#real ragebait better

[grimchu]

Pony town servers are so crazy and not in a good way

Today a biphobic girl name Lena and a ableist nsfw straberry pony were doing ragebait all day I MEAN was interesting but holy crap i hate "haha saying bad shit" ragebait

Anyway then i was gay to a 707 from mystic Messenger

[radioisntdead]

Accidentally stumbled onto the dark side of Tumblr again, DEAR GRACE SOME FOLKS NEED INTENSE THERAPY, or need to stop doing drugs, maybe both, my eyes, my poor, poor eyes, I need a holy water and bleach combo

Also I should watch gravity falls again

[lovedrruunk]

What TikToks I think overwatch characters would post pt 2! (>ᴗ•) !

Part 1 !

Rein, don’t know if u guys know that liver king guy but he’s literally just rein if he took steroids. Posts tons of like gym core/culture videos yk BUT HES ONE OF THE GOOD ONES!!! Ppl in the community love him bc of how positive he is even though he’d give rlly bad advice “EATING THIS RAW TESTICLE INCREASED MY TESTOSTERONE LEVELS BY 9%!!!!”

D.va, this can go 2 ways. #1 in all her Korean celebrity realness posts vids doing trendy dances while using crazy whitening filters and doing aegyo. #2 goes by a fake name and trolls the fuck out of people. D.va being a hater is such a strong head canon of mine like I love her being a toxic bitch like yes slay or whatever so relatable! Replies to streamers she secretly hates like “Wow your mom’s basement looks so clean!” “My left toe can get better plays.” “Bet even your keyboard hates being touched by you.” basically meowbah or wtv her name was but less weird more cunty

Ana, she replies to reins TikTok’s telling his followers NOT to do anything he says, but other than that I can see her posting cooking vids (as every Arab mom does) but she’ll be talking sweetly in English and then suddenly start cussing something out in Arabic and it’ll be so off topic and it’s rlly funny “and then you add 1 cup of flour! ‘I told my lazyass lgbtqia daughter to pick up some earlier but of fucking course she chose to disappoint me again. Ever since the day I birthed her she has been disappointing me over and over again.’ A pinch of salt!”

Hanzo, DEPRESSION CORE SLIDESHOWS LMAOOO some “when the nice guy loses his patience… the devil shivers.” ass shit, bio is probs something stupid like “family betray, women cheat, Hennessy cures.”

Ashe, CONTROVERSIAL QUEEN !!! People forget she’s southern like please you cannot tell me she doesn’t have some crazyass takes. Will post borderline ragebait in like her car or something. “My gun identifies as a PLUNGER. Beat that Biden.” “BIDEN CANT TAKE MY GUNS, I KEEP THEM UPSTAIRS!!!” “Bidens oldass will probably find a way to outlive my OMNIC butler.” She’ll say all this stupid shit with a straight face and I just think that’s so funny. On rare occasions she’ll actually have a rlly good progressive take and ppl will be like okay hold up let her cook…

Tracer, kinda like junkrat where she's only famous cuz ppl lowk make fun of her and she hasn't caught on yet... I LOVEEEE Tracer she's my fav character but CMONNNN "Cheers love!" SHES NOT SURVIVING TIKTOK!!! ppl in the comments will be mocking her accent and she'll just think they're british too... ppl make fun of her NOT cuz they hate her but because she's just ummm eccentric that's the world plus she's british so that's rlly the only reason why ppl make fun of her like not in a mean way but just for funsies yk...

Pharah, being arab and being a lesbian I am 100% qualified to say this but she's such a fucking lesbo ykwim like 'hey mamas' type, she's also really whitewashed like thinks shes a white stud or something. Ellie Williams wannabe makes thirst traps in stained white wife beaters and expects every lesbian in a 100 mile radius to want her (they dont). Thinks playing basketball makes her the shit and she's just rlly desperate and lame. horny on main. Ana found one of her thirst traps once and it led to a really awkward convo

Kiriko, she's only there to post cute videos of her adventures with her gang and fox like shes just there to have a good time ykwim. And she's like popular bc all her fans r girls and her vlogs and stuff r just so nice to watch plus she's funny and rlly cool!

Baptiste, the anti-andrew tate. Hes so attractive and like confident that people can't help but like him ykwim like he makes little straight boys piss their pants with his bazillion level aura. He'll just post a random vid in his car maybe eating chipotle or something and he'll have men and women alike confessing their love for him in the comments. Lesbians love him.

Any character I haven't mentioned i just can't see posting or having tiktok!

[dsaf-confessions]

Okay, new pinned post to disclose stuff!

Welcome to dsaf confessions, the only mod here is modred hi hello I use she/he pronouns but that’s not important!!

This is a dsaf confessions blog but honestly since we unleashed the character anons it’s more like a hub, and the anons have sonas and stuff.

Here’s a list of all the taken anons, which I’ll update when more get added:

Davetrap anon

Jack Kennedy anon

Dave Miller anon

Flipside Dave anon

Steven Stevenson anon

Peter Kennedy anon

Caroline anon

Dee Kennedy Anon

Jake’s receiver anon

Stanley anon

Walt anon

Oscar Lewinsky anon (the first anon, btw!)

Dee’s scarf anon

Harry Fitzgerald anon

Matt Virginia anon

Giant scuttler anon

Steven’s boyfriend anon

Pencil Sharpener anon

Roger’s rotary phone anon

Dave’s dress anon

Hands lover anon

Jack’s badge anon

Hooker foxy anon

Blackjack anon

The real Fredbear anon

Jacktrap anon

Nuke anon (formerly kiwi anon)

Booper anon

Peter’s retconned son anon

Confused anon

Rogerzport anon

Eepynon

The RAT anon

Davesport anon

Rogersport anon

Harrysport anon

Pink anon

Wattpad anon

Puppet’s mask anon

Walt’s suit anon

Dave’s toenail anon

Henry no.2 fan anon

Little creature anon

And if I’ve forgotten anyone, feel free to bully me for it. There’s a lot of you it was not intentional

Rules:

No confessing to proshipping

No ragebait confessions

No confessions meant to stir up drama (technically ragebait, but the difference is ragebait is obvious. If I think ur just trying to start shit or maybe it WILL start shit then I won’t post your confession)

No NSFW (I am a minor and can guarantee a lot of other people here r as well)

If you’re going to have lots of coloured text in your post, you need to provide an uncoloured version in the same confession or I won’t post it

I think that’s it. No limits to how many confessions you can post, go wild.

To look through actual confessions (because the tagging system on this blog has changed over time) you’re better off looking through the dayshift at freddy’s or dsaf tags on this blog specifically. the original tag I used for that (dsaf confessions) has sort of been repurposed to encompass all posts on here, confessions or not.

Anyway, I think that’s it. Have a good day all

[mermaidsirennikita]

Any thoughts on the most recent booktok drama with that girl complaining about Six of Crows? I'm seeing romance readers getting dragged again...

As is often the case with BookTwt/other spaces reacting to BookTok things, it's got moral/pseudointellectual panic vibes, because everyone wants to act concerned about literacy while actually dunking on people they look down on (primarily young women) and making themselves feel better/victimized.

Oh noooooes, literature is dying! Except please look at how many litfic novels trad publishing is putting out, often with marketing blitzes that DWARF what adult genre releases get (especially niches like historical romance) with placements on the NYT bestseller lists which probably don't reflect what the books are actually selling. In order to induce people into buying these books. Despite the genre releases everyone sneers at keeping the lights on.

And all this is provoked from one random dumb BookTok vid, which honestly may or may not be ragebait, I don't know that girl, utilized as an example and used to create a monolith out of a huge community. Whether that community is BookTok in general, YA readers, romance readers (and I'm very "why are y'all bringing us into this" about THAT because SoC is thoroughly YA fantasy with a smattering of romantic subplots) (but they bring us into this because it gets them attention because we are the Moment, apparently) or what have you.

What I always find interesting about this is that another highly commercial genre that keeps the lights on, thrillers, very rarely gets dragged into this. Despite the fact that it's also pumped out on the regular, also tends towards a set formula, and also can lean towards shock value and big headline-grabbing bites, similar to YA and romance. I do think this has to do with the perception of the primary audience. Not so much on a gendered level (because thrillers, like much of lit, have women as the main makeup of their VOCAL audience) but on an "intellectual" versus "silly" level.

I mean. That video is dumb lol. But I feel like part of why it caught on is that a conventionally feminine, attractive girl posted it. The exact type of girl that a lot of nerdbros, and a lot of nerdgirls, want to dunk on. Again, I don't know her. She very well could be The Worst. But come on. A lot of the people reacting don't know her either. Her inner self and TikTok habits are not why they're freaking out.

I think her video is stupid; I think the reaction is stupid. Like, to be truly real, if the girl genuinely can't read well the issue probably lies less with BookTok and more with

a) public school funding issues

b) a lack of focus on literacy in schools in general (which is absolutely a political issue as well, it's not because teachers don't want to teach kids how to read properly)

c) the filtering of privileged kids into private schools that more purposefully de-emphasize the importance of reading (because the focus is on other things... like knowing the books of the Bible by heart...)

I would assume. At least.

[ladyluscinia]

You know that post that's like "I know I have curated my dash well when someone mentions how we need to talk about this fandom's huge problem with a horrible take that I have never encountered"

Maybe if your primary or even sole experience with some random fandom discourse is seeing your dash pass around posts about how it's the absolute worst and there's so many horrible people spreading this stuff, it might be worth some healthy skepticism of how big this problem actually is. Or if it exists. Like it's very easy to have never encountered a particular take if there's one guy that made a post that half sounded like it last week and the whole fandom-wide problem is just vagues of vagues that have built that dude a whole strawman army. Or if some minor inoffensive discourse is being rebranded into something more ragebait compatible.

I mean vagues about individual posts can also misrepresent but I feel like generally people are a bit better at going "I saw a post yesterday..." = one guy said this thing. The broad ones about "This fandom doesn't want to talk about its X problem" or the "X-apologists back at it again" are like. Written to invite you into discourse wars that you probably shouldn't be in if you don't even know for sure that anyone has ever said what you are about to go deride real people for believing. And it's always some group of real people that wind up under the umbrella term.

Not that discourse wars in general are ever good, but ones where you just come out the gate making shit up to be mad at the horrible X-shippers or whatever are effectively just complicated harassment campaigns.

[crimeronan]

god i know i keep half-tongue-in-cheek saying that my dad is literally belos owlhouse but. i've apparently gotten a little desensitized to Just How Bad He Is (because i have ESCAPED, YAY) & so today has been a delightful adventure.

i wrote an AITA post from his POV about stuff that happened several years ago, bc i was curious about how bad he'd get dragged - i updated the timeline but the Only fact i changed was the reason for his Woes (i blamed COVID economic struggles, which actually makes him a Hero compared to the truth. the truth being so ugly i'm not gonna detail it here good god).

i kept it true to POV by only using things that he actually did say to me at the time about why he was doing the things that he was doing, & blocking out all the relevant info about why the wronged party (me) was so upset, & having him praise his daughter (me) and go "i love her so much :) she's so smart and independent and i would never hurt her :)", & having him half-assedly admit he might've sounded unreasonable/angry/malicious, in a way that was clearly supposed to earn Good Dad points for being so Willing To Admit Imperfections, despite a continued constant doubling-down refusal to answer questions about actual important shit or fix anything ever.

cannot emphasize enough that this was not a fictionalized/embellished/creative POV. the only points of fiction were 1) my dad did not write these things on reddit, he said them to me in real life word for word instead and 2) this happened many years ago, not like... yesterday.

anyway the thread blew up and the commenters were all so kind and genuinely worried for me (as in, the daughter) and offering so much help that i hopped on a diff account to be my past self so i could reassure people i'm okay & had a plan in motion for gettin' the hell outta dodge. because i felt REALLY BAD that they didn't know i..... did in fact get out. people were so nice it made me actually fucking cry jesus CHRIST. i had in fact perhaps forgotten that these things were all as bad and worrying as they were

now. this is all a very serious and harrowing-sounding prelude to the actual point of this post, which is. a bullet list of some of my FAVORITE FUCKING RESPONSES. revel in these with me i had so much fucking fun. i have taken DOZENS AND DOZENS of screenshots to peruse whenever i need a healthy dose of Perspective

here they r:

you are CARTOONISHLY EVIL?

HOLY ABUSE BATMAN

DO BETTER. RIGHT NOW.

did you even listen to yourself writing this. HOW

there's something seriously wrong with you. like on an intrinsic unfixable level

hey this happened to me too! my parent died and i had a party about it btw

your daughter is never going to speak to you again after this

(note from the future: yeah)

you're going to act confused and sad when she goes no-contact aren't you

(NOTE FROM THE FUTURE: HE SURE FUCKING IS)

i think you are creating your own problems and then getting mad at them. maybe instead you could not do that

is this ragebait. i can't imagine anyone this horrible actually existing

this isn't ragebait. i can tell this isn't ragebait because I Know This Kind Of Man So Intimately

you are the asshole on literally so many levels i'm going to write a 15 paragraph response line-by-line dissecting everything wrong with you

are you aware that you're lying or are you literally this incapable of 2 seconds of honest self-reflection

i need to donate to a gofundme for your daughter right now immediately

(note from the future: i am not going to scam people by pretending a long-done sitch is a current emergency on gofundme. have no fear.)

wow. okay i'm gonna go hug my mom and thank her for not being you

you are Actually Literally Empirically the Actual Literal Worst Parent who has Actually Literally Ever Existed

HOW FUCKING DARE YOU????

WHO DO YOU FUCKING THINK YOU ARE.

I AM A 57-YEAR-OLD MOM OF FOUR ADULT CHILDREN AND THE MERE THOUGHT OF DOING ANY OF THE THINGS YOU HAVE DONE HERE MAKES ME PHYSICALLY NAUSEOUS

these vibes are so skeevy. leave her the fuck alone????

along with ASTONISHINGLY accurate inferences about exactly what was happening with the daughter (me) in all the missing missing reasons & like..... exactly how the situation was So Much More Ugly And Horrifying than an innocently confused i'm-so-well-intentioned dad-POV post would have you believe.

so. anyway. that was literally the most validating experience i've ever had in my entire life. i know i've said he's a bad guy before but i also always forget just how far beyond the pale he is. like wow that was. that was not a normal average human experience to have growing up huh.

IN CONCLUSION.

if you guys are ever wondering why i am the way that i am about, like........ anything....... everything....... whatever......

just remember.

i was raised by belos owlhouse.

[starcanwrecked-confessions]

🐇 anon here. Just saying, That confession regarding Richie and Ruth is genuinely disgusting and is most likely ragebait. The fact that ragebait has gone this far to the point where real world situations are being mocked / romanticised into fanfiction is rediculous simply because you want attention. And if it isn’t ragebait, please leave this fandom immediately and really consider doing research on these topics. It’s not just something you can use for fanfiction and shipping. It’s real, serious events that you are mocking.

- 🐇

I really really hope it's ragebait

I only ended up posting it because I knew people who responded to saying hey this is weird and shitty and hope that maybe people's responses can get this person to realize why that's weird and wrong, especially if they're particularly young

Anon if you're reading this please listen to 🐇 and evegrone else

But hopefully it is just ragebait, it's still shit but that'd be better

[celefrfr]

haven't followed the whole conversation but your take about eurovision artists was based and people fumbling all over themselves to defend them is hilarious. i had been listening to those artists myself and kaarija's fall from an amazing album like fantastista to those (mostly) lukewarm songs and use of gaybait to keep fangirls there was disappointing to me to the point i got the ick and stopped following his stuff. saying their music is ass may be too much for some people but really they could have just ignored you and moved on but instead they kept enganging with you. like for real better to see "hate" like this instead of constant asskissing and delulu posts on the tag. people can't even have a different opinion anymore and it's hate. i'm so tired

REAL , i said theyre ass because thats my way of talking , i exaggerate stuff, then i said its ragebait (just so they could think im a stupid kid and leave me alone) and, yeah fantastista was such a good album but he fell off, with politics which i didnt even know and starting to act all sexy for fangirls/boys if they (the fans) like it im not mad at them but him that hasnt gotten up

[supercupcakecollector-love]

the Witcher fandom, a rant

why is it so hard for people to believe its possible for a show to come back from a bad season, if  Picard can come back after a bad season 2 why cant the Witcher? 

don`t fall for the “Henry left because it wasn't like the books” rumor perpetuated mostly by alt right youtube channels who call everything they don't like “Woke”  the real reason is  likely because of contract disputes, he signed an unfair contract with Netflix signing away his likeness hence why his face couldn't be shown in his dc cameos,  and why he hasn't been legally able to do any projects outside of netflix and he understandably wanted out 

if there was a schism between the people working on the show over accuracy wouldn't other people involved in the project has left as well, like the polish producer Tomasz Baginski, who is a huge fan of the novels and worked on the games 

is it so ludicrous to believe that they saw the reaction to season 2 and overcorrected, its happened before with tv show were they get retooled after audience reaction 

we are getting the conclusion to the stuff that was set up in season 2  that felt incomplete because it was, the political intrigue of the northern kingdoms,  Geralt/Yennifer reconciling and talking about the wish  Ciri and Yennifer bonding ( I have a whole other rant coming about how Yennifer`s actions at the end of last season were misinterpreted by most people and how she was not the one in control like it may have seemed on first watch ) 

   why would they bother filming in the Sahara for the desert scenes or doing super complex scenes like the  Thanedd ball/ coup if they didn't care about the material and could just make a safe lower budget monster of the week style show with mass appeal 

I might ad that a good chunk of the outcries from so called “fans”  over the accuracy were often done with the addition of racist, misogynistic, and (now given what we know about season three) homophobic comments aimed at the female and poc cast and crew members, if it really was about representing the source material why would they feel the need to make comments like those that have nothing to do the story or characters  

im not saying you have to like this show, I have alot of problems with it myself but ever since that false headline about  Andrzej Sapkowski supposedly “ hating” the video games the Witcher fandom has had a serious problem with blindly listening click/ragebait headlines and putting words into peoples mouths,  please stop doing this so we all can have a better fandom experience 

[crystal-lillies]

alice takes a peek down the rabbit hole; or, what happens when I accidentally find a grifter-type news article on a subject I love

the ugly snort I made when I stumbled across a headline proclaiming that U.S. Comic Books are failing because of "wokeness" but Manga is thriving instead...

no joke, I felt like H.Bomberguy setting up a bit before a 4-hour long video essay as I found this article on my "new tab screen."

and I had to read it because my first thought, of course, was, "My dude," (the author is a man) "where the fuck have you been? Manga has ALWAYS been much more left and progressive than most mainstream U.S. comic books! You shot yourself in the foot right there!"

But, of course, I wanted to see if that point got addressed, and what else this article had to say, despite knowing that it was not meant for my eyes. The first mistake was that it claimed that manga was imported "non-woke" material within the first two paragraphs, while then much later acknowledging that what "might be called wokeness" exists in manga, particularly in LGBT relationships, even citing the outcry when the Sailor Moon dub censored the ships baked into the text of the story.

Yet...the issue is that U.S. comic books that have been behind in the representation department on many intersectional departments are now working to introduce more of these elements, such as Riri Williams taking over for Tony Stark as Ironheart when Iron Man is no longer around, or that Luke Fox exists in the Batfamily...with all of the other Batfamily around...or that Carol Danvers isn't as much of a fucking sexy fantasy doll than she was made out to be before.

Put a pin in that.

Another point brought up is how at "one time," comic book shops catered to a specific, niche group of people (a mostly male-dominated, juvenile-seeming group) and certain fandoms' toxic behavior soured the image in the public's eye...but NOW the stigma has LONG been GONE! ...I'd need a citation for that, my dude. (there wasn't one)

despite how many people go to Comic Cons around the world, being a comic book geek is still an oft-ridiculed and niche thing (as is the same for manga and anime, but it's a lot easier to find manga in my local Target than most superhero comics). and while some kind comic book shops do go out of their way cater to everyone, as someone who is Not Male and Not Always "Stereotypically Geek"-Presenting, I've had my fair share of judgement for my presence in those spaces.

Now coming back to the pin...making U.S. comic books and superhero stories more aligned with a wider, more diverse, "woke" audience, just like the massively successful imported (supposedly "non-woke") manga have been doing for many years...that's the real problem as to why comic sales are seemingly doing badly, according to you, sir? Not anything to do with the fact that translated manga is at a better price point for the value page-count and quality-wise, which you cited, or the fact it is more widely available to general intersectional audiences, which you ALSO cited?

The cognitive dissonance gymnastics is really something to behold. Sometimes, you really have to see it for yourself, and wonder how these writers are missing the point they're unintentionally making.

But, of course, I'm far from the intended audience that already agrees with the blind defensive ragebait.

and I do feel like H.Bomberguy now after having brought my head out of the rabbit hole.

if I wasn't so averse and terrified of putting more of myself out on the internet...I could see how easy it would be to go insane and make a 4-hour long video essay.

[lovegiroke]

hello

I am a theorist and artist who likes stuff, but please, call me LoveGir (pronounced love-gr-oak or love-gr)

I also have a little project which is The elven uprising

Content is aimed for ages 14+ as ocs and my stories may contain dark themes and I’m not afraid to draw suggestive things.

DNI: homophobes, transphobes, TERFs, predators, ragebaiters, proshippers, haters, anything like that.

twitter:

My fandoms

Clover or3o( and her work

Danganronpa

raincode

Hazbin hotel

Helluva boss

Your favorite Martian and/or Ray William Johnson’s work in general

The amazing Digital circus

Wincel’s Planet Humans

other stuff

stuff to point out

My content is mostly sfw, but sometime my edgy side will get the better of me

You may draw my ocs as long as you PROPERLY credit me I I could draw your if I can( that is if you have the consent of course )

ask me question about what I should discuss next

DONT ASK ME ANYTHING that has to do with

Real name

age

Irl relationships

Anything that has to do with my IRL life

if you think you know me irl, you don’t

you are allowed to ask about my interests though

Finally and probably the most important : DO NOT DRAW ME SHIPPED WITH OTHERS (Whether they’re real people or fictional characters), I am a real person and I haven’t revealed my age (I not 8 but I’m not 40 either). You are allowed to draw my persona with others in a platonic way, but not in a romantic and ESPECIALLY not a sexual way. I have to put the boundaries somewhere.

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My blogs:

@santaworksofficial

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If you want to get an invite for the community, ask me

[botched-lineart]

There's something that's been weighing on me.

I feel like the only reason I'm not seen as a notoriously narcissistic flaky failure is that I've never had a bigger following than 200 people who occasionally pay attention to what I do.

Because like. I disappoint people all the time. Daily, even. I'm selfish with my time, only make what I impulsively want to make, sit around being jobless on my parents' dime...

It's not cute. I feel like a vile creature trying to pretend to be a decent human being. And I can't even pretend all that well.

Some of my mutuals and discord acquaintances follow this blog and may even take the time out of their day to read this post and... There are so many things I could say. I'm sorry for being a chronic ghoster and for never following through on my promises. Sorry if I hurt your feelings by barely reacting to something you made or failing to pretend to be interested in a collaborative project because it wasn't exactly the way I wanted.

But I'm not sorry?

God, it feels horrible to say, but it's true.

"But Rocket, if it's sooo hard to say and you feel really bad, why are you vagueposting about it instead of working on yourself?" Because like I don't know what to tell you, man. I've been kind of an asshole my entire life. No matter how many years I've spent in therapy or obsessively dissecting every facet of myself, combing for flaws that I think other people might see in me, my actual pattern of behavior is iron clad.

When I look at myself on a deep, fundamental level, I know that I care more about what others think of me than about having real integrity.

I'm a fucking narcissist. It isn't cute, quirky, relatable, or something I can easily train myself out of or fix with the right meds. I have a deep, cloying pathological need to be seen as excellent. Cool. Admirable. But I know the truth about myself better than anyone else. If you cut me, I bleed green. I'm envious to my core.

I work hard, in my own way. The skills I have are things that I've been practicing my whole life. I started writing stories when I was four. I think I first drew fanart even earlier. I've never paid for attention or begged for exposure for my work. I've never intentionally posted ragebait or blindly chased viral trends just to feel important. Hell, I haven't even whined about how entitled I feel in public until now.

But that's the thing - I do feel entitled!! I want to reblog every single one of my drawings with a big fat PAY ATTENTION TO ME in the caption. Look at me!! I am being excellent over here!! I've been on this bitch of an internet since I was in first grade, so where the hell are my flowers??

I don't feel pride and joy when my peers get their big break. I feel disgusted at myself for not being good enough to be in their place. And I have to spend hours, days, weeks, months, years burying that feeling so deep that no one would notice how sweatily I'm typing out a simple "Nice job, dude. Happy for you."

I have no excuse for this. It's villain shit. But it's the emotional reality I live, and I hate pretending like I'm more passive and friendly than I am. It's fucking exhausting sitting by, politely toiling in my dark corner and occasionally looking up to see everyone around me living their best lives in the sun. I'm done pretending like that doesn't make my blood boil.

And I hate that I feel that way. I know that's not how a friend feels about friends. Right? Like, I've been learning about being supportive and courteous since before I knew how to talk, and yet it has never come naturally to me. I'm a bad friend. A sweaty, slimy, envious worm pretending to be something that I'm not.

And saying that out loud is terrifying. Because friends, if you read this and I've let you down and now openly admit that I only feel superficial remorse, like.... What more is there to say? You don't need someone hot and cold and fake like that in your life. And I wouldn't blame you for walking away and never looking back.

But God, it'd tear me apart. I think that's the thing that people don't understand about narcissists. You only glimpse us acting cocky, suave, confident, and cool because there are people to admire us while we crowd surf. Once we're alone, all of that ego is gone. No matter how authentically we worked to get that admiration, none of that is intrinsically valuable to us.

Your attention is all I care about in my heart of hearts. Not you. Not me. Your eyeballs as they watch me.

I don't want to sugarcoat it. By pretending to be better, I'm straight up being two-faced. It's better to just own being a full-on villain than sneak into people's lives as a covert friend.

"Rocket, who cares? You have maybe five friends on a good day and a microscopic following compared to most lousy assholes on the internet. You're being verbose and grandiose and showing your entire ass on camera for what?"

Attention. Duh. Narcissist, remember?

Like I can't even deny that while I write this for my own sanity's sake and the disillusionment for my friends, on some level I want someone to come pat my shoulder and say, "It's okay, Rocket. You may be an energy vampire to your social circles, but we forgive you. Please don't slink away, we love you!"

Uuuuuuugh.

Don't let my pathological need to be liked and called a good girl soften your opinions. Fucking tell me if I'm being a flaky bitch and it's hurting your feelings. It'll ruin my day and fuck my ego up so bad, but push on! Grab your sword and hold it to my neck!! Because I'm a fucking villain and violence is the only answer!!!

[names-of-courage]

Warning: long post

About

Names of Courage is a Links Meet AU comic that focuses on the personal relationships between the Heroes of Courage and them overcoming hardship.

With how sparse the Zelda games are with the towns and the population there will be more towns and OCs to flesh out the universe. I will also be adding onto the series lore and tweaking it to fit better than what the devs have done within their own series. /lh

Disclaimer: This Links Meet AU comic is based on The Legend of Zelda series and is not affiliated with The Legend of Zelda franchise nor the Nintendo company in any capacity other than being a non-monetized fanwork. The only characters I have a right to are the ones I've 100% created without being remakes of existing characters. This comic is loosely inspired by @/linkeduniverse

Trigger Warnings

This comic will have mature themes and may not be suited for those under the age of sixteen (16). This comic should not be read by those under the age of thirteen (13) without parent/legal guardian's informed consent. See this post for what triggers will be in the comic

Rules

Violation of these rules follow a “three (3) strikes and you’re permantly blocked” policy unless stated otherwise. Not reading these rules does not exempt you from the rules and its consequences

Please do not send unblock requests through any means; I don’t have infinite time and patience to review unblock requests. Immediate permanent blocks will NEVER be reviewed to be unblocked.

No reposting my art ANYWHERE. THIS IS AN IMMEDIATE PERMA BLOCK. Posting panel screenshots of the comic for commentary or analysis posts are allowed ONLY if I’m credited in said posts. Posting full page screenshots of the comic are NOT ALLOWED nor is posting each panel of a page separately is NOT ALLOWED

No submitting my art, writing or dialogue to AI training models. THIS IS AN IMMEDIATE PERMA BLOCK. Roleplay with someone if you want to talk to a character

No issuing or earning a commission from making a fanwork of Names of Courage. This is to save my ass and yours from Nintendo's lawyers. THIS IS AN IMMEDIATE PERMA BLOCK. (See FAQ for more info)

No disparaging groups of people (i.e. bigotry, transphobia, ableism, racism, etc). THIS IS AN IMMEDIATE PERMA BLOCK

No issuing death threats or various forms of harm to me or others within the community. You will be reported to appropriate web authority AND law enforcement. THIS IS AN IMMEDIATE PERMA BLOCK

No soliciting for donations nor requesting I reblog a donation post. THIS IS AN IMMEDIATE PERMA BLOCK

No using my characters featured in this comic for real world religious teachings or political agendas. This comic is an escape from those loaded subjects; please keep it that way

No using my characters featured in this comic for clickbait or ragebait. You can better spend your life by not inciting others to be mad at you or other people

No tagging my art as Linked Universe, other Links Meet AUs or Zelda Art in general

No tagging Linked Universe, other Links Meet AUs or Zelda Art as Names of Courage

No tagging others' Zelda Art as Pre NoC

No fanfics until a year has past since the first comic arc finishes. You will receive a personal warning as soon as I see the fic

No fancomics until a year has past since the first comic arc finishes. You will receive a personal warning as soon as I see the comic

No knee-jerk complaining (aka bitching) to me if there's something in the comic that upsets you. Please spend awhile thinking as to why you're bothered before you send me an ask telling me you're bothered by what's in the comic. Don’t like the comic? Don’t read it and block it plus the associated tags. (See below for the tags)

No requesting an update of the comic. Please be patient with me; I'm doing this comic as a side hobby therefore it isn't a high priority

See Guidelines and Statements for other forewarnings

Tags

Here are some of the official tags for Names of Courage

(More will get added here as the story progresses)

#Names of Courage

#NamesofCourage

See FAQs and @names-of-courage-qnas for more info on the comic or me

[weareuniqueandimportant]

ABUSER BIGOT DESPISE MY AMAZING EXISTANCE... THEY'RE TRANSPHOBIC CAPITALIST PIGS THAT BELIEVE WE AREN'T ALLOWED TO FEEL EMOTIONS... OR SHOW OUR PAIN...

BTW GIRL THINGS AREN'T SO GIRLY. IF ANYTHING THEY'RE SEXIST. ON TOP OF THAT THAT'S LIKE THEY AREN'T HAPPENING ANYMORE. MY LITTLE PONY BECAME NEUTRAL NOTHING LIKE THAT OUT THERE. THE SIMILAR THINGS RECOMMENDED TO ME ARE ALL FROM 10S OF YEARS AGO. SHOUJO ANIME ARE DEAD REPLACED WITH SHOUNEN ROMANCE.

ALL ABUSER BIGOT WANTED WAS TO YELL AT US HOW MUCH THEY HATE US. THEY AREN'T THERE WHEN WE'RE STRUGGLING... INFACT WE'RE STRUGGLING RIGHT NOW AND ALL THEY DID WAS GASSLIGHT AND HARM US...

WE NEED NEW THINGS OR NOTHING WILL EVER EVOLVE... GIRL THINGS ARE SEXIST NOTHING ELSE THAN THAT... ARE YOU REALLY FORCING ME TO GET INTO THINGS OVER FROM YEARS AGO THAT WILL NOTHING BUT HURT ME...?

BTW MARVEL HAS NO PRINCESS THEY'RE GARBAGE... EVIL SERIES... WEIRD FEELING... AFTERALL THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE WHERE YOU BEGIN... BUT THEY'RE PROPAGANDA AND... EVIL...

I DID KNOW MY LITTLE PONY AND WATCH... I DIDN'T DO SO WITH ANYTHING ELSE SIMILAR PROPERLY... I DID BRIEFLY SEE SOME...

I'M GOING TO BREAKDOWN NOTHING RAGEBAIT ABOUT THAT...

DISNEY MISHANDLED ALL THEIR WOMAN. THEY'RE COMPLETELY PASSIVE AND SUBMISSIVE. THAT IS CLEAR THE REASON WHY A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS SHARES SIMILARITY WITH WOMAN PROTAGONIST IS BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL CREATED BY THE SAME MAN TO REINFORCE GENDER PROPAGANDA. THE WAY THEY ALL DATE. THEM IN BOY GARBAGE ALL WOMAN A MISOGYNIST ASS OBSESSED WITH THAT. THEY'RE BOTH THE SAME. SAME ATTITUDES. ONLY FROM A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW. WANT TO BE TOLD YOU SUCK WITH GLITTER OR DINOSAURS AND DEATH?

This Also Doesn't Genuienly Continue To Other Phases Of Your Life. I Don't Watch "Adult" Dramas. I Don't Want To Watch Any Of That. I Watched Winx Club Recently. I'm Not Supposed To Be Doing That Well THAT'S TOO BAD. AND I WANT MORE. Other Genders Aren't Even Included And Thing Is There Is No True Difference... Clearly... This System Of Abuse Is Harmfull...

Something Something Fate The Winx Saga Was Nice. Stop Crying. First New Winx Is Too Childish Then Fate And World Of The Winx Are Too Dark. They Can't Decide.

Oh My God. I'M GOING TO TEAR OFF MY EYES...

The Only Josei I Read Since Often Nana Is A Shoujo Aswell As Paradise Kiss Was With The Light. Omg Mega Ableist Manga. There Wasn't Anything Else. This Is All A No Brainer. There's A Video Anyone Interested Has Already Seen. Our Deep Abuse Should Be Deeply Obvious... I Can't Believe Someone Would Gasslight Anyways Us With The Hide Your Emotions Disorder To Hide Them Excactly Multiple Times... Thanks Bigot!!!! THAT'S LIKE OBVIOUS... WE NEVER SHUTTED UP ABOUT BEING HARMED OR TRAUMATIZED... ABUSER BIGOT THEY HAVE A VENDETTA THEY'RE AGAINST... UHH HEALING...? THEY HATE LOL TRAUMA HEALING... ISN'T THAT... WHY YOU WISH TO "HELP" IN THE FIRST PLACE...? WHAT...? THEY THINK WE'RE JUST DELUSIONAL AND EVERYTHING IS MADE UP BUT ALSO THAT EVERYTHING IS REAL AND WE NEED "HELP". YET ALL THEY DO IS HURT US... AND ONLY WE SUFFER...

BTW HEALING IS OVERRATED NOTHING WILL EVER GET BETTER JUST LIKE OUR TRANSITION THIS IS NOTHING ELSE THAN FACT.

ONLY A NEOLIBERAL FASCIST NAZI WOULD SAY OTHERWISE TO EVERYTHING. THIS IS WHAT AT BEST WE WERE ABUSED BY...

Abuser Bigot See You're Hurting And Nothing Else Than Mock You... I Can't Play Board Games Lol I Have Noone My Wife Will Come Only For A While Again Months Later And We Won't Waste Time On Something We Can't Do... What Is This... Confusing Ideology... They're Gasslighting Me... I Feel So Crazy And Confused 😢... WAHHHHHHH 😭😭😭😭!!!!!!!! I CAN'T PLAY BOARD GAME 😢... I DON'T EVEN WANT TO THEY'RE BIGOTED GARBAGE... I WILL NEVER BE HAPPY THEY CAN'T DECIDE THIS... THEY DON'T EVEN CARE ABOUT ME SO WHAT ARE THEY PREACHING... THIS IS ALL JUST A STRATEGY TO ABUSE US WHAT THEY'RE ALREADY DOING AFTERALL... Idk I Forgot.

On Top Of That That Is Them Upsetting Us Aswell As Everything Evil... Capitalist Society... Everything Can Be Better... I If Anything Better Myself... Reduce Our Pain... These Abuser Bigot Wish To Strip Us Of Our Power Until We're... Submissive... THEY'RE POLICE THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN... PERHAPS THIS IS WHY THEY ATTACKED US THEY LOVE THE FASCIST SOCIETY... There Is No Other Reason Anyone Would Attack Us... And Claim To Be... Trans... While Using Transphobic Narratives As Weapon...

Ohh We're Far More Than The Emotions Of Those That Never Liked Us... Good People Will Be Nice To Us... Reward Us With What We Deserve For Everything Happened To Us... Only A Bad Person Wouldn't Try And Would Instead Attack Us Like This... On Top Of That... We Will Make This World Better With Our Agenda... Clearly A Centrist Attacked Us...

So Traumatized... So Discriminated... I Am... Trans Harmed... Yes... Victim Of Transphobic Agenda... SAVE ME PRINCESS MY EQUAL 😢. I AM... IN DISTESS!!!! Why Hasn't Anyone Saved Me...? I Need... Love... I Need... Hormone...

[whookami]

Whoops. Got my first Reddit ban for posting on r/ImTheMainCharater, musing that it might’ve been better if that prankster who got shot had actually died, because maybe it would make other pranksters think twice before doing something truly stupid, because it could likewise get them killed.

I understand this ban though, and yeah, it was deserved, even though I meant my post more as hyperbole than a literal desire to see someone dead. But also, I posted it on a video of a guy pranking a blind man and a person on crutches, running up to them and performing a wrestling maneuver on them called a “Diamond Cutter”, in which he grabbed them around the neck and forcibly yanked them down to the ground. So, yeah, my comment was out of pocket, but it was more of a “what is it going to take to teach these people they can’t go doing shit like this unsuspecting innocent strangers”

I will admit, this assumes it wasn’t staged, but this one felt like it might be legit. I know some are deliberate set ups, but I also know some are real. There was one video a day or two before showing a guy punching people in the park in the back of the head, and it was really him doing it to complete strangers, including a news story about it. There’s a reason you don’t rabbit punch people; it has a high chance of causing severe cranial and cervical injury. So was “Diamond Cutter” dude real like “Rabbit Punch” dude is? I can’t say for certain, but I’m fairly internet literate and can usually get a feel for what is staged ragebait, and what is an actual douche attacking people under the guise of “it’s just a prank, bro!”

So yeah, I don’t really wish a person had died, but I also wonder what it will take to stop these people. Feels like this is the only case where “good guy with a gun” isn’t just a meaningless right wing speaking point. It would be far more entertaining to me for a prankster to have a gun pulled on them and watch them cry and beg for their lives, I’ll say that much.