#more Discord coming soon

[soldofficial]

To celebrate hitting 10k subscribers for the first time on YouTube, I decided to update my social media banner. And it’s really interesting to see what has changed with my content since when I last updated it only 9 months ago.

Here’s my 10k subscriber screenshot (which still has the old banner on it).

💚 At the time I didn’t know that Linktree had a logo, so I just made a “video player” icon for it. 😭

💜 Two spots below that I linked my Twitch, which as of the current date, I’ve phased out of my scheduling completely. The reason for that being that I just don’t really like the company that much anymore, and that I feel much better saying “Sold the YouTube Streamer” than “Sold the Twitch Streamer”. Crossing my fingers that I can actually hold a stream schedule so I can call myself that properly though.

🩵 Below that I had linked my Twitter account, which was a much more reasonable thing to do 9 months ago. I spent a long time wondering if I even wanted to link my X/Twitter on my banner considering it feels like a sudo-endorsement of the platform. Similarly to how I feel about Twitch, but probably worse. I don’t want to be an “X Creator”. I actually at one point while designing my new banner had taken it out and replaced it with my Threads link, but in the end I grudgingly decided to add it, just a few more rows down this time. I just have too many cool mutuals and creator friends active on there to abandon it now as much as I want to.

🖤 Then I originally had my TikTok linked, since I made that banner 9 months ago I’ve become much more welcoming of being a “TikToker”. Even back then it was my biggest platform, but I was really trying to downplay it. Now I’m a lot more excepting of that idea. Because of this, on the new version, TikTok is linked right under my YouTube as the third link and the second social on the banner. The new order across all the links is much more representative of the order I prioritize my content per platform in.

💙 Then I had the last part of my Discord Server’s link written. This was just kind of impractical. I still have big plans for the Discord Server in the future, but it’s just hard to put in a banner. So for now I’ve removed it completely.

🤍 And finally, the last thing I had linked was my Epic Games Support-a-Creator Code, at the time it was one of my only sources of revenue and I was also very proud of being an Epic Games Partner, so I can’t blame myself for putting it there. However recently, like last month recently, it has expired. I’ve made the descion to not renew it because I don’t really play any Epic Games games anymore, and it was bringing in near nothing amounts of money anyways.

🧡 So that’s everything that’s changed from what I used to do, so then what have I added? In recap I used to have my Linktree, YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, TikTok, Discord Server, and Epic Games Creator Code linked. First I’ve reduced the amount of links on there from 7 to 6 just for simplicity’s sake, and the new line-up looks like: Linktree, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X/Twitter, and Tumblr. This is much more showing of my current priorities as a creator (both in platform choice and order). The two new additions are of course Instagram and Tumblr. Originally I didn’t like Instagram that much, but I’ve had a fair amount of recent success on it and I like what it brings to the table. Then there’s Tumblr, I don’t post a whole lot here, but I would like to, for the opposite reason as why I left Twitch actually. I feel good about being a Tumblr user. “Sold has a Tumblr blog” just sounds so on-brand for me, so I’m very excited to see where this goes because I’m passionate about this platform.

Anyways here’s the final banner update.

Hopefully I can take X/Twitter off here eventually 🤮

Also all the banners just say “Sold” now instead of the specific channel name, with luck it will make more people call me “Sold” instead of “SoldToGaming” or “SoldToTyping”, which would be good for branding consistency.

[mh2o29]

any scott pilgrim enjoyers in chat

(inspired by that one panel yk the one)

[aerialworms-art]

Happy De-day and happy birthday to Bones too!

They've both brought me so much joy over the past couple of years. I hope they know how much they're loved and missed.

(ID under cut)

[Image ID: A digital doodle of Dr Leonard McCoy from Star Trek: The Original Series. He's smiling, wearing his blue uniform shirt and a yellow-and-blue striped party hat with a yellow pompom.

He's surrounded by a darker blue circle filled with yellow stars. The work is signed 'aerialworms'. /End ID]

[boszbichblitzo]

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[pinkyjulien]

🟨 Just call me [V]

[miabrown007]

when your boyfriend knows you have a type

[battleshipgarcy]

Came across this GIF and... was Garcia trying for a hand graze?!?! 🥰❤🥰❤🥰 I don't think Lucy knew he was going for that otherwise I don't think she would've moved her hand 😂

But like... Shitmas is the worst, but I will still look at pictures and GIFs of Garcy from it (but I don't think I can watch with audio because hearing shitty dialogue would be extremely triggering for me). I can watch the São Paulo scene though (hello! SCRUFF!), especially how I edit that scene in my fanvid "Nothing Else Matters"

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I ramble in the tags, too 😂😂😂😂👇

[connormoving]

i think itis funny in the past when i would list my interests as if i post abt them i donot post abt the shit im into rly Mainly bc im not rly Into Into anything anymore i occasionally watch or read or play something but i dont do fandom stuff rly much.... just sometimes i get brainworms

[voidrulerora]

In case you all were ever curious as to what my OG major fixation was (and currently is, I've been streaming this game to friends for weeks now):

[steviescrystals]

MY LIFE IS NOT REAL WHAT IS GOING ON

[carnagesaw]

youre the only other morikaze lover i know besides me and a friend of mine im goinb to put him in a package and mail him to your hdoorstep

thank you so much ill take careof him and feed him data analysis and ska and jazz.

[jils-things]

meow

[i-am-a-megalodon]

I love theorizing with the Discord Clique but on occasion I’ll see someone mention “1984” or “the elites” or I’ll see some dude calling either themselves or Tyler Joseph God and I’m like NOPE take your tinfoil hat somewhere else

[cloudbellsv3]

I've been so inactive omg (at least by my standards)!!! I think I've subconsciously put a ban on activity until I've finished some fics and it just translates into radio silence 😭

ALSO I will still get to everyone's asks on this and my main account soon!

[kellystar321]

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[hakko-p]

FoundFamily!Rocket AU, AKA: an excuse for my Johto addiction

PokeSPE = Pokemon Adventures TR = Team Rocket

First, Giovanni and Silver. Same as normal PokeSPE - Silver's like two when he gets kidnapped by Ho-Oh, Gio starts TR just to find Silver, blah blah. But, I'm adding a little twist. Silver would totally join TR in this au like come on guys, missed opportunity. He wouldn't actually like TR, but try to make it crumble from the inside aided by you know, being Giovanni's son and being the direct heir once he joins.

… Which would make him more than confused when Archer still holds the title of first in line, because SHOCKER this is a found family AND actually adopted AU, and Giovanni has spent more time with Archer as an adopted son than Silver as his biological son, and Silver was literally one of the Dexholders, so OBVIOUSLY he trusts Archer more. I'd swear this isn't Giovanni & Archer father-son propaganda, but who would I be fooling? This is.

Yeah, Giovanni adopted Archer to be a stand-in son. While the reason he'd tell everyone in TR is as a back-up heir, that gets put into a LOT of question when Archer is still the first in line and Silver is second. Unlike Gameverse Gio, PokeSPE Gio has an actual heart and is a decent-ish father. He definitely adopted Archer to make the members of TR not freak out over how they had no one to call boss after Gio dies (this man is implied to have a terminal illness HE IS ON DEATHS DOOR), but also because he just wanted someone to call a son again.

What about the other three Rocket Executives? They're part of the found family, not the legal family. Ariana was the first grunt to truly stand out to Gio, so she was the first Rocket Executive who got it legitimately without getting special perks from Gio adoption. Proton was second, and Petrel was third. Ariana is always thinking she's better than everyone - including Archer - because she stood out to Gio.

Proton is seen as just… Generally tired and just wanting to get it over with in PokeSPE. BIG eldest sibling energy. Since Ariana can be described as a huge egomaniac, he has to carry most of the work of the TR Executives. Why not Petrel? 'Cuz Petrel actually commanded his Golbat to use Lick on Silver just so he could frame the other Executives. He is not to be trusted, and even Gio can sense that. So sadly, Proton gets shoved with most of the work since Archer has favoritism and when Silver eventually joins, not much TR work will be around to do anyways (not like Gio would give him the work if there was any, he'd have to seek it out himself).

Okay, this was only mentioned in PokeMAS (Pokemon Masters EX) but I think this is really funny. Archer is, canonically, the day shift of TR. Stealing that, Gio doesn't want his son to stay up all night and get into the more "dirty" parts of TR and that is just somewhat wholesome??? But it doesn't make that much sense, because I thought we've established with Silver that the Johto + Kanto police are nonexistant or easily bribed. Probably just a safety precaution but oh well.

Tl;Dr: GIOVANNI WAS A DECENT FATHER IN POKESPE, ARCHER IS THE DAYSHIFT OF TR, ARIANA IS AN EGOMANIAC, PROTON IS CARRYING THE ENTIRETY OF TR, AND PETREL IS A TRAITOR. NORMAL POKESPE STUFF.