#what is wrong with this website LMFAO

[daxite]

ah, yes, prevent climate change by...setting light to someone's car, genius play

[bigmammallama5]

learned today that my schedule is finally going to line up with getting work into our wood/soda kiln and i'm 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 i've been wanting to try soda firing

the real question is are they going to keep it at cone 06/07 or are we gonna change and take it up to 10-12 (i hope so, it could be so much better). theyre doing a high fire salt firing in sept that i wanted to be in so i hope... this might sway them to go high fire in the soda

[ismaeldrawsthings]

I am the friend that's too woke bc my concept of gender dynamics and expressions make it difficult for me to understand What The Fuck are People On when they come to this god forsaken website and say "Madeline Miller imposed straight relationship dynamics onto Patrochilles' relationship" or "Madeline Miller made Patroclus feminine".

Is healing an inherently feminine trait for you? Is him not being fond of violence in the book inherently feminine to you? I don't understand.

It may not go with the context of The Iliad, but it goes perfectly with the context of TSOA. Of course Patroclus, the boy who accidentally took a life when he was still a child, wouldn't like violence. It goes hand in hand within the context of the novel. As well as him being a healer, having learned with Chiron. All of this make sense in the context of TSOA.

Now... And hear me out on this, you're allowed to disagree: I don't believe this is really mischaracterization.

I personally don't believe such thing as "mischaracterizing" a mythological character exist. Since mythological characters are moldable depending on: The culture in which they are written, who wrote them, the historical context, among others. They are multifacetic and their characterizations depend on the aforementioned factors. For example, in The Iliad, Helen fucking hated Paris and wanted to go back to Sparta with her husband. Meanwhile, in The Odyssey, Helen immitates the voice of the wives of the men inside the wooden horse in order to torture them, wanting to sabotage their victory in order to stay in Troy. These are two completely different and opposite characterizations of her character. Helen is one of the biggest examples of how characterization works in mythology. Some people believe she loved Paris and went to Troy willingly with him, others believe she hated him and he took her forcefully and raped her. All of these interpretations are true bc myths are ambiguous and adapt to the people's beliefs and practices.

And they adapt to their time, for which I say that Patroclus' character in TSOA was not a mischaracterization of him as a whole. Patroclus represents kindness, and the traits of a kind man were different in ancient Greece than they are today. It doesn't matter. What matter is that his kindness is a key part of his character, so Miller's writing isn't wrong. It isn't a misunderstanding of his character. She based this "anti-violence" version of him on Shakespeare's interpretation of his character, but Shakespeare was not wrong either. Shakespeare wrote what a kind man was in his time, and Miller wrote what a kind man is in her time based on the representation of kindness from previous time. And both of them are true. Both of them can be true, as well as all the prior.

People say Miller's characterization is wrong and could've not existed within the context of The Iliad or the Trojan war as a whole, for which I say: this is symbolic. The Trojan war is symbolic, is mythological, it does not exist. Is a lesson on moral ambiguity within the context of war and how a man's life is not worth more than other's (and a bunch of other things). It's relevant, it transcends time. It can be adapted and reinterpreted to give that same lesson in different historical contexts.

Why do we keep learning about The Iliad? Why does it matter? Why should it matter, if people are so insisten on the fact that it happened in ancient times to ancient people within ancient contexts? Because it is still relevant. War is still relevant. We cannot just say "oh, those old Greeks!" And rub our hands off because it doesn't apply to us. A modern reinterpretation of these old myths and characters are important for you to still understand the lessons these myths were meant to give in your modern context. And is not wrong to do so. Is not a "mischaracterization" or "misinterpretation". Is just another interpretation.

But that's just what I believe lmfao you're free to disagree with me

Summarizing: I don't believe you can really mischaracterize a mythological character as long as your characterization of said mythological character doesn't interfere with the purpose of their existence in the myth they are from. Patroclus is Achilles humanity and compassion, he stands out for his empathy, diplomacy and kindness. Madeline Miller does a great job of representing this, regardless of whether her representation of these traits differ from what they were like in an ancient context.

[mcdraikins]

hi unironically you're fucking weird and should seek help. even you clearly know you're in the wrong for being the way you are, no one with any case at all would admit they should "maybe go die" abt something they truly believed in. you perhaps would/should have left internet fandom as a whole based on this post alone to be completely honest with you. like fr, this is a post i have no doubt leon would genuinely rage at for how inappropriate and presumptuous it is to not only speculate about what would be 'best for him', but also declare it reality based on absolutely nothing besides entitled hockey fan delusion. very edmonton/canadian media of you, so i think that's incredibly ironic.

not to be dramatic but if i think if you only keep up with the oilers for hrpf purposes and spend your time actively shitting on the rest of the team to push dumbass narratives about mcdavid/drai being miserable here i kind of think you should die

[frankenfran]

PLEASE talk as much as you want about final fantasy. Since I already have 3 FF questions, I'll let you choose whatever you want to talk about most

1. I wanna hear what you don't like about XV and XVI (I only know the story of XVI and yeah it has. issues)

2. What do you think about the older 2D FFs?

3. I know there's an insane amount of spinoffs and side stories, so of them all, what do you think is a must-play for someone like me who wants to get more into the series? (I've only played most of tactics, and FF I Advance of all things)

oh goodness well, this probably won't be popular but since you asked... (under a read more because it's fucking long)

1.) as reductively as possible: too much of a focus on men. deeply misogynistic games. it feels like they're a response to the misogynistic backlash to ffxiii. yes ffxiii had plenty of problems but given the culture at the time (which obviously hasn't gotten much better) it kinda felt like a lot of people rejected it as soon as they saw a woman as the protag. the craziest part is she's basically just cloud post transition but mysteriously people think all those traits on a woman are irritating or cringe.

anyway, this is obviously just my own personal feeling but it feels like they went the opposite direction and decided there should be less women going forward. ffxiv is infamous for killing every important female character and ffxv is just a yaoi road trip with minimal female involvement. you'd certainly think there were no women in the game based on the fan art and, unsurprisingly, people loved that. i mean consider the reaction to ffx-2 vs. ffxv. they're both obviously very different games in a lot of ways but one of them is about boys going on an adventure together and the other is about girls doing the same. one of them is considered embarrassing and got tons of backlash from fans contemporarily for being too girly and the other was a huge hit with fans and loved even with its flaws. it's worth noting ffxv was also originally a ffxiii spinoff that became it's own thing so. that's also information.

ffxvi is even more egregious in some ways but ill admit a lot of those are mostly personal. it's fucking ugly and dull and i would not know it's a final fantasy game if it weren't for the ill fitting chocobos in some trailers. i know it's ironic for me to say that considering i praised ffix for looking unlike any other ff game but they went in the wrong direction. it's clearly inspired by prestige western fantasy slop like GoT and the witcher and unfortunately those are the exact things i do not want in fantasy. some people like that and that's fine but it's clearly not for me.

anyway, iirc the writers from ffxiv worked on this and from what ive seen it shows in the worst ways. these are the writers who couldn't introduce a woman without killing her off so already off to a bad start but. it's punching above its weight class. it's trying so hard to be a epic grizzly dark fantasy but it just falls so flat. they say fuck all the time in the same way that one dmc game everyone hated did. im sure there's some amount of nuance that gets lost in translation but the only woman in the amount of the game i saw was, quite literally, an evil screeching harpy manipulator. which is not like, something im against obviously as a lover of women but for that to be the only woman in the first like. 10+ hours of the game? come the fuck on. maybe it gets better i honestly don't know. and i don't think i ever will because what i saw of that game was so immensely disappointing that im not sure ill ever bother.

i have plenty more i could say about both games but ive said soooo much already and honestly i can't imagine the misogyny website would particularly enjoy even more of my "misandry" lmfao. in short:

2.) i really enjoy the older 2D final fantasies but ive only really played a chunk of ffvi and the original ff. some day ill definitely give them a go! i feel like the ff fan equivalent of a zoomer for loving almost everything from ffvi onwards and not having much to say about the older ones but. the biggest barrier for me is the same one i have with the older dragon quests. they're not particularly hard or anything but they expect you to grind. a whole lot. if i was a kid and my only game was ffiii id be on that grind but it's a bit harder as an adult who can like. just do anything else. i even like grinding and getting into that flow state but i haven't been as much in the mood for it these days, or if i have it's been for different games. ill definitely get around to them eventually though. young immortal mindset as ive said before. watching my gf try and play through them did sort of make me want to give it a spin even with her furping.

3.) honestly you're already off to a good start! tactics is well beloved for a reason and it's probably the most recommended spinoff. id also highly recommend tactics advance. it's not as like, dark and serious as tactics but the style and gameplay and story are all executed nearly flawlessly. it's a favourite of our beloved princess nettlebloom and that's reason enough! definitely finish tactics first though. hmm... if you play ffxii and also enjoyed tactics advance then give FFXII: revenant wings a try! it's a weird RTS type game but it's in the style of tactics advance and very cute. definitely not for everyone though.

it's really far from essential but if you can somehow manage to organise enough people for it i highly recommend giving crystal chronicles a try. it's really fun with other people and it's close to ffix stylistically so im a big fan. maybe try dissidia if you want a silly fighting game? kebs seemed to enjoy stranger of paradise quite a bit and it seems like mindless action game fun so maybe give that a look if it interests you. honestly the spin-offs cover such a wide range of genre and quality that it's almost hard to have cohesive opinions on them lol. but i hope that helps in any way!

thank you for asking though and sorry for the wall of text! i genuinely suck at being concise and getting my points across but hopefully you could decode some of this madness lol

[fabbyf1]

I don't want to be a tinfoil girlie but with the amount of Maxiel I feel like both RB and Daniel are putting out feelers to see how the fans would react to him replacing checo specially because a huge chunk want Yuki or Liam. Essentially Daniel using Maxiel a bit to get RB favor (but also bc he does like max but increasing it to a deeper level) and Red Bull hoping more Maxiel content will make fans accept Daniel back in Redbull and not be mad Yuki and Liam don't get that second seat.

DISCLAIMER BEFORE YOU READ MY HOT TAKE: I LOVE DANIEL RICCIARDO MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE ON THIS WEBSITE. I HAVE LOVED DANIEL RICCIARDO LONGER THAN MOST OF YALL HAVE BEEN FANS OF THIS SPORT LMFAO. DONT COME FOR ME. anyway here's my hot take:

oh bestie. oh bestie!!!! you are 100% correct. you nailed it. you said it perfectly.

this is exactly what's happening, and i'm eating up every single crumb they want to feed me.

if you want my honest non-delusional opinion, i don't think daniel has many years left in F1. 2025 will probably be his last. not because he's done anything wrong and not because of his performance the last few years, but because he's of age and at that point in his career where everyone wants the young blood. it's not an insult to him. he's not doing anything wrong. i love daniel, i'm a daniel apologist, i have a daniel tattoo.... so don't think i'm trying to slander him. but him going back to RBR is the perfect goodbye tour for him.

i don't think he would make major moves in the rbr seat. he might outperform checo because he knows how to drive a rbr car, but i don't think it'll be anything outstanding. i don't think he'd be winning a championship with them. i don't think he'd out-perform max. but i also don't think him going back to rbr has anything to do with performance. (because if it was, i don't think they'd go with daniel.) i really think it's about letting him go out on a high with the team that he loves and regrets leaving.

it's him coming home.

it's him saying goodbye.

it's him leaving the sport the way he should have always left the sport. (because literally fuck mclaren and fuck zak brown)

BUT... if you want my DELUSIONAL opinion... HELL YEAH MAXIEL BITCHES LETS FUCKING GO NOMNOMNOMNOMNOM.

[schlattscrucifix]

“Problematic” source memories under the cut

ZERO DAY

Cal and I met when we were SUPER fucking young, we basically grew up together

I tried to impress him all the time

When we got to highschool that’s when we started to bring about our plan or whatever

It all started with a joke about making the people we hated “pay” and then we started to take it seriously

When I got my camera I told Cal he should get his own, but he INSISTED on using mine. He would not get his own it was so fucking funny

I’d get so fucking bitchy if shit wasn’t perfect, I’d be like “cal. This has to be perfect or else it will all go wrong” and he’d look at me like “ok man”

When I drove crazy cal would raise his voice and me like “Andre >:(!” And I’d laugh a little

When we’d stay the night at each others houses cal fell asleep first 99% of the time and I’d have to watch all the movies we rented by myself and I’d be super sad the next morning

When I fell asleep first the 1 percent of the time I woke up with a dick drawn on my arm, I wasn’t happy

My dad was weird about cal and I, not overly odd but he’d eye us for being “too close”

I had the plan to flee the country planned out perfectly, although I got a bit nervous when I noticed cal not being too interested in it

I was so fucking jealous of the girl cal went to prom with

Leading up to the original planned date I got more and more nervous

I faked being sick to get out of it the first time

During the shooting all my shit was to hide how fucking scared I was to kill myself

Cal played along which made me feel slightly less nervous

The lady on the phone pissed both of us off I am NOT gonna pick up, fuck off!

When we were about to kill ourselves I did all I could to stall, I was afraid that it would hurt

Cal looked real disappointed, I’m pretty sure he waited to make sure I pulled the trigger before he did it to himself

The other fucking one

I was hesitant on posting about this one but I honestly don’t give two shits

Both of us were horrible

Dylan planned all of it before he even met me, I was roped into it and was like oh okay

I was trying to make myself worse for him so I wanted to do it more honestly

I thought he was really cool man

I wrote so much about everything, I liked documenting all of the changes , I liked feeling important

I adopted the mentality of “what matters if I’m gonna die in a couple months anyway” and it made me feel free

The basement tapes were fun to film, a lot of the time we talked about everything and nothing, it was a podcast pretty much

I’d listen to him talk, then he’d listen to me

We’d get into pissy arguments then forgive each other minutes later because one of us made a stupid joke or messed up on something

He’d carve his name into me, as soon as one healed another was made

I drew on him

Sooo many pager codes it was fun , () an egg

We were so possessive of each other. If he saw me talking to someone that he didn’t know for a tad too long he’d give me the cold shoulder for the rest of the day and vice versa

I’d have doubts. I swear Dylan could fucking sniff them out

“Eric, you’re not thinking about bailing out on me, are you?”

“Are you seriously gonna make me fucking do this on my own?”

Shit like that

I’d act all fucking high and mighty around our friends but in private when it was just us he made all the calls for the most part

I’d get mad and write about it on my website LMFAO

My guns being 30 fucking years old made my hands bleed like fucking crazy

During the event itself Dylan thought I’d been shot because of it but no, it was just my hands and my own gun broke my fucking nose

He got worried and I was just like Dylan my gun :((( my gun Dylan what the fuck :(((

We were both running on adrenaline

When the bombs didn’t work I knew it was because of me and wanting to keep my 5 dollars

“Dylan , are we still doing this?” Ohh I wanted him to say no but he said “are you still with me?” Plus I couldn’t back out if I wanted to , how the fuck would we continue the day with guns under our coats

Lots of messing with people , like a fuck ton

What is it with me and getting nervy to kill myself man, before we did it again I stalled and Dylan was like “dude do you just want me to do it for you” at one point.

Then I just did it and yay I’m dead

[monstersinthecosmos]

I know you probably don’t want to dwell on the show and the negative but I absolutely hate what has happened on here and how hateful people are in the VC fandom it’s just very demoralizing and makes me want to retreat from anything besides the books completely. The discourse was spicy before the show but everything is just even more divisive now and it has sucked the fun out of it. Not really an ask more of a vent sorry

Hi there!

You’re correct that I don’t particularly find it fun to dwell on the negative stuff – as you said yourself, SOMETIMES THE DISCOURSE SUCKS THE FUN OUT OF IT. But I do understand how you feel and I want to say a couple things and I hope this helps you find a groove.

First of all, I did my best not to acknowledge it too much because I didn’t want to validate the folks who were being cunts to me lol, but please know that this fandom (at least on Tumblr) has ALWAYS been kinda fucking violent towards me LOL. I started VC tumbling back in 2016 and it’s ALWAYS been a fucking trash fire. It is hard out there for Marius stans lmfao.

Like, when I was first posting on Tumblr and acclimating to the Tumblr culture it was so much of like, me feeling brave enough to share meta only for someone to be RB’ing me to tell me I’m wrong, or me talking about how much I liked something about Marius only for someone to vague me, or it was me hosting the huge fandom Discord back in 2017 only for people to then come on tumblr and complain about how the Discord was way too Marius Friendly as if like, a drama-free space where we can discuss the books makes it a harbor for predators.

Of course I also had the gaggle of fucking morons who were constantly stalking me, catfishing their way into my servers to try to take screenshots and write call outs and cancel me, who would not stop preaching about how “all these big blogs” are “actually such terrible people” because “look at the things they ship” even when I’d never been unkind to them, even occasionally donated to their GFMs. These are folks who think they’re morally in the right for protecting the virtue of Armand’s poor teenage asshole and executed this justice by stalking and harassing an ACTUAL PERSON LOL. Like, listen. I’m sorry to burst ur bubble, but Armand doesn’t exist. He’s letters on a paper. I’m actually a real person and you’re up my fucking ass because I don’t’ even fucking know why, you’re jealous of my fucking Tumblr engagement or something? Which one of us is actually the creep here lol?? Is this a race to the bottom to be the valedictorian of clown school on the website for homeschooled clowns?

I’ve also had the pleasure of being on the receiving end of acephobic discourse, being told I don’t do enough to protect every individual in fandom from their own bullies as if it's my job to do that, being called ableist for how I wrote Daniel in my fics even though I was projecting and discussing my own personal experiences – I’ve also had a project collaborator have a tantrum and try to steal my work until I had to threaten with legal action, I’ve been put on block lists, I’ve had many people consume my fics in secret without actually leaving comments because I’m too toxic for them to communicate with in public.

BLAH BLAH BLAH.

This was all before AMC showed up LMFAO. It was not easy for me! It’s still not always easy!

And so yeah like, by nature of the fandom EXPLODING we are going to see more drama. More people is more drama. The nature of the discourse often hedges into real life issues that people are very opinionated and passionate about and there are conflicting needs inside the same space about how to hold conversations. Even just the other day I RB’d a joke about Anne Rice and OP got upset with me because they didn’t want actual fans interacting with it. Whoops! I didn’t know! I just thought it was funny. ;.;  

Even in good faith and with the best of intentions we’re going to step on each other’s toes, and we’re gonna find people we don’t vibe with. And that’s normal and it’s fine.

What ISN’T normal is this inability to disengage that I think we see often in online space, and I don’t want to get into a whole side essay about all the reasons why I think that happens. But sometimes you gotta be the bigger person and take it on the chin.

Like, yeah, it sucks. It sucks the fun out of the room when you share a space with such bitter people who can’t be kind to each other. But like. THAT’S A THEM PROBLEM, YOU KNOW? And I think we gotta remember that sometimes people like that do it for the attention or the spike of dopamine when they can pick a fight and honestly like, you don’t need to waste YOUR OWN time on it, but you’re also doing that person a kindness if you don’t enable the bad behavior.

And it sucks that Tumblr’s mute tools are awful!!!!! It would make navigating so much easier to be able to curate the dash a little better and keep the bad actors out of your space. I sometimes just fuck off and don’t even come online for days if I know I’m not in a good headspace and won’t have the strength to just fucking ignore it, because sometimes drama catches my eye and I get nosy and go down the rabbit hole, too – having ADHD makes it really hard to avoid sometimes LOL – but like I try to be reasonable and love myself enough to avoid it when I can help it. I’m not willing to make my own problems everyone else’s problem, and I hope that some of these shit starters in fandom will get there, themselves.

So yeah it blows when the vibes are fucking atrocious, and it REALLY blows when it’s a fandom this small where you can’t avoid it. Even when it’s a vocal minority it really just kills the fucking mood.

BUT WHAT I WILL SAY.

Whenever I say shit like “write what you want to read” and we’re talking about fanfic, or even meta or even silly headcanon posts or jokes, that also means draw what you want to see, it also means make what you want to hold, apply it to any creation you can think of. Put the thing you want to see into the world. And it counts for fandom, too.

I don’t want to be part of a fandom that’s constantly infighting and attacking people, so I don’t fight and attack people. I don’t want to be called a predator for being a Marius fan and so I don’t engage in posts that say as much, not even to argue, because I don’t want my followers (who might also be Marius fans!) to have to see that on their dash. I want us to protect our peace and create a space we want to be in.

Like I have a policy that any time someone says I’m a freak or any time I see truly godawful word salad discourse, I go out of my way to post something kinky and offputting about Marius LMFAOOOO  because I want to be surrounded by reasonable fun people who share my sensibility for fiction. AND SOMETIMES IT’S CRICKETS, AND SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO WORK HARD TO FIND YOUR PEOPLE. But at the end of the day I know I’m being my most sincere self and I’m trying to have a good time and just post fun things that I enjoy. And like, the book fandom is small as fuck and we’re all famished, but I think if more of us did that, we’d build a much more productive and tolerant space.

And for all the shit I’ve mentioned, all the drama and attacks and all the times people have harassed me or tried to make me feel small, you know what? I just got back from @apoptoses & @cup-of-lixx 's wedding and they met in VCblr! We spent all week with our VCblr friends! We all went to New Orleans together last Halloween !

When I used to work on ships it was like a fandom friend world tour! I had so many coffees in port with my vampire friends!

I’ve learned so much about writing from all the time I’ve spent here and the community of writer friends who supported me! There’s folks I met on VCblr that I talk to LITERALLY every day! They are such huge parts of my life and genuine life-long friends!!!!!!

Sometimes it seems like the ROI is garbage but like, so much of finding the joy is also learning to protect yourself from the negativity.

It IS out there. It DOES suck. And it’s lonely when you haven’t found your people yet. But fandom doesn’t have to be the 500 angry assholes arguing with each other about a fucking TV show, it can be your 3 besties in a private group chat having a great time.

Like I just drove @hekateinhell to the airport (met THROUGH TUMBLR!) and on the way back I was listening to an episode of Last Day and they were discussing the concept that “community is a life raft” and it hit me so hard man!!!!!!!!!!!

Find your people! Block the shit starters! Mute discourse buzzwords that you know are going to upset you!

Keep! Posting! What! You! Want! To! See!!

Fandom is self-generating, we can do this!

My inbox is always open and BELIEVE ME I have been motherfucking persona non grata in this place before and I know how rancid the vibe can be so please come talk any time it's grinding you down, I got you!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wetcatspellcaster]

It's weird that that anon said you were condescending, because any time you interact with anyone on here I get slapped in the face with severe parasocial, platonic yearning. Like I want to be friends with you SO HARD because you seem so brilliant and clever and nice, on top of being a fantastic writer. ... this is a weird thing to send to a stranger but I did not like that you got a mean anon.

awww, thank you anon. I don't think I've been yearned for before 🥺 and don't ever apologise for being nice to someone, even if you don't know them that well!.

put my overexplaining ass under the cut lmfao. y'all don't need to know me like that without consenting to it first.

tbh, the thing about a tumblr askbox, particularly one that's tied to my writing, is that it is a weird social interaction to navigate! it is v parasocial - everyone is here to be nice to me or compliment me (as you've just proven!), - and that means it probably does look a little self absorbed at times. I try my very best to be myself (over-explanations and all), but given that I can barely cope with being perceived in my day-to-day life, these interactions do have a persona attached to them. Bc (and this is embarrassing to admit) it's actually a way to practice at having confidence (given that it's way easier to do so in writing).

I imagine I sometimes get the tone wrong, and yeah, I wrote a vulnerable post at 11pm last night that was little sappy (that's what happens when your contraception runs out and you're having a week long period lmao). but it also honestly just made me laugh, bc I chose not to publish any of those asks for fear of looking like a dick, and devised an alternative way to acknowledge people after they took time to say such nice things.

so if anything, that anon hate validated my own choices and behaviour (lmao). the thing about social anxiety is no one is a bigger hater of myself than me, and they can't say anything i haven't thought about myself before.

I publish anon hate not bc I'm looking for sympathy but because, fundamentally, I want it to embarrassing. It's bullying. Bullying is fucking embarrassing. I've known my whole life that I won't be everyone's cup of tea. but if someone on the website we all frequent For Fun doesn't like me, they can be an adult and block my ass rather than making it my problem.

thank you for being lovely to me! what a pleasant antidote :) x

[self-indulgent-paw-patrol]

Watched the first Paw Patrol movie with my dad, this time entirely in Brazilian dub (first time I watched was entirely in English), in the early hours past midnight today. Have the best of his reactions. Honestly, most were the same as mine when I watched the movie for the first time too, so let's go XD

"How did he SEE that tiny turtle up ahead???? Oh geez, there goes the bridge."

"I decree this trucker as the only sane person in the entire movie and the movie didn't even start for real yet." "Dad, he spilled his ice tea or whatever was that on himself." "It was the road's fault." "........ Ok you got a point."

"Lary, pause." "They look cute sleeping, right?" "They look like us after we eat. Post-dish depression." (It's our personal pun with "post-birth depression") "Tag yourself, I'm Marshall." "I'm Chase. Your brother is... What's this one's name again?" "Zuma? LMFAO YES HE IS"

"When did he have time to get this thing built?" "Who knows. I always joke that he's out there spawning stuff at will." "Are his parents like millionaire or something?" "No one knows about his parents or family, not even the official website gives any info on that." "HOW DOES HE PAY FOR ALL THIS--" *Cue Skye asking the same thing and Ryder responding* *Dad chokes on nothing and I have to pause so he can cough it out and drink some water*

"Oh fuck. He's-- He's lighting up all the fireworks." *Stops what he was doing in the living room to pay full attention* "THIS IS GONNA BE GOOD."

"Sure, block the roads to launch the cars. This is so HotWheels. They have THEIR OWN LANE."

"WELCOME TO THE BIG CITY, PUPS. WE HAVE LARGE ROADS AND WE STILL HAVE TRAFFIC JAM. YOU'LL LOVE IT."

"Isn't-- Isn't Chase their POLICE dog?" "Yeah" "Chase why are you ALLOWING this, how many traffic laws did they JUST BREAK"

"Sweet Jesus, don't mess with Marshall. He's got a mean cannon and he's LOVING it."

"Wait, Liberty's a street dog?" "Yup" "I thought she had an owner. So she's like one of those lovely strays who make friends with just about everyone they cross paths with." "YUP"

"... What the actual fuck is wrong with Humdinger?" *Shrugs* "He shouldn't be allowed to run for elections on anything."

"Oh no, Chase froze. Looks like those panic attacks you used to have." "........ You remember those too, huh" "Yeah. You made me freeze a lot too. I didn't know what to do with you so I'd freeze like that too." "Oh."

"There goes Marshall saving the day again. I see why you like him too." "He's cute." "I like his fire truck. Are you going to buy his toy too?" "You bet it." "Nice. As you should."

"Okay now I'm afraid of Liberty." "Why?" "Did you see how sure she was about her bait plan?" "Yeah?" "SHE'S GONNA HAVE THE TIME OF HER LIFE MESSING UP WITH HUMDINGER I'M CALLING IT"

"YUP I CALLED IT"

*Liberty calls Delores a toilet brush* "OUCH THAT WAS BRUTAL I LOVE HER EVEN MORE NOW"

"Literal prison BREAK. Nice." *Thumbs up to the TV*

"Aw that was cute. Ryder is a good boy."

"That thing is sucking way too many clouds."

"THAT THING IS SUCKING WAY TOO MANY CLOUDS."

"THIS IS GONNA CAUSE A STORM, RIGHT?"

"YUP CALLED IT."

"Omg she's so excited HER FACE IS SO CUTE! Repeat this entire scene please."

"GODDAMMIT RYDER YOU'RE SO MEAN LAUNCHING HER LIKE THAT ASUASHAUSHAUSHAUSHAU"

"Why is her number 22?" "Ryder numbers the vehicles, not the pups." "So they have 21 vehicles before hers." "Yup." "How many are there?" "Last I checked, last one was an Aircraft Carrier ship, number 25." "Wow."

"Did-- Did Zuma just BREAK his-- Oh, it's a boat too. Two-in-one. Ryder DOES really think of everything, huh?"

"Okay that was nice, I thought we wouldn't get to see Zuma doing anything in this entire movie at all." "Aquatic rescue dog in the big city, right?" "Yeah it's not exactly his natural habitat." "I feel him." "... I forgot you were a beach kid." "In my heart I still am."

"PULL THE LEVER, KRONK!!!!!" *Hysterical laughter* "OKAY HE DESERVED THAT."

"Chase KNOWS how to drift-- MOTORCYCLE???-- DRIVING UP THE WALL???????" *Slowly clapping for the entire scene*

"Is he afraid of heights? He didn't seem to be when he rescued the trucker and I see him doing a lot of stuff in the show." "I think it's not the height itself, it's mostly the panic remembering the times he failed at these tasks." "Trauma, then." "Yeah."

"Is he gonna-- Yup. Spirit jump. Of course." (For reference, the leap of faith scene from the movie "Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron")

"Okay now I'm afraid of Skye too-- Did the clouds just went POOF." "Yeah they did." "Damn, we just had such a badass scene, it killed the badassery."

"Ouch the helicopter-- DAMMIT ROCKY AHAHAHAHAHA"

"Awwww Liberty! That's my girl. Nice." "That's literally the name of the song that was playing when she was riding her new scooter for the first time." "Perfection. So she officially joined the team?" "Yeah I didn't get there yet but she's in the show after the movie came out too." "Did they do that because there was only one female pup in the show?" "Actually there's Everest too, that Husky Siberian! But she doesn't live with Ryder and his pups, she was adopted by the guy who lives in the mountain. In the main team, yeah, it's only Skye." "Still too few girls, they need more." "Tell me about it..."

[ggswaywardgifrepository]

LMFAO the last thing this blog needs is another unpopular opinion. (I feel like I peripherally burned bridges with people in one of my fandoms for debating ship shit when I should have just ignored it but whatever.)

But I seriously just saw a fic with an author's note at the end going, 'you can tip me' lmfao are you serious???? For a fanfic??? And one posted on THE fanfic site that works its ass off to make sure everything is on the up and up????

I guess the legality hovers around it being a tip, which is only being given after a work has been posted, rather than as a fee for the posting of said work. (Although, apparently there are fanfic authors who solicit donations for advanced access to content and withhold chapters if $ goals aren't met?)

I don't care how good you are or how much time you put into your fanfic, it's still not your IP. If you're not writing fanfic for connection or your own enjoyment, you're doing it wrong. Write original work if you want that cheese, and honestly, as someone who does, good fucking luck.

It's just such a slippery slope and super uncomfortable to me.

It's a shame, too, because the person whose story I saw this on has a very well written WIP that I was waiting for the last chapter on. But nope. Not touching their writing ever again.

I don't even want money from people for my original shit. Jesus H. I might if it was good, but I digress.

And the weirdest thing to me is that reddit, even here--wherever there has been discussion about it--the majority seem to be pro tipping a fanfic author?

Does it suck that fanart can be monetized but fanfic can't? Absolutely.

But don't fuck it up for everyone else. If you wanna be compensated for your fanfic, get your 50 Shades on and adapt it into an original work.

Just a little edit: I haven’t changed the wording on anything above because I’m allowed to have spicy takes anywhere online, but esp here in my little corner of the tumblrverse. I will never take this opinion on the road but I’m allowed to have it here and to share it as tactfully (or not) as I please.

However, I know my tone irritated someone who saw this previously. But they were super professional and the pinnacle of online bravery with their multiple anonymous visits to my ask box…

I DO wish fanfic authors didn’t face the same stigma as other fan creators but it is what it is.

I WOULD be pleased if the culture safely shifted toward compensating all fan creators equally and without judgment or worry of widespread repercussions.

I DON’T think it’s ever going to be that way, though. And as someone who remembers the Anne Rice lawsuits (over the very existence of fanfiction featuring her characters, which resulted in entire websites going down and years of “I don’t own these characters and I’m not making any money from this so please don’t sue me 😭” disclaimers) I have real concerns over tipping for a fanfic sparking a similar reaction and setting us all back.

Do whatever you want, just don’t break TOS on sites you use to do it.

And don’t come fight me in my little virtual house here. I am a lovely visitor to others’ spaces online. But I am a terrible host if you’re a rude guest in mine.

Happy fanfic writing, especially if, like me, you do it solely for the joy of writing and to connect with others.

[jorvikzelda]

Apologies for the link being in Swedish but I wanted to preface this post with The Source (The Source being a handy neat little reliable Swedish website because in Sweden literally everything is public and today SSE’s financial results of 2022 were published on said neat little website - in a very neat little graph, no less).

Also prefacing this with a disclaimer that I am not a finance person or a native English speaker and I am probably using the wrong words for things but I’m feeling pretty confident that I can at least read the graphs and know what they mean. (If I’m somehow wrong about that, correction would be greatly appreciated lmfao)

And also - for reference - at the moment of posting 100 SEK is worth about 8,50 EUR, 7,30 GBP, 9,30 USD, 12,40 CAD, and 14,20 AUD. that should cover most of the SSOBlr I think

The Information in The Source, as far as I can tell, is as follows:

SSE’s incomes totaled to roughly the same amount of money in 2022 as they did in 2021 (361 200 000 SEK in 2021 and 362 550 000 in 2022)

(For background info, in 2019 SSE’s incomes totaled to roughly 248 200 000 SEK and they profited roughly 19 400 000 SEK, and in 2020 their incomes totaled to roughly 373 350 000 SEK and they profited roughly 58 300 000 SEK)

In 2021 their profits came out to roughly 36 100 000 SEK

SOMEHOW, in 2022 their LOSS, NOT PROFIT, came out to roughly 33 350 000 SEK

From this I draw the following conclusions:

How did they do this

They didn’t even sell worse than 2021

How did they manage

What are they spending this much on

They haven’t even moved to that ludicrously expensive office yet

Is this the candles????? Is that what this is???

[cru5h-cascades]

The Final Judgement (for real this time)

MAJOR SPOILER WARNING. PLAY, OR RATHER WATCH, THE BONUS CHAPTER BEFORE YOU READ THIS.

So... I finished the bonus chapter. I was legit on the verge of crying after finishing the bonus chapter and parts of it were just too painful to watch (the Tsuzuki siblings getting abused, Minoru's descent into madness, the Jeff the Killer-ing of Minoru's face). It was just all so heartbreaking... fuck it this is a 10 out of 10 game now that I've played the bonus chapter (⁠ ⁠≧⁠Д⁠≦⁠)

The animation in the bonus chapter was INCREDIBLE.

I will defo be making an essay on Minoru sometime in the future. I just have to.

Anyways, I'm amazed at how many of my theories turned out to be right, in some way, in the end! And I based some of them off of the stuff from the fake twitter account's posts!

Corrine/child theory - this turned out to be right TWICE somehow! The child version with Emiko (not necessarily with being Minoru's kid but she was a kid that meant a lot to him none the less) and the lover version with Akaya (or whatever the first victim's name was) in a way since her not wanting to leave town with him is what fully made Minoru go over the edge. Of course some details are kind of off since I based this theory off of the fake twitter account but I was right either way.

Proxy theory - Makoto might have not done any killing himself, but he did basically live Minoru's life for him. So in a way he is a proxy, just not with the killing.

Minoru was abused as a child - self explanatory. I dunno it's 'cause of the funny bag mask or what but I was also right about this! It just made sense to me somehow.

Minoru used the bag mask to cheer up Emiko - also part of the child theory. How I managed to predict this detail is beyond me.

Creepypasta parallels - even before I played the full game I drew so many parallels between the Smiling Man, Slenderman, and Jeff the Killer and somehow Emio ended up being the unholy amalgamation of both (his fictional self basically served as thing game's version of Slenderman and Minoru himself was naturally Jeff the Killer, specifically the Pastra version).

Missing Man was behind all of this - do I have to over explain this? I had a feeling ever since we found out about Minoru from the website he'd be responsible for the murders from 18 years ago. It seemed kinda off that we didn't get a name for him in the beginning so that was sort of a giveaway.

Of course, some stuff aged like milk like Fukuyama being involved in the killings and the Smiling Man being a dead man but that's probably it when it comes to predictions that I made that were completely wrong.

So... what now? I found out what I've been wanting to find out for a month plus now and there aren't any theories left to make about this game. What's going to be my involvement in the Emio fandom going forward? Well, of course there's always my Lofi Bag AU and maybe a few art pieces here and there but that's probably it for original stuff from me (besides my future Minoru essay). Naturally I will be reposting y'all's stuff but yeah.

People who followed me for Emio stuff and mutuals I made because of the community: y'all are fantastic. It was a pressure nerding out and theorizing with you guys. I hope y'all stick around even now when the game's out.

Stay fresh, y'all! Now if you will excuse me I'm gonna be playing a bunch of Splatoon so I can recover from the emotional damage I got from Emio's ending lmfao (go team future!!!)

[bedforddanes75]

Holy shit the Americans on this website are so fucking dumb. "We're gonna withhold votes" have you been living inside an isolated cave for the last 20 years and didn't notice that voting participation rates in most countries were abysmal and that doesn't change anything?

I swear Americans act like voting has never happened before this specific election and knowledge about how it works is inexistent so they write fanfiction about how it'll go and call themselves the only true leftists for it.

LMFAO literally. withholding votes just. makes there be less people who've voted. "but if we dont vote then theyll see that theres something wrong!" have you ever known anything ever. like ever. and YES oh they act like it's the first time it's ever happened and nobody could possibly know what will happen if they do vote, like please, use your common sense

[pop-punklouis]

You were wrong about Perrie. Official UK Charts have her at #7 next week. Zayn is the one whose career is over but you'll never admit that.

i love the reading comprehension on this website because the ask i reblogged three days ago (didn’t even make mind you) never said anything about perrie not being successful or not having a great run in the UK market as a solo artist. it was openly discussing the person’s opinion on how successful little mix will be as soloists compared to them as a girl group and whether or not they even care to have that same success. and not that you asked or even care, but i genuinely enjoy perrie’s single and hope the absolute best for this chapter of her career

also why in the year of 2024 are we even pitting perrie and zayn against one another like it’s 2016. like their individual solo careers have anything to do with each other. i don’t understand the point of this ask and what you thought you were grilling here tbh lmfao

[grecoromanyaoi]

The amount of times we met and had plans and you couldn't handle it bc it involves conditions of outside /loud places, FUN plans, pride parades you came all the way to be with me in and had to cut short, ideas to go to a club. Those people also clearly never did any activism.

When shiri Eisner makes posts of "boohoo stop telling people to go to protests bc some are disabled and cant" it's fucking embarrassing a. Bc many disabled people can, b. Because literally then it is Not About You. If YOU can't, then don't. No one's shaming anyone who can't go, and its more important to tell the general public to get off their asses then to hurt the feelings of people thinking its about them. BUT THEN on tumblr.com apparently IT IS about them as people go to specific disabled people's tumblr to get mad at them for not protesting (or not protesting enough? Half this fucking website doesn't do shit). What's wrong with people lmao??

Or like when she had a post that was "ways to be an activist for disabled people who can't go to protests" which is so stupid bc it gets protests the same Individualistic issue of veganism when it becomes a personality thing and not ideological goal you want to support. It's once again, not about you. Not only did she list memes as way to be an activist (stupid) the entire approach is wrong instead of writing "ways to still help if you can't go to a protest"(= lovely important post to make. There are many ways. None include memes lmao) but it's all about YOU and how YOU can still feel nice in your activism ego.

Anyway you said none of these things, you're a disabled person putting so much effort just to show up bc it matters to you. Meanwhile half this website never been to more than two protests (which probably also were like women's March lol). Ppl should calm down you owe them shit

RIGHT LMFAO. ily also