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quick fanart of a very good bear

this tennessee williams essay is getting so unwieldy lmao

they should invent a PERSON that solves all my PROBLEMS

man unraveling the mystery of "the work," and anastasia's vow with alecto, and samael, etc once alecto comes out is going to be such a rosetta stone. because what do you *mean* the mysterious favor harrow still owes ianthe is, specifically, "the favour of the chain"

you meet the worlds most misogynistic person and its literally your mother

i'm about to throw hands with this yt poll.

this is the zelda version of that twitter butch post to me.

caeldori fire emblem is like one of those girls on tiktok who will order an obscene amount of cleaning and/or organizational supplies and then spend hours setting it all up and putting stuff away until their houses are spotless

Idk, like on a general level, I like messy female characters who fuck up a lot and even do shitty-to-downright-terrible things because I think it makes them interesting and feel more real, but also having OCD and specifically grappling with The Scrupulosity™ means living with a pervasive fear that I’m Actually A Bad Person and that some inherent evilness within me will eventually overtake me and I will do something heinous that I can never come back from; so seeing female characters who kind of embody that, who HAVE done those things and kind of represent what the realization of that fear might look like, but still being remembered fondly or being seen to have a positive impact on someone’s life, to be presented in-story as still being worthy or love and support and narrative weight, to be presented as someone whose story is still worth telling, TRULY does wonders in helping my recovery process. Even if I DO fuck up (though I’m uh. relatively confident, when I’m not having An Episode™, that I’m not going to do so to that extent), EVEN IF I BECOME THE WORST VERSION OF MYSELF, I still deserve to be treated humanely, I can still get love and support, I can still matter in some way that doesn’t involve ruining someone else’s life. Like that really does help balance out The Intrusive Thoughts in a way that I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to fully articulate.

A series of Lesser Than Three pics where Patrons voted to see who got a new outfit each month. I'm still really happy with these!

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small doodle of @kingdomblade’s lovable goofball tiger Tanner 🐯 (reupload cause I forgot his face stripe oops!)

May 9, 2022

Mr. Rehn: Given that the rebates are greatly needed right away as many people continue to struggle with these costs and given that I have also received concern from my constituents in Lesser Slave Lake about how soon they will see this relief because of the continual fact-twisting antics of the NDP to spread false information, to the same minister: how will these rebates be applied to the bills of those living throughout Lesser Slave Lake? This may be hard for the NDP to listen to, but how soon will we see them applied? [interjections]

Mr. Nally: Despite the NDP’s best efforts to slow down the passage of this bill – and that’s right; you can’t make this stuff up. The NDP actually voted to slow down passage of this bill, an absolute outrage at a time when Albertans need these supports. We moved at speed to get the legislation through the Legislature. We moved at speed to write the regulations . . . [interjections]

The Speaker: Order. The hon. associate minister.

Mr. Nally: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We got royal assent on April 29, we wrote the regulations in under three days, and then we got the rules to the retailers, and they’re moving at speed as well.

the more i play mario odyssey, the more i think i don’t like any switch games. mid ass system. metroid & splatoon are the only games that have been good.

a reflection on MatPat's plagiarism

Hello, my name is Della, or micer2012, and 2 years ago Game Theory plagiarized three Tumblr posts of mine, making a video that now holds almost 6 million views.

My posts explaining his plagiarism made their rounds on Reddit, Tumblr and Twitter, but despite the Hermits and Pooka commenting on it (generally in support of me or saying they don’t know enough details about the situation to say either way), MatPat and his team have never owned up to anything, and no mention of my name is present on the video. The one Reddit post they made denying it (which was made before my detailed takedown, which they have never responded to (though the mods on the r/GameTheorists Reddit were kind and made sure it stayed up)) didn’t even mention me by name, just referring to me as “a tumblr user”. (Though one of the screenshotted comments in the body of the post does say my name)

This experience was baffling, but it’s overall had a positive impact on my life. r/Hermitcraft gave me a Golden Apple Award (post of the year, 2021). My inbox was filled with excited fans, wanting to ask me questions or pose their own theories, far more than the hate I got. (Though the hate I got from Game Theory fans was VERY funny. I wondered why none of them gave me shit about saying “MatPat misgendered Evil Xisuma” before realizing none of them read that far into the post.)

And getting on a more personal, and much more important note, I met most of my current online friends through this, including my partner. It helped me grow closer with my irl friends as well and gave me an entertaining story that I tell whenever I have the chance. It was one of the first things in my life that really made me feel like my talents, my autistic hyperfocusing and analyzing of things I love, could be valuable. Useful. Exploitable. It blew my mind that MatPat thought an autistic kid’s ramblings about a Minecraft Youtube joke character were good enough to steal. To put an audible sponsorship on. To get 6 million views off of.

And that’s why I’m writing this post, this update years later. As you might’ve been able to guess, Hbomberguy’s Youtube video on plagiarism reopened this wound. It was really hard for me to sit through, it took days of pausing and taking breaks, because I had experienced everything he was talking about firsthand. 

In my 10 page long takedown post, I wrote about how his rewording of my sentences made him say things that were incorrect, just like Filip did. The content farm production style that made big companies like Cinemassacre take one creator (AVGN/MatPat) and turn him and his content into a brand, a voice that reads out scripts by other people with other opinions/theories, is a history shared with Game Theory. What really hit me was Harris talking about how big creators only do this to people they think they can get away with doing it to. How they view their victims as lesser, as not deserving of their words, repackaging them as their own to give to an audience that can gain from hearing them, but deserves better than to have to listen to the original victim.

That’s the thing, I 100% think a video version of my theory to expose to a bigger community than “Evil Xisuma Fans on Tumblr” is a great idea!! Near the end of the video Harris talks about how video adaptations of things could be a great market, even an accessibility tool, and I completely feel that about my posts. I wrote them quickly assuming the reader was someone well versed on Evil Xisuma lore, after not even watching most of the CarnEvil series, and the diagrams I made to explain them are even less comprehensible. Harris makes a joke that I completely agree with, 

“I’m sure some of my videos would do very well if someone translated them into English.”

I don’t think I would’ve ever made my posts if I didn’t have autism, and a special fixation on Evil Xisuma and Hermitcraft. I made them because I felt the character was being done an injustice, and because I wanted to share with other superfans this theory that might explain it away. I do think that MatPat plagiarizing me was ableist. I used to wonder a lot if this would’ve happened if my posts were articulated better, if they had been peer reviewed, if the posts themselves had been spread to a wider audience before MatPat made his video. At one point when the discourse was fresh (before I had the time to write out my 10 page rebuttal), a bigger YouTuber (100k subs at the time) messaged me and started talking on Discord, interested in possibly making a video on the discourse, but I think my style of typing and general enthusiasm drove him away. You can tell by a single look at my blog (or my original 3 posts!) that I don’t usually type like this. This post you’re reading now has been peer reviewed and edited, and took me hours to format correctly. That video could’ve been huge, the entire outcome of this MatPat situation would probably be much different.

I also used to stress a lot about “being the one who ruined Evil Xisuma’s story”. If you didn’t know, to me S8 Evil Xisuma’s story got wrapped up pretty quickly and unsatisfying (in my personal autistic opinion). (though this might’ve been due to s8 being experimental and ending early with moon big) There was no real culmination of the plot points and arcs going on, and I don’t want to blame myself, but when Xisuma said on stream (when the MatPat thing was first going on) that he didn’t want to focus on the discourse or draw more attention to it, it makes a lot of sense to me that he just wanted to wrap it all up as quickly as possible. For a while I beat myself up about it, of ruining the story of this character I love, but it’s not my fault. If anyone’s, it’s MatPats, but I don’t think it’s useful to just blame someone else. That’s how the story ended up going, and that’s fine. This is Evil Xisuma we’re talking about, their inconsistent lore is what made them such an interesting character. And notably, Pooka made an animation with an awesome culmination of Jeff, the Dreamer, Evil Xisuma, and his own sona’s story, and it makes me so happy to watch. Whatever Pooka does is of course his own choice, but I’m glad he got to give this personal story his own ending (if it is an ending, and not just the start of a new chapter!). 

Typing this all out and getting it off my chest has made me feel a lot better. For a while I wanted to make my OWN video essay about Evil Xisuma’s lore and CarnEvil’s lore, actually going episode by episode to explain it instead of just assuming you knew as much about Evil Xisuma as I did. That idea is still not off the table, but MCYT isn’t something I’m that into right now. Maybe if something else comes out about Evil Xisuma I’ll get back on it, but for now I’m fine with letting that go. But I want to make other videos, share other theories and analysis… if I have the freetime I’d love to make YouTube videos, and if I don’t have the time I’ll continue posting to my tumblr and infodumping to my friends. Apparently my infodumping is valuable enough “content” to steal! Writing this out has made me feel a lot better though, I’m really glad I got it out.

If anyone ever wants to talk to me about the things I’m obsessed with, or reach out to me as a source in a bigger discussion about Game Theory or other channels, my inbox is more than welcome :] Thank you for reading! 

Sincerely, a tumblr user.

i want to drive a nail thru the skull of this man at work. he broke up with his ex girlfriend but manipulates her into still coming over to HIS apartment to cook and clean for him in the hopes that they'll get back together, but he's just stringing her along so he can get babied by her. also he's obsessively throwing cash at a dancer younger than i am (she's 23, he's 55) and trying to beg her to date him. i hope both women come together and kill his ass.

“Over there is Drake, he’s with us because JL Light kept saying no to the teenage group so now they made him my and JLD’s problem. Also he kept trying to raise the dead. And kept succeeding.”

“It’s not my fault it’s so easy,” Drake muttered without looking away from his project. “And Batman wasn’t dead the last time. You bring back three people and suddenly everyone thinks you’re a budding necromancer. It shouldn’t be my fault I’m using the available resources for the best solution.”

Constantine somehow looked even more dead than Elle as he pointed to the teenager that had taken up residence on the counter, the rest of the space covered with no less than four laptops. “Do not see him as a role model. He broke reality that first time.”

Man, she already knew they were going to get along like a house on fire. Elle waved cheerfully at Drake. “Quack.” She said. Constantine just sighed and went for his lighter.

Drake looked at her in befuddlement. “Quack?”

“A drake is a duck yeah? So, quack.”

“I prefer the drakes being dragons route.” He said. “More mysterious and powerful.”

“Ah. Rawr then.” The lesser of the two options. Drake had clearly never met a true duck. Maybe Elle could sneak one in one of these days and introduce Drake to a better namesake.