#sorry if this is incoherent i just woke up

[vypridae]

is spring trap a person or a concept i ahve never been into fnaf

I’m like half sure he’s William afton but im also half convinced they’re two different people[??]

okay OKA Y OKAY OKAY . SODA YPU GOT ME STARTED. FNAF fANS PLEASE CORRECT ME IF ANY OF THIS IS WRONG THIS IS JUST WHAT I REMEMBER FROM THE OLD THEORY VIDEOS FROM THE FNAF-6-JUST-RELEASED DAYS

springtrap is, evidently, a living corpse. william afton, as shown in fnaf 3’s night 5(?) minigame, was forced by his fear to hide in one of his animateonic suits; these ones are the “springlock” suits that can be used as animatronics or suits, he wore the springbonnie one. the suits are extremely finicky when theyre in suit mode; they have springlocks that keep the parts out of the way ti wear the suit, and if they come lose, it can force the suit back into animatronic mode, pushing all the gears and such back into place. which you can imagine wouldn’t be good.

“the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth, that’d pop out the front of the mask” -phone guy in fnaf 1, about the normal suits

“your breathing and heartbeat are causing them [the springlocks] to come loose. you dont want them to get too loose, trust me.” -circus baby in night 4 of sl

anyway, night 5 of fnaf 3, theres a cutscene in which you play as one of the five souls afton killed. you find him in the safe room (a room off-the-map for animatronics with no cameras inside), and find william who seems TERRIFIED of them. eventually william, as what i only assume is a method to hide, hops into the springbonnie suit while its in suit mode and effectively prevents the souls from getting him. he starts laughing, because of course he does the psycho, and then his laughter plus the dampness of the room end up pushing the springlocks to snap back into place, effectively killing afton within the suit.

but afton’s whole thing is “i ALWAYS come back!” (see fnaf 6, the fucker keeps coming back). he didnt DIE from the suit; he rotted there for 30 years, sure, but hes not DEAD. i think, probably, (and fnaf fans can correct me on this i havent seen the lore videos in quite some time), his soul fused with the springbonnie suit, effectively forcing him to stay alive as a weird amalgamation of a rotting corpse and soulless animatronic. theoretically, springbonnie was its own animatronic before afton wore the suit and died, but now since hes been there, his soul is evidently trapped, as all the souls of his victims are. you could say afton is different from springtrap from his ability now to do what he pleases, rather than keeping up a front of a salesman you can trust. he doesnt have to do that anymore; his life is already ruined, hes dead, his family is dead, and he cant take back what he did (not like i think he would, the fucker is evil). all he can really do now, is embrace being springtrap, instead of being william afton. william afton is dead; springtrap is the last remaining of his corrupted, wicked soul.

tl;dr springtrap is a dead guy in a suit continuously rotting but i love him so i talked too much about him.

[ashes-of-ailell]

on foggy days, Ashe is quieter than usual. he stays inside and will avoid the greenhouse and training grounds. he seems jumpier, like he's expecting something to happen to him, something like what happened to them.

he can usually be found in his room, the door locked and himself curled up on the bed unmoving, or sometimes he will be sat in one of the darker corners of the cathedral reading a book or just. zoned out, like nobody is home, eyes unfocused and staring blankly ahead. Sometimes others have overheard him mumbling to himself, but he's not praying. It's like he's having a full conversation with someone who isn't there. Some students, who don't know him as well, started a rumour that Ashe is possessed, or just straight up a ghost himself, and the fog makes it harder for him to hide it. In the end it's Dimitri who tells others not to disturb him while he's like that and to stop with absurd rumours. There's a weird look in the prince's eyes when he says it.

in class, his notes are messier than usual, some details missing like he just didn't hear them being said. he won't volunteer to answer questions, and he doesn't give anyone a usual cheerful greeting before class commences, coming in late and only barely managing to give the Professor and his table partner, Dedue, a very small smile that doesn't reach his eyes with a quiet, murmured apology. He looks paler.

He keeps his hood up on those days, regardless of where he is. It's like his own shield against the outside world. Nobody calls him out on it, anyone who tries gets a very stern glare from the Professor or the closest Lion.

Byleth tells him, on the next foggy day, not to come to class if he doesn't feel up to it. Not directly, mind you, but he finds a stack of notes containing everything that would have been covered in the lecture in front of his door that morning. He's unsure how to feel about it, but he doesn't end up making an appearance in class.

They overheard him talking to someone when they walked past his room later on. They recognise the voice that replies to him, gentler than they've ever heard it, and inwardly sigh a little in relief. They're glad that at least someone is able to look out for him properly like this.

Catherine has learnt to make herself scarce when the fog rolls in, either by locking herself in the training grounds or taking a mission away from the monastery. If Ashe sees her, there's a 50/50 chance he'll either quickly run off in fear, or she'll feel green eyes staring daggers through her, like he's trying to look into her very soul. For some reason, she feels like he actually can.

Luckily, foggy days at the monastery are surprisingly rare. The days after, Ashe acts as though nothing happened, back to his cheerful, outgoing, dedicated self. Nobody calls him on that either, as much as they may want to.

He's glad they dont. He doesn't want them to.

[malistaires]

realized last night why shrike is called that. because you pierce. like the bird.

[uhhhhmanda]

I am an absolute MESS over the comments on Two of Them (the twinfic). I am laughing, I am screaming, I am crying a little!!! This fandom is absolutely incredible, guys!!!! With every fic I get a little more confident and release a little more of my inner pervert and every time I post and run and fear for my life but I get the NICEST comments!!! We are ALL disgusting little perverts here and we're having such a great time!!!

My initial note for this fic was "Yohan was obsessed with Isaac-hyung and Yohan's twin was obsessed with Yohan-hyung" and tried the ol' "show don't tell" and it WORKED!

Also I'm DELIGHTED that you all like Yagob. He's TERRIBLE. I love him.

[a-map-of-gays]

Idk about Bridgeton etc

But people are allowed to disagree with actors and the showrunner

That's pretty normal fandom stuff

Yes, they are, and it's obviously quite common for fanon to be different to canon. But in a situation like this, where people have been practically begging for queer stories to be included in the show since season 1, and the thing we're fighting over is the distinction between bi and pan, surely we stick with canon??

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a bit of queercoding of characters that are assumed to be straight by default, but I really think when it comes to characters who are already canonically queer we shouldn't be trying to dispute it. I see this a lot with canon aro/ace characters that are shipped despite their identities, and its a problem. Queer representation should span all queer identities, and the more fandom reduces them to two or three, the more media will do that too.

Also, my point in referencing the show runners and actor in the previous post was to prove to anon that it wasn't just my opinion that I was forcing the fandom to accept, it is canon. I've seen a million and one posts recently saying 'he's finally confirmed bi woohoo' when that's not true. That's what I'm upset about, not headcanons.

[tumblerosestudios]

Plus they do know kids that are just as transphobic as they are will end up making jokes similar to that right? Even when furries and otherkin exist there are also going to be dumb kids making stupid variations on that old transphobic attack helicopter "joke" . So while this is stupid it's also going to piss off a lot of parents that would have voted for and with the scum the moment Terry Tory ends up in that school for mocking a trans kid.

So obviously furries exist but the Tories and the British media trying to whip up a culture war frenzy about “Kids in schools identifying as cats” runs into one major problem…

Kids fucking love to wind adults up, especially those in positions of perceived authority.

Imagine sitting in class, knowing if you say something funny that it could end up on national news because your head teacher is a frothing culture war bigot.

Imagine all the other kids going along with it and backing them up.

[calamity-frog]

The new Snapchat My AI feature is so fucking creepy, from what I've gathered it's literally only there to try and glean as much advertisable information from you as possible, as well as the fact that it is peanently at the top of your chat list and cannot be blocked or removed.

This is as well as the fact that in ANY OTHER CHAT if you type the words "my" or "ai" in any context you get a little pop up in the corner with the chatbot.

I'd say it reminds me almost of the replika situation with you being able to customise it's avatar but this bot is so entirely unwilling to talk to you like an actual person to any degree, immediately shutting you down if you ask, or even just say, any form of not safe for advertisers questions or phrases, spitting out the exact same response for each.

I don't think it's necessarily going to get as bad as replika ever did, in fact I hope that it's something that most people will just ignore after a couple weeks and it never gets touched again, and I'm glad it seems like they aren't trying to advertise it as a virtual friend, but it still weirds me out majorly that they've forcefully added something that only exists seemingly to improve targeted advertising.

Also the fact that the disclaimer says it's designed to avoid biased harmful incorrect and misleading responses is kinda funny because there's no AI whatsoever involved in avoiding these things because it will just send you the same fucking cookie cutter "I don't want to talk about X" response, this isn't artificial intelligence this is a massive list of "if string contains then print XXX", which is incredibly lazy and I Don't Like It, oh yeah and heres a couple screenshots of stuff my friends have tried talking to it about and it responding the same thing over and over.

[opikiquu]

yalldont understand how stressediam for thsu mans bannerhELP me

[unnecessary-dinosaurs]

Having a girlfriend does not automatically make Ben straight. Bisexual and pansexual people do exist!

This is true and I’m sorry I implied otherwise! Ben could definitely still be queer while having a girlfriend. HOWEVER I literally just can’t comprehend him liking women. It isn’t that I’ve headcannoned him as gay for so long that it’s weird to me, but that I literally just can’t imagine him being anything else. It’s more like “why haven’t the writers figured out that Ben is gay yet?” But thank you for correcting me! Bi and pan people exist and are cool as fuck and deserve to see themselves onscreen. If you see Ben this way, more power to you! But he’s just always been a gay man to me.

Aaalso. I don’t really have enough faith in the writers to make him bi/pan/otherwise queer while having a girlfriend. After the homophobia from many Jurassic fans after CC s5, I really don’t think they’ll add any more queer elements. Ofc I’d rather him be bi/pan if he’s going to have a girlfriend, but I honestly don’t see it happening.

[sheila--e]

peoole calling the bucci gang a family is really weird to me cuz all those people could be on a grade together. all of them could be classmates. FYM "dad" that guy should be STUDYING for his FINALS and RIPPING THE HAIRS out of his BOB in STRESS.

[anti-terf-posts]

actually speaking of what are your thoughts on the whole man vs. bear debate (where women were asked if they'd rather be with a man or a bear in the woods... many women (and some men too!) picked the bear) at first it seemed like genuine discussion but then it started going south real quickly- from misogynists getting pissy over the women's choices to terfs invading the convo... not to mention the exclusion of queer folks in the discussion. but im interested in your thoughts!

I actually said somewhere online that I would choose the bear over the man any day, because as long as you give the bear space and don't try to elicit a reaction from/threaten it, it won't attack you, where as the man will hunt you down and attack you no matter what. of course, a bunch of cis men replied saying that "the bear must be so annoyed by now" "studies show that most men won't attack you if you two are by yourselves in a room" and of course "not all men!!!!!!!!;;;!!!1!". one of them even told me that I wouldn't get raped because I'm unattractive, which is fucked up on so many levels (after I pointed out that literal children get raped, so no, rape has nothing to do with attraction, he tried to explain that some children are attractive/some men find children attractive). I also had the same guy tell me that the whole thing is "sexist" (against men), because it's just demonizing men and making them out to seem like dangerous predators. which like, yeah. lots of them are. sure, not all of them are, but a good enough chunk of them are to make women and afab people wary of all men. Anyways, with that being said, after those interactions, my point has been further made that the bear is safer than the man.

My opinions on the thought experiment itself? I think it's very interesting, and honestly I'm glad that so many women and afab people are bringing to light how they feel about their own safety, and how men and rape culture tie into that.

so yeah, I choose bear 🤷‍♂️

[averlym]

,,, sun-dappled sheets...

[betaphannie]

I had a dream that there was a playlist of videos on Dan's channel from 2014 that was a bunch of videos he made because there was some YouTube convention happening and the company running it sponsored dan to make videos about how to start a YouTube channel and grow as a creator etc

Anyway the last video he made was this music video that was supposed to take all of the tips from the videos to the extreme and was called something like THE ULTIMATE VIRAL VIDEO despite it having like 2 million views 10 years later. In it he and phil were singing along to song and like dancing around in different locations pretending to be a couple but it came off as a lot more gay and less of a teasing the audience bit

Then they had a section where at least hundreds of other well known youtubers were green-screened in to do the gangnum style dance because that was supposed to make this video "go viral"

Anyway at the very end dnp were replaced with female actors dressed like them and were slowdancing with men as a way to be like, "see they're straight! They're dancing with the opposite gender!! You thought wrong!!" But then the dnp ladies kissed each other behind their male partners' backs.

The whole time I was just like damn 2014 was wild I can't believe no one talks about this video though, like I had known about it already and just accepted its weirdness

[vivaciousoceans]

I know Olivia Benson doesn't dance cause she's not allowed to be happy or have fun...

But how do you think Olivia dances? Have you ever thought about it?

In a universe where Olivia Benson is allowed to dance and be happy, I do think she dances. This has always been the issue with SVU versus a crime procedural like Criminal Minds or Bones, there is a lack of consistent humanizing of the characters, and I can go on a tangent about that later.

Anyways, yes Olivia Benson dances. She was in a sorority, she has to be able to atleast to white girl dance, you know? That being said, I do not think she has the best rhythm yk? I do think when she wills her body to move left, it moves right, and she has two left feet. That’s not going to stop her from embarrassing Noah by doing the cabbage patch in front of tv because she asked him to go get ready for dinner three times already. It’s not going to stop her from pulling Amanda off her sofa when they’re both wine drunk, and forcing her to “dance out” her stress.

[timothylawrence]

How do you explain to people that their disdain for Wyll is racist without them breaking down into a TED Talk about how they're not racist?

The demonizing, adultification, lack of empathy, lack of interest, nitpicking (while not batting an eye for the same things when it's a white counterpart), braging about killing or ignoring him...

Yeah, that will ring a bell into POC's ears so loud that they might start bleeding.

man. This is something that transcends fandom, media, etc. their are people who just won’t listen, who refuse to look inward and at least try to hear someone out. It’s nearly impossible to get them to address their internalized racism + anti blackness if they themselves refuse to acknowledge it.

It’s frustrating and exhausting and I’ve yet to find a way that doesn’t end up like your speaking with a wall.

Frankly, I just tell people their perception and treatment of Wyll makes me uncomfortable and echoes a lot of anti-black and racist sentiments. At that point, if they’re receptive, you can dive deeper. If not, well, they can sit with that information and you can only hope they’ll try to learn and change. Blocking is my go-to as well.

as always, listen to black fans and what they have to say and do your own research!

[dark-star-exe]

okay so after the end of bg3 and Astarion can’t be in the sun anymore, and it’s pretty much universally accepted that him and Tav are looking for a way for him to be in the sun again or a cure for vampirism entirely. (or something like that i have not finished the game yet) WHAT IF the noblestalk mushroom from the underdark could be used for that? it says that it can cure almost anything.

or maybe find someone who knows the wish spell (would it even exist? since the max level is 12? could there be other people out there who somehow got to a higher level??)

hnnnggg i really hope some like epilogue type dlc thing is made for bg3 eventually. from the spoilers i’ve gathered from tumblr Astarion and Karlach’s endings leave much to be desired.