relationship with my special interests. "are you a fan of rain world" ummmmm well i cant give a yes or no answer to that without at least six asterisks and a lawyer

[caeslxys]

how is the cr fandom that petty oh my god

but van don't you know it's like a cardinal sin to give a flying fuck about uh. fuck. nuance I think.

[twinstxrs]

i’m trying to catch up with as much dimension 20 as i can before fantasy high junior year, i’m currently on a starstruck odyssey, and can i just say: there is truly no greater example of ally beardsley’s dnd progress than the parallel of ally as kristen applebees willingly taking 36 points of damage, bringing kristen down to 3 hit points as kristen plummets multiple stories due to a failed attempt to use a ribbon dance as a way to fly down 10 stories, and ally as margaret encino willingly taking 11 points of damage, bringing margaret down to 3 hit points so margaret can fall 30 feet from a camera nest, walk up to a giant corn guy, and say “you suck” as all the intrepid heroes look on assuming this to be usual beardsley tomfoolery, only for margaret to walk away & trigger an attack of opportunity which gives murph as barry a chance to push this guy off a ledge & possibly win them the entire encounter & over 1 million credits. INSANE. ally beardsley i’m obsessed with your mind

[clowningaroundmars]

not me picking up YET AGAIN another spiderverse ship mannnnn what the hell is wrong with me……………

[caterpillarinacave]

Is it a coincidence that I, a small Irish child with a deep and abiding love for folklore, particularly will-ó-the-wisp cryptids, managed to a select a favorite character with a will-ó-the-wisp allusion and love them unconditionally for years before finding out about it?

I think not.  

[zazikels]

it's all well and good to whine about being strawmanned but genuinely you lose literally any ground you had to stand on when you insinuate that it's m*sogynistic to dislike mystra and straight up lie about stuff that literally happens in the game. buddy no one has an obligation to take anything you say seriously after you try to invalidate that gale was gr***** at all based on larian not being able to stick to dnd lore and your stale as mouldy bread take about people who dislike mystra and actually like gale for who he is.

[hanaaria]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT EVEN WAS THAT ENTIRE FIRST HOUR OF CALAMITY EPISODE 4

[llondonfog]

[ruvviks]

so massively unwell about nathan x ru/vik

[kideternity]

Most important thing in the world to me is that IMO in order to be ant man you gotta be fucked up in the head*

[queerofthedagger]

the mortifying ordeal of having to decide if you're unwell enough about a new fandom yet that you should add it to the tagging list/intro post, or if there might still be hope for you.... knowing that the fact you're considering it means it's most likely already too late..... knowing it's so SO far past 'most likely' because there are already three (3) plots pinned in the discord server.............. SIGH

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

i havent made any posts abt it but now that the big part is basically over ive gotta tell you im absolutely fucking fascinated with this whole submarine situation