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viola-ophelia · 2 years ago

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I posted 2,337 times in 2022

108 posts created (5%)

2,229 posts reblogged (95%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name

@deathicus-sling

@general-george-washington

@filodox

@revolutionarytea

I tagged 2,326 of my posts in 2022

#anne-core - 231 posts

#historical fashion - 202 posts

#art history - 182 posts

#literature - 179 posts

#history - 178 posts

#turn - 159 posts

#turnsgiving2022 - 145 posts

#aesthetic - 129 posts

#writing - 89 posts

#fashion - 81 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#idk why some people can't get it into their heads that writing a redemption arc for a character doesn't mean that the author condones murder

My Top Posts in 2022:

i feel extremely seen in pepa madrigal from encanto...... like. i too am a temperamental girl with anxiety who’s not as sweet and gentle as most disney women bc i have this reputation within my family for being difficult and dramatic which i lowkey resent but don’t know if i can ever really change bc it is kinda true lol but hey at least i’m genuine and i’m doing my best... idk, i know she’s a random side character in a kid’s movie but damn

78 notes - Posted January 18, 2022

in defense of cutler beckett

it’s kind of a tradition of mine to periodically write “in defense of” essays for unpopular characters (see “in defense of celegorm” and “in defense of bunny corcoran” lol), and idk what it says about me that i frequently feel the urge to advocate in favor of characters that are deemed unlikable/ unredeemable/ unworthy of attention by their respective fandoms, but i’m rolling with it lol. anyway, today, i want to focus on lord cutler beckett from pirates of the caribbean, because the general consensus about him on tumblr these days is… pretty abysmal lol, but i think he deserves a closer look. beckett seems to be the vast majority of people’s least favorite character, and not in an ironic way like some of the characters in POTC are treated online, like oh haha yeah barbossa was kinda annoying for going all ghost zombie mode on everyone but also we love him, weird eclectic uncle vibes, woo!.... no, everyone just straight-up hates beckett. and look: i get it, i really do. beckett is a much “realer” villain than davy jones or barbossa or salazar or any of the other POTC baddies, and that makes him much easier to hate. he’s not a giant octopus or a cursed skeleton or a slimy ghost guy with mystical powers, he’s literally just some guy– and he’s an asshole of a guy, because he’s basically just a random capitalist who wants all our favorite characters swinging from the gallows because they’re getting in the way of his trading schemes. and, if you count the price of freedom as canon, he’s also a slave trader, which is pretty unambiguously terrible. but despite all that, i actually like beckett. in fact, he’s one of my favorite characters in POTC: although it’s important to note that when i say that, i’m in no way saying that i condone his actions or that i think he’s morally good. as i see it, it’s totally valid to enjoy villainous characters while also acknowledging that they’re evil/problematic/whatever and that their actions are not morally acceptable in the real world. but the realm of POTC– where people (including the “good guys,” might i add!) are murdering and backstabbing each other left and right, any and all historical accuracy has to be taken with several grains of salt, and occult magic and sea goddesses and evil fish-men casually exist– is pretty far from “the real world” if you ask me lol. but anyway, let’s get into it then, shall we! (adding a read-more bc this is LONG oop)

beckett gets a really bad rap in the POTC fandom not just because he’s a ‘problematic’ character, but because on the surface, he comes across as a very one-dimensional, and therefore boring, villain. there are certainly other not-so-morally-pure characters in POTC that don’t seem to get the same treatment beckett does… no one really seems to talk about how pintel and ragetti threatened to r*pe elizabeth in the curse of the black pearl, for example. but pintel and ragetti are goofy comedic relief fan faves, and they’re also on the “good side” (aka the side of the pirates), so they have some redeeming qualities. in contrast, beckett is unique in POTC– a franchise famous for morally complex characters– for his seeming complete lack of redemptive nuance. he’s easy to understand as a villain because he’s just one of those villains who’s bad just ‘cause he can be. and he sucks! he’s ruthless, he’s power-hungry and materialistic, he plots against the pirates simply because they’re an inconvenience to him, and he represents the unjust authority which jack sparrow and the “good guys” stand against. the law permits beckett to freely exploit people in the name of the east india company, but does not allow jack and his companions even a chance of survival if they’re caught: and he knows how unfair this is, and doesn’t care. but here’s the thing: at its core, POTC is a pirate story told by pirates. of course we’re going to root for jack, will, elizabeth, and the gang over characters like beckett and norrington… because the pirates are the ones in control of the narrative. if we want, we can choose to believe them when they show us how much beckett sucks (and to be fair, they’re largely right lol), but it’s sort of boring, i feel, to just readily absorb the story that’s made most prominently visible to us and not bother to examine other perspectives.

so let’s talk about beckett’s motives. maybe he really is power-hungry and exploitative because he just is, and that’s all there is to him… but again, that’s what the pirates think, but it’s worth considering other possibilities too. what is beckett’s backstory, then– what, if anything, prompted him to go on his pirate-killing spree? well, in the movies, he doesn’t have one. he kinda just shows up one day and crashes will and elizabeth’s wedding as an obnoxious power flex, and from that point on, he’s just, like, there and he hates the pirates REALLY bad and wants to kill them all through any means possible, seemingly just because he can. the price of freedom, though, does give beckett a backstory. i’m not going to summarize the entire thing here, but in it, he and jack once worked together for the east india co. before eventually having a big mutual betrayal where jack wasn’t a fan of the fact that beckett was transporting some slaves, so he freed them all, which fucked beckett’s career over so beckett branded him as a pirate and then went on to become the asshole we see in the movies. but to be honest, this doesn’t really compel me all that much. it’s certainly an important moment for jack, but it explains away beckett’s motives the same vague way the movies do, aka by going “well, he’s just evil because he is/always was.”

what was really going on with beckett to force him through such a transformation had to have been much more than jack fucking up his job one time. the price of freedom tells us that he was a sickly kid not expected to live past childhood and that he was lowkey abused by his family, so i think a desire to prove his own worth was definitely part of it. but i don’t think beckett became evil (or doomed, for that matter) when he branded jack as a pirate. there’s a point in the book (if i’m remembering correctly) where young beckett gets captured by pirates and his dad refuses to pay the bail to have him released. it doesn’t explain how he eventually managed to escape, but i can only imagine that the experience left him with some internal damage… a fear of losing control, most likely, and of being out of his element. that’s kind of a lot for a teenager to take in… not only that his family doesn’t want him and he’s gonna have to fend for himself for the rest of his life, but that the world is cruel and unforgiving to vulnerable people, and the only way for him to survive is to seize all of the power and control he can and never let it go… because, if he doesn’t become the biggest fish, then a bigger fish is going to come along and that’ll be the end of him. beckett never manages to get rid of this fear of instability and vulnerability, which– especially after jack’s betrayal– manifests itself in a hatred of and desire to dominate (perhaps an attempt to conquer or mask a secret, intense fear of?) pirates and the occult. and of course, this eventually becomes his downfall, as he freezes the second he makes a mistake in at world’s end and is so unable to move beyond the loss of the upper hand that he literally just dies. beckett’s death is exactly what he deserves, but it’s also a remarkably devastating moment granted to a character who, up until this point, we’ve been guided to unreservedly hate and root against. in the grand scheme, it represents the fall of the old order, but for beckett himself, it’s his worst nightmare coming true– it’s the loss of control he’s been fighting this whole time and not realized was sneaking up on him till it was literally staring him in the face… and that’s tragic, and we’re meant to think so! we see his fatal flaw laid bare in a way that we would normally only expect the narrative to do so for its heroes, and it’s an incredible and shocking moment, being forced to briefly see things from the other side.

it’s hard for me to hate beckett as i watch him dying, and honestly it’s hard for me to hate him in general, because tbh i do resonate with him in some ways. obviously, his actions as a character are awful (and in particular, there’s no avoiding or diminishing the unequivocal evilness of the slave trading thing), and that’s what makes him a villain. but at the root of it all, i kinda just see a guy who’s sought to prove himself for so long that now he’s at the helm of this incredibly powerful and dangerous position that he cannot lose because he’s nothing without what he’s worked for, but even as he’s surrounded himself with people he can use as tools he has no one he can truly trust, so he projects this cold and calculating persona at all times because he has to, because it’s how he maintains control and he has to maintain control because without control he knows he’s already lost, but as tightly wound as he must be, he somehow manages not to break his composure even at the very end and goes down with his fucking ship in a moment that’s weirdly heroic… like. you don’t have to like beckett, but i do think he deserves respect. in a fandom full of wacky, fun, exciting characters, i know it’s not exactly intuitive to focus on the one decidedly un-supernatural, un-thrilling character… but in a story told by, about (and arguably for) pirates, beckett maybe rebels the most of all, by refusing, right down to his last moments, to succumb to a narrative that was never for him in the first place. and i think there’s something to be said about a character who-- villainous or not-- sticks by his principles till the end even as the very world around him bends to different rules, who doesn’t run from the law when it no longer benefits him but who acknowledges that he’s lost and owns it.

83 notes - Posted March 21, 2022

i made a quiz that’ll tell you which of jane austen’s seven heroines you are - enjoy!

255 notes - Posted September 8, 2022

things i wish i could tell every young person on the internet (alternate title: an open letter to myself at 18)

- identity labels are an option, not a requirement, and they aren’t the only thing that define you.

- you’re also always allowed to change your mind about them, and you should never feel anything but proud of yourself for doing so.

- it’ll only do you harm to view your trauma(s) and mental illness(es) like immutable personality traits. you deserve to accept that things will get better.

- if you’re cishet, that’s okay! you don’t “have” to be queer to prove you’re not a bad or boring person.

- fiction does not equal reality, and fandom is a hobby, not a venue for activism. “problematic” fanfiction has literally no effect on society, so don’t ever feel bad about enjoying what makes you happy!

- try, above all else, to be kind to yourself. you deserve it.

319 notes - Posted May 26, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

i’m not just a “villain apologist.” oh no no... when i say i like a villainous character, i not only mean that i fully support all of their evil actions and believe them to be totally justified and tremendously sexy, but also that i partake in the same evil actions irl and thoroughly enjoy it. “but you can’t like that character, they murdered someone!” yes, and? i murder at least one person a week for fun, what’s your point

369 notes - Posted April 8, 2022

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#this is so funny #year in review #can i just say i fully agree with my longest tag LOL #also damn i forgot i ever posted about encanto that one time?#i love my top post too it's extremely valid lol

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etxrnaleclipse · 2 years ago

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Laws of the Land

T h e M o s t I m p o r t a n t :

This is probably the rule that will make me sound mean, I promise I’m not. I’m going to be real with you all here. I am very, very old and tired of being used as people’s personal resource blog. I get it, you see something on your dash and you think ‘that’s awesome!’ and reblog it. Well, since rebooting my blog, I’ve made the unfortunate but necessary choice to become more firm on my stance here. So I ask that any content (be it photographs of FCs, aesthetics, musings, plot ideas, and especially ask memes) please be reblogged from the source wherever it is possible to do so. I completely understand that the source is not always available, so I’m not here to say “nEvEr ReBlOg FrOm Me!!”, But I always try to reblog content from the source myself, so that way the source is easily accessible to you all. I’m literally making life as easy for you as possible. I also use tags to remind people to reblog from the source on posts where I know for a fact that the source is available. If you do this despite how crystal clear this rule is, then you will be soft blocked. The only exceptions to this rule are 1) if you are reblogging an ask meme that you have sent in to me, then I am 100% ok with you reblogging it directly from me and 2) if I have tagged you in the post. Like I say, I don’t want to implement this to sound like some asshole or whatever, it is just an accumulation of ten years in the tumblr RPC and a massive amount of that time being treated like a resource blog - mostly by people who don’t even have the time to interact with me or acknowledge my existence. So thank you for your understanding on this front, and now onto the general rules.

A s k s :

Anyone is welcome in the ask box, both RP and non-RP. If you are a non-RP blog, I ask that you do not send in memes/asks that will involve me ‘roleplaying’ with you as if you are a character.

If you wish to send memes, my meme tag is right here :) This link is not to be used for reblogging memes.

If you send a ask/meme, please feel free to specify which muse you are directing it at. If no one is listed, I will choose.

Anon hate will not be tolerated and will be deleted.

F o r m a t t i n g :

I can do any kind of style - para, dialogue, icons, no icons. I don’t mind how you write, however I’m not personally a fan of excessive formatting. It just makes it difficult for me to read your replies and for me, the writing is way way more important than how the writing looks.

I generally tend to use small text (just the regular small) and medium sized gifs. Sometimes I use gif icons if that’s all that I can find for a FC. But you never have to match in your replies :)

If you don’t have access to resources of your muse, then I’m 100% ok to go without in a thread, I don’t mind not having any visual. I’m not really a fan of the big gifs found in the gif search or photos/gifs that don’t match the setting. It just really throws me off, that’s probably my only real no-no for this.

F o l l o w i n g B a c k :

This blog is selective with follows; I will not follow everyone back. I also will often wait until we start writing before I follow people back too, so if you follow me and I don’t follow back straight away, don’t get the impression that I won’t ever follow you.

If I don’t follow back, please do not assume that lack of a follow means I will not write with you - I am NOT mutuals only. I merely wish to keep my dash from being cluttered. I will always make every effort to write with everyone if I can find a way for our muses to interact.

Some other reasons why I may not follow back are things like: frequent and explicit nsfw content (I don’t mind reblogs of this stuff but excessive just gets a bit much), posting anon hate or callout posts, too many uncut posts that take up the entire dash.

If you are mutuals only and I have not followed back, please don’t take it personally. And please don’t message me asking me to follow you.

Please note that before interacting with anyone, I will always read your rules and about pages. If you have a rules password, I will 100% send it in to you should I initiate contact.

I n t e r a c t i o n s :

When it comes to the muses I have and their interactions, there’s no concept of ‘you must do X if you want Y’ here. We are all interested in the muses we’re interested in, some characters jump out to us more than others - we can’t force ourselves to be interested in a muse that just doesn’t click for us. So if you only want to write with male muses or only my female muses, I don’t mind. I’m just pleased that you want to write with me at the end of the day :)

I don’t do ‘do not interact’ lists or anything, but if you are a blog that mainly/only writes smut and nothing else, or if you are a blog that exists for finding discord partners, then probably would advise against following me or liking my posts. Got nothing against either of those kinds of blog, 100% supportive of both, it’s literally just because I don’t write smut and I don’t rp on discord, so I unfortunately have nothing worthwhile to offer you. Saves both our time.

L i m i t s / T r i g g e r s :

I have no ‘banned faceclaims’ (there are some actors/celebs who I’m not 100% comfortable with, however I don’t believe that the face you choose to represent a fictional character relates to anything that face might have said/done).

I will not RP with people writing as real life celebrities and I will not RP with people using faceclaims who have explicitly expressed that they do not wish to be used.

This might seem super specific, but if you have muses who are drastically different in age to their fc and resources, then I’m not really a fan. Like, if you have a muse who you state is 22, but you use a fc who is blatantly in their late thirties or older. Or the opposite, you say your muse is 40, but you use a fc who is 24. I’m just really not a fan of this, and I feel it perpetuates a lot of the issues I see around age in the rpc.

If you have any triggers/fears that you wish to be tagged, please let me know - I want my followers to be comfortable on my blog. I generally try to tag the most common/logical things by default anyway, but if there’s something else I’m missing or if you have a less common thing you’d like to be flagged (such as a phobia or something), please let me know.

In turn, I kindly request that you tag the following content: rape/non-con/dub-con, suicide, self-harm, drowning, incest, mpreg, miscarriage/pregnancy difficulties. I will also never ever write this content under any circumstances - please do not try to get around this, as you will be blocked. If you have any of these things in your muse’s bios, I respectfully ask that it not be brought up in our threads (just ours, I'm not asking anyone to not write about it in other situations) as it makes me uncomfortable.

I do not have an issue in writing some darker topics, but I will only do so if they are being treated respectfully and with care. I’m not here for romanticising awful things, so please respect that.

M u n A c t i v i t y :

My activity can be spotty due to work, however I will always endeavour to reply to messages and threads as soon as I can.

Majority of my replies run on the queue to help stop me from being overwhelmed (although it still happens somehow haha).

Please note that I do not RP on discord.

O p e n S t a r t e r s :

My open starters are quite literally open to everyone! As long as your muse fits the bill for the plot, just go for it!

Please check who the open is aimed at. I specify things like gender, age, and other things relating to the connection I’m looking for. Please adhere to these, as they are specific for each muse and each set up. So if an open is aimed at males, please don’t respond with a female (and vice versa), or if there is a minimum age for any responding muses, please do not respond with muses younger. These are especially important if the open is directed towards a ship.

Please avoid liking my opens, as I find that if there are notes on an open, people seem less likely to respond? If you’re saving for later, just go ahead and save to your drafts if you’d like to.

P l o t t i n g :

I love plotting. Give me all the plotting.

Plotting is a two-way street. Do not leave me to do all the work and I will do the same. This means no “I don’t mind, you decide” - I want input from you too.

R e b l o g s :

If you are not involved in a thread, please do not ever reblog it. If you do this, you will be warned once. If it happens again, you will be blocked.

As per the top of this page, please always reblog content (memes, aesthetic, fc pics, wishlist etc) from the source wherever it is available.

S h i p p i n g / S m u t :

Even though I’m well over 18, I do not write smut. I will write some build up and then fade to black. I am absolutely not uncomfortable with that content, and I am happy to allude to things that have happened between characters in threads, and will happily discuss their intimacy in plotting if it comes up in conversation.

I am also comfortable sending in nsfw ask memes for my partners if our muses are shipped, and I may even reblog the occasional meme that discusses nsfw aspects of my muses and on the rare occasion maybe drabble memes, but I won’t write out any sexual content in threads with other people. If I do reblog any kind of sexual meme, I will be VERY selective on who I accept asks from - generally only people who I have existing dynamics will and who I feel comfortable writing them for. If I do not respond to an ask from you, please don’t take it personally.

That said, while I’m 100% comfortable with nsfw content, if you come to me in the IMs and your plot idea involves “can my muse fuck your muse”, we’re prob not going to be a good match. Power to you, but I’ve made it pretty clear in these rules and I keep getting people saying stuff like this to me.

Shipping will vary from muse to muse - their information is available on their bios so please be sure to check them out. I have listed the minimum age of shipping partners for all muses who are open to ships - this can be found where their sexuality is listed on their bios. Some muses will be happy to date people who are quite a bit older than them, however they will never go below the listed age in their bios. I ask that you please respect that. If you have a query about an age gap, please don’t hesitate to check with me.

Please note that ALL of my male muses will only ever be shipped with male muses (even if they are listed as bisexual). I don’t want to go into too much detail, but I’ve had some godawful experiences shipping my males with females and it’s just much more comfortable for me to only write them in m/m ships. Please do not send m/f ship memes for my male muses, as they will be deleted. Platonic interactions with females are 100% wanted and encouraged though!

T h r e a d s :

If you request me to write you a starter and you never respond, the starter will be deleted. I will check your blog for activity first, because I understand you may be on hiatus. But if you have been frequently active and the starter goes unanswered, then it will be deleted/recycled for someone else.

I am a believer in ‘take your time’, however unfortunately my muse for threads can die out after a while. It’s sadly how it is for my writing muse, and I can’t force it. If you disappear for six months and then want to pick up a thread we had before, please don’t be surprised if I just don’t have the muse anymore. If I drop our thread due to lack of muse, it doesn’t mean that I don’t want to write with you, so we can certainly start something else.

If I owe you and it has been a long while since I replied, feel free to gently and politely poke me about it - it will either be in my drafts or my queue, though there have been times where tumblr has not notified me of a reply.

#this is important || psa

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thetypicalwriter · 1 year ago

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my time off of school is supposed to be a period of self observation--i'm literally supposed to be considering myself in detail as part of my treatment because i've been ignoring myself; that is the purpose of my blog, i started treatment in November 2022

if i can't fully observe myself, i can't adjust my behavior and speech to better articulate what i mean (be responsible); this is especially consequential for people around me who aren't able to be direct about their needs or are used to being complacent (neutral) in abusive relationships

this is me taking responsibility, not being self-centered

pop-cultural psychology/psychiatry discussions don't believe in retributive justice because of the pill popping approach to the acquisition of knowledge regarding the behavior of others (think about how old memes get old oddly fast or how one week online feels like a month)so this is not obvious; i argue this is why psychoanalytical posts can be extremely destructive if you aren't able to distance yourself from what you read online/be critical--which i think happens in moments of weakened mental fortitude

note: this post aligns for me after writing this

3:01 pm:

collecting images is never enough, but having them in one space was the original goal/first step.

now when i realized i have an unsolicited audience, collecting images no longer has/had the same function it once did for me because an image is far more abstract than a set of text (not txt, but haha look at that) meant to represent that image/idea (or collection of images) which can only be communicated fully by the person who built the building you're standing in. i did research on the central @/tlanta library because the popular attitude toward brutalist architecture was so opposite to me fall 2021. essentially the public doesn't know the history of its city--who built what and why in the artistic sense--so they are easy to devalue a public space based on their reflexive reactions to aesthetics rather than the function of a building. a good work of architecture reinforces the functional purpose of a building through the aesthetic decisions of the architect-- but just looking at a building instead of thinking about it (feeling the facade, knowing conventional versus unconventional materials in construction etc, understanding the timeline in which the building exists etc.) will not allow you to determine if the building you think is ugly and foreboding is actually ugly and foreboding. duck versus shed concept presented by robert venturi

that's why not lying is also important, you hurt yourself because you don't know and can't possibly know what you're looking at without me explaining my private space to you--this is why i don't assume anything about you despite tertiary sources and expect you to tell me exactly what you want to tell me if you really want to

i don't have the audacity to decide who you are which is why i don't guess and why you've gotten this far; every time we meet again, you're always the first person rather than the last person i met...

b-day card spoilers <3

but then again, my previous approach to communicating i'm a safe space isn't efficient for you, and i think i've always known that but never accommodated you the way you needed (still figuring out why besides the obvious blaring fact of what considering you more deeply would reveal to me about myself emotionally which was not ever in my best interest before); my aunt keeps telling me (in general advice) it takes two to tango

like it's so obvious and i'm actually a bit ashamed i never fixed it because the right questions and conversations can; you never tell me what you'd like to listen to or what you'd prefer to do when i asked in person (or messaging i don't think); you always looked surprised or tried to tell me to decide with your eyes; but you'd have to confirm to me if what i saw reflects your internal reality: that you don't know or don't know what or how to say/tell me (or anyone if its global) what you want or that you need time to think

my love language is inquiry but you don't answer the most important questions (to me)

3:53 PM:

it would make sense that if everything you say is actually some form of confession that not being able to speak is a reoccurring obstacle. i've definitely seen you bite your tongue more than once irl and instinct told me not to ask. now i think that's why i love you, you've told me how deeply you feel without saying anything and i've written about all those moments on physical paper; they aren't for anyone but me to see lol like, not even my fbi agent real or imagined

i'll stamp the date later, but when i posted a photo of the confession booth, that was shortly after i realized at a point that if we were to get together again as friends it wouldn't be as friends unless i wasn't looking at you. and i knew that because i imagined i wouldn't be able to say anything.

#nttw personals #said but unsaid #nttw opinions open for criticism under readmore

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hanzi83 · 1 year ago

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Processing Information in a Dumbed Down Way

It is one of those weeks where more and more shit is spiraling out of control with narratives, and I could do the easy thing and just regurgitate shit that the experts say and pretend I know I am countering the far right wing shit, but if someone like me who has been dumbed down most of my existence, even when I thought I blew past it, then I still find out that a lot of people’s shows you have consumed, have now pivoting to the right wing, it seeps into me that propaganda will always be never ending and it will sophisticate and intellectualize itself under different guises and because dumbed down people like me have never understood the technicalities of all the information and how shit works, it is easy to persuade people who have been consuming the “underground” internet chat rooms and message boards, like I know I am not the smartest out there, and the establishment type that shit on any conspiratorial thinking, but when you are constantly pulling the “radio won’t even play my jam” antic for every person the new right and post left have decided to prop up as a truth teller and their only sole identity is going off on transparent establishment media while they spread lies and are being funded in my personal opinion to get more people into the right wing, like if I believe the politicians and celebs are cogs like wrestlers being booked by billionaires, when the discredited superstars of the past are losing it in the ring and their promos and storylines are getting boring and repetitive, you have the “anti establishment” type of faction which used to have more credibility to it because there wasn’t this constant flow of information coming at you, it could be seen as more genuine and we had a more simplistic nature of what we thought was anti establishment, so we have our Steve Austins who are against the system, but also at the same time allowed to function and do what they do even if it seems they are at war with the billionaire, because then years later Austin shook Vince’s hand and then became a caricature playing the hits, it is the same principle with today’s “anti establishment” type. The alt media will give you folklore of what was supposed to happen like they do in wrestling with Austin, “His name was supposed to be Frosty McFang”. So to me this propping up of RFK is one of the most disingenuous things on the planet, and if this were 10 years ago and this was happening at this level, seeing the online shit I consumed now would become discourse amongst the MSM, and believe it or not the internet is MSM. I know we have to constantly pretend it is 90’s and early 2000’s aesthetic, like the same shit valuable back then really has any value now, it comes off as a parody. Don’t worry about anything I say it just a delusional shit head’s opinion and I will mention illuminati clones to get you off the scent so people who are giving this a chance, you can then act like I am less than for not believing how the official narratives are. Like there is enough on the surface in “kayfabe” that you can dunk on Trump on, like the guy clearly has admitted he has the documents etc, even if he tells his base they are coming after him. I don’t believe they are going after him and they will keep prolonging until his base becomes more vitriolic and aggressive, like they haven’t been getting that way all the time. Chances are my blog will be consumed by people who hate me and want to align with everyone else who hates me and then they will work with people to fuck up your mentality even more with secrecy and showing off how much well off they are knowing at their heart of hearts they got all of that by using me as a guinea pig. They will spew the typical insults because aesthetically me putting out all this accumulated mental trauma over the last decade plus, is not considered a fact so in the end of it all I end up looking worse and coming off as a self important narcissist, which describes like most people who climb up in that system, it’s just I put it out there to show what the result of what my path has lead me to. I never seen people who have all this power that insist on me being suppressed and being a red flag as my online presence depletes, but then at the same time, they keep on this planet to endure the decline and hope for this planet and I am supposed to sit there be happy for people and not because of the advertised feats of making it in the system, but for them to get a lot worse mentally and do evil shit at the behest of billionaires while pretending they are against rich people, people who get funded to bring chaos and negativity in this world, nothing wrong with reacting to things in a positive or negative way if that is how you genuinely feel, but when the narrative is that anyone who is positive is automatically the most fake person, but the forced negative shit is seen as the most genuine because it comes off a lot more real. I can admit I have the aesthetic and presentation of someone who would checkmark all the boxes of who they say are the real weirdos of society while people who are respected will pivot to supporting Nazi like rhetoric, and I know at my heart of hearts I am not using my “conspiratorial” thinking to go more regressive and actually get to a better place mentally even if I don’t process information like every smart person who tells you how much smarter they are but then analyze the information like a reactionary edge lord to seem cool even if it blurs the line of facilitating the fundamentalist ideology. So if you stumbled onto this blog accidentally and you don’t know what you are getting yourself into, I am gonna warn you that not everything I say is 100 percent and it might get conspiratorial but don’t put me in the right wing leaning box, there is a reason why apolitical people who have seen ugly shit in the system or seen the results with society declining start leaning conspiratorial, and there is a reason why the right wing can pretend they care about shit that might need genuine concern while the rest of the 90 percent of what they say is luring you into Nazi level beliefs, and as someone who has almost fell into that, and trust me no one was gonna save me if I went into that direction, I actually think people from my past or others who hate me would’ve loved for me to go down to that level. They get mad at me and hold it against me for not being regressive because they want to be associated with industry creeps. I would rather opt to be gone from this planet because the right wing is winning even if they make it look like they are the victims, they can use the aesthetic of which president is in charge when the bookers of this shit have always had a right leaning trajectory and they need this new force of “anti establishment truth tellers” to be the face of what their end goal is, so all those alt media people who always scream about you being a shitlib because you don’t believe what they say as 100 percent, the ones who just say shit like “I am anti war so that means it is true and you can never question my beliefs or my intent ever” those ones are gonna be what they claimed to have hated all these years, they will be on the same equivalent of what people 20 years ago were doing when they were cheering on the Invasion of Iraq. They screamed about that like it was the best they had to be credible. They will be anti war but are pro culture war with sensationalizing the new right wing’s propaganda that is putting marginalized communities in danger, and they then do what they accuse democrats of doing by using their tokens, like white supremacy doesn’t have their tokens. If this ruffles the feathers then there will be random posts about me on the Stern reddit to basically talk about me if I am being irrational online so they can fein concern while doing backhanded concerns and pretend I am mentally gone, while their days consist of going on reddit and pretending to be mad at a 70 year old shock jock pretending he is gone more liberal and then call him a liar while regurgitating his narratives about people who got fucked over by him. They are not allowed in their shitty little boring script to acknowledge anything genuine. If I decided to sell my soul and use my situation to then go at Howard from the right, then there would be a bit more support. The democratic side knows I don’t like all of their narratives and how they might say some truth but then come off like pro US empire imperialism level shit. So I really don’t have anyone on my side on the surface, even though they will insist that I have a whole army. Yeah well they have done a shitty job if I have this power because I am at my most irrelevant.

I have a bunch of thoughts from different topics I talked about on the podcast. So since I write this spontaneously and not really think out and just go off the “vibes” I might be all over the place, when I have taken in too much narratives about stuff of the neverending 24/7 newscycle, it used to be easier to have an angle because I knew in the last decade I cannot trust the MSM’s word is on the matter so I used to take in alt media to at least give me another angle of what is not being talked about but now they are basically the same thing with some self preservation of truth while spreading nonstop propaganda and I have never been so fucking confused, and I know deep down a lot of people are too, that is why it is easier for them to go with a supposed expert that is promising truth and justice, but they all end up turning like the establishment that they have trained you to hate while becoming part of this new establishment. It is funny to me to see Christian fundamentalist types who would justify why you need to kill brown people overseas because of he fundamentalist shit those regions have because of corrupt leaders, but at the same time now in this current climate, those same fundamentalists types are now for other fundamentalists because they are in agreement for a common cause of being anti LGBTQ. Like they have generalized all Muslims and talk about how they are backwards when the whole time there has been western influence and investment in practicing fundamentalism in other countries before they are brought to the western countries. It is like how WWE in my opinion would have other stuff that would be used in their product by having it executed in other areas before using it themselves. Then Canada like always with a lot of things, it has to happen in the US first before we are allowed to have that come here because then you have more and more vitriolic right wing funded shit going on at school boards and other anti woke garbage seep in here and it is becoming clear that our world is moving into a new type of society and this is symbolism of more imploding shit, eventually I can see them privatizing education so they are making shit out of control, whether it is the right wing amplifying groomer shit, and taking away certain books etc, banning any education on important manners and make it seem it is all under grooming and political agenda, like our world by design wasn’t built on propaganda that has been normalized. For so long they dumbed down shit about genders where they trained you to think there are 2 and we don’t think that would be propaganda, there is this pressure to act like the most masculine and hetero person on the planet and never being allowed to admit you have weakness in your head from mental issues. You have dumbed down shit for so long that people like me are sitting here wondering “Hm did Autism always exist or did they make this stuff up?” I don’t understand a lot of the science shit, which is why when people come with alternative theories, it is easy to sway people. Maybe if people in the establishment didn’t downplay the internet and not talk about what was being organized for so long. People think the internet has always been a military experiment with propaganda, so while there was more genuine conversation and thoughts and some ideas being exchanged, there feels like there has always been far right wing agenda, because a lot of these convos back in 2005 or 2010 etc were just these fun little culture war topics we would all get involved with and I always assumed we were progressing so the people who think backwards were gonna be left behind, but being an online force for so long, now they finally have their people to make this all mainstream and they think they have been proven right. Like I remember in 2007 when a lot of the establishment welcomed the notion of Jim Carey and Jennifer McCarthy doing vaccine awareness and no one was outraged by it and at most it would be a disagreement so I figured that if people in the MSM in Hollywood are speaking out on a cause and no one is calling it out, maybe there is some truth. I wouldn’t know. I am not saying vaccines cause Autism, but because you have had bad cases of certain things going wrong in the scientific field whether it is an obscure story etc so if you told me that it could do that, I would be like “Well I guess this is the breaking science that is coming to light, and the MSM is a little slow with this” but if I were to believe that world’s design has always had a plan to go the way it has gone and they have ensured it would, my conspiracy would be that they planted a lot of vaccine skepticism and pretended they were gonna give you these warnings but if the powerful in this planet knew where it was going to go, wouldn’t it be more possible they trained you for so long to think these are bad for you because the characters promoting them have lied or are discredited. Like the reason why I don’t just blindly love Fauci or that Hortez guy is because even if they did good things that the right wing will be against, if let’s say that there was a leak in Wuhan and some of these people had some participating in the gain of function shit, it would imply that this shit could’ve been planned and for a right wing cause but through sports entertainment, because of the vaccine shit seems like it was popular under Biden etc, people will attribute any shadiness to do with how this started in a certain country when I think the entire world was going to go in this way and by the way throughout the 2010’s I would read about countless stories about how their was some biolab that did some fucked up shit in the US, so why couldn’t this have originated all over the world, the first story was Italy but then they started China as the main one, and because they purposefully censored people so the bad faith actors could play off that so that when there is something to do the Wuhan leak, then it would be like “The people who were being anti China on this matter they were proven right” I know I must sound like an idiot to smart people, but I am also sounding a bit scary to right wing people that I am theorizing on how they are manipulating the conspiracy because the easiest thing I can do is just blindly hate on all the conspiracies just because the right wing is in charge. Then it turns into “Debate me culture” because they chose this guy to be the sports entertainer scientist who might not be trained in debating since people work on their other strengths, but this has been an alt media and alt entertainment tactic they have been perfecting for the last decade about having to have a debate, it is like a WWE promo segment or contract signing, it is not there for debate and it always results with someone going through a fucking table. The people in charge have a right leaning bias so the alt media personalities like Joe Rogan can claim they are just a regular meat head pot smoker who is just asking the important questions while giving softball interviews to white supremacists on his show and then his shitty fan base will claim he didn’t give softball interviews, even though he has entertained race science talks and doesn’t push back, he downplayed what the proud boys were and you think if you pointed out in a debate that they are being propped up by the system, you think you won’t pay for it, people want to reduce these people to being celebrities but that is when the alt media are lying to you especially by using what happens on the surface, like this world we live in isn’t a fucking reality show. They want you on, it doesn’t matter who is right or wrong in the situation, these people who are online and are employed by these celebs and billionaires will manipulate it with their shit to make it seem like the right wing side is winning the internet argument even though that is fucking manipulated. You think if you point that out in a fucking debate, you think they would let you get away with it, you say the wrong thing to insinuate that Joe Rogan is a compromised shit head who people have had to pretend was funny and while the people who consume his podcast fall for the “comedy is going PC and those liberals suck at it” they will then be okay with a bunch of unfunny jocks that Joe Rogan helped make famous. And then you have supposed truth tellers in the alt media space also dumbing it down about how you should be open to debates when the people you are debating with are gonna win the narrative and they can then fund people to attack you nonstop because all these personalities in the political analysis game who pretend they are the most brave and uncompromised of them all will then say a bunch of compromised shit. I know the MSM and other establishment shit heads won’t ever dare getting conspiratorial but like when bad faith actors use the mass shooters, not all of them, the ones where the story becomes famous in the discourse, that there are times when these people have been approached by law enforcement and the FBI etc, and if someone is a danger and you are aware of them and they are able to go out and do the shit they do, I am allowed to believe that they allowed it to happen, but it is weird because the new right will use the feds as an excuse to downplay that there is white supremacist intent with it, and the people who are establishment on the left side will use whites supremacy in a blind way and pretend the feds could never be involved, but why do people think there aren’t white supremacists who are in the feds and there are different factions within these institutions. It is white supremacy to me on a bigger scale, where they have their mentally ill cogs they have at their disposal, and since the right wing has normalized the conspiracy of famous mass shootings happening because they want to take away guns, when after each shooting gun sales increase, they sign in laws to make it easier, I could buy they would organize shit because people think they have woken up to “false flags” and then it doesn’t help that the establishment pretend false flag mean that no one died, they would never want to think that evil people who oppress people daily and poison their water and endanger marginalized communities, that they could never do the evil shit and organize it because everyone has done this whole “America’s dumbest criminal” level shit when you are supposed to hate a villain.

When people in the liberal circles scoff at people who might be apolitical to think that there is no difference between the democrats and republicans, they are looking at the results of what is going on in the surface plus the right wing’s organization of sensationalist culture war shit, it really then makes people then think the people who are talking about conspiratorial shit be the people of truth. Like I don’t know shit about the science and chemicals, but when you tell me that chemicals have changed frogs sex, my stupid dumb ass head then thinks, “Well they poison us with chemicals in other ways, maybe that could fucking happen, I don’t know” but to people on the left’s credit, they have countered that argument which had an easy explanation of we are not the same species which is why it would not happen to us, it is like where the fuck have you been all my life? See what scares me the most about shit is that if I am not consuming MSM establishment shit and I am online consuming the news, it feels like when back when I was partaking in discourse of rhetoric on talk radio where they would use race science and stats, and even though I could feel that narrative felt racist, me not being the best educated person, I would not know how to counter that shit so it would be like giving into the pressure of buying into sophisticated racism, and I feel like if I don’t have the right people informing me on shit and I am consuming online shit, I can fall for the culture war reactionary shit and buying into every sensationalist trans story to make them look like they are the biggest evil that needs to be stopped. And that is when it gets scary for me because I am seeing more people lean that way whether it is being brainwashed or people wanting to climb up socially for a big payday and access because they get to hang out with their favorite celeb. If people I have known will use me as a guinea pig and then pretend they didn’t do anything to me all so they can have showbiz friends and connections, then when it comes for bigger stakes of getting ultimate power and protection while pretending you are just being a common sense person, because you are too cowardly to just proclaim you are selling our and giving up in the principles you claimed you have. And I would rather die than be on that side. I don’t give a shit if I will never hang out with people in the upper echelon, I don’t give a shit if I don’t have access to industry sexy workers. I really don’t belong in this “new world” that is forming. And if I feel that the overall trajectory is fascism, when people in bad faith say that if you vote democrat or liberal, you are part of the problem, like by the same shit that is supposed to implode by design, will be a reason why bad faith actors will advocate for people who will also become worse in the system, that is why I never really bought into the systemic shit that the presidents do is not really them physically doing it but rather if someone becomes a world champion in wrestling, the company is gonna go in the direction it goes no matter who the champion is, but then you will advocate for your guy to be champion and list off why someone like John Cena is a propaganda tool, but then your guy will do the propaganda tool shit as well. If people who are night high up in the system and are paid to be online personas are getting this worse and they are not at the top, and they are already willing to lie, what faith do I have in you to do the right thing. Maybe 5 years ago when I was sick of the system and what was transpiring, I could’ve bought into some anti establishment person, but it turns out the discredited people in the system have been right about a lot of the people who were being Bernie Bros types, not all of them obviously. I am not gonna generalize all of them, but key figures who gained more clout and status, they have all been saying some of the dumbest shit on the planet and they are supposed to be the smart ones. So people who say that if they vote Trump, it is done to stop fascism, then to me, in my personal opinion and remember everything I have written in this blog or say on the podcast is just an uneducated opinion from a dumbed down fatso, you mother fuckers are not telling people what their future aspirations are to make this world 10 times worse, and now some of these people who are “Kill the Rich” types, it is becoming clear that it is just rich people you hate because you are working at the behest of billionaires who control cops and organize chaos in this world, and you will downplay these celebs and public figures because maybe some establishment people will pretend to hate them but you are luring your base to accept Elon as being super funny and you will have to stay the shitty played out shit. “Man, I don’t like Trump, but man he is hilarious” and you are in a position of knowing what his aspirations are, but because you think democrats cry about him while giving him free promo, you have to be the “cool guy that has humor” so you pretend to think a shitty person who was probably a criminal before he became a president, is automatically funny, and it says a lot about you and whatever your beliefs are. You know better and you are playing devil’s advocate for people who want to bring the worst to the world. Like I don’t know what the rule of law is because no matter what it is, the people in the public sphere are not doing the same time and they will come up with a rule that doesn’t make any sense. I am gonna do something unpredictable, I am gonna tie it into wrestling again because I am so out there and wacky, but first Illuminati Clones, Illuminati Clones, Illuminati clones, now you can’t take what I say seriously, like you were anyways, but it is like when the wrestling world trained its audience with rules of the tropes in storyline telling etc, but during the attitude era, they would come up with reason why stipulations and rules meant less and less as it went along where you just say “I guess whatever they decide” goes, and that is what it seems with the criminal charges that go on. The left loves to hype up the possibility of Trump going away when it is all in his favor, you keep asking questions like “Why is Merrick Garland not doing so and so, it has been a year” is it possible in this fucked up reality show world that this is sports entertainment, and what is happening on the surface is designed to be out there and designed to be a circus? You give the impression Trump is going away so his base and even the “leftists” who insist on doing red and brown alliances and blurring the lines, will think everyone is being unfair to Trump because others did shit, fine arrest them all then if they all did corruption, why am I not allowed to hope for someone powerful like Trump to have to face the consequences. So now you can think Hunter Biden got let off easily and people on the left will think that Hunter is just some regular dude who is not president, any public figure and political person associate or family are all part of that the mafia rule system, like this Hunter Biden shit is also designed to make him a character where we cater to the lowest common denominator with him smoking crack and fucking hookers and showing his fucking cock. Like I get people think that stuff is cool, but do you have to think everyone who does that is cool, like aren’t there cooler and less compromised people who smoke crack and fuck hookers that you can say is cool, but automatically the right wing pretends to be outraged but it feels like everything has to be sold for the new online showbiz as sex related to make this even more controversial. But either way no one is going after Trump, they can pretend they hate him so they make money off of him, and make it seem like he is being piled on, but what is actually gonna happen, all these people in the media profited off these stories knowing where it is going and then start playing devil’s advocate for him. The only conspiracy some of the people have to cover now is the UFO’s because even that is being prostituted, where something is definitely coming very soon, but I have had the belief that other life forms have been amongst us and actually look like us, I feel like our entire existence is a lot more advanced than what it is, I believe in science that much, but it is only okay to say “This AI art generator is gonna be the reason why humanity has fallen” like why am I not allowed to think AI level shit that could’ve existed for a while now has played a part in getting us to this point. But it feels with whatever is advertised of becoming danger has already become the danger. That is why I think the elites needed the pandemic to happen because they need a reason for shit to go into the direction it goes so it forces some kind of revolution, when you pretend things are just happening the way they are because that is what happens and then the right wing claiming this is a plan-demic, there could be truth to it, but the people claiming it is, would also be in on it and are permitted to be the ones who are warning you so you take their side, and because the MSM media and the establishment are limited in what is said even if some of their truth is more out of self preservation so it says in the history books that so and so warned you about the dangers, but they won’t disclose that at that time, the establishment has been something that is discredited to a lot of people. I am not saying I am the one with the answers, I am just sitting here trying not to break down from mental trauma and my confusion in this world. Even if I write a compelling blog or do a podcast, even if I am trying to at least give you perception of how dumbed down people think, most of the “smart” people out there will dismiss it and the right wing will use it as a way to double down on their craziness.

It seeps into the fandoms as well, and maybe it is for the better because maybe I should’ve stopped using entertainment as my escape and live vicariously through because it has made me a bit worse, you know how many times I will say I am not watching anything or going to so and so events, and I end up fucking going and watching and still consuming it, but maybe it is for the best if I really did try to escape it because if everything is going more right wing, then definitely wrestling would be one of the main entertainment forms that will definitely embrace it. We have to pretend that the old timers are just out of touch etc and that is where it starts and ends because there will be some embracing on a surface level with inclusion and what not, but if you already view the entertainment world as another layer of fundamentalism, and noticing the pipeline from that world into right wing politics and what kind of political messaging was inserted into it from the beginning then it is not surprising there are old timers trying to get attention on AEW for some wrestlers supporting trans youth, and they are trying to get far right leaning people make these companies capitulate to them because they will say it is all a political agenda, like it isn’t ironic that Dutch Mantell, who did a patriot gimmick would complain about politics in wrestling, and I have noticed that there has been a pushback from people of all over who are embracing right wing sensationalist shit have basically shut down any talks about racism, misogyny and homophobia, even if it is talked about on a surface level, and they will act like they don’t want it in the product but then advocate for all the regressive shit, why didn’t Dutch Mantell’s concern for protecting kids happen when there have been active abusers in the industry, why are kids training with Chasyn Rance? The man literally managed the Harris Brothers who have Nazi tattoos, and so many people in that mafia underworld are into that kind of shit, so why is it surprising that WWE would have ties to fundamentalists from Saudi Arabia, and when you only mention that as the only shady thing WWE has done, then I am gonna think you are not well intentioned and don’t worry my opinion won’t mean shit, only if you are a sociopath who thinks everyone needs to praise your limited expose on the Saudi WWE deal and not see how these personalities are funded with their rhetoric of making it seem like they are calling out bad booking but then they will sneak in their edgelord personas for shit. And I can see this getting worse, and I want to believe the wrestlers supporting trans youth are being genuine, or was this a way to get this talked about so that it encourages people to lose their mind about it and go against the woke agenda. There is no both sides in this issue when you are not mentioning how far the right wing is going and because you might pick and choose scenarios from people who happen to be part of the community you hate on as a generalization of all people in that community you are a dip shit and you are help normalizing rhetoric that will get people killed, but don’t worry you will be able to hang out with all the celebrities you want to hang out with. They will promote stories about how someone who raped and murdered someone in 1984 was actually claiming to be trans later on while doing time, and because people don’t advocate for the death penalty, you will have ACLU make it seem like this is the main concern about the trans stuff which then prompts all the fake culture war shit heads then go “CAN YOU BELIEVE THE LEFT DOESN’T CARE ABOUT THE RAPE AND MURDER AND MORE ABOUT THIS KILLER HAVING THEIR TREATMENT” I still think prisoners should be given access to treatment, prisons are supposed to be for rehabilitating people and if you were gonna be on your high horse about people not liking capitol punishment, maybe you should go after the right wing thought leaders guilty of legalizing the worst shit not to protect kids, from child labor, exploitation of migrant kids, blowing brown kids up overseas, or the many rapists who happen to be functioning in high level of power, maybe I would take your concerns seriously about being outraged about the kids if you stayed consistent with it and not be okay with guys like Andrew Tate, you know celebs and public figures, I have always assumed they are initiated or do initiations to get into the system, and we find out about it later through the gimmicked storyline they bring to the media, but now they are literally having people become famous solely for doing these horrible things and they become modern cult leaders. I never heard about Andrew Tate before this shit, it was like he was allowed to function and then we pretend we are calling him out because he happened to committ these crimes, but these crimes are now being exploited for the sports entertainment, it would be entertaining if it weren’t so fucking tragic that the system could be this disgusting with exploiting people’s trauma, like Russell Simmons became a heel because his antics became known and now out of the woodwork, now we are finding out he groomed his ex wife when she was 16, because the entertainment industry has an underworld where industry madams start off young and in the system until they are chosen to be in a relationship with some of these figures. And now his kids are coming out the woodwork about the abuse they had to deal with, and since the talking heads who get to be powerful voices online and in the media, they will apply regular rules to these people by going “Why aren’t they going to the police or a therapist” like it is that easy, like powerful people don’t have control over law enforcement, they don’t operate like that, when they are supposed to be exposed that is what happens, but the kids are now put in a position to get their trauma out there but it has to be broadcasted so there is heat on them for doing this. This is just my opinion. But I am looking at the overall pattern in how these celeb shit play out, and it feels like their major roles now have become reality show shit where they will be in the news for some controversy. Nothing about this shit makes any sense. But why would anyone want to entertain or investigate when then billionaires who fund this kind of shit have control over a lot of shit but they just reduced to being a regular civilian who happened to get caught for something later when their career is at the latter portion. It is like the scandals have become exploitative documentaries and television series and we just think this shit is playing out the way it is. Anyways I have gone on for a long time about shit but I don’t think anyone will be willing to change their mind with how I go off the reservation with my theories, but I at least am trying to figure out ways to counter the right wing shit online that is designed to be there and to me they have been recruiting people through online shit, because people only think the feds online just spy on us and know where we are, or they have our information, and then don’t think it is possible for them to recruit people to their cause. Again these are my theories. I am sure it will put a target on me, have people trigger some shit that fuck with my physical illnesses, and at this point, I don’t really have anything to really live for, I don’t have friends and it is probably for the better because most of them have either become far right or they have become elitist, and I have killed any shot of me being relevant again because I didn’t sell my trauma to the right wing cause because I would be so hurt I would go to anyone willing to talk to me about it. Maybe I am wrong about where this world is heading, I hope so. I don’t want to be here for a fascist takeover and every day it is being more normalized and I would hope the right wing people who consume what I say and write with the intent of hating me more and informing your patriot buddies that I am a danger etc, but I would people with that kind of mentality to open their eyes and see they are being lied to just because the establishment for the liberals don’t tell you everything. I have to reflect on my journey and where my mind went so I can at least give insight into how a dumbed down person kind of thinks. I never wanted to be on this planet, I was ready to leave 20 years ago, before I turned 20. I just didn’t see a happy conclusion to any of this and now that I am alive and have been used up for the fame game to make other people get the access and connections while I took the abuse, I fucking have nothing to look forward to. Maybe there will be a couple of wrestlers who might read this and try to insert some of this shit into a promo, some of them do but they could never admit that shit. There is definitely nowhere to talk about shit to have an actual conversation, everyone has an agenda. I have grown tired of all of it, this is just me getting shit off my chest, because the trolls will downplay my concerns so they can tell their like minded cult members that I am dangerous and they will pretend to care about me while mocking me for having to have this aesthetic of my life so they can discredit me more. I know I am not some fucking hero, but I am definitely not gonna let you turn me into another boring cookie cutter edge lord villain who will pretend the internet is some underground shit. You don’t get to be the main voice because you claim to be anti war while downplaying white supremacists on your show and because so many of these “leftists” were respectable thought leaders for a bit, they help manipulate you into accepting problematic takes and help normalizing it. How are you guys better than the MSM, or do you even give a shit. You clearly do because you can’t admit you are right wingers, you need the most out of the guise of being a leftist, or a socialist while showing you are having more in common with the national socialists. Go ahead, get mad, pretend you didn’t read this, but I know I am a subtle target, my only strength right now is no one is officially paying attention to me. But they are paying attention to me, they get extra mad that they didn’t push me over the edge so they could justify why they need to treat me like I am a danger to people. You can’t have it both ways, you all decided long ago I was not someone to be taken seriously, you just thought I would end up down the typical right wing trajectory. And trust me, listen to my Stern Show calls back 10 years ago and I would be the typical conspiratorial minded person even if I didn’t look at myself for falling for the right wing shit, because members of the new right were being normalized as lesser threats. I can admit where I went wrong and how I bought into shit, because I hear I don’t take accountability and I blame everyone else, but that is what the system does.

#Hanzi 2023 Mental Illness Theories NoFacts sensationalist reactionary culture war pro wrestling politics discourse

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sprigofbasil-archive · 4 years ago

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Tips for New Writeblrs

i’ve been seeing a lot of new and young writeblrs popping up recently, and i know the community can seem a bit daunting at first so i decided to make a post with some tips i wish i’d have known when i first joined!

↳ INTERACTION IS KEY

first off, and i cannot stress this enough, is the importance of interacting with other writeblrs. this community is here to help us all grow as writers, and one of the best ways to do that is to find writer friends. there’s so many incredible wips on writeblr, and it’s a genuine treat to get to see them develop further. interaction comes mostly through reblogs on tumblr, but for making actual friends, your best bet is joining a writing discord server. @welcometowriteblr is an example of a writeblr net with an open discord, but there are also many others out there catering to specific genres and subcategories.

↳ CLOUT IS MEANINGLESS

tumblr is bad enough at interaction on its own, but it’s especially true in communities like writeblr. unlike litblr graphics or fanart, writeblr content usually doesn’t come with a built-in audience unless you’re writing fic. so instead of trying to appeal to trends and getting lost in a sea of identical wips, your priority should be creating something you’re actually passionate about. a wip is a huge commitment, and it’s important to find a project you love instead of hopping from trend to trend. it’s ok to drop wips and realize that maybe it’s not the right time to write them, but wips are not solely there for notes.

↳ WRITEBLR, NOT GRAPHICBLR

it may not always seem like it, but this is in fact a writing community, and not a graphics one. making pretty graphics can be really fun, as well as doubly functioning as a procrastination tool. however, the main reason we’re all here is to write. don’t spend all your time on making pretty pictures for tumblr and then only ever complaining about how you never write. a lot of the most popular meme posts are jokes about writeblrs never writing, but the community is called writeblr for a reason.

↳ DO YOUR RESEARCH

so you have a wip idea. now what? now it’s research, research, research. this is especially prevalent in fantasy worldbuilding but really applies everywhere: you cannot pick and choose the parts of a culture you like while ignoring all others and their implications. there are certain topics that need to be handled with delicacy, which in itself requires a lot of research on its own. then there’s writing characters different from you. there is a vast difference between tokenism and representation, and the first thing is to make sure you actually treat your characters and world with respect. don’t rely on people from those groups to call you out for your mistakes—google is free, and it’s not their job to deal with your mistakes. if people are open to helping though, you should reach out to them if you still haven’t found your answers. @writingwithcolor is an excellent resource, and there are many other blogs dedicated to giving advice.

↳ CHOOSE ACCESSIBILITY

this is a community focused on writing, so your priority should be making that writing as accessible as possible. i know scripts and fancy text are a popular aesthetic, but @ikilledmyocs made an excellent post here as to why you should avoid them; namely, they’re an accessibility nightmare. i promise that your posts will still look nice, and more importantly, they’ll actually be readable. the same goes for blog themes. large text and high contrast are your friend! @serpentarii has a wonderful theme recommendation post here with some examples of writer-friendly themes.

↳ DON’T GET CAUGHT UP IN PROSE

and lastly, this applies particularly to new writers in general. very purple, floral prose is popular on writeblr, and sometimes it can seem like it’s the only writing on here at all. however, you’re here to actually write a wip. the purpose of your first draft is to exist, not to win a pulitzer, and it’s perfectly ok for it to suck. making it actually good is the job of future drafts; after all, you can’t paint a house that hasn’t been built yet. your writing style will come with time, and simpler writing also has its place up there with pretty prose. i can promise that coherence is far more important than putting nice-sounding words together without actually knowing what they mean. that isn’t to say that floral prose is bad, but it isn’t the only writing of value, and i think that we sometimes forget that on writeblr. just sit down, take a breath, and write.

#long post #writeblr #writeblr advice #idk where i was going with this but it's a thing #r.writing

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keagan-ashleigh · 2 years ago

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✨HIIIIIII newcomers from Twitter✨

So, on Twitter I've seen a screenshot of a tumblr post with a whole list of rules that are - I'm sorry for using crude words but - bullshit, for the most part. So I was thinking, hey. Why not make a "how does tumblr works" with actually useful stuff in it. A non exhaustive list though, cause I haven't all night.

Introducing myself quickly first: I'm Keagan, I'm on Tumblr since 2012 (Twitter user since 2013), I have seen the best and the worst, I've been there for the first mishapocalypse, the great Sherlock s4 depression, and I was here when dicks and boobs where roaming the website freely and when the anti-boobs bot flagged everyone randomly. I took a sort of sabbatical after 2017 bc of the Sherlock depression, and the fandom kinda falling apart, and also bc I have a irl life that started to get interesting around that time, but I still came back regularly from time to time until now.

I know how this goddamn website works and I know why we call it the blue hellsite. I've been here since the dawn of ti- no, lol, i'm joking. :')

I started off as an aesthetic blog, then it quickly turned into a social justice/aesthetic/spn fandom blog, and this blog you see this post in is my fandom side blog, the one that saw the birth of my Sherlock obsession and the beginning of my fanartist/fanfic writer carreer. This hellsite saw my queer awakening. It saw me bloom and gain in confidence and self love. It taught me love, patience, pain, and the absurd.

So. Now that's done, let's go. Those are random things in no particular order.

In case you worry about Tumblr being very different than Twitter: yes it is different but surprisingly it's actually not that different.

Any of the following points, you will figure out easily anyway by yourself, Tumblr is actually pretty simple to understand and use, and you'll catch on quickly on the little things that makes it Tumblr, the "etiquette" and all.

For the most part: you can do whatever the fuck you want, no one cares (except dumb people I guess). But do we truly need to remind people not to be assholes with others ? Don't be rude. Duh

- One thing that Tumblr post I was talking about got right is: likes don't matter in terms of visibility, reblogs are more important. Likes are a comment more than a booster. So if you want to boost a posts' visibility, esp art and fics : reblog it.

- On the other hand you won't gain much visibility if you don't get people to reblog you, and honestly while existing here is pretty easy, you'll still have better chances at being visible if you reach people. I'm on a lot of SM and here is still the easiest though so don't worry.

- You can definitely scream into the void, like, it was made for it, this is shitpost paradise

- You can add dumb & insignificant comments to posts like "omg same" or "this is so true" - literally no one cares.

- And no one cares how you call your mutuals, moots, oomfies, pals, friendz, besties, mutts, - no one.

- We do use tone indicators here too. And there's plenty room to write the full words so it's not an obligation but a suggestion from me: sometimes it's less confusing to just say "i'm half joking" than /hs.

- But you can shorten words as you like, it doesn't matter. If twitter got you used to shorten words do shorten words, no worries.

- Your Tumblr experience is closely tied to who you choose to follow or block - you can curate your dashboard/timeline just like you do on Twitter, this is pretty similar. You can and should protect yourself from unsafe people anywhere. That's basic internet safety. Don't overthink this please, if someone is making you feel unsafe and bad, it is your place: block people.

The moderation here is not that bad but not ideal. So please use all the ways you need to make this place safe for you, and don't hesitate to call for people's help. This is a social media based on community. Don't let people trick you into thinking you are wrong for blocking people - or for calling unsafe people out. We have always done that here. We protect and support each other, ok? Good.

- You can follow hashtags, pretty much like on Instagram. In my opinion it's not always working well but you can.

- You can't bookmark posts, you'll have to put in your drafts the stuff you want to check later. And you'll likely forget them there so tell them goodbye as you go.

Eheh 🥲 (good thing i don't know how many tweets i have saved for later 😂)

You can make yourself a "read later" tag too. A tag that you're likely never gonna check either 🥹 Not so different than the Twitter bookmarks, you see.

- When you sign in, you create your main blog. The main blog - consider it like your account if you like - is linked to your profile, if you delete the main blog you delete your profile. You can create as many side blogs (side accounts) as you like (without using another email) and you can delete them without deleting your main account.

Sadly you still can't switch main blog and side blog to link your profile to a side blog, which I have been screaming for since this side blog became my main blog years ago 🥲🤌 this is my own "make tweets editable" cry

- If you're not familiar with blogs and how to personalise them, don't worry, there's a lot of themes you can choose that are simple to use, and the hardest thing you'll have to do is choose colors you like. If it looks hard, there is a ton of resources to help you, and most people will help you if you ask them (I will, honestly don't hesitate to hit the ask button).

Note that you do not have to touch it actually, it's just like your living room, some like it carefully decorated, others leave it at its most basic form, still usable. There is no obligation whatsoever. It's fun though.

If you like coding, you can edit the blog's code or make your own theme, which is pretty cool, I've learned some html modifying mine.

- You can ask stuff, anonymously or not, hitting the ask button on people's blogs. They will answer by a post, they can make it public. There is also a private direct messaging thingy.

- Tags work similarly than Twitter, meaning if you click on "#spn" you will see all things tagged spn - simple. There is some sorts of trends though it's not exactly the same as Twitter obviously.

But they are different in the sense that they serve also for organisational purpose: they are used to identify what's in the post, so that you can navigate blogs more easily. It's more like labelling your Tupperwares so you find them easily in your kitchen, you know what I mean ? The tags are also labels. The tagging system is also important when you set your blog up. You can put tags in the post but that's useless, the tag section is there for it.

- You can check on my blog (on web not app) to visualise it: you can add tabs and pages to your blogs: for example, let's say you want people to find your fanfics easy: you tag all your fanfic posts "fanfic"; on web, when you click then on the tag from your blog, you will have an url with "tagged/fanfic" at the end, you take that and when you create a new page on your blog (it's well explained how to do that in the settings), you use that url to create your tab. Sounds a bit complicated, just said like that, maybe but I promise it's simple. So you see the tagging system is useful to organise your blog.

You can also make pages to add information, like you would do with a carrd or a pinned tweet, you see. (You can pin a post here too). You can make it an "about me" page, or a list of your main tags, etc, whatever you like.

- Side note about tags: if you click a tag from your dashboard, you'll see all posts linked to this tag. If you click the tag from your blog, you will see all the posts you have reblogged or written - the ones that are present on your blog.

- You can communicate stuff in the tags, it's a whole extra expression space. Typically people use it to add comments they don't want people to reblog, personnal additions, remarks, rants, jokes, etc... There is no rule about not commenting whatever you like on posts but that extra space is often used for all kind of reasons.

The only thing is that back then the op wasn't notified for tags, it was pretty much a silent thing betweet you and your followers, now you can see all of them in the post's notes and notifications. So beware what you say, obviously don't be rude, and don't be alarmed if people answer to your tags, it's not so silent and discreet anymore. I kinda like reading people's tags on my posts but I prefered when mine weren't visible by everyone, to be honest lol

There is a character limit on tags, you can't actually add essays but you can write a lot (trust me). And as the comma and quotation marks "activates" the tag and separates them you can't write commas and quotation marks in the tags - I personally replace them with - or ; and ' when needed. It's something to get used to.

- Again on tags: typically, you put trigger warnings in the tags (though you'll see often posts starting with the tw, you can add both, just add them I guess), you can specify "personal" and "don't reblog" to warn people you'd like a cup of tea /i . And, not everyone does it but personally I appreciate when people tag the spoilers and specific themes, shows, characters or ships, so I can hide the posts marked with that tag.

- When tags are blocked you can still see the masked post show up in your dash, with its tags visible, which honestly is perfect bc you often get context in case you want to block words in certain contexts and not others, and if you block stuff momentarily (like spoilers) - you can still save the post to read it later without having to do it with your eyes closed.

- About discourse : of course there's discourse here, there's call out posts too, there's shit and obnoxious people just like everywhere else, don't come here with the idea that it's a heavenly place where everything is pretty and safe from all things annoying. There's discourse here too. There's bullying here too. About all sorts of subjects. (I've seen the queer slur discourse here like DAYS ago). There's shitty people here too. That's internet, contrary to what a certain post said, that's unescapable. And sure that's annoying but that's a fact of life - now you can shield yourself as much as possible by blocking people but honestly don't expect your experience to be way way different than Twitter in that aspect. Maybe less right wing old dudes bc Tumblr doesn't host the same démographic, though there was a nazi problem for a while, I don't know if they're still here tbqh, but that's overall not much much better, let's be honest.

- On your left, old time resident mr Neil Gaiman - but he answers "wait and see" to everything. /j

- Speaking of celebs, there isn't as many on Tumblr (it's said some have secret blogs but shhh 🤫), but there is often ask & answer events that are announced at the top of the dash.

- You won't be penalised for using certain words (even die or dead, the "unalive" wave doesn't crash on this shore), and you can put links if you like, even cashapp, kofi, paypal, etc, there's virtually nothing that will make you invisible in people's dashboards.

The only way you'll get shadowbanned here is if the Tumblr bots think you're a bot or a porn blog. Learn more here.

- But until recently, sorry there's a but, since the great "no tits" debacle, there's a bot that flagged your nuddity posts and it was so hilariously flawed omg (it flagged fucking DUNES I will never forget ahah) - anyway when they flag your post they hide it and you can make an appeal if needed, but honestly I don't think as much problem occured with it since a long while, that thing improved with time and the good thing is you can post artistic tits again! o/ yay

- There's virtually no character limit - there is one, but you'll need to write a long time until you hit it lol (I did once).

- Therefore : threads don't mean the same here. Here threads are successions of multiple people's comments. It makes for some interesting (and often hilarious) participative posts. Because there is no need here to cut your text into small posts, unless you are writing your memoirs or some shit. Look how much I've written already. 🫲Twitter could never. And if posts are long, you can add a "read more" button so it doesn't mean you have to scroll through gigantic blocs of text in your dash. and in the settings you can make long posts look shorter in your dash automatically.

- Related: threads aren't the same, you can't reblog/retweet a post that's in the middle of a thread. I mean, on Twitter you can RT the 1st tweet of the thread, or the 3rd, RT a reply easily - and in your TL only this one tweet appears - you can't really do that here. First of all here there is comments (or captions) and replies, those are not the same. If you want to reblog someone's comment to a post, you'll have to reblog it from their blogs - doable but honestly a bit tedious. And you will always reblog the last answer and all the ones that comes before. You reblog whole conversations, see.

So when you scroll through dash, you WILL experience mini heart attacks when seeing the 1st lines of some posts until you see the arguments that are closer to your moral standards - meaning you'll often see posts that are "shitty comment" then ten replies until you see the ones that says "wtf, it's shitty" - you need to endure the whole thing until you see stuff you agree with ahah, trust me this is FUN

- Here you don't livetweet, you liveblog. Otherwise it's the same. I'm sad I can't do both at the same time but it's equally fun on twitter and tumblr, especially for ESC.

- Like Tumblr said on Twitter: if you scroll your dash long enough you will have seen all of your friends posts. Yes.

- You can make your experience a lot better with the New XKit extension. Explaining it would take a whole ass post of its own so I'm not going to do that here but they have an account here where they explain everything, give updates and answer questions. I can only suggest to give it a look once you're familiar with how Tumblr works without it and with what doesn't work well.

- You can edit posts. You can schedule posts. Take it in 😌

You can edit them and actually - WOW - civilisation hasn't collapsed and bad people still can be held accountable for their shitty comments! Like on Facebook and Instagram too. Let it happen on Twitter, let it be the one good thing that'll happen amidst that awful chaos.

There's a twist though: you can edit your post, sure, but if someone reblogged the post before you could edit it, there will be two versions of your post in the wild. It can be a little bit frustrating. One way to avoid that: let your big and important posts sit in the drafts for a while so you can fix it before publishing it. An advice I never seem to follow.😬

- You can also change text size, font, put it in bold, italic, colour, you can make it gradiant like in Skyblog's most glorious hours, etc, and yes you can put alt text on pictures. You can add links or pictures in the middle of a post - I mean those are blog posts, so 🤷‍♀️

- The app is shit though ☆(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ* (to be fair not as much as a few years back, honestly, but still, not ideal)(I'm using the app 🥲)

- And you can't translate posts easily, which tbh I think is a big flaw

- Tumblr is flawed but fun and it can be better, the updates are always shit, but it has well intentions and a nice staff.

I guess there's a lot of other stuff to say but honestly we've covered the main things to know and more. All the "rules" and "etiquette" you will learn as you go, Tumblr is no rocket science, it's simple and fun, it's a meme goldmine, great community experience. There's not real rules, you can use that site however you want, no one cares, nothing is serious, have fun, don't let people gatekeep this place with bs rules, build your space as you like, make it look like you. Welcome 👋

Edit: here is a post giving a tour of the settings + some reco about Xkit

#psa #my posts #tumblr #for twitter newcomers #twitter exodus

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keplercryptids · 3 years ago

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I've got a question about image descriptions - to be totally honest, I'm one of those people that typically avoids them especially when they start to get really long. What starts as a quickie gif set turns into a page and a half of scrolling and it just really frustrates me. Not in a "Why would you do this" kind of way, I TOTALLY get it, just in a "but I don't want this block of text on MY blog kind of way." I feel like that's my personal space, like my desk, to make look the way I want. The problem, of course, lies in the "well how can we make it work fairly when Tumblr's algorithms do NOTHING with likes, and reblogging is the only way to circulate posts?"

Except I've never really asked, like, how well yo screen readers do with Read Mores? Would it be viable to put the image ID under a cut, to preserve the image as it is but keep the ID easily accessible to those using screen readers?

This would be particularly great when I post art, because I like to put little hidden details and nods in my pieces for folks to notice and put the pieces together - but I feel like pointing it out in text would kinda spoil that, while NOT including including ID would be unfair to people who aren't able to see that part of the piece and would then miss it entirely?

first things first, putting descriptions under read mores is not a good thing to do for several reasons, main one being: it puts the burden on disabled people to click through to individual blogs in order to see images. it's not "easily accessible." it's less accessible than it is for abled people. that's not how tumblr works for you, right? that's not how you would ever WANT tumblr to work. ideal accessibility is as convenient and available for disabled people as it is for abled people. just as you wouldn't advocate for putting a ramp at the back entrance of a building by the dumpers so that the front of the building looks "pretty" (at least, i hope you wouldn't lol).

i'd like to gently push back on some of the things you said here. you said you "totally get" why image descriptions exist, but in the same breath, you say that you don't like their aesthetic. this tells me that you don't actually understand image descriptions. perhaps you know what they are but not what they do. because what they do is crucial. they include. they build community. they reject society's ableist treatment of disabled people (treatment that excludes, and isolates, and hides away, and pretends doesn't exist). image descriptions, and all accessibility efforts, are an act of compassion and love. compassion and love for each other, in a world that often withholds these things, and compassion and love for ourselves, so that our worlds get bigger, so that all our needs are met, so that we are all visible and present and free.

no aesthetic is more important than that. and i feel like if you fully grasped what image descriptions do and the point of accessibility in full, you might feel like i do now, where an inaccessible blog or app or building or arena is honestly a very ugly thing to witness. the thing is, your blog isn't your personal desk space (unless your blog is private). it's public. it's meant to be public, it's meant to have an audience. and right now, your blog might as well have a banner that says, "no disabled people, please."

i don't say any of this to shame you, and i sat on this ask for a little while so that i could formulate my thoughts to avoid that. but i do need to stress, passionately and vehemently, how vitally important accessibility is. i hope, if you want more info about disability justice in general, you'll check out my disability justice tag.

#x me a q #anon #accessibility #image descriptions #ableism #everyday ableism #disability justice

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cienie-isengardu · 3 years ago

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Lin Kuei: Art

RELIGION <> ORIGINS / ARCHITECTURE <> FOOD <> FOR THE LIN KUEI <> ART <> CRYOMANCERS <> LIN KUEI SOCIETY <> MONEY & MATERIAL GOODS

The continuation of the morgianesffs-blog’s list of questions about Lin Kuei. For the formalities, the original questions:

What do you think the Lin Kuei's view on artistic culture (probably not the right word) is? I know they are heavily militaristic, but in the game, Kuai Liang offers Hanzo tea and he properly prepares it the Japanese way, that says they have something of an education other than just related to fighting?

In contrast to religion as a belief in gods that Lin Kuei seems to constantly reject for ages, I think broadly understood art plays a more vital role in their culture.

Sadly, there is little direct source material in that regard - named Lin Kuei warriors rarely let themselves “waste time” to straightway talk about beauty of handmade artifacts or poems or music or other stuff fitting the definition of art. But as history proves time after time, art is an inseparable part of human existence and militaristic societies aren’t different in that regard from the peaceful ones. As far as games and some old material sources are concerned, Lin Kuei isn’t exception. Their aesthetics, symbolism and emotional value hidden between may not be eligible to outsiders but the amount of beautiful yet with no practical role decorations seen outside and inside Temple or well-crafted weapons and armors strongly suggest that Lin Kuei respected craft.

Frankly, martial arts and art (music, calligraphy, armorsmith, weaponsmith) have this in common: to achieve a satisfactory level of mastery, talent alone is not enough. Both require discipline, years of training and striving for perfection. What fits well into Lin Kue philosophy.

Mortal Kombat novel (1995) stated:

[Lin Kuei] would kidnap children when they were five or six and raise them in secret caves or woods to become superb athletes, great scholars, and unparalleled fighters, able to use all weapons and to improvise arms from common objects such as paper rolled to a knife-point or sand packed into a sock. They would train the children, boys and girls both, to be masters of many trades: carpenters, fishermen, priests, and even beggars, so they could blend in and make themselves useful in different towns as they traveled on missions for their lords.

This passage strongly implies comprehensive education, also in professions requiring creative/manual abilities (carpenters) or specific knowledge that may include familiarity of (religious?) art and philosophy. There is no way to tell how the education of adepts looks in modern time, but considering how well versed the warriors are in technology (C.I. project) chemistry (Cyrax’s bombs), anatomy (all brutalities & fatalities) or language (in Alternative Timeline English is not the native language of any(?) named Lin Kuei) we can assume it still covers a wide range of specializations. Making (practicing) art is related to creativity and manual skills, so it could be part of said education.

Another important role that art most likely plays is building and maintaining the common identity of Lin Kuei warriors. Because of that the interior of the Temple is decorated with a clan sign,

which also appears on their armor and weapons and even tattooed on their body (at least in MK Conquest TV series)

and, like was shown in Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of Realms, the main(?) hall is decorated with statues of warriors. One looks like Sub-Zero,

although I doubt that it is a sculpture created in honor of the fallen Bi-Han. Unless it was created so quickly, I think it could be images of the clan's founders, or images of historically important warriors, or even an anthropomorphic representation of the elements (like ice) on which the clan's power was built.

Even if the warriors themselves were not involved in crafts, the Lin Kuei had skilled craftsmen equipping them with the necessary items.

There is also an aspect of sheer aesthetics that brings psychological comfort. Something that was definitely useful to warriors who lived under a lot of pressure. The beauty of rich ornaments and spacious architecture create a safe space to meditate or relax after difficult missions or close-to-death experiences. Likewise, art could be a safe (or at least safer) way to express themselves or deal with emotional trauma, in otherwise very strict society that can not stand weakness.

Interestingly, in additional sources like game cosmetics or win poses, Kuai Liang shows creative tendencies. For examples, his ice clones have various shapes even though there is no practical use of them in win pose:

Then we have the variety of his arsenal. As a cryomancer, Kuai Liang depends mainly on his ice power to create weapons. He can use anything at hand, freeze it solid and smash, slash or stab the opponent. To kill or injure an enemy, Sub-Zero does not need a sophisticated tool yet many of his MK11!axes have additional ornaments or more defined shape than it is really necessary:

All of the mentioned examples and the not discussed detailed ornaments on Sub Zero’s armors or even his style of speech (that may be influenced by some literature considering Jacqui’s accusation of “borrowing that line”) strongly suggests to me that Lin Kuei in general appreciates broadly understood art, especially the handicraft such as armorsmith or weaponsmith. This may also be one of factors why some warriors like Kuai Liang look down on technology and especially guns, a weapon mass produced and with no finesse.

As for the tea ceremony, by no means I’m familiar enough with Asian culture to say it for sure, but it didn’t look like Japanese brewing style to me. That and I highly doubt Kuai Liang would dare to do so in front of hot-headed, distrusting Hanzo who could easily read that gesture as Lin Kuei once again mocking him and his clan. Knowing how Sub-Zero wanted to make peace, I don’t think he would have taken such a careless step. Beside that observation, it is another example how well-versed and educated Kuai Liang is, even in matters that don’t have any military use.

In summary, I personally believe that art plays a vital role in Lin Kuei society. It helps in creating and unifying their warrior identity and pride in long-lived clan traditions, brings emotional comfort when needed and gives a way to express themselves (the fighter’s individuality) in safer, subtler ways. Even if warriors don’t craft weapons or armors themselves, there are specialized groups of people who provide them with the best quality craftsmanship. Because of course Lin Kuei demands and respect the perfection.

#mortal kombat #my replies #lin kuei #sub zero #kuai liang #i probably could talk more about sub zero and arts #or in general lin kuei and arts #but the text would be too long again #and i already made people wait too long for the answers #sorry :P #maybe next time i will talk more about the not discussed here stuff #if anyone will want that

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thesaltminesrph · 3 years ago

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PSA: Be Upfront

Communication is important in RP.

Now, to preface, I am not going to use the really awful phrase "it's a hobby not a jobby" because this is a really sketch take on what is important to people. You can have a hobby mean a lot to you, be you a collector, a gardener, someone that builds model airplanes, a writer, an artist, etc. Those are all hobbies, and the fruits of your labor are NOT only valuable to you and others if you are paid for them. This saying implies that should you never be a published author, never have a painting sell, never do something that can be sold or have a time clock punched, it doesn’t at all matter. It’s a really discouraging thing to be telling people, quite honestly. I have multiple hobbies outside of RP. Kind of really sucks to see constantly they don’t matter because nobody pays me for what I do. I know I’m not the only one who has said this, but the majority aren’t willing to say it amongst the clamoring of ‘rp isn’t a job’ because then you get people jumping down your throat. Hear me out though! I’m not done.

“BUT I HAVE REAL LIFE!”

Yes! So do we all! We all have problems, and things to take care of. The RPC is littered with people with mental illness, neurodivergence, chronic physical illness (I hit all three categories multiple times, LUCKY ME!). Do not, I repeat, do not ever feel like you need to put RP before: bills, marriage/children/other relationships, your health. Literally, do not have your takeaway from this post be these are secondary to your hobby. They are not. Do not get evicted because you were too busy doing RP at your desk at work, that’s just plain dumb af.

You owe people decency means:

-if you can only do aesthetic posts this week because you are low on writing spoons, that’s fine

-if you had work/health/mother-in-law take over you life this week and you literally didn’t have time to log-in even though you wanted to, that’s fine

-if you are sick in bed and can’t bother to write, that’s fine

What it also means:

-dropping what was supposedly a years long ooc friendship because the other mun isn’t dropping their current muse for you and following you into a different fandom ‘because they’re now boring’ and telling them as much in a message...is shitty behavior.

-daily reblogging multiple memes that people are sending in to you, your wire, your discord, ignoring both those and messages to plot, then whining on the dash that no one wants to write with you (also known as trying to guilt trip interaction, obviously you only wanted it from one specific person not the people actively engaging you)...is shitty behavior.

-claiming you’re open for plots and memes, then only replying to the one or two people consistently for 6 months...is shitty behavior.

Again, in case it wasn’t clear- it’s your blog, it’s your life, it’s your health. That’s not in question.

HOWEVER- be upfront and give people some honesty! What do I mean by that?

If it’s feasible, post that you need a writing break, even if it’s going to be indefinite. Take as many fucking breaks as you need to for your physical and mental health to be the best they can be (I’m not going to say great, as I know what it’s like to just have a ‘good’ health day mean ‘it’s less shit than it could be’).

But if the situation is really you only want to write with these one or two people, just say so! It’s your blog, you’re allowed to decide you’re closed for plots, asks, etc. Just don’t lead people on. Don’t say something and mean something else. Don’t keep reblogging your promo and really you don’t want to write, and you don’t plan on taking on new mutuals, and don’t plan on replying to dms or threads from anyone else.

I’ll repeat it a little differently to be sure it’s clear- you dictate your activity level and number of mutuals, when you answer asks, threads, etc. This should be at a level that is suited for you and your life, health, etc.

BUT when you engage in RP you are involving someone else’s free time with yours, and it is not fair to them to act like they do not matter. You have involved someone else. Until you disengage from them, be courteous.

I’ll give you an example. When you ask for that starter on both your dash, then DMs, and act super hyped, getting the other mun excited for it, and then they put the time and effort into writing it up and posting it for you, expecting a reply? Only for you to go and make new blogs and immediately ditch that muse without a heads-up? That’s not really fair to the other mun. You communicated you wanted to write this, you hyped them up, they spent their time and writing spoons on your starter...and then you told them other people were more exciting and a better use of your time.

“BUT I DIDN’T TELL THEM THAT!”

Okay, so you didn’t message them ‘Hey loser, your starter sucked, your muse is boring, and honestly, a different fandom is better! Bye!’ But your actions sure give that impression, and unless you communicate otherwise, it’s a shitty move.

Now yes, sometimes you genuinely forget a starter was written because you thought it was drafted and it wasn’t, dumblr is an ass and loses your draft and then you forgot it, something came up that day and bumped it from your mind, etc. NONE OF THESE ARE WHAT I AM REFERRING TO. I have ADHD, object permanence is the thing my brain does where often unless it’s directly in front of my face, it doesn’t exist, until I find it again. I’m aware these things happen, as are most muns, and we don’t mind! Hell, we usually have in our rules “hey if it’s been a hot minute and we haven’t replied to this, feel free to give us a little nudge to see if it’s been lost” because we all know between brains and dumblr’s everlasting fuckery...shit gets lost.

I’m talking about those times where you just up and leave someone hanging without communication. I’m also not saying it might even be on purpose. What I’m saying is you should consider how other muns feel when you do this, and if you cannot avoid it, at least communicate with them.

“Hey, I’m just no longer going to be writing this muse. Sorry I had you write that starter. Do you want to try something with this new one? This is where my brain is at right now.” “Hey I really can’t be online this month thanks to fill-in-the-blank but I do still want to write when I am able.” “Hey, I see you sent in that ask. I’m only interested in this one ship, and I won’t be taking on new threads, but you’re welcome to follow and maybe I’ll take on new threads later. I’m just writing with these two people right now.”

Communication is something that is a requirement in a collaborative hobby.

I know it can be scary. I know the mentality ‘well they reblogged that meme but it’s not for me, I know they said they want to plot but they don’t mean me’, but you really have to get past that when you roleplay to be fair to other people.

Spoiler alert: the examples of shitty behavior further above are what help feed this ‘that post/meme isn’t for me’ mentality, when you do those things you’re fostering people’s anxiety and rejection sensitivity...just saying.

If someone gets mad at you for communicating with them, they’re a shitty person and block them. Literally if someone has a problem with you for trying to start something, especially as mutuals, you’re losing nothing by not writing with them. Find nicer people. So don’t be afraid to communicate you can’t write currently, you need a break, you’re only writing with these certain people. And don’t be afraid to send in the meme. I promise you, the right people appreciate courteous communication. The ones that don’t...

Again, no one is saying put your life on hold for RP, you’re never allowed to narrow your scope, you’re supposed to always have writing spoons, you need to produce five replies a day or you’re wrong, you always need to log-in to communicate you had a family emergency/depressive episode/etc.

What I am saying, is if you are capable of communicating, respect the time and energy of your fellow muns who may also be very low on spoons and free time themselves, and be honest about where you are at when it comes to taking on new threads, new asks, new partners, etc. Treat others how you want to be treated, and consider you probably wouldn’t like being on the receiving end of the behaviors I’ve described. If you need to be on the clock being paid to be a nice person...please re-evaluate.

#rp help #rph #roleplay psa #rp psa #rpc psa #rp etiquette #general etiquette

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white-tulips · 3 years ago

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well, since it’s 5 in the morning I think now’s the perfect time to ramble about my thoughts re: OMORI vs Yume Nikki game design, Black Space, and how trying to copy something successful kind of sets you up for missing the mark

these are thoughts I’ve been stewing in since january, I don’t want people to forget that I have a lot of opinions about OMORI as a game

(firstly, I’m sorry if this is all over the place or not worded well. it is 5AM)

I’ll preface this by saying that these are merely my opinions. I’m specifically going to be focusing on one aspect of game design here, so if you’re curious about any of my other OMORI game design opinions they’re scattered around my blog and are not hard to find tbh

okay so my thoughts about this are mostly Black Space exclusive, and considering that’s one of the climaxes of the game this might be a bit of a spicy subject to talk about KJFGHKFJG but I am passionate about good game design okay. especially in psychological horror RPG games. (also throwing out there jic that I don’t think OMORI is a bad psychological horror. pls reference this post)

(also want to say that I genuinely like Black Space. okay? okay)

so this was something that I was talking about with a couple of friends back when I first finished OMORI around the beginning of january. actually, at this point I hadn’t even played Yume Nikki yet, but when I did finally play it recently my thoughts on this were 100% solidified

essentially, our thoughts on this can be boiled down to how Black Space was trying too hard to be Yume Nikki, but didn’t grasp exactly what made Yume Nikki so impactful in the first place

obviously taking inspiration from something you like and wanting to rework it into your own creation is normal, good, and even encouraged! however, the most crucial thing with that is the “reworking” part. when being inspired by something, the goal is to take what you loved, and didn’t love, and mold it into something entirely new. it shouldn’t be “well I like this thing, and this thing did it like this so I’ll try to do it like that too” because it’s just not going to work. (this is actually an all around issue I have with OMORI, not just Black Space, but more on that later)

so to me, a good 50% of Black Space came of feeling kind of... eh...? it was like... you have 50% that feels so well thought out and meaningful, and then 50% that’s there just to. be there. and be like Yume Nikki, I guess. even before I played Yume Nikki, I couldn’t even remember some of the rooms in Black Space existed until I replayed it again, which is a shame because Black Space is the type of area where everything should leave an impact

now I want to talk about the game design itself-

Yume Nikki is a game about experiences, and atmosphere. there’s limitless area to explore, so much so that it feels endless. there are so few things to interact with that sometimes it feels like you’re doing nothing at all. all you have is aimlessly wandering these huge areas, taking in the sights, and listening to vague sounds and music in the background that are often just a few seconds of audio played on loop. (this is one of my favorite OST in the game. having this be all you hear for 30 minutes as you walk around in a looping forest really does things to your head)

it uses all of these elements to make you feel lost, confused, and very alone. you’re just trapped in a dream, where even with all the space in the world to explore, the lack of anything to do makes it feel suffocating. even the small area you have in the waking world is designed in such a way that feels cramped and destitute-

Yume Nikki is a perfect example of “less is more” and “show, don’t tell.”

then take OMORI, which doesn’t really know how to balance those things with it’s tendency to try and shove too much in. for instance, think about the over abundance if NPCs with irrelevant fluff dialogue. it was all too much and so dull it got to a point I stopped reading most of them altogether

(and something important to note I think, is that the general feeling of Yume Nikki is the same throughout the entire game. the tone never really changes, and neither do the expectations. OMORI, however, tends to just drop things on you out of nowhere. and that’s not necessarily a bad thing! it works for a lot of different sections of the game, I’ll say.

however, Black Space was different. it’s kind of like, it just drops you in there and expects you to understand the way it works, despite the fact that all of the other horror segments lead you to have a completely different set of expectations for what you should be doing/feeling. it’s like shifting you into another game entirely, and it’s almost immersion breaking. up until this point, OMORI was not the same type of “show don’t tell” type of game, so suddenly jumping to attempt to do that can make it lose some of it’s impact)

like I mentioned before, Black Space is designed in a way that’s meant to mimic Yume Nikki. and I think we need to ask ourselves “just because we can do this, does it mean that we should?” again, taking inspiration isn’t a bad thing, but it’s the execution that matters

and here’s where my biggest issue actually lies, I suppose. it’s the fact that OMORI has multiple instances of trying to take inspiration from other things, and failing because it’s trying too hard to copy, not rework. it’s just most obvious because of Black Space, I think. because, like I said before, a good half of Black Space is just trying to be Yume Nikki without giving it any OMORI original flavor, and the fact that it’s trying to be something else is immersive breaking as hell to me

for example, take the red mazes. I don’t think the idea to incorporate it into OMORI was bad, but. you can plainly see when you compare the two maps that nothing was really reworked, made more interesting, or even given a OMORI flavored twist-

(Yume Nikki-1 ; OMORI-2)

another instance is less about the game design itself, but surprising/not-surprisingly, it actually has to do with OST

this is something my friend was telling me, because I myself have not read Umineko, but there are OST in OMORI blatantly trying to mimic songs from that VN, even down to their names

the biggest offender imo is GOLDENVENGEANCE which is a decent song, I won’t say it isn’t, but compare it to it’s Umineko inspiration, Golden Slaughterer

it’s just another unfortunate instance of “this thing I like is good, so I’ll try to copy it!” with no clear grasp on why it’s successful and it’s disappointing. that’s really the only word I have for it at this point, disappointing

and the reason it’s most disappointing is because of things in OMORI that are obvious inspiration, but were reworked so well

let’s take this other Umineko OST, Worldend Dominator. this is a brilliant song, and it’s really fun to listen to. and, it very clearly inspired beloved World's End Valentine

World’s End Valentine slaps. it’s great. it takes aspects of Worldend Dominator and shifts them around to be a unique and fun piece of music that also fits into OMORI perfectly.

something important to note about this, is that World’s End Valentine and GOLDENVENGEANCE were written by two different composers. what this makes clear to me is that there were people on the OMORI dev team that were better at reworking ideas than others. because, despite a lot of the criticisms I was talking about, there are things in OMORI that are obvious references that I love and think are great!

like this one, the most pointed out nod to Yume Nikki-

I think it’s great. it’s taking a very memorable bit of imagery from Yume Nikki, and giving it a reference while also giving it it’s own deeper meaning beyond just the aesthetics of it. it’s just good, I love it

and yeah, not all of Black Space feels like one giant copy of Yume Nikki. there are plenty of doors that I think take the same aimless, empty, and unsettling feelings and use them in a new way that feels more grounded in OMORI. my personal favorite door is the “Sunny... I love you.” room.

actually, funnily enough, the area in OMORI that felt the most like Yume Nikki to me wasn’t in Black Space at all. it was actually the snowy area right before Snowglobe Mountain. something about the vast empty space, simple yet atmospheric OST, and little things to find scattered around just gave me a nice Yume Nikki vibe, but mixed with the OMORI style (hell, the OST there and the one for the snowy area in Yume Nikki even have a pleasantly similar vibe, and not in the “oh this is a copy” way [X] [X])

gosh, I feel like if I keep talking I might end up going in circles more than I already have

hopefully my words made sense!! I’d love if anything I said resonated with anyone aha. I just hope that I’m not coming across as hating on something because I’m biased towards something else or something... almost all of the critiques I have about OMORI come from a place of genuine interest

thank you if you read all of this!

#text #omori #omori spoilers #oh no tumblr user white tulips made another opinion post that took 3 hours to type #meta

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