#ttt event

[hellfire--cult]

I’m the anon from earlier and I just wanted to say because obviously it was not clear that of course I am reblogging the smaller creators I think deserve recognition. However I’m a nobody and my less than 100 followers aren’t really going to drum up many readers for the fics that are already lacking in notes. You can of course reblog whatever you like and I already said that I have read the popular fics you reblogged and agree they deserve the recognition. But I can’t make a post about this on my own blog without being eaten alive and seen as a pariah and potentially dragging down the small creators I’m trying to lift up in the process. I’m sorry for choosing your blog to make a statement. It’s nothing against you personally. It’s a pattern I’ve noticed. People make a big effort to bring life back into the community but only want to give it back to their favorite most popular writers that already get hundreds of asks about their work and have thousands of notes on their stories. The bigger accounts all reblog one another and the smaller ones are left in the dust. How is a story with 25 notes supposed to compete on the dash when you can’t scroll down 2 posts without running into TYP again with comments all through the tags saying how amazing it is and it changed the reader’s life. They don’t. No one wants to read a story with under 100 notes if they’re being consistently spammed with stories that have thousands. What I’m trying to say is, you reblogging 3 of the most popular fics in the Eddie fandom on the first day of this new event thingy was the perfect example of what I’ve been seeing happen during this type of “lift up the creators” effort before the throwback Thursday was even created. I’m really sorry if I made you feel bad and I want to stress that I’m not trying to control what you do on your blog and I’m certainly not coming here to ask you to do something I wouldn’t do. It’s just the fact that some stories, like those you reblogged in particular are really not the target audience in my own opinion, for something like this as they’ve never left the dash in the first place and certainly not been forgotten. The thought behind it was to bring back stories that people missed because they were too busy reading the most popular fics in the fandom to give others a chance. So by everyone just “bringing back” the most popular fics. Not only are the smaller stories missing out again but anyone currently posting stories from smaller accounts are being overshadowed as well. It’s the double whammy for the small blog. Anyway thank you for participating in bringing back older stories. Also thank you for being kind to me in your reply.

I totally get what you're saying!

I have many mutuals that do in fact reblog many creators of any kind, be it with lots of notes, or not, and I do stop and read and reblog. It also depends the mutuals one has!

I have people I follow that are solely readers, so they reblog any kind of the fics that are out there.

I went into my archive yesterday to see my first fic reblogs from july of 2023, because I have so many fics in my head I do remember reading, but I can't, for the love of me, remember the exact titles or remember the usernames or I thought I did and they changed it or deactivated (which happened a lot this past year)

And I am not going to lie, I felt a little thrown back with your first anon, I felt a little anxious because I didn't reblog many at first, so I was sort of taken aback. But thank you for being kind, and show your anger at what happened with this event for now, and to show me you didn't come to talk to me to express yourself in a harsh or hateful way, and thank you for feeling like you actually CAN express yourself to me

But this isn't an event from yesterday only! It's going to happen every thursday, and I am sure more and more fics are going to see the light so others can find them

[maribatserver]

Tag Team Tournament 2024 - Tournament Top Dogs

All of our players this year were brilliant, dedicated, and creative, but some of them went above and beyond in the name of friendly competition.

The player who wrote the most words for our Tournament was @otome-wandering. You're incapable of short fics and we love you for that. Otome wrote 76,045 words in fanfic alone, plus two bullet fics on top of that. Wow. Color us impressed.

Of course, the bulk of that word count came from one submission in particular, which won our coveted High Score award!

Anyone in the Maribat Server knows that after briefly handing the lead to Book Design, @otome-wandering decided (with a little peer pressure) to grace us with the first seven chapters of Heirs, a 66k work of epic proportions that plays with all of your favorite Daminette tropes. This work also happened to be posted on Double Points Day, though Otome hadn't checked our blog to see that announcement until after submitting it, and thus earned a whopping 197 points for Art Couple.

This submission couldn't have won the Tournament alone though, which is why we also have to thank those players who just kept coming back to submit again and again.

With seven submissions each, it's no wonder that @tree-reads, @velveteenshadow, and @olivia-anderson-fanfic all won this award in addition to the MVP positions. Nice job to all of you for coming back again and again!

Last, but certainly not least, we have to shine a light on those of you who ensure that we have creators in the Maribat Fandom.

Thank you so much to everyone who leaves kudos on ao3, or keymashes in the comment section, or reblogs content, or makes sure to bookmark your favorite fics. Creators of all kinds take notice of the feedback they get, and those of you who give them positive, excited, kind responses are the reason that we have a fandom at all! So thank you all, from the bottom of our hearts, because even if you aren't playing this year, you're still helping us to put on this epic event!

That's all for this year folks, but we hope to see you back again next year, or even better, back with us this fall, when we let Mod Newsie go hog wild on the spooky season shenanigans and pray that we survive.

[velveteenshadow]

"Love Isn't Blind" - Marave

I don't share my Maribat x MLP art enough over here but that is about to change!

I have a hard time drawing people so I'm slowly making MLP versions of Maribat characters so I can properly do some art of them. This is a much comfortable way of drawing for me.

This one was inspired by a prompt from an in-server event from the Timari Coven Mafia discord. Go check them out! There's also the Maribat Menagerie discord where rare pairs of Maribat live that I tend to live in and got the ship idea from.

I made Raven a hybrid with strong changeling vibes to capture how she tends to hide her demon side and will try to come off as "pure" as possible. The white of the alicorn illusion is to represent her white version of her costume. All of the colors on her true form come straight from her comics.

She is a hybrid of changeling, hippogriff, and kirin. During the brainstorming process, a friend mentioned being a chaos being and I like the backstory idea being that Raven would be the spawn of a pure breed Alicorn and a chaos being. The genetics would allow her form to be a rather orderly chaotic.

List of characters I currently have (as of this post) in MLP form

Marinette

Tim

Jason

Juleka

Chloe

Raven

If there are any characters you want to see my take on in MLP form, please feel free to let me know in the replies or reblogs! I really want to get to Adrien and Zoe done so I can make Tim/Zoe and Jaydrien art.

[andromedasummer]

dad asking me about the manx gp earlier got me thinking about the body misidentification and incorrect death announcement which took days to correct back in 2022. i'd always wondered whether the inquest would figure out how on earth race and medical officials mixed up the severely injured surviving driver and the deceased sidecar passenger. i now know that, sure enough, it did. i but it has brought host to a whole slew of other questions.

[theprinceandthewitch]

Amity listening to Hunter give a speech to Luz after her words failed to get through to her guilt ridden girlfriend:

[allfortzu]

i love tzu so much she might be a hot sexy futch but in my little gay heart she’ll always be my tzu 😣😣😣

this is the first time i've ever heard anyone say she's a hot sexy futch 😭 she's so unfutchy all the time it's actually crazy i'm sorry..,, as much as i like to dream..... but then again i also like being delusional so i agree <33

maybe she's (not) a hot sexy futch but she's our tzu you're right! it's just in her blood to look like 😃🙂🥰 all the time :((( that is not a crime 🫶

[svtiddiess]

congrats on pie 100 babe!

it's PIE daaayy!! least to most (i said what i said) likely to smother you in their sleep (with love of course)

Thank you my second favourite menace!! (this isn't for pie 100 celebration but it's okay, for you I'll pretend)

400 followers celebration event

MOST LIKELY

Mingyu Biggest cuddle bug there is, literally. It is inevitable that you wake up in the middle of the night completely smushed under him. He's an actual human version of a weighted blanket.

Dokyeom He just wants to smother you with his love 24/7. He WILL sulk if he doesn't find you in his arms when he wakes up. Just accept his love please, even if it means getting squished every night.

Seungcheol

Hoshi

Dino

Jun

Joshua

Seungkwan

Wonwoo

Minghao

Jeonghan

Vernon The TTT clip says it all. He sleeps like he's dead. You'd probably need to check every now and then to make sure he's still breathing.

Woozi Nana tour clips say it all. Why was he just sleeping with half his body hanging off the bed and the lights fully on? Nobody knows. And the clip of him sleeping for the entirety of the plane ride? Man is prepped and ready for the coffin. He's definitely not gonna bother you in your sleep at all.

LEAST LIKELY

[ramons-elevator]

After all everything that happened yesterday, my heart aches. I watched Bads VOD because i couldnt at the time and bawled my eyes out when he read Pommes letter

And if you are in the same boat, i need you to remember something.

Even though this year so far was really rough for the QSMP, please please please remember that this server was built on love and survived because of all the love that was put into it

Quackity wanted to bring his english speaking friends and spanish speaking friends together because he loves them both

He wanted to add as many languages as he could because he wanted as many people as possible to see how amazing different people cultures are

The eggs were only supposed to be a short event but lasted for over a fucking year because the community and the CCs loved them so much

So many defense and safety things came into play, like TTT or the Ninho, because the Ccs loved their kids so much

Pac e Mike/the brazilians started the trend of making cultural events because they wanted everyone to experience what they do in their culture and show how amazing it is

People logged on everyday to take care of their egg and just to hang out with their friends

CCs met up IRL and flew to places they had never been before because they love each other and wanted to spend time with each other

People like Foolish, Bad, Cellbit, Roier, Philza, Fit, Bagi and more started to learn Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German because of their eggs and wanted to communicate with each other more. Hell, I started learning Portuguese because i wanted to understand Cellbit and Tazercraft more

This server was built on love and survived because of the months and months of love that got put into it

Please never forget that love. Keep creating fanart, fanfics, cosplays, etc.

Ill never forget what this server and eggies did to my life. I never wanna stop learning different languages because of this server.

Love is the reason this server exists and its the reason it will never die <3

[didderd]

Happy Tourette's Awareness Month!!!

(I know the happy TAM is a bit late. sorry about that.)

This marks the start of the TAM event!

During the last of TAM (until June 15th) me/my sona and the Tourette's sanses will be answering questions! Ask us about Tourette's/Tic Disorder stuff and/or ourselves. Some questions will be answered with drawings, but not all of them.

If you wanna send an ask, but don't know what to ask about, do some research on Tourette's! Maybe watch some videos on YouTube. (support Tourette's creators during Tourette's month!) And come back, prepared with your new knowledge! :3

The characters available for asks: Alex (my monstersona) TTT: Tic (Tourette's sans) Tac (fell Tourette's sans) Tou (swap Tourette's sans) Crispy crew: Rice (nightmare Tourette's sans) Crack (horror Tourette's sans) Snaps (killer Tourette's sans) Pop (dust Tourette's sans) Marsh (cross Tourette's sans)

Rules:

Be respectful!

Don't ask anything shippy about two sanses!

That's about it. Thank you! And have fun! :3

[maribatserver]

Tag Team Tournament 2024

We're back for another year of good old fashioned fandom fun! This year the Tag Team Tournament will take place from Sunday, July 28th - Saturday, August 3rd, so make sure to save the date and get started on your projects early!

We've got some fun things planned this year, but we're also making some changes to how we're running the event this year! For the full rules and guidelines, check out our Event Guide Document, now newly revised for 2024! The short version is that we've changed some of our scoring to remove certain exploitable flaws that were exposed last year, clarified submission guidelines, added new ways to earn bonus points, and changed our team lineup!

Now, last year we had a very popular Shipping Bracket to determine who our eighth team would be, but this year we decided that we wanted out lead up event to better help you all prepare for this year's event. Also, @nottesilhouette asked really, really nicely for last year's runner up ship to get a chance in the Tournament, and how could we tell them no?

This year, our teams are:

Seamless Spin - Cassandra Cain x Marinette Dupain-Cheng

3's Company - Any Poly Ship

Rare Flair - Any Ship Without A Team

Lucky Shot - Roy Harper x Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Spandex Flex - Dick Grayson x Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Art Couple - Damian Wayne x Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Java Junkies - Tim Drake x Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Book Design - Jason Todd x Marinette Dupain-Cheng

We are super excited for this year's Tag Team Tournament, and we hope that you're excited too! To help you get in the creative spirit, and to hopefully inspire you with ideas, @newdog14 assembled playlists for each of our teams, which will be published one by one over the next few months. She got the idea for this after assisting with this year's Jasonette July Calendar Playlist, organized by @mochegato & @izanae, which we also encourage you to participate in.

Oh, and one more thing. We have heard that for some folks, particularly those who are responsible for small humans, the summertime is apparently not filled with an abundance for free time. So we thought we'd go ahead and give you all a little more to go on for your prep work this year, and as such we'll be publishing all of our prompts early this year, so be sure to keep an eye on our blog on Sundays going forward.

Many thanks to @newdog14, @nottesilhouette, and @izanae for their hard work in preparing this event. From brainstorming prompts to designing team logos to coding spreadsheets to tolerating certain people's tyrannical playlist standards, there's a lot of work that goes into an event this big! And thank you to everyone who has participated in this event, and to those who plan to participate this year. We could never pull this off without you!

[waywardsunlight]

I think Luz's trauma due to being an abuse victim gets ignored a lot in favor of other characters. Luz has an odd role in the fandom as this character who other characters rely on, or who isn't an abuse victim but is supportive of her friends who are, and I think that ends up missing a huge part of her story.

Belos compliments her a lot, which is partially because he wants to reach out to her and mostly because he thinks he can manipulate her. He does some backhanded compliments, telling her she's improved but she still has work to do to catch up to him. He also thanks her quite a few times. The way he thanks her intentionally triggers her guilt, especially when he thanks her for helping him with Hunter. He also compliments her to put other people down, like when he tells her she's "better than this" (implying their race makes them morally superior).

He also uses the same manipulation tactic on Luz that he does on Hunter, although it doesn't work as well on her. He tries to remove his own agency for his physical violence by blaming the Curse. The biggest example is in King's Tide, when he pretends he can't hear her as he's racing after her to try and kill her. He ends up cutting her face while pretending to be out of control and then in the same sequence has full control and clarity to talk to Hunter and the Collector. He gaslights Luz by trying to make it seem like it was The Curse causing him to act in the way he did.

He refers to Luz as "crazy" to invalidate her emotions and harming Hunter in front of her also is a form of abuse. He's obviously aware that hurting Hunter traumatizes Luz (and everyone else) but as his focus transfers from Hunter to Luz in Hollow Mind, he starts targeting her specifically by harming Hunter to hurt her (especially in TTT). Belos shifts the blame for events from himself to Luz and also attempts to make her feel guilty. Hunter seems to understand that Luz is also being abused and tries to reassure her that Belos is an abuser and she shouldn't take what he says at face value. Luz ends up taking that advice to heart after she's able to forgive herself and face Belos. She doesn't speak to him but is able to hear his manipulation tactics and just. stare at him bc he's full of bullshit.

Just because he 'only' hits her a few times and isn't her guardian doesn't mean he can't abuse her or that he didn't. It's not really a protagonist-antagonist relationship as much as it is "adult man nuking 14 year old repeatedly until she becomes god and kills him". The idea that child abuse can only come from parents and not role models or other adults in your life is odd, because he distinctly holds a position of power over her (literally an Emperor and an adult who intentionally isolates her and the other kids alone to abuse them) and uses it to emotionally and physically harm her.

Papa Titan has to reassure her that she's okay to kill Belos because he's literally a serial killer who's lying about his intentions. Luz still slightly falls for Belos's sympathetic line until that moment because he very intentionally tried to get her to feel bad for him and also feel guilt about herself.

This is also why I really detest any fandom takes where Belos canonically is supposed to care about her, or Luz owes him anything. Manipulation is not sympathetic. Belos committed premeditated murder and then used the remains of his murder victim to try to make a "Better Version" of his murder victim which was actually just a way to punish him repeatedly and keep taking out revenge on kids who had nothing to do with the original conflict. Belos is Luz's abuser also, and Luz doesn't owe him any sort of kindness or consideration and her anger is valid.

Luz is an abuse victim of Belos's in addition to Hunter and the Collector (and Vee/Lilith by extension), and she should be considered as such rather than her trauma being invalidated in favor of other characters.

[argumentl]

Bar Boo summary - 2024/05/27 Boo's 50th bday

Its Boo's 50th birthday with TTT!

They first talked about going to see COMPLEX at Tokyo Dome together recently. Koji complained Boo took up so much space with his size, that Koji himself was forced to stand sideways to avoid intruding on the next seat.

Kaoru said that it was difficult to see from his seat, due to the people infront, so he ended up pushing the other guys sideways in order to see better, and Duttch ended up stood out in the aisle. Kaoru said 'gomen ne' to Duttch 😌

They talked about Kikkawa's high cymbal kick during the COMPLEX show, and wondered if Koji can recreate it if they get a cymbal ready. They ask Kaoru if Shinya can bring his high cymbal in, and Kaoru said Shinya might actually be watching. Boo adds that Shinya sent him a bday message earlier, and wished him good luck for the broadcast.

Talk of the COMPLEX show takes up the first 30mins.

Boo brings out a board with a list of interesting topics to discuss. The first one is 'Birthday memories'. Boo starts this by explaning how he had a bday countdown party the previous night. He was so drunk he doesn't remember much of the party, but he does remember he was desperate fo the toilet when he got home around 2am. Because he was so drunk, he couldn't find the key to his front door, and ended up fully pissing his pants. Strangely after he got in, he managed to completely clean everything up, despite being so drunk. This also happened to him once in his 20s, and he ended up getting the police to help him get his door open then (with pissed pants).

Koji then tells a story about when he was in LA with Boo, doing modelling work with the company Crimie. They had to share a hotel room, and Koji woke up in the morning to see Boo asleep flat on his back, with his massive belly and impressive morning glory. Koni then tells a similar story about having to share a hotel room with Boo once, and nearly dying from Boo's farting.

Boo asks the others if none of them have ever pissed their pants as adults. Only Tsuyoshi says he has. Duttch says he nearly shit himself when he was in America once, but had to do an 'outside shit' in the bushes in front of someones house instead. Kaoru laughs at this 😆

The next topic on the board is 'Meeting people you admire'. Kaoru says that Dir en grey were once invited bsckstage of a Kyosuke Himuro (vocal of BOØWY) show by an aquaintence while they were in LA. 4 members other than Kyo went, but there were a ton of people hanging around the dressing room door when they got there, so the 4 of them just hung out off to the side. To their surprise, they were called in, and Kaoru was super nervous. Himuro asked Kaoru, 'Are you the vocalist??', and Kaoru had to apologize that the vocalist wasn't with them.

Duttch says that at the recent COMPLEX live, Aiji was kinda playing air guitar to the music, and this reminds Kaoru of what Toshiya had said the day before at the Pierrot talk. Toshiya had said that back in the day, whenever anyone called Aiji on the phone, Aiji would always be playing guitar while on the phone.

Teru from Glay turns up to join Boo on his bday, and the others pretty much go quiet after this. Boo explains to Teru how he met all the TTT members. He first met Kaoru while he was working for MTV. MTV sent him to cover/report on a Dir live, and Boo says that Kaoru and Toshiya recognized him from MTV and made fun of his MTV persona. Kaoru says 'no, thats not how it went', but refused to give his own version of the events when asked by Koji.

Boo ends up crying from emotion a couple of times having all his friends praise him, despite being royally fat shamed for most of it too.

[arcanistsanctum]

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[litfeathers]

I hope it’s ok to add on to your amazing catches and analysis, op!

In regards to your cloak question, I think you are 100 percent correct that it’s a witch’s wool cloak that Evelyn summoned to protect herself when she and Caleb got jumped by a “monster.”

When Philip killed Caleb she could have gone berserk, and chucked the cloak in a fit of anger. It was probably that traditional dramatic fight scene where someone screams and throws off their cape/jacket when they are super mad!

I think before Caleb was killed, Evelyn was just trying to incapacitate Philip in their little cage match; not really trying to hurt him or anything, just trying to hold him off and protect herself. But once Caleb jumped in and got killed, all bets (and the cape) were off.

Okay, so, I usually see people depicting/thinking of this interaction where Caleb hugs Philip -

- and this one where Philip approaches him and Evelyn with a knife -

- as two separate ones, and that Philip reunited with Caleb first and then later met Evelyn.

However, I started thinking they might actually be the same event, and as I was editing the images for this post, I realized they definitely are!

It’s hard to see, because the image is very blurry, but Evelyn is actually in that memory where Philip, as a silhouette with glowing blue eyes, approaches Caleb:

I missed this before, probably assuming her head was just part of Philip’s shadow.

So here’s the order of the memories, and my interpretation of them:

Keep reading

[itsticklishme23]

🌸 NEST post incoming… 🌸

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” ✨

Wow… I don’t even have the words to express the gratitude, bliss, and surreal feeling i have to have met all of the wonderful people at NEST. Thank you to everyone for the best time and for making my first NEST so unforgettable! I’m so sad I had to leave early, but the time I did get with everyone was BEYOND beautiful!! I met so many amazing loving people, the respectfulness and kindness (and bullying AHEM 🙄😜) I experienced from you all is just absolutely special and beyond any group/community I’ve been apart of. A HUUUGE thank you to the incredible organizers for creating such an amazing event. To my old and new friends: I LOVE YOU BIG!!

I know this is a kinda late NEST post hahah and I’m sure one day I’ll make a post of all the fun stuff that happened, or maybe I’ll keep some of it as memories between us, but I just absolutely had to make an appreciation post for the people that made it so special because that’s what it’s all about for me 🥰

~ firstly a huge thank you to @spiffytickler for being an amazing friend and the whole reason I even made it to NEST in the first place!! Seriously wouldn’t have even been there without you, and I’m so grateful to you, my dear friend ☺️ plus your pep talks and protector/“mother hen” energy was so appreciated, and I adore you ❤️

~ and of course the beautiful and sweet @yourlittlettoy with your illuminating presence and your sweet lil gifts just make my whole heart smile!! How did I get so lucky to know you let alone have a bestie in you!! ❤️❤️ I love you forever!

~ getting to meet and spend time with @kusugurihime was an absolute pleasure and joy, you’re such a sweetie pie! I can’t wait for us to reunite 🥹❣️

~ a huge thank you to @mister-ttt for being the sweetest friend, the best bidder HEHEH and just having a heart of gold, and being an amazing protector. Even though we met at NEST you’ve already easily become one of my favorite people and I see a sweet friendship blooming 🥰

~ getting to finally meet @toadallytickles was also a cherry on top!! Your kindness and attentiveness to your friends helps me see the sweetness in your soul and I’m grateful you extended that same sweetness to me, and I can’t wait to see you again ☺️

~ @puzz-ler we finally got to actually hug and have an amazing time after years of being friends, and you’re easily cementing your bestie status too 😂🫶🏾 as sassy as you can be 🙄 lol but you’re still great and so generous with your kindness, which I forever appreciate 🖤

~ and meeting @ticklita literally made my whole weekend that much better bc you’re such a sweet, kind, precious lil strawberry 🍓 and I can’t wait to visit you and see you again!! 🥰

Plus many, many, many more that would probably take up your whole page for miles hahah i wish I could tag every single person who made nest special! But I promise if I didn’t tag you, you still mean a lot to me. And simply put, I’m already dreaming of reuniting again with you all with massive hugs and cheek kissies soon 😘💋 I can’t wait to see you all again, and I hope everyone who went had a truly amazing experience. If we met and didn’t get each other’s info to keep in touch, please feel free to message me and connect! The giggles, laughter, teasing, bratiness, jokes, silliness, love, and just the right amount of “mean-ness” were perfect hehe. My lil subby lee heart is full and missing you all already ❤️

[honeystarcamper]

﹙☆﹚TTT graphics Day 3 for @hiddencircus' event : Retro Tech

f2u! credit appreciated but not needed + don't forget your daily click!