#okay this is half a shitpost and half me actually legitimately wanting to know

[just-jessiejames]

Okay fr though, all of us are super fixated on Will and Mike. El and Max. Vecnussy, light theoy and the different gate theories and of course s5, but the real mystery is what we've all collectively forgotten along the way. What in the upsidedown did Erica find under Lucas' bed??

Look at his face!! look at him!

What did Erica find under Lucas' bed that was so terrifying a concept that Lucas didn't want it to see the light of day and told to his friends?? and what was so awful that his little sister was able to basically blackmail him into spilling his secrets like immediately? keeps me up at night man what was UNDER HIS BED Lucas what eldritch horrors do you have hidden under your mattress bro Come on guys, give me your theories I MUST KNOW Like yeah it could be like- skinmags or something but, doesn't every teenage boy do that? that's not worthy of this kind of reaction is it? or do teenage boys usually get embarrassed/worried about that sort of stuff to the point they don't want their friends to know

[ash-mcj]

Thank you for the tag @greyhavenisback

1 - Why did you choose your url?

It’s literally just my name lol (and also my AO3 handle)

2 - Any side blogs?

Yep! I run an event for Chris Argent/Peter Hale (@petopher-events) and also an incorrect quotes page with my pack (@hale-pack-incorrect-quotes)

3 - How long have you been on Tumblr

9 months :)

4 - Do you have a queue tag?

No, because I don’t really see the point? I don’t understand why people do it...

5 - Why did you start your blog in the first place?

My series “Derek’s Person” started getting kinda popular (in comparison to my other fics) and I wanted a way to connect to my readers outside of the comment section. I also wanted to promote my fics.

6 - Why did you choose your icon/pfp

It’s just a picrew thing of me

7 - Why did you choose your header?

So people would know that I’m primarily a Teen Wolf blog... but it’ll change soon, because I hate my half-assed header.

8 - What’s your post with the most notes?

I think it’s this Sterek art I drew, but I could be wrong.

9 - How man mutuals do you have?

22

10 - How many followers do you have?

485

11 - How many people do you follow?

110

12 - Have you ever made a shitpost?

I still don’t really understand what this means tbh.

13 - How often do you use Tumblr each day?

A lot... it’s my only active social media, so every time I get a notification, I’m opening the app.

14 - Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once?

Ehh, awhile back I got into a thing with an aggressive Scott lover - but it was super brief.’

15 - How do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts?

I think it’s fucked that people feel the need to guilt trip/manipulate others into reblogging. If your content is important and resonates with people, then they will reblog it. It honestly means nothing if they just reblog it because they feel pressured. I don’t usually reblog unless I deem the information actually important enough to ignore how annoying the demand was.

16 - Do you like tag games?

I love them!! Please tag me, you guys!! We don’t even need to be mutuals. If you happen to think of me, I would love to be tagged.

17 - Do you like ask games?

Yes, but people rarely ask unless it’s a character study or prompt thing (but that’s okay, because I love those)

18 - Which of your mutuals do you think is Tumblr famous?

There are a few, but it feels weird to just say them... like, what if I offend others by not saying them? Idk - I’m skipping this.

19 - Do you have a crush on a mutual?

Not legitimately... my heart belongs to the asshole currently taking up my whole bed and stealing all the blankets. But I totally get writer/art boners over some of my mutuals’ talents. Some people can really just write or draw and make me instantly explode inside.

why the fuck are there only 19 questions?? OP couldn’t have made one more?? oh nooo I hate it. alright. well. i’ll just tag @nutellarghh @fairytales-and-folklore @tails89 @edge0fmydesiree

[radramblog]

Top ten digits

This is an idea I’ve had in my back pocket since back when I rated all the letters of the alphabet. That was a while ago, fuck! Back then I was in the mood for shitposting, but today, we’re all about perfectly serious legitimate analytical content.

Anyway we’re going to rate the numbers from zero to nine. As it turns out, this is a lot harder, because somehow numbers have even less personality than the letters of the alphabet, but I hope you can trust in my opinions.

Number 10: 8

I think I dislike the number eight for the same reason I dislike Thursdays. In that it’s completely arbitrary and I don’t actually know what sourced my dislike. Maybe it’s because it’s one of the harder times tables to memorize as a child. Maybe it’s because it’s really hard to get it to look nice with my shitty handwriting. I don’t really know, frankly.

But because 8 is infinity, it has to go as infinitely low on this list as possible. But also as infinitely high. Fortunately, though, this is my list and my rules, so I can contain it only to the bottom of the list.

Number 9: 6

6 is a number clearly filled with demon magic. Both the commonly accepted numbers of the beast have a plethora of sixes, it’s one half of the filthiest number imaginable, and it’s simply a massive pain in the ass to handwrite on labels since you have to distinguish it from 9 somehow.

As a result, I am required to put 6 low on the list to cater to the more conservative members of my audience. I think it’s best to adapt my content for any potential viewer, regardless of whether or not they align with my political or religious beliefs, and as such it’s best if 6 stays relatively low. Now any evangelicals can rest safe in the knowledge that I’m clearly not a Satanist- assuming, of course, they made it past my constant swearing.

Number 8: 0

0 is the void. It is a circular representation of nothing. A donut of the absence of value. This is perfectly okay.

However, the field of mathematics is determined to make this perfectly crafted null pointer have actual meaning. They put it before things, behind things, between things, and they do it the greatest disservice of all: putting a slash through it to distinguish it from an O. The nerve!

I am determined to make the oblivion bagel nothing again, such that it can reclaim its rightful place as the nadir digit. Nadigit. Until then, it will have to remain near the bottom of the list. And I will keep using fun words for “nothing”.

Number 7: 7

7 is associated with luck, which would be fine enough, if that particular facet of its existence weren’t marred by its further association with casinos. For the unaware, I despise casinos and generally just really don’t like gambling in general, and so those triple-7 slot machines bring the number itself under my most withering of gazes.

It’s also just a huge pain for maths. Like, I’m sure the list of prime numbers would be a lot nicer and cleaner if 7 didn’t exist and randomly poke holes in the thing. It’s a frustrating number that looks cool but makes things so much harder.

Number 6: 4

Much like with 6, I can’t put 4 too high for cultural reasons. Four Is Death due to a similarity in how the two words are pronounced in a fair few east Asian languages, and I don’t want to curse this list with that one. I distinctly remember the condo building I lived in some 14 (!!!) years ago having a floor 3A and a floor 13A specifically for this reason- which is interesting, because I know some other places also omitted 13 for its own associations. I don’t think they did 12A and 12B, I think they just skipped straight to 15.

Which is kind of a shame, because aside from that association it’s a pretty good digit. It has a couple of different common shapes that are equally valuable and distinct, it’s a great number for groups of people for both group dynamics and for playing video/board/tabletop games, and it has Good Math Synergy. But it’s not good enough for higher up on the list.

Number 5: 1

One is in the middle of the list because it is every number. It is the alpha to which we have no omega because numbers are weird. This means it carries every negative association of every single number, and yet also every other positive association at the same time. Does the weight of their blessings outweigh their sins? That will be a judgment I leave to you, dear reader.

Number 3a: 9

Nine is fun! Who doesn’t like nine. If eight’s the Thursday of numbers, nine’s the Friday. It’s the fun version that you like to have at parties. It’s the one you see a lot because it’s almost the next level up- like how things always sell for x dollars and 95 cents (or 99 cents if you’re in some weirdo country that still has pennies or local equivalent) or how people just use loads of them to communicate something being really big.

9 is as large as you can get within a single digit. And as an absolute unit myself, I feel a kinship with it.

Number 3: 2

Two is like one but only half the time, which is kind of ironic when you think about it. 2 is interesting, because its so fundamental to maths that it makes things very clean and easy, and yet not so fundamental as to be useless sometimes like with one. Who wants one of something? If two’s an option, fuck me up.

Two gets a lot of value from being where it is. It’s the first prime number (because people are monsters), it’s the first even number, it’s the first number that can actually do something when multiplied. All because it’s the second number. That’s big dick energy! Silver’s always been better than gold anyway.

Number 2: 5

5 is inherently advantaged as a result of our base-10 number system. That is, it’s half of everything which makes its maths really useful and also really clean. Adding 5s is only going to end you up with two ending digits, so it’s easy. You can multiply by 5 by just doing by 10 (which is obviously piss-easy) and halving it. 5 is fuckin easy mode, and I can respect that.

I think the entire reason we have 5 as so important is because we got 5 fingers. Like, surely, right? The reason everyone was like, yep, 10 sounds like a good baseline, is because that’s when they ran out of fingers to count on?

God why did I put this number here I don’t even remember I just like 5 let me have this one

Number 1: 3

There’s human psychology thing that I know I’ve seen from a reputable source but I cannot find now, where people just like number three for some reason. Give average John a list of random things from 1 to 4 and he’s probably picking three. Man, fuck average John, he’s an asshole.

I am the average John. He’s me.

[ravensroleplays]

Okay so...couple things.

1. I should probably say this on my main blog, but sorry about being so pushy with the doodle thing, it’s just kind of...WEIRD to me that people have been liking and reblogging a random shitpost I made just for the heck of it (and one I didn’t even really intend, or expect, to be reblogged), yet when I actually do some art, it gets nothing but silence. Yeah, like I said, it isn’t something I like put a TON of effort into, it’s just a doodle, but with everything else that’s been going on, and how I’ve been feeling lately, the fact that it’s gotten like NO attention, despite me posting, and reposting it, over and over, has legitimately just been making me feel even worse.

2. I’ve been looking back at some old roleplays I’ve done in the past, and noticed two things:

i) I’ve been REALLY inconsistent with the kids’ situation in the ‘Little Bit Beastly’ Verse/sub-AU for my FNAF AU. In my past roleplays, I kind of keep going back and forth between having them being brought back from the dead, just with the features of their old animatronics, and just having them be born like that. I did, admittedly, get the idea from a FNAF fanfic I read way back when, but yeah, looking at it, it may be a bit too similar to that idea. So I’m just going have them be ‘normal’ half-animal (and puppet) kids now in that version. I mean why not--I frequently roleplay with a little cat girl.

ii) I...decided to kind of go back, and delete some old RPs/posts I did in the past involving...a certain topic I’m not comfortable with. I admittedly feel kind of guilty about it, given that pretty much all of them are with one of my oldest and dearest roleplay partners, heck, THE VERY FIRST ROLEPLAY I DID ON THIS BLOG was with them, and involved that certain topic...especially given something that’s come out about said mutual fairly recently. I’m really, REALLY sorry, it’s nothing against you, I’m just...not in a good place right now.

I just want everyone reading this to know that I still love and care for you guys--if we’ve ever roleplayed before in the past, even once, I consider you not just a mutual, but a friend. Please know that I would never deliberately do anything to hurt anyone I care about, I just really haven’t been doing well, and for right now, even if I can’t do anything else to help my current situation, I at least want to look after my mental health, the best I can.

I might delete this later, just had to get all this off my chest.

[unopenablebox]

idionkisson replied to your post: who wants to rec me relaxing/distracting things to...

ANYTHING i read rewires my brain, that’s just like. literally what reading is to me. it’s like a magic charm that wears off after only a little while, and the only way i can back to it is to read more of whatever the thing in question is…i have no idea if this makes ANY sense, it’s super hard for me to articulate bc it’s so innate

garden-ghoul said: 

ugh what DOESN’T completely rewire my brain. I literally can’t even listen to music 95% of the time for this reason. the one thing I read specifically to rewire my brain is “If I” by psilent on ao3, which is a story about rocket raccoon escaping from a torture facility and trying to make a life as a guy with OCD. it’s very cathartic for me because of the progression from terrible to okay when I was younger I’d read YA books and especially if they were written in first person I would spend like half a day legitimately thinking I was the protagonist? I think this is a DID thing

yeah i get very-- i think of it as an altered state of consciousness almost, it’s more dramatic than being drunk and... ok probably not actively more of a change than being full acute sleep deprivation depressed, but i notice it more bc it’s a non-habitual thing/has an obvious external source.

at its most dramatic i feel like i’m both talking differently and processing emotion differently; i associate it with being almost manic/euphoric, funny in even weirder and more high-concept ways than i usually am, and sometimes with phrasing emotional and social concepts in a technical/unecessarily sciencey way if what i was reading leant itself to that. these are all states i can kind of access/behaviors i have regardless, but it feels qualitatively different and is clearly induced by what i was reading. i usually really enjoy it, though sometimes it totally rearranges my priorities in ways that-- don’t usually have significant repercussions, but certainly can be inconvenient if i’ve just rewritten myself to be very strongly into manic makeup experiments and sweeping statements about the structure of reality, and what i need is to finish my dev bio assignment.

mostly it happens to me with fiction, especially fiction with a really strong, distinct, unusual diction, especially funny/witty diction. it’s happened with nonfiction pieces, more rarely, partly because standard science writing is a mode of thinking i have to engage anyway and so it doesn’t feel distinct i think in the way . it happens with long backreads of people’s blogs pretty frequently, which is actually my easiest go-to if i want to create specific aesthetic/subject-matter interests in myself: i have a mental list of people whose blogs to backread if what i want is “very funny, smart about character-driven fiction” vs “significant introspective access and high-vulnerability lyricism” vs “highest-integrity art opinions and mean jokes” vs “quantitative interests and gender shitposting” vs... etc. it’s actually super useful, or would be if i didn’t occasionally derail myself from actually writing the thing i wanted to write (or whatever) because i got distracted by the thing i was reading to put my brain in the right mode.

relatedly, if you (general you, not just you two) see a chicago ip address reading 20-200 pages of your blog, it is very plausible that it is me, doing that. pls feel free to let me know if i should stop, i absolutely will. i try to limit myself to ppl who seem to have a more archival/backread-encouraging ethos anyway, but it’s possible i’ve misread someone’s blog intentions and if so i am genuinely sorry

[thejpfdude-blog]

The Week in Anime (Week of 3/26/18)

Herro everybody and welcome to a late version of TWiA! Sorry for the unannounced delay -- got a bit sick and focused more on rest. But I’m (somewhat) better now, just in time to talk about a few shows’ conclusions, including one which is early AOTY. So with that, let’s start it off right away with...

The News Corner:

So this time there’s actually something I can talk in pretty good detail about, and that’s:

Hitoribocchi no ○○ Seikatsu anime announced!

One of the few manga I’ve read (and enjoyed), this is basically a moe, less cringy version of WataMote. Basically it’s about a girl named Hitori Bocchi with severe social anxiety. She enters a new middle school without her only friend, who forces her to make 100 friends at said school. Cue the shenanigans.

Now I’ve read a handful of chapters of this one, and it’s a good ‘un. Obviously it’s #relatable, but it’s also pretty cute and very fluffy -- no drama here. Plus all of the characters’ names are puns: Hitori Bocchi -> hitoribocchi = alone as an example. Oh and it’s by the same mangaka as Mitsuboshi Colors, though I think this one is the better work in my biased opinion. Pretty excited for this one, maybe more than I should be.

K now rankings, featuring finished shows!

Rankings:

1 (0). Yuru Camp△ (9/10 FINAL) [12/12]

2 (0). Koi wa Ameagari no You ni (8.5/10) [11/12]

3 (+1). Violet Evergarden (8/10) [11/14]

4 (-1). Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan 2 (8/10) [10/24]

5 (0). Poputepipikku/Pop Team Epic (6/10 FINAL) [12/12]

6 (0). Takunomi. (6/10) [11/12]

7 (+1). Dagashi Kashi 2 (5.5/10) [11/12]

8 (-1). Gakuen Babysitters (5/10 FINAL) [12/12]

Awards:

Best Comfy: Yuru Camp

Let me start by saying this: the last episode of this was a bit underwhelming. Though that would be case when they continue off the previous episode, it didn’t really feel like a finale. I did like the throwback to the first episode with Nadeshiko/Kirby going to the same campsite Rin did in episode 1. It all goes full circle.

Now overall thoughts on the show. It was good. Actually more than good, it was probably one of the best airing shows I’ve ever seen. That’s not an exaggeration: ReLIFE is technically the highest-ranked show I watched while it was airing, but that doesn’t really count since all of the episodes came out at the same time. So the next man up is Yuru Camp, a show that I watched the moment I woke up on Thursdays, no matter how busy I was with life. Every episode was filled with maximum comfy, hilarious antics, and great Irish folk-inspired BGM. With the exception of one episode, it was consistent in animation/character design (which btw was great: I loved the design of every character). Not to mention the backgrounds of the campsites were A+. I could go on, but 1. I’m still a bit sick right now and 2. I’m gonna save the big details for the end-of-season award post.

So tl;dr, Yuru Camp is really really good. It’s not K-On where I recommend it to people who generally don’t watch SoL shows, but for those who want some comfy in your life or like CGDCT/SoL shows, I would highly highly recommend this. 9/10, a fantastic journey.

Worst Finale: Pop Team Epic

Wow that was something. Not really what I expected, but also entirely what I expected. As expected of the shitpost of the season.

So I guess this is the part where I analyze the show and talk about it, but to be honest, I don’t have much to say about it. There were some really amazing segments (freakin’ Hellshake Yano) and there were segments that flew over my head even after learning about what it parodied. Honestly, I’m impressed with the amount of work for what amounted to be such a huge shitpost. If there’s one thing I’m disappointed in it’s that they never used the “hambaga” joke, the one I’m sure a lot of people know given it’s usually the strip that introduces you to Pop Team Epic (I know it did for me). Still, I enjoyed watching the episodes twice, and at the end of the day it was a nice way to start off the weekends. So a good 6/10 overall: would reluctantly recommend.

Best Brother Complex: Gakuen Babysitters

Ah yes that was an episode. It was a nice ending to show the friendships and relationships that Ryuuichi makes throughout the season all in one place. Very fitting for the finale.

But now I have to talk about the #1 issue I had with the show. Actually scratch that, let me start with the positives -- it was very cute. The kids made for some fun times, and there were some legitimately tear-jerking episodes in the beginning parts in regards to Kotaru and Ryuuichi with their situation.

Towards the second half of the show, though, is when I realized something. And that’s that Ryuuichi is a pretty bad character. He’s your standard nice guy MC, with some knowledge in childcare added in. I realized this during the Valentine’s day episode (and any subsequent episode featuring either Yuki or Inomata). Now this probably isn’t really a problem for the demographic of this show (mostly female), but as a male I found the dude a bit generic. It also didn’t help that he had a really close relationship with Kotarou. Like a bit too close. I’m not saying he has a straight up bro-complex like the award title implies, but when Kotarou pretty much influences his social life, it’s something. Yeah there’s the whole thing with their parents dying and all that, but it’s still concerning to me how much he thinks about Kotarou. Well maybe it’s just my viewpoint, seeing as I don’t have siblings/never had my parents die (though I did live in a single-parent household). So I guess chalk it up to “wasn’t really my thing”.

Even with that, though, this show was enjoyable to watch, and I don’t regret picking it up. A high 5/10 for me, would recommend.

Best Episode of the Week: Violet Evergarden

Okay, I thought last week’s episode was sad. Well, this week’s was even worse in that regard. I don’t know why, but this week’s episode hit me harder. AND NOW SPOILER WARNING (btw if you haven’t been watching this show DO START NOW because it’s really started to pick up recently).

The moment I saw Aiden and his picture of Maria, I knew things would go wrong. That only got worse when he got shot, though there was some hope when Violet saved the dude. But then the slow death was a killer, and the letter delivery was the killing blow. Yes my friends, I shed one tear. I know, amazing.

In all seriousness, I’m loving the episodes so far from Violet Evergarden. I love it when an anime gets me invested in a show to the point where I put all of my emotions towards it. It’s happening with this show and After the Rain, and the last notable time it happened was with ERASED. At that point it becomes more like something you experience, rather than something you watch. And all of this wouldn’t have been possible without the episodes people called “slow”. Sasuga KyoAni for the long con.

And that’s all for this week! Look out for the annual “Shows I’m Watching for the Spring 2018 season” post which should be out within the next few days. Anyways, thanks for reading and I’ll see you in the next post!