#problematic ask answers

[megaphonegirlk]

Question one for problematic ship questions?

First & Latest incest ships I had incest ships before this but my memory is a sieve, and our early memories are hard to place. So I'm gonna go with one of the earlier ones i firmly remember...Trucy and Apollo <3. They're too cute together. My latest incest ship geeze.... I'm gonna go with Ataru Moroboshi and his mom, Mrs. Moroboshi. They're too cute when you see them snuggling up together in the episodes it happens.

[carlyraejepsans]

hey, you don’t have to answer this at all, I just want you to read it. I have been following you for only a few months now as I’ve only recently gotten back into the undertale fandom; but fuck that callout post. Fuck that callout post, fuck whoever’s is spreading it around and fuck whoever is harassing you for it. From what I’ve seen and heard, you are a very real and cool person, and all your analysis are banger as fuck, and it saddens me to see that people are trying to push you out of this fandom because you believe harassment is bad.

I think it’s incredibly insane how the game about being pacifist, and being kind, even when people are flawed has such a toxic fandom as this - and its not toxic because of the ships. Or the fanfics. Or the porn. Its toxic because people keep trying to push and hurt those who make such content, and it scares everyone else into a strict line and if you dare to even step a foot out by simply going “I don’t want people to be told to kill themselves”, you are the #1 enemy. This fandom is fucking scary, and I am so sorry you have become a target of it. You are in my thoughts, and I pray that this blows over relatively easy for you. <3 you are a great person and whoever thinks otherwise is a miserable, jealous wrench.

awww HAHAHA you're sweet, that's very thoughtful of you. no need for hopes and prayers, just a fucking break from it all a word of kindness was enough. I've had a few nasty anons claiming that the fandom "doesn't need someone like me" which are just hilarious. half this fandom isn't even about its source material, i promise to you I don't care what the Great Undertale Fandom needs. I make my art for myself and write my analysis for myself and my friends, and i know for a fact that they made people happy. people who were moved by it, who were pushed to think more critically about stories at my prompting, and who just plainly had a laugh. i know because they reached out to thank me for it. if I'm on here for anyone other than myself, those are the people I'm here for

this was always just a shitty little hole for an opinionated asshole, but it sure had a larger, more positive impact on the people around me than anyone currently trying to crawl up my ass. that's enough for me

[hilacopter]

Who gives a fuck what you feel as if you don't despise arabs and islam.

ah, you got me there anon 😔 you're right, I'm an Islamophobic Arabophobic asshole because I view them as people capable of thinking and making rational decisions instead of what we all know they ACTUALLY are: quirky desert people who drink sand and wear funny clothes and have to kill Israelis because they simply don't know any better!!!/s

in all seriousness I assume you're talking about me condemning Hamas because I literally haven't said anything against Palestinian civilians or civilians of any other Arab country (nor am I here). I'm not against Islam, I'm not against Arabs, I'm against an extremist terrorist group who wants me and my family dead. and it just so happens that this group is Muslim and Arab! You know how ProPals always insist criticism of the Israeli government isn't antisemitic (a true statement I wish they'd actually deliver on)? you're basically applying the opposite of that logic here. criticism of Hamas is Islamophobic because, well, they're Muslims! and not treating every Muslim as perfect human being capable of doing no wrong is Islamophobic, actually. istg the way you people talk about Muslims and Arabs is so utterly dehumanising. ever heard of the noble savage trope?

[fictionfolk-safehaven]

That last anon(the one about source separation) really resonated with me... I am a system of SOME kind (one that has fictives of our fictionkin sources) but I feel that while source separation thing plagues some fickin spaces too..

There's been push back against it lately but I remember there being this idea that if you did bad things you HAD to disown them and rot in guilt. Which! Not exactly healthy

I think that mindset is why I struggle so much. The guilt around my source actions is killer and probably always will be. I do feel like if everyone was more understanding it'd be easier. Yes I did those things, but there is NOTHING I can do about them now. It was literal lifetimes ago

Idk, fictionfolk are not evil for doing bad things in source. They don't even have to have horrific amounts of guilt like I do to be good people. It's probably healthier if they don't lol

I will probably blabber on forever about how much I disown my source actions and how awful they make me feel, but it shouldn't HAVE to be that way

- 🥃��� (I think that was the emoji order? Idk I've forgotten already lol)

That was the emoji order! dw though, I had to look back and check just to answer. I agree wholeheartedly, but don't have much to say. I hate that both of your asks have gotten such short answers, sorry about that! You put it very well and I don't have much to add^^

-Keeper Kokichi (lol it sounds so serious and I am so... unserious as a person.)

[necrotic-nephilim]

I know you like Young Justice 98 so I have to ask what you think of my favorite problematic girl Greta Hayes.

I LOVE GRETA SO MUCH.

Greta Hayes is my favorite bbygirl ever. i think her backstory is super interesting and i wish DC had done more with the whole Warder concept, exploring other Warders and what her relationship could've been with them. i just love the like. duality of her? the way she appears pretty shy and timid but has this really deep, explosive anger to her. she's a hot mess and i love her dearly, she can do no wrong in my eyes. the only moment i didn't like with her was when she and Steph fought, but i blame that more on the writers bc "two girls must have a crush on the cool main character and fight over him" just happens a lot in comics.

i lost my shit when Stargirl: Lost Children brought Greta back. i'm so happy she's back around and i think Lost Children was an interesting plot to explain the concept of all of these teenage heroes and sidekicks getting lost to comic book limbo. i wish Anita had also been in Lost Children but, i'm happy for the scraps of Greta we got bc if you'd asked me before if we would ever see her again, i would've said probably not. i hope the New Golden Age stuff does more with her and i'm delusional that we'll see her reunite with Young Justice, or at the very least Bart, since that's who she mentions being friends with in Lost Children.

i do ship her with Tim, i fear. i think her crush on him was really cute and how much faith she had in him. and him being the one who was able to talk out of working with Darkseid? just very cute vibes. i do also like GretaSteph, but GretaTim is rlly fun and i wish we had more content of it. whether it be an unrequited love situation where she has to watch him grow up while she's trapped as her age in this life/death limbo, or them actually trying to make it work. i crave to use her more in fanfic, i just haven't thought of stories to easily slot her into yet.

anyway, i love her, she's a doll, she should've been in Young Justice (2019), begging DC to do something with her now that she's officially back in the continuity. give her a mini or something pls DC my kingdom for content of my dumb angry ghost child.

[solvynessa-solvynessin]

...whoops

[evermorethecrow]

https://www.tumblr.com/evermorethecrow/738989448281358336/crychu-is-homophobic-btw?source=share

crychu are you /j or /srs !!!!!!

"thank you for your question!!!!"

[fragmentedblade]

The "Dan Heng is Dan Feng" dogmatics annoy me a lot. It entirely brushes off one of the most interesting and prevalent questions posed by the game, incarnated by several characters and stories that give the question different hues with different potential answers, and a constant also in HI3, like a thread waving the two games together

[silverskye13]

Oh I'm going to make you take responsibility, holy shit I will not be able to sleep thinking about this. Oh. Oooohh you will pay for this.

In other news, do expect me to make art of this hypothetical. I am mentally being absorbed by this concept - Dove

You know that feeling you get where you're walking down the stairs, and you just don't pick your back foot up quite enough, and you don't exactly trip and fall down the stairs, but you do stumble, and it makes your stomach do a flip because, oh boy, that was close, and now your ankle hurts a little, and you're going to have to intentionally focus on picking up your feet for the rest of the stairs, because if you're not careful you're going to break your neck on the staircase?

[runawaymarbles]

Oh BIG discourse iceberg. Its been popping off the last two days or so. To me it's been like a big whale passing in the distance and the wake sort of bumping my boat. And I don't want to get any closer to it but you can tell what it is and that it's not an average size. Not to get poetic or whatever.

...................please tell me this is about people not warning for Tommy's daddy kink. That would be so funny.

[hiimtryingtounderfell]

the bots are following you for SEO (Search Engine Optimization)!

basically, the way google determines whether a result is legit or not is that legit results will be linked to legit sources--for example, CNN is a trusted source, and so anything they cite will be marked as a trusted source. this worked pretty well at weeding out scams from real things in the early days of search engines, since real people tend to link to real sources either by discussing them or friending/following them, and scams can't generally force real people to link to their pages, only generate fake pages that link to each other without that trusted source leading in. but all of us on tumblr are trusted sources, because we link to each others' blogs and are linked to by things like buzzfeed, our deviantarts, our AO3s, etc. and we're linked (in tumblr's backend) to all our followers, so when those bots follow us, they gain our legitimacy, and the sites they link to end up flagged as not botted in google's algorithm, allowing those sites to show up on search results.

the more people flagged as real that link to a source, the more likely it is to be considered real as well, which is why there are so many of them and they spam follow everyone. blocking them cuts off the link from you to them, and the link from google to whatever they're linking that goes through you to them. ofc, it doesn't stop them from being linked through somebody else, it just knocks down their credibility slightly. google also has other methods of verifying sources, but this is the one that's being targeted by this method.

this has been your algorithms lesson for today! now I need to go do my real computer science homework (bleh)

A lengthy yet useful explanation! Thank you, misty, good luck with your homework!

[andreal831]

What do you think of TVD's Hayley? Would you change anything about his story on the show?

We all know Hayley is one of my favorite characters but I'm going to be honest, I never really paid her much attention in TVD. I didn't watch TO until years after it had ended. I actually watched like two episodes of Legacies, not knowing it was a spin off, and got super confused. I immediately started watching TO and had kind of forgotten all of what Hayley did in TVD. I was able to love Hayley as a character completely separate from TVD Hayley.

That being said, I wouldn't change her.

Don't get me wrong, her TVD character is deeply problematic. But it sets her up well. She has probably one of the biggest character growths at the same time matching her up well to the darker themes of TO as well as the Mikaelsons family.

Hayley entered the show as the older "too cool for teen drama" character which was a nice change of pace for the TVD gang which was all about teen drama. Not only that but she is more ruthless than the characters we were used to dealing with. Hayley wasn't really introduced as a "good guy" or "bad guy," rather just another obstacle for Forewood. Which is why it was so interesting to find out she was actually double crossing everyone. It was never about the "teen drama," rather she was scheming to find her family. A very Mikaelson trait of hers.

If I would change anything, I would have made her scheming more detailed. She was a small side character so they didn't invest a lot of time into her, but it would have been a better set up to watch just how devious she could be when needed. One of the shocks for me between TO and TVD is her fighting skills. We don't really get much of a background on her except she kind of grew up on the streets. I would have liked to see more of her street smarts and even have her flirting with Klaus as some nefarious purpose. The random one night stand felt, well random.

I would have liked to see more of her backstory, but that would kind of ruin her mystery. I just hate how little of her history we get. I also like that she never really bonded with anyone in TVD. She sort of did with Tyler and considered him a friend, I personally don't think she was romantically interested in him rather befriended him for a reason and did develop a platonic attachment to him. I also think she did care for the wolves, so I would have liked to see some more remorse from her after she betrayed them. Or at least see her coming to

Hayley's character growth in TO made the most sense to me since she was so young. The Mikaelsons were over a thousand and yet seem to mature /change a lot between the two shows. But for Hayley, maturing after finding out she's pregnant makes sense. I loved watching her go from a selfish loner to a caring leader.

And of course, because I can't help myself. I would have loved for TVD Hayley to run into TVD Elijah. Just for fun.

[nebulousmedic]

Unfortunately Mediscout gets a bad wrap even though Scout and Medic are both full-grown adults :( I do a lot of stuff with them too and I'm sure a bunch of people have me blocked for it lol

Gahhh yeah it sucks. I know a lot of fics for them are problematic (not my thing tbh) which is why the ship is associated with that kinda content. That or the age gap makes a lot of people uncomfortable?? Idk.

[fictionfolk-safehaven]

being a fictive is so weird sometimes.

first off, source memories?? weve never bodily killed anyone so why the hell are my memories so detailed? theres no reason for that smh my head. literally why am i here in the first place? what could our brain possibly have been going for? “ah yes, jeff the killer. he seems essential to our functioning.” 💀

second of all, people tend to assume im source separated for some reason? i assure you i am not. i still heavily identify with myself and my actions. yes, i know thats “problematic,” i fucking killed people lmao. ive had so many people try to justify my existence for me, its so funny.

“but you regret it, right?” no?? liu, i guess, but nobody else. he didnt even die so the answer is no.

“but you wouldnt do it again, right?” bbg there are too many cameras now, otherwise yea probably? like, eventually?

its so hard for people to accept that i am my source and thats not gonna change. its honestly annoying at this point.

-🔪🌟 anon (is that taken?)

Genuinely cackling at "Ah yes Jeff the killer, he seems essential to our functioning." I feel like we need to make sure Charlie sees that. We genuinely think his whole purpose is that he's... Funny.

Anyway 100% if someone asked me if I regret my source actions I'd fucking bite them.

- Xiao

[meteors-lotr]

What is the weirdest thing you ship, lotr of otherwise?

I mean I ship a lot of strange things, some would claim to be problematic, but I’ve always been under the opinion here online that if it’s not hurting you or anyone else, then like, do whatever

I guess in lotr, it’d probably be Brandytook, since they’re technically cousins, but tbf most Hobbits seem to be cousins so to their culture it’s not that big of a deal

Outside of lotr, well I’m currently watching the HTTYD shows with my girlfriend, and tbh Toothcup has me intrigued. Not my number one OTP in the franchise, but I like it a lot

[moldsporr]

So are you actually attracted to machines or is it a bit?? If it's not a bit then that's fucking weird dude please stay away from technology

Me and all the technology in your house actually had really cool robot sex last night yeah. Sorry yeah they're mine now they want to chill with me. Filling the rest of my homestuck quadrants. We've moved from Troll romance to Leprechaun romance. T4T yk. Not trans I mean tech4tech. I fucked your microwave