#oh Pog new tag

[mercifulbutbroken]

Wanted to post the fanart I made for #thscOCFanartDay ! Cafe cutie is Dawn, belongs to @rarestdoge , music man Swan belongs to kissinghisriot on twitter (lmk if u have a tumblr man!!) and aquarium whale enthusiast Pazi belongs to @kellystar321 ~

This event was really fun to do, and sparked a bit of motivation in me that I didn’t know I had. Really wish I could do more art for this, but that just means I can send art another time!

[candycryptids]

UNO REVERSE! How do YOUR blorbos sleep, huh? 😤

HECK!!!!!

Chuu sleeps anywhere any which way. Tuesday’s learned to not try to move her to any kind of bed or horizontal position, she’s sleeping fine where she is and when she wakes up if she’s been moved it throws off her groove, especially if she was in the middle of something lmao. If she CHOOSES to go to bed, she wears a big ol shirt and gets all cozied up under a weighted blanket with an eye mask and sleeps for 16 hours. [If her wife is home, she’s laying on-top of her like a blanket because she’s warm, lmao. Chuu is become Weighted Blanket]

Tuesday doesn’t need to sleep in the classical sense, but he does use ‘sleep time’ in the way human brains do; to sort and compartmentalize/toss out things from the last time he’s ‘slept’. (He tends to find a quiet place to do this, the FC house has a custom built ‘nap room’ with alcove beds he’ll use if he’s around home base. Otherwise he’ll even just find a chair in the corner and ‘doze’ for an hour. (Keathan likes to curl up on him from what I remember, because he’s warm, and relatively comfortable. And sometimes the sleepies just Getcha when you’re running all over creation.)

[cut cos there’s quite a few silly little guys ANDNFNEKD]

Ishi’li enjoys the fact that they can curl up into a little ball of Miqo’te if they’re having to sleep alone, but at a certain point she starts sharing a bed with Kizuna, who tends to hold her with his tail. And arms. They become a tangled octopus of limbs. LMAO. Purrs sometimes in his sleep. Really needs someplace soft/a bedroll to sleep, isn’t so good at just sleeping wherever on the ground.

Mochiie sleeps sprawled out flat on his back like a starfish in bed, but he’ll also sleep sitting up in armchairs or propped up against a dozen pillows. Or. Leaned up against Mindy with her big Chocobo head in his lap, lmao. He doesn’t tend to want/need a blanket but he does like sleeping in silken pants. 🥰 (he’ll bully Urianger away from staying up late studying to come lay with him in bed…. Only for Mochi to fall asleep and Urianger to just sit up reading with Au’ra deadweight leaned on him. Lmao)

Levraut wants to wear full pajamas to bed (nightcap, long shirt, pants… yknow, the Pajama Set. LMAO. His has Chocobo’s on it.) he snores, but claims he doesn’t. He’s a stomach sleeper, keeping his journal or whatever book he was reading shoved under his pillow (or AS his pillow, if he’s sleeping on a bedroll, hdjdjdjs) he sleeps best in a hammock on board a ship, but he lays on his back or side in those (the side sleeping makes his back complain a little bit he’s young, within the hour he’s stretched whatever cramps or aches out)

Colette! Sleeps best when Setsuna is curled up under her arm, pokey horns be damned. If she’s curled at her side then there’s no chance she’s in any danger. She sleeps naked, because every big comfy shirt for sleeping ends up mysteriously on Setsuna or in her possession, lmfao. She just gave up at some point. (I don’t talk much about Colette or her charge, they’re kinda background brain radiation, but Colette’s fun uvu!)

Tangy sleeps best when other people are around (either also sleeping or just doing stuff in the same room, background noise helps her best) she sprawls out on top of a soft surface (usually her bed) and falls asleep like someone tossed her already unconscious body there. As a Miqo’te she snores somethin’ fierce and awful, but her change into a Hrothgar seems to have fixed whatever was causing it more or less, and she’s now relatively quiet. (Sometimes she growls in her sleep though like dogs do when they’re dreaming!) she would very gladly cozy up in bed with a bunch of people for a big sleepover situation! Push all the beds together pile up all the blankets and pillows…

As a final little bonus; Jojoha sleeps sitting up with a dagger in hand, wary and ready, even when the chance of danger is very small. Solkmyna struggles to sleep on even good days, struggling with nightmares, and sleeps flat on his back like the dead when he does manage to fall asleep. Swydghem sleeps worryingly deep, a side effect of being under the effects of Sleep related spells and medicines. She also sleeps like a corpse, with her arms folded over her chest. Viking funeral style. Both Solk and Ghem sleep better when they’re in the same bed together following her recovery. Jojoha tries to never sleep at the same time as them when they’re staying together, so she can keep watch for. Anything. They’ve had enough misfortune in their lives; she’d rather at least warn them before it strikes again.

[crazyw3irdo]

THAT FUCKING RULED

Nerdy Prudes Must Die come out on YouTube today!!

Also they've finished making Workin' Boys, and they've scheduled performances

sooooon !!!!

[antimony-medusa]

*new yorker accent* hey what’re yous thoughts on uhhh them queer platonic romances? new york numbah one da big apple babey!!!

Oh I love QPRs, I love relationship anarchy. I love the diverse ways that people can define a relationship that works for them, with whatever they need in it, and it can have sex or no sex, kissing or no kissing, sleeping together or sleeping apart, raising children together, buying a house, marriage, pet names, holidays with family— any sort of thing we put into a relationship, and we can pull that apart and reassemble it in a way that works for us, and it can be romantic or not, or sexual or not, but boy howdy it sure is queer.

Okay I have been assuming that this is in a fandom writing context, but the above all applies to them in real life. In FANDOM—

Okay I may be on the outside with this, but I think a QPR can definitely come up to the line of being ship, depending on the QPR, so I don't necessarily agree with the way this fandom has fallen into QPR = not!shipping that's safe to publically do to cubitos whose creators don't want ship.

Cause like, we have clips from streamers saying they're not comfortable with ship, or not comfortable with things being "weird", but they usually don't specify beyond that. In a lot of cases, they haven't specified if there's a distinction between character shipping or IRL shipping, so like in no cases have they specified if the issue with shipping is sex (cause you can have an ace romantic marriage with no sex— does that count as "ship"?) or romance (cause by definition QPRs would not apply) or strong emotional dwelled on bonds that tie them to another player in a tight way (cause like, this is what a fair number of people writing QPRs fall into, cause from the outside if you're not aro some of the QPRs look pretty close to romantic relationship on the surface! I know it's not romance, and you know it's not romance, but is a streamer just scrolling twitter going to see that at a first glance if they come across a snippet of someone calling each other a life partner and going to bed together?) Cause like, trying to put myself in the shoes of the streamer, I could see the problem being sex (makes sense) OR romance (makes sense) or any really tight emotionally-dwelled on life-bond relationship (some of this I don't know if the streamers might still think it's weird to see done to their characters, even if it's technically by definition platonic). So some of this I still don't know if QPRs are something that every creator is going to feel comfortable seeing?

And I don't tend to love the implications of some of the stuff twitter does where it's like "oh, i can't ship, only QPR", like QPRs are automatically like santitized "safe" shipping, instead of their own category of thing that could mean almost anything. Like in real life if you know someone is in a QPR you know they're in a QPR, you still have no idea if that means they're married, or have sex, or make out on the regular, or call each other lovey dovey things, or sleep together, you just know they have a life bond. This fandom treats QPR like it's only one thing, and like it's a lesser, training wheels type of relationship, and that really grinds my gears.

So for me QPRs fall into a category where I'm like, awesome, pog to do, I know we love to take interactions between cubitos and expand them out and it makes perfect sense to take some of these in a QPR way. Go on with your bad self. But unless a creator has explicitly allowed it/canonized it, honestly I'd treat it the same way as I would some of the more hot-button trigger tagged fics (abuse, cannibalism, whump, mind control, addictions issues, torture) or like "instincts driven" family dynamic stuff or extremely aged down family dynamic stuff, where I'm like yes, technically this is fine, but let's just be safe and keep that where the streamer only finds it if they go looking for it. Please keep it out of TTS. This is something for the fandom, not for the streamers.

Just tag your shit and keep it away from the streamers and you're good.

[shirogane-oushirou]

AAAAAAAAAAA RO!!! BESTIE!!!! YOUR TAGS ARE DESTROYING ME RN /POS

I just had to send you an ask in response because oouughghghhhh... my feels... 🥺💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

I actually never realized how much I look like Java until I put our faces next to each other on that moodboard!!! The resemblance between us is so uncanny - but maybe that's why they've been giving me such good gender vibes lately ☺️ Amber resembles me quite a bit as well according to another friend, which is awesome to hear as an aspiring non-human shapeshifting critter!! Seriously, I'm so thrilled that you guys see it, too!! My gender euphoria levels shot THROUGH THE ROOF when you told me that...!!!

YOUR COMPLIMENTS ON MY PHOTO TOO... *SNIFF*... 😭🫂💖 I really love how my glasses look on me!! Last time I went to the optometrist, I tried to pick frames that I felt suited me, and that happened to take me into the men's section!! My mom was a bit confused by it, but those frames spoke to me right away 🥰 I didn't care that they were supposed to be frames for prescription sunglasses!! Besides, my lenses tint in the sunlight anyway so 😎✨️✨️✨️

I saw the tags you left on my art comm too, and I SO AGREE WITH YOU. I TOTALLY GET IT. I have a ton of Rockstar gifs and screenshots saved to a folder, and I adore the shit outta them all, but... ever since I discovered my guy's gender identity, if he doesn't have scruffy facial hair or a fuzzy chest patch, or those soft, hairy limbs... or his precious top surgery scars that he's so proud of?? He feels kinda like a different Cookie to me LOL

Basically, if he ain't hairy, transmasc or genderfluid, then he ain't my husband 😌💖✨️✨️ I think my version of him really suits the voice he has in C.R.K too!! A rough, rugged old man with passion and energy to spare, but who's finally starting to settle down a bit, too... he's not quitting the rock scene, not by a long shot - but he is a bit more inclined to blow things off and disappear if Java needs him (or if he misses them enough ☺️💖). He's an absolute menace in such a playful way, and I'm so attached to him, honestly... my handsome rock beauty 🥰💖💖💖💖

AAAAAAAAAAANYWAYS. This has been my involuntary Rockstar Supremacy ted talk!! Thank you for attending since you had no choice 🤣 /lh

And as always, I appreciate your tags and comments on my stuff!! I get so happy and flappy when I see that you rbed my stuff cuz I get to read all your awesome thoughts, hehe 🤗✨️

♡• @rockstars-babe •♡

NO IT'S SO REAL THO!!!! i pogged when i saw your face next to java's akjsndfkjnsf like?????? oh they're LITERALLY just reffie ok ok ok LMAO. and i can definitely see you in amber too!!!! idk i just feel like your s/is fit you so clearly despite having such drastically different designs, it's Wild!!!

god, i really need to take that approach when i start looking into getting new frames sometime soon ;;; that's such a nice way of thinking about it. like. if you're going to put that much investment into something you're expecting to wear for a number of years straight, may as well get some that are cool as shit KJNDFKJN and have the most comfortable vibes, gender be damned.

it's so odd, bc i've mostly known rockstar through you, and 90% of the time it's been CRK rockstar... but as soon as you really 'discovered' him, it's like a switch flipped ksjndf. it just fits him so well!! and i'd especially trust that view from someone who knows as much about him as you clearly do, from all of your talk about the new game >:)

and the voice thing!!!!! that's so odd too!!!!! when i was doing that "give me a series and i'll find an f/o" ask game, i listened to a couple of his voice lines for curiosity's sake. and his voice was like... it felt like it could grow on me, but his visual image and his voice were just a little... out of sync? if that makes sense? they weren't quite lining up w each other. but as SOON as you posed the topless comm of him i was like :0 OH. THIS IS WHO THAT VOICE BELONGS TO. JKNASFKJN.

i love reading your gushes about him; you have SUCH passion for him and for everyone who makes up your cookie family with and around him. 😭 it's why i like to really consider what i say in the tags; i want to match that energy! and it's why i look forward to when YOU rb stuff!!! you put just as much passion into appreciating everyone else's ships!! you just have so much passion in general and it's something i admire about you 🥺🥺🥺

(though i would 100% be behind if you decided to not pressure yourself so much KJNSDKFJN ;; you're dealing with so much outside of selfshipping, and you should feel able to come on here and Just Chill without feeling like you have to put 200% effort into replies and tags ;w; )

[traanarchist]

Review of The Best™ Car Seat Headrest Album, How to Leave Town

As a certified Car Seat Headrest Homosexual™, I am contractually obligated to have at least one hot take of my own to add to the pile that is CSH Discourse. Luckily for you, it's not only correct, but also pretty chill compared to some others I've seen in the abyss that is r/CSHFans.

As somebody who isn't a huge fan of the numbered albums (The first four albums Will made), I split up CSH's discography into two parts when thinking about it as a whole: the big (in both size and scope) albums, and the smaller ones. I consider Twin Fantasy (Both Versions), Monomania, How to Leave Town, Teens of Denial, and Making A Door Less Open to be the 5 "big albums". I don't declare this with any authority, just that I find it easier to think of these 5 as the more focused and more album-y albums than something like Nervous Young Men or My Back Is Killing Me Baby.

Anyways, the reason I say all this is to say that, of the 5 "big albums", my favorite is How To Leave Town, which I feel like is one of the more underappreciated albums of his discography, and especially out of those 5. Why is that?

The Vibes

As with most Ephemeral things, be it gender, sexuality, or the fiction ideas you get while stoned out of your mind at 1 AM, vibes are very hard to explain. For me, How To Leave Town just has an energy about it. It's dark and melancholic but also bittersweet, depressing but hopeful. It carries the ambivalence that I get when I'm sitting on my bed, just thinking, and I suddenly feel my perspective switch and suddenly look at a part of my life in a completely different direction. When I listen to the 5 Minute Long instrumental intro to the first song on How To Leave Town, The Ending of Dramamine, I start to feel this weird pulsing feeling in my chest, like the onset of an anxiety attack, but not in a bad way. It's not that I feel sad or happy or any emotion, it's that I just feel. And that's really cool. Am I reading too much into my own reaction to some weird electronic beats? Yup, but it's very based pog of me to do so.

The Lyrics

Will is a goat lyricist, and I feel like he represents that nowhere more so than in How To Leave Town. The Ending of Dramamine has my favorite verse pretty much ever:

And in the sky, there is a place Where it's warm, and you're there And I've got the power now Yeah, I know what to do To make you feel something besides pain 'Cause it's the love That we've come to expect, to deserve And then we fuck and it's nice It's not a complicated mess And my back doesn't hurt And your head doesn't tell you to kill yourself So we smile and embrace Until we don't know who we are

Like this is a major mood ngl. Will is able to build a story of leaving home and being in this place of extreme change and how that makes you question everything around you, not through plot points but through lyrics that create that emotional response.

You can drive across the whole thing in four days if you really wanted leaving custom thank you notes in all the houses you ever haunted

in this whole solar system we've only met one type of life it's the living kind of life and it's not one I recognize

Of course, change isn't always bad! In You're in Love with Me, How to Leave Town gets a fully happy song, where Will happily sings about falling in love, as well as when he had a dream where Obama came to his birthday party. It's weird and silly and sweet and I love it so much.

The Instrumentals

I'm not a musician, and I don't know shit about music theory, I just sing and listen to a lot of music. However, even I can tell that man oh man, the synths in this album slap, along with all the other instrumental work. Can I say anything beyond that it's really good? Nope!

The Conclusion

I'm planning on using this blog (when I'm not reblogging Homestuck Fanart) to just post little essay thingies like this on albums I really like. Please add any albums you think I might like in the tags/comments (do people use comments on tumblr? I'm very new to this) or just send me an ask and I'll post some tiny thoughts about it if I get the time to listen to it! Anyways that's it peace out gamers

[prisonpodcast]

hello hi :) hope you're alright :)))

sorry for doing this the second time in a row but what happened again my timezone is terrible for these things :(((

Oh geez okay it’s a lot so ima be brief with the details lmao. Sorry if this is kinda incoherent I’m very sleepy, but I’m alright thank you :3

So Quackity announces he’s adding live translation ai (exact same thing Dream just announced yesterday) to the qsmp saying it’s the first multilingual server with that mod which prompted a copypasta that’s like “I’m stating the [blank]SMP, the very first multilingual smp to have live translation AI” that even George and sapnap and some Spanish ccs were getting in on. The clowning is because dream announced an smp with this mod just yesterday and so q’s announcement (without any acknowledgment of Dream whatsoever) felt a bit weird

So thennn George went live on HIS new smp called the slutsmp (💀) which was basically a crack server where they goofed around and made slight digs at various controversies and QSMP. That server included a lot of dsmp members (+ sylvee) because George pinged that discord to get people online. The stream was really vibey and fun I highly recommend it for early dsmp vibes

AND THEN Ranboo made a tumblr post praising and congratulating quakcity for his stuff he’s been doing recently, which angered a lot of dtblr bc Dream has been doing those same things quackity has, and yet not a peep from Ranboo about how awesome and cool dream is.

And so the tags of ranboos post had a lot of hate and death threats from dtblr (not pog it just makes us look bad) and some big twitter boober put it on twitter and it got a lot of attention, and so Dream told his fans off for sending hate on his behalf on his priv

And me personally, I was mad because that boober is the same asshole who told all their 20k followers to harass techno in 2021 which lead to him being bullied off the platform so I kinda hope they explode but that’s unrelated to everything else.

Someone correct me if I spread misinformation or I missed something I’m very sleepy 👍👍

[wizardofgoodfortune]

about me

tagged by @mathomhouse-e @wordsinhaled @immacaria. thank you <3

nickname: alex. if youve ever felt shy about using my name or referring to me by my name, dont be. i much prefer it, tho wizard is fine too <3

sign: aquarius sun and uhhhh *looks at notes* virgo moon and capricorn rising. @ghostboyjules told me that was a good thing bc they "keep my aqua sun grounded"

height: 5'1" when the nurse is feeling generous

last thing i googled: "everything everywhere all at once" just bc i needed to be sure that was the title and not "everywhere everything all at once" LMFAO

song stuck in my head: the promise by when in rome. ive put it in my 1989 dreamling playlist a while back and it hasn't left my head since

amount of sleep: last night was 7 hrs only, but usually its 8+ if i can

dream job: writing for a video game like dragon age

wearing: oversized uni shirt. to be clear i did not go to this particular uni, just got it as a gift somehow ? i forgor 💀

movies/books that summarize me: none bc i contain multitudes wtf 🤨 and because of that i should probably say everything everywhere all at once LOL

favorite song: it changes by the day. buuuut right now i'd say it's bizarre love triangle by new world order (another entry in the 1989 playlist)

aesthetic: give me that whimsigoth shit BUT in pastel pink. oh yeah thats my jam

favorite authors: hmmm. off the top of my head, pseudonymous bosch from my childhood, then rainbow rowell, and most recently neil gaiman! do poets count? e.e. cummings.

random fun fact: i fucking love video games and have been pretty much in the trenches with "gamers" (please do not use this term to describe me i will perish on the spot) the past few years i've been off tumblr so if you catch me saying smth like "pog" know that i'm saying it unironically. sorry. i have like. 1400+ hrs on overwatch. so thats not counting all the other games ive played. i always (sadly) joke with my friends that if i actually spent all that time learning a new language i would be fluent by now. but its ok i mostly spent it with friends so ive made my peace with it!

with all that said... tagging: @ghostboyjules @rooftopwreck @caitlyn-kirammans @milkydonut @teejaystumbles @xx-vergil-xx @thefuzzhead @rainy-days-and-nights @msmongoose @honeyteacakes @transedwizard and whoever else wants to do it!

[epic-and-kitty]

9 people I'd like to know better

Tagged by - @theladyjssem

Last song I listened to - Fallout Boy's new cover of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire

Mom and I went out today and we were listening to her Billy Joel album and I mentioned seeing that Fallout Boy did an updated cover, so once we got home we listened to both the original and new one. Personally I prefer the original song, it's just so classic but the new one has a much more rocky beat which I enjoy!

Currently watching - Uhhhhhh, I haven't watched TV in awhile, but I have been watching a hell of a lot of Splatoon content. ProChara and Vicvillon are my two most common splatubers that I watch. As for a series, I'm behind as hell but I am watching Chuggaaconroy's Black 2/White 2 playthrough when I get the spoons to. Also recently rewatched most of his Splatoon 2 playthrough

his Black 2/White 2 playthrough

his Splatoon 2 playthrough (fun fact this let's play started on my birthday!)

(also hell yeah another Aavak fan 👋)

Currently reading - I am trying my best to read Coroika (the Splatoon manga), I adore the characters and their designs but the humor is....well, it's definitely different. There are some genuinely funny moments from what little I've read (currently I've only read volume 1) but there's one running gag that I and most of the rest of the fandom despises.

The pantsing joke 🤢

Thankfully I've been told they cool that joke in later chapters. I am excited to get to Emperor's arc tho, I heard it really gets good then.

Also read a Coroika fic recently called That Face in the Mirror by 1nceuponadream which is very good and very full of spoilers

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46001056

Oh, and before I forget, I recently finished the latest chapter of A New Home by @simp999 , which is a reader Isekai where the reader gets transported into the Coroika manga. It's very well written and I am very patiently waiting for the next chapter when ever it is. If you're interested in the manga I highly suggest it!

Now for the tags (don't feel obligated, this is just for fun!)

@itsmaddienow @yourlocalsanitizedoctoling @stirfrynoodles @smallsleepyoarfish @paper-and-stardust @lemememeringue @estrogen-eater @kirbywaheela @vicvillon

[tommyssupercoolblog]

omg u missed so much,,,

WORDS

rizz - charisma

pog/poggers - positive adjetive. can also be used as a thing you say in excitement, like "yipee!!!!".

pogchamp - same as above, but also a noun.

"coded"- used to say that something is implicitly or "between the lines" implied to be something else. a character that is "child coded" then would be a character that in universe is a canonical adult, but reads as a child due to appearance or behaviour. unfortunately this is usually used to harass people, because "if you ship these two characters you're supporting IRL incest because these characters have the same hair colour and are sibling coded, and the only reason you'd ship them is because you're an IRL incest-comitting person." sighhh

Based - two defenitions here. 1. True 2. Valid, understandable, etc

culture stuff

FNAF has a movie now

THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND FUCKING DIED

Destiel became canon when Castiel confessed his love only to immediately be sent to an in-universe super hell.

Good Omens, a show with currently two seasons, is top teir television, not gonna lie. The first season blew up in popularity, and the second season that dropped somewhat recently made all current fans cry. a third (final?) season is in the works.

a multiplayer minecraft roleplay series called "Dream SMP" blew up during the pandemic and the large fandom has made it the new homestuck of "oh fuck the fandom people are here eww cringe aaugh" Poppy Playtime, a horror game series, is massively popular despite being nowhere near finished

disney and pixar are failing to put out good movies now and sony is quickly giving them a run for their money with certified bangers (really good stuff).

Speaking of which, Puss In Boots 2 is the biggest fucking deal. Like, such a big deal. it sounds crazy but believe me.

Also, SPIDERVERSE. The first two films in a trilogy about Spiderman Miles Morales have been released and are....god, so good. They're basically the biggest movies in the world right now?? definitely watch those if you can.

There was a thing called Barbenhiemer where The Barbie Movie (a colorful semi-musical live action movie about barbie) and Oppenheimer (a gritty drama about the nucular bomb) were released at the same time and everyone inexplicably drew crossover fanart and saw them both back to back on the same day.

There's a new Avatar (the blue alien one set in pandora) movie.

Everything is "core" now, which...okay so basically you know how different "aesthetics" (things like colors, clothing styles, filters on photographs, movies, music, even places or hobbies) have certain vibes? like something might feel edgy or cozy? well now people are seperating those out into Aesthetics or Cores. I think the best way to understand this is to either use the aesthetic wiki or look up the big three- Cottagecore, Dark Academia, Kidcore- and browse each tag on it's own for a while to get a feeling for what they're talking about.

Will Wood (sometimes Will Wood And The Tapeworms), a Dark Cabaret music artist, became an icon for neurodivergent gays semi-against his will (he didn't want to be typecast as only music for one group of people) and is now deliberately releasing music that's outside of his usual style now and then to try and break association.

Twitter was bought by elon musk who renamed it X but no one is fucking calling it that because it's a stupid name.

SSSniperwolf, a reaction youtube channel, showed up outside Jacksfilms house after he critisized her content model and tried to lure him outside with a food delivery order...supposedly, she says, to "talk". She posted a photo of his house as well.

E3 (the game awards show) died. no more E3 ever again.

There's also been a lot of violence, war (both civil and normal war), and transphobia going on, but a quick glance at the news should tell you that,,,

AI art, photos, chatbots, videos, etc are here and sometimes convincing enough to end up on the actual news, and companies and movie studios are starting to use it to do the creative work for them instead of paying real people. there's been writers' strikes over this. these AI are also stealing samples from the web without permission- fanfic sites like ao3, tumblr artist blogs, etc all being scanned and condensed as data for the machine. This is generally considered theft among artists, because we didn't give permission for our creative works to be stolen, and it's very upsetting overall!!!!!

I HOPE THIS COVERS EVERYTHING. dances

So apparently it's not 2018.....

Hi I just got out of dormancy(?)

I was gone ever since 2018

Anyone wanna catch me up on internet culture??

Mark is helping me catch up on personal life stuff but wtf is a rizz

[labelleizzy]

Oh, Fish, *I* know why that lady is upset someone bought it for their 5 year old kid, she's going to be paying for therapy in ten or so years when the kid can actually READ Watership Down...

Post a selfie:

Here's two!

Music I'm listening to (or current earworm)

https://open.spotify.com/track/3hPxeqVispRkA8yWOjAcYJ?si=FBtlywbATvmhvVfLOdRNcA

Last movie/show I watched:

Movie: Nimona!!!

Show: Centaurworld!!!

Current/go-to ~fancy~ drink:

Fresh soda water with freshly squeezed lime

Or soda water with a splash of POG (passion fruit, orange, guava juice, hard to find in the US, I tried it first on vacation in Bonaire years ago)

Favorite color:

💙 blue 💙 but really all of them 🌈

Currently reading:

This incredible Stranger things fic

And

(image ID: Jailbreaking The Goddess by Lasara Firefox Allen, subtitle A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality)

What's to my left:

I took a photo when I read this meme, so now people know about my shameful reading habits *hangs head in shame shame shame*

Anything exciting?

Just came back from a week long dance retreat and it feels like I used to be a dirty washrag that dried crusty but the workshop washed me clean and then carefully pinned me to dry on the line in gentle warm breezes. I'm a whole new human!!!

Progress on our home-built campervan! And we started collecting a list of California destinations for when the van is actually complete!

Homemade cookies in the immediate future, as our friend wants to come over and make molasses crinkle cookies! I'm about to heat leftover casserole for dinner and then I can have a nice mellow social evening!

Thanks for the game, @fishthegenderwitch! Tagging folks, but only if you want to:

@wrathofthestag @loveinhawkins @kedreeva @denois @jenroses (honorable mention goes to @xiaq because she's also on this list of folks whose fics are my antidepressants, but she's also diy-ing her own wedding 💍 {pray for her})

Have fun!

Tagged by @endreal in a fun reblog game so here we go!

* Post a selfie

* Music you're listening to and/or current earworm

* Last movie/show you watched

I started rewatching LEVERAGE. I'm starting halfway so that when I get to Redemption it'll be more exciting. It's full love of the show plus procrastination; once I move my PC over to the new place it'll be very boring and TV-free here for awhile lol

* Current go-to ~ fancy drink ~

Peach Passion Five Alive with Sprite. 😃

(Also sometimes add peach schnapps.)

* Fave colour

Green, because I love green, but same as @endreal, the colours of a dragonfly's wings have always been my favorite combo 💜💚💙

* Currently reading

The Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher, Eva by Peter Dickinson, and Watership Down by Richard Adams (bc I've never read it so I don't know why a friend's boss was upset a woman bought it for her 5 year old. )

* What's to your left?

THIS GUY!

* Anything exciting?

I'm going to my new place today to sand the wall patches, and paint! My bedroom will be Natural Light by the afternoon! Then I can start moving things over in earnest, because I can decorate as I go. Eeeeee

* I tag @labelleizzy, @beescream, @goosenoises , @clairebearhug, @tittyfuckingamermaid , @maeamian , and @zeatee, but no obligation, only if you want to do this too 💜

[viola-canadensis]

oh pog i like music

i dont use spotify and i also dont really like playlists or shuffling things so im just gonna pick 10 albums from 10 different bands ive listened to recently which is not the game but also is more representative of my music taste and personality which i think is somewhat the point of the game

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel

Only God Can Judge Me and More by AJJ

Love Run by The Amazing Devil

Ants From Up There by Black Country, New Road

LIFTED by Bright Eyes

the first glass beach album by glass beach

Beat the Champ by The Mountain Goats

Ursa Minor by Nana Grizol

Live the Dream by Ramshackle Glory

Young Mountain by This Will Destroy You

tagging people is still scary mutuals feel free to do this if u want :3

tag game rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag some people 🎶

Alright ya chumps, here's what I've been listening to:

Crazy Noisy Bizarre Town - Jonathan Young, insaneintherain

Uneven - Dawin

Runaway (Remastered) - Jamiroquai

Rockstar - Nickelback

Gott Mit Uns (English Version) - Sabaton

Space Cowboy - Jamiroquai

Check the Rhime - A Tribe Called Quest

Surrender - Cheap Trick

Listen to the Music - The Doobie Brothers

It Just Works - The Chalkeaters

And to tag a few people:

@bedcheetos @axziom13 @machinegunbukkake @wahooninja @catboybiologist @idonotpostonline @sucreholic @cthulhu3141 @w4nderingdreamer @schermit @butterscotch-ripple @halleylgbtqma

[antimony-medusa]

Oh man people have been writing GREAT things in the comments, time to discuss.

Yeah @alovelymoonbeam for me personally I think I am at capacity for family dynamic hitting the same notes, but a) I don't want to say that it's BAD or that you shouldn't like it. Family dynamic is cool and if it's still your preferred type of fic after several years in the fandom that is poggers. My strongest feeling is that a healthy fandom has something in it for everybody, which also includes gen fic. If you don't want to read romance, I think you should have that option. I also am personally interested in stuff that queers the boundary between romantic and platonic, which this fandom's emphasis on platonic relationships has allowed to happen (amid the cancellations, looking at you twitter), which is super cool. If you still want to stick with family dynamic, that's cool. b) There's new family dynamic on QSMP and I find myself having a great time with the egg families. Even sometimes just mixing up the age of the kids can refresh it. So like, I don't want to come off as going FAMILY DYNAMIC IS MID AND IF YOU LIKE IT YOU SUCK even if at my point I'm filtering out platonic relationships when I search fics. If it works for you, that's pog.

Okay yeah @arctasy I meant to hit this point and totally forgot it. Seeing characters bent into unrecognizable shapes so that they fit the romance tropes is an honourable tradition for fanfic, and also if you really want the actual characters is AHHHHHHH I AM EATING THIS COFFEE TABLE IN A RAGE. And at this point I should mention that I'm also aroace, and have wandered away from many books and stories cause the romance felt too compulsory. I am really pro platonic relationships and non-traditional relationship dynamics. But I think at this point like, seeing some of the stuff in the family dynamics tags, and it's absolutely fine that characterization has kinda shifted, but also the exact same warping dynamics to fit a role is also happening, just to fit within family dynamics. Like, people want a super fluffy family story, but the characters wouldn't quite fit, so they just adjust the characters. And that's like, an honourable tradition of fanfiction, but again, if the draw for you is the canon characters in the first place, that can get a bit tiring? And then we mix it up and up shiping TNTduo or something. :D

Yeah @elbowreveal, I also have been mostly operating on Recs. People who cruse tags are god's strongest soldiers. And yeah I agree that a lot of the time FD is neither canon or RPF but a secret third thing, and it's fine, but sometimes I look at what has calcified into the fanon and I make pleading eyes and I go "but my GUY". They don't even write Phil as a murder bird! It's fine, I just have my trusted list of authors who lean on the parts of the character I like, and everybody else can do their thing, and we all flash thumbs up at each other across the library.

This is a very half-formed thought but just. Hmmm. Okay so in DSMP fandom we talk a fair amount at how excellent it is that we focus in on platonic relationships a lot of the time (though that's shifting with the rise of TNTduo). And you get the idea that romance is sort of bad, which I don't have time for as a stance, or that it's reductive to reduce people down to only their romantic relationships. And that is very valid.

People operate as part of part of a complex web of relationships, and most of the relationships in your life are not going to be romantic. If you boil someone down to only their romantic relationship, that's no good, and if it was in real life it'd be unhealthy if you only had one solid relationship (romantic) in your life. It's a shallow depiction of life to boil someone down to only their romance, and this even gets more so if you're talking about erotic writing and how people get reduced down to roles like "top" or "bottom", etc.

And if all you're seeing is shallow romantic writing, I can see how that gets really old. However, the thing that's been driving me up the wall is that if all you're seeing is shallow platonic writing, that is no more reflective of the diversity of the human condition. Like SBI is the big platonic relationship in the fandom, and in it my guys are Phil and Techno. And they're the relationship in that quartet who tends to get the short end of the stick, and so they get reduced down to "dad" or "older brother" a lot of the time. So much of the time. Most of the time. Their character gets entirely reduced down to who they are in service of someone else's arc.

Which is exactly what people complain about in romance, it's just with no kissing.

And sometimes it's like, the point of the work is not to give everyone on the field a full and rich depiction, because this is a 5k one-shot, and and there are 38 people in the DSMP, I'm picking one character to focus on and everybody else is in service to that character. That's fine and that's just how writing works.

But thinking about fandom trends more broadly, and the character trends— phil is "dad", techno is "older brother" or sometimes "dad", niki is "girl next door/baker", tubbo is "supportive quirky best friend"— half the time it's tagged crimeboys but even wilbur is just operating as "big brother/dad", just with more screen time. You have all these characters who have one role only, ever, over and over again. And that is no more groundbreaking or innovative or reflective of the human condition than a romance-focused fandom is, it's just that everybody's clothes stay on.

And like, I love Gen, Gen is what I love to write, but it's not inherently better at reflecting humanity, not unless you work at it. All types of relationships are hard to write and complex, romance is just another type of relationship. So I don't quite get the hatred for romance as a worse type of writing/relationship to focus on.