#probably one of the most popular ARGs out there

[angyo]

Okay unsolicited rundown here, simply because it's the funniest fandom event I have had the pleasure of being active in fandom for. More spoilers for the anime here, but if you read this I assume you don't care. There's a read more since it's long, also some more posts I find funny under it and previous bandori incest (which is less explicit iirc but still pretty damn obvious).

The post you mean is probably this one:

But the one I find funnier is this one (The VAs are all in on the ship and they KNEW it was incest from the start! They watched the full anime a year in advance of us! Not gonna do a rundown of their interviews but Ricochi especially seems to push the boundaries of what she's allowed to say about it):

What made it truly an event to experience is that the last 5 episodes of the anime had already been leaked, but it was in Chinese. MyGO got super popular in China, so the most anticipated anime of the season for them was it's sequel Ave Mujica. But with Chinese censorship, the whole anime had to get looked over before being released in China and one of the censors leaked a summary of the last 5 episodes well in advance. The reason we got posts like this is because the leaks finally reached EN after episode 10, so there was a full week of time to be in denial before getting slammed in the face with episode 11.

Why didn't they reach EN sooner then? CN fandom got itself a reputation for whining about stupid bullshit after one of the girls is explicitly stated to have a mental illness much of CN saw as too fantastical. A real mental illness portrayed much more sensitively and accurately here than it basically ever is in fiction, but like a million CN fans were pissed about it. So when CN got the leaks, 90% of the discussion of them that EN could see was just more ableism making it easy to dismiss any incest allegations as just more stupid bullshit getting made up.

Until episode 10 aired, and Sadaharu (Sakiko's grandpa) called Uika "Hatsune" in the very last moments of the episode. Compounding on this, there were no preview pics for the next episode. Only things we'd already seen, and the VAs were hyping it up a LOT. In the excitement, suddenly many EN folks found the leaks. I don't know the exact vector for it but I assume someone saw how long CN fans had been calling Uika "Hatsune" and connected the dots, then told everyone they could reach. So we got the gold of a million posts deep in denial. Despite the fact the leaks had been correct for every episode previous we assumed it was a boldfaced lie or some kind of misreading of subtext. No way they actually did incest, bandori wouldn't do that psssh (note: they have been toeing the line for years*).

Then episode 11 airs, and this is the 4th spoken line in the episode, 50 seconds in.

And the fandom lost it. MyGO had been out for a over a year now, and Ave Mujica had been set up since even before MyGO aired. There was a whole ARG to introduce them, and all the major characters were introduced in MyGO enough to have an inkling of who they are. VA interviews and concerts stirred up uisaki shipping even more waaay ahead of Ave Mujica, so people had been making fic and art for a year by now, all of which was retroactively incest.

Some ragequit show the second uika said that, not even finishing the episode. Some were deep in denial, using Uika being titled "weaver of lies" to reason that the episode she tells the truth in as best as she knows it was all a lie. Some who previously knew there was 0 way to deny Uika's romantic feelings for Sakiko started finding ways to do just that. I saw someone on tiktok say "as a toxic yuri fan I have limits" while brandishing fucking kitakawa and mahoako as examples (kitakawa is high schoolers doing poorly communicated BDSM to each other, mahoako is middle schoolers raping each other also with BDSM involved. It's all fiction so I don't personally care, but for people with a line INCEST is where you draw it?? After violent sexual assault involving children???). Folks who had been cheering for toxic yuri after Imprisoned XII and Crucific X (X pronounced kiss) suddenly switched teams.

Some in denial were hoping episode 12 would revoke it, especially since they were all blaming the director and 12 was stated explicitly to be written mostly by the woman they all like.

This post shows an array of the reactions that were being had at the time:

But no, all that happened was Uika getting everything she dreamed of from Sakiko and uisaki fans getting some great scenes to take out of context.

Episode 11 also had some great out of context bits mind you, I just didn't have anywhere to fit HatsuBark previously.

(She is repeatedly yelling "Saki-chan!")

That is far from a comprehensive summary because there was a lot happening concurrently and I am far from the most tuned in to everything happening in EN spaces let alone CN and JP. But that's the gist of it, and god it is funny.

And for that * here's bandori previously demonstrating that at least SOMEONE on staff was frothing at the mouth to do incest since long before AveMyGO was a thing.

Udagawa sisters:

Hikawa twins:

(Orihime and Hikoboshi are mythical lovers separated by the Milky Way that see each other once a year during tanabata)

can we have some ave mujica on here 🥺

Ave Mujica is an all-girl band in the BanG Dream! franchise. The group consists of five members, namely Misumi Uika (Doloris) on lead guitar and vocals, Wakaba Mutsumi (Mortis) on rhythm guitar, Yahata Umiri (Timoris) on bass, Yuutenji Nyamu (Amoris) on drums, and Togawa Sakiko (Oblivionis) on keyboard.

There's also an anime about it.

- It's that I googled, Anon, I assume if you're writing here it has incest ships? But you'll have to elaborate 😂

[stari-hun]

More No Storm but Vertin has a Time Traveling Arcanum Content

Inaccurately Named Modern AU

* Apeiron

I think with like knowledge and math becoming more accessible sooo many people in Apeiron would go to the outside world to share their knowledge because 77 (37s mom) showed that even the people most faithful to their school of thought are interested in calculation machines. Give them Mathway.com and people would lose their minds.

6 would be a professional gamer. In fact he’d take so well to modern society that he’d be one of those people thriving in the 2020 lockdown and being away from Apeiron. Afterwards he’d also recover fast and put daily walks into his schedule or something cause he knows how badly his physical would’ve gotten. 6 would have an Instagram that’s the weirdest thing ever. People use it as inspiration for arg characters because he unintentionally posts with the vibe of someone extremely inhuman, and even though with the internet most humans would be aware of nonhuman arcanist they’d still be like what… There’s several video essays breaking down theories on who or what he might be. On the other side his posts are all pictures of objects he sees on daily walks that he sees have interesting dimensions to them or placement in a scene. The issue is that he doesn’t give any preamble or context to his math like 210 who wants to share math with the world would, or 37 who genuinely wants to teach, he just drops it in the caption and closes the app. He’d also have a YouTube explaining how he wins matches with others and insane speedrun content and how he beats games in under three minutes in extremely stupid calculations and exploits. His uploads are once in a blue moon but he’s a really popular faceless YouTuber (unlike 37 he reads comments and thinks about the questions he gets a lot, and even answers them in other videos). Also his like daily wanderings until he wants to go back home and risk interaction with others.

37 would get ahold of the internet like fish to water. She’d be an early YouTuber on 6’s recommendation and get super popular without realizing it. Her upload schedule is a “think of something start recording it and post with little to no editing” kinda style that for her ends up being 6-12 videos per week. 37 probably wouldn’t even realize there’s a comment section but Sophia knows it. Sometimes she’ll relay the comments to her from fans if they’re questions or constructive, but she mostly keeps them for herself because she’s happy 37 is branching out even if she isn’t entirely meaning too. I think 37’s content is a personality type. She’s giving constructive lessons that are informative but her personality and voice made her gain an audience mostly there to listen to her as background noise while she does homework. She does have a very loyal core audience of economists and radiologists since the topic she circles back around to the most is patterns in the weather and how they can be applied to daily life. Her most viewed video would be a super complicated explanation on how to predict when the next storm will happen in your area, and the top comment is a link to a website where someone made it into a calculator (it works with like a 5% chance of error). Also fun fact Vertin tried to use it once and the website was down for a week after she tried it. Sophia would have more kids centered content. Her follower base would mostly be parents who sit their kids in front of an iPad during work, but heavily monitoring their internet use and want them to watch content that’s good for them. She’d be faceless but unintentionally blow up super hard for story reading content, and her process for making up original stories. Afterwards she’d take a huge social media break entirely, only helping 37 with hers before slowly going back to her usual audiobook content with locked comments.

On that note, it’s slightlyyyy canon based, but I also think 210 would become good friends with Sweetheart after the island opened up and he reached out to her through Pandora to be their liaison. They’d do a ton of promotions and fashion statements. 210 already has an established interest in beauty, arts, and how they tie to math, and Sweetheart as a person who’s mathematically perfect would be his best excuse to study arts. Then Sweetheart would enjoy the company of any asexual, especially if they’re good for her image, and 210 is genuinely there to vibe and enjoy the beauty of the world. I also feel like he’d have one of those instagrams where he’s super popular for his looks but vast majority of his posts are sky pics and pictures of flora he sees.

I think in the story Sweetheart and Pandora are already on pretty good terms but I think in a Modern!Twist AU Pandora would be even more active in her writing. I think she’d have a small but famous journalism company where she employs only those she deems have a fresh perspective in a way she can’t supply. I talk about it in my other post, but Marcus interns there after getting an associates degree journalism during her dual enrollment and finishing Highschool. 210 and her run top series in UTTU for numbers and art analysis in a way people hadn’t thought of before, and Marcus runs a deep dive on historical spaces and the hidden stories within them.

UTTU would sometimes have interview segments where guest slots of an employee’s choosing (approved of by Pandora) will get a special feature. Windsong is the most reoccurring interviewee alongside Vila for research papers in ley lines and ecosystem observations respectively. Both are very popular features every time due to how they provide perspective on Marcus’ and 210’s segments.

[lady-arc-art]

THEORY: “Welcome Home, my son…”

For a while I wondered why puppets are used specifically to help tell the story of this ARG? Then it was brought to my attention from another Welcome Home fan that maybe there are some parallels to the story of Pinocchio. In versions of the story, Geppetto had a real son that passed away and from his grief he created a wooden puppet that looked like his son, who would later become Pinocchio.

I also think it kind of is that way because there’s a big emphasis on family and children/babies in this update. With Howdy’s family coming over for the Homewarming, Julie and Frank trying to get everyone to be quiet so they don’t wake up the flowers and bugs that are hibernating (which is something parents do when they don’t want any loud noises that could wake up a sleeping baby), and the commercials targeted towards children, also Frank singing a lullaby and Wally singing a song about children going to a place called Toy Land and never leaving.

Then it hit me, sorry if any of this sounds fanfic-y or if I’m reaching a bit, but this is what think could be going on.

In the early-mid 60s, Ronald Dorelaine was a children’s entertainer, specializing in puppetry. He ran a troupe with some of his other puppeteer friends called “The Playfellow Puppets” and they would put on little puppet shows as part of the children’s theater slot at the local community centers.

The cast of characters included (and in order of creation): Julie Joyful (she was the first created since she’s a simple hand rod puppet), Frank Frankly, Eddie Dear, Sally Starlight, Howdy Pillar, and Poppy Partridge.

Since a part of me feels like almost everyone else was created before Wally and Home also it would make sense if Poppy was kind of “new” since she’s the most complex puppet to operate.

Ronald Dorelaine had a young son who would often tag along during his father’s performances, and his son’s named was Walliford, but sometimes his dad would call him “Wally.” Walliford was very fascinated with his father’s work and the characters he created, and one of his favorite things to do was draw and paint, hoping that someday he would create something when he grows up just like his father. Walliford even helped Ronald come up with a new character for “The Playfellow Puppets.” Barnaby B. Beagle. A blue dog that was inspired by one of his son’s drawings.

Which would explain this.

Ronald’s puppet shows started becoming so popular that it even started gaining attention from producers of a local tv station (sort of similar to PBS) where they offered Ronald the idea to turn his puppet show into a television series. Ronald took up on the offer, and the show began to develop. However a tragedy would soon happen….

Ronald was a heavy smoker (hence why there is a a big emphasis on cigarette ads in the recent update):

One day when trying to discard a cigarette before Ronald had to leave the house (possibly to go to a last minute meeting with the producers that would be helping him develop his new tv show). However he was unaware that the cigarette was still lit, and it set a fire to his home. Ronald was safe because he wasn’t in the house at the time of the fire, but his son Walliford was nowhere to be found and his body was never recovered so he’s presumed dead.

(Probably hinted at when Home’s eyes turned red in the commercial compilations)

I also think maybe Eddie’s puppeteer was a witness or somehow involved with this incident (possibly because he agreed to watch Walliford while his dad went out) since I noticed during his breakdown, everything turned bright red and Eddie looks like he feels guilty about something, hence why he’s sweating and Home appears to be starring him down as if he did something.

From his grief and in order to cope with the loss of his son, Ronald created a new character as a tribute to him. Wally Darling, and from there the plot of the show changed. The show would now be about a neighborhood, all of the previous characters would be neighbors with Wally Darling, who would now be the lead of the show. Ronald also added some traits that were present in Walliford, such as his love for art and his friendship with Barnaby (who was Walliford’s favorite of the group) for the new Wally character.

Then for a last minute edition, Ronald included a sentient home for Wally to live in. The Home was meant to keep Wally the puppet safe and to watch out for him, which was something he wasn’t able to do for his son.

Hence why the title of the show changed to “Welcome Home,” since to him he wanted it to feel like his son now has a second chance at life and he’s finally back home where he belongs. Almost like saying “Welcome home, my son.”

However none of this was enough for Ronald, even though he created a new character to keep Walliford’s memory alive, it was hard for him to find a puppeteer to play Wally because it wasn’t the same. All he really wanted was his son back and he would go to whatever means necessary even if it means going to the extreme. He later came across “the entity” and made a wish for Wally Darling to become real (like how Geppetto wished for Pinocchio to be real and The Blue Fairy brought him to life). And with that his wish came true. Wally was now sentient without the use of puppeteer.

I kind of believe this to be the case because Wally to me feels like the odd man out, everyone else feels lively and zany since they’re real people, while Wally just feels like a blank slate, with the way he speaks sounding very monotone. Here there was a bit of an innocence to Wally since he’s always learning things for the first time and asking questions about certain concepts and feelings, since he was literally a puppet brought to life and “the baby” of the group. However the producers, and parents watching the show didn’t think it was odd since they thought Wally was like this since he was meant to be a character that children can project themselves onto.

However what everyone didn’t know is that the entity that helped bring Wally to life manifested it’s way into the show possessing The Home puppet, and since Wally had no one attached to a real person playing him, the entity used Wally as a vessel to carry out their agenda. Day after day, the show started to go more and more off the rails, but what was really happening was through Wally the entity started to brainwash each of the puppeteers into believing that they were the actual characters, possibly by using the sleeping pills advertised in the commercials, or there was foul play on Ronald’s end and he gave all his puppeteers the sleeping pills to “put them out of their misery.”

By 1974, Ronald tried to put a stop to the entity, and he had no other choice but to end the show and destroy all the evidence that it ever happened. Ronald himself also began to slowly disappear from the public eye and he hasn’t been seen since then.

For years “Welcome Home” has gone on being a lost media, until now.

That’s not the end of story, because it turns out the real Wally Darling, Walliford Dorelaine, is actually still alive, but he has amenesia from the incident and he was no memories of his previous life. Doesn’t know what his real name is (it probably started with a W) or who his parents were, which is why he was never brought back to Ronald. By the time Walliford grew up, his friends started talking about this mysterious puppet show that was on TV years ago called “Welcome Home” which was kind of like Sesame Street, but they all thought it was some kind of urban legend. Then suddenly Walliford started getting all these tattered artwork and pictures of merchandise from the show they were talking about, and he showed it to his friends and together they formed The Welcome Home Restoration Group to try and uncover the mysterious Welcome Home show.

Walliford however started experiencing strange feelings both physically and mentally. There were times when he doubted if the show was even real, but whenever he did have any doubt, he had dreams and hallucinations of Wally Darling trying to communicate with him through the phone and he also starts seeing all these strange video clips from the show itself sprinkled throughout the website that he and the team built. The team however started growing concerned for Walliford thinking that he “lost his mind” so they kindly tried to distance themselves from him while they are trying to rebrand the site after seeing that Walliford was trying to communicate with what he believed to be Wally Darling haunting the site, before they shut it down.

This only caused Walliford to create his own website with his own evidence, since it seems like his own restoration team is starting to mistrust him, and now he’s going to get to the bottom of this all by himself.

But what they all don’t know is that Walliford’s connection to “Welcome Home” goes much deeper than that, as it’s in his blood.

[fraudulent-cheese]

Hiiiii

Saw the tier list, I would love If you elborated on Sierra as I too love her and think she's fun and loved her friendship with Heather (yes I consider it friendship)

Yay let's go i got asked to elaborate!!!

Sierra's definitely one of the first characters that grew on me thanks to participating in the fandom; she has one of the most interesting premises in the entire first generation cast, that of a super dedicated fangirl who knows everything about everyone, and seeing people play with it in fan works is really fun!

Her personality's great for one, she's passionate and incredibly enthusiastic but also very socially awkward. She's very knowledgeable about her interests, and she's generally just very relatable to me?? Her hobbies are (mostly) internet centered and she's so excitable and fun and lonely and talented, she's got so many little interesting things about her!

Like, even in her delivery or lines or even animation sometimes! Her voice actress does an amazing job with her performance to the point even her crying sounds good??? How do you do that??? Also like look at this. She's adorable. And she's actually funny.

Some of my favorite headcanons regarding her are:

her being autistic (or generally just neurodivergent), mostly thanks to her fixation on Total Drama and just. Her everything. She's stimming in that GIF i don't think i could make it more obvious if i tried

Her being aromantic, as i read her crush on Cody as being one she picked herself out of the cast of Total Drama; he's a nerdy guy so there's the relatability, part of a popular boyband so he's unobtainable and would read as a more "normal" crush to have (and she could probably find like-minded folks online), and she's developped a pretty big parasocial attachment to all the cast thanks to knowing so much about them. She's isolated enough to not have much of a reference point for how romantic feelings operate for most people and i already headcanon her as neurodivergent which wouldn't help. She really seems like the type that would mistake platonic appreciation for a close friend as romantic attraction or on the flipside just. Not knowing what to picture in a romantic relationship yes im projecting shush

Her more specific hobbies she got into to get more positive attention from others or generally just as something to do with her time pre TD obsession; for instance i think she's a huge fan of kandi bracelets, and the culture surrounding them she was exposed to online. I also think she'd have an interest in different dance styles since she already knows German Slap dancing. Also stem. Specifically mechanics and physics.

She'd totally be into ARGs or Lost Media searches, or just any kind of Internet puzzle. She's clearly good at doing research, i say she'd love helping solve an internet mystery if it's related to one of her passions!

Rerailing back to her character for a second, i wish the series used her knowledge on the show and the contestants more! It's set up early on that she dislikes Alejandro, and in an early episode she tries taking advantage of Heather trying to manipulate her by pretending to fall for it; heck, in the very next episode when Heather talks strategy, Sierra actually plays along! Sierra's also VERY physically strong, like she's one of the most athletic Total Drama characters period. She's an absolute powerhouse and i find it really sad that the Cody obsession kinda took over that.

You specifically mention her friendship with Heather and like!!! I get the heatherra heads, i see the vision there's totally something there! Honestly wish they tried pulling an alliance plotline between the two that lasted longer than two or three episodes because they bounce off eachother so well!

Neither of them have very good social skills and neither of them seem very aware of this, but they express this in different ways; Heather pushes people away, she's mean, she's got sharp edges and she's not hiding from them, she's not easily vulnerable and when she is it's strategic; she was raised on superficiality and it shows. Meanwhile, Sierra's overly friendly, she's talkative, cheerful and seemingly naive, she seems far more interested in others than herself, but she's still strategic. [it's a small thing i noticed, when she reveals something about her family on the show it's usually because a challenge prompts it] Point is, they contrast in their attitudes, but are both intelligent and aware of the game they're playing. I love the idea of them falling into a friendship via alliance, Sierra could actually get to know another contestant as an actual person and not via obsessive research, and Heather could form an actual friendship with someone who accepts her, nerdy interests in all. And they'd 100% call eachother out on their respective bullshit if needed, like actually

Back on topic, i think an interesting thing about Sierra in TDAS is that out of the first gen cast, she's the one who connects the most with the roti guys. Granted, most of her teammates are from the second generation, and the only one that aren't either really doesn't like her or are Lindsay and get eliminated one episode in.

But! she seems to get along with them at first, which is very different from her first impression with the first gen cast which was negative leaning neutral at best. She befriends Sam and Cameron (at first), and she says Svetlana's her favorite alter, and i bet she'd get along with Zoey and Mike too!

Now on the topic of her canon plotline... i do actually have something to say, and i only thought of it while writing this post.

i'll preface this analysis im about to do by saying that i haven't watched All-Stars. All of this is going to be second hand info i've learned by looking at the wiki and reading other people's thoughts, so i may be off base at a couple points, HOWEVER.

I think that while her plotline during TDAS is dogshit and an attempt to do the World Tour running gag again but worse, there is something interesting set up here: how the Cody hallucination starts. Cameron is mostly victim to it, but she does just hallucinate her entire team as cody at one point (after prompting by Sam to cheer herself up). Im mostly going to focus on the Cameron bit, but... The hallucinations start when she's actually befriended Cameron.

I don't think this comes out of nowhere, as Cody and Sierra were friends at that point in time after all. And while the hallucinating bit is uh. Concerning and a weird decision. That says alot about this girl's social life AND her familial situation overall if being friendly to her is equated to being the one guy she's obsessed with.

Her mother (and possibly Grandparents, she does say she's a "third generation Chris scholar in Celebrity Manhunt) is completely obsessed with Chris Mclean, and her knowing all about Chris's career and liking him, while it's only relevant for one or two episodes, definitely comes from that. Her mom has a fucking SHRINE dedicated to the man, there's no way part of Sierra's interest in Chris doesn't at least partially come from her!

I generally think Sierra's neglected by her parents. She's super online and seemingly super lonely (like. she says herself at one point that she didn't make any friends at school), so there's a possibility that her friendship with Cody off the show was the first actual friendship she had. Being obsessed with the person you like was her normal for almost all her life, is it really a surprise that once she'd lost her other source of comfort (internet access) on a show as stressful as Total Drama, that her brain would react like this? Ok, maybe not with the hallucinations. BUT MY STATEMENT STILL STANDS, that if we're taking canon's decisions into account, her plotline in tdas doesn't come out of nowhere.

I mean it's also due to the writters apparently trying their hardest to not write Sierra as a person on her own and needing to shove Cody into it because surprise surprise he was planned to be on All-Stars but got cut from the season and im convinced the Sierra plotline was a remnant of that draft but this isn't about him and it still sucks anyways what was i talking about

IN SUMMARY: Uh i like Sierra. Literally me. I don't know where i was going with this

[eruditic-akechi]

Methinks the hexenzirkel in a modernized teyvat would be so funny,,, I could see them all having some kind of YouTube channel or otherwise making vids,,, if their content breached containment from their relatively niche demographic, people would probably start to theorize that they're a part of some super elaborate ARG. They really wouldn't talk about each other by name in their videos, but people would piece together that this group of insane women live together.

Rhine would have her makeup and true crime/ethical scandal/bioalchemy content, which seems normal enough until she spends too long pointing out the inaccuracies of homunculus creation in media and people find an older video where she left a clip of her telling Albedo to stop Klee from doing Klee things and is like "sorry my son and my... Friend's daughter are getting into trouble again." How did none of her fans know about her having a SON? HOW IS HE AN ADULT THEY ALL THOUGHT SHE WAS LIKE 25??? HOW OLD IS SHE?? people would start to ask about Albedo and she'd dodge the question because she knows the average person would not appreciate her creation. She'd respond like "Do you ask every woman how she got her children?" COMPLETELY deadpan homegirl stopped in the middle of putting on eyeliner in the middle of a video about answering comments😭

Nicole would have a YouTube channel that's like Alternate History but it's actually her describing things changed in irminsul half the time and the other half is just what she thinks would happen based off of her being around,,, for a long time with some actual history about long gone civilizations. But her Real History takes aren't the popular propagandized takes and it'd almost seem fabricated but she has actual sources they're just the weirdest most specific sources ever😭 I can't tell if she'd take herself overly seriously or if she'd have titles like "What REALLY wiped out the Seelie race 😏🤔" "what if there were TWO dendro archons🤯⁉️" on the outside her channel is actually somehow the most normal because they just think she's a history buff and she has no personal presence to theorize about. People have asked for a face reveal and she just posted a pic of the shitty stick person persona she uses in her videos. The Instagram she uses to be a public menace is completely separate and literally no one besides her friends can connect the two. Her history Instagram only OCCASIONALLY posts announcements about new videos,,, but she posts high quality videos at a terrifying pace but only announces like,,, once a month EKWORUEH She's really in her element... she gets to yap about whatever she wants and no one knows anything about her besides what her voice sounds like

Alice would make vlogs that are like the teyvat travel guide but she'd make comments that would make people go ???? Like she eats at a traditional Inazuman restaurant and she talks about how "it's not actually that traditional because it was prepared very differently 200 years ago... but it still tastes good! Just in a different way!" and people wonder 1) how did u get into Inazuma when it's locked tf down and 2) how do you know what this tasted like back then!? Also after having Klee, she's the occasional mommy blogger but like conscientious,, she hides Klees face and probably puts a filter over her voice and DOESN'T over share!! if she gets weird comments about Klee she's not afraid to put them on public blast (she'll sic Nicole on them Godspeed)🙏 but she'd post pics of mommy daughter matching outfits or Klees drawings,,, I can also see her being the type of mom that recreates an interaction between her and Klee by herself. ALSO I can completely see her fan base thinking she's straight (mostly because she has a biological child and she doesn't really talk about Rhine or any relationship) and going absolutely apeshit when she posts a photo of her holding a lesbian flag💚 usually she can't fool anybody but ig the camera adds a straight filter to her

Andersdotter would mostly do author Q&A lives and things like that. Honestly most people brushed over her presence as just an average author, but people that happened to be fans of both her and one of the others started noticing shit with her vids. She tied them together without even trying,,, like someone on a live asked what a normal signed copy looks like vs a personalized signing and she was like "oh! I actually have examples on hand! I gave Klee and Albedo specially signed copies! 🥰" and fans were like THEE ALBEDO???? WHO ELSE WOULD HAVE THAT NAME?

Barbeloth seems like she'd only have Tik Tok lives where she "predicts" the future. She plays it up a lot and has a whole set up. Goin above and beyond with multiple sets of tarot cards that she cycles through and the table is decorated with candles, crystals, incense, probably some herbs for good measure, and of course her scry glass. Most of it is for show because she knows embracing the imagery only adds to the appeal,,, and she finds it kinda fun to go all out. Mona's on it sometimes to "demonstrate what she's learned" (she wanted to spend time with barbeloth 😞🙏) and most of what people know about her outside of Divination and Astrology comes from her interactions with Mona. Tbh I'm just thinking about the tea leaf reading scene from Coraline because that's exactly how they'd be,,, they're seeing the same things but are coming to different conclusions and will bicker over it.

Ivanovna is still a mystery to me because we know SO little about her😭😭 like I don't really have any idea what she'd initially post about but I can see her having an Instagram and one day she purges most posts except for a few palatable/very nostalgic posts with her friends and then there's like,,, a year gap between the last hexenzirkel hangout post and wedding photos and then she posts only about her new home life. Every current post is flooded with comments from the other girls flipping between hyping her up and crying that they miss her. She gets ratioed in the most affectionate way possible. The comments are shit like "PLEASE GIVE ME (ANOTHER) CHANCE I CAN TREAT YOU BETTER" "sometimes her ghost still haunts me😞" "Snezhnaya is melting because of how hot you are" if Nicole was being particularly unhinged she'd probably bark😭

AND THEN AFTER PEOPLE START WONDERING IF/HOW THEY ALL KNOW EACH OTHER SOMEONE FINDS AN ABANDONED ACCOUNT THAT ALL OF THEM USED the videos have like less than 20 views but it's the most cracked out shit ever. This is where the fake haunting videos reside and since they look so convincing (because yknow,, Nicole is just causing a ruckus) and no one can find a logical explanation internet theorists go crazy and come up with theories about how this was all preplanned as a long haul ARG that spans across multiple platforms across multiple accounts and that all of the girls' eccentricities are a part of the set up😭 and none of them address it because they don't wanna fight over old ass videos they made while under the influence

[magpies4nights]

21, Falling Down the Stairs (Dev log #16)

Well, it’s been an uneventful 2 weeks since I’ve last updated y’all. I’ve completely finished the computer thing I showed y'all last time, teehee. I'm not gonna say what exactly it is but there's a good route and a bad route, I guess you could say lol. I also made some more sprites because it made me really mad. Therapy <3333

Scale Dummy core teehee

I still haven't figured out the optimizing thing though, because every tip I could find was for 3d stuff, and the 2d questions would always be "answered" with "why do you need culling for a 2D game? It has less data." THIS SCENE IS SO HEAVY MY COMPUTER CRASHES WHEN IT'S NOT IN THE EDITOR, AND IT'S FROM 2019!!! THAT'S NOTHING IN AGE!!!! Wait, is it something??? I don't even know anymore god how long ago was 2019?? Arg.

(AI disturbance overlay from: https://www.tumblr.com/arson-jellyfish69/750555399114080256/put-these-on-the-top-layer-above-everything-set)

But anyways, I'm pretty sure if I got a brand spanking new computer and I ran that puppy on the computer it would start coughing and dying. I've also been thinking of updating the demo again, because I kinda feel bad that it's been left untouched since like May, and some things have changed. Maybe mid June???? July???? I don't know. I'll definitely change the secret room, because I realized if people discovered it by now, they probably are walking into the walls and not realizing it because they are invisible, I remember once I was showing one of my friends that room and she did that and I had to help her. I am top 10 game designers, I know /j

...Anyways, I can't think up on references right now, my brain is mush LMAO. however, since it's pride month...

Yeah, we got the pride flags out. Huah. (not a ship. They're related and Priyah is a minor)

I would have put my headcannons for the cannon GASA4AM:SC characters but They're pretty much popular headcannons sooooo, yeah. lmao. I also kinda don't feel like drawing anymore right now.

Well, I don’t know if I can talk about my life anymore. It’s for personal reasons, honestly. All I can really say is that the weather has been crazy, there was a time when the region I lived in had no power for several hours because of a storm, and that I started summer classes. They are pretty hectic, I'm not gonna lie. I ended up with health problems, AGAIN, so now I'm eating the world's most blandest foods until I'm in better shape. Which honestly I'm thinking it's when they end and I'm guaranteed passing grades (I'd be so happy if I get 70's). I wish I could say what’s on my mind, but right now I can’t. I honestly don’t know when I can again. It’s not for professionalism, I honestly doubt my future employers will somehow link this back to me, as much as I feel like people will try to dig up my past and my present. I'm thinking though once I'm done with this fan game I might have have to stop making games under this name, as gut wrenching as that is. I had to come to that realization, I was incredibly disappointed, trust me. I've been thinking on this since March when my dad was mad at me but if I want to make money, I'll have to go under a different name. I'll see you there when I crossed that bridge though, I'm not going anytime soon with the way this fan game is going LMAOOOO.

[hadescrow333]

As this is my first post, I find it appropriate to start off withe the beginning of creation (accourding to Greek mythology of course)

This portion of the myth will not be dedicated to the gods singular, those will be later posts where each god/titan/etc gets their own post

There are many different stories contradicting eachother, so I’ll try my best to either explain each one or just go withe the one that’s most popular

In the beginning of creation there was only khaos, whom was a great void of nothingness (so very chaotic right?). Then suddenly pop came Gaia, who’s basically Mother Nature earth peep, Tartarus, the deepest pits of the underworld (I love this word TaRtArUs), Eros (but honestly I think it means the personification of love instead of EROS EROS because most versions state Eros is Aphrodite’s child), then Erebus, Darkness (and an amazing name to name a cat), and Nyx, the night (another great cat name) (also the only peep Zeus fears, which I think is pretty cool)

So Gaia (without the help of male productivity) then gave birth to Uranus, who is the sky and I will call Ouranos because that is what I was taught when learning Greek mythology (books my peeps)

Though some accounts state that Gaia and Ouranos were both made from Chaos instead of Gaia birthing him.

Oh and cool little fact, the sky was thought to be a brass dome by the Greeks, and Ouranos was the personification to that brass dome. Brass you may ask? Why brass? Why so specific? That’s the same question I thought to myself, and therefore searched for the answer and actually there was a reason for this. The Greeks did not think of colour in colour, but in scales of brightness. And I guess the Greek thought the sky was shiny, like brass. (Think of that one piece of work where the ocean was deemed wine dark)

Oh I also should probably add that the family history includes Erebus overthrowing Chaos, and then Erebus being overthrown by his children, but that’s a long story I’ll dedicate to another post)

Gaia and Ouranos then became a thAng, and I could go all poetic about how oh the sky and the earth were bound for loneliness so against the odds given to them they became one together, but no I’m not going to because I’m such a good poet. I digress.

Oh and my dude Ouranos decided it would be cool to decree himself supreme deity, cool cool my(😬) dude.

Anyways, Gaia and Ouranos hit it off and had some premeditated children. (Yes. This wording is purposeful. No. I will not explain.)

Now to go into the kids of Ouranos, yay..

(There is no foreshadowing here folks!)

So Ouranos sired children withe Gaia, the first set being six sons. Three Cyclops (one eyed peeps), there names being Brontes, Arges, aand Steropes. And three (insert me staring at the google search of how to spell this) Hecatonchires, named Briares, Cottus, and Gyges. They were dubbed the One Hundred Handed Ones(I’m pretty sure if you’ve read Percy Jackson Briares is in a part of it(?))

Well, Ouranos was awfully concerned about how powerful these giants are, so he locked them away. There is some debate about where he locked them up, but it’s widely believed he locked them in the deepest pits of Tartarus.

Gaias, as most mothers would, did not quite agree withe this, and wasn’t all too happy withe him. This is fine, nothing is bound to happen right? (…)

Oh little fun fact about myself, while doing this I had my big ole mythology book that I love and have no recollection of getting (I just found out I stole it from my father, and he’s never getting it back), but do know it is a good flower press. And very informative (which is good because it’s huge and has a very decient portion that is deticated to Greek myths yay) My delicate dried flowers are falling (I mean, sorta, I would never actually let them fall but they are taking damage and potential destruction so it COUNTS) as I type this out, know I have sacrificed greatly to bid thee information I already know and honestly only need the book for spelling (yes I am proud of my useless knowledge of Greek myths) I DIGRESS.

So as this is happening (or maybe after, it doesn’t directly state, only specifically states that the giants were first created before the titans) Gaia also birthed the 12 Titans. Who are Oceanus, Tethys, Hyperion, Theia, Coeus, Phoebe, Kronos, Rhea, krios, Japetus, Themis, and Mnemosyne.

So Oceanus was the titan god of the great oceanic river that forever circles the world. (I. WILL. EXPLAIN. In another post this is getting long and I’m not even halfway done) His wife is his sister Tethys (if you don’t like it go away because you definitely won’t like Greek mythology, oh and they practically don’t have the same DNA or morals as us sooo)

Hyperion was the first sun god, and his sister Theia was his wife.

(You do not know how hard it is to not digress and spill facts and stories BECAUSE THERES SO MUCH THAT ISNT SAID ON HERE the only thing saving me is that I have other posts I can rant about them on)

Coeus, who isn’t very important other then his offsprings tales, wived his sister Phoebe.

Kronos, the youngest of the bunch, married to Rhea, who was the titan of motherhood, and other foreshadowing things.

Ok this is getting long the rest of them are Krios, Japetus, Themis (goddess of justice), and Mnemosyne (goddess of memory)

So let’s get back to Gaia, as I said before she was livid at Ouranos for ya know yeeting her giant children to the great pits of Tartarus, and then imprisoning her titan children in her womb, so she took her titan children and was all like “oh my dear lovelys please go kill your father for me?” And then committed one of the most famous divorces in all of mythology.

Gaia created flint to make a sickle, then once done making it she told one of her titan children to murder their father withe it. I like to guess all of them looked at her in bafflement, for none of them took the sickle from her offered hand, except for one. (Insert mic drop)

Kronos, youngest and seemingly weakest decided he was worthy and took the sickle.

Then they conspired a plan, the plan being several versions. The main version being; for Kronos to strike once Ouranos and Gaia are settled down to lay, and the some of the other titans holding him down (another post my friends another post). So this is what Kronos did.

Once Ouranos was laying down withe Gaia, Kronos went boo, and castrated Ouranos withe the sickle. He then threw the genitals into the ocean (where Aphrodite was created by the sea foam where the genitals fell, later on but that’s a story for another post) From his blood giants popped up, as well as the Erinyes, furies who tormented the criminal minds later on when humans were a thing, and ash tree nymphs.

It’s not stated clear what exactly happened to Ouranos, some versions state that he died, that he withdrew from the earth, or that he exiled himself to Italy. (Yes. Italy. Very specific right? And there. Is. No. Elaboration.) All that’s known is that as he deported he said the Kronos “you shall be punished” (very original)

Yup ok that’s all I’ll do the gods and that age later byeee

[mask131]

I hadn’t planned for this post, I’m just throwing this right now.

I used to regularly look at channels that covered creepy Internet incidents, weird ARGs, bizarre Youtube videos, the debunking of horror rumors, etc etc... I used ot but I don’t anymore - not because my passion for these videos has stopped, but because so many of those I followed shifted their content to “true crime” and talking about actual murders and suicide cases, and stuff that have nothing to do with either 1- fictional horror or 2- the Internet. 

If I want to see “true crime” content, I won’t look at a random Youtube video, I will look for more professional media. And while it is these people’s decisions to run their channels how they want and to go with whatever has the more views on the Internet (we know thanks to the success of some talked about TV series that true crime always attracts more audience), it isn’t why I make this post today.

I make this post to share a very sudden, very new, very fresh unease that just formed itself over this lack of interest I talked about above. One of the channels I regularly followed was ScareTheater, and while I am still following the channel, I have been looking less and less at his videos because, as I said, they are not the type of content I originally followed him for, or they are things already covered enough and much better by the news or experts or actual investigators. 

And he just dropped a video today about a disturbing and frightening footage recording some of the last moments and dialogues of divers that got trapped into a pipe and died there. Real-life stuff, a quite recent thing. And upon starting the video it suddenly hit me that this video was just voyeurism. A bad form of voyeurism.

I am not talking about or criticizing the man behind the ScareTheater channel, who seems to be a very decent and kind fellow. But I am talking about the direction his channel (and other similar channels) have been taking, and the shock I had just now. Because... it is a real-life case, as I said before, and the footage from these real life deaths, which is quite disturbing in itself, is not something that went viral or was massively spread over the Internet (at least to my knowledge). It was sought and researched for the making of this video over a pretty popular channel.

I know and I understand that talking about these incidents is needed, and that by sharing the stories of disasters and tragic death we can learn very useful information. I am myself a “fan” (if the word can be used for this) of a channel covering mass disaster and accident-caused deaths, “Fascinating Horror”. But the video of ScareTheater did not felt like a documentary recording the incident - because it was centered around the “horrifying found footage” of the last moments of these people that died stuck in a pipe. The title is about the found footage, the video opens with “Let’s discuss the found footage”, it all relies on us hearing the last words, and seeing the footage... It is about the footage, not the incident, and as a result this made me realize how ScareTheater had fallen (probably unconsciously since it seems to have just been a slow shift many channels that try to cover “true crime” topics fall into) into one of the big flaws of covering actual deaths and recent accident cases. A bad case of sensationalism, by highlighting a very gruesome and disturbing fact (last recorded words, videos of the cause of a death), and playing on the voyeurism of the audience so that the video would be shared and liked. 

It isn’t like when he covered last videos or last photos of persons before they went missing - because in these cases, talking about it might help find back the person or understand what happened. And it isn’t like talking about something that happened a very long time ago, so that the case is closed or most people directly impacted/involved by the case are out of the picture. It is still very fresh, and these last moments are incredibly private and horrifying, and to see this shared online massively and used as the subject of a video, when it is still so fresh... it feels perverse. But not that ScareTheater seems to have done it on purpose - but this video clearly works in a way that it will appeal and attract the perversity of the worst voyeurists. This is a bit more than just a morbid curiosity, this feels almost indecent. 

Because again - we are not talking of something that was purposefully posted on the Internet by someone part of it. When it comes to disturbing and horrifying footage actually sent on the Internet purposefully, it is important to talk about and analyze it and explain it, because it is already there and people are being exposed to it. But with this... it is something brought onto the Internet, brought onto the platform for people to see...

Honestly I don’t know, I can’t put my words in place. Yesterday I watched a video of disturbing footage found on the Internet - you might have seen the one, with a man filming as his house was being hit by a tornado, and the “man at the door” video of a dangerous criminal coming at the door of the one he wanted to turn into his next victim... And these didn’t felt like voyeurism. It was videos posted on the Internet, it was treated as content to be contextualized and analyzed, it was explained, it was informative of dangers... But tonight I see ScareTheater’s video about the last moments of those stuck divers, before they die, and I am hit with the knowledge that “This video is voyeurism. The bad type of voyeurism bad true crime-info channels or bad criminal magazines use, to form an audience by building on the perverse curiosity to glimpse into the last breath of a dying man or to see what the mutilated and torn up body of a murdered woman looks like, or to assist to the suicide of a desperate person that was in need of help”. 

If it was just about the incident itself, about the media coverage, the way the rescue was handled, the reason these divers died, if it was just a video about the accident I probably wouldn’t have felt that - but it was about the found footage, and the last moments, and the last recorded words, as these poor people were stuck in a pipe certain of their death... I don’t know. Or rather I know that saying this invites to a lot of comparison, evaluation and re-evaluation of a lot of other content on Youtube, and opens a whole debate to “Where is the line? Where should Youtubers stop exploring disturbing footage, and what should one post on the Internet when discussing about it?”. It is not an easy debate, and it is precisely because it is such a complex issue that I am left with this “I don’t know feeling”.

But the thing that I am certain of, and that frightens me, is that I had probably grew a bit desensitized and complacent towards the voyeurism of those “death-covering” and “true crime” channels, about the general morbid voyeurism and view-collecting sensationalism of channels that are well-meaning even though in the facts they seem to do things more badly as time goes on... And this video shook me and woke something up in me, and made me go “Wait, that’s voyeurism, that’s not a good way to share this video, and the people who will watch this video probably will do it badly”. I mean, I just looked at the comments and most people just go “I feel bad for those people.” It is a sentence that comes up again and again “I feel bad for them”, “feel bad for them”, “this makes me feel so bad”.

Commenter on Youtube - seeing the last moments, the last recorded words and actions, the last of the life of people who just die isn’t supposed to make you “feel bad”. It is supposed to make you feel deeply disturbed and shocked. It isn’t about it being “uncomfortable”. It is another human being trapped into their death! It is horrfying and sickening and terrifying! One says “I feel bad this guy” when someone’s is the subject of something like a public humiliation, or falls prey for a scam, or has a nasty allergy - it isn’t supposed to be something you say upon watching the LAST OF SOMEONE LIFE! I am not particularly religious, but if there is something sacred in this life and that should be treated with respect, it is certainly the last moments, the last words and the last breath of a living being! It isn’t just some Youtube video you look at and say “Aww, feel sad for me, :( “. NO! 

Anyway... I will certainly unsuscribe from ScareTheater, and my dislike of the current state of Youtube will go ever growing - and my suspicions and cynicism towards humanity will blossom a bit more. But I just wanted to share that because honestly I have no one else to share that with, and I want to have it recorded somewhere. 

I am not a prude, and if this content is indeed present on the Internet I do think peope should explain it, and talk about it, and contextualize it, and warn people about it. But I am also a man who is for decency, and it is something people on the Internet clearly seem to have forgotten the existence of sometimes. I am sorry this all falls on ScareTheater’s video because clearly he isn’t himself a voyeurist, a perverted or an indecent person, but his video was clearly badly made if it managed to re-open my eyes about the morbid vulture-nature of Youtube. 

[fmpo2elliottpovey]

www.lenovo.com/gb/en/glossary/arg/?srsltid=AfmBOorHj0Qq9zU0FDwNxkV3feV4zMhgQHawOceazRqq9qw9c0I0fRqr

one of the most popular names in working out ARGs is the YouTube channel called game theory.

i wanted to make a post about ARGs because they are all about using clues in clues to reveal secrets, i just like the concept of solving complex secrets only to get a clue to solve another secret.

[smartphonehour]

what's mh

marble hornets - a v popular spooky webseries about slenderman lmfao

[vintagegeekculture]

How 60s Zines and Fandom Led to a Novel Series

One of the biggest parts of organized fandom in the 1940s-1970s were fanzines centered on adventure and scifi writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. Xeroxed and passed around in manilla envelopes in the mail, the organized fandom included fan art, articles, fan fiction, and essays passed from person to person. The big fanzines were the Gridley Wave, ERB Dom, the Oparian, and Burroughsania (fantasy writer A. Merritt and the Weird Tales writers had fanzines even at this late date as well, like Amra).

I heard a great description of Edgar Rice Burroughs fans and the fandom around him: they’re like the rest of us, except even more so. This could apply to the extremely right-brained, detective novel approach they took to the source material. All fandoms have people in them that do this, of course, I would never say otherwise...but I’m telling you, nobody did it quite like they did. As an example, ERB fandom in the 50s very precisely calculated where Tarzan grew up, based on the flimsy clues of the text, that his family’s steamer was out several weeks from Libreville. Based on calculating the average 1889 steamer’s range in two weeks, along with overlaying existing maps of the Central African Republic (today’s Gabon), they were able to figure out where he grew up very precisely. This was typical of the kinds of things they did. It reminds me less of the usual activities of fandom, and more like Heinrich Schliemann using a copy of the Iliad to discover the supposed site of the city of Troy. 

It’s incredible how ahead of its time that all was, because the culture has only now caught up to what they were doing in the fifties in ERB fanzines. Today, the appeal of a lot of conspiracy theories floating around is that they are participatory, almost like some kind of ARG, like Ong’s Hat and the John Titorverse. Which pop music videos have clues put in them by the Illuminati? Can you guess which of the Hollywood Sickos was secretly replaced by a clone after being executed in a secret trial? It’s fun because you can play along at home! A lot of true crime podcasts and the communities around them also have this “figure out the mystery yourself” appeal, which is why the families of unsolved murder victims absolutely dread being covered by a popular mystery podcast. The future is in the back and forth model carried out by Edgar Rice Burroughs fans in the 50s. 

It’s no surprise Edgar Rice Burroughs has fans like this. He had an absolute domination over the pop culture of the early to mid 20th Century. He, not Fitzgerald, not Hemingway, was the best selling novelist of the 1920s. ERB was, in particular, a favorite of two audiences that no longer are reliable customers of the book and publishing world: working class men and young boys. This makes sense, since his works were adventure Walter Mitty daydreams, the male equivalent of romance novels. The fact that young boys are no longer reading is, incidentally, one of the most disastrous and under-researched social phenomena of the present time. I am who I am today because I dreamed and imagined.

The biggest of the Fanzine writers had to be Philip Jose Farmer, who later became a professional writer, a name you’ve probably heard if you’ve been following this blog. Farmer, when he was a full on writer, wrote biographies of Tarzan and Doc Savage that treated them as living people. For example, Farmer’s Tarzan biography was so intensively researched that he calculated that one incident in Jungle Tales of Tarzan could not have happened, as there were no lunar eclipses visible over the Central African Republic between 1908-1909. 

What I think is forgotten, however, is that Farmer’s incredible borderline fanwork was merely standing on the shoulders of giants when it came to the right-brained ERB fandom of the 1940s-1970s in Burroughs Bulletin and Gridley Wave. Many of the ideas in Farmer’s biography of Tarzan were long-standing theories in the fandom, so often repeated they gain a strange secondary canonicity, for example, the theory that Tarzan had two different sons, and the John Clayton Jr. captured as a baby in Beasts of Tarzan was different from the one who became Korak the Killer in Son of Tarzan. None of this was new to Farmer, he was a latecomer. 

In particular, Farmer wrote an entire novel series was written based on an essay written in 1966 in the fanzines. This essay was “Heritage of the Flaming God: An Essay on the History of Opar and Its Relationship to Other Ancient Cultures” by Frank J. Brueckel and Michael Winger, and used to be referred to as “fanwank” but today would be called “Meta.” 

The essay was about one of the most awe inspiring locations in the Tarzan series, one no film version as yet has done justice to: the Lost City of Opar. No film version has yet got across the grandiosity of this incredible ruin in the heart of the African jungle, a colony of Ancient Atlantis abandoned in Central Africa, a city of colossal masonry that almost seemed made by gods. It was a city of peacocks, and apes, gold and diamonds....but also the degenerated inhabitants, the women of which were beautiful, the men were feral, bestial Neanderthals. In an ancient ruin made by their ancestors, the Oparians run like children playing murderous games in a haunted house.

The queen of the city was La, a high priestess of the flaming god, a beautiful, seductive, uncanny sorceress who might be the only true rival to Jane in Tarzan’s affections (and who some fans prefer), who’s icy queenly exterior hid vulnerability and isolation. She was sympathetic and lonely one moment, cold, pitiless, and murderous the next. She was far more than just the evil seductress, but possibly the most complex character of the series, and she got a huge fan response. After all, It isn’t just women who like sexy sympathetic villains, you know. 

Edgar Rice Burroughs always preferred Tarzan to get with La of Opar (a sentiment I’ve found to be almost universal among ERB dom), and even had the Germans kill Jane off in Tarzan the Terrible to make it possible. Reader outcry was so harsh at Jane’s death, however, he had to bring her back the very next novel. Tarzan found out her “death” at the hands of the German Army was faked and she was merely a prisoner of the Kaiser’s high command in East Africa. It is easy to see why La would have this towering, monumental stature in the Tarzan novels that she returned three times and almost literally replaced Jane as Tarzan’s wife. In an adventure series that flirted at the borderline edge of fantasy, La was the most “out there” element, a sorceress who was implied to be immortal and ageless, with the blood of Ancient Atlantis in her veins, and to disobey her was to die. 

Brueckel and Winger’s 1966 essay on Opar’s origins argued that the mother culture of Opar, Atlantis, was actually an island inside an interior continental African sea, an extension of Lake Tchad, and they used ancient flood data to support their idea about the continental interior. They further argued that Opar’s genders have such different appearances because of the introduction of Neanderthal DNA on the Y chromesome alone. Further, in their lengthy fan speculations, they connected the ancient interior African Atlantean civilization to the other great lost cities encountered by Tarzan, including Athne and Cathne, Tuen-Baka, Kuvuru, and Xuja, all of which had similar traits: cyclopean abandoned cities of great antiquity, worship of a flaming god, human sacrifice, absence of the bow and arrow, and matriarchal rule. Atlantis was the source of the Flaming God religion. They further argued, fannishly interconnecting everything, that the Kuvuru immortality elixir was in the possession of that mother culture, and was the explanation for the beautiful La’s immortality. They  also argued that the reason all these cultures did not have the bow and arrow was a religious taboo. 

All of this was very impressive stuff, especially for 1966, even for fanwank, though I confess a lot of the geological proofs went over my head.

This essay about the origins of Opar and the Flaming God was so well remembered that fan turned real deal writer, Philip Jose Farmer, wrote a series based on their speculations. Set in the ancient prehistory of Africa, he wrote of Opar at its height, when it was a minor mining colony of a forgotten African civilization on an internal sea in 10,000 BC, just like in Bruekel and Winger’s description. His novel series was Hadon of Ancient Opar, published in 1975, and PJF acknowledged Brueckel and Winger’s fan essay as the primary source of inspiration, which he turned into a book series. 

If you need convincing this meta was an inspiration for PJF’s book series, take a look at his map used in the series for their ancient civilization, which was a matriarchy with a sun worship religion with still surviving Neanderthals as a lower class. He even had a woman named La there, who may have been the ancestor of the La of Opar...or perhaps, the actual immortal La herself (the book leaves this open to interpretation). Always keen to have series cross over, PJF also mentioned the lost African cities of H. Rider Haggard and connected them with Burrough’s, which is a surprisingly good fit, since Haggard’s lost races also were matriarchies with a religion of sun worship. 

When I heard the connection between this fan essay and PJF’s book series, I had to track down a copy of Brueckel and Harwood’s essay for myself. I was able to find one for sale by the Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest on the outskirts of Chicago, Illinois. They have a lot of pride in Edgar Rice Burroughs, who was born there, and they have many rare and old things for sale related to ancient fandom of the 60s. To my surprise, when my order arrived, I got a copy of the Historical Society of Oak Park, IL newsletter, and a personal addressed letter from the historical society librarian. I was so surprised by this that I actually called the Oak Park Society up to thank them, and had a pleasant chat with the kindly librarian about their collections of ERB memorabilia and fandom. All in all, a pleasant ending of an investigation into one of the oldest fandoms, one that, like Opar and the beautiful, immortal La herself, still lives in a hidden corner of the world. 

[fillinforlater]

Can you write Yoojung smut again?

Carry a Stranger

Male Reader x Choi Yoojung

Length: 1771 words

Tags: stand-and-carry, pick up, full nelson, lot’s of squirting, size kink, horny!Yoojung, muscular!You

TW: QUICKIE; UNEDITED

Inspiration: I have no clue, probably @sinswithpleasure and @banananutsmuthie lmao

"Hey, you look strong as fuck."

Irritated by the sudden voice behind you, you spin around. A dark empty street fills most of your view. Only the top of a head with brown hair, hiding a forehead underneath bangs, is visible from the girl that talked to you.

"Oh, I didn't see you at first, tiny one. You need help opening a pickle jar or something?"

What a rude way to react to such a compliment. She pouts, staring up to you with annoyance. Unsure if it is just played or if she is really hurt you back off a step and lower your head.

"I'm sorry, I—"

"Hey, you ass! Don't go around apologizing, I'm more than used to it, hehe. I know I look small and light... but that is actually quite awesome in some cases."

"Oh really? Well, good for you then."

With a polite smile you turn back around, facing the bright lights of the building you wanted to enter before being interrupted. It's a new, very popular club, affordable yet neat. At least that is what your friends told you.

But if you are honest to yourself, you had no idea why you actually decided to visit it. There is no clear goal for you, no real reason to party and not enough money to drink fine liquor. And if you want to pick up a girl for some fun, you can just visit one of the clubs you already know inside out.

"They look pretty big, damn."

Again, you turn around and find the same, small brunette girl ogling your arms, especially your well-trained biceps. Flex it a little and she puts on a cocky, lewd-looking smirk.

"Thank you. I trained a lot for that."

"Can I touch them?"

"Sure."

You have to contain your laughter as she gets on her toes to reach your muscles. Her tiny hands squeeze and grab at the fabric of your shirt, before she confidently pulls it up and feels the actual, bare skin. To your surprise, her palms are warm and slightly covered in sweat. 

It’s like she is falling into a trance while digging her fingers into the biceps and kneading it. You look at her in amused confusion, but she doesn’t stop. 

“Hey, are you finished? Is it really that interesting?”

“My God! I bet you could just... pick me up and throw me around.”

You look at the amazed face, feeling confused and somewhat abashed. It takes a couple of moments for the stranger to realize that what she does is weird to say the least. She pulls back her hands.

“Damn, sorry. They are very impressive. My name is Yoojung by the way.”

“So, Yoojung, I guess you like muscles? Or what was all of that about?”

Yoojung avoids your eyes, probably trying to not show you the blush forming on her cute face, but she fails completely. Her thighs rub together and you swear you see small droplets run down her creamy skin. 

"I really, really like strong men that are taller than me. Like: really, really."

A smirk forms on your face. Yoojung's hints and intentions are now more than obvious to you, but decide to play dumb just for some fun.

"Hm. And what do you like about them?"

"Th-They just look s-so... sexy and strong. Perfect for... picking things up a-and throwing them around."

Blushing and pouting suits Yoojung's cute face. You could continue your teases but with genuine excitement running through your veins and her eagerness not fading, you go into full attack mode.

"So you want me to throw you around?"

"Uhm... y-yeah."

"Tear off your clothes and manhandle you?"

"Uhhh..."

"Or what do you want?"

Yoojung shivers throughout her body. Her small, sweaty hands open and close frantically, while her legs rub at each other faster and faster. She is either shocked and frightened or overwhelmed and excited.

If this was a round of roulette, you'd bet on the latter and go all in. At least your now growing cock would.

"I... I... arg, fuck it! I want you to fucking use my hole with your cock, while carrying my slutty ass!"

That was almost a shout. Some people definitely picked that up--so you quickly pick Yoojung up. Her tiny body is even lighter than you expected and when you throw her over your shoulder, a cute yelp is forced from her lips.

"Let's go then, you slut."

#

In a secluded part of town, there is an abandoned house. It's probably older than the Statue of Liberty, but that also means that no one officially claims it. So one day you put a mattress in it and the rest is history. Yoojung isn't the first to get fucked here.

Through the unlocked door you march, one arm wrapped around Yoojung's waist. Ever since you switched positions, she can't help but suck on your skin and drool all over your muscles and lips. It is now your turn to be proactive.

Throw Yoojung on the mattress and immediately hike up her dress. It's pretty and all but you much rather have it on the floor. Just like her shoes, her bra, her panties. Only her short stockings remain.

"What about those?" she asks, breathing heavily as you get rid of your pants.

"I don't care. Come here!"

Your cock springs free from its confinement and Yoojung gasps--and then she gasps again when you hook your arms under her knees and pull her up.

Her exposed, dripping pussy hovers above your cock and although you are on eye-level with her, she only stares downwards.

"Oh my God, please put it in! Please break me!"

With an annoyed growl, you let her slide down and impale her small frame on the throbbing rod. Yoojung starts to scream in pleasure. It seems like gallons of squirt shoot out of her and run down your legs. What a waste of nectar!

"Did you just cum?" you ask, half amused, half surprised at how desperately she must have wanted this.

"Pl-Please j-just... f-fuck me."

You oblige instantly by using her as a fleshlight that you hold steady with both hands while thrusting your hips upwards. Excessive lubrication enables you to go excessively fast. The only resistance is the tightness of her pussy, which even beats out her amazing warmth.

Yoojung’s arms rest on your shoulders. Maybe they once tried to wrap themselves around your nape, but she has given up once you actually started. Her loud moans and screams make you pat yourself on the back for going here and not to your apartment. Your roommates would have been rather annoyed.

“So-So good! Please, don’t stop!”

Yoojung throws her head back, her words directed at you as she watches the ceiling. You on the other hand look at her chest, where her small, yet cute breasts bounce in perfect rhythm to your thrusts. Beads of sweat run down the curvature and further down her astonishing belly. If it weren’t for you giving her a hard fucking, you’d lick all over her body.

Suddenly, her walls tremble and then squeeze as if to keep you seated in permanently. Yet another orgasm crashed onto her body. You know that it is a wave of pleasure for her, making her mind blank with lust-filled, unbridled joy, you just feel a wave of girl cum spraying onto your crotch and running down your legs yet again. 

That is two orgasms for Yoojung, while you were not even close to your first one. Though it fills you with pride to be able to make this pretty girl feel so good, you decide to experiment with her even more. 

Still dazed by what your cock has done to her sex, Yoojung does not react when you place her onto her knees onto the mattress. She does react when you pick her back up and press her back tightly to your chest. Your hands lift her legs up the ground and even higher, until she is in a full-nelson-position.

“Wh-What!? Oh my—fuck! Yes, fuck me! Fill my pussy up!”

Your dick glides in easily, but before you fulfill her wish, you waddle towards one of the almost broken windows and point Yoojung’s most private taste at it. If there was someone walking the street and would turn to look at this worn-down building, they would have a great view.

Of course, years of not being cleaned left the glass panels the of window dusty. Luckily, you got a useful cleaning device on your cock. And with how easy it sprays, you make quick work of setting her off. 

Yet again, you thrust up into Yoojung’s incredibly hot, tiny frame. In the reflection of the window, you see how her eyes roll into the back of her head instantly and how her mouth just hangs open. You yourself can’t help and gasp at the visual and feeling of this insane position.

As your cock rubs along her walls, you feel your head-head get lost in pleasure and your cock-head go deeper into her, touching every inch of her breedable insides. You finally add your own groans to her high-pitched moans and feel an orgasm build up. 

Each thrust feels insane. What a lucky bastard you are: having girls simp for your muscles isn’t something new, but it’s rare for things to develop that quickly and that kinky. It’s so rare that you find yourself in prideful awe, especially when Yoojung stammers her next words:

“S-So close! F-Fuck m-me... so-so g-good!”

You are close too, which urges you to continue with even faster harder pumps, making Yoojung’s pussy red and redder and your mind blank and blanker. Amplified by a short scream is another, fire-hydrant-like explosion of squirt--this time at the window. 

Only seconds later, you feel your own climax building up and while Yoojung still sprays and cleans the window with her lewd juices, you pull out and stain the glass again, spurt after spurt, and it all slowly runs down. Truly, one of the oddest things you have ever seen. 

With the rest of strength in your arms, you throw the small Yoojung onto the mattress and watch her giggle, while she tries to catch her breath. Her thighs are completely wet, just like yours and you feel every bit tension leaving them as you flop next to her. 

“Th-Thanks for the hard work! That was absurd, awesome, crazy.”

“You’re the crazy one. Do you always squirt that much?”

“Only with you~”

And suddenly, your half-hard cock disappears in her mouth. 

[thesorryboys-updates]

One thing I’d like to add about the Phil Lawyer Theory is besides him reliving his time. He had to have escaped at some point, before being caught and executed. And having Tommy escape was probably a younger version of Philza.

He must’ve escaped at this point, running out of prison, like what Tommy did here.

Then going into hiding. I can imagine he talking with the rest of the group before he escaped, and one of them telling him how to escape.

Which is how he probably ended up here:

And now, I can see him reliving his life choices when he’s hiding. Example being having visions of what he could’ve done, what happened, etc.

ITS EXPANDING!! This theory is the most popular ARG sorry boys theory!

God I love it so much, do y’all want me to make a post with links to all the other posts about it???

[glitchyred]

I think ARGs are a really fun storytelling format that works really well sometimes but I also think it's rarely utilized well. I think a lot of ARG creators get really caught up in trying to be mysterious and unpredictable and end up creating an incoherent narrative. There's cases where that in-and-of-itself is done well, like if a story is Intentionally supposed to be very vague and up for interpretation, but it's clear some of these projects are supposed to tell a complete and concrete story and just like. Do not succeed. Because in the process of hiding everything in coded messages, vague terms and riddles a bunch gets lost in translation and you wind up with a lot of Nothing. ARGs are a format that discourage transparency between creator and consumer so you risk ruining the Vibe and breaking immersion if you're too blatant about correcting or clarifying something

I think games/movies with ""ARG elements"" for lack of a better term fall victim to this the most. Probably the most popular example is FNAF. Because of how FNAF's story is told I don't think we'll ever get a concrete answer on what the story Is from its creators. We're supposed to figure it out ourselves but so much is hidden in codes and symbolism and Easter eggs and references that it's borderline impossible to tell what the story Is. It's impossible to tell when things are retconned or are just references for the sake of being references etc when it's kind of the point that it's creator Won't Tell Us. It would be fine if FNAF's plot was up for interpretation but we've been told multiple times that it isn't, there is a "correct version" of the plot that will still likely go unrewarded should anyone figure it out

So like I enjoy narrative ARGs or stories with ARG elements for what they are. It's a really unique and fun form of viewer engagement that you can't really encourage any other way. But I think way too many people get into them trying to tell one wholly coherent story which isn't really something the medium lends itself to very well - it can be done, but I think there's only a few stand-out examples of it succeeding. It just works better when the story intentionally doesn't have an answer for everything, because otherwise you risk putting your fanbase through an endless goose chase you can barely aid them on

[yanderegrizzsworld]

Bro the welcome home really be popping on my feed too, the most popular one would probably the wally darling character like really half of the fanart in tumblr related to reader bro im-

I swear to god my hands are itching to draw this dude ya'll

-𝐣𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧

My feed is the same with the added x reader writing popping in alongside the fanart. Whenever I read the x reader writing my first thought was "Why so many specifically about Wally Darling?" Then immediately remember he's the only one we know the most about "He's the main character dumbass"

Tbh though, this arg does seem to almost have everything I live for in horror. Psychological horror? Children show that's also lost media? Amazing character design with an incredible color pallete? A main character with divine fashion sense that I endlessly envy? Sign me up

But then I read a post here that was a screenshot of double D from Ed,Edd & Eddy holding a book that said "Wally Darling is a yandere" & when I remembered some of the hidden replies in the guestbook & his odd fixation on keeping our attention on him-

If you wish to draw him & his funky pompadour, then do it! Who's going to stop you? I certainly won't. I'd love to see how well he turned out in your style!

[loser-lenny]

ranboo is not a time traveler and here’s why

anyone who has dug a little bit through my blog probably knows that i dislike this theory. i comment on a lot of posts with reasons as to why it’s incorrect but i figured i’d just do it in my own post now because it’s late and i’m bored

off the top of my head and without an outline i present to you my reasons for why this theory isn’t going to happen/has pretty much already been disproven:

ranboo started writing his lore before karl got serious about tales

from my recollection, tales from the smp started at gogtopia and was sort of just a cool thing karl did with other members of the server in which they told a fun little story and ended it there. it really wasn’t that big of a thing until after their first murder mystery thing where people began to headcanon karl as a time traveler

the in between didn’t become a thing until after the beach episode, and i remember distinctly ranboo mentioning on his twitter and on stream that he had written pages and pages and pages worth of words about his lore and the plans he had for his character. this was before the headcanon of him being a time traveler even became a thing, his lore in general just started way before that

basically, ranboo started writing his lore before karl and before the idea of the in between was even a thing

if ranboo is a time traveler, then karl has to be an enderwalker

it’s been confirmed by the enderwalk arg that the enderwalk is a genetic thing that affects one’s memory and judgement. because it’s genetic, ranboo must’ve had it for forever, whereas it’s been confirmed that karl’s memory is fleeting due to his time traveling, which isn’t a condition or disorder

you could argue that karl was born with the ability to time travel or that he was born with a characteristic that made him eligible to be a time traveler but by arguing that point you’d essentially just be saying “karl is an enderman/half enderman”.

the wiki lists him off as something other than human but so far, we can confirm that he’s definitely not an enderman just by the way he’s presented (ranboo and ranbob are both half endermen and have noticeable traits of such whereas ran is definitely an enderman because of his teleportation and black skin)

because of this, you can’t really say “ranboo was or is a time traveler because of his bad memory” since his memory (and ranbob’s as well most likely) are a definite result of them being enderwalkers

there is just literally no proof

here is a list of all of the proof i’ve seen over the last few months and why all of it is wrong:

ranboo owns a wither rose. lots of people have wither roses. ranboo has gotten two by himself in his time on the server. they really don’t mean anything. ponk has/had a wither rose but it had nothing to do with the in between, i’m pretty sure it was apart of a memorial

fundy called ranboo a time traveler during the festival. it was figurative language, out of the dozens of clips i saw of that scene, none of them had the full context of the argument. fundy didn’t slip up and correct himself because he knew something no one else did, he just used a word

they both have bad memory. again, using this as proof is essentially just saying “karl is an enderwalker” which he is not. also, the way their memory loss works is different, probably intentionally. karl’s is actively fleeting, ranboo’s is just consistently poor

ranboo is two people, ran and boo. ranboo has said a thousand times before that he isn’t going down this route because it’s too similar to DID.

ranboo was corrupted by the in between. i’ve seen people say that this is why he’s half and half ? but ranboo has confirmed before that, in the same way he displays characteristics and qualities that are similar to that of an enderman, he also displays characteristics that hint at what his second half is. the way he acts isnt really similar to the in between ? also just, no.

the in between is white and the other side is black just like ranboo. as much as ranboo jokes about this, not every single black and white thing on the smp belongs to him ?? this is just a weak piece of evidence

also, ranboo has said in regards to his own lore that no one has gotten it completely correct. “ranboo is a time traveler !!” is such a popular theory, its just impossible for it to be right at this point

in conclusion, karl deserves his own story and his own lore 👍 let him have it dear god please

as much as i love ranboo, he can’t be the main character of everything yk ? karl has been working really hard on these stories and on the in between and saying “it’s all actually ranboo and he plays a huge role in this and he’s an ex time traveler” is just 😕 that concludes my post tysm i didn’t proofread it