#not a callout post btw just my thoughts :3

[vastly-fixated-devotee-667]

if you don’t mind me sharing my thoughts on these tags…

i don’t think it’s fair to suggest Lukas and Radar are at all comparable, let alone that Radar was Lukas’ replacement. Radar replaced Lukas as much as Lukas replaced Olivia or Axel — that is to say he didn’t; he was just another character included in/added to the cast in favor of others. and Lukas’ exclusion from the majority of season 2 was completely circumstantial. i’m certain that if Scott Porter hadn’t just become a father, Lukas would have gotten more screentime, but also that it wouldn’t have affected Radar’s at all.

thus, i also don’t believe Petra’s relationship with Radar equates to her relationship with Lukas. her and Lukas’ friendship has never felt all that… substantial to me. honestly, it never appeared that their relationship ran any deeper than Petra and Olivia’s or Petra and Axel’s. but more to the point, Lukas’ relation to Petra is a LOT different from Radar’s. whereas Lukas and Petra began the story with casual friendship/acquaintance, Radar was always — for lack of a nicer-sounding word — inferior to her. he was a superfan who looked up to the New Order, sort of as Axel was to Magnus or Olivia to Ellegaard. for Petra’s relationship arc with Radar to settle in a place similarly to how she might have ended up with Lukas just wouldn’t make sense. especially because her relationship with Lukas was well pre-established, and she already cared about him a lot. i think the way she cares about Radar by episode 4 is reminiscent of her relationships with other characters (Lukas, yes, but also her other friends), but what makes it really special is how her attitude toward Radar changed from the beginning of the season.

i don’t think you were necessarily implying that their arcs would be comparable(?), but i think that the arc is important to the end result itself in this case. if anything, if Lukas had been in more of season 2, i think we would have seen a friendship between them similar to the one we saw in season 1.5. because while she did lump both Radar and Lukas into the “too weak to be useful” category, she didn’t quite have that contempt for Lukas that she seemed to have for Radar. in fact, she even expresses she wished Lukas had joined them to help in the Admin’s little spidery logic puzzle, and that maybe if would’ve “if Radar hadn’t been so—”…

on that note — and i think i touched a lot more on this, at least in relation to Petra, in another reblog of this original post — Lukas being one of the “weak” ones was not just for plot, and it wasn’t necessarily a downgrade on his character, either. it also wasn’t exactly a misjudgment; as far as we know, he never went on any adventures between the Witherstorm and the portal arc or the portal arc and the Admin arc. he was never on Petra’s level of adventurer, anyway (which is why i say it wasn’t necessarily a downgrade to his character), so by the time the Admin’s challenges rolled around, he certainly didn’t really… “fit in” with Petra and Jack. thus why Petra was keen on keeping him away; he wasn’t strong and athletic like the “real” adventurers were. but this — and i have to emphasize this — was not a flaw. in fact, the whole POINT was that it was not a flaw. that’s EXACTLY what the Admin wanted you to think, wanted them to think. there was absolutely nothing wrong with Lukas and Radar being less athletic than Petra and Jack. you don’t need to be incredibly strong and good at fighting or whatever to be worthy of greatness. that was the point: Romeo wanted you to believe that losers are supposed to lose, and you spend pretty much that entire episode trying to prove him wrong. it’s okay to have shortcomings. don’t let Romeo convince you otherwise!!

can we discuss Petra and Radar’s arc in season 2 because i really really need to. Petra went from doing her best to push Radar out of the picture because he was dead weight and too weak to be a help (even lashing out to Jesse about him being, presumably, annoying, though she didn’t get the chance to actually say it) to being afraid Radar didn’t trust her, worrying about him being left in the Underneath with the giant enderman, and (almost) outright saying she loved him. her impression of him seeing the Order’s Temple makes me sob. i just don’t think i’ve seen anyone mention their dynamic before and i want to change that. 💔💔 Admin be damned but he sure did bring folks together didn’t he

[thewickerking]

mutual 1: WDYM none of you have heard explosion gun ???? theyre from the 1930s, sure but they literally made the best song ever [long title or series of numbers that have no meaning]

mutual 2: hey guys can you fill out this survey for my class? its about 15 minutes and it would mean a lot!! i love you

mutual 3: ughhhhh can this guy stop flirting with me? i told him to kill himself after he said [horrifically racist sentence] and he hasnt gotten the hint

mutual 4: im liveblogging a game from 12 years ago if you dont want spoilers im tagging my posts about it as #plwm3 liveblog !!

mutual 5: [poll] should i brutally murder this oc before or after he gets divorced

mutual 6: ok I knowwww im learning 6 languages rn but it would be so fun to learn russian.....

mutual 7: what do you mean you freaks dont dip your bananas in orange juice??? This is literally so normal why are you call me the weird one

mutual 8: just finished meeting up with mutual 9 irl it was so fun im gonna miss you now that you're home again </3

mutual 9: mutual 8 locked me in a basement for 4 hours and played clown music. i wish i couldve stayed longer

mutual 10: OMG THE NEW TRAILER FOR BRIMBLUS JUST DROPPED?????? EVERYONEEE LOOOOOOOK

mutual 11: my dad got me a milkshake breakdown cancelled everyone 🎉🎉

mutual 12: this post reminds me of *******

mutual 13: mutual ^ is talking about scorblo btw

mutual 12: HEY???? MUTUAL 13???? CAN YOU KILL YOURSELF????

mutual 14: [describes the most horrific repeated childhood trauma] but idk if im allowed to say i have mental illness cause im not diagnosed

mutual 15: guys do you think im more blue or purple coded :3

mutual 16: in response to all the transformers fandom callout calling me lesbophobic and racist: [ten paragraphs that make it clear they're clearly the only normal person in this scenario]

mutual 17: wait you guys are actually going to pumpkin patches? i thought those were made up ive never seen a pumpkin irl before...

mutual 18: guys can anybody see me. Please. No one's responding am I shadowbanned or do you all hate me [they're shadowbanned]

mutual 19: ugh this one customer keeps brutally murdering our servers at the restaurant i work at i wanna quit sooo bad but i might get promoted soon so idk

mutual 20: [reblogs a web weaving post about judas] UGH i need to fuck him sloppy style and **** ****** ***** **** *** ***

mutual 21: spam reblogs a genshin character

mutual 22: [screenshot of mutual 21s blog with filtered tags of the characters] you're lucky i care about you so much.

mutual 23: i think im losing my grip on reality. omg wait but look at this cute dog i saw walking home the other day

mutual 24: hi everyone! i just got back from a 6 month social media break :) hope everyones been doing well!

[janokenmun]

hell yeah pinned post time

basically i will post about: Whatever I Feel Like

if we're mutuals send me a dm and i might (not guaranteed) send u my discord so we can keep in contact in case site go explodey

cw: venty mental health stuff, relationship stuff, nsfw stuff, wack and hard kinks (also this blog uses unconventional nsfw tags! see below for details)

this may include:

-toki pona -english posts with toki pona translations -noitaposting -venty stuff (esp. relationship stuff) -hornyposts (filterable; see below) -non-venty relationshipy posts -rats -way too many memes -whatever randomass thoughts are on my mind at any given time -any brain contents i havent dumped on my friends already

feel free to dm im open to making new friends also feel free to send asks! also also please tell me if i rb something from a terf or otherwise-problematic person, BUT PLEASE LINK THE POST!!!!!! i rb like hundreds of things a day and i don't have the energy to filter through everything ive posted in the past day to see if it matches the vague description in a callout ask i got

also if u follow me or even just interact i WILL be looking through ur blog. this is a threat

also fair warning i post a fucking lot (mostly rbs) so if u follow be prepared for that (i assume theres a post limit since theres been multiple times where ive posted so much that tumblr cuts me off and refuses to let me post and gives me errors if i try to post)

btw im not comfy with kisses or cuddles from people im not dating!!

also if you're wondering about some personal details, im (cis) male, mostly straight, autism, possibly adhd, and open to play stellaris or warframe or mtg commander or other games

ill be trying to tag my own lewd posts with #janokenlewd, others' with #janantelewd, and cnc posts with #jancnclewd, so if you don't want to see that (or are a minor) absolutely block 'em!!!! i'll also be using #kenlalewd for things that i'm unsure on (like suggestive but not explicit stuff), im not gonna enforce that minors block that but it is recommended! please tell me if i don't appropriately tag nsfw (which likely will happen on occasion)!!! i'm trying to keep this a relatively safe space for minors, so i don't have to ban them completely, and having minors block those tags is an essential part of that! (additionally! i may leave sex ed or kink ed stuff untagged, as safety and education is important; if there's enough demand for it i might make a tag for nsfw education stuff).

basically this blog is just. My Brain

enjoy

BTW IMPORTANT NOTE: if i do/say something bad, tell me unambiguously! i will have genuinely no idea otherwise

nsfw stuff under the cut :3

more details about me are that im strictly top/dom, single, and open to doin lewd stuff with friends (and possibly boys! i have no idea!!!)

kinks include a bunch of like hard-dom stuff; cnc and brat tamer stuff are my favorite (especially cnc!!! <3<3<3), but i tend to like a lot of dom stuff tho! basically like just ask, there's also a bunch of kinks i have that i'm not comfortable stating publicly! also, i use the word "rape" here a lot; please block the cnc tag if you are uncomfortable with that!!!

limits include like gore/blood (tho a little blood is ok), and any of the like "unsanitary" kinks! also DO NOT TREAT ME LIKE A SUB OR TRY TO DOM ME IT MAKES ME VERY UNCOMFORTABLE, also don't misgender me or anything but that feels like a given! there might be other stuff but that Should be most of it, feel free to ask before sending if you're unsure

feel free to message and/or send asks (esp. if you're sub/switch girl)!!! best practice is to just ask directly before doing stuff, i.e. "hey do you mind if i send nudes" or "hey do u want to talk about kink stuff" or anything like that! tho sending nudes/porn/fantasies that *don't involve me* out of nowhere is likely okay ;3 (if u wanna be safe then ask first tho!! and specify the relevant kinks in case any are a turnoff)! i only rarely rp, i have to trust u first, so don't expect that immediately!

if you're a dom, top, and/or boy, i might still wanna talk about stuff, even if i don't wanna like rp or anything directly!! i'm super interested in human sexuality and hearing in-depth stuff about what kinks people have and why they have them is fascinating (and very hot) to me (and could give me ideas ;3), so if you wanna talk about that stuff please please please message!!!!

this is a paraphilia-safe space!!! if you have paraphilias, including the big ones, you're safe here and i accept you :). depending on what it is i might not want to talk about it, turnoffs are turnoffs, but i still accept you for who you are :) also relatedly id probably be considered proship tho im not really in that community so i may not understand the full nuance and ramifications of that term

also obviously. if you're a minor then don't interact lewdly with me?? you shoudlnt even be reading this and you should have #janantelewd and #janokenlewd blocked as well, that's the compromise i've made so that i don't have to just block every minor that follows me since i post a bunch of sfw stuff too, violators of the contract will be obliterated with the force of a thousand suns

[dykeyote]

HI VAL IM GENUINELY CURIOUS ON YOUR WILL WOOD HATRED CAN WR KNOW MORE (IF U WANNA SHARE OFC) (I'm am not saying this btw with malice I AM GENUINELY so CURIOUS abt the fact you hate will wood and like chnt) feel free 2 ignore this!!)

GIGGLES YOU CAN IF YOU WANT THERES NO BIG STORY ...... obligatory reminder that this isnt me making a callout post or going WILL WOOD FANS DNI >:(!!!!!!!!!! (given that i am in the chnt fandom i clearly do not feel the latter way lmao) im just explainin why ME PERSONALLY . i am not a fan keep in mind many of these reasons are personal and biased . but anyway heres why i strongly dislike will wood

a: right out the gate i just think hes really really pretentious lmao </3 he just kinda annoys me not gonna lie to u rn i find him obnoxious . we would not get along irl . this is not calling him out for the crime of being annoying but its why i personally dont like him

b: he reminds me of times where i was Very Mentally Ill so its not really a positive association, i basically associate his music (especially self-ish) w being real delusional bc thats when my will wood phase was

c: not going into depth on this altho i Do have in depth thoughts but i think people cut wayyyyy too much slack for him on the stuff he got called out for a while back ...... like i just dont think the stuff he admitted to is as Grey and Nuanced as people say it is . this is the primary reason why i dont listen to his music anymore it gave me a real bad taste in my mouth, again this isnt a callout post im just sharing my own personal feelings on the subject

d: this isnt about Him per se but he always makes me think of his brother who ive heard a ton of grooming allegations abt so bad associations again, also as far as ive heard they still actively associate and he hasnt spoken on said allegations altho obviously i dont keep up w him so maybe im wrong

e: a lot of members of his fanbase are extremely extremely parasocial and weird about him, not saying its his fault for it but again negative associations

and thats basically the summary . i used to be a HUGE fan i actually got into chnt on the drive to a will wood concert lol but i kinda really dislike him now so i dont really get much .... Joy out of listening to his music anymore . the chnt soundtrack is still my babygirl tho and theres tons of reasons to like chnt BESIDES the soundtrack even if i got into it bc i liked will wood and no longer do

[mysterious-dark-shadow]

I think it’s time for me to talk about Jasmine, aka Jasie, aka WonderWitchJasie, aka HellboundWitch, aka @Samhain on Twitter

A warning: This is gonna be super short because I’m not one to mince words.

Jasie has been stalking Felix, trying (and FAILING SO HARD) to get “Sempai” to notice her so she can swoon and brag to her little Skype/discord/tumblr/twitter friends that she PERSONALLY KNOWS THE GREAT DA-AT-ASS. She’s also tried to climb him like a beanpole, whether in TTRPG games, in Skype chats & calls, or by sending him a “*teehee* I’m low key confessing my feelings” Spotify playlist.

Btw, the post I reblogged implies that Felix ran her off tumblr, but she had closed down her blog at least 3 months beforehand. She just conveniently privated/deleted the post before this one announcing the fact she was moving to Twitter.

Now, to address Jasie directly, because I am a petty, petty, obsessive bastard.

Bet you felt really big and brave, crafting all these lies, weaving a sob story about how scared you were and that you couldn’t speak up, cackling over Discord with Rune & whoever else was in that drama chat. (Ohh, I’m very well aware that he had one. Did you ever wonder if he had one about you that you weren’t invited to? Ever think about the fact that he might have one now? Did you ever think about the other users in those chats, who they might be talking to and about? If not, you’re stupider than I thought.)

Newsflash, bitch: I’ve been friends with him online & in-person way, way longer than you; and I’m married to the guy so I think I know a couple more things than you about what he likes/doesn’t like in a person. He was uncomfortable with you from the start: the way you shoved your tits around like they made you the biggest baddest sex witch in the whole place; how you tried to manipulate his IMAGINARY ROLE-PLAYING CHARACTER into a relationship with your IMAGINARY ROLE-PLAYING CHARACTER (his character was HELLA GAY btw); and your general assumption that since your posts got notes and you were once on BOA’s editor list, you were obviously Tumblr Royalty.

Now look at you: Reduced to one very, very outdated callout post on Tumblr, and a protected Twitter. Not such a big fan-base anymore. I’d shed a tear but I’m all out.

I think it's time for me to talk about Felix S. Warren

aka @da-at-ass, @badoccultadvice, @merkvahpartyvan, @felixswarren, among many other names.

A warning: this is going to be long, because A) everything I write is long, I’m really sorry about myself and 2) I knew him for years and a lot happened during that time. That being said, I’m also not going to cover every single wrong Felix ever did to me and mine, so while this is long, it’s also not even close to comprehensive.

In all honesty, I should have said something sooner. Over the past year, I have kept my mouth shut because I was worried that issues about anything I said might be channeled back at my friend Rune, who was already going through enough.

However, my issues with Felix predate his relationship with Rune, much less their breakup. The truth is, I stayed quiet because I’ve been afraid of Felix for years, and when you’re that afraid of someone, your instinct isn’t to post about them all over social media, your instinct is to try and stay under their radar and avoid them at all costs.

Even now, I’m afraid. But at this point I’ve left tumblr, I feel cut off from all of our mutual friends and I know Felix’s behavior well enough to know that he will never stop obsessing over Rune, just like he never stopped obsessing over all of the other villains he’s manufactured in his mind, so I guess I really have nothing to lose by talking about what I personally went through with him and what I’ve seen him do to others.

If it were just his libelous statements about Rune, that would be bad enough, but it’s part of a larger pattern of behavior that I think people need to be warned about before they become his next target.

When Felix and I became friends, I don’t think it took very long to notice a few things.

Firstly: EVERYONE he didn’t like was a narcissist. He could be very good friends with people for years but then one day when they did something he didn’t like? 🎶 It was narcissists all along! 🎶 What are the odds that EVERYONE you meet and don’t like is a narcissist? Not that high!

And his predisposition to diagnose everyone he dislikes with a personality disorder is problematic given that SECONDLY: Felix turns against every single person he’s friends with at some point.

It was like watching a timer run down every time he interacted with someone. It didn’t matter if he knew them in real life, or if he just interacted with them via Skype. Eventually, the effusive praise would give way to constant criticisms, often behind the person’s back. With Felix, you could believe you were good friends up until the point where he didn’t have any use for you anymore except to play the villain in his latest story. He always has to have a villain, and unfortunately the closer you get to him, the more likely it is that it’s going to be you.

And at first, it didn’t seem weird. The people he didn’t like were I people I didn’t like, so if he had something to say, maybe I did too! I did think it was kind of weird that often these were people that he seemed very friendly with in public, but like, sometimes your friends annoy you, or you don’t see the need to be cruel or hostile to someone just because you may have some other issues with them. I get that.

Then the people he started talking about started becoming our mutual friends. One by one he moved through our whole friend group, ostracizing each member, and trying to plant seeds in our minds about all of the terrible things those people did to us. And at first? I agreed. Yeah, they WERE annoying. Yeah maybe they did say that stuff or do that thing.

But it didn’t stop after the first person. And the reasons seemed to get thinner and thinner until it seemed like he’d just wake up that day and decide that someone was out for no reason at all. Honestly? It was terrifying.

There are so many details about this time and his behavior that I’ve tried to write out here, but just remembering all of it is so triggering that I can’t really even bring myself to talk about them now.

Some of my friends at the time can tell you how often I cried on the phone to them, how worried I was that I would be next.

There stopped being any rhyme or reason that I could see as to who Felix would turn against, and at the time I didn’t feel like I could handle it if it were me. Knowing that what was left of the friends Felix had been allowing me to keep would be in a group chat all agreeing that I did whatever horrible thing he decided to accuse me of, whether it really happened or not, was too much for me.

Looking back, I wonder how many of them were scared too, how many of them were agreeing because they didn’t want to be next either. At the time, he had me so in thrall that I didn’t even think of that. I just felt like I had to do whatever I could to please him and keep him happy with me, or he might decide to ruin my life for fun.

I’ve personally apologized to at least one of the people involved in that. I’m sorry I didn’t stick up for you. I’m sorry that I tried to hide or downplay our continued friendship. I was so worried he would see me as a threat that I didn’t act like a good friend and speak out. And I would like to extend that apology to all of our other friends as well because I’m pretty sure by this point I owe it to every single one of you, whether you know it or not.

I’m sure that anyone who thought that I might say something about Felix were expecting most of it to be about Rune. But the truth is that I’ve had issues with Felix since before he and Rune were ever speaking, much less dating.

It’s not that I don’t have any opinions about his treatment of Rune. I mean, his desperation for Rune to be fully under his control (a pattern I had seen him play out with our friends before, attempting to ruin the lives of anyone who got close to the object of his fixation and took away attention that he wanted for himself), and his anger when he couldn’t force Rune to isolate himself from his family and become dependent upon him, not to mention how his narratives about Rune are so obviously inconsistent that the lies within them speak for themselves.

The fact that he would call the cops on a home full of very marginalized people and EVER think that’s a good thing to do, even if he really did believe Rune was being abused? by the way NEVER CALL THE COPS in a domestic abuse situation, like EVER?? Never ever!! You can and WILL get people hurt! Remember kids, ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS and actual abusers will lash out at their victims if you do this!)

It’s my honest opinion at this point that getting close to Felix is dangerous. He’s not a person that you can trust and he’s not someone that it is safe to be around. He will lash out with magic, he will lash out with social manipulation, he will outright lie if it helps paint him as the victim and you as his monster of the week.

If you’re lucky, he’ll stop eventually – once he has someone else to play these games with and maybe if you disappear completely. And even then, he’s still going to be checking your blog, obsessively googling your name, stalking your friends trying to find you, trying to “check up” on you, trying to keep feeding this twisted thing inside of him.

I have never made a “tumblr callout post”, even though there have been plenty of people who deserved it. And this is maybe this is the one I’ve been most afraid of doing, even now, even though I won’t be around for the fallout of it.

All of my other posts on this blog are gone now and when I publish this, I’ll be logging out of this account and I don’t plan to come back. I kind of hate that it has to be like this, but I don’t see any other way I can feel safe talking about this stuff, and I just can’t be silent any longer.

[phantomrose96]

sorry for the weird ask but between your last posts about fandom drama and previous mentions about having dealt with harassment, i thought u should know that tma fandom is kinda callout happy and prone to 'you're writing my fave wrong/not subscribing to my headcanons and that means you're [something horrible irl]' type of discourse. idk how aware you are of the fandom so i though i should warn you Just In Case someone tries to start smth. feel free to delete/not respond. btw i love ur writing <3

Ah I see. And see I always knew the TMA fandom was Big so it feels kinda natural there would be shit starters. Something something “if at least 1% of fans are always toxic, then a 100-person fandom has 1 asshole and a 100,000 fandom has an Asshole Village”

Although I’m actually not particularly interested in participating in Fandom Engagement for TMA. I’m enjoying liveblogging but I just kind of like to keep it at that. Listening to the series blind and posting some thoughts.

It’s also the main reason most my posts are tagged “Chrissy listens to tma” and NOT “tma” or “the magnus archives” save for maybe one or two. For the sake of not flooding the tags. Like I’m keeping things local. You gotta come to me in order to even see it and get mad at me.

Sjdjdjdj but thanks for the heads up! I’m not particularly worried since I’m not really trying to insert myself into the fandom.

[the-wereraven]

Calling out DoomSlayer2406

Okay so I’m not one to make a callout post, BUT! There has been one person who has been borderline stalking me.

Everything will be under the Read More, explanations, evidence, and all that. BUT DON’T PROCEED IF YOU’RE GOING TO WITCH HUNT! Just block and move on yeah?

So some followers here may remember me talking about how someone took my Villain!Croissant design back in early January. It all happened on DeviantArt, when they commented on my first design for Villain!Croissant. They said that it reminded them of a Dead by Daylight killer, whom they want to call Clockwork. And I expressed an interest in the DbD statement.

But then they later uploaded a drawing of DbD fankiller concepts, one which looked exactly like Villain!Croissant’s first design. Then they tell me on my own post that they took her design and made her into a fankiller.

Read the full convo here.

I didn’t know what to say. This person admitted to taking my design, admitted that they knew they should’ve asked, and claimed that they were rushed? I decided to just block them. But that wasn’t the end of it.

I told my sister about this, and she decided to check out this account to see what they could be up to. And she saw that the person made an apology note.

Now, when I heard about this, I had already unblocked them to check if they kept the fankiller post up (they took it down), foolishly not thinking about asking my sister or friends to help me check instead. And DeviantArt doesn’t allow you to block a person again until 48 hours have passed.

And guess what, they noticed, and they DMed me.

Now at this point, I have a feeling that this person’s a kid (not an excuse btw).’ And you guys may be noticing that they’re apologizing still, but I didn’t accept it. Because they were not apologizing for taking my design. They were apologizing for tagging me, which I will talk about next.

When I didn’t reply to their DMs within a few minutes, they come to my profile and comment there instead. And there, they apologized again, but not for the right reason. Furthermore, their apologies for taking my design was lackluster, and as you can see in the screenshots linked, they seemed to be more of an afterthought.

Read the full convo here.

I gave up replying to them there, and finally responded to their DMs. I didn’t cuss, I didn’t insult, I didn’t type everything in caps. I just wanted them to know what they did wrong.

I went to sleep shortly after sending my message. But when I woke up, i found these in my Chat.

Seeing these, I just didn’t want to respond anymore, and waited the full 48 hours without contacting them before blocking them again.

Now, you would’ve thought that was the end of it, right? NO. Absolutely not.

They made another account to bypass my block. And I’ll explain how I knew.

This happened on my second Villain!Croissant design a few days after DoomSlayer. And at first when I saw this person, I thought it was a different person.

View it all here.

But after seeing the edited comment made 3 days ago, as well as the replies to my comment labelled 2 days ago, I started having my suspicions. Having a username with 2 capitals and 4 numbers can be quite common, but it only added on to my suspicion after reading the edited comment. However, I didn’t want to jump to conclusions, and tried to be as polite as possible.

But when I stopped replying to their comment, they went ahead and DMed me, even thought I never actually gave them permission to. And here is how it went.

Their obsession over my Villain!Croissant au was telling. I even sent these to my friend and sister (the friend being someone else whom I have talked to about this) and asked if they think it was DoomSlayer. They both said yes. The name format, their grammer, their interest over my AU. Or in the words of my friend:

Also, notice how I tell them to stop messaging me. Also notice how they said they made a tumblr blog just in case. Well, I received a new follower a few minutes before they sent me that. And this is the blog, @/blitzkriegslayer.

They followed no one but staff, whom you automatically follow, and me.

I was uncomfortable, and blocked them here immediately. This was when I told them to stop messaging me on DeviantArt and blocked them there too. Just yesterday, my sister checked this blog to see if they said anything, and saw that they still only followed staff.

Now look at the profile picture. On the same day I discussed with my sister and friend if this was the same person, my sister went to their DoomSlayer account on DA and saw this.

The profile picture is the same. I know it’s not impossible for different people to have the same profile pic by coincidence, but look at the post. They reuploaded the post, and have changed Clockwork’s design so that she no longer resembled my first Villain!Croissant design, though my friend said it was obvious that something was changed. And they kept the exact same information within the description.

And you might think ‘Well at least they changed their design’, but this is till not the end of it.

I wanted to ignore it, but my sister checked their DeviantArt profile today and saw this.

I laughed. They checked on me. After blocking them twice, they had the nerve to say this? Their little anxious act was gone, their apologies thrown out the window. They said it was just a joke? Really?

My final point is that they were aware that I hated nazis, it’s in my profile description after all. But in their original post, and in their reuploaded post, they stole my design and made it a nazi, knowing about my discomfort and hatred for them. If anything, this journal only added more to my claims, as they referred to the post on their DoomSlayer account. Not only that, but they wanted to call my AU design a costume, with a name that possibly referred to nazis.

But despite all this, I don’t condone witch hunting, doxxing, threatening, or any of the sort. I made this for people to be aware. Stay safe everyone.

[pyaasa]

lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers is racist; she thinks she understands racism better than poc, stands by racists, and attacks poc for trying to speak to her about racism

Tw: racism, rape mention, incest mention. also possible transphobia 

For the full story, you first need a bit of background: if you’ve been following me for a while then you will be aware I have called out @ayeforscotland’s racism several times. I would recommend reading this post for a full explanation.

In addition to the incidences mentioned in the post I have just linked, ayeforscotland has also had interactions with neo @androidgynes who is Romani and another person who is black (but didn’t want to be named) and they’ve both also called him out for his racism.

Anyway so. @androidgynes​ saw that lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers was reblogging from ayeforscotland, and that the op of the post was @/getpoliticaluk (who defends incest). Androidgynes messaged lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers (who I will from now refer to as lagstm) and informed her that ayeforscotland is racist and getpoliticaluk defends incest - the conversation that followed went like this. (the below screenshots are posted with permission from @androidgynes​)

The post that neo (@androidgynes) linked of mine was this. And I mean... clearly that particular post by ayeforscotland was very racist, he literally just sat there laughing about anti-black racism as if it was a joke. When @mangopickled​ tried to speak to him about how offensive this post was, he removed her comments from the notes of the post (like. to be clear: ayeforscotland, a WHITE MAN, made a post about racism, and then removed a WOMAN OF COLOUR’S commentary from that post when she told him that his comments were inappropriate). When I saw that, I called that out, and he blocked me. There’s many levels to his racism here that I don’t have the energy to explain, and if you don’t understand why it’s so problematic then you should probably stop reading here cos you clearly know nothing and probably care even less about anti-racism.

So on that particular post that neo linked to lagstm, there is ayeforscotland being racist, and 2 woc calling out his racism. And yet on having this post shown to her, this is how she chose to respond

lagstm literally says that she thinks my views on racism lack nuance. I am a woman of colour, I am visibly muslim, and I’ve experienced racism pretty much all my life. And here is a white woman saying that she thinks my views on racism “lack nuance”. I,, I genuinely don’t have words to convey how angry this makes me. Literally who does she even think she is. Not even is it racist to dismiss my literal LIVED experience of being a woman of colour in this country, but she is literally saying “look at these stupid brown folk, they don’t know what they’re talking about cos they’re so stupid :)”

neo points out firstly that as a white person lagstm doesn’t have the right to make that call, and also that there is ofc another woc on that post saying that exact same thing, and androidgynes themselves are roma. lagstm is not just dismissing me as a stupid savage who is too stupid to form complex thoughts, but she is also indirectly saying the same thing about 2 other poc, and saying that her judgement, as a white person, is more sound than all of ours.

It’s also worth mentioning that neo, who is Romani, was polite to lagstm during this exchange, and lagstm was rude and dismissive. I find this deeply hypocritical. Lagstm has been talking a lot about the policing bill and how it will affect GRT communities, but when she’s talking to someone who is actually *from* the Roma community, she is dismissive and condescending. All this shows is that she’s fake AF. She pretends to care about the Roma community on her blog and then speaks down to them in private.

And again this is worth repeating: AYEFORSCOTLAND WAS BEING RACIST ON THAT POST. IT WAS RACIST. WHAT HE SAID WAS RACIST. So lagstm isn’t just ignoring 3 poc, she is also ignoring,,,, you know,,, the actual racism,,,

And she also says ayeforscotland is borderline racist? Like she acknowledges ayeforscotland is borderline racist but she’s still happy to follow him? Like that alone would be enough for me actually

neo then blocked lagstm and messaged me and told me what happened, and showed me the above screenshots - btw prior to this neo and I had never interacted. Anyway I was obviously a bit disgusted but instead of going straight to blocking lagstm or making a callout post straight away, I messaged her to explain herself and take back what she said. That is now two poc who tried to resolve the matter privately - clearly a lot more than lagstm ever deserved. Androidgynes messaged me last Friday, and I messaged lagstm the next day on Saturday

My convo with lagstm went as follows:

So you can see that initially she was apologetic and said she “didn’t mean to imply that that my judgement on racism was flawed” (even tho that’s literally what she said) and defended herself by saying “I react poorly in interactions like this” - genuinely not a defence but whatever. She then proceeded to say that what she doesn’t trust my opinion on is Scotland and Ireland - which completely irrelevant. Firstly I am ambivalent to Scottish nationalism and have always said I don’t know much about it, and I support the reunification of Ireland. And secondly, my issue with aye has got literally nothing to do with Scotland or Scottish nationalism; he is racist all on his own. And the post neo linked was barely even about scottish nationalism, it was just him being anti-black. So lagstm saying “I don’t trust your judgement on Scotland and Ireland” is ridiculous considering that Scottish/Irish nationalism have nothing to do with this.

Like akjfbkjdfbs this is actually so ridiculous. It doens’t make any sense. Lagstm clearly says “I don’t trust pakisstani’s judgement on THIS issue [the issue being racism] and her views on THIS issue [the issue being racism] lack nuance” but now turns around and says “I wasn’t talking about racism, I was talking about Scotland/Ireland” like she must really think I’m dumb

And you can see Lagstm bringing up unrelated hypothetical scenarios, and saying “in this situation, you can’t tell me to defer to poc” which i found ??? Like why are you bringing up scenarios in which you think you are allowed to educate us poor and stupid black and brown folk?? I then told her she was straw-manning and that her points about Ireland/Scotland were ridiculous, but then she claimed it was me that was engaging her in bad faith. Like SHE, the white woman who practically said that I am too stupid to understand racism, and when confronted on it started straw-manning and bringing up unrelated scenarios, said I am not engaging her in good faith. AFTER both neo and I tried to speak to her privately about this. Like I tried to speak to her privately AFTER I FOUND OUT SHE HAD SAID RACIST THINGS ABOUT ME. BUT I’M NOT ENGAGING HER IN GOOD FAITH? LMAOOO

And then the accusation about rape threats which is actually the most disgusting part of this entire thing. I shouldn’t have to explain that accusing 2 poc of conspiring to send her rape threats (without any evidence whatsoever. Frankly I think she’s lying about the rape threats 🤷🏽‍♀️ it’s quite a transparent attempt to distract from her own nasty behaviour and deflect onto us) is actually extremely racist. She is invoking her white fragility and painting me and androidgynes as aggressors who are threatening her safety and inflicting/threatening to inflict sexual violence on her. It is beyond disgusting 🤮

What’s more, neo is trans, so when lagstm is baselessly accusing them of issues related to rape, she is also playing up to transphobic tropes.

One more thing worth mentioning is that there are several lies peppered throughout lagstm’s comments. Firstly when she claimed to have briefly unfollowed me - she didn’t actually. I was checking regularly, and she never unfollowed me. This was a small lie that I picked up on striaght away but because it wasn’t relevant I didn’t say anything about it. But I just think it’s interesting that she would lie for no reason. And another lie - feigning ignorance about ayeforscotland’s racism, and actually even asking for receipts is incredibly disingenuous when on this particular post, if you scroll through the notes, you can see she has literally liked it. Like she had already seen the posts where me and mangopickled called out his racism and literally LIKED it, and when neo says to lagstm that aye is racist, lagstm says “receipts please :)” YOU’VE ALREADY SEEN THEM! AND LIKED THEM! screenshot in case she unlikes it (sorry for including dumb comments by dumb scots but i need to prove it’s the same post so):

LASTLY. Last point I swear. When lagstm said “it was also coloured by the statements they’d made about another tumblr user, which didn’t relate to racism, which I didn’t address with them because I didn’t want to upset them” <- she must mean getpoliticaluk defending incest? So like what is lagstm saying here, she didn’t want to bring up that she also herself defends incest?? Like is she tryna say she’s a pro-shipping freak?????????????????????? What other way is there to read that statment

Okay that’s everything.

I’m not interested in discourse on this post - if you are white and think lagstm isn’t racist or you’re inclined to defend her then save your breath, I don’t need white people telling me what is or isn’t racist. I gave her the chance to defend herself, which is way more than she deserves, and this is how she responds. Her actions and indefensible and she can choke ☺️❤️  I will be unfollowing/blocking anyone I see reblogging from her because I deserve better than to follow people who are ok with racists ❤️ 

[gaylanrivens]

Re: the Buckley-Diaz Family discord server not being a safe space for disabled people.. Unfortunately I can't get access to screenshots of those two hours because she deleted them. So rhia you know you're wrong. Interesting.

1. When she initially kicked me. If you're so offended by being called an ableist you ban someone... hmmm

2. The context for me "sneaking in" based the starboard it very much looked like they were making fun of the autistic headcanons so I picked up a reaction role to see. (Shockingly it was just some incomprehensible conversation about fruit. But the choice to star was still interesting)

3. Our dms. Once again if youre this offended by being told you're in the wrong...

Also here's some messages from the gen x chat before I was banned

1. The first message is clearly about the conversation about ableism. Which btw started with my friend (who is disabled) saying she doesn't like Shannon bc shes ableist which rhia took a LOT of offense to for some reason and went on for two hours about what is and isn't ableist as three disabled people went "you're wrong" and she steamrolled over them. She also made it a rule after this that no one was allowed to bad mouth shannon where she could see.

2. I'm not going to pretend to know what goes on in her head. Either she thought the randomness is funny or it was pointed at the autistic canons idk you're gonna have to decide that for yourself. But I will say the starboard is not used much. So take that how you will.

The bottom line here is im not out to "cancel" anybody. Im not one to make callout posts. I have absolutely nothing to gain from this. I just think disabled people in the buddie fandom should know if their opinions are unwelcome and their experiences dismissed in a space before they join.

[lsobelevans]

Horror tropes? In my Roswell, New mexico? It’s more likely than you think!

In this essay I will...

...be mentioning a few horror/thriller movies and while nothing explicitly gory or scary will be shown in this post, those movies definitely contain scenes and themes that can be disturbing/scary/triggering, do your researches if you’ve got doubts!

...be focusing on the Maria and Alex road-trip, from the moment the car breaks down to the last scene with Travis’ twin. I’m probably going to be led to briefly mention the other scenes that are intertwined with this arc (the echo date and the Planet 7 Kyle and Isobel scene, as well as the marlex car drive when I feel like it is relevant). 

...be approaching specific themes that are used in the scenes that compose this little arc and also more general ones like sound, editing, cinematography and color. 

... be reaching a lot. I do not think everything I will be mentioning is 100% thought-out and voluntary (although you never know). But I’m a firm believer that in filmmaking, yes even inside a CW show, the symbolism comes through subconsciously. So like, maybe they didn’t mean to use corn field as a mark for transition, but it doesn’t take away from the fact that this symbolism works with the story they’re telling and for the journey the characters are in that moment. Additionally, lighting, decor and costumes are always a choice, just like the camera doesn’t position itself randomly, someone’s behind and thinking of the composition of shots that, even if it’s in a basic way, has meaning.

... be starting chronologically but I’ll also make jumps backward and forward, grasping on themes when they come up. Ok, then, let’s dive in! 

This episode references and uses a lot of the iconic mechanisms of the horror movie genre. Alex and Maria’s comfortable road trip atmosphere, open hearted conversation in the car, breaks at the same time as the car itself breaks. The camera, steady so far, the shots following a well known pattern of shot/counter-shot, becomes more unpredictable and shakier and suddenly we’re out of the car, and bam, large shot. 

From the moment they’re out of the car, you won’t be able to see the horizon. Maria and Alex are stuck in a corn field, and they’re stuck in the frame. 

Then poof, Travis appears out of nowhere, accompanied with a pang of music, frightening us and them. Well, more exactly, it cuts on a shot that we’ve seen before without Travis, now with Travis, which gives us the appearing out of nowhere effect. 

Alex says it best.

Well now they’re stuck with a strange guy with an axe, and in a corn field 😬

Hey, have you seen he’s got an axe??? or do you need a close-up???

Okay, this scene ends there. So, let’s take a break and talk about cornfields. There’s many examples of horror movies making use of a field of corn as a location, famously Children of the Corn (1984), Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1995) Signs (2002), that last one also involving, you guessed it, aliens. 

Screenshots from the Signs trailer.

Corn fields are strongly associated with rurality, especially rural America. More largely, they can represent renewal, fertility or abundance. In the contrary, they can be seen as a very ominous location due to their immensity, a labyrinth in which you can’t see very far away and from which you’ll have trouble coming out. 

Although I’m pretty sure Maria’s chase in the cornfield is more of a reference to The Shining (1980) it reminded me of one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies Tom à la ferme (2013), in which Tom is basically held hostage in rural Canada. The corn field chase is a turning point, the last of Tom's attempts to escape. 

Cornfields apparently also often imply scarecrows, which are inherently scary in my opinion but we’ll talk about it more later. 

The next scene takes place inside of Travis' cabin. 

The lighting here is pretty low, the light coming from a few small sources, creating a lot of shadows. The main color is a greenish/yellow which can be associated with nature and earth, rurality, dirty, suffocating. If we look at it, the color scheme of the entire road trip is very much following this pattern of browns/yellows/greens because of the cornfield and the color of the characters costumes (the exception being Maria’s truck which is a bright red). In opposition, the scenes that are intertwined are either blue and orange for Max and Liz or a lot of pink/blues/purples for Isobel and Kyle in planet 7 (bi bi bi).

The cabin is messy, supposedly reflecting the state of the owner’s mind. We get a nice close-up on meat + a knife and all of the creepy skins on the walls. Also, it’s noticeable that from this moment on, the camera is shakier, we experience different angles too. 

We are given many visual clues that something is wrong. 

I’m gonna pass on the sound of the sound of the cow parodying a werewolf + the vampire diaries inside joke. 

Btw, if the fact that Travis names his cows -- that he skins for a living -- like human women isn’t enough for you to think mmmm. we are in danger. Well, don’t worry. The cw spells it out for you!!

We know Alex! We got contextual clues!

Right after this, Alex and Maria make another direct reference to being in a horror movie situation. 

ALEX: This is why I don’t like horror films. The gay guy always dies first.

MARIA: ???? 

ALEX: Or... second. Okay, that’s fair. That look, that’s fair. 

I think this bit is interesting, because not only does it denounce an horror movie cliché (the black person of the cast dies first, the queer person is second) but also in this situation I believe it can be see as kind of a callout on the fandom’s behavior that i’m not gonna spell out for you but yeah. Fellow queer people, don’t forget you’re not the only one who is sometimes badly/unfairly represented. 

Moving on. In the next scene, Alex is searching the cabin for clues, and we are also given some about Travis. 

Either he has a twin brother or he’s got a framed picture of himself on his wall. Oh, and he’s military.

Then Travis startles Alex and plays a little bit of banjo, which is a good excuse to stop and talk about music. The show uses a lot of diegetic music aka music that is present in the universe of the story, that the characters can also hear. It justify the use of said music and it ties the audio with the picture.

The banjo already is heard at the very beginning of the arc during a cut from the planet 7 scene to the road trip scene. We get a few notes that indicate a change of scenery and that helps smooth up the transition, and I’m pretty sure it was also supposed to be diegetic music coming from Maria’s radio. The banjo, like the corn field, is super linked with rurality and rural America (again!)

Another reference of the banjo in horror/thriller would be Deliverance (1972).

I can’t not think of this movie when I hear banjo unfortunately. 

The way Travis plays, aggressively bad, and while singing I Think We’re Alone Now, is supposed to make you think about that scene in The Umbrella Academy be quite unsettling, another point for isolation horror. 

So sweet of Travis to attack Alex with a guitar, and then a smol knife, and not with the axe <3. 

Then we’ve got a traveling zoom-in (or equivalent I’m not sure it isn’t a steady-cam here but the effect is the same) on Maria. This kind of effect can feel a little bit over-the-top and dramatic, in a old genre movie kind of way. It is usually used to bring the audience in, make it feel like you’re evolving in the same universe as the characters (here you’re walking toward Maria). In a scene where you should feel scared, it can be a mean to make you feel more engaged, as well as underlining Maria’s expression, her fear. In my opinion, this is also a way to tell you that from now on, Maria is the main character of this arc, the one that you will be following after the commercial break (that occurs right after) and making it more suspenseful. 

The scene after the break is the start of the corn-field chase. Travis steps out of the cabin, the cuts are faster, many close-shots, some even out of focus, that accelerate the rhythm, and a long fade-in of a new song: a modern, electronic song (Kim Petra’s Close You Eyes) completely in opposition with the acoustic banjo and with the atmosphere of the scene, which makes it strange and makes you think oh, what a weird choice! (at least it did for me lol). The lyrics, however, go very well with the scene. 

I feel it coming on You've got nowhere to run There's no way you'll make it out alive

Yep. 

We find out right after that the music is in fact diegetic but for Isobel and Kyle, it’s another use of music to ease a transition between 2 scenes that are different in every possible way. 

Now, the corn-field chase. As I mentioned before, I believe it’s a direct reference to The Shining’s ending chase scene where Jack Torrance chases his son Danny through a vegetal labyrinth with an axe. 

From the shots to the lighting (from behind or on the side, making the characters look like silhouettes) both scenes are very similar. Also, Travis is styled like Jack Nicholson ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh look, Michael’s here to save the day!

Oh well, guess not. 

Yeah, in this scene, and like we’ve been shown before, Maria is going to be the one that saves everyone. The racist cliché of the black character dying first in a horror movie is reversed, Maria is the last one standing. The scarecrow (that looked conveniently a lot like Maria) is supposed to play in favor of the bad guy, it’s a scary element, creating confusion and unease, but here the character decides to basically take it into her own hands and bend the rules. This character says i’m not that archetype, and she’s going to be using the horror movie tools against itself. 

Lastly, the final horror movie recurring theme that I’m going to talk about is the twin/the double. 

Yes, twins is a spooky tool used in horror movie because their similarities make them unsettling, uncanny. 

There’s also the idea that if one were to replace the other, you wouldn’t be able to tell. The impostor is a very scary concept that Roswell has also dealt with before. 

I can’t be the only one that has been traumatized by that halloween special of the Simpsons where Bart has an evil twin... 

It’s the last twist of the arc, there is a bad!Travis and a good!Travis. The bad one kept the other locked-up somewhere and had taken his place. 

It’s particularly interesting for Roswell that has a history with twins/doppelgänger, and that since the original show. It is a clear instance of in-world foreshadowing here! (howdy)

My conclusion about all this is that the people who worked on 2x06 had a great time building the episode and it shows, while also making it enjoyable to watch and yeah, we love to see it! 

[genderfluidlucifer]

Response to being asked to give  an opinion on Connie’s calout by residentevil-4

(Tw: CSAM, rape fic, incest fic, predatory behavior, racism, ableism, kink mention, nsfw mentions. Minors should probably dni.)

“Connie and I know each other irl and went to school together for 3 years, although they now live in a different state and have cut contact with me. We went to a private therapy school in Manhattan as we're both disabled and were deemed unable to attend public school. Even though we were pretty close, Connie didn't like having photos taken of them, so I don't have any selfies of the two of us; however, these are from our sophomore and senior yearbooks which at least confirms that we were in the same year at school. People who have seen Connie's selfies should be able to confirm that that is what they look like. First and foremost, Connie is not TMA. They are intersex and the two of us have discussed intersex issues both in person and online, but they are still decidedly CAFAB.” Ok so first off, I want to address this part of the callout. To be honest...was it really necessary to literally doxx Connie ehre? Because this textbook definition of doxxing. Yes Connie’s done some shitty things but I freally don’t think that what they’ve done warrants this level of doxxing. Or...even better, any doxxing. This feels like a really unnecessary breach of privacy, revealing sensitive information on Connie’s childhood that they choose to confide in you with. I really don’t agree with this aspect of the callout as it feels very invasive and bordering on stalkerish.  Btw when I say bordering on stalkerish I’m not directly calling you a stalker Bonnie. Just so we’re clear. I am not defending Connie supposedly faking being TMA. Because faking being TMA is a very serious issue. HOWEVER since I don’t know Connie irl and to be quite frank it’s none of my business what the nature of their agab is. Were not close and I’m certainly not going to like lead Connie onto thinking we’re friends just to confirm this with them because that would be creepy. So to be honest I’m going to take this part of the callout with again of salt for now.

[ID: A cropped screenshot of a numbered list Connie posted to their blog hadrosaurs in response to an ask. 

“3. I’m TMA And that’s completely irrelevant. I’m not accusing them because of their gender I didn’t even know their gender when they said that to me saying that they said that because they fucking said that and the reaction to it was incredibly alarming. Don’t fucking say that stuff to people.]

I mean I”m not a trans woman so take this with a grain of salt if you want but...I don’t see how this is really proof of Connie being deliberately transmisogynistic? Yes Connie gives iffy retellings of mistakes they’ve made in the past. I’ve seen that on their blog before and I won’t pretend it doesn’t happen. BUT here they sound genuine enough and to be honest a growing issue I’ve seen with callouts as of late is. A person confirms they in fact did not do the thing they were called out for. And then the people who make the callout choose to see it as proof of incriminating behavior anyways. To be honest it’s a big problem and it’s also incredibly unfair to the person being called out. If you’re so determined at that point to see the person as bigoted no matter what they say then of course anything they say can be seen as proof. So I’m going to have to pass on this bit of evidence. “Connie responded: “Final note: I have spoken extensively with several trans women about using TMA to describe myself. I will not be getting into discourse about that on this blog again. All that leads to is people demanding my medical records and calling me slurs. If you wanna have a thoughtful conversation about it direct message me cause it’s not happening again here.” Again this really doesn’t seem all that self incriminating. Connie mentions here that they’ve talked to rl trans woman about whether or not they can be considered TMA. Connie really doesn’t have to disclose that personal information to people for any reason. Yes even when people are e including this ask response in a callout. And considering lots of people DO get invasive about Connie’s medical history ans general personal life over matters like this? I feel their reaction is pretty understandable here. “Connie has constantly compared “exclusionists” (or anyone, really) to TERFs, even when the people in question are not transmisogynistic, trans exclusionary radfems, or are even transmisogyny affected themselves.

“ Gonna have to disagree with this part of the callout too. Lots of ace inclus blogs, even some run by trans women , have proven that the ace exclus movement was started by swerfs/terfs. But the blog that has the most evidence for this is courteousmingler on tumblr. I suggest you check out that blog’s archiving of the history of ace exclus rhetoric before rushing to call me a transmisogynist for disagreeing with this part of the callout. I looked through all of the evidence for Connie being racist and tbh as a black ndn it all feels incredibly flimsy. It’d be one thing if Connie was using their experiences to derail and invalidate the discussions about how black people are oppressed But they weren’t doing that there at all. This part of the post feels incredibly biased. And like OP is looking for things to be mad about. Going to have to pass on this list of evidence. Also uh I seem to recall that residentevil04 got called out for some questionable behavior as well. “Both me (insepsy, hi) and ezrat have had really weird spikes in activity on our Statcounters, both on the same day. (Saturday, 4/17/21) For both of us, majority of the pages looked at by these visitors have been related to or about Connie, or have been posts that Connie would find "problematic" such as the f slur untagged or something related to "panphobia"/aphobia. I’m sorry but...none of the proof of cyberstalking holds any water. Visiting someone’s blogs and rbing posts to disagree with them is not cyberstalking. Keeping tabs on urls that an abusive person who has harassed are using so you can block them (in this case with kyoshi) and warn your mutuals is not stalking. As a victim of rl stalking it’s...really weird to call this legit stalking at all. Much less claim that you have damning proof of it being stalking when no such evidence exists in the callout. Besides after Connie and nonbinarydave called out one of kyoshi’s buddies for sending a death threat hate anon to nonbinarydave’s toddler st4lker partly admitted to doing it a few times. Then other mutuals in kyoshi’s toxic social circle clearly began joining in. Making side accounts where they tried to spin a false narrative of nonbinarydave’s daughter being one of their alters (ableist as hell.) And also trying to do it in such a way that they thought would trigger nonibnarydave’s psychosis (also ableist as hell.) If you’re going to drag Connie for their mistakes and never let them move on from those mistakes then it’s only fair to do that to people you agree with who also do toxic/bigoted things. ALso the fact that your wording here suggests that you think panphobia and aphobia aren’t real makes me doubt this claim even more. Exclus and their allies are notorious for mislabeling inclus disagreeing with them as stalking. “connie said that they would release that info at a later time and the minor began to argue with them that they had a responsibility regardless of their complicated relationship with age. in this argument connie for a time kept their age ambiguous and at one point told the minor (who confirmed in a later ask that they were severely traumatized by adults) that they obviously weren’t traumatized. connie quickly deleted this ask and any mentions of it and the next post they reblogged was about how wrong it was to try and quantify or discount others’ trauma. on my old blog i @ed them in the replies and asked if they had just done that. connie admitted to it and said it was fucked up but quickly blocked + deleted my comment. i can’t remember whether or not connie apologized to the minor, they may have? but yeah. i thought that was pretty weird.”] I do agree with some of the concern here that adults shouldn’t over expose minors in discourse. I’ve been contemplating this for awhile myself. And trying to figure out how to take better steps to avoid including minors who are triggered by discourse in discourse, especially. HOWEVER I have one little issue with this addition to the callout. If that is the case then exclus and their allies need to practice this as well. You cannot ignore the fact that the reason a lot of minors are getting involved in exclus discourse is due to adult exclus and their allies forcing minors to pick a side in the discourse. Y’all are not at all exempt from this problem. I still remember an ex mutual of mine trying to convince a minor to agree that aces can’t face corrective rape. And based on how aggressive it got with me when I tried to avoid giving an opinion on the matter, I can’t imagine that it would’ve reacted better to the minor refusing to give an opinion or to the minor outright disagreed. Refusing to put these standards on exclus and their allies is both hypocritical and quite frankly very transparent. The claims about them glorifying dark topics on AO3 through their fics also seems unfortunately legit. I mean those asks of shaming people who ask their viewers to not romanticize or glorify abusive relationships in their works is very damning. I’m very disappointed to see that Connie has taken being an inclus to the point of validating antis anti culture wholeheartedly. I can’t think of much more to add to my opinion on that part of the callout. As for the issue of Connie interacting with pro shippers in the past, I do know that this claim is legit. I’ve seen it before and so has Breeze. This was why for a brief time we decided to stop following their blogs. Because it was triggering to have pro shippers put on our dash. And sometimes we just don’t feel it’s worth it to always let people we’re platforming know they’re rbing triggering stuff. So sometimes we just quietly unfollow and choose to not interact until we’re sure they’re filtering what they do and don’t rb in some way. I definitely don’t agree with that behavior. And if they’re still doing that I”ll deplatform again. “The anon asks: “A weird question but do you know any other stimboard blogs with your follow criteria? (No radfems, racists, fandom antis, etc.) I was hoping to find more through your “similar blogs” but a lot have no anti-antis for their DNI or allow truscum/transmeds and exclus. :(“

The user responds: “I know of @turtle-pond-stims, @outofangband, and @kinaesthetics! 🍂🍄" “[ID: A cropped screenshot of an ask sent by Connie from their now-deactivated blog, butch-with-a-tortoise.

Connie says: “hey anon I have safe stim blogs. dm me if you want them. And radfems/bigots aren’t allowed to interact. For my own safety (because the community is honestly terrifying) I can’t publicly say on my blogs that I’m safe for proshippers/kinky people but I try to spread word how I can.”] [ID: Screenshot of a post by evilwriter37, which reads, “I’ve been seeing posts about fandom police leaving ao3, and it’s like: Good. We don’t want you here anyway. Go find your own fanfiction site.”

The post is tagged “#Fandom #AO3 #Antis #Purity Culture” and has 87 notes. It was posted on December 21st, 2020.

There is a reply from main-to-outofangband-andothers saying: “there are Silm antis on that site who are against Russigon (Maedhros and Fingon) not because they’re cousins but because they’re both male (coded)”] [ID: A screenshot of an anonymous (though signed off as being from outofangband) ask sent to evilwriter37, which says, “Melkor and Viggo solidarity is ‘Look there’s nothing wrong with keeping my enemy chained up in my personal chambers at all times so please just focus on the war efforts and I’ll focus on the boy* in my chambers’ -@outofbangand.

*boy used figuratively @ antis”

The user responds: “Pfft!!! Hahaha! You’re absolutely right! (And Viggo does refer to Hiccup in canon as ‘my boy’).”] I can’t really say anything to refute this. Because these are all posts of Connie outright stating that they disagree with antis. And not only sympathize with anti antis but are fully against antis. Looks like very damning evidence. Although ngl I’m not entirely against kinky blogs as a whole? Just so long as they truly stay in their lane with their kink content. And don’t force it on others in any way. Or shame people who are triggered by their kinks. It is true that being entirely against kinky blogs no matter what is dipping your toes into swerf rhetoric. Tbh I’m not going to look at the rest. This is pretty much all I need to make a decision on whether or not I”ll continue platforming Connie. Though I will try to get some more  perspective from people who I interact with as well. Because I feel better about making a more definitive decision after doing that. Also in general please don’t not try to get an opinion from me on how I feel about syscourse. A lot of the claims about Connie’s age weirdness and them using their alters as a shield feel like syscourse to me. Especially if this callout was written by one or several singlets. Singlets should never be trying to judge how legit someone’s system is ever. Even if their system friends encourage them to. You can call out a horrible person with a system without trying to insinuate that they’re lying about their alters in some way. Doing otherwise is ableist ESPECIALLY if you’re a singlet. Also in general the reason I stay out of discussions of judging how someone is handling their systems is because it’s syscourse and syscourse is triggering for my system and I. If this post was an attempt to get me to give an opinion  on the validity of Connie’s system I don’t appreciate it. And I would appreciate not being dragged into such matters again, thank you.

In general there’s like a few parts of this callout that feel legit. Which is unfortunately cluttered with obvious bias and obsessive hatred of Connie. I’m not here to stan or coddle Connie. I know they are not a perfect person. Especially since no human being in the world is perfect. But I feel the way this callout was created was very sloppy since a lot of the evidence was messy at best. And some points were very hypocritical as well as there being some no true scotsman moments from OP. In acting like exclus never do any of the thing that they tried to call out Connie for. Which is behavior that I am not a fan of. This is why people need to be more careful about callouts and like make roughdrafts and have a more unbiased person helping them if they don’t feel they can do it on their own. I’m even trying to make a resolve to do better at that myself. So it’s not like I’m unwilling to put my money where my mouth is. Anyways those are all my thoughts on this messy callout. And tbh I’m not going to get too much more heavily involved in this. Because I need to focus on more immediately serious rl stuff more often, like doing what I can to get out of the hellish landscape of a house I currently am stuck in.

[rhinedottir-yennefer]

Oh, that ask thingy I was so happy I got tagged in and never got to fill in!

You thought. Well guess what! Today imma gonna fill in the ask questions I got from @advena87 (thank you again for challenging me!) But since I’m a book reader - and I also think my follows and followers should be more encouraged to post book stuff - I’m gonna try and fill in as book content-y as I can. Here we go!  Skellige Isles or the continent?

I love the continent, especially Lyria, Rivia & Dol Blathana, but this is definitely gonna be Skellige for me. I love how raw and unbiased people are over there. They also provide equal rights to women. Which I think is far more developed than one would think when it comes to the Skellige Isles.  

Velen or Toussaint?

This is going to be Toussaint for me. Not because of the visionairy (which is, btw, flawless in TW3-B&W) but because in the books we spend a good chunk of the story there, and we really get to know how society and the monarch works. 

Novigrad or Beauclair?

I would definitely say “the centre of the world” Novigrad. The “free city” Novigrad. It’s so lively there, everyone finds the business they need. But I also like the dark side of it. The beggars, the sewers, the crying Eternal Fire zealots. 

Sleeping at Corvo Bianco or meditating under a tree?

This is gonna be meditating & sleeping under a tree, simply because there’s no “Corvo Bianco” in the books. I really loved that ending, for me though Geralt stayed on the path. 

Inns or Brothels?

Inns have such nicer ahmosphere. I love the candlelit chandeliers, the cheap beer, the people giving you various looks. Music! Geralt always has a nice meal whenever he goes to an inn.  I wish that for him. 

Caves or Ruins?

There’s not much caves in the books, ruins however, plenty. Ruins. 

High or low difficulty?

I guess noone prepared me for the emotional trauma that was the battle at Stygga, so high?

Going back to old save: yay or nay?

I have a bookmark.

Mods: yay or nay?

Sadly I can’t apply any filters to books, but the good thing is I don’t have to! I have imagination to help me. 

Mini-map or no mini-map?

I did actually use a map of the continent while I was reading. I marked the route each of the main characters took. 

Roach or Fast travel?

Roach, because she’s the best friend to Geralt when there’s no Jaskier/Dandelion(/Kökörcsin) around.

Roads or Boats?

There was always something bad going on when Geralt got on a boat, so... Roads. 

Specters or Relicts?

Ooh, I love an old type leshen. And godlings. And dopplers. And czorts. Definitely a relict girl here! o/

Beasts or Hybrids?

I would say hybrids. Especially sirens and succubi. 

Necrophages or Vampires?

Vampires all the way! You didn’t think I would forget about our best boy Regis, ya? (B&W vampires are awesome too, Orianna is an all-time favourite of mine)

Orgroids or Elementa?

Since there’s not much ogroid in the books, I would definitely go with the elementa, because of djinns & genies.  

Draconids or Cursed Ones?

Draconids! At least we get quite a few in the books! The cursed ones Geralt meet in the saga he doesn’t kill, rather turn them back to normal. 

The Caretaker or the Crones?

I loved the Crones! Chilling & ruthless, but very well written characters. And their boss theme is absolute bop. 

Botchlings or spotted Wights?

Spotted wights, I guess. 

Godlings or Trolls?

Godlings are kind of adorable. 

Sirens or Harpies?

Sirens, please and thank you. 

Killing or sparing?

Depends on the situation. With Vilgefortz? Kill any day. Renfri? Protect at all costs. 

Dijkstra or Roche?

As much as I love Vernon Roche, I must aknowledge the fact he’s not a book character so Dijkstra all the way. 

Vesemir or Crach an Craite?

I really loved Crach even in the books, from a young chap (at Pavetta’s 15th birthday) to someone who even woo’d Yen xD I think the Witcher 3 gave him a worthy-mighty route to embrace. Shame he had to go so early. 

Eskel or Lambert?

I was always more fond of Eskel’s quiet and composed manner. He’s like a true brother to Geralt. 

Keira or Philippa?

Philippa all the way. I just really love characters involved in intrigues by choice, and when it comes to the Lady Owl, she’s like the absolute queen. 

Cerys or Hjalmar?

Ok so, this is difficult, because Cerys was not in the books, unlike Hjalmar. But I really liked what they did with them in TW3 and how they did it, and I don’t even feel like they’ve overwritten the canon or anything. I always felt like Cerys’ calm composed manner and playing on the safe side attitude would ensure Skellige would survive. Even if they’re not going down in history as great invaders or warriors.  

Syanna or Anarietta?

Since Syanna was not in the books, but even if she was, I wouldn’t like her, I have to go with Annarietta who’s been the brattiest, sassiest and most spoiled young princess in the books. But that didn’t stop me from liking her.  Yen or Triss?

Yennefer is the queen of this story. I get where the game Triss likers are coming from, but since I’m here to spread book awesomeness, where she’s been the absolute worst (and not even a proper love interest to Geralt [even Fringilla was a longer relationship to him!]) this wasn’t a hard choice at all. Yennefer is the best for Geralt.  

Ciri or Geralt?

I’ve always been genuinely more immersed in Geralt’s side of the story, talking strictly about books, than Ciri’s.  

Regis or Dettlaff?

Regis. Never gonna com a time when I don’t pick Regis. 

Olgierd von Everec or Gaunter O’Dimm?

Olgierd, I guess. I can definitely see someone like him in the books. 

Olgierd von Everec or Iris von Everec?

Iris deserved better.

Shani or Dandelion?

Ok so, there’s no witcher without Dandelion/Jaskier/Kökörcsin, and I absolutely love this bloody Casanova, but, strictly speaking in book context, Shani doesn’t get the recognition she deserves. She’s really complex and been through a lot. Our bard has too, true, but he’s more like the comic relief of the saga. 

Johnny or Sarah?

Sarah!

Sorceresses or Witchers?

Sorceresses. I guess. Life is much more easier if you’re a sorceress. 

Druids or the local holy man?

Druids all the way! Especially those of Skellige! My king Mousesack . I love him. 

Food or Swallow?

Swallow. Not gonna use it though, but this one’s closer to the book canon. 

Decoctions or Potions?

Potions is on the canon side. 

Hunting for diagrams or finding them per chance?

Finding them by chance, I guess. Book Geralt has no time to hunt diagrams amidst all this canon shitstorm xD

Saving coin or spending coin?

Saving.

Looting or buying?

I guess looting is more on the canon side here. 

Upsetting the guards or following the rules?

Never upset the guards. 

Igni or Axii?

Axii!

Yrden or Aard?

Yrden!

Signs or blade oils?

Signs!

Crossbow or fists?

Crossbow is more book canon I guess.  

Settling down or staying on the path?

Book Geralt doesn’t like staying put, so staying on the path.

Gwent Cards or Swords?

Gwent cards. 

Beard or no beard?

No beard. It’s canon.  “Puss Peepers” or “Mutant”?

I have never in my book reading journey read Puss Peepers. Mutant, however... Hey! Thank you very much again for the callout, @advena87 and I hope everyone who actually read through that abominatin enjoyed my answers. And that they weren’t too book-posh. If yes, I’d say I’m sorry, but really I’m not. K BYE

[langernameohnebedeutung]

zerogravitykitty

replied to your post

“btw my bet for next year’s Eurovision is that they are going to invite...”

@silencenwind I cant imagine that lady gaga doesnt know about the ESC tbh. Her music and her costumes borrow so heavily from it, she must be aware

@zerogravitykitty​ ok to be fair I mostly used Lady Gaga as an arbitrary example here of a really generic quirky American pop star. Lady Gaga specifically might have the sense not to do what Madonna did last night: Trying to be Eurovision. I trust her to maybe tone it down a little and deliver an honest performance. If Madonna had put on maybe a simple red suit, sung a simple ballad and topped it off with a one-liner like: “yeah as if you didn’t have enough ballads today, hm?” or maybe had sung one of her old classics I think it would have gone over much better than the train wreck we saw last night. Yeah we would still have complained about the evil invasion from the other side of the pond, but at least it would be less annoying. This way it seemed like she just barged in to promote her new album, started lecturing Eurovision about the value of Eurovision and left never to be seen again on that stage. She was like a youtube ad you can’t skip. Madonna’s performance was just... too artificial. She didn’t feel at home in Eurovision (and I don’t mean this geographically) and you would have the same problem with most big pop stars like Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, whoever actually is important these days. Fuck if I know.)  (Mind y’all, none of this is a callout post aka: Madonna is bad, evil foreign invaders!! - it’s just my opinion on why her performance fell flat) Madonna’s look last night was just..an obvious wink at the audience: “Look it’s ESC and my designers spent 3 hours picking this outfit haha I look like those funky entries.” It comes off as forced and that makes it boring and polished like...a Katy Perry video. It’s completely void of that particular charm. On top of that she started lecturing about how music “brings people together” - which is the whole point of Eurovision. Yeah we know music is bringing people together. It’s what brought us together here. Maybe it also has to do with the fact that we don’t know the esc entries outside of being The Guy Running Inside a Hamster Wheel or Hot Polish Woman Churning Butter - they are those people to most of us - while people like Madonna or Gaga or Katy Perry re-invent themselves 15485 times a day. The big stars of Eurovision like Conchita Wurst or Verka Serduchka or Lordi are pretty faithful to what they do and that’s how these stars become part of the ESC myth. We can’t send Rammstein to Eurovision, but if it were allowed, it would probably work. People know Rammstein, know their brand and know what they do. Scooter as well. But Die Ärzte - which I prefer over both Rammstein and Scooter - probably wouldn’t because they keep re-inventing themselves and also because they also let the audience in on the joke in a very overt way if you know what I mean. Neither is better or worse, but one of the reason these crazy performances at Eurovision are so fun to watch is because someone actually sat down and thought: “Yeah a guy on a ladder with a plastic horse mask is a good idea.”. Even performances like “Dustin The Turkey” work, because you can tell someone said: “At least we will make them laugh” and they ran with that. 

It’s the same thing that makes the ballads so bland - no one will remember Pretty White Girl Singing A Slow Ballad While Wearing A Dress or Conventionally Attractive White Guy Singing A Pop Song While Wearing A Suit. And Madonna is the same - we know that if she came back to the ESC next year she would probably have re-invented herself 48 times until then, same with Lady Gaga. No one will remember her as a Crazy Pirate Nun At A Fetish Party - because that’s just a costume she wears and neither she nor we care about it.

[homokommari]

few points out of the way first

1. this post is gonna talk about alcoholism. my dad was/is an abuser and an alcoholic. 

2. alcoholism is not a flaw in a persons morality or anything like that, addicts deserve to live safe stable fulfilling lives as much as anyone else, so if you think of using my trauma as justification for your hatred of addicts you can fuck offfff

3. this isn’t a callout. i just think this person is a dumbass and thats not exactly harmless, but its not dangerous either. 

so. tumblr user girlfriendluvr, huh? yeah. they are incredibly popular and im guessing a lot of ppl who follow me follow them as well. again this isnt a callout so following them and me is like fine by me. i used to follow them too. 

so there was this post (link)

the list was being violent, being quick to anger, not showering, cheating, etc. then there was

the comments were shitting on the article calling the demands “brutal”. this was their comment

to recap my father who was abusive was also an alcoholic. before i had even had a handful of crushes, as a young kid, i knew with absolute certainty that i did not want to marry an alcoholic. my mother after divorcing my dad did not want to date anyone who was an alcoholic or enjoyed drinking to get drunk. 

so to me that comment was a slap to the face. it was basically calling me out on not wanting to date an alcoholic. my first instinct was to argue against it, but then i decided to not to. i still however believed that not wanting to date an alcoholic was a valid choice for a person to make. and i cried about it to my girlfriend. cried thinking of my father. crying for what me and my family had to endure. 

why i did not argue against them on whether or not it is acceptable to not want to date an alcoholic?

well, for the obvious reasons. addicts are treated poorly by society, they are as a group oppressed. it is bad to be against dating a person because they are a part of an oppressed group, that is obvious.

so while i did feel the way i did i was also full of self doubt. was i wrong, was i being immoral in not wanting to date an alcoholic? i asked myself that question in earnest. i do geniunely care for fellow peoples well being and i am against oppression, so it was my moral duty to ask myself that, even if the answer was

it is completely fine for anyone to not include alcoholists in their dating pool. 

all people are fully responsible for their actions when they are intoxicated. being intoxicated affects your thoughts and behaviours, alcohol has a real concrete effect on the human body. 

people when they are intoxicated will become more self centered, more rude and thoughtless, more physically confrontational and violent. 

an alcoholic is a person who will often be intoxicated, meaning that they will often be emotionally and physically violent. 

not all alcoholics are abusers. 

but all alcoholics will be often intoxicated and act the way intoxicated people do, which ranges from unpleasant to dangerous. 

it is not morally wrong to not want to let into your life a person just based on not wanting to deal with an intoxicated person alone. but there is also the fact that there are alcoholics that are also abusers, and when an abuser is an alcoholic it makes the abuse more violent and makes it less likely for the victims to recognize that they are being abused. 

a person who is violent will be more violent when they are intoxicated. 

a person who is violent when intoxicated will more likely be excused for being violent when intoxicated. 

but all people are fully responsible for their actions when intoxicated. 

and alcohol affects the way a person acts. 

not wanting to be in a relationship who is intoxicated a lot is fully understandable and not condemnable. 

basically in that comment girlfriendluvr was moralizing over people making a morally ok choice to make AT BEST. at worst she is judging victims of abuse for not wanting to face more abuse or retraumatizing themselves. 

what was girlfriendluvrs crime here?

besides making me cry? just being fully fluent in ideas of social justice but trying to apply it in an inappropriate place, showcasing that they actually lack understanding on what oppression for alcoholics is. annoying holier-than-thou attitide basically. 

this post, that comment they made, stuck with me for several months and the reason why it was 100% bullshit has slowly gathered in my mind and i really needed to just.... put it out there. 

im not @-ing them bc it was draining enough to write this. itd be cool if they like rethought their comment and learned something about how alcoholism affects the alcoholip persons family, but im too tired. if you wanna bring this up with them tho go ahead. 

*stop reading at this if you dont wanna read a description of pedophilia in anime*

one last thing is that i used to follow them but unfollowed them not after this post, but way later when i decided to watch revue starlight. girlfriendluvr has since the airing of the first episode been advertising revue starlight as a good show, encouraging people to watch it and comparing it as a better anime than madoka. 

madoka is an anime with multiple problems in its content but at the very least madoka does not have a scene where a teenage girl is shown washing her body and all of the girls boob except nipples are shown. 

so the fact that they did not even once thought to mention “oh btw the show is also total pedo bait” made me realize that they seriously lack some critical thinking skills and i hit that unfollow

[lesterlatte]

Since @umi-midorii tagged me in two things I’ll do them in one post lol

I don’t know if anyone would be annoyed by me tagging them??? Feel free to completely ignore me if so (tagging people makes me kinda anxious tbh so askldlsd i’m sorry if you don’t like getting tagged in stuff like this) @ramune-ray @up-the-tube @youngbloodthekilljoy and @henry-hart

This gets kinda long so I’m sorry in advance

I. Nickname?

Lou

II. Gender?

Female

III. Star sign?

Saggitarius

IV. Height?

5′6 ish??? Idk man

V. Favourite feature?

My hair

VI. Favourite colour?

Blue

VII. Favourite animal?

I don’t have one but I love Cats, Alpacas and Sloths the most (also Axolotls are adorable)

VIII. Average hours spent sleeping?

On school night I get 7 hours on weekends it can go from 12 hours one night to like 4 the next i’m a mess

IX. Dogs or cats?

Cats 100%

X. Number of blankets you sleep with?

One

XI. What’s your dream trip?

Definitely Japan though I’d love to go to the USA one day! (not sure which state tbh)

XIV. How many followers do you have?

63

XV. How many pets do you have?

I have one cat - his name is Barney and I love him

XVI. Best places to visit in your town or country?

I mean London and Brighton are probably the two best places to go tbh (where I live in the UK doesn't have that much to visit apart from old buildings lmao)

XVII. Favorite ice cream flavor?

Chocolate or Vanilla (I’m so basic lolol)

XVIII. How often do you read?

I’m very much a fanfic reader and I’ll spend ages reading them if they are presented to me but I’m not a massive physical book reader (though the series a court of thorns and roses is the shit and I highly reccomend it!)

XIX. Favourite study locations?

I just study by the family computer or on my bed (this is a callout bc I should be studying German rn shhh)

XX. Favourite book series?

Okay I already answered that (look back up at question XVIII)

Now for the second lot of questions (these are the ones that the people tagged do not have to answer btw if any of you actually decide to answer any lol)

1. Favourite band/music group?

Right now Tsubaki Factory are my #1 (tbh all of Hello Project are my faves so lets go with that lol) but if I had to choose from music in english? I’d say Panic! at the disco are my fave right now!

2. Favourite subject in school?

Art probably (I also like the music course i’m taking too)

3. Fruits or veggies?

I’m down for both tbh I cant choose lol

4. What’s an inside joke you have?

I don’t really have any?? I guess the fact that myself and @zirith call each other m9 (which is super lame and cringy but so are we whoops)

5. Ever been to disney?

Never but I really really want to go though! (the one in Paris would be my best shot but I’d also love to go to the Florida one too at some point!)

6. Do you like rollercoasters?

Nope count me out of that shit

7. Favourite movie?

Ohhh um The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my all time faves! I can’t think of any others right now

8. What’s your dream job?

I’m really not sure... I’ve never really thought about it so...

9. What’s something you wish you were good at?

Talking to new people. I’m sososo terrible at it (especially in person) so I wish I could do that

10. What do you listen to during long car rides? (podcasts, specific kind of music, etc.)

I normally have a H!P playlist I go through on long journeys. I add all the newest songs just before I leave and just let them play! (I do find myself with the Super Mario Galaxy ost playing sometimes because its beautiful - its even playing right now haha)

11. Favourite warm drink?

I don’t drink any type of warm drinks sorry lol

Now I’m meant to come up with 10 new questions for the second part or smthn apparently? so here we go:

1) Favourite video game? (if you play any)

2) What is one album you’d recommend?

3) What type of weather do you like most?

4) What mood are you currently in?

5) Favourite comfort food?

6) What is one of your main hobbies?

7) Your opinion on the pineapple on pizza discourse (i’m running out of questions as you can quite clearly tell)

8) Someone you really look up to (can be anyone!)

9) A joke that makes you laugh

10) How was / is your day today? 

[notdeadjusttrash-blog]

My Friend has been Falsely Accused of Tracing So I Will Defend Him

Okay I accidentally deleted the blog I posted this one because I’m a dumbass, so I’ll just repost it here even though I don’t use this blog anymore, but apparently I still have followers. Bless caches because I was able to get this back from google caches so I don’t have to retype everything. I added further evidence and refutes to claims that were not in my original post btw.

Anyways, I am making this post to help out my good friend @5ru9 aka Falco who has been recently accused of tracing/copy pasting other people’s / official art!

I’ve known Falco for over 3 years, and we’ve grown as artists together. Once in a while we give each other advice on art (thanks for the mech and armor advice and teaching me how you line and color!), but most of the time we just meme each other.

Anyways, a lot of people have pointed out that they’ve seen him livestream before, and he’s already posted some of his block outs and other wips as proof that he does not trace in his post here:

http://5ru9.tumblr.com/post/168277137427/hello-i-have-been-informed-about-a-callout-post

To further prove his claim with solid evidence, I shall present to you!

Times he’s asked for advice on his art, or I randomly decided to mention things I notice in his WIPs!

Exhibit A-1:

A Tenkai Knight he made up! I pointed out a few things I thought were awkward about the perspective in his WIP.

Exhibit A-2:

He started working on this way back in July and didn’t finish it until much later because he was working on several other pieces at the same time. I suggested lowering the eyebrows and drawing the eyes a bit narrower to get more of the playful expression he was aiming for. In his final piece here, you can see that Falco continued to refine the piece.

By the way! The reason he sometimes posts a lot of detailed artworks one shortly after the other is because he sometimes works on multiple pieces at once! And then finishes coloring them around the same time.

Exhibit A-3

Falco and I spent good time trying to figure out why he felt like something was wrong with his sketch! I thought maybe it was the trapezius and I decided to red line (or blue line i guess) it so it’d be easier for him to see approximately where i thought the line should go to fix it.

Exhibit A-4:

The gif-ing process turned white bg into blue… anyways! Falco showed me an early version of his Tenkai Knights OC that he eventually used in an April Fool’s joke to pass off as a new character in the series. He mastered the tenkai style enough that at first glance, people really did believe it was official! Like you had to get a good look to realize Shiyu was not really a real new character! Btw I had to go into my old twitter acc to find this…. (Edit: the gif wasn’t working bc it was too big so i had to make it smaller… and choppier and stuff to fit the mb max)

Well now that brings us into!!!

Exhibit B

Some of his old art!! (I’m so sorry falco i’ll be exposing your ancient art to ppl now)

Here you can see his progress from 2014 Tenkai fan art to early 2015! It starts looking more and more like the official art, which is what he was going for.

For reference, here’s what the character Ceylan Jones/Washizaki looks like:

I blocked out fan art by everyone except falco (which i marked) that shows up in this google search. Everything else is official art. The two fan arts by falco you see here are more recent, the angel one being from 2016 and the chicken one from 2017 (i think he also made a version with sonic instead of the chicken? lol). They’re both on his dA accounts btw! The 2017 one really looks like official art, doesn’t it? But it’s his artwork! He practiced a LOT to reach that point, and I hope the earlier arts I showed above this one are enough to convince you in his art progression! Side note: i only used images w/ceylan because 1. i’m biased because ceylan is my favorite character and 2. he drew ceylan a lot because ceylan is his favorite character Also you can see his handle change from s3iwashi to burningbraven. 5ru9 is is a pretty recent handle.

ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN IN THE TENKAI FANDOM FOR A WHILE CAN VOUCH FOR HIM!!!!!

And now for the last one,

Exhibit C

WHAT? WHO IS THIS???

This is my favorite character from a Chinese series called AOTU World! His name is Grey, or 格瑞。I commissioned Falco to draw Grey for me, and let me tell you it would be IMPOSSIBLE for him to have copied any of this. Why? Because the donghua is 3D and the manhua’s art is very inconsistent!

Let me show you the reference pictures I gave him to work with!

They’re all in my gdrive folder here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CqwH5KS-pHX0ZqLHQpoIZBi6W-gsU_Tz

This is all official art from the manhua, except the 3D model is from the donghua. Look at how inconsistent the references are! There’s no way he could have copy and pasted or traced this! Grey doesn’t even do this particular pose anywhere. lol. I told Falco “give him a cool sword pose”. (I’m sorry for being so vague, Falco! But it turned out great!!) The style he ended up drawing in was a mixture of all of them.

Btw!! here’s the blockout and the sketch he sent me before I sent my payment for the commission!! You can see his construction in the block out!! The arm construction and leg construction is light, but it’s there. You can also see the block out below the sketch. Notice he actually fixed the leg length from block out -> sketch?

ARGUMENTS AGAINST SPECIFIC ACCUSATIONS

LOOK, thte actual drawing doesn’t even match the sprites that closely. Pay attention to the collar especially. The whole frankensteining the image and then painting over it thing is just way more effort than drawing it himself. They don’t even match that well in the overlays. Like wow it’s such a crime to try and stay on model.

WHO WOULD EVEN NEED TO TRACE A MOUTH LIKE THAT? IT’S SO EASY TO DRAW. I CAN DRAW IT PERFECTLY JUST BY LOOKING AT IT. (well i AM an animator so I also do style mimicking)

Doesn’t the fact that you have to edit the sprites to match his artwork prove that you’re just a tryhard in making up fake evidence and not a tryhard enough at art since you think it’s so impossible for people to draw characters on model?

Yes he referenced the broom and possibly the heels from this image, but your overlays for the leg and arms are disingenuous and you know it. The leg positions are different, and the overlay doesn’t even match up. Face tracing also makes no sense. You literally stretched the mouth to try and make it fit but it still doesn’t fit. Do you really think it’s that hard to draw mouths and eyes in the DR style? DR faces are really simple to emulate. Also you fool, if you follow Falco’s artwork enough, you’d realize the way he draws bodies is actually rather consistent even as he does different styles. Especially when it comes to hands. His way of drawing hands is how I recognize his art and know right away it’s his art and not official art or a trace (also his coloring style). The heels he drew are also reminiscient of how he typically draws shoes/feet. he draws them bulkier. The other art has dainty heels. At most he referenced how backside works because he’s used to drawing sneakers.

Also come on, if all you referenced from an image was a broom because you liked the style (his is also clearly drawn by himself since you can’t overlay it on the other one. like i said he mostly used the style as a reference for how-to-broom) and you referenced pieces from many other images, are you going to list every single thing you referenced? While yeah it’d be nice to, it’s a little ridiculous to expect all 5-20 references whenever they post the image. It’s a thing where, if someone asks, you’d tell them, but it’s too much to list all of it. This isn’t a 20 page thesis.

If it’s such a crime, then holy shit sue all those people who parody other people’s comics and sue everyone who dares!!! to ever draw something remotely similar to someone else. Dang.

Art doesn’t live in a vacuum.

Okay, this one is just plain stupid. You distorted the sprite to match it up with his, but what would be the point for him to distort it just to trace? Also if he traced, can you explain the rest of the fingers that are drawn nicely but clearly different from the sprite? Also the thumbs don’t even match up. His faces more downward while the sprite is facing more forward. Also explain the turned body in Falco’s sketch, then!! And the hair! OH WAIT YOU CAN’T EXPLAIN IT BY ANY OTHER WAY THAN HE DREW IT HIMSELF!!! BECAUSE NO SPRITES MATCH IT AND YOU CAN’T FIND ANY SPRITES TO DISTORT ENOUGH TO EVEN GET CLOSE TO MAKING FAKE EVIDENCE FOR IT.

By the way, the style he drew it in is closer to the drv3 than this sprite. while it’s pretty much the same style as the older games, drv3′s art is more refined than the older games. Falco’s art is also more refined as you can see. (wow not only did falco’s art improved from back when we first met; even professional artists improve. shocker. /s)

Dude what the hell? The overlays don’t even match up even ifi you tried to frankenstein them. And these are really common poses at really common angles, and once again, must every single thing we reference from be listed in the description of every place we post an image? Let me just list all 30 videos and 50 images i used as reference for one of my prints. jfc.

As for the saihara animation based on the digimon opening animation? It was pretty clear to everyone that it’s some kind of parody. Many people when making parody animations don’t mention the original video either?? It’s a fun thing for fans of the franchise to recognize the reference themselves. Yes he could have said it was the digimon opening on the description, but at least he didn’t say he thought of the idea himself? And if you talk to him about the animation, he will openly tell you it’s from digimon. And the fact that you think it’s a trace despite how much the overlays do NOT work out is practically proof that you’re just doing this maliciously and hoping that saying he traces enough with shoddy evidence will make people believe you.

ALSO PEOPLE LITERALLY TRACE ANIMATIONS TO MAKE PARODIES OF, DOWN THE STYLE WHERE ALL THEY CHANGE IS THE HAIR AND OUTFIT, AND YET SOMETHING WITH DIFFERENCES EVEN DOWN TO THE STYLE LIKE THIS IS SOMETHING YOU THINK IS A TRACE? Do you need a new pair of glasses?

I was gonna ignore this one because it was the same as a lot of the others, but you literally erased Falco’s face line so it would match the sprite, and you covered the bigger boobs Falco gave her, and totally ignored that the angle doesn’t even match properly. Like you covered parts of his sketch in your overlay just to make it look more like it matches, but if you actually fucking overlayed it correctly, even with squashing it, it won’t fit. (Also sorry to point this out Falco, but the circles on your goggle lenses are too small compared to the sprite; Maybe if you actually traced like this person claims you’re doing, they’d be perfectly like the sprite. OH BUT WAIT YOU DREW IT YOURSELF SO OF COURSE THERE’S SOME DIFFERENCES. JUST LIKE HOW EVEN THOUGH ALL YOUR OTHER WORKS ARE REALLY CLOSE TO THE STYLE AND PRETTY MUCH ON MODEL, THEY’RE NOT EXACTLY THE SAME WITH THE SPRITES! SHOCKER...!)

HOLY FUCK. I already pointed out and gave evidence that Falco started on the Nier Automata drawing waaaaaaay before he posted the actual picture. The 2 sketches are sketches! They don’t take a super long time. I busted out 10 inktobers in 1 day. (thumbnails of my artwork below)

Look I even even lined and colored 5 fairly detailed chibis in 1 day (i did the sketches earlier though. btw i hand drew the plaid on ray. it was annoying)

At the moment I have 5 wips. They’ll likely all be done around the same time. I know Falco often has multiple wips as well, and sometimes he also finishes some of them close to each other. Some artists (like my friend Fish) can pump out extremely detailed paintings in less than a day. WOW some artists can draw at a fairly fast rate. WHO KNEW? (manga artists in weekly magazines pump out 15-20 pages of manga in a week)

He’s still developing a style; he’s mostly doing style mimics of series he likes in the mean time.

At the moment he’s mostly experimenting with the drv3 style, but he was practicing p5 earlier. By the way, he DESIGNED a phantom outfit for mishima. Who the heck would he copy that from? He made it up because he loved mishima and wanted to make him part of the gang in some AU fan art. Mishima doesn’t have artwork like this for him to trace, so it should be obvious it’s his own work.

And the pokemon and crash bandicoot ones are actually not that close. The pokemon one looks like a good attempt at imitating the pokemon style, but since he hasn’t practiced it enough, you can tell it’s a little off model because, well, he drew it himself and doesn’t practice the pokemon style a lot. Same with the crash one. Had it been a trace, with his level of control over his lines (which you can’t refute), it would have been much closer.

And you act like it’s a crime to imitate others’ art style. It’s really not. What is wrong with you? Do you want to slow down animation production by only letting the character designer draw everything? Or do you want animation where the art has 0 semblance of consistency because all the artists draw in vastly different styles? lol. What do you have against artists that try to stay on model?

LOL THIS IS ONE IS SO STUPID WHERE DO I EVEN START?

Oh, I KNOW. Why don’t I do that same pose with my own hands?

IT’S A MIDDLE FINGER, YOU IDIOT.

Just because YOU don’t know basic anatomy and can’t tell a middle finger from a pinky, doesn’t mean everyone else is as incompetent as you. He wasn’t doing the rock-on hand pose (sry idk if that pose actually has a name lol), and he’s drawn the rock-on hand pose properly before.

Closing statement

I believe I covered a lot of things and provided a lot of evidence here that Falco and his other friends did not cover in his defense against the false accusations.

I even added more counter arguments in this repost because apparently my original post wasn’t enough to convince people.

Perhaps the person calling him out meant well (no, I doubt it because they made a new side blog just to diss him because they knew if they did it on their actual blog, they’d be called out for being a jerk), but they did not do enough digging to find out if their claims were true or not (and they probably know well enough that they MADE UP THEIR EVIDENCE).

If you’re going to make a call out post, please make triple sure sure of everything before you accuse people. Talk to them first. Talk to those who know them too.

Many jobs require you to be able to draw characters exactly in the style given. Animators for example! There are multiple animators working on one series, and they all need the skill to draw consistently! Some games also have teams that need to be able to draw in the same style so they don’t have to leave everything up to one person. Comic artists often have assistants that help them draw background characters, but those background characters can’t be too different from the main style either.

As for the people who believed the call out post before, it’s perfectly understandable. I am also guilty of falling for similar posts in the past. Due to that, I decided it was best to double check before retweeting (i say retweet because i use twitter far more than tumblr these days. heck i almost never post anything on this blog) things, and if i wasn’t sure, I would just leave it be.

I hope my post was able to convince you on Falco’s innocence and all his hard work. And if you already believed him but checked out this post anyways… Thanks! ObligatoryPleaseWatchAotuWorld.

And again:

Art does NOT exist in a vacuum. All artists are influenced by each other and MANY artists, especially professionals, use a lot of references, whether it be from photographers, their own pictures, others’ artwork, life, or whatever. We all use many different resources. If you’re going to say that’s wrong, you just dismissed millions of artists in the world.