#written in 1993

[theorahsart]

Fellow autistic ppl- do you ever hyper fixate over smth really, really niche, and then find your brain is just like super tired because there is very little outlet for the niche thing you're super into and you can't really talk about it with anyone?

I much prefer when I'm hyper fixating over smth everyone knows about so I can talk about it more and just literally get it outside of my head haha

[void-sand-cat]

Screw continuing the timeline into the future or expanding on the start of the franchise, I want Steel Wool to elaborate on what happened between FNaF 1 & 3.

We have a 23 – 30 year gap where we have NO IDEA what happens. Fazbear still exists and is doing alright; Pizza Sim & everything after doesn't function without that being true, as Henry dissolves the company, but it was still profitable for someone to bring it back.

Serously, what was happening with Freddy's between 1993/1992 and 2015/2017/2023? (We don't even know how long the time period is. We have been given nothing)

SL might be in that time period, but it's not like we have any confirmation on that. And SL is the only thing we even have the possibility of existing.

I don't want anything big, just a line somewhere mentioning what the company is doing. Even something like "Fazbear started franchising in 20XX, and a few new locations opened up — most closed in a few years. Rarely you hear rumors of nightguards disappearing, but no one believes any of them"

Boom! Now we got SOMETHING. Nightguards kept dying, and Fazbear kept making enough money to exist, but not a whole lot. We even have a reason why Fazbear Fright opened — Fazbear Entertainment was trying to dispel rumors about the nightguard position being dangerous/exploit those rumors for money (and a reason for the FNaF 3 nightguard to be part of the attraction)

Optimally, we would get more than that — I know a lot of us would LOVE to know what Henry was up to in those 23 – 30 years, or even a mention of Mike's existence beyond 1 monolog — but anything is better than the complete silence we have now.

Please, Steelwool, although the beginning and the future of Freddy's are fascinating, there's a massive gap in the middle of the timeline that we know NOTHING about.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

ℜ𝔞𝔩𝔭𝔥 𝔉𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔫𝔢𝔰 𝔞𝔰 𝔄𝔪𝔬𝔫 𝔊𝔬𝔢𝔱𝔥 𝔬𝔫 𝔖𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔩𝔢𝔯'𝔰 𝔏𝔦𝔰𝔱, 𝔖𝔱𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔫 𝔖𝔭𝔦𝔢𝔩𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔤, յգգՅ

𝔖𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔩𝔢𝔯'𝔰 𝔏𝔦𝔰𝔱 𝔦𝔰 𝔞 յգգՅ 𝔄𝔪𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔢𝔭𝔦𝔠 𝔥𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔩 𝔡𝔯𝔞𝔪𝔞 𝔣𝔦𝔩𝔪 𝔡𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔡𝔲𝔠𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 𝔖𝔱𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔫 𝔖𝔭𝔦𝔢𝔩𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔤 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔴𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔫 𝔟𝔶 𝔖𝔱𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔫 ℨ𝔞𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔦𝔞𝔫.

[whatudottu]

Bestie I have got to tell you Mal TD totally listens to the Shadow the Hedgehog OST, and depending on the Total Drama timeline it would literally be perfect timing like- you can’t tell me this edgy teen nerd didn’t see a Sonic character with a gun and DIDN’T think it was cool, come on!

[isfjmel-phleg]

One more paragraph to go! I realized that I had put into the first paragraph information that made more sense later on, so shifting things around got some thoughts moving and rekindled my desire to fistfight some of these authors of retellings, which I think is where you're supposed to be emotionally as an academic (this is a joke. I am joking.), so...progress. Very slowly.

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

Written by Russ Ballard

[a-local-fool]

10/25/23: Dangerous

This place is best shunned and left uninhabited

[silelda]

"I have never understood the power this inanimate object wields. When the phone rings, I instantly go into a stance of defense or attack. "

Peggy Ramundo, "You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!"

[roseworth]

so obviously you complained a lot about fanon tim... but what are your honest thoughts about canon tim?

lol

listen. i see the appeal in canon tim. i can understand why other people like him.

but he has not grabbed my attention in a single thing ive read him in :/ every time hes in some thing to me hes just kind of there? i have a problem with him when the story tries to paint him as the coolest and smartest guy ever because thats just. ugh. like td:r is leaning HARD into "smart robin" and it feels like every page is a blinking neon sign saying "LOOK AT HOW SMART HE IS!!!!" instead of him just being smart and im like.... ok? i don't care ? it feels like everything hes in is telling me that hes interesting instead of making him interesting

and honestly the annoyance at him being treated like the Greatest Boy Ever in some books has just bled into me being annoyed every time he shows up bc the narrative wants to be like "wow look at tim hes so cool :)" so its gotten to the point that i roll my eyes whenever hes there fjkdhfahhkfad

also i understand it was just an editorial decision to make tim robin again but jfc that reflects so badly on tim to me :/ just seeing him with his robin run and the whole "step aside damian! the worlds favorite robin is back!!" annoyed me so much that i cant even think about tim as robin without him pissing me off. like girl move on! the fact that dc acts like damian is a terrible robin while tim is the greatest robin to ever grace the earth makes me so mad

plus. the whole "batman needs a robin" thing from his origin is very dumb to me and.. again i know this is a thing to look at from a doylist perspective but just from a watsonian perspective its so annoying that he saw bruce grieving and said "hm... well clearly this is because he needs someone to be robin!" also theres a part in lonely place of dying where like. i understand that the book had to go over dicks origin to talk about how it relates to tim, but he just shows up, makes dick relive his parents' deaths, then talks about how badly it affected himself instead of dick fkjsdhfajsdfakj

so. no i do not like canon tim.

[desperatecheesecubes]

How quickly Bruce becomes physically violent (even against his loved ones) when someone he loves is in peril will never stop being fascinating to me.

[ufonaut]

Together, we walk into hell.

Hawkman (1993) #15

[maverickcalf]

Crossover fic of The Firm (1993) and Tropic Thunder (2008)

The ship is Rob Slolom/Mitch McDeere. AU.

[sscarletvenus]

this pride, i learnt about the Palestinian trans woman Oscar Al-Halabiye, dancer and resistance fighter against the israeli occupation in Southern Lebanon. she named herself Oscar after Lady Oscar from the "The Rose of Versailles", a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Riyoko Ikeda.

her story is documented in Cinema Fouad(1993). zionists use pink washing to reinforce their genocidal terrorist narrative when queer Palestinians have been fighting against the occupation since the very beginning. you can watch it here with english subtitles. long live the intifada!

[azuremist]

“Unfinished Painting” — Keith Haring

This painting was left intentionally incomplete. Haring began it when he was dying due to complications from AIDS, and knew he didn’t have much time left. The piece represents the incomplete lives of him and many others, lost to AIDS during the crisis.

“AIDS Memorial Quilt” — Multiple

This quilt is over 50 tons heavy, and one of, if not the, largest pieces of community folk art. Many people who died of AIDS did not receive funerals, due to social stigma and many funeral homes refusing to handle the deceased’s remains, so this was one of the only ways their lives could be celebrated. Each panel was created in recognition of someone who died due to AIDS, typically by that person’s loved ones.

“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) — Felix Gonzalez-Torres

This pile of candy weighs the same amount as Gonzalez-Torres’ partner, Ross Laycock, did. Ross Laycock had died due to AIDS-related complications earlier that same year. Visitors who see this piece are encouraged to take some of the candy. As they do so, the pile of candy weighs less and less, like how AIDS had deteriorated the body of Ross Laycock.

The SF Gay Men's Chorus

This photo was taken in 1993. The men in white are the surviving original members. Every man in black is standing in for an original member who lost their lives to AIDS.

“Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers); Only Unclaimed Item from the Stephen Earabino Estate, 1997” — John Boskovich

After the death of his lover, Stephen Earabino, from AIDS, Boskovich discovered that his family had completely cleared his room, including Boskovich’s own possessions, save for this fan. An entire person, existence and relationship had been erased, just like so many lives during the AIDS crisis. Boskovich encased the fan in Plexiglass, but added cutouts so that its air may be felt by the viewer, almost like an exhalation. In a sense, restoring Earabino’s breath.

“Blue” — Derek Jarman

This was Jarman’s final feature film, released four months before his death from AIDS-related complications. These complications had left him visually impaired, able to only see in shades of blue. This film consists of a single shot of a saturated blue color, as the soundtrack to the film described Jarman’s life through narration, intercut with the adventures of Blue, a humanization of the color blue. The film's final moments consist of a set of repeated names: “John. Daniel. Howard. Graham. Terry. Paul". These are the names of former lovers and friends of Jarman who had died due to AIDS.

“Untitled” (Perfect Lovers) — Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Created by the same man who created the previous untitled piece, this piece was also inspired by his lover’s deterioration and death due to AIDS. This piece consists of two perfectly alike clocks. Over the course of time, one of the clocks will fall out of sync with the other.

In a letter written to his lover about the piece, before his lover’s passing, Gonzalez-Tourres wrote, “Don't be afraid of the clocks, they are our time, the time has been so generous to us. We imprinted time with the sweet taste of victory. We conquered fate by meeting at a certain time in a certain space. We are a product of the time, therefore we give back credit were it is due: time. We are synchronized, now forever. I love you.”

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[doyoulikethissong-poll]

The Cranberries - Zombie 1994

"Zombie" is a protest song by Irish alternative rockband the Cranberries. It was written by the lead singer, Dolores O'Riordan, about the young victims of a bombing in Warrington, England, during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The song was released on 19 September 1994 as the lead single from the Cranberries' second studio album, No Need to Argue. While the record label feared releasing a too controversial and politically charged song as a single, "Zombie" reached number 1 on the charts of Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and Iceland, and spent nine consecutive weeks at number 1 on the French SNEP Top 100. It reached number 2 on the Ö3 Austria Top 40, where it stayed for eight weeks. The song did not chart on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart as it wasn't released as a single there, but it reached number 1 on the US Billboard Alternative Airplay chart. Listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J voted it number 1 on the 1994 Triple J Hottest 100 chart, and it won the Best Song Award at the 1995 MTV Europe Music Awards.

The Troubles were a conflict in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s to 1998. The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), an Irish republican paramilitary organisation, waged an armed campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland and unite the region with the Republic of Ireland. Republican and Unionist paramilitaries killed more than 3,500 people, many from thousands of bomb attacks. One of the bombings happened on 30 March 1993, as two IRA improvised explosive devices hidden in litter bins were detonated in a shopping street in Warrington, England. Two people; Johnathan Ball, aged 3, and Tim Parry, aged 12, were killed in the attack. 56 people were injured. Ball died at the scene of the bombing as a result of his shrapnel-inflicted injuries, and five days later, Parry lost his life in a hospital as a result of head injuries. O'Riordan decided to write a song that reflected upon the event and the children's deaths after visiting the town: "We were on a tour bus and I was near the location where it happened, so it really struck me hard – I remember being devastated about the innocent children being pulled into that kind of thing. So I suppose that's why I was saying, 'It's not me' – that even though I'm Irish it wasn't me, I didn't do it. Because being Irish, it was quite hard, especially in the UK when there was so much tension." The song was re-popularised in 2023 after it was played after Ireland games at the 2023 Rugby World Cup. It was picked up by fans of the Irish team, with videos of fans singing the song in chorus accumulating hundreds of thousands of views on social media. This offended other Irishmen, who identified it as an "anti-IRA" anthem, and said that that the lyrics failed to consider their experience during the Troubles.

The music video, directed by Samuel Bayer, was filmed in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the heart of the Troubles with real footage, and in Dublin. To record video footage of murals, children and British Army soldiers on patrol, he had a false pretext, with a cover story about making a documentary about the peace-keeping efforts in Ireland. Bayer stated that a shot in the video where an SA80 rifle is pointed directly at the camera is a suspicious British soldier asking him to leave, and that the IRA were keeping a close look at the shoot, given "the British Army come in with fake film crews, getting people on camera.” While "Zombie" received heavy rotation on MTV Europe and was A-listed on Germany's VIVA, the music video was banned by the BBC because of its "violent images", and by the RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster. Instead, both the BBC and the RTÉ opted to broadcast an edited version focusing on footage of the band in a live performance, a version that the Cranberries essentially disowned. Despite their efforts to maintain the original video "out of view from the public", some of the initial footage prevailed, with scenes of children holding guns. In March 2003, on the eve of the outbreak of the Iraq War, the British Government and the Independent Television Commission issued a statement saying ITC's Programme Code would temporarily remove from broadcast songs and music videos featuring "sensitive material", including "Zombie". Numerous media groups complied with the decision to avoid "offending public feeling", along with MTV Europe. Since it violated the ITC guidelines, "Zombie" was placed on a blacklist of songs, targeting its official music video. The censorship was lifted once the war had ended. In April 2020, it became the first song by an Irish group to surpass one billion views on Youtube.

"Zombie" received a total of 91% yes votes!