#youtube delusions of grandeur

[husk-says-no]

Husk Hot Take:

Y'know, the 'youtube gig' phenomenon is a whole circus. These people get a little taste of internet fame, and suddenly they think they’re Broadway-level performers. Like, buddy, you went viral for ranking the best cereal mascots. Why are you now on stage doing a one-man interpretive dance about the rise and fall of Frosted Flakes?

Or when they "tour" and try to turn their channel’s inside jokes into a full production. A 90-minute live show where they slap a pie in their friend’s face for the sixth time? Groundbreaking. Then they charge $80 for VIP tickets so you can take a blurry selfie with someone who still hasn’t figured out how to light their videos properly. Absolute scam.

And the cringe levels? Through the roof. You can tell half the audience only came because their 13-year-old cousin begged for tickets. Meanwhile, you’re sitting there wondering if humanity peaked when YouTubers just stuck to poorly lit Let’s Plays and called it a day.

[darcyolsson]

panic at the discos three viciously different songwriting formations have accidentally created this really interesting thing in their discography where if youre familiar enough w the band you can easily tell who wrote which songs within the first 30 seconds

[legendarybeautyprotibalarina]

i could be one of those vocaloid producers that makes songs about like death and shit and they sound like penis music

[trexalicious]

'Bellendgame' Another brilliant one from the Royal Rogue...🤣

[jup1tersparx]

hhhhhh

[tinajaxen]

A stroll down the same of the same,

the same city path I used to know.

These are the unwritten fantasies

even in my always woods

about myself and my view.

I think I stand with myself this time

as if I’m not always like that,

I love the know and the first go!

I don’t go to the sky with their settled ways.

I want it up and away, papers flying,

little cut out hearts like back in the day.

To the aesthetic I am but still yearn for,

gathering tears of jealousy from the outside,

six or seven years of superiority!

Longer, I love my flying know!

They ask of simple things and

I am all alone with a wild mind.

Whoops! I keep perfecting a stroll,

down the same and of course

I am in awe of getting to

love to live with my own skin.

[nervous-breakdance-studios]

FOB's BLOOM concept has always intrigued me in ways I don't totally understand but will word vomit about, it just feels so out of the box for them but also feels like it could've gone so much farther. the way Pete talks about it just gets me, the chase of trying to capture that lighting in a bottle, he calls it experiential, "creating a memory you can live inside". Having a memory so intense it leaves a texture, making the intangible tangible. He also talks about pop culture and all its exports in art, dialogue, identity, and how that shapes people and can empower them.

It makes sense how a tour concept springs forth from this idea, it's probably the number one place where you can "live in the moment" and engage with art directly as it's created.

In my fantasy alternate universe world though this is basically fall out boy's ARTPOP and they release a crazy ass experimental album along side it. I can literally hear it in my head right now. Definitely a sister to MANIA but with more of an edge and electronica. Definitely some 80s synth influences as well.

Alas,

[barblaz-arts]

I've come back to drop some Next Gen Nevermore lore, this time about Sora and Regine's parents 💕

Yukiko Toriyama

Because of my love for parallels, she's a doctor to match the adult characters in the show (Principal - Weems/Bianca; Sheriff - Galpin/Walker). She's a surgeon though, not a therapist like Kinbott, but still a doctor!

Yukiko's around Wednesday and co's age, so she was also in Jericho High when they were in Nevermore. She has a huge respect for Outcasts, thinking that they are very cool. In fact, she thought this one siren girl that she first saw during Outreach Day was especially cool. Soon she will find out that her name is Bianca Barclay and that her classmate Lucas Walker will end up dating her.

She met Sora's father some time after graduating from high school. She fell for his confidence, and was especially impressed that he was an Outcast. Unfortunately she realized too late that he's all talk. When she got pregnant with Sora, his rich parents essentially sent her hush money, which she accepted and used to pay for med school. Sora's grandparents helped raise her while Yukiko finished her studies, so she wasn't as present as she probably should have been during Sora's childhood. She tries her best though, really.

Hugo Schuyler

Sora's father. He came from a rich and reputable family of psychics that specialize in spirits, also known as Herons. Because of his family's reputation, he developed a huge ego and has delusions of grandeur.

He's a glutton for attention, a trait that Sora unfortunately inherited as she also always makes an effort to fit in with "the popular crowd" among her peers. However unlike Sora who is ashamed of her outcast status and prefers to hide her power, Hugo has a superiority complex and overcompensates for his weak psychic abilities by being obnoxiously loud about his outcast status and his family's name.

He ends up starting a YouTube channel as a paranormal investigator after Nevermore. When he finds out he has a daughter, he's quick to head over to Nevermore and rope Sora into his paranormal shenanigans. No, it doesn't end up being a cute father-daughter bonding activity.

He sees both Wednesday and Enid as rivals. Wednesday for her formidable psychic powers (and reputation!), Enid for, well, her more successful YouTube channel(which isn't even hers, it's the Wolf Preserve's). Wednesday does not remember him from their high school days though, and Enid purposely mixes him up with Xavier when addressing him.

Vega hates him because he thinks aliens don't exist.

Erica Gutierrez

(I don't have her design and personality fully conceptualized yet, sorry)

Erica is Eugene's ex-wife and is a famous actress who started out when she was a teenager. She used to be a celebrity crush of Eugene's when he was in Nevermore, and dating and marrying her was a dream come true that sadly didn't last.

Erica makes an effort to see Regine when she can, and she usually has her daughter stay with her throughout the summer. Her fame comes with its own cons, particularly the excessive attention she(and by extension her family) gets hugely contributing to Regine's overly reclusive personality.

Erica had nothing to do with Outcasts before meeting Eugene and is every bit of a Normie. She and Wednesday never liked each other. She gets along well with Enid because she thinks Enid is normal enough when she isn't wolfed out. Enid likes her for getting her Michelle Yeoh's autograph and a video message as a birthday gift once. (Wednesday hates that Eugene's ex wife of all people showed her up that year)

None of the Nevermore student knew Regine's mother was a celebrity until Erica decided to give her daughter a surprise visit during Family Day(coincidentally the same day Hugo goes to meet Sora. It was a long weekend for the girls)

(masterpost for my AUs here)

EDIT: I ALMOST FORGOT!

Partial credit to @whitebeltwriter for coming up with Yukiko's background with me. I no longer remember which parts were my idea and which is hers, but pls know that it was a collaborative effort

[ckret2]

If Goldie was a normal human, unrelated to bill, would bill want to hit that

Well, she'd have the prettiest eyes he's ever seen on a human, she's got that going for her—right up there with some of the sexiest frogs on Earth—but aside from that, the rest of her body is just human. And unless they're fascinatingly mutated, all humans are about a 5.5/10 on looks for him. Like, the whole species. Uniformly. So her looks don't really make a difference. The frog eyes knock her up to a 6/10 but having a 0.5 point lead on the entire rest of humanity isn't really that much help.

The answer rides entirely on personality.

By "normal human" do you mean normal human? As in lives a Regular Human Life has some random generic Regular Human Personality, with normal human traits and behaviors like "participates in capitalism by having a job" and "goes on dates in the hopes of finding romance" and "remembers that Thanksgiving exists" and "thinks wearing makeup has any actual impact on her appearance even though she looks just as human with or without it" and "doesn't have any delusions of grandeur"?

If that's the case, then whether or not he'd want to hit it comes down to this: has she been recruited into one of his cults? Does she literally worship him? If the answer is yes, then yeah, he'd want to hit that, because he's got the world's most grandiose praise kink.

On the other hand, by "normal human" do you mean born and raised on earth like any other human—and yet, for whatever nature/nurture reason you want to imagine, still ended up with the exact same personality, opinions, and beliefs as Bill?

Because if you mean THAT, then Bill would go "that human's a FREAK! Down to party, up for chaos, and has all the right political opinions! How can somebody be SO social and yet SO misanthropic at the same time? I LOVE it! And talk about your secretly insecure egomaniacs, wow, this little lunatic is desperate for fame and popularity, I could get her to do anything if I promised she'd be famous for it. Most pathetically manipulable human I've ever seen, she's an even easier target than Ford. Bang her, hench her, get her to build a portal, invite her to the party, bang her again while we're both too high to feel our faces. Bam. She'll have me on earth in half a year and if I offer her a minor demigodhood I won't even need to lie to her about what it's for, she'd probably let her own dimension burn in exchange for three days of youtube viral fame"

And he would NOT have the self-awareness necessary to realize how viciously he just dragged himself

[luna-andra]

Domesticated!König Headcanons ✨

Image: @Jispooks (Source)

Some HCS I thought up of for funsies, take it with a grain of salt if you disagree with any of it. And let me know what you would think differently! If this gets any love, I have a couple of more headcanon ideas to post as well, so please support my delusions of grandeur!

Part 2 is out! StepDad!Konig

Adjusting to civilian lifestyle for König proved to be challenging. Thankfully, he had you to help him along the way.

If you're not from Austria, König will compromise with spending summers in Vienna in the vacation home and live full-time with you in your home county (or wherever the hell you decide to choose. As long as he's not a convicted war criminal there.)

König tends to keep his PTSD episodes in check for the most part, except when he has a few drinks. He opts to sleep in the guest room after scaring you one night from the terrors. The years away from his past life helps them fade, but he will always carry that shit with him.

You help him job hunt. Blue-collar work was for him, the less human interaction, the better.

With that being said, König insists on DIY-ing every problem in the house. He tried figuring it out with his own basic knowledge, but became unstoppable when you introduced him to the DIY side if YouTube. Some projects had him at his wits end, and when you hear him cuss up a storm in German, you have to hold your laughter back until you're out of earshot.

The grocery bill. That's all I gotta say.

Add a couple more bills on it if you got a kid(s).

Most days, König is careful with not trekking mud in from the job site, leaving his boots in the garage/on the front porch. If it slips his mind, you know he's tired. It took a couple of scoldings to figure it out, but he does his best to make it up to you.

König had been okay with living where you wanted to, but he doubled down on living somewhere secluded, or at least outside of the city. Meaning longer drives/day trips if you wanted to shop at outlets. Totally fine, you talk his ear off during the drive to catch up on what he's missed out on during his long week of work.

Tons of nature hikes. If you weren't used to the outdoors, König would get you shaped up. He was so damn proud of you when you stopped relying on GPS and used maps/surroundings/cardinal directions, etc.

Dog or cat family, but I also see him being a reptile dad, too.

WANTS KIDS. THE MORE, THE BETTER. He wants to age and be surrounded by his kids & grandkids every holiday.

When you would go out on dates/shopping trips, there was no avoiding the double takes and stares. You man was giant, it wasn't something he could help. It would grind on his nerves when it came from grown ass adults, but he had a soft spot for children. They didn't know better, so he'd flash a friendly smile or wave so they're not afraid. Those moments would bring back the baby fever for him.

Nothing made König more happy than coming back home to the home you two have made after an adventurous day, watching you saunter happily to the kitchen to grab drinks and snacks to settle down into the plush couch next to him to watch some movies. Your choice, always. And if that baby fever was raging, he would toss you over his shoulder to settle that urge in the bedroom 😏

If this does well, I'll consider posting some other headcanons I have been thinking of! Likes & reblogs are always appreciated <3

[horizon-verizon]

The showrunners just continue to steal from TV Daenerys’s characterization and final storyline to improve their Rhaenyra (a self righteous Targaryen woman with delusions of grandeur ? Groundbreaking), but she remains completely boring and forgettable. Dust in the wind.

And even though TV Daenerys is radically and entirely different from her book counterpart (as much as I love Emilia Clarke), TV Daenerys’ daddy didn’t tell her she’s special, unlike Rhaenyra, Daenerys realized she’s special when she brought back dragons from extinction and walked out of fire utterly unharmed, please can people stop compare her to any of the mid characters from HOTD ??

Speak it again, anon, bc what?! It's quite obvious that they are trying to inject as much a literal magic layer of significance in Rhaenyra's story as magic was in Dany's Or they are trying to make Rhaenyra more "important" in the Targ lineage & "interesting" to those who loved Dany (which is most of the fandom, lets' bfr) to promote the show. And yet at every turn they have also excused D&D's atrocious illogical writing of Daenerys' core traits and convictions behind the ol' "GRRM has not finished his series".

We know that there are only 2 books left of this series and Dany is still very NOT like her show counterpart's more...demanding isn't the right word but for now, we'll go with it. Based on this fact alone, people are so much more willing to believe that Dany will turn a 180 somewhere in these last 2 bks and destroy KL or do something akin to Mad!Aerys "bc Targs are crazy and she seeks to be a white savior while profiting from slaves". That this extreme turn for her will not happen for someone like Jon Snow who literally came back from the dead after nearly all under his command killed him. That they don't feel it rather be Cersei, not Dany, who'd blow up KL despite all the comparisons and actions she has similar to Aerys in the text, word for word verbatim. No it has to be Dany, bec she is a "foreign invader" come to ruin the good town of Westeros with her slave-owning ways.

Ryan Condal recently said as much about the D&D defense on BigThink:

Besides, there were a lot other instances where it's clear the real reason why they demolished her was to move on from the project and they just didn't like Dany. Go on over to ozymalek/PhoenixAshes' Youtube and search through to see how they broke it all down.

And yes, Dany actually showed/has very good reason to believe her singularity and even this pseudo-religious quality from her revitalizing dragons, effectively patching up a lot of the magical balance of the world by doing so.

What's also pretty cool is that bk!her still doesn't think of herself as a "god" the way Euron Greyjoy is kinda heading towards/is already at.

So it's so fucking weird how they are trying to re-capitalize on Dany's effect and show!character (and before that, her nonviolenet ADwD arc about the pits) for their false version of Rhaenyra bc apparently we can tolerate and even like ambitious, vengeful, cruel, or just selfish men like Euron, Robert B, Robb (not evil, but went to war for his own ends and his armies also raped indiscriminately), TYWIN [Rains of Castamere, everything else], etc. BUT a woman who has even just the mere self-concern to want to claim back a throne that was DEFINITIVELY usurped?! Nah, apparently, that's too much. She's unsympatheziable.

For a woman, she HAS to be "unselfish", trying to prove a point to men--dead or alive--of her strength 24/7, but unable to settle with an idea of her own "strength" or worthiness, and thus eventually be lead into semi-unintentionally building some strange "cult" around dragons from Westerosi religiosity to feel in control & for people to sympathize with her. She HAS to--as one Twitter user said--have a problem with her gender identity so as to attribute "womanly" stuff as "weak" to want the same things as what a man are granted.

If the audience is stupid, does that mean you should be as well and perpetuate MORE sexist stereotypes/frameworks? No; HotD is for the money and comes form a place of ignorant "women guide violent men" narrative, no matter much it claims it is "feminist" or how lore-knowledgeable Condal says he is.

We all know this is a media company and Condal is more businessman than creator and that you need sorta both a business/production sense as well as a creative spirit for TV/film. Problem is that Condal is inevitably and attempting to build an ethos and ethical narrative while also treating the org stories and GoT as material to re-market through his own "vision" of what he'd personally like to see as a ASoIaF story.

Just bc this is a huge media company doesn't mean whatever they say is "God" for the actual story they were tasked to adapt! You can enjoy that and still recognize nothing about it or most of it informs the orig story or "proves" anything of it WITHOUT bringing up good reasoning and comparisons as to how-why!

Much of the characterization/writing/plot decisions he makes are not about feminism or making the characters palatable for others but to--like with a lot of censorship--just make it so that as many people as possible are watching and are comfortable with the most popular but incorrect ideas of what ASoIaF & feminism or sexism is about, etc.. those of which have already been in fandom and larger life/online circulation for YEARS.

Therefore, there is much superficiality as well as what could have been fleshed out and nuanced ideas or directions the current writing HotD has AS WELL AS Condal's/Hess' own biases written into the very fabric of this show that mark it as just ASoIaF "fanfiction" instead of a strict "adaptation". I know people get annoyed with the fanfic allegations, but if you have an "adaptation" that no longer has most-to-any of the core ideas, themes, characterizations, EVENTS, etc. as its original, you call that a fanfic, not an adaptation. Just bc it came from a prestige major studio/company and had a lot of money thrown at it, doesn't make it actually an adaptation.

If the author themselves--even though they should know better bc look what happened with Dany, Euron, Cersei-Jaime, etc.--say something is egregiously wrong with how they written a certain thing in the show, it is not actually using the orig lore and therefore it is more fanfic than adaptation:

Dany--unlike any other Targ, which includes Rhaenyra--has a relationship with 3 separate dragons even though she will only ride one. Vermithor should NOT have been as "docile" with Rhaenyra as they were in the show (saw another clip online, still haven't watched the episode). There is still a reason why Jace tried to get her out TWICE, why Viserys was upset at Aemond for going down to the Dragonpit alone, why Rhaena nearly died trying to bond with some, , why Nettles approach and SUCCESS with Sheepstealer is so amazing, why Baelon bumping a dragon on the nose gave him the moniker "Baelon the Brave", etc. Dragons are damned dangerous to anyone who aren't their rider! And Rhaenyra's "specialness" was evident in the plethora and rise of dragon eggs....you want to show her as such? Have dialogue about the trajectory of dragon eggs laid compared to now vs 40/30/20/10 yrs ago!

Yes, most of the Targ women are connected and esp through magic and fertility & expressed "Targaryen woman's strength" and agency in unique but still related ways. But as rhaenin-time once said:

HotD thinks it's somehow an improvement to insist that actually, no, they're all just (by circumstance) variations of a "generic targ girl" template.

You could have even have Rhaenyra stumble on something a GoT character later finds but not have her go into that deep about it bc she's focused on the war/usurpation if you really want to stick with the whole oversimplified "distracted by selfish stuff" going on. Point is, Rhaenyra's significance was meager compared to Dany's SPECIFICALLY when we talk about active and participatory spiritutality/magic. Passively and more subtly, Rhaenyra dying spelled the end of dragons...so be subtle about it and stop with the whole "religious cult" nonsense that really is just a continuation of the whole Dany-is-a-facist nonsense we got in the final season of GoT. "Targ madness" and all that.

Of course they won't bc this is Condal's "vision", but hey, got things off my chest.

[anhttydbookfan]

the httyd books could totally have a Servant of the People AU. Tailoring it to the US system because that's the one i know best.

Hiccup is a tired scottish-american middle/high school biology teacher who got into a rant against the president's environmental policy, which eventually turned into a rant against his everything policy, the entirety of which has severe criminal allegations against "President Alvin" (one of the kids audibly whispers "he's on First Name Basis with the President?!" Another kid responds "he's on a First Name Basis with a Republican?" in the background) peppered throughout it. Youtube-user-with-delusions-of-grandeur-and-biology-teacher's-son XxX_ToothlessDaydream_XxX surreptitiously films and uploads this rant onto youtube, where it immediately goes viral and starts multiple online campaigns to write his name in the Republican Primaries "for the memes", and multiple parallel campaigns to write his name in the Democratic Primaries "to force the Democratic party to stop shooting themselves in the foot and actually nominate someone the People want."

The Iowa caucus happens, and it's about what you'd expect. Then the results for the New Hampshire Primaries come out and...

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third wins both of them. Super Tuesday comes along. Hiccup wins in every state. Both parties. Same in California, Same in Louisiana. Same in Alvin's home state of Florida. It's the highest turnout for presidential primaries in the nation's history it's the highest turnout for any election in the nation's history. All for this biology teacher brimming with righteous anger.

Hiccup doesn't know any of this. He was wrangling children all throughout Winter and Spring. He spent his summer on the bottom of the Pacific ocean discovering eight new kinds of sea snake, two new kinds of giant anglerfish, and a new species of whale. When he emerges, he finds that the school has put him on Paid Administrative Leave until the second monday in november. He uses this time to discover three new species of bird in the Darien Gap.

By the time he returns to the States, he's already the President-elect.

[ghostlyschizophrenic]

at some point i should unsubscribe to living well with schizophrenia/lauren kennedy west on youtube because i do not support her past year of doing medical keto and claiming she’s had a “100% eradication of symptoms.”

like don’t get me wrong, eating healthy and exercising regularly is helpful for any mental illness but that has a limit. i also will never say anyone HAS to take meds because it’s their bodily autonomy.

however, i feel it is very irresponsible to make videos about how to taper off your psych meds and promoting an incredibly strict diet that requires multiple health professionals, medical equipment, constant monitoring, and many other very involved aspects to an audience primarily of people on the schizophrenia spectrum as many of us have gone off our meds and been thrown into horrible psychosis, had delusions that we shouldn’t take our meds, and/or struggled with anosognosia (the inability to understand you’re ill)

my biggest concern is the regiment. like if people without psychosis struggle to keep using dandruff shampoo because they don’t have dandruff anymore (because of the shampoo) and stop using the shampoo and then the dandruff comes back, then we shouldn’t be promoting a community susceptible to not adhering to meds for one reason or another to go off meds AND then make their only option to be adhering to another harsh regiment. like antipsychotics can come in shots because of how many of us will stop taking pills every day and then spiral

i also worry about lauren personally. i’ve watched her content for a while and she herself has said she has problems with med adherence and anosognosia repeatedly and if often one of the first symptoms of her slipping into psychosis. she’s said so in a video ABOUT her warning signs of slipping into psychosis.

i also worry about the fact that she has the bipolar type of schizoaffective disorder so she has manic episodes and when my last manic episode hit, it took a whole month of it before people in my life began to worry because i felt so good. i was in love with life, i was reinventing myself, i was motivated. those are good things most of the time. but then it got worse and more destructive. i worry that this could be mania related, which also comes along with psychosis (predominantly delusions of grandeur), and she’s being egged on to continue down this path and it’ll end up with her severely hurt

whatever path this takes, i worry about people getting hurt. either lauren gets hurt and has to recover from a very public episode or others get hurt from a lack of access to the sheer amount of help needed to do medical keto

[overgrownmoon]

i’m having delusions of grandeur (saving a bunch of blender tutorials on youtube thinking i’m gonna spend my time after class learning blender) but guys i swear i’m gonna do it this time bc i want a custom model of my p2e PC to use on tabletop sim, heroforge ain’t gonna cut it this time (playing a surki)

[genderqueerdykes]

so which is it, schizophrenic or schizoaffective? since they're mutually exclusive

that's not what "mutually exclusive" means !! i'm both

i have been diagnosed with both over the course of visiting various therapists, psychologists and psychiatric hospitals in my time seeking mental health help, because schizoaffective disorder is far, far less researched and well understood than schizophrenia. often when you are discharged from mental hospitals and get diagnosed w/ schizoaffective disorder, you are given resources for both schizophrenia and your given mood disorder, and sometimes you just straight up get diagnosed with schizophrenia and depression or bipolar disorder.

some therapists do not catch on to my mood disorder because we do not get the time to discuss the symptoms of bipolar disorder, so they do not find out about my manic episodes, irritability, delusions of grandeur, feeling unstoppable/on top of the world, etc. so they only end up diagnosing me with schizophrenia, because i spoke of hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and thinking, alogia, and so on, and that was more important to them at the time. it has been proposed that the criteria of schizoaffective be heavily revised or straight up removed entirely from the DSM-V because it's so often misdiagnosed, and a bit superfluous, as as much as 50% of schizophrenic patients have co-morbid depression, and the criteria doesn't differ that much from schizophrenia, or the present mood disorder.

so, it's both. also keep in mind that most people do not know what "schizoaffective disorder" means, so often times i use "schizophrenic" to convey what i mean. almost everyone has some grasp of what "schizophrenic" means. it gets it across easier

i have no idea where you heard that information, if it's tiktok, twitter, or youtube, please read medical journals written by psychiatrists, articles from accredited medical foundations, and so on. NAMI, NIMH and Cleveland Clinic are excellent resources for mental health information. You can find articles that list the diagnostic criteria for schizoaffective disorder, as well.

please do more research before sending messages like this to complete strangers who very have complex medical backgrounds and have visited doctors, received diagnoses, and have done their own research into their health conditions, i have no idea where you got your information from but it that an extremely bizarre and wholly incorrect interpretation of what "mutually exclusive" means.

[doctortwhohiddles]

I guess Patty is bored and has decided to entertain Mstoxictea's latest bonkers conspiracy theory for fun. For anyone wondering, that shit comes from blind items (always a reliable source) and the equivalent of clickbait on YouTube.

Judging by Mstoxictea's blog, she's definitely not doing well. Her paranoia and delusions of grandeur are only getting stronger. With the help of Patty of course. The same woman who tries to paint herself as a mental health advocate. If anyone is faking their personality, it's her.