#stop yapping bro

[vapolemon]

And now, Vapolemon yapping about mutuals!!

Honestly I've just realised how different mutuals are on different social medias. TikTok for example, I've used TikTok for years, it's actually the first platform I made an account on, ever. And mutuals aren't that important there. At least from my experience.

Sure, people have moots, but at least with my moots, I barely interact despite having so many. Instead on here, I interact w/ my moots on a more "personal" level. I actually talk to them, interact with their posts and boost them, etc. On TikTok probably the most personal interaction might be a "mootie wtf is this??? /j" reply on a comment of you saying something questionable or a "hi mootie!!" when you happen to be in the same comment section. Here I'm actually like: "HI GUYS LOOK AT MY COOL MOOTS!! MY FRIENDS WHO LIVE INSIDE MY COMPUTER!! :D"

These interactions have actually made me become more brave to talk w/ people online. I'm more brave to chat with people on Discord and actually I'm getting less shy with joining Discord servers, even though clicking the invite link takes me 10 minutes of "will my moot who reblogged this think I'm stalking them because I'm on the same servers as them??? I hope they don't find me creepy and block me".

I suppose the shyness with talking to people comes from the fact that TikTok people are, let's say, RESERVED. Most users there have "spam like = blocked" on their bio, because apparently spamming likes causes shadowban. (Which means your content is not properly pushed to the For You Page by the algorithm, but your account still exists). And some TikTok users may consider frequent interaction stalking.

So I've kinda grown to be shy about frequently talking in Discord servers or "following my moots everywhere", which is basically just me, for example, joining a server they reblogged a link to or joining platforms they have an account on. But I just fear that people see it as creepy, like: "Vapo, wtf, why are you everywhere???". But in reality it's just me walking my mutuals' paths to find more people!! Friends even!! Especially because my content everywhere is flopping so so badly. Algorithms have hated me this year.

And that's another thing! Tumblr mutuals will usually reblog or at least like your posts to boost them a little bit. TikTok users don't really do that, and usually if they like, it's for the sake of just liking the post with no proper feelings behind it.

So, TL;DR: Tumblr moots are superior to TikTok moots and I'm scared of being blocked because I like to interact with my moots a lot.

[afterthelambs]

This side by side makes me cry. Those are the exact same eyes. Despite everything it's still you :(

[arrowsperpetualcringe]

Continuation of this post where I stick Emmet and interpol into PLZA

Looker dragging Emmet away to deescalate situations is a funny visual to me

My interpretation of Emmet do not 👏🏾 play 👏🏾 about 👏🏾 his brother 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

So,,, this has certainly happened more than once at this point NFJDJFJEJ

[brainworms-all-night-long]

So, that one official Tails art huh

[vctrdoom]

30 days to train aka 30 days for kars to cyber bully joseph

[joejhang]

fanon neil vs canon neil

god i am so FUCKING done with the aftg fandom mischaracterising neil i'm literally writing fucking ESSAYS about it and pacing circles muttering about it under my breath it's driving me up the goddamn wall so i am going to word vomit brain dump yap about all of it in an incoherent tumblr text post. spoilers ahead continue at ur own risk

i've said it before and i'll say it again I HATE FANON NEIL. istg this fandom LOVES to mischaracterise neil and ykw i think i know why. they take the smallest most unnoticeable parts of his personality and then exaggerate them to disproportionate and unrealistic levels in order for him to fit their idea of a conventional, stereotypical and desirable main character. they smooth out his jagged edges and prick at his "insecurities" to make him more likeable, more acceptable and more conventional of a narrator/main character and in doing so erase so fucking much of his personality and draw as a character that he loses just about all of the flavour that made me love him in canon. and also especially within the andreil dynamic this fucking fandom just loves to tweak neil's character until he's basically unrecognisable just so they can cram andreil into some preconceived socially acceptable clichéd ship dynamic. because andrew is perceived as the typical mysterious, moody and grumpy love interest therefore neil just has to be the sunshiney smiley blushing cute softboy in exchange. yeah because all gay ships have to be grumpy-sunshine and black cat-golden retriever dynamic. i raise you: andreil's dynamic doesn't work because of their differences it works because of their similarities. if u think about it andrew and neil are honestly very similar people in the way they think and process emotions and events and that's what allows them to connect and understand each other. andreil would not work if neil was super sunshiney and a blushy soft mess and andrew was the stoic, never smiling, unemotional stone of a guy the fandom loves to make them. just accept they do not fit into the conventional boxes laid out by booktok for what gay ships look like. i fucking digress.

neil is also just insanely mischaracterised on his own. people love making him very jittery and insanely oblivious and easily flustered with a generous serving of self-esteem issues. i hate to break it to you guys: neil josten is not insecure. i don't think there's a single instant in the series where neil is actually insecure about anything. as a narrator, person and character, neil is very realistic, pragmatic and logical. ruthlessly so. i'd say on this, neil is even more cerebral and unemotional than andrew is. neil is very straightforward and realistic abt himself in his narration and i'd honestly say his opinion and views about himself are one of the only things in the story that isn't affected by his narrator bias. if neil is anything, it's self-aware. i'm now going to present all my fucking evidence.

neil doesn't have a sexuality crisis. literally in the entire series never once does he even question his fucking sexuality. it's implied he's already figured out he's aspec/demisexual from the moment nicky questions him about his sexuality. neil says "i don't swing" and follows up in his narration: it wasn't quite the truth, but it was close enough. and later when he starts his relationship with andrew he doesn't ever question the nature of his feelings towards andrew or even anyone else and is pretty clear about it when andrew breaches the topic: "kissing you doesn't make me look at them any differently" so yeah neil is pretty certain and aware of his sexuality.

neil isn't insecure about his appearance. i feel like this is gonna require a bit of work to explain but hear me out. it is mentioned several times that neil has a complicated relationship with his appearance because he looks so much like his father/abuser. this is obviously understandable; you wouldn't want to look into the mirror and see the man who gave u all ur scars. that being said, neil doesn't have a lot of strong emotions regarding his appearance. most of his feelings of panic tied to when r*ko dyed back his hair is because of how it would be a lot easier for his father to discover him now that he has his original colouring back. i'm also pretty sure neil knows that he's cute. like it's never explicitly stated but i've reread aftg maybe fifty times and trust me i can read between the lines. neil explicitly says that he has a "love-hate relationship with his reflection out of necessity" and while the "hate" part of that statement is obvious: he doesn't like that he resembles his father, i've sort of just accepted that the "love" part of it is that he knows he's kinda fine. it's not brought up by him at all bc neil as a person is not one to linger on people's appearances almost at all. i think the only people to get a decent amount of lines dedicated to their appearance in the narration are allison and andrew. but yeah i genuinely don't think neil thinks he's ugly or unattractive and he's probably definitely been told how cute he is by others enough that he doesn't harbour any delusions about how he looks. regarding his scars, he never expresses any insecurity towards them and how they look, he just doesn't like them on display understandably bc of how acutely they point to his past and childhood that he's trying to hide.

neil is actually very very confident in his own and other people's abilties. this is esp regarding exy. he knows he's good at the game. like he knows. the most distinct example i can think of for this point is when kevin tells neil that he was at castle evermore to try out for the perfect court when they were younger. neil doesn't even doubt for a fucking second that he would've made it onto the perfect court. never does. he skips over the second-guessing and doubt part and just straight up starts daydreaming about the future he could've had playing with kevin and r*ko. like that really got me bc it's easy to assume neil would be super unassuming and have low self-esteem but no like neil doesn't doubt for a fucking second that he deserves to be perfect court. it's just that he doesn't believe in r*ko's delusions enough to play along with it by the time he gets the tattoo. he's also insanely confident about the foxes and their abilities and also kevin by the end of the series. at the beginning he takes a pretty realistic vantage point and says that with the way things are, the foxes will never beat the ravens. but even with that pov he still has the gall to challenge r*ko on LIVE TV and i doubt he's lying when he declares so boldly to everyone that if the foxes were united they'd be an unstoppable force (and guess what he was fucking RIGHT). and by the end, when the foxes are united, he has no more room left for doubt at all. some guy tells neil to kick the ravens' asses and neil just replies with zero hesitation "that's the plan". like he's so fucking on board with it. and he never once doubts that kevin is the best striker in the game. like literally never. at first he considers r*ko and kevin on par with each other (possibly, it's never stated outright) but by the end he literally has no doubts when he says "kevin is the best striker" like goddamn the amount of confidence neil has is so underrated.

neil is a very unemotional narrator. it actually gets me all the time how logical and ruthlessly pragmatic neil's narration and inner monologue is. some of the only strong emotions portrayed in neil's narration are anger, irritation and occasionally grief, which is only ever triggered by major trauma-inducing events (e.g. dr*ke). almost all of his inner monologue is analytical and observing others and dissecting either other people or the situation he's in. and almost all of his decisions and actions are made based on impulse and instinct. neil is a very instinctive person. this is outright stated in the way he plays exy; in theory, he can't give u a lot, but in the heat of the moment he's at his best. this applies to practically all facets of neil's life. he never plans his moves or what he's gonna say (except like that one time when he planned out what half-truth he was gonna tell andrew post-columbia). he's super quick and on the ball and literally does whatever the fuck he wants at any given moment. he's also insanely good at compartmentalising. like it's difficult to explain but while his priorities are obv hilariously skewed, they're also very clear in his mind. things he considers unimportant he simply just doesn't think about. what others look like and what they think of him don't factor into his internal monologue or his thoughts at all he literally just files them away in the back of his mind until they do end up becoming useful or important to him. he barely comments on andrew's appearance at all until andrew becomes someone worth staring at and admiring for him. the only reason he describes allison and renee in the detail that he does is because it's important in understanding how and why he reacts to them the way he does. this man was literally about to lose his goddamn mind at the fall banquet but he specifically reserved his mental breakdown for after the banquet so he could spend his time roasting the fuck out of r*ko. bro fully locked in and was like "clock riko now break down later" and i respect it.

neil doesn't actually have a martyr complex. it's funny because almost all of aftg is him being the absolute fucking opposite of a martyr. he wilfully sticks around the foxes knowing he's putting himself and them in danger. he doesn't "sacrifice" himself until he's absolutely forced to by his father's people. by then, he's already told himself he can't and won't run and he's smart enough to know he'll never get away anyway. and going to evermore wasn't about self-sacrifice or martyrdom it was about protecting andrew and those two are pretty fucking different. he knew he was coming back from evermore and he knew that he wouldn't die there, despite all the shit he went through, so i don't think that can be counted as "self-sacrifice". he was doing what he had to do to protect andrew, the same as andrew would've done for neil or aaron or kevin or anyone else he'd sworn to protect. the kidnapping in baltimore was the culmination of neil's character arc, which isn't really about learning to be selfless and self-sacrificing, it's about learning to stand his ground and stop running. those things r crucially different: neil not running in baltimore wasn't about selflessness, it was about courage. yes, part of it was obviously inspired by the foxes and motivated by not wanting them to be hurt but i truly believe it ultimately was about neil learning to stand his own ground and make his own home and have it be something he's willing to die for. call it whatever u want honestly i just don't think neil is as much of a martyr/sacrificial lamb as the fandom makes him out to be.

[blondeaxolotl]

Bro acting like he isn't one as well

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[clannfearrunt]

Awesome thing for my mii to create right before I’m going to cook dinner irl

[palmolli]

I've been kinda thinkin' a lot about the headcanon that Legend is his Zelda's half-brother because of that one old Zelda manga. I think about it a lot and I like it a lot. So uh here's some thoughts because him and Sky are my favorites.

Sky: "So... what's your relationship with your Zelda?" *eyebrow raise*

Legend: *disgusted* "She's my sister."

Sky: *does that O_O face* "Oh, that's... that's cool."

and after that, because Sky realizes that Legend is basically his descendant, he starts treating Legend way differently. He'll jump in to defend Legend in battles, even if Legend doesn't need him to. Sky will go out of his way to spend more time with Legend, trying to get to know him better. And if any of the chain dares to make fun of Legend, Sky will scold them before Legend can make any quips.

And this pisses Legend off, and he doesn't know why Sky's acting like that all of a sudden. Sky's afraid to explain why, because he'll end up having to explain that his Zelda is Hylia reborn and how he knows he's the first Link and everything. But eventually, I think the guilt would kill Sky, and he'd end up telling Legend everything first, feeling that Legend especially deserves to know. Orrrrr, maybe he'd go to Time because he has a descendant in the chain, too. Idk. Just thought I'd rant.

[mrmeepsmadmind]

starscream has normal reactions

no starscream shall escape being haunted by bumblebee and vice versa. primus said thou shalt be married !!!

[noihavenosanitythanksforasking]

the stranger things fandom if we could all stop attacking each other

[sunny-sourzii]

Me when I’m a cheesy romantic little mf but I keep getting crushes on aroace people

[fogbreo]

alexithymic king cold.... he says that he feels nothing. he's so used to suppressing his emotions that he has trouble distinguishing them. emotions feel fuzzy and a little far away #headcanon #relatable

[betta-phish]

people who actually understand Neptune’s character and know he’s not just some dumb comic relief>>>>>

[struggling-jpg]

Not to be that person but

The Wardance event really had Luka and Yanqing reflect each other. I feel like we got a speedrun of vaguely similar events that happen to Yanqing occur to Luka here. Like while being really good, he gets hit with obstacle after obstacle that shakes his confidence and willpower. Yet, when it comes down to it, Luka boxes because he loves it and it makes him feel happy and free.

"The most important thing is to always throw the next punch."

To work towards self-improvement, to love what you do, they both share that sentiment.

These two really felt like protagonists from different yet similar genres lol

This event was just so peak TvT

[punk-o-ween]

BRO AT THIS POINT PLEASE IM GONNA SOB AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS (ON THE INSIDE. SINCE IM IN THE CAR.) BUT OH MY GOODNESS LOOK AT THEM LOOK AT THEM LOOK AT THEM IM SHAKING RN THEYRE FEEDING USSSSS

WHAT A GREAT WAY TO START THE DAY 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

(TYSM TO MY FRIENDS WHO TOLD ME ABT THIS….U GUYS KNOW ME VERY WELL)