#why do people do this

[chai-the-leopard]

[thedemigodsguide]

Hey, demigods!

ADHD thought.

So, Mr. D’s sacred animal is the leopard. That means he can communicate with them, right? If he could keep a leopard from mauling or eating me, I would 100% pet it.

[ingravinoveritas]

I've been seeing posts about some replies from AL on Twitter tonight, and wanted to share some of my thoughts. For those who might've missed it, Anna replied to the below thread--not once, but twice--despite not being tagged or mentioned anywhere in it:

The fanart above is based on an Ineffable Husbands AU fic that is currently published on AO3 and has nothing to do with Michael other than using his face for the character, which makes AL randomly leaving those inane comments an obvious bid for attention, as she would've had to be stalking fan accounts to find that tweet. To make matters worse, however, someone in the comments on one of the replies sent her a link to the fanfic in question. Particularly egregious is the fact that the person who sent the link was not the author, and the author is now (quite understandably) pissed off and upset about this.

I know there have been multiple discussions about this in the past, but apparently it needs to be repeated: It is absolutely NOT acceptable to send fanfic to creators/creator-barely-adjacent people, especially without the author's knowledge or permission.

Yes, we know Michael enjoys GO fanfic. Yes, we know he has read and likely written GO fanfic and probably RPF. That still does not make it okay to send him fics--at all, for any reason, but most significantly because if anyone knows where/how to find fics if he wants to read them, it's Michael. Also worth noting is that Anna is not Michael. Anna could dislike or be entirely disgusted by GO fanfic or AUs...in which case she could have commented on the photo edit as a way of making fun of it, thereby potentially setting the creator up for ridicule and/or harassment.

It's also distressing to see people in the comments on Twitter encouraging this behavior/cheering AL on while seemingly not caring one jot about the actual creator's feelings (especially when I know that several of the comments are fan artists themselves). I had honestly thought fans knew better than that by now, but it seems not, and to say that all of this is infuriating is an understatement...

EDIT: It's been brought to my attention that it was the person who created the Professor Fell AU/made the photo edits who was upset at Anna's comments, not the fic author (who linked their own fic, rather than someone else's). My apologies for any confusion...

[fizzyykittyy]

solangelo angst is not for the weak

[goldensunset]

actually it’s this one

[stray-the-therian]

Why do some people name their therioside? It honestly makes no sense to me, because my theriotypes are... Me? Literally just me. If it's not its own entity, why would I give it a name?

I'm genuinely confused.

[whysatoru]

Okay I can't contain myself and have to rant this out.

Ever since Kalki 2898 A.D. came out, YouTube is full of content where Arjuna is being made fun of by supposed 'Krishna Bhakts'. There is also many claims that say that Krishna appreciated and LOVED Karna more than Arjuna. I have seen and also have been told quite a lot of times that Arjuna is a narcissist who couldn't back up his talk with suitable feats.

And all I have to say is HAVE YOU EVER READ THE MAHABHARATA?!! Because if you had read the Mahabharata, you would KNOW that Arjuna was anything but a narcissist. And when they say that Krishna loved Karna MORE than Arjuna, I just want to close my eyes and pray to Madhav for them. I guess their brains have been filled by baseless propaganda from serials like Suryaputra Karna. That is the only way someone can make such claims because if they had read the Mahabharata, I'm sure they would find more than enough instances where Krishna quite bluntly proclaims that no one is dearer to Him than Arjuna. He quite literally says, "My wives, my kinsmen, my relatives, none amongst these is dearer to me than Arjuna. O Daruka, I shall not be able to cast my eyes, even for a single moment, on the earth bereft of Arjuna." Need you anymore proof because there is alot more. Krishna also says to Arjuna, "You are mine and I am yours. All that is mine is yours too. He who hates you also hates me. He who follows you also follows me. O invincible one! You are Nara and I am Hari Narayana. We are the rishis Nara and Narayana, born from that world in this world. O Partha! O descendant of the Bharata lineage! You are no other than I. I am no other than you. O bull among the Bharata lineage! No one can know any difference that exists between us".

So really what proof do these people have to back up what they say? I really want to know because it certainly is not from the Mahabharata. Arjuna as said by many many gods and others alike is the reincarnation of Nara and thus he and Krishna, who is Narayana, are inseparable, Soul mates. So why demean Arjuna? If you want to like Karna, fine like him there is nothing wrong with it but you should not sprout nonsense just to uplift him to a higher pedestal.

In the end I can only say to go read the Mahabharata if you want to do discourse on its characters. Don't yap at others blindly with 'knowledge' from T.V. serials. They are filled with propaganda.

P.S.: This entire rant is here just because I'm VERY disappointed in Kalki 2898 A.D. I was quite excited to watch the movie at first but I didn't like how they glorify Karna. And the reincarnation of Karna was quite out of place in my opinion. It doesn't really make sense. Like why Karna? It's not like he had any true purpose in the movie other than fan service. And oh boy do Karna fans like him. I have nothing against Prabhas but it just doesn't sit well with me but eh. You have your opinions and I have mine. All I liked in the movie was the theme of Kalki (not the hindi version though, it sounds weird in comparison to the Telugu and Tamil versions) and how they incorporated several races and people from different religious backgrounds in the movie. Makes the world feel bigger.

Anyways, that's all I have to say folks.

Hare Krishna!

[dizzy1ife]

Attention everyone:

If I sat down and set my cane against something, and my cane is in your way, please just ask me to move it.

DON'T JUST MOVE IT ALL THE WAY TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM.

And if, as you are moving it all the way to the other side of the room, I'm saying, "Hey, wait. I need that!" maybe don't continue to bring it to the other side of the room, make a joke or two about me crawling across the room to my cane, laugh, and wait until your done doing whatever you were doing to give it back to me.

You could just, I don't know, GIVE MY CANE WHEN I ASK FOR IT BACK.

You are asking, nay begging, to get a good whack over the head from my cane.

[tea-blankets-andstars]

Keep your fucking jegulus and Jegulily mental illness out of the Jily tag. People who actually understand the characters don’t want to see your fascist sympathising lunacy. The Jily tag is for Jily and Jily ONLY. No death eaters

i wasn't going to respond to this but

1. if you dont want to see it juat scroll past it instead. you dont have to read it and you dont have to like it but DONT go to the persons account and tell them that they cant do something because YOU dont like it

2. the reason i put jily/ jegulus in the tag is because sometimes as a multi-shipper i like to be able to see relating ships in the tag

3. i feel like you are being way to harsh but thats your own opinion. if you like jily thats great i have nothing against them but if you go out of your way to hate on other ships then maybe im not the crazy one.

4. if you have nothing nice to say dont say anything at all its really not that hard

(no hate to jily at all! i just thought that this was something that needed to be shared) 

[denimnan]

when you were not here

i kept yearning for you

but now that you are back

i have no feelings

for i did not know

you were full of lies

now i wish you never came back

for i don’t even know

who you truly are

the memories we had

all turning to dust

for they were build on lies

you hurt me badly

left me more broken

then when you left

- N.R.K.

[prttykitty87]

Yesssss!!!!! 😣😣

[d-lanx]

Edit: Ok so @kyuoki found the link to the original work by an artist called MiDooMoo on devintart. You can check it out here.

[ingravinoveritas]

Just saw a post as well as a thread on Twitter about an incident that occurred at the stage door of Nye tonight and I am so sad and sickened to hear about this "fan's" behavior, both toward Michael and toward other fans. I've done many stage doors in the past (the most recent was going to see Ink on Broadway just before the pandemic) and seen a lot of entitled/unruly behavior from fans, but this woman and her mother barging into the bar, demanding a meet and greet, and then coming out and being horrific to other fans really takes the cake.

Michael works his ass off for endless hours to put on an amazing show every day/night. He gives 110% to every line, every step, every note in that musical number. Nye is a physically demanding play/role, and to get a show of that caliber from someone who is a master of his craft is more than anyone could ask for. Stage door--as lovely as it is, as fun as it can be--is not something he is required to do, especially when he's already feeling exhausted or under the weather. One thing the last several months have made clear is that Michael loves meeting fans--taking pictures, giving hugs, signing stuff, and just connecting with people. But the fact that this is not even the first time we've heard about fans going into the bar to bug him should be more than enough to give us all pause.

No one is entitled to Michael's time or attention. This particularly reminds me of an incident on Twitter a few years ago where one fan and their friends would not stop tagging Michael and demanding that he say something they wanted him to say. He'd been so incredibly giving and generous of his time with fans up until that point...and yet the second he drew a boundary, that fan and some others turned on him. Amazingly, that alone didn't put him off of engaging with the fandom entirely, but I have been in enough fandoms in my life to know that it is exactly behavior like this that will ruin things for everyone.

It also seems that Michael did come out following this incident tonight but had to leave, and he actually apologized to the nice fans who were still waiting (while apparently looking visibly upset himself). I know he apologized once before as well after a different fan went into the bar to get him, but we're beyond absurdity at this point. That Michael feels compelled to apologize for something that was not even his fault and especially after what that fan did absolutely breaks my heart, and is something that just should not be happening.

The run of Nye at the NT is nearly over, and I hope this won't put him off of doing stage door in the future (either for the remainder of this run or when it transfers to Cardiff), but I honestly would not blame him one bit if it did. What a loss it would be, though, both for the fans and for Michael...

[rjalker]

It's incredibly aggravating for people to find out I'm nonbinary and go,

"Oh! You're so lucky you had a wonderful supportive happy childhood where you were accepted by your family and society around you and got to explore your identity without being surrounded by hatred and abuse. Most of us weren't that lucky."

Like.

Excuse me?

What?????

Why the fuck have you made up a whole entire fake happy backstory for me based solely on the fact that I identify as nonbinary???? You literally know nothing about me accept my pronouns!!!

[best-of-theworst]

Please, I'm begging you.

Stop. Licking. Your. Fingers. Before. Turning. Pages.

This is a PSA. Please it's so gross... why... why are you putting your saliva on my drawings...

[i-need-coffee1573]

You know I think it's weird. The fact that it's weird to talk about people's genitals unless they're trans. Suddenly once you come out that you're transgender everyone's all like "oh what's in your pants".