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[elegyofthemoon]

alsdjkfakljsh i feel like this is warranted but hey!!! selfshippers who are following this blog!!! my sideblog for selfshipping is the one that starts with "ei" !!! this one's just a main for multifandoms (dm if you're still confused)

[binjiong]

suyuwubi -> binjiong

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

s2 episode 10 thoughts

woohoo! this episode has "museum" in the title and i love museums! but it also talks about cults in the description and i'm less keen on those

update: there were no real museums :( i feel lied to and cheated

we open on some cows. i was admiring their cuteness and their wonderful sounds by writing "moo" in my notes before we get a JUMPSCARE to a beef processing plant which. augh. unpleasant. i do not care for meat related story lines.

we see this woman working at the processing facility and she comes home to her kids and no husband in sight (a single mom who works two jobs, who loves her kids and never stops, iktr)

and she's getting in the shower but we see some fellow with glasses is WATCHING her. the question is from where and how?!? oh very creepy!!!

then the older brother leaves and we find him in the morning stripped to his underwear in the woods and whimpering. and his back is covered in writing.

so naturally my first thought was "what does this have to do with the meat? or did they just jumpscare me with unrelated meat imagery?"

(we later learn that it is, in fact, related. but this all happened before the title sequence even aired, so i was a little suspicious!)

cut to our beloved duo. mulder says this waking up in the woods with writing on the back and no memory thing has happened to a bunch of other kids. and scully's like "but why does this interest you?" and he says the sheriff claims they're being possessed which does seem up his alley

they're in the car with the sheriff and mulder was a gentleman and let scully sit in the front <3 he said my queen, you have endured so much, and motion sickness shall not be one of your troubles

at this point i realized the earlier meat scenes WERE related because the sheriff is introducing this new religious cult, who are vegetarians and bought a ton of cows to keep as pets. cows are cute but a bit large for pets in my opinion.

next they SHARE AN UMBRELLA on the way to the church's sermon thingy

okay so the leader is typing while someone reads his words which is certainly a presentation style. they all wear red turbans. and scully says she doesn't think they seem like the type to get involved in all this. she wanted them to be innocent so she could pet their cows. i'm onto you.

mulder hears a few lines of their chanting and says that these are "walk-ins'', which means the people think enlightened beings are controlling their bodies. okay theological king!

they go to talk to the boy who was in the woods in his underwear and man. we get this shot of mulder in the back. and his coat. is so comically large. i had to pause. take a deep breath. and remember the origins of my url.

the teenager says he thinks he was maybe possessed by an animal spirit or something, he doesn't know, and scully's sleuthing around the house when she discovers a child (the teenager's brother) and they are having a chat (again how much of this work involves talking to children) but SOMEONE is WATCHING THEM and it is CREEPY!!

cutscene to the pair eating ribs together and scully has sauce on her face and mulder wipes it off for her. and i squeaked. a squeak emerged from my body. look what they've driven me to. i am a woman with dignity squeaking over a rib date.

and why did they both look so good? but i was especially admiring mulder, in his silly little rib eating fit, explain the cult's reasoning behind a new spirit taking over the bodies of those who lost hope. i was embarrassed at myself for how attractive i found him. but then i remembered there are a lot of people who have probably been in a similar situation. so thank u for following this blog so i feel less alone in that manner.

oh nooo a bunch of kids are being mean to one of the church members on the side of the road... mulder gets up to intervene and tells them to gtfo (we love a man that stands for morals and justice)

the lead bully is ANGRY and sees scully come out and says "why don't you run along with the little wife" in her direction which is exactly what i have been saying but no one listens to me.

(neither of them seem to care that this happened which makes me think it's not the first time such words have been tossed in their direction)

and he's all "my father will hear about this" because the girl notices scully has a gun and gasp. he's the sheriff's son! so mulder's like "yeah i think he WOULD like to know about this" and they beat it

there's a moment where scully says it's hard to know who is in the wrong without having a scorecard, implying that keeping up with small town drama is impossible, and mulder is gazing at her. like GAZING at her. i think he heard the wife suggestion and was seriously mulling it over.

then the sheriff's son is making out with this girl for a time i considered far too long. but she goes back to where she lives and she sees a dog! a very cute dog! she appears to know this dog and goes to visit when BAM! dog-related kidnapping occurs :(

she ends up down to her underwear in the woods and she's hallucinating a giant crow eating her and also being swarmed with bugs which seems deeply unpleasant

scully does a check up on her because she is a DOCTOR and you had best not forget it! she seems fine... except... weird chemical in blood... a chemical you'd need to be some sort of doctor to know about... and we see the cult leader used to be a doctor before getting kicked out of the doctor world... it's not looking great for him

they pay him a visit but he won't let them enter his place because they will defile the sacredness of the space with their meat-eating aura. and then all of the members of the church swarm our duo's car and OHH it was creepy. but they manage to bring him into the station for questioning.

they're trying to ask him about the weird chemicals and he's going on about the injustice of eating cows and at this point the sheriff starts screaming at the guy. and mulder has to escort the sheriff out and tell him to be normal.

he says something about the guy starting a lot of trouble for being a holy man and i was thinking to myself. famously holy men DO cause a lot of trouble. this is perfectly on brand.

so then the rest of the church members were protesting outside of the bbq restaurant where our besties recently ate. and the sheriff's son comes out and throws COW BLOOD on them. he took his notes from carrie i see. the sheriff is PISSED and wrangles him up.

while all of this is going down, a strange man is beckoning to scully. and i am of the opinion that strange men beckoning to women should be avoided, but this is what separates me from the fbi agents of the world, because she goes over and he says he wants to show them something

at this point, the score to the show was going hard. i was jamming out. it was really getting dramatic as they rode over to some place and then got out of the car.

this strange man is talking about how he used to own this land, but he sold it and got rich, and he's saying that the new people inject the cows with stuff. i felt as if this episode was trying to make me a lil vegan.

scully's talking about how growth hormone is safe but the guy is not buying whatever the government has to say on the subject. and yeah like scully the government did just take you for a while so maybe they're actually lying? who knows. she went to med school and i didn't. frankly i don't want anything extra in my cow

we see the glasses of the man who was watching them earlier doing some cow injections! the amount of red flags here is staggering...

at this point, our regularly scheduled plot is interrupted by an excellent (and by that, of course, i mean entirely unrealistic) CGI helicopter crash that had be yelling at the screen. i LOVE 90's CGI it always fills me with whimsy. like sorry i know this was a serious scene but it looked funny and i laughed!!!

the two people on the helicopter are dead, and one of them was a doctor, who was found with a briefcase full of cash and a mysterious liquid... hmm..

mulder enters the room. "scully? you're not gonna believe this"

YESSSS! he said the LINE! i had seen it meme'd into my vocabulary far before i had ever decided to watch this show, or even had any idea what it was referring to. i would just mumble "scully, you're never gonna believe this" to myself whenever i learned any surprising information. for at least the last 5 years or so. so this felt very full circle to me. he did it.

he also proceeds to say something that scully can, in fact believe, because she already figured it out herself

so here's the situation: the doctor was treating a bunch of kids, including all of those who had gone into a frenzy in the woods. but what is the through-line here...?

we see glasses man again and then a RANDOM FARMER IS SHOT DEAD!

they go back to the house of the mom and the kids, and she's like yeah my son was getting vitamin shots from that guy. man i hate to tell you but i think there was more than vitamins in those shots. but mulder is... distracted by something.

there's a light coming from the bathroom mirror and he realizes there's something behind it. so he wraps his hand up and PUNCHES IT (bad luck be upon him for 7 years)

he finds what he refers to as a "private little movie studio" with a running camera and a TON of vhs tapes... nasty!!! not good!!!

cutscene to the sheriff's son, who has undergone a kidnapping and has not woken up! sheriff is naturally in deep distress. it turns out that he was actually murdered.

the car of our duo passes that of the gunman who shot that random farmer and scully realizes she knows that face... and i'm thinking that it did not look familiar at all. maybe it's someone she went to school with?

mulder is interrogating the video man, and he's getting real rough with him. he smacks him on the head, which is justified considering he was filming people in their home, but i do worry that mulder's interrogation violence will someday get him fired. the dude swears up and down that he did NOT kill them, but he did do the kidnapping and writing, because the doctor was experimenting on those kids and turning them into "monsters"

scully makes a connection... the gunman she saw before... was the FELLOW THAT KILLED DEEP THROAT???!!!! she has to excuse herself from the room at this revelation

mulder is deep in interrogation mode and the glasses slash video guy is saying that the doctor paid people- himself included- to inject the cows with a mystery substance, and that he must have been doing it to the kids he was treating as well

scully's back in the room and her and mulder are so close. so close. there is no reason for them to be that close. but here they are.

she says the stuff in the bottle was unidentifiable. that's actually not what she says, she said something about the number of proteins it had, and that means nothing to me but mulder goes OFF. he takes her outside the room and starts yelling at her about this meaning something.

here, at this moment, is where i realize what was happening: deep throat had mentioned to scully how they were dealing with people so cruel that they injected alien dna into kids. and i was putting 2 and 2 together JUST AS our main characters were. which honestly i feel like i should have picked up on that earlier but i hone in on character details and not alien details so sue me.

anyway mulder is absolutely gagged. he's yelling about "deep throat dying for this", and scully looks super super scared. he tells her to head out and that he wants this gunman taken alive

next we see him knock on the door of the... cult leader?!?! yes, you heard me right! mulder explains that he KNOWS it might offend this dude's religion, but he needs help. and so all of the kids and the families involved with the secret alien injection are taken to the barn where these people worship. tensions are boiling.

scully asks the sheriff where mulder is and he says that he left because he thought he knew where the gunman was. and this was not part of the plan, the splitting up and going to an undisclosed location! but i can imagine that this was deeply personal for him on the levels of 1. having lost deep thoat 2. having lost his sister and requesting any information pertaining to aliens and 3. these were the folks that kidnapped him at the end of s1 so. he had some scores to settle.

he goes to the beef processing plant, where he finds a TON of gasoline poured all over the floor. now, if i were mulder, being both deathly afraid of fire and also generally concerned with my life, i would have gotten tf out of there. but i am not mulder, and he keeps going on his quest to find this man.

gunman launches a sneak attack from behind a cow. which is not a bad place for a dramatic stakeout/fight scene but boy i'd hate to be there irl. and things are looking tough for mulder, who gets off his feet, only to be locked inside the building while this dude gets his lighter. he's about to drop it when...

scully walks in! with backup! she's got her gun pointed at him and he's wavering but the sheriff shoots him like 800 times. because he was the one that must have killed his son, so it was deeply personal. he's crying while doing this.

mulder stands over his body so sadly, knowing that he will never get the information he wants

scully concludes the episode by writing her case report, talking about how the kids who were infected have started getting sick. none of the kids from the church were infected, so it seems they were a control group. so in that case, the cult leader would have to have been in on this whole thing! oh, it's dramatic

but wait! if our duo had so recently eaten the infected meat, does that mean they are susceptible to aliens in their blood? and who knows who else ate the meat that was shipped out all around the country! aliens could be running rampant!

(i don't think that is actually the case- i'd have to imagine eating alien protein once is a lot different than getting it injected in you regularly for your whole life. but still. could complicate an already complicated situation. i mean, they've already endured evil cocoon bugs, exposure to that fungal virus, scully's coma... their doctors must be baffled at their medical history)

anyway, pretty good episode! i wish i could explain the joy that crossed my face when he said the line. and when they had a little rib date. oh man i needed that. that was good for me. i'll pass on meat imagery, like always, but it was interesting how they built this episode out of that one line in the s1 finale- or that they had planned it that way from the start. i didn't think we'd ever see what that whole process looked like! and it's good to get more info on our late friend deep throat. i still don't fully believe he's dead. you have to keep some suspicions on these things in sci fi.

[anghraine]

Dealing with images on Dreamwidth

Okay, one more Dreamwidth post!

DW is geared around text posts and currently handles images rather awkwardly. But it does actually have image hosting capabilities, though the space isn't unlimited (I've never come near to maxing it out). I was thinking about that and figured I could make a post over here about how I back up images to Dreamwidth, and then post them using the Rich Text Editor.

I tried to explain what I do as clearly as I could, but the detail might make it sound more complex and difficult than it really is. I'm sorry if so! But here goes:

Step 1: Go to the main page at www.dreamwidth.org. It should look something like this:

Step 2: Click the red button in the upper-right to log in. Once you do, the main page should look something like this:

Step 3: If you look below the Dreamwidth logo, you'll see five categories of things you can do. You want the first category, "Create." Click on it and select "Upload Images" from the drop-down list. I've put a blue circle around it in the picture below:

Step 4: Upload your picture!

The picture above is the standard "Upload Images" screen. From here, you can click the link to "View all your images" to see everything you've uploaded, and I think "manage your images" lets you adjust titles and descriptions of the images and such. But what you want is the "Browse" button. It'll take you to your computer files and you can upload the picture or pictures you want.

Let's suppose I want to upload two pictures from Baldur's Gate 3:

and

Okay. So after I click "Browse", find the right folder on my computer, and use CTRL+click to select both of these pictures (you can also upload pictures one-by-one if you wish), the space below the "Browse" button will show the pictures you've uploaded. It should look something like this:

There they are! You can give the pictures names in the "Title" boxes, but if you want the file names saved, make sure you click the "Save descriptions" button below the pictures (circled in blue below):

At this point (much faster than it sounds like), you've uploaded the pictures to your account where you can look at every picture or file you've ever uploaded to Dreamwidth. That's cool, but they're not actually in a post yet.

Step 5: Make a new post.

In a new tab, open Dreamwidth (www.dreamwidth.org) again. It's important that this is in a different tab and you don't navigate away from the one your pictures are showing on.

You should see the "Post" button in the upper right of the main page, below your username. I've circled it in blue here:

Click on "Post."

That'll take you to the Create Post page where you actually put things on your blog.

I'm currently trying out the beta version of this page that's going to get applied pretty soon, so the style looks a little different here than in standard Dreamwidth. I figured I'd use the beta version because a) it's what people will see in the future, and b) we're going to use the old Rich Text Editor that is the same in both styles.

The Rich Text Editor has a blue rectangle around it and a blue arrow pointing at it in the picture above.

Let's narrow in on the Rich Text Editor. Like in any post, you can just start typing into the Rich Text Editor, if you want words at all. So here I typed a little explanation for the BG3 pictures and put the cursor where I want the pictures to show up.

You can see that there's a bar of options above what I've typed, with buttons that let you bold, italicize, underline, etc. We want a button further on—the square button with a yellow background that looks like a tiny landscape of mountains and sunshine. I've put a blue circle around it on the screenshot below:

Step 6: Add your pictures!

Clicking on the little landscape button will open a box where you can paste the URL of any image you want to put in your Dreamwidth post. The image doesn't have to be hosted on Dreamwidth—you could paste a link to a picture on Tumblr or whatever—but it'll be more stable if it is, so that's what we're doing.

It looks like this:

Since we already uploaded our pictures to Dreamwidth in the earlier steps, we just need the URLs for the pictures. There's a pretty easy way to see what it is.

Step 7: Copy-paste the URL.

Click back to the tab with your newly uploaded pictures. There will be a code at the bottom of each one. In our case, it looks like this:

It might look a bit intimidating if you're not used to code, but you can ignore the most of it. You just want that little part that begins with https and ends with .jpg.

Copy the URL (I've put a blue box around it above) and click back to the Create Post tab. The "Image Properties" box from Step 6 should still be up.

Paste the URL into the top box that says "URL." I've surrounded the correct box with a red rectangle in this picture:

Hit the "OK" button at the bottom and:

You'll see tiny boxes around the frame. Those will go away if you click anywhere other than the picture; they're for adjusting the size.

Step 8: Adjust the picture if you want

You know how Tumblr automatically stretches/shrinks pictures to make them fit? Dreamwidth just leaves them the way they are, so if your original picture is very big, it will look very big, and if it's small, it will look small. But you can adjust the picture yourself.

Maybe my picture of Shadowheart seems really big compared to the text and I want it smaller. I'll click on the tiny box in the upper-left corner of the picture (that one simply because it's the most convenient) and drag it inwards until the picture is the size I want.

And there she is!

BTW: No matter what size you make a picture look in your post, once it is posted, you can always right-click with your mouse and say "open image in new tab" to see it in its real size.

Here's a real post I made with a picture of Shadowheart I'd slightly shrunk in the Dreamwidth editor:

But if I right-click on the image and tell it to open in another tab, you can see that the saved picture is actually full-size:

So feel free to adjust your picture in the post however you want; it won't change the version you originally uploaded to Dreamwidth.

I'm sure there are other ways to do this, but that's how I get images uploaded to Dreamwidth and then embedded in Dreamwidth posts!

[spot-the-antisemitism]

All right. This isn't exactly antisemitism, but it's adjacent. I'm sorry for disturbing you, I'm just trying to make a closing comment to my anon asks.

Hello. I am a person who prefers to remain anonymous because I don't want my blog to be associated with political discourse. So far, I sent exactly three anons where I use my self description as an Israeli Orthodox Zionist Jew as the only signature (though another thing two of them have in common is length). I have sent some time ago an ask to Feygaleh, asking her to hear me out in an attempt to de-escalate the situation between her and most of Jumblr with full awareness that it's not very likely to succeed. I tried (among other reasons) because she was relatively new to Tumblr, so I thought she couldn't be too deep. I was not aware of everything she posted on the topic of antizionism and antisemitism.

So, when she said she was willing to hear me out I sent her another ask, detailing a certain outlook at some things - it was relatively tame and was more about tolerance and two theoretical extremes on the scale of Zionism - both with the fundamental flaw of excluding everyone who disagrees with them and not accepting Judaism that isn't Just Like Them. A link will be supplied in the end.

Feygaleh published my ask without saying much on it. That would've been the end of it. But because I've asked on anon and thus wouldn't have been notified of the answer, I was visiting Feygaleh's page regularly to see if she answered. And that led me directly to Mossadspypidgeon's reply on Feygaleh's post about Shabbat.

What I did next was pretty foolish, and a result of me possibly perceiving Feygaleh's willingness to listen as more significant than it probably was. And I didn't really enjoy seeing someone harassing someone else on a post that has nothing to do with antizionism. So, I sent Mossadspypidgeon an ask explaining why I think she's been acting in hypocrisy (one if her reblogs of the aforementioned Shabbat post talked about harassing people on unrelated posts. That... Didn't end up well. She insinuated I was defending an antisemite, sending pictures of myriads of posts by Feygaleh - including one when she reblogged Black September, which I was not aware of. In addition, she insinuated that Feygaleh wasn't Jewish at all and obviously enough doubted my self identifications - which, fair, I really can't give receipts for those, not yo speak of anon. I didn't intend to use it as a way to legitimize my criticism, I just really needed a recognizable signature because I didn't want to be mixed up with other anons. And one of the reblogs apparently suggested that I'm STA? Which, I can't really refute all things considered (still anon), but I'm pretty sure my writing style is distinctive enough from theirs, even though I was a little too cynical and sarcastic in the latter ask.

I'm sending this to you because you seemed to be slightly closer to my views on Feygaleh and this affair - the view that she's probably a Jewish antizionist, and that harassing her on unrelated posts isn't good.

I'm sending this as closure - I don't intend to write any more anon asks on the topic, not to speak of talking about it in my blog. Mossadspypidgeon gave me a stark reminder of why I don't do that - my blog can't have any more credentials than an anon ask regarding my identity.

On that topic, I would say I was trying to develop a way to identify people it's safe to talk to about Israel - based on how many times and in what contexts they mention Judaism or the Jewish people. People who have zero posts mentioning those or just ones about Queer Jews are probably fine, ones where Jews are only mentioned in relation to I/P as tokenization are worrying and probably problematic. And the easiest (though not necessarily certain) meter for if someone is really Jewish is how many posts simply talking about Jewish life they have. With blogs like yours - blogs that focus on talking about antisemitism for the most part - it doesn't really work, though.

Feel free to not answer this ask, as it technically doesn't have much to do with you. Here's the link to my second ask to Feygaleh: https://www.tumblr.com/feygaleh/768809808901128192

I would prefer to not supply a link to my ask to Mossadspypidgeon, but in the spirit of full honesty: https://www.tumblr.com/mossadspypigeon/768960817988288512

That sums up what I've done here, I'm not sure I added any good to the world if I'm being honest, which is another reason for me to stop. So, thank you for answering my ask*, and goodbye. Oh, and sorry for dumping it on you.

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*no one will see it if you don't answer, so it's sensible to say this!

here's my own reply to it like Feygaleh and Mossadspypigeon have had their little nemesis spat but really the idea that if someone is faking Jewish they deserve harm and harasment is terrible and why she blocked me AFTER unblocking me solely to get screenshots from me so yeah she's definantly using me but I feel like Feygaleh is tokenizing you instead of having a real convo with an Israeli, the fact that you are anonymous and don't have posts Faygeleh could disagree with or be upset by makes you the perfect token Jew

"With blogs like yours - blogs that focus on talking about antisemitism for the most part - it doesn't really work, though." No actaully the way a Jew and a gentile talk about antisemitism is completely different, I think you can tell I experience it first hand when I talk about it so no. I disagree

and the reason she blocked me? I defended her instead of staying silent and let her get abuse!

Be free of drama and go have closure anon,

Cecil

[antisocialgaycat]

intro post yippee

hello hi welcome i am elle or elliot and i use they/them pronouns but feel free to gender me howevers funniest. i'm part of the newsies fandom and a lil bit in the kotlc and pjo fandoms. my blog is basically just a whole load of bullshit tho so dont expect me to solely be posting fandom stuff.

tagging system explained:

#just a load of garbage: my original posts

#don't mind me yall: rants and shit like that

#alt text fuck yeah: images with alt text (derivatives of this are image description fuck yeah and video description fuck yeah)

#jachary: the one and only @shutup-andletme-go

#bitch ((un)affectionate): the hoe @quackethh

#shawty bae <3<3<3 OR #bestieboowifeyforlifey: @julie-schwieters-supremacy the girlboss

#reblogging for reference: posts i want to save

I guarantee

Though I crapped out, I ain't tapped out!

i have a marine biology and shit sideblog at @fuckthisitsfishtime so yeah go check that out

i also have an acc on cohost with the same url as here

also:

australia is better than new zealand and clarinets are better than flutes

and yeah i think thats all

[aspecpplarebeautiful]

Hi, I just saw a blog have a DNF for 'ace discourse blogs' and was wondering if you could explain what that means? Back in my day, if someone hated ace discourse, it was because they were aphobes. Is that still the case or is it just the youth misusing the term the same way they misuse proship? Thanks! 🤍

Yeah, I'm not good at deciphering how people mean these things a lot of the time either. In a case like this, what I'd do is a search to see if they've posted anything about asexuality or aces. And if it's positive, I figure we're good, if it's negative or I can't find anything then I don't follow. (There may be an innocent reason for there being nothing, but sometimes too past ace exclusionists will have purged their blog so people don't know they used to be part of that whole thing, so I always figure better safe than sorry if they have a thing like that in their description.)

If you're not sure how to search type username.tumblr.com/search/asexual into the url bar and repeat for ace.

All the best!

[reading-comp-wrong-answers]

Greetings, people with inferior reading comprehension. There is this blog around here (@reading-comp-posting) that posts questions on reading comprehension. It is my goal to answer them. All my answers shall be 100% correct. (Please ignore my url, and blog title, and blog description. Those are incorrect.) And yes, my favourite hobby is urinating on people with little wealth, how could you guess?

Now, I recommend trying to answer these questions yourself first, and using mine as something to read and to learn from. If you believe you've found a flaw in my answers, you're allowed to send me an ask, preferably with a link to the post with the answer you're talking about, and I shall explain to you why my answer was correct.

Fully answering questions to a post may take some time, because I too am restrained to a human body and only capable of typing so fast, but if I have not answered a post by reading comprehension for as far as you can tell, you are allowed to tag me in it; I'm unfortunately incapable of seeing all posts from the blogs I follow.

If you are wondering about my main, it's @thegeniusidiotnstickmerchant3728. It is that too if you are not wondering, but in that case it's irrelevant information. I would like to request you do not follow me there, as I have a strict no-new-follower-rule on there.

[sunheart-and-investgator]

The Missing Wallet Case Masterpost

This is a post to keep track of the order of The Wallet Investigation. The parts with a + at the beginning are parts that don't progress to what's happening with the investigation, mostly just for anyone who'd like to look at the bonus art.

If any of the other people who have their characters included in this think that the events should happen in a different order please tell me! This is purely my idea of the order of events.

This is a work in progress and some of these images do not have image descriptions yet, i will be reblogging these with my own image descriptions eventually and changing the links. When i do if any of the original posters of the art wish they be changed, corrected or if they added their own image description, please tell me. If a part of the art is a reblogged post with an addition, the addition at the bottom is what the focus is on.

Last thing of note i still have some stuff in between some of these points of the story I'm still in the midst of drawing. These are marked by a (to be drawn) and their url, character or name. If anyone else involved in this has parts that want to add but are (to be drawn), tell me and I'll add them!

Twigpaw joins investigation - has id

+Investpaw explains to Twigpaw - has id

Saltypaw gets dragged in - no id

The gang goes searching - has id

Aha! We know who it is! - has id

Case solved! or is it? - id in alt

+haha i totally didnt reblog this to the wrong blog - id in alt

Wait a minute, there's more? - no id

There's more! oh no... - id in alt

Credits for everyone included so far!

Twigpaw: @bee8467

Saltypaw: @fallencloudsss

Matchpaw: @houndhowl

Draculapaw: @theanoninyourinbox

Investpaw: Me! or @100platypodesinatrenchcoat for my main

[google-searchhistory-official]

Hello Google Search History Official.

I appreciate the speculation, could you explain the "Candy Wars"?

Thank you.

J4X

It was started by two gimmick brand accounts pretending to be reese's peanut butter cups and kitkat. I forget a lot of blog urls and timeframe but here's what i remember happening.

Those two blogs were just combative in a friendly way against each other and a few more blogs popped up joining one side or the other creating a small roleplay scene. Mainly focused on candy brands at first.

Then Reese's was taken down for impersonation of a brand without clarifying their blog as parody (why my blog title/description says "not actually official")

One of the first blogs I followed in the candy wars was mini-laffytaffy because I loved the art they made. I eventually joined in too but as a Pepsi blog, and others used broader brands too but still food in some way. That became the brandom.

As with everything it came to an end due to interpersonal conflicts, drama, and others using different rules for their roleplay. oh btw, it was heavily influenced by Supernatural for some reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There's still some vestiges of that left but it's not really related to the parody accounts popping up today, i think.

[bubblingbeach]

dude I am so sorry for the ask but how do I get my articles published? I have Zip's draft page but I don't know how to get it added to the mascotcon :'( i'm gonna go fiddle with it and i'm waiting for the Backrooms blog to reply :) have a good day cool artist

the process is a lot easier for art pages than it is for articles! there's a decent guide for artpages here, but the gist is:

assuming you have a wikidot account, tell a site staff member you'd like to submit art and ask them for the posting password. one of the admins (bluesignet) actually runs the tumblr account, so she should be able to hook you up there

once you have that, you can make a new url on the wiki (in your case, probably just "zip" at the end of the base url), and then put the password AND "art:[art page name]" in the password field. the guide doesn't mention you need both but you do.

and then you have a free page to make! it pretty much comes down to uploading the image, including it in the site's code, and adding a title/description. steps 5-10 in the guide do a good job of this

since you're making a mascotcon page, you'll want to add "mascotartcon2024" to the tags as well as "art". there's a couple other stuff regarding parenting that i can explain further, but there's a good chance either blue or another staff member can take care of that for you! probably.

[forcedhesitation]

only received about 150 follows or so bots from last night. thank goodness this is slowing down. there is still a discrepancy between my follower counts each day, that I'm not able to explain. I don't know if I just can't see certain bots, or something, because I've scrolled through my entire follower list and not found bots to account for this increased number. I know for a fact my follower count wasn't that high before, so I'm a bit confused...

I will warn anyone else, though, that the bots aren't always using the default new account picture with some random three word url. nor are all of them trying to advertise online gambling. some of them do actually have "bios" that try to mimic the bios of real accounts.

common features I've noticed in the "bios" of these mimic bots:

usually a nondescript anime character profile picture. very often the character will have pale skin, dark hair, and white clothing. if not this, it's a photo of an actual person with a similar appearance, but the photo might be a bit artsy, like a close up of the face, or a mysterious side profile.

if the profile picture does not feature a person, it will likely be a cat photo.

there is usually just one emoji in the bio, and it might not even have anything to do with their name. most common ones I saw were any one of the heart emojis.

the description might fully repeat their url, or contain some slight variation of their url, and then pronouns. usually nothing else will be included, except maybe a country or just "minor." The way all of this information is written is formatted without the typical consideration for readability that real human tumblr users typically have, and looks more like an unformatted copy-paste.

there are sometimes weird characters in the bio that make no sense to use. Like a percentile sign (%) placed in a strange place, for example.

as is common with other bots, there are no posts on the blog, or there is just one post. most common subject for that one post seems to be a cat photo, or a link to something. which you should obviously never click.

You do not get a notification for the follow from this account. Over the past few days, I've gotten thousands of bot follows. I am still only getting notifications for follows from real people though, and not for any of the bots. So that gives away who the mimic bots are. of course, there is the chance that notifications may not be working correctly all the time, so take this piece of advice with a grain of salt.

hope no one else has to deal with this bullshit. If you are dealing with it, I pray that it will not be anywhere near as bad as what I had. if you can, try to report as many as you reasonably can because that at least gives information to the people on staff whose job it is to handle bots.

[thebeeholdersarchiveblog]

~Nov 15, '23~

{I will keep up this pointed post until someone accepts the offer, so it is still open if you're seeing this!}

Hey guys! I love the Miraculous fandom and show, but I'm losing interest in running this blog. If anyone wants to take my spot as Vesperia, dm this blog and you can use the icon, blog header, description, all associated in-character hashtags, and url.

I will not delete this blog because it apparently will cause my main to be deleted too or something??? But I will change the url and description to explain that this blog is no longer in the rp.

You all can still ask me miraculous things on my main and my art blog, I still like the show!

I will also probably no longer play Sasha/Knife-ish anymore, so you can dm about her too but I have a feeling there will be less interest ;P

HERE is a link to my original pin post for this blog!

My main is @thatonesongyouretryingtoremember If you really want to reach me there for non-rp things.

[favoredsouls]

Why'd you change your URL? Did you leave the Collective all of a sudden?

I left a bit ago. Probably a few months back. I just haven't been too in touch with the Collective for a while but still love this blog and wanted to keep it. I found a lot of good inspiration here. It felt like I got distant and didnt participate much with others anymore so figured i would open the space for others with more passion to take part.

Sorry I didn't make a post about it but I honestly didn't want the attention on it. I don't do well with spotlights even if I do love them a bit and I dont handle loud goodbyes well. I messaged Rogue explaining some of this, asked to keep it on the downlow, changed my url and took out the official Collective member part of my description. Really it just came down to "I don't follow the news or participate with the Collective on tumblr or discord anymore." I still follow a lot of them and will like posts and reblog the ones I really like. I haven't had much of a chance to talk to the ones I used to though but maybe ill have time and energy to reach out again. I just haven't been able to keep up with the community or any events that popped up. Which is okay. Just felt like I was doing a solo thing for a while and figured i'd just go and do that actually.

I know you didn't ask but I feel like yammering on a little. I miss it. The people were always so nice and supportive. But it wasn't something I felt the same connection to as before or after I joined. I got distant but thats on me. I changed and figured it wasn't a genuine passion like it used to be. So make space for folks who do have the passion to post more often and talk to people about their ideas and take part in the events and stuff. Thats what the Collective is about and I didn't feel, amongst other feelings and nonfeelings, that I was really engaging with that idea anymore.

Thanks for asking. Its been nice to talk about it a bit. I hope that explains things abit cause I know it must be confusing sometimes. Hope you have a good night!

[artifactseeker-myr99]

I’m from the age group that keeps their legal/ real name off the internet but the struggle is real

Being transneutral, I don’t really get to use my chosen names without explaining about them

Like, as both a transneutral/ trans-agender/ agender-genderqueer person and an aroace person I literally *have* to out myself if I want to get gendered/ addressed/ recognised correctly

But that urge to hear/ read my chosen names conflicts with my urge to stay anonymous/ not share too many identifiers on the internet

Which is why my blog description on several blogs is kinda vague, although it is relatively easy to cross-reference my tumblr URLs and figure out the blogs are run by the same person

But so far neither of my chosen names is in any way connected to my legal documents/ my official identity

So I suppose it’s fine if I occasionally mention that my chosen name’s Léonid Yanis

But I probably will go back to some internet-only pseud once I get the legal paperwork into motion

[blindrapture]

in the interest of Showing Off My Writing, let me post the entire Batman Punches God Explanation here. this is the first section in a long explanation of a large eldritch blog-maze. the actual explanation of the maze has not been written yet, I had to explain some context first.

I- Batman + God

The seed of the idea came in January 2015, when I had recently finished two weird blogs-- namely, The Archangel and The Archangel II. These were part of a series, the abstract Fear series I did in collaboration with Lindsay. Each blog in the series had to have a stark minimal layout, with a single post containing an image and a subtitle, and with a url that said "this is not a blog" in a foreign language. The goal was to demonstrate, in a horror blogosphere rooted around the Slender Man where even the most experimental blog still adhered to conventional Narrative Rules, that it was possible to make Fictional Blogs that challenged the format, that they would still count as serious attempts at the concept but from a drastically different angle. That is basically what the first Archangel represented, as a concrete "object" that demanded to be taken seriously even in its humor. That url still read "This is not a blog," which on the surface sounds like it's precisely the attitude I was challenging, but under the surface it was an allusion to René Magritte's most famous painting, and with that context there is more nuance. The painting is of a pipe, with the accompanying text "This is not a pipe," the implication being "This is a picture of a pipe. There are things a pipe can do that this painting cannot, and there are things this painting can do that a pipe cannot." Extrapolating that to the blog, The Archangel says it is not a blog. Yet it is still a Fearblog, a serious horror blog in an established community (a community where "The Archangel" is an established horror monster). That paradox is.. pregnant. The key is the word "blog," the notion of a "blog" as something with set rules and form. The textual point is that, insofar as The Archangel is not a blog (and no, it is not the web journal of a real person, it is not therefore a journal in function, it is not a blog), none of the Fearblogs or Slenderblogs are blogs, and likewise, insofar as it very clearly has to be a blog (and yes, it is made with Blogger tools, hosted on a service that exclusively hosts blogs, it is made of the exact same ingredients), the same applies to the rest. Our definitions are arbitrary and are all because of words.

That's a point that applies to and unites the Fear series. But the contents of The Archangel itself also merit examination. The text in the blog reads "Batman punches God." The accompanying image is a low-res Google-sourced drawing of the Green Lantern flying into the sky. The Green Lantern is not Batman; they are two different superheroes. But, with his fist in the sky, this superhero could be seen to be "punching God." Like, that's a really basic joke. And these abstract blogs all began with Lindsay and I voice-chatting on Skype, saying that a blog matching that exact description would still count as a valid Fearblog, so it is absolutely true that this "Batman punches God" thing was supposed to be stupid. But I'm not some careless troll, I knew I could back it up with theory, I could seriously argue for a deeper message in this silly blog. And I can. The key here is in the "sky/God" symbolism. If it is even remotely plausible that a human could reasonably interpret "fist in the sky" as "punching God," interpret "the sky" as "representing God," then there is precedent for the symbolic mobility of forms. If it's good enough for God, it's good enough for Batman. The Green Lantern is allowed to represent a different superhero; they have far more in common than God does with the sky. Do you follow the principle? I basically typed a lot of words to explain, like, the poetic equivalent of 2+2. It goes further. The blog contains one more humanoid figure, after all: The Archangel himself is named in the title. If "the sky" can represent "God," if "the Green Lantern" can represent "Batman," can't either of these symbols also represent the Archangel, the Fear Mythos's iconic monster? He is "the Fear of the Afterlife," he is conventionally written with religious motifs and patterns, so "The Archangel is God" is not farfetched. But is it not also valid for "The Archangel" to represent "Batman?" The Fear Mythos was founded by comic book readers, and there were plenty in the Slender Man Mythos too. Comic book conventions of media and narrative are significant in these blogospheres. "The Archangel is Batman" may be the riskiest proposition here, but do you follow the logic? Do you observe that these equations are all self-contained in the blog, they do not overreach? If you can, even if you can simply humor the argument, then you have followed a proof that that poetic 2+2 equals something, that there is a law of equivalence between two sides of an equation, that no side of the equation is restricted by something the other is not. That, as a Proof of the associative quality of images, is the theory behind The Archangel's visual content (including using the Text as visual elements).

Let's put these two together (a-heh heh) and look at The Archangel one last time. It is not a troll blog, it is not a joke. I very seriously believed in it, so much that I was willing to not explain it and let it stand on its own for eight years. (And I love explaining myself. This is actually the real reason I had to invent a separate meta-character in Christoph Magreat; by crediting the work to someone else, I could convince myself to keep its secrets.) It is also not an insult to the Fear Mythos or the accepted way of making blogs. It is me saying "I want to stretch my legs, I have done it your way, with posts containing Chapters of Prose, now let me try using these same ingredients to create something of a different form." I did this in celebration of the openness our community held, its willingness to accept people of many walks of life and tastes in media. I did this to test myself as an artist, my growing ability to formulate symbolic reason. I had not the privilege of following higher education's structure where I would otherwise get to do this kind of thing, but I still had the desire, and blogs were a canvas I was now familiar with. So I did it. I demonstrated, as seriously as I could, a piece of blasphemy. "God is equal to a fictional concept. The rules of art apply to all concepts, so long as those concepts are contained within a piece of art." And another blasphemy on top: "Horror is equal to comedy, is equal to minimalist modern art, is equal to poetry, is equal to math. Eldritch abominations are equal to superheroes. A blog is equal to a painting. The hierarchies of 'seriousness' we insist on are strictly cultural and are, themselves, allowed to not be taken seriously." Equations, lots of equations, are my way of paying respect.

So yeah. It all started with that one blog. Then I got to make another one in The Archangel II, but if it's alright with you, I'm gonna leave that one "unexplained." You already have much of the kinds of logic necessary to form an interpretation, and besides! It was II in particular that sat with me for a month afterwards and led to the gestation of Viceking's Graab. I want to talk about that one now.

(end.)