#this has been a brain worm actually

[skyjynxart]

So like bc I've actually thought about this recently, it was like... A lot easier to be a non present observer of things. A "ghost" viewer, of you will.

That is to say, you didn't need to have an account to view things on a site. I was an avid follower of a lot of artists on this now defunct site called Elfwood(not nsfw, just used here as an example) but never once did I make an account. I was young(10/11), and had no reason yet to disbelieve my anti-internet family when they told me that making an account on any website but neopets was a guaranteed way to get picked up by a creepy guy in a white van.

So I just... Went to their pages and browsed their art. And nsfw art I viewed was much the same. I went, I looked, there was no record I was there except probably my IP address in back end stuff. Even when I did start making accounts, I lied about my age(less to view adult content and more to throw people off from my identity, however poorly that might've worked), and I often just... Didn't directly engage. I think this is kind of what Denizens Of The Internet expected kids to do, and realistically it's how I interpret "minors DNI"- the Internet's version of "leave no trace".

But this is fucking unheard of today.

Websites require accounts to view even the most innocuous content, engagement is the name of the game, people are expected to put their full name out there, etc etc etc. so it's really hard for minors who grew up in this environment to understand that mindset.

(and I'm sure the fully anti-sex attitudes a lot of them have been raised under don't help, but that's a totally different matter)

Anyway, point is: minors DNI PROBABLY doesn't mean minors aren't looking(or technically that they CAN'T). It just means that the ones who are looking aren't leaving traces that they've done so- which is good for both them & the creator/provider of that adult content, since the minor could get in trouble with family/etc for viewing it, and the creator can get in trouble for providing it, despite precautions taken, because the culture IS so anti-sex rn.

additional comment from the anon: this mostly applies to things like smut or nsfw art. I see a lot of blogs that are 18+ and I’ve always wondered if people actually listen to "minors dni (do not interact)" or if they just ignore them.

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[keynil]

being too depressed to draw for months means returning to my roots (using an old art base to draw a totally heterosexual zoro as quickly as possible so my brain can’t stop me)

[itsjusteds]

GUYS GUYS GUYS WE DID IT. Normally I would put here something about how Spies are Forever has invaded my life like the Romans did to every country they could find, but instead WE DID IT. I DREW EVERY SPIES ARE FOREVER CHARACTER DAILY UNTIL I DREW THEM ALL. I ACTUALLY DID IT

I started this series as a joke on 2/19 just to see if I could. Well today is 4/13 and guess what I DREW THEM ALL💪💪💪

Today's character, and the final character, is our dear friend Oleg Day 55/55!!!!!

[writingforfishes]

BTW-GF

Writer has now watched all of GF.

Writer knows who "Will Puzzle" is.

Writer has met...Writer Twin.

But Writer now is led to understand that there is even more lore outside of the show.

Perhaps Writer's fishes can help them discover how to access the lore quicker than Writer?

Also, Writer did shed a tear. Yes, yes, they did.

Grumpy Store Owner is SO FUCKING ENDEARING!

And is it particularly odd that I don't even want to age him down if I write him? Like, that damn pudgy belly in that A-line tank is so much potential.

Is pushing 70 too old to write for? Is that why the other fic about this show was set in the past? I mean, ultimately, I'm gonna write it cause I want to. But do I need to make a CW specifically for OOOOLD?

Meh, anyway, I think it's a cute concept when one twin gets the hiccups and the other one starts hiccuping too so there's my muse...

They must be having some grand adventures on that boat. That's all I'm saying.

Will Puzzle is not as immediately intriguing to me as I thought he'd be. But I'm open to having my mind changed.

[nyan-bynary]

Rebecca sugar is so fuckin cool I wish I could make characters interactions as messy as they do in their doodles for no reason

[starjunkyard]

"Im not even sure anymore if we get to choose who our friends are" There is a part of me that resents you for making me a worse person than i want to be but i am inexplicably uncontrollably drawn to you. You make me a worse person which is the last thing i want yet i want you in every way. If i could leave i would. Maybe i can but i dont want to. I have fun with you. You challenge me and you captivate me and you push me and pull and run circles around me and it makes me feel like a younger man. For the price of being a worse person i get to feel truly, wholly alive. You are the blood that runs through my veins; vital, inseparable. I was reborn when i met you and you are the womb that haunts me. You are the one person on planet earth who knows me. I wish i could leave, move on and be the man im supposed to be but my heart is tied to yours in a gordian knot. There is a part of my soul that rests in yours, magnetic. For as long as i love you i cannot be better than i am. But maybe thats something i can learn to live with. Gregory House-- I think you're worth it.

[boyfriendyke]

there r a lot of things about the myth of psyche and eros that makes me a little insane but one of them has always been the tasks from aphrodite and the unfairness of it. they're not intended to be possible. they're so obviously not meant to be possible, and psyche isn't fucking hercules, you know, she's not a demigod or whatever, she's mortal and these aren't mortal tasks!! it's why psyche has to be helped with each one, fucking by like ants and river gods and shit. and so like. idk. i know ppl see psyche and eros as like a story about love and shit which obviously it is but as a kid psyche and eros always felt like a story about being able to accept help

[utilitycaster]

absolutely buckwild to see people like "um, Matt Mercer is weaving an incredibly intricate tale full of complex themes that are clearly beyond your comprehension. He will be doing this by throwing nearly all the past player characters of his closest friends under the bus."

[spotforme]

chaps, never forget

Red still holds the record for coming up with the most fucking compelling ship i ever did think about. and when i say "think about" let's just say you could ask me anything about chiken farming

so many though, so many possibilities, let me just tell you they fish on the lake okay???? they fish on the lake, Rocky gets the worms (sorry)

[spacedlexi]

thinking about clem vi and minnie

[crushed-oranged-angered]

Teen Wolf Motel California

So many thoughts about Teen Wolf Motel California

[thechibilitwick]

what are your opinions on 0507. erm erm not sure if uve heard of them

never heard of them... bet they're losers. big losers. freaks even. i hope they get hit by a car. i hope theyfall off a cliff. i can't beleive these middle aged men are kissing each other good lord. someone call an exorcist they are in my walls help send help HELP ME

[frogs-in3-hills]

i think i have not had many substantial observations about worm in my liveblogs despite being 3/4 of the way through because my main goal thus far has not been to experience worm, or even necessarily enjoy worm, but to finish worm. so i have decided there is only one way to solve this problem. once i finish worm i am going to start over and read worm all over again

[heliianth]

sometimes i think the way the sonic fanbase treats shadow 2005 is so silly “hes out of character” YOU DECIDE WHAT DECISIONS HE MAKES  if u dont want him to be mean dont make him mean.... “it was the beginning of them treating shadow like an edgelord” u dont like gun and motorbike and evil alien dad who tells him to murder?????? lame + whimseyless + didnt pay attention to any other game because hes always been an edgelord. the canon ending of shth05 implies hes friends with everyone anyway why are we mad

[aq2003]

Do you mean it in the way that Malvolio is the most embarrassing character put in the most vulnerable position possible, and mr Tennant's gift for portraying naked vulnerability will make watching him do the part utterly unbearable, so that your teeth will ache and hair fall out from sheer record breaking amounts of believable cringefail? Then I agree.

yes anon i agree 100% like you know how tony baddingham makes you feel really bad for a second or seven because he's so unbelievably pathetic and he isn't loved back and people keep leaving him now imagine this but a million times worse because malvolio didn't really do anything that wrong but he is psychologically tortured for no reason anyways

[pxper-riings]

oh no i think im in my fic writing era,,