#so you go ‘oh this is profound bc obviously this person also means (…)’

[imunbreakabledude]

Twitter seemed increasingly dumb and off putting to me when I was on it (which is why I stopped using it) but it somehow seems even more dumb and off putting to me when my main view of tweets is those that are screenshot and shared by people I follow on other platforms (Instagram/tumblr). Like damn these aren’t the dregs of awfulness Twitter has been overtaken by, these are curated, these are tweets someone I like enough to follow has deemed worthy enough to screenshot/reshare, and they’re still dumb as fuck most of the time. Like even sentiments I generally agree with coming from people whom I know to be smart - when they’re reduced to a 280 character “spark as much reactionary emotion as possible” format, they become dumb! it’s a pretty shit format for communicating anything and it incentivizes some of the worst rhetorical strategies out there!!!!

[chaos-and-recover]

ngl Children of Ruin flew right over my head bc I am really stupid I guess and shouldn't have attempted to read sci-fi. I did not read Children of Time so maybe that's why. Everyone kept saying it would click by the time I finished but it didn't. Spoilers ahead beware: like I understand we are meant to read the pov of alien beings that are octopuses or spiders, and that being too tech advanced causes issues. The whole "going on an adventure" that everyone says made their jaw drop just flew over my head. Could you explain it maybe? Obviously beneath a read more for spoilers. It's been bothering me. I don't know if I'm trying to see it as more profound than it is and I'm mistaking them being like "oh nooo" as philosophically relevant or if I'm oversimplifying it so that something with plot twisting symbolic stuff about life is a simple "oh crap" idk like I said maybe sci-fi is above my IQ

TBH I haven't read Children of Time yet because for some reason there's a really long wait for it in my library system, but wasn't for Children of Ruin. I'd had them both on my Saved list for like a year and requested both at the same time and CoR came in first; I'm still waiting on CoT.

ANYWAY.

Spoilers below for Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin below, if you plan to read that ever (if you like sci fi I recommend it, I'm not usually into sci fi and fuckin loved it)

"We're going on an adventure!" is just utterly terrifying because it's what the organism/parasite/whatever-the-fuck is on Nod that destroys everything says when it takes over a new host. To me it's a mix of wonder and horror because this thing genuinely does just want to explore and learn and see more of the universe than just its home planet (hence why it's so frustrated at the end when it's still been stuck on Nod/in the orbitals/on Damascus for thousands of years and didn't get its adventure) but to do that it's taking over some other being. The way it's introduced with the first infection with Lortisse is so well done because first he starts slipping in "we" in his speech and then there's the narration about him being unable to stop smiling even though it's physically painful and then he says "We're going on an adventure" and that's when he's fully and completely not him anymore.

And then it repeats with Baltiel, when everyone else dies and he escapes Nod and contacts Senkovi to warn him and say they can have no more contact just in case and you think maybe he's ok? But then Senkovi is like "ok so then why are you coming this way" and he's just like "We're going on an adventure!" That one has the added horror because at that point as far as Senkovi knows, he's now the last surviving human anywhere in the entire universe.

tl;dr it's basically just an intensely disturbing line, delivered in an optimistic and upbeat way but if you were to hear it as a character in the novel it means the person saying it to you is no longer your friend/partner/crewmate.

(Also, I don't think getting or enjoying sci fi is a matter of IQ, really just a matter of taste and maybe experience. If you don't read a lot of it there are a lot of tropes and concepts that won't necessarily make sense but I think the very best sci fi can explain things, especially the technology and physics and science-y side, in a way that you might not understand but can still see the internal logic. It needs to have its own rules and stick to them, or anyone is just gonna be utterly lost. But it's also a matter of taste! Just like any genre, it's just not for everyone, and that's cool too. It can be the best written novel of all time with a solid story, flawless logic and science, and sometimes you're just not gonna like it, or it's not gonna click with you, and there's nothing wrong with that)

[certifiedceraunophile]

Hi! A fan of your writing here. I just love the way you write Caroline. An Avoidable Heart is my comfort fic and I am constantly in awe with the way you write and craft the dynamics in that story. Caroline's inner monologue is just priceless and God! I just love that intro scene where Caroline is walking into the Mikaelson compound with vampires and hybrids in the surrounding ready to pounce on her.

I would love to hear how you would have visualized Caroline crossing over into TO or not? Like in what season and why? How it would have likely gone?

Thank you!

First of all lovely anon gimme a moment to breathe, asdfghjkl why are people so lovely 😭😭🥺✨ It means sooo much to me that you’d take the time to jump into my inbox and send these kind words, like please I’m not worthyyyyy, But you make me smile and feel really freaking warm so *handcuffs your hand to mine* you aint leaving 💖✨💞🙃

But OK ALSO oh my god dude THAT CAROLINE WALTZS INTO THE COMPOUND AND TAKES ON A COUPLE HUNDRED VAMPIRES BY HERSELF SCENE???? Ughhhhh I’m sorry but I have SUCH a boner for Caroline in that, like my badass -I admit kinda op- QUEEN IS HERE and she’s fucking shit up, I’m sorry but I love that scene so much it’s so dear to me I was killing myself over how self-indulgent and grossly Over powered Caroline is but like idgaf man it’s such a hot scene and Caroline is practically invincible and we just love to see that, so seriously lovely anon, you telling me you LOVE that scene??? Puts the biggest smile on my face and reassures me a LOT bc I was whining and cribbing over how absolutely unbalanced that scene is to literally everyone BUT LIKE YOU JUMPING OUT OF NOWHERE and pointing that exact scene UGHH…...meant to fucking be the both of us 💖💞✨

And ALSO Caroline’s monologue is quite honestly the easiest inner monologue out of the three voices I wrote for that work, Klaus’s is the real pain in the ass tbvh like it is NOT easy writing pretentious besotted losers with a Kardashian complex especially when you need to make them sound cool when they’re the lamest OP dude bros to ever exist - and no I don’t hate Klaus although I seem to try my darndest to convince ppl I do- I just personally believe that a feral fucker like that with a thousand years of existence under his belt can grow a pair and graduate from his kindergarten level of emotional maturity to adult sometime soon, But then on the flipside he’s so grossly adorkably smitten and feral for Caroline plus hella horny for her all the time that its usually easy to write the trashed and devoted idiot he is into something pretentious and powerful and potent when relating to his unflappable arrogance and his narcissism, but sometimes I also need him to be *deep* and ffs profound for the sake of the plot and jfc my muse just wont work with me on that, she’s like I’m sorry I’m not about to bust my ass to make this mongrel intelligible like no sir all I wanna do is make him uncomfortably horny for Caroline and leave him like that.

So smh yeah the struggle is real….but lmao Caroline is just so precious and fiercely protective and just so achingly lonely in that story, so desperate for connection and trust and intimacy yet so guarded and impervious to everyone like it hurts me to write her like that but it really challenges me as an author to balance out her inherent light with the “void” I create in her and through her, so yeah it’s a very fulfilling task and I wouldnt change it one bit, and also I had to balance out her physical op-ness w half a millennium of the ugliest emotional trauma lol so I guess that figures, but the point being….once again I am overjoyed knowing that you liked a facet of the story that I tried so hard to make as authentically Caroline and achingly real and moving as I can and I cannot possibly feel more accomplished than rn for it so ty ty ty ty for reaching out to me and telling me *tackle hugs* It makes me GIDDY knowing that you enjoyed that particular part of the story like ugh stab me please you're too sweet.

And ok NOW, coming to The Originals part of the ask, (also please note that when I say TO headcanon; Hope does not exist, Hayley is a dead in a ditch and ofc Klaus will stop being that lil bitch they tried to pawn off as Klaus in TO) 

HEADCANON 1

Honestly my biggest headcanon when it comes to TO crossovers somehow always include non-humanity!Caroline like it’s just so perfect to me?? The opportunity to make shit BLOW UP b/w them like imagine the DEBAUCHERY, the heat, the SEXUAL TENSION, the repression of one Klaus Mikaelson, the EXPLORATIONS, and omg the role reversal when Klaus has to be the voice of moral reason between them and not bc he believes Caroline would not be able to stand herself if she does something heinous and monstrous but bc he wants her to be completely and utterly herself, and yk *aware*, when she DECIMATES ppl to the ground and is in full-on predator mode, like he wants her monster to come out and play with him when no part of Caroline is locked away or suppressed, so obviously when she is w/o her humanity KLAUS exercises restraint on her behalf, like can you imagine that, Klaus restraining himself and being the vague, extremely broken and just largely inaccurate moral compass between the two of them for ALL the wrong reasons- and the entirety of NOLA just standing there watching him herd this baby vampire who seems to be intent on riling him up and angering him when all she is doing is giving him a massive hybrid hard on, like IMAGINE THE GOODNESS of non-humanity Caroline wrecking NOLA and Klaus letting her wreck it bc he is helpless in the face of Caroline Forbes and also bc he is quite honestly *enjoying* the debauchery himself so why put a damper on the festivities.

-I might wanna add that I favour this headcanon a lot bc I genuinely do not even remotely *like* the idea of NOLA as Klaus's chosen place to set his roots so like I would love Caroline going to NOLA and destroying everything there just bc I detest NOLA and the storyline behind it in TO. (yes is it petty? Obvi, but like I am a petty soul and I make no apologies ma’am)

HEADCANON 2

So yeah that’s my main TO headcanon, but my other one being, one I talk about very frequently, scream about in tag rants to an obsessive level, and like this is a cracky one but still very valid, where Caroline rolls up to NOLA humanity intact and all, finds Hayley preggo and is just laughing her fucking ass off bc anybody ANYBODY, with half a brain and a two minute convo w klaus would know how UTTERLY stupid the entire baby shit is especially when it’s with an immemorable one night stand, and Caroline’s just losing her shit about how like an entire city is obssessed w this baby and she just straight up tells Klaus he’d SUCK as a dad (which he really does tho like he was a shitty fucking dad canonically too) and Klaus is just like *sigh* girl tell me about it. I mean basically he’s finally relieved that someone is on his side about the whole baby thing and how he definitely does not want his entire millennium of life to finally sum up to this one squalling leaking stinky infant/unicorn Hayley is apparently baking in her oven, and I say this headcanon is cracky bc klaus would never have put up w this mess long enough for Caroline to come in and sort it out, there’s this preferred method of disposal of his called heart ripping that would've been employed quite early on and honestly saved us all a lot of brain cells and minused years of life, bc let’s be real any Klaus who’s NOT a lil snivelling bitch wearing a Klaus skinsuit would’ve yeeted the baby and the mama first chance he got, and that’s just how I see it.

Lmao I really hope I didnt scare you away w my *strong* opinions Ik they can be a bit much but I enjoy having them so theyre not going anywhere, anyways this ask answer got WAYYYY too long but I’m hoping I answered your question well with this or atleast left you slightly confused and bemused over my feral screaming....either ways I’m really really really happy to have got your ask and the chance to rant so much bs, Twas cathartic and honestly I had nothing to do today so I was more than happy to dish this baby out for you. Thank you so much sweet anon for putting a smile on my face today I am absolutely HONOURED by your words you’sa cutie 💖💞✨🗣🗣

[80hdean]

Oh my god I just read a fic that I think actually fully explains Dean’s character choices (particularly regarding Jack, though also Cas) in seasons 14-15?? In an actually satisfying way? I never expected to have that make sense to me and I’m still kind of reeling.

The thing is that The Only Way it makes sense relies 100% on three things being true:

Dean is heinously full of self loathing, despair, and maladaptive coping strategies that he refuses to improve upon or seek help for; namely his belief that he is worthless and undeserving and should have been left to rot in hell, and that because of this worthlessness no one he cares about will ever really care about him in the same way, will never stay with him, so he must push them away before they get the chance to blindside him with that betrayal (which he knows from prior experience that he doesn’t deal with well) AND

Cas is the one being that’s even partially exempt from this rule because he’s an angel that earned his faith early on (profound bond style), and while he’s never been one to stick around physically, his devotion has never wavered enough that Dean seriously doubts that Cas cares deeply for him. This means that Cas somehow becomes integral to Dean’s conception of hope in general and becomes necessary to Dean envisioning a future of any kind for himself BECAUSE

Dean is romantically in love with Cas from at least season 12 onward (his feelings could potentially be repressed to a degree for some of it but they do need to be present explicitly for his motivations to make any kind of emotionally resonant sense)

All three of these things must be true for this series of interpretations to hold up. It all slots together so well that it almost seems *possible* that this was all somewhat intentional/planned on the writers’ part, but that the eventual execution was so piss poor that I wasn’t able to connect the dots (mostly bc of the extreme gaslighting regarding #3). It’s confusing as fuck to constantly try to figure out why the fuck a character is doing something if the logical CONTEXTUAL reasoning is frequently said to be nonexistent.

Basically this fic didn’t posit anything radically new, but it was a specific combination of minor takes and at a couple of key (and unexpected) time stamps that finally made it all coalesce for me.

Like, for example, Dean feels like he “had never had Cas, and now he never will” when Cas leaves him to protect Kelly before Jack was born, not afterwards, priming him to be not only angry at Jack but to see him as the interloper standing between him and Cas. This would then ratchet Dean’s rage and homicidal anger towards Jack up to eleven when Cas gets killed doing this.

But then getting Cas back restores Dean’s hope, hope for a future, so he chills out and even comes to care for Jack, especially since Cas does. And Cas is noticeably more affectionate and fond, and Dean’s hopes grow a little stronger until Jack dies and Cas goes and makes the deal with the Empty, after which Dean notices Cas being less obviously affectionate with him, which he can only conclude has something to do with Jack and his soul, which leads to increased suspicion yet again.

This was crucial for me bc without seeing it from this “Cas is my only hope at having a future” and “if you get between me and Cas I will treat you like I am a jilted and jealous lover” like without these layers of context, his reactions to Jack (and to Cas, especially during the divorce arc) are out of proportion to the situation and out of character for Dean given the whole trajectory of the show and character development and whatever.

I could write another 3k words about this, which is so silly, but yeah this one fic has fixed for me the one giant pulsating un-ignorable fault that caused me to fly off the handle about the last couple seasons of the show at any given moment. I’m aware that’s super irrational but what can you do. The show wrote one of my favorite characters being an abusive homicidal rageaholic towards my top two favorite characters (one of whom is a child!!) without anything resembling a good enough reason.

I personally found Dean’s character arc pretty hard to follow after the Mark of Cain was removed and even the back half of season 10 was kind of convoluted to me ACTUALLY you know what he really just went off the rails when he tricked Sam into accepting Gadreel. That’s when shit started to go sideways for Dean’s basic characterization, and things just snowballed after s11-12 I think.

Anyways I got this far and forgot to say it but the fic is Hell Was The Journey That Brought Me Heaven by thursdaysfallenangel (https://archiveofourown.org/works/26376697)

[canonicallyanxious]

hi. i was wondering what you thought or if you had any criticisms with the original skam? I wish the original season 3 focused more on isak's mental health and season 2 didnt act like norhelms flaws didnt exist. loved season 1.

oh boy do i!

man i’ve been trying to figure out how exactly i want to answer this question for hours now skdjfndksjfnd like just take one look at my blog and you can see i’m complete and utter SCU [skam cinematic universe] trash but i do have LOTS of complicated feelings and thoughts about og skam. in an effort to be measured and fair about this, i’m going to try to distinguish bw genuine criticism of the writing/etc. and personal nitpicks [aka stuff that personally doesn’t vibe with me but might work for other people]. and i thought about doing a season by season breakdown but i think that would end up getting WAY too long [like there are SO many specific things i wish they’d done differently in this show goddamn] so i’ll try to focus on some key overarching points here

[cut because HOO BOY did this get long i’m SORRY but also at this point you probably can’t be surprised skdfjndsfks]

First and foremost: let’s talk about race. i think it is one of skam’s biggest blind spots and i also think it’s a weakness that has affected pretty much every single remake thereafter, even [sometimes especially] the ones that have more diverse casts and so for me this is one of skam’s most significant weaknesses. i could honestly write an entire essay on skam’s issues with race [hell season 4 could be an essay in itself!] but i really think it boils down to there being pretty obviously few to no writers of color in the room. it’s not just the lack of diversity in the cast [although let’s count shall we? one main of color across the entire show, one black side character, the majority of side characters of color only appearing in one season... yeah] but it’s also that the characters of color who are on screen are simply not afforded the same care and nuance that the white characters are given. 

To be clear i think Sana is an amazing character and i think they accomplished some really important things with her, particularly as one of the few positive and nuanced portrayals of a hijabi that even exist in western media, but - she was only given nine episodes in her own season and even throughout the story the focus was often on the white characters around her [such as Noora]. not even to speak of many tired tropes [the homophobic fake out bw balloon and boy squad? THE ENTIRE BENCH SCENE???] and dropped storylines [Elias’ drinking? balloon squad’s relationship with Even??] throughout the entire thing. NOT EVEN TO SPEAK of the portrayal of characters of color BEFORE season 4 [vilde never properly apologizing for her racism! sana being the one to care for her at the end of season 1!! mahdi being given the least development/depth of the entire boy squad to the point that his most notable line in the entire show is about waffles!!!]. 

idk man it’s a complicated topic and there are probably much smarter people who have already gone into this in much better detail than i can but this really is one of my biggest issues with skam and the skamverse as a whole. maybe i should just accept that shows like this are not made for people like me, and i should look elsewhere for good representation of teens of color, but idk. i don’t think it’s too much to ask for better from a show that has a reputation for being a show FOR teens, you know what I mean? if skam is a show for teenagers [and it really is one of the better shows for teenagers i’ve ever seen, imho!] it would be nice for it to be a show for teens of color, too.

Another criticism i have of the show as a whole: lack of character continuity b/w seasons. throughout the years i’ve seen many people justify this as being due to point of view, since each main has a very limited and biased perspective. however i feel like this can only account for so much, and for me it’s not really a good excuse for a lack of cohesion in character arcs. for example, eva’s character development being pretty much dropped after the end of her season. just things like that. and honestly as well written as i think s3 is i don’t think it really did the girl squad any favors to have the show suddenly change focus from them for an entire season, to the point where only a few of them made any truly significant appearances in the season.

Another point i can think of: i remember once reading a post someone made about how julie andem + skam writers didn’t seem to know how to tell a compelling story without sex in it [for example sana’s season falling flat bc they struggled to come up with a compelling conflict or way to develop sana and yousef’s relationship bc it had to stay physically platonic], which rings true for me. not to say that teen shows can’t or shouldn’t explore sex. i think it’s really important to show healthy models of romance and sex for teenagers, actually! but i just think it would have been nice if throughout the seasons there had been more focus on other topics, and conflicts stemming from other sources. one example i can think of is that some of the more compelling threads of s2 for me such as the eating disorder subplot and noora’s anxiety in the wake of being sexually assaulted get pretty much entirely subsumed by the romantic storyline. or going back to sana, how instead of focusing on the differences bw her and yousef’s world views the conflict for at least like three episodes ended up coming from yousef making out with noora. just things like that where i wish the romance and the other plotlines could at least coexist together and be assigned equal importance.

And yeah, i agree with you that one topic i wish they had more thoroughly integrated into the show is mental health. of course we have Even and vague hints of Vilde/Noora having eating disorders/anxiety but i think we could all argue that all of the mains at one point or another are coded as mentally ill, but that coding and those symptoms never go anywhere, never lead into more nuanced discussions about mental health. like i don’t think the mental illness coding was intentional but i think that’s all the more reason to get into it, because mental illness has such a profound effect on so many teenagers and they don’t even really know it, you know what i mean? like it would be so powerful to show how pervasive of an issue it is. but that is kind of starting to get into personal nitpick territory i think, so i’ll just leave it at that.

god i still feel like i have so much more i could say skjfnskdjfs [GOD where to even START with season 2] but i’ve been working on this post for long enough so yeah, i should probably stop. i guess my point with this is not that skam is So Very Problematique, and of course i’m just one person and this is all just my personal opinion, and OF COURSE i firmly believe there is no story in this world that is flawless, but more that talking about our criticisms can hopefully lead to more nuanced conversations and stories in the future and that’s partly why i enjoy analyzing stories and what works and what doesn’t so much. thanks for this ask anon, it was [clearly lol] a very thought provoking question =]

[sunsetsover]

that interesting question why callum cross the line with ben but not with chris also the contrast of his feelings for chris v ben?

hmm that is an interesting question!!! i think there are a lot of factors tbh (i went a bit overboard…. i hope u like reading lmao)

obviously callum met chris at a very different time in his life - he was younger, less experienced, he evidently hadn’t dealt w feelings like that (feelings towards a man, but also probably just like…. real intense pure love?? i mean look at his family lmao) before. it was probably A Lot to deal with and scared the shit out of him. he probably didn’t act on his feelings for chris because he was scared of his feelings for chris. and if his recent actions are anything to go by, he clearly is still scared of those feelings.

and there are the circumstances too. the army obviously isn’t the greatest or safest place to begin a gay relationship, especially when when you’re as confused and struggling as callum clearly was. and had he acted it on it, then it would have been his first relationship!! ever !!! and it would have been with a man!!! he was experiencing love for the first time!! AND he was a virgin!!! like he was in denial!!! he was probably all kinds of fucked up and confused!!! his head must have been completely mashed, and understandably so!!! so like he was not even close to being in the right headspace or place to act on his feelings. and considering that was the first time he’d experienced feelings like that, maybe he thought it was just a fluke? like a ‘having feelings for one man doesn’t make me gay, esp if i don’t act on it’ kind of thing.

also, just judging from the little bit we know abt chris he seems - and i don’t mean this in a bad way bc i love ben - a lot nicer than ben. like from the sounds of it he was kind and understanding and he seemed to have let callum dictate what happened between them, which in the end was nothing, despite all the feelings that were obviously there between them. vicky said it - chris didn’t want to scare callum and push him away. so he didn’t. he didn’t rock the boat, so nothing happened, even tho they were seemingly in love with each other.

so why did he go there with ben, who he barely knew and gave him almost nothing but trouble, when he couldn’t go there w chris, who he clearly loved? as far as i’m concerned, it’s for the same reasons that he didn’t go there w chris.

callum is now, once again, in a different time of his life. he’s had time, away from the army, to get his head around his feelings (though he clearly hasn’t. if anything he seems even more in denial than he was before lmao), he’s in a much more safe, stable environment in so many ways - away from his abusive dad, away from the army and literal warzones, nice little found family w the carters and whitney, nice stable job. tbh his life was so stable he probably let his guard down a bit too much, bc like since callum has been in eastenders, there had been no real hints that he experienced attraction to men; he was in a happy, committed relationship with whitney, everything was going well. that may be why ben could see through him so easily.callum probably thought he was ‘safe’. that chris really was just a fluke. maybe that’s why he didn’t want to go back to the army - he had a good thing going bc it turns out he wasn’t gay! he just needed to find the right woman! and he didn’t want to risk it all by going back to the army and being around chris again…. makes sense tbh

but then there’s ben. tbh i didn’t sense any attraction from callum’s part until the ‘i smell queer’ scene, so maybe there wasn’t any? maybe he’d been suppressing it? ignoring it? but then he has ben pinned up against a door, and you can see the ‘oh shit’ on callum’s face bc it wasn’t just a fluke and it hasn’t gone away. and ben reads him like a fucking book. which is understandably terrifying. and callum’s world gets blown open because ben says it Out Loud - which tbh i don’t think is something he or chris had ever done before. like the things callum had been feeling seem to have been unspoken, but ben vocalises it. speaks it into existence.

and ben didn’t let it lie after that, did he? whether he was teasing him about it and being a completely bastard or doing his best to be supportive and give him advice, he didn’t allow callum to ignore it or pretend it wasn’t there. it got to the point where even his existence was a reminder - callum would walk into the cafe, or across the street, and there was ben. existing. reminding him. unlike chris, who seemed to be content w just leaving things alone, ben was pushing him, just a little. not allowing him to run away from it. it must have been very frustrating for callum. something was bound to give eventually.

also there’s kinship there, you know? by the sounds of it chris had a loving, supportive family, but ben and callum both had shitty childhoods with shitty, homophobic fathers (and brother, in callum’s case). so there was probably a little bit of a distance between chris and callum bc of that - chris had been able to be out and proud at the age of thirteen, whereas callum probably would have had the shit kicked out of him. and ben gets that, in a way chris probably couldn’t. and that’s probably part of the reason callum is so drawn to ben - bc they share similar experiences, but ben had come out. he was very, very much out despite it all, in a way that callum probably thought was never possible for people like him.

and as corny as it is, ben said it: they see each other. ben is probably the first person in callum’s life that really and truly Gets It, and vice versa (though i doubt callum can see that right now). it must be a profound feeling, being seen like that.

so like to answer ur question (finally lmao) i think there are a LOT of reasons - timing, circumstances, experience, safety. callum wasn’t a virgin anymore, so maybe that made it a little bit easier for him to go that bit further. ben wasn’t leaving things alone, so it was bound to come to a head at some point. and you know, ben was so gentle with him that night at the park, so careful, so understanding, and callum was lonely - he didn’t have chris anymore, he didn’t have anyone who really knew him, yknow? but ben did, in a lot of ways. so like, that moment was probably just a moment of ‘i can’t do this anymore. can’t continue to pretend it isn’t there, that i don’t feel this way’. and probably a moment of ‘fuck it’ too. and of curiosity. and of bravery, and weakness. lots of things.

but i don’t think it was necessarily a matter of callum liking ben more if i’m being completely honest. i think it was more a matter of exhaustion, like he just straight up couldn’t keep running from it anymore, but also there was this petrifying desire to be seen, wholly. like ben already knew, there was no need to explain it or put words to it. he could just let himself do what he wanted to do, and ben was going to let him. and then as soon as it had happened, he regretted it, bc that was not the person he wanted to be. and there was probably guilt there too, abt chris. callum probably asked himself the same question - why ben? why him but not chris?

anyway i’m sorry this is so long but hope that answered ur question LMAOOOOOOOOO damn this long as hell 😔

[iamanartichoke]

I hate when I follow a post to an OP’s blog and think they seem cool and I might follow them and then there’s something so exceedingly pro Taika Waititi and Anti Anti Taika Waititi that I’m just like, oh. And then I go through the notes and it’s nothing but bashing Loki stans for not worshipping at the altar of Taika Waititi and I just - 

People can obviously have their opinions. I don’t care if you like Taika Waititi, that’s great. I’m glad the movie was enjoyable for you. But if you can’t express that without tearing down the people who are critical of them, then I won’t follow you and I’ll probably think you’re a bit of a jerk. 

I have long been vocal about being in the middle when it comes to the Pro vs. Anti Ragnarok discourse. Ragnarok got me into the Loki fandom, and I enjoyed the film a lot. But. As people have probably noticed (judging by the followers I’ve lost, at any rate), my view toward the movie has become increasingly more negative recently, as more and more discourse comes out and shines a bright spotlight on all the things wrong with it. 

Before, I was able to enjoy it as an objective fan, without paying particular attention to Loki’s treatment or how OOC everyone was. It’s a fun time. I’ve gotten to the point, though, where I can no longer separate my critical thinking brain with what’s going on in the story, or with Loki’s treatment. Furthermore, I can’t even enjoy the parts I really loved anymore (Loki’s “I’m here,” the coronation scene, etc) because all I can think about when I watch it is the absolute fucking travesty of what happens to the Asgardians in IW. So I’m like ... yeah, I can’t be in that middle place between enjoyment and critique anymore. There were already parts I skipped entirely upon rewatches bc they’re so bad (the play), but overall, I can’t enjoy this movie anymore. 

And, honestly, I don’t understand how someone can read all of the negative, shitty things Taika said about Loki, about Asgard, and about the Thor franchise in general and still say that he’s the only director who understood Loki and Thor’s characters. Then, furthermore, they say that Joss Whedon is the one who can’t write, can’t direct, ruined Avengers, and should stay far away from Marvel, and I just ...???? I have been a fan of Joss Whedon since the 90s, he is responsible for So. Many. Characters. And. Storylines. that I both loved unequivocally and also had a profound influence on my development as a young woman and as a person that I can neither bring myself to dislike him nor understand those who have such vitriol toward him, to the point of, in my opinion, willful ignorance about what’s really going on when it comes to who cares about these characters. I don’t know much about Joss personally, and maybe some of his views are ~problematic~ but as a filmmaker, I have nothing but the highest regard for him. And it really gets me when I see people toss him away in order to stan Taika “I didn’t even watch the other Thor movies here have an anus joke” Waititi. 

I mean, maybe I’m being a hypocrite. It seems like I’m saying that I feel like praising Taika is wrong and tearing down Joss is wrong, and if you have these opinions you are wrong, and my opinions are right. That’s not what I’m saying at all. I respect everyone’s opinion, whether or not they’re different than mine. 

But I will say that it’s telling of something, I’m not sure what, that the anti Ragnarok people keep the discourse focused entirely on what Taika himself has said and what the movie itself does and doesn’t tear down and/or personally attack anyone who holds the opposite opinion. Furthermore, no one is going and attacking Taika or Chris or anyone personally on Twitter, Insta, or wherever they may hang out. Meanwhile, the Pro Ragnarok people have no problem shitting all over “hard core Loki stans” for these opinions and hoisting themselves up on the altar of smug superiority that they aren’t the pathetic losers who need to get a life. And it’s just. Why? Why can’t we all just keep the opinions limited to the actual source material? Why do feel like your opinions make you better than anyone who disagrees? Could it possibly be because you can’t defend the source material you love so much, so you have to resort to insulting the people who provide the evidence to support their argument that it sucks? I mean, I’m just tossing that out there. 

I apologize for this rant. It’s just something that’s been building over the past couple of weeks and I saw a post that just kind of made me snap. This is very stream-of-consciousness and I don’t mean to belittle or insult anyone who likes the movie. I’m sorry if it comes off that way. It’s just, this is where I am at the moment, and I just needed to get it out. 

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I read your fic even if I'm not always familiar with the original content bc I really love your style. Do you have any advice for someone who's scared to write? How do you find the time to write?

This is seriously one of the best type of compliments… thank you. And I really appreciate the question because the will to create is something I think about a lot. Creating any type of art, whether it’s an image, writing, a song, is an intensely personal experience and sharing it with the world can be extremely difficult. Obviously I’m going to be focusing specifically on writing, here.I guess the question is, what are you scared of? Are you scared that it won’t be good enough? Are you scared of sharing it with other people, and being judged for it? Are you scared that you won’t be able to follow through and finish it?The thing about writing is that, a lot of the time, it won’t come together until you’re done with it. And you’re never really done with it. I’ve written pieces where I can’t read it without seeing all the flaws, and I want to tinker with it, but after a certain point I just have to accept the way it is and move on. Nothing will ever be perfect and if you cling to that idea that the only way you can show your writing to anyone is if it’s perfect, you’ll be too paralyzed to even put a word down.So this is what I do, personally: put the fucking words down. Even if at times every keystroke makes me cringe, put the fucking words down. It doesn’t matter how stilted or awkward or awful it is, as long as you’re writing, you’re getting ahead. The magic part about writing anything is the ability to go back and edit. Draft one will suck, draft two and three will suck a little less, and maybe by the time you’ve rewritten that sentence ten times, you’ll like it. Or maybe you won’t. But maybe the next sentence will make up for it. Not every sentence is going to be profound. Stephen King had some really good advice. 400 words per day. If you write at least 400 words per day, you’re 400 words closer to a finished product. Even if you end up scrapping it all, that’s still 400 words of practice under your belt. As for sharing it with other people, it’s important to find people you trust with your writing. I have one editor who’s been reading my writing since we were twelve years old, and he tends to be the initial wall I bounce all my stupid ideas off of. I trust him to tell me if something sucks. From there, I have a tight-knit group of friends that get to see some of my earlier drafts who weigh in on what works and what doesn’t. It also helps me feel excited about my own writing, because I’m safe with those people. I trust them. Surrounding yourself with people who can help you evaluate your strengths and weaknesses as a creator is immensely useful. Other people can see things in yourself that you can’t. Listen to them.And the thing is, when you put that writing out into the world, accept that other people might have an entirely different interpretation than what you intended. They might not like it. They might project entirely onto it and turn it into something you don’t understand. It might make them uncomfortable. It might really fucking touch them somewhere deep down and make them feel a little more understood. (Oh, and, learn to reign your ego in and harden the fuck up. Learn from what strangers say about your writing. Learn to take some criticism. It makes you better, even if you initially feel like you never want to write ever again, even if you feel defensive and defeated. Swallow your pride.)Learn your strengths as a writer. Learn where you need to improve. Do exercises that actively help you fill in your weak spots. Read often. Find people who inspire you.Ultimately, you can only write what you want to write. I think it’s good to think about your audience, because art is meant to be shared with other people, but trying to please everyone other than yourself might kill your drive to create. I don’t think it’s a good idea to censor yourself either. Art is meant to make you feel, and it doesn’t always mean you’ll feel good. Share it anyway.As for finding the time? Make it a priority. Schedule it, if you have to. Think about how much time you spend scrolling Twitter, or Tumblr, or whatever site you spend the most time wasting time on. Figure out what work flow works for you. I, for instance, work best when I’m multi-tasking. Typically if I’m writing fanfiction, I’m playing the game/watching scenes/reading lore at the same time. If I’m working on my novel, I’m chatting with friends. As for technical solutions that’ve helped me become a faster writer:- a spreadsheet tracking word count- a short-hand outline with major plot beats- a detailed outline breaking down each action in each chapter- an organized folder with separate documents per chapterThis vastly improved the speed of my writing. Outlines are a living document, and they can change as you get better ideas, but having a plan or an idea in mind gives you a goal to shoot for when you’re putting words on the paper.Wrapping this up because it’s getting long… I do think it’s really important to do more than just write. Make memories with people. Have friends and strangers tell you their life stories. People watch. See the world with your own two eyes. This will make you a stronger storyteller. Ultimately writing is a way of relating to the world. You’ll relate to it better if you actually get the fuck out there and experience it.

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As someone with BPD, I struggle a lot with headcanons of Kent Parson with BPD.

Bc on the one hand, I really enjoy people taking the time to research BPD and crafting versions of Kent Parson that are complicated yet respectful and highlighting a disorder that imho isn’t spoken about nearly enough + a lot of thought and effort goes into taking mentally ill characters and fleshing them out with words. Plus I’ve seen some well composed stuff from people who do have BPD and get what it’s like and make wonderfully relatable versions of BPD!Parse and I don’t want to downplay those at all.

But at the same time, I noticed a lot of what happens is that people paint Kent Parson as this guy that’s been really manipulative and can say and do things that are emotionally abusive or just make him all impulsive but then be all like oh he’s like that because he has BPD so it’s okay.

And that’s bad for multiple reasons—the first one being ofc that you can’t excuse manipulative, emotionally abusive, or any other kind of shitty behaviors just bc the person acting that way is mentally ill. The second is that people with Borderline Personality Disorder are generally not like that???? That’s a really harmful stereotype of what people with BPD are like and it’s been perpetuated a lot in various types of media and even within medical and mental health communities.

Anyways, I’m p sure I personally won’t be able to read any fics with BPD!Parson unless they’re personally recommend to me, but I will throw a few things out there that I haven’t seen in BPD!Parse fics but that are common amongst people with BPD. (Please keep in mind that these are based on my own experiences and experiences of other people I know who have BPD—as with any mental health issue, it can manifest very differently depending on the person and not everyone with have experienced all of these):

Manic episodes!!!!! (I feel it’s important to note that often times you won’t realize you’re Manic until you’re peeking. And tbh a lot of times you don’t realize it at all, especially if you don’t have experience recognizing those feelings. Also I’ve noticed that with people with BPD that are more on the consistently manic side will not notice their mania because while manic episodes are intense, if you’re used to them it feels totally normal to feel that way all the time. You might not notice it’s a thing until it gets pointed out by an outsider or unless you get a really really bad one or end up hospitalized)

After a manic episode, you might Crash—a sort of Mania Hangover, if you will. Sometimes it can be a full blow depressive episode, sometimes it’s just a need for sleep or maybe releasing a few hard earned tears. (Or if you’re one of those people that’s kind of Perpetually Manic or going through a manic phase, maybe you won’t even Crash, you’ll just slide into another episode like whatislife amiright??)

If not full blown mania, then mood swings!!!! So many mood swings!!!!! They’re intense and sometimes they last a few hours and sometimes they last a few days. People with BPD have intense emotions, highs and lows and you can on occasion get several in the span of an hour or two.

A chronic feeling of emptiness (I’m thinking of Parse feeling empty n wow that hurts so bad doesn’t it?)

Reckless, impulsive, or dangerous behaviors, often thought of as a result of trying to fill that emptiness or during feelings of mania or anger or mood swings. (This can manifest as shopping sprees, sex, substance abuse, binge eating, etc).

Viewing things in black and white—often times things and feelings are perceived as either totally Good or totally Bad, with little to nothing in between. It’s easy to distort your point of view to make it so that everything fits in those categories. This is a defense mechanism and is often referred to as “Splitting” or all-or-nothing thinking.

The Good/Bad POV//defense mechanism also and especially applies toward people and while logically you might know people are multifaceted and want to recognize that people can be both good and bad, sometimes it can be really hard not to look at people and subconsciously be like “okay are you a hero or a villain, a protagonist or an antagonist, do I love you or hate you” (idealization vs devaluation)

In the BPD community, many people have something called an FP (a Favorite Person)—this is a person you’ve formed an emotional dependency on that can quite literally make or break your day with the slightest provocation. Frankly, this is kind of difficult to talk about so I recommend skimming this article. Basically, you devolve intense feelings for a person (be it romantic or platonic) and when they give you attention or when you view their actions as positive, it’s like you’re happier than you’ve ever been but if you view something they did or said as a negative towards you (even if it wasn’t their intention), suddently your mood plummets so badly that you might feel physically pained or enter a major depressive episode or feel suicidal. (Not everyone has or has had an FP, but if you have one and they reject you and the relationship between the two of you is over, it can feel kind of like a soulmate au gone bad in which you gotta break this Profound Bond and it feels like you’re shattering. Not impossible to get over but you’ll be kind of broken for a while, or maybe just a little cracked forever.) ((Was Jack Zimmermann Kent’s FP???? Who knows, just don’t think about it))

While obviously relationships with people can often be intense and sometimes unstable, it doesn’t mean everyone is regarded with the same level of intensity and it doesn’t mean people with BPD don’t also have normal and healthy relationships and friendships. It truthfully depends on the person. Sometimes all relationships are affected, and sometimes it’s just one.

Disassociation—this can range from depersonalization (feeling disconnected from your body), derealization (feeling disconnected from reality), amnesia (lost time), and identity confusion (losing self).

Speaking of identity—people with BPD struggle with their self-image, and yes sometimes they will distort how they view themselves to fit their mood. I often see this brought up in fics in regards to Kent Parson as either having extreme narcissism or with an extremely low self worth. While those two things aren’t generally out of the realm of possibility, most of the time when it comes to people with BPD and their identity it’s more like they’re lost???? Idk how to describe it but amongst people with BPD, it’s common to feel like you don’t know who the real you is, or like there is no real you and you’re just made up of other people. It’s because sometimes we latch onto the habits and obsessions of others, of our friends and loved ones, and they become our habits and our obsessions, and sometimes realizing this can push you into a bit of an identity crisis????? (Does anyone have a way to put this into English that makes sense bc I’m doing my best here but I Suck soooo) EDIT: the word for it is “Identity Disturbance” and it’s A Big Thing

Seemingly unprovoked bursts of anger and irritability are not uncommon

A lot of people with BPD have abandonment issues. Be it real or imagined abandonment, many of us try to avoid feeling that kind (or any kind) of rejection, even if it means we’re the ones doing the rejecting first. I see this well represented in fics but it’s very dragged out. (Truthfully, imho people with BPD can kinda suck at rejecting people, like we’ll wanna do it so that you don’t do it to us but we can’t quite execute it all that well and when we do we try not to dwell on it.)

I have noticed in BPD!Parse fics, most of the time he has a healthy sense of distrust towards people and their intentions and that’s pretty accurate although sometimes it’s the exact opposite—you might trust too much or too quickly if you consider them Good.

Major depressive episodes are not at all uncommon. (I apologize bc I don’t think I’m going to be able to put in as much detail about this rn bc tbh I’m running on the Manic side lately and when I’m more manic I tend to forget what it’s like to feel depressed or just how those feelings come about until I get hit with a wave of them and then I just wallow.)

Self-harm and suicidal thoughts are not uncommon either, even if you aren’t going through a depressive episode or feeling sad. (An unfortunate percentage of people with BPD die from suicide.)

Some people experience intrusive thoughts or some form of psychosis (if I’m not mistaken the term “borderline” actually comes from an antiquated thought that people with BPD are “borderline psychotic” and so some places no longer use the term “borderline personality disorder” and rather call it an emotional intensity disorder or an “emotionally unstable personality disorder”—bc the latter is totally much better)

Looooots of anxiety, I don’t think in the same way you see in an anxiety disorder??? (I have both so it’s hard for me to describe and separate the two but from what I’ve heard, for people that don’t have an anxiety disorder but do have BPD, it can come in bouts, kind of like manic and depressive episodes but just anxiety and none of the high or low feelings????)

Trouble sleeping is common with people with BPD

Paranoia

A majority of the time, people with BPD also have other disorders such a depression, anxiety, substance abuse, eating disorders, or other personality disorders that coexist with your BPD.

And the last thing: if you’re reading this list and thinking “huh this sounds more like what I’ve read about bipolar disorder rather than borderline personality disorder” then the reason for it is bc the way bipolar disorder is presented in media is often similar to the reality of what it’s like to have BPD (and similarly there is so much more to bipolar disorder that is not presented in media accurately). The two can be very similar from an outsider’s point of view but to put it in oversimplified terms—people with BPD have more persistent day-to-day symptoms that impact them 24/7 whereas someone with bipolar disorder can go through periods of symptom-free wellness for days, weeks, or even years before falling into say a major manic episode. Our mood swings and episodes are also shorter and tend to run on patterns or are a direct reaction to life’s typical stressors—we can have multiple mood swings and episodes within a single day, whereas folks with bipolar disorder have seemingly no warning before an episode that can last months. Also while any form of mental illness (particularly ones that have to do with mania or delusions or hallucinations) can impact your relationship with people, typically people with bipolar disorder don’t have the same problems with interpersonal relationships like people with BPD do. (I hope I don’t sound like I’m “down selling” bipolar disorder or anything, truthfully I’m just not knowledgeable enough to feel comfortable speaking on it but I do know that these are some of the differences between the two and that BPD and bipolar disorder are often misdiagnosed as each other.)

Anyways y’all, BPD is a really serious disorder. Most of the time we’re people that are considered high functioning because it’s a disorder that affects emotions and relationships and sometimes that only seemingly affects our personal and social lives and not our professional or academic lives.

We’re typecast as dramatic and manipulative and attention seekers. I’d personally argue that we aren’t (for the most part) but our behavior can get really poor and we can feel desperate and enslaved by our emotions. We can’t really help it but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t hold us accountable if we act horribly. The point of this is just that if you want to write about this disorder or cast a character with it, try to understand beyond what you’ve seen or heard portrayed by people who don’t have to live with it.

BPD is usually treated with cognitive behavioral therapy but it’s not at all uncommon to have medication as treatment of some of your symptoms or to be hospitalized for it. Personally I used to be on antipsychotics to help stabilize my moods and it was good but not a cure-all, of course. There is no cure for BPD.

This post is also known as: stop writing Kent Parson as an angsty piece of shit 2k18. I might accept BPD!Parse fics if he’s super excited and manic and forms intense bonds with people and doesn’t want to let them go but also BPD sucks so don’t romanticize it too much but also hello I love Kent Parson

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It wasn't his knowledge of programme, his appeal, or anything remotely leadership-like that led to the vogue of Donald Trump. If anything, it was the serenity and willingness with which he returned himself into a walking meme, ended with a fandom busy composing fanfiction, supporter beliefs( i.e. stupid conspiracy ideologies ), and, of course, tons of bad fan skill. Now are some of the weirdest and wildest cases under the current Trumpian prowes motion for "youve got to" assimilate before they find their way into the National Portrait Gallery.

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Deep Dream Trump Is Pure Nightmare Fuel

While computers are getting better at everything that sees humen so special( like opening doors ), there is one region where we'll ever using them to lick: logical thinking. After all, it's hard to have a sense of whimsy when a lost semicolon can return you into scrap. In detail, a very close we've get to causing computers a macrocosm of pure imagery is through "deep learning" -- software that simulated how our neutrons fire and is perhaps the future of neural networks. And like any good humans, we uttered computers the endow of invention, merely to spend it on monstrosities like this :P TAGEND

Chris Rodley That's why you don't share a teleporter with Muppets.

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This is a deep learning interpretation of one of Donald Trump's clas photos. And if you're wondering why Melania looks like Miss Piggy on her space to her third divorce, that's on purpose. This art is submitted in accordance with creator Chris Rodley plugging pictures of Donald Trump into a penetrating teach algorithm which was also "looking for portraits from Sesame Street . " The ensue is this hellscape of vacant speeches, googly gazes, and straying hands -- plus aspects from Sesame Street .

Chris Rodley Courtesy of Industrial Light and Horror.

It could be a lot worse, though. You could be looking at a video of Trump be converted into an awakened eldritch cruelty contending against the confines of our universe :P TAGEND

Though on the plus side, Trump's hair has never searched more in its element.

Eric Cheng/ YouTube Oh, like you've never had a wookiee sexuality dream.

This nightmare fuel was brought into our world by Eric Cheng, who said he established it by plugging a video of a Trump speech into a penetrating discover algorithm that was simultaneously thinking about Cthulhu. The elevation of Cthulhu influence was governed by the volume at which Trump was speaking. We're lucky that it was one of his quieter rantings. If it had been about minorities or women, that video might have accidentally opened a wormhole into the domain of the Elder Ones.

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To a lot of internet manbabies, Trump is the ultimate badass. He's an ass-kicker and a risk-taker, a street fighter and shot-caller, the person who throws the Big Mac into Mack Daddy. Of track, in order to maintain that panorama of Trump, you have to constantly dismiss all of actuality . Fortunately, the internet boys help find a method to easily block out the pesky truth by replacing it with hardcore sci-fi fan story!

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Meet God-Emperor Trump, may his choked routes predominate for immortality. Located on the lore of the favourite tabletop gaming universe Warhammer 40,000 , which is set in a ludicrously dystopian future, the cruddy line-up of the internet is fitted with likeness of Trump as the iconic Emperor of Mankind, immortal sovereign of the human dominion wreaking his never-ending fighting to the undesirables. Feelings like parody, right? It isn't.

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via The Flama His armor appears to be made from the Ark of the Covenant, which is suitable, since it performs us want to melt our faces off.

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Sure, it's pretty weird to pick an formidable divinity of fight as the avatar for a buster who applied alleged bone prodding as an excuse to get out of armed obedience, but that's where the full amounts of the disenchantment comes in.

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Robokoboto/ Art Abyss Carrying the skulls of his own followers doesn't seem foreboding at all.

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Kanye West Liking Trump Is The Most Kanye West Thing Ever

But the comparing isn't flattering for either line-up. Evidencing again that they have the cultural penetration of someone who's been in a lethargy since the '6 0s, Trump fanboys seem to not realize that this Emperor of Mankind is nothing more than a freakish ogre whose "shattered, crumbling form can no longer support life, " or that his ruler gave rise to "technological and cultural rights stagnation, and a regression into cruelty, superstition and religious obfuscation and intolerance." So God-Emperor Trump is based on some slither who conventions over a dystopia in which mindless, alien-hating militants sacrifice thousands daily to keep the bloated corpse of their despot governor departing. Maybe they did do their research after all.

And to introduce the cherry on the stupid neo-Nazi patty, the God-Emperor isn't, uhm ... white-hot. He was born in primary Anatolia( Turkey) in 8,000 BC. Meaning the web dictators have changed their white-hot supremacy superstar into a space-age Middle Eastern king.

Warhammer 40 k Oh yeah, this guy is totes going to preserve the white-hot race, you dolts.

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The New "Alt-Right" Cartoon Mascot Adoration Dressing Up As Trump

You once know about Pepe, the amiable comic book frog who became a hate emblem. But since Pepe has gone very mainstream, hardcore "alt-right" dudes have created a excellent mascot for the brand-new Trump age: a inadequately gleaned copyright infringement.

via Will Sommer/ Medium "Racist Frog, Reclining Nude"

This corpulent little shit-grinner is Groyper. No, that's not a Trump-inspired brand-new Pokemon( although we understand the fluster ). We're speak about Groyper the Frog, the MS Paint cartoon mascot for hardcore politicos . He even comes in countless cute clothings for love to frisk dress-up with( dog whistle sold separately ). There's Papa John Groyper :P TAGEND

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Hulk Hogan Groyper :P TAGEND

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Even a special edition "Are you upset more? " Burka Groyper :P TAGEND

via Slate Don't try to make sense of it. That action madness lies.

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But among the favorite spices of Groyper stands Trump Groyper, somehow glancing less slimy as a lumpy frog :P TAGEND

via Will Sommer/ Medium And the fake fuzz on the fake Trump-toad searches less nonsensical than the real whisker on the real Trump-golem.

So if you're wants to know why all the worst accounts on Twitter swopped up their avatars to this, that's why. It's obviously not because Matt Furie, the developer of Pepe, has started litigating the white-hot fastens off of any favourite enough site for copyright infraction. No, it's because Pepe isn't hot fairly anymore. Not like Groyper, who's too cool for clas -- art school, specifically.

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The Anti-Obama Oil Painter Now Envisions Trump Is The New Messiah

Jon McNaughton is perhaps one of history's greatest craftsmen. Not because he formed anything impressive or profound or thought-provoking, spirit, but because his manipulates are some of the goddamn funniest examples of religious right-wing bathos.

Jon McNaughton First and foremost, why would you plant a tree three feet in front a situate where people will be sitting?

This lovely painting, named You Are Not Forgotten , boasts Herr Conditioner and demonstrates that you can't form Trump look warm and attractiveness even if you proceed him yourself. But the real beauty of McNaughton's art lies in the fact that he's time a really, actually hacky government cartoonist with a better touch stroke recreation. He often boasts about the number of members of "symbols" he manages to stuff into a single canvas. Now, the topic is unity. That's why a not-that-keen eye can will distinguish that Everyman Trump is looming over a working-class clas( whom he's shafted) as they plant a flower( which he's fucking kill) in front of a gather of veterans and soldiers( whom he dishonors ), disabled population( whom he doesn't care about ), black people( whom he doesn't like ), many cabinet members( whom he's burnt ), police officers( whom he's reviled ), and laborers( whom he doesn't wage ).

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But McNaughton didn't establish his honour by paring half a dozen inches off of Trump's waist. He became a republican beloved by making drops on President Obama for a solid eight years. Here's his interpretation of Obama's domestic policy :P TAGEND

Jon McNaughton Did you acknowledge the 9/11 symbolism? The stuff that happened seven years before Obama was president, when a Republican was in office?

His foreign policy :P TAGEND

Jon McNaughton To be fair, Los Alamos does have a really nice golf course.

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His stance on Obamacare :P TAGEND

Jon McNaughton There vanishes the story for National Treasure 3.

And here again is that classic, peculiarity Obama trampling over the interests of the very same working man who Trump will afterwards save while all the good Republican presidents are yelling at him :P TAGEND

Jon McNaughton "But I wanted to flower a tree there ... "

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Man, Obama really seems like a cock in these likeness. We're astounded that the nuclear shell didn't change his golf waver, or that he escaped unharmed after dipping the Charter in napalm and rectifying it alight in his hands, although that's to be expected when you're Literally Satan. Their capabilities are absolutely interminable, as is his cruelty ... as demonstrated by that time he magnetism a soldier to feed a slice of a lesbian marriage cake.

Jon McNaughton "It's not even ice cream cake. Thanks, Obama."

Save us, President Trump! Save us from that deceitful pitch-black sn- oh, you already have.

Jon McNaughton There is an extremely prominent pennant advising against this very thing!

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Barron Trump, Manga Star

While Trump himself has a awfully divisive kind of notoriety, the same can't be said about the Trump juveniles -- Ivanka, Donnie Jr ., and the one who looks like a hardboiled egg with a appearance gather on it. His spawn are nigh-universally taunted, incessantly putting their feet in those openings they can't ever seem to fully close. But one Trump kid is exempt from this sneer: Barron, the unassuming, sweet-looking 12 -year-old who actually has to live in the White House with his mom and dad. Becoming entertaining of a kid is not the most wonderful act to do, so two confidential masters have gone the other direction, trying to delve into the mind of this placid son and figuring out the ferment he was required to find from having the most powerful dreadful parent in the whole world -- in fabulous manga structure, natch.

Yuusuke Hori "At least it's not a prejudiced amphibian."

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This very melodramatic patch was affixed by master Yuusuke Hori right after Trump's inauguration. It pictures Barron in sparkly bishonen use with a name that speaks "My loud, riling dad is director, so the gentle unassuming life I demanded is fully over." It was only wanted as a goofy mockup handle, but because it came insanely favourite, we eventually got the for-realsies The Adventures Of Barron And His Loud-Mouthed President Father , i> and it's everything we've ever wanted.

Joy Ling Well, except for Trump not to be president, but still.

To all the non-otaku out there, TAOBAHLMPF ( created by Brooklyn-based artist Joy Ling) ensure Barron, who really exactly wants to "watch Netflix and play Pokemon, " teaming with Sasha and Malia Obama to solve the puzzle circumventing a "mysterious anomaly" that appeared after "his fathers" took office -- which is not a gracious nature alluding to Kellyanne Conway. We don't want to give away too many spoilers, but one of the center conflicts revolves around Barron trying to persuade his father to help gave happens right. Oh, that's right, Donald Jerwillickers Trump makes an appearance, or at least the DJT from the universe where he doesn't is argued that exert is a radical plan to sap his cherished bodily fluids.

Joy Ling "Please don't tell me which flui-" "Semen."

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