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according2thelore · 9 days

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thank you so much for the tag in that post!!! i immediately forgot every fact about myself unfortunately BUT i have two follow up qs for y'all.........

MERLIN! i am also obsessed with merlin and btw if you have a merlin account you are OBLIGATED BY LAW to tell me. constitutional amendment from the obama era. i think the merlin <--> supernatural pathway is all about duty by the way. and also gay sex.

also charlotte consider this ask your one drink please 🍷 and DO TELL!

haha, that's so fair! we love follow-up qs!

lizzy:

uh-oh! by law you say?? i'm sweatin'...i also love merlin! so much! i cannot shut up about it, and i have written/continue to write for merlin under a different account...but i fear i might have to break the law on this one. and it's strictly for the reason that i have Very Normal friends not familiar with fandom that follow my writing/keep up with my other ao3 and if they find out i shake the boys from spn between my teeth like a dog, i would have some massive explaining to do. obama's gonna come break my door down 😔 i am kissing you passionately in apology! but i think folks like my merlin work pretty okay! my biggest merlin fic is around 100k hits, which blows my mind with violence each day lol

you get it!!! you get it so hard!!!!!! what drives me crazy about merlin and spn is the inevitability of it all. they are soulmates, and they are fated to be joined, but at what cost? literally what cost? they are opposed forces, hunter and hunted, but a bond of love and forgiveness and belonging that keep them tethered beyond separation. it's the continuous loss and torture and fear and not leaving! they don't want to leave! their lives would be easier if they didn't love each other, but they can't stop. and they HAVE SEX! one of the things that sticks in my brain so hard about merlin specifically is the lengths that merlin goes to protect/save uther for arthur's sake. like that level of devotion, even at the betrayal of self, is BARK INDUCING!!! i could write forever and ever amen about merlin, so if i don't stop now, this entire post will just be me yapping and yapping.

charlotte:

oh my god WELL a few moments stand out from that day. first, lizzy and I were THE ONLY ONES TO DRESS UP after lizzy explained that people dressed up at cons (this was my first con ever—baby’s first!). Also me when I lie lol there were a couple sexy castiels but I digress. (lizzy note: there was also a billie and death cosplayer that blew my fucking mind my beloved <3)

second, literally everyone at our con had already met the boys. like. a girl pulled out a BINDER with like 4 m&g photos per page and just kept flipping through it. so while we were nervous wrecks all day, everyone was mysteriously so…chill?? like we picked up food on the way there and barely ate any of it since we were making ourselves ill.

waiting in line?? girl embarrassing you wouldn’t have wanted to see us because we were HYPERVENTILATING. as soon as we cleared the doorway and saw jared, he made eye contact with us and kept glancing over the line to check when we were coming up (because of our slay niche fits) and as soon as we did, he said the episode BY NAME and told us we did a great job. (lizzy note: he was very excited and also his hand is as big is my waist i blacked out the whole thing if i didn’t have a pic i wouldn’t think it happened)

that man’s chest and arms. gigantic. bigger than my head. he was as solid as a piece of marble. we were like what the fuck. took our picture and NO JOKE we had to sit down on the floor in the hallway. we called lizzy’s mom. we bragged to the barista in the convention center, who was also very excited. we vomited and threw up because misha was next but in character and costume and let me just say

that man’s hands were FRIGID.

I’ll say it!! (looking at you lizzy who doesn’t remember it smh.) his m&g was slay ish because he was just smoldering and barely said anything (LMAO our man was tired and they were running 2 hrs behind). but! hilarious. I have both of the pictures hanging in identical frames next to each other in my first grown up apartment and it looks like the same photo at a first glance. it is the second most expensive thing on my wall (my diploma taking first 🤧).

and that…that was a glorious day. we’re trying to go again since jensen was sold out so we can complete the trifecta 🫶

-charlotte (& lizzy! hello! 2-for-1!)

#ask box #charlotte answers #lizzy answers #secondhandroad #bestie <3 beloved secondhandroad <3

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binalakai · 7 months

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hey im kai! you can also call me roach, if you already know a kai in your life because i know how many noncis mfs are named that

im a 21 genderfluid filipino dyke with she/he/it pronouns, i occasionally post my art on @binalakarchive , where all my OCs (at least as much as i show publicly) and fandom art/cleaned up discussions go there. i also do commissions sometimes, best to contact me through that blog!! otherwise, i treat this blog like a neverending journal. i've grown up with it, and on god am i going to use it as such.

in a perfect world where i wouldn't need to establish boundaries, i would not even bother with a post like this, but the more people i follow/that follow me come across it's somewhat necessary soooo

DNI or like. BYF if you're not gonna listen to me anyway: (warning: it's long and text heavy. tldr; don't be weird to me, communicate with me like you would with a real life person because that's what i am, and we'll get along fine)

-basic dni huge bigot (racist, TERF/transphobic, homophobic, etc etc) stuff but if i catch that onto your blog anyway when you follow me i'll block you.

-if you post a lot of doomer stuff/are against mental health care in general, you best keep distance, honestly. its taken a long time for me to not open my wounds and delusions constantly towards the internet if it meant being valid in my mental illnesses. i'd rather not enter that era again.

-i dont get the whole "proship and antis" culture that happens, but for both sakes of people, if you identify with any of those things you might not like my blog too much. i love being critical and analytical of "problematic things", but i'll still discuss them openly n freely. dni if you'll be offended if i diss on ships/approaches to subjects that make me uncomfortable n find comfort in being critical abt it, and dni if you'll be offended if i diss on the idea that media with triggering topics should not have an outlet period.

-if you'll be offended if i block you out of the blue, doesn't apply to close friends/mutuals i just mean with randos who post takes i dont like or cause too much stress in tags i browse.

-if you're gonna get in huge trouble over seeing dirty jokes and crass humor in public you best not follow me. i try best to tag my stuff, but last thing i wanna do is have a stern talk about it.....which is why i also am wary about people under 18 following and will be a lot more liberal on blocking younger minors for their sake or people i assume won't vibe with me period

-if your parents have access to your social media and there's a chance i'll be DM'd by any of them. i dont wanna talk to any of your parents. if you have an issue with me, i'm more than happy to talk about things directly. (ESPECIALLY FOR BUSINESS RELATED REASONS LIKE COMMISSIONS. IT'S HAPPENED A LOT ALREADY DUE TO OTHER PARTY'S FAMILY CIRCUMSTANCES I CANNOT FUCKING CONTROL. STOP IT. ITS ANNOYING AND A PAIN TO HANDLE.)

-if you get too involved with online drama/disputes. i'm not going to reblog a callout for you. if you get even slightly bothered by that statement, do not get close to me period for the sake of boosting callouts.

-if you have specific niche triggers that need to be tagged. i try to do catch alls or basic ones, but i genuinely CANNOT keep track of all my mutual's blacklists. my mind will slip and id rather not put someone in danger/i wanna keep that risk very very low

okay thankies <3 sorry these are so specific, i just wanna be insane on the internet in the safest way possible

#about

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verycharismaticdragon · 1 year

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Tag 10 People You Wanna Get to Know Better

tagged by @mu-qingfang-stan-account ty <3

relationship status: single (as in "too scared to try finding someone to date considering the state of queer rights here rn")

favorite colors: *james pokemon voice* its lavender (but honestly purple in all shades. my life have improved immensely when i started dyeing my hair purple and getting clothes to match)

favorite food: this is so broad uh... if its sweet stuff I gotta go with ice cream because whatever u want. it got u. and if we are talking about proper meal foods i think i gotta say chicken. shes so versatile what cant she do

song stuck in your head: oughh i cycle thru so many... i guess Leia (Rondo cover) came up a lot in the last few days

last thing you googled: spelling of some word, dont remember which. i often do this bcus im not confident in my spellings, esp with longer words, because I only learned them visually and that doesn't necessarily mean all letters or in the right order. wait i think it was resurrect, i keep forgeting if its two "s"s or two "r"s in there (yes i googled it again to spell it rn)

time: 13:40

dream trip: listen this is just gonna be sad if i answer it, so lets not

last thing you read: I'm currently super mega slowly rereading Scum Villain - like, taking notes every page slowly - so that's been going for the past month or so. If we're talking finished, then pipi's You Fei.

last book you enjoyed reading: I did enjoy Fei a whole lot! As usual, I'm a sucker for priest's ability to entwine some absolute clownery with so much subtle (and sometimes not subtle) heartbreak. Also the more I hear from my friend who branches out into BG cnovels/cdramas the more I realize how special a female protagonist like Fei is.

last book you hated reading: a danmei novel that shall remain unnamed bcus it was recced by a mutual. meanwhile i regret finishing it. the plot was such a friggin soap opera. literally almost Every soap opera trope. i'm surprised nobody's clone showed up, it wouldnt have been out of place! the ship dynamic was good so i finished to get their happy ending but. kinda felt that it wasn't worth it in the end.

favorite thing to cook/bake: gotta be meringues, as long as you know the perfect time for your particular oven theyre literally SO easy to make. and tasty. I like making blini too but they are kinda stressful because you gotta stay on them the entire time.

favorite craft to do in your free time: cross-stitch, it's somehow just the right proportion of mindlessness and engagement for me

most niche dislike: there's this special kind of annoying fans that make me dislike thing that they are fan of literally just because it becomes associated in my mind with their annoyingness. (I don't know how to explain every nuance of how they are annoying, but most often it involves being shitty about something else, that I already like.) And it kinda pisses me off not just on its own, but also on behalf of the thing they are fan of. Like - it usually doesn't deserve my ire! it's literally just the fans, and only some specific ones! But I can't stop my brain from cringing at the sight of the thing. ugh. So: hate it when this happens.

opinion on circuses: im more interested in the aesthetic concept of circuses than in any real ones.

do you have any sense of direction: yeah im pretty good with it, both in "reading maps" way and in "understanding where things are located relative to each other and alternate routes/shortcuts" way

tagging: god please I always forget every single person I ever seen or talked to when it comes to tagging. Literally any of my followers, I'm interested, I wanna hear about u, if you'd like to do this say i tagged you and go off

#tag game

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poryphoria · 2 years

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sweethearts babes listen up now alrighty? i need everyone who follows me for madcom art to listen to me and then also everyone else. are you listening? you got your ears open? cool sweet good this post is important

you have GOT to reblog when you think a post is good!!!!!!

some spaces on here are better at this than others! the tboi niche, for example, is on top of reblogging instead of liking for the most part. going from posting about tboi to madcom has been sort of jarring so far, then, in terms of the ratio of reblogs to likes my posts get!

likes do nothing to help posts, literally nothing. reblogs are the only way anyone else is supposed to see the post other than tags. if you like the art, you pay it forward to the artist by reblogging!!

like, this isn't just an issue with my posts, either, ive noticed it happens to a LOT of artists on here, it's a site-wide problem, and it's kinda heartbreaking to see really good art with hundreds of likes and precisely 20 reblogs or less. (an actual fucking thing ive seen, mind you!) ive read a million similarly-worded psas on it before and it's to the point where its kinda blowing my mind that this is still an issue, but i digress!!!

be kind to your fellow artists, do the absolute bare minimum to show them you appreciate their work. you don't have to tag it at all!!! literally just reblogging it puts it on someone else's dash so they can see it!!!

and if you're worried the reblogs are gonna clutter your blog, make a side account specifically for posting reblogs to! i did that!!! it's @poryphoria-rb !! say hi to pory number 2!!

there is no excuse for it at this point! reblog those posts!!!

i love you all and you've been very kind to me hence far but please please please don't let me continue to scream into the void!!!!!!

#madcom #madness combat #madness project nexus #project nexus #yes im using the main fandom tags #bc this is a HUGE issue within the madcom niche #important #pory turgles

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skxllz · 2 years

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tag 10 people you want to get to know

I'm not doing 10, I'm too anxious for that

relationship status: single

favorite color: for the past few months, sacremento green.

favorite food: chicken alfredo is my love.

song(s) stuck in your head: message in a bottle by the police. elite song.

dream trip: I've always wanted to visit either orlando or new zealand.

last book you read: paper book? the moral instruments: city of bones (1). online? it was a steddie fan fiction lmfao.

last book you enjoyed reading: the city of bones. it's so good, I need to get the rest of the series.

last book you hated reading: I don't even remember the name of it, cause it was so long ago? and I couldn't find it in my room to save my life.

favorite thing to cook or bake: call me weird, but fresh green beans coated in different seasonings. absolute masterpiece.

favorite craft (thing) to do in your free time: uh.. I live on my phone, so there's that. I guess you can say I really like brainstorming ideas and making playlists.

most niche mistake: I'm gonna be front, my dumbass brain can't comprehend this question.

opinion on circuses: they're fucking weird. I'll just put it like that.

do you have a sense of direction: yes and no. if I give directions or something, I'll literally have to picture a map of the area of that section specifically in my mind before giving an actual answer to anything. but I can't say, for sure, if I'll be right all the time, cause my brain is.. weird.

tags <3: @kluuniiee @immortal-velociraptor @smenny @vampirism-and-slashers

(sorry if you didn't wanna be tagged 💔)

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dumbdomb · 1 year

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What should someone do to get your attention? esp if they’re too shy to dm first?

i'm the only one allowed to be shy here lol (joking)! tbh, i really try to make it clear that people are always welcome to talk with me. i don't feel comfy initiating most conversations in general, i'm more quiet and reserved offline, but especially don't like to if it's for rp and naughty stuff. i can appreciate when people are clingy, talkative, etc and want to dm all the time, but i honestly don't know how to respond when the conversation doesn't go beyond greeting formalities.

another thing that happens is people dm me wanting to rp, but then don't offer any information about their boundaries, interests, etc and want me to lead them in everything, fulfill their (unknown to me) desires, be able to predict how they feel without any communication and feedback from them when i ask "feeler" questions, and get upset when i don't live up to their expectations of how a dom is "supposed" to act… i've had a few people treat me like this and it feels bad.

there's nothing wrong with being shy. i'm very shy, too! but if you wanna talk then (i'm so sorry to tell u this but) you'll have to talk. don't worry, bc u can always talk about anything!!! i don't mind if you get nervous, if the only jokes you know are puns, if you're only interested in some really niche topic, however you are is great!! come on, let's talk and be friends!

you already have my attention. i'm not a super popular blog on here, so i respond to pretty much every msg i get. and depending on what kind of attention you're specifically looking for, idk… you've perused my blog, yes? scrolled through certain tags? read my pinned?

just tell me what you wanna talk about. dm like we're already friends. give me something to work with beyond saying hello or telling me how attractive i am. otherwise, unfortunately, that's as far as the conversation will go (bc what else do u want me to say??). make an effort and i'll respond. that's another reason why i allow anons, submissions, replies, etc- so people can interact with me.

don't be afraid to be clumsy, think you're annoying me, or whatever else is going on in that silly head of yours! ily and i wanna talk more!! i love hearing from you!! i wanna know more about you! and you're not talking to me because you're shy?!???? booo. boring! like, how are we gonna become bestest friends forever?!? come talky me and be shy together 🥺

#anon my beloved #answered #i love when other people dm first if that helps lmao #long post

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mindrole · 2 months

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Question about reposting to Twitter (sorry if it's silly): by reposting you just mean stuff you post here, right? You're not going to change course and only post there and not here?

I wish I could give advice otherwise, but I don't use Twitter (which is why I'm asking this in the first place) also hope you recovered well from being sick!

i've been good and healthy! thanks for the well wishes!

when it comes to this i prefer posting on tumblr massively, so don't worry about me moving and setting up there as a main platform or whatever! its comfy here! i like the base of lurkers i've cultivated.

tbh it is mostly a "i wanna post art on twitter because the fanbase is largely over there" kind of ego thing. at first, i assumed i would be posting in parallel, but.. honestly tweeting should be a spur of the moment thing for me, and i have no sense for maintaining side accounts and accounts for specific subjects in particular (this blog in and of itself is a miracle). also i feel watched if i'm out of my element. i don't think it's possible for me to suddenly switch my main hub of cell series posting unless i somehow gained a group of people to bounce off of on a daily basis. i can't use twitter just to post mindlessly like i do here, i like to be chatty instead. at least on tumblr i entertain myself. idk what the difference is. i can use my own personal account just fine weirdly enough, but side accounts never tend to work out and i forget they exist quickly.

basically all i've been wondering from anyone who may know or may be interested in seeing it... the methodology of crossposting my art to twitter when its been a while.. tbh all i draw these days are doodles and stuff that's only funny to me so the mental block is a little strong. it's like "eh... it's not worth the effort.."

initially i intended on mirroring my longer text posts too, like on fusetter or something, but eh... ehhh.... i'll just keep it on tumblr... it's the same thing isn't it. so i'm only concerned with my art right now

also i feel kinda dumb tagging most of the art whenever i post it. but i also don't have much reach on twitter yet, so posting art without tagging it and having people follow until i build something up feels pointless. but also back to the point feeling dumb, i don't mind being seen at all, but i don't want anyone to scroll and go "what's this guy doing here" and such... idk why but it's probably mental illness. i just don't like to stand out in a way that makes me look like i'm trying too hard. but idk how to appear effortless (<-see i overthink too much, there's probably nothing of the sort going on)

but i want to at least semi-cultivate a habit of crossposting stuff even if it's not all of it!! idk if that makes sense.

ironically i think there is very little audience on tumblr compared to twitter for the corner/niche i've accidentally occupied (i.e. being obsessed with the interlude+com+characters that barely exist for some reason especially since i don't post about the main game that much anymore). also just in general i feel like my way of thinking is too strange. i can't fathom that people keep coming back to check over here. thank yew🥺🩷 (<-he was shot out back for this)

every day i am perplexed why this blog has people keeping watch on it, i feel very humbled and happy about it but i also scratch my head a little bit. it's very fun even if confusing. i like the level of interaction i have. so i'm not gonna switch over...!!! don't worry!!!

at the very least i have every intention continuing to archive my art in the poipiku attached to the twitter account... the twitter account itself however, is at a standstill, i have no idea what to do with it, which is why i'm doing the last ditch "phone-a-follower" effort

#ask #anonymous #sorry i talked your ear off even though you have no advice for me #i do be a blabbermouth #maybe someone will see the specifics and know how to handle this...#tl;dr i like when people see my art ^_^#my art is for sharing after all

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cranberrymist · 4 months

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Why I like Tumblr

Can I be honest? This is a total rant post about a lot of stuff, but mainly why I feel comfortable with posting things on tumblr but not other places. I was just scrolling Instagram cuz I like to see my friends and sometimes there's funny hahas. I read a post (probably stolen from twitter) about how the richest person on their block put a note in everyone's mailbox asking for them to try and be quiet for a wedding ceremony they are having in their back yard at 2 pm right? That's all it said. At 2 pm on the dot, their neighbor starts lawn mowing and OP thought it was like the best thing ever. I just don't get it? That's not the main point tho. Main point = the comment section. I hate insta specifically because of the comment sections. It's literally just rancid. 50/50 on whether they sided with lawnmower person which is fine right? But some of the takes like make me physically uncomfortable. The thought that some people genuinely don't care about others makes me feel so weird. Like it's not hard to just be quiet for a little? I know they didn't give an end date to it and at first I was like omg they want them to be quiet from 2pm onwards until the next day and then I realized I'm pretty sure it clarified like wedding ceremony which only takes 20-30 minutes and the fact people are STILL mad??? Saying like 'ain't nobody gonna tell me what to do in my hose that I pay for' was one comment and like,,, they just asked politely?? I get we hate rich people, but honestly? They probably aren't that rich if their having a backyard wedding with some friends and family. And then someone started ranting about Gen Z even though no ages were mentioned in the post and then it turns out HE'S A GEN Z! And he called every other Gen Z (that wasn't himself of course cuz how could he ever relate to us plebs) so many horrible names?? And there's so many horrible comments on Insta that are so much worse than these and it's really horrible when all I want to do is see comments about the post, but there's always so many hateful people in the comments. I'll view a post by like an OF girl I'm friends with who is so sweet and everyone is just calling her fat??? or the n word?? or being sexist (which is expected but I wish it wasn't).

Anyways, I feel like I don't see that as much on Tumblr cuz you can perfectly curate your feed and no one really interacts with things they don't like on here. Like if I don't like something on here I just put it in my filtered out tags or say not interested on the post (or even block the person if I think it's a real bad take) but I never interact with the poster themselves like I'm never going to talk to them unless like they're harassing someone, but even then I'll probably just report. I just don't get why you would interact with things that make you feel bad or upset that don't have to do with human or animal rights nor helping the environment. Like if I say my favorite color is pink and you go mines blue! that's a meaningful moment of connection. If I go my favorite colors pink and you go kys pink sucks blue all the way, I'm going to actually implode and like dm your family on facebook or something with the message (if it's bad enough). Like genuinely I just want to be around posters who either agree with me or are mature enough to disagree and not attack me for my different opinion and I feel like tumblr allows me to do that in a safe way and also anonymously which I love cuz I hate people knowing who I am unless I'm specifically texting them. Also there's so many niches on here and i've discovered so many things that I enjoy everyday now on here and i feel like, for the most part, people are really passionate on here about some really amazing things and I love reading when someone's going off about a niche detail of a show we both love and then I can be like 'wow, you've opened my mind to new things' and that's just the best feeling

#rant post #rant #ig #insta #instagram #tumblr #pink #be nice #neurodivergent

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thespoonisvictory · 3 years

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first anon in the "future talk" tag here (yes, i am still around haha) and wow, did my predictions hold up. it might be because i was here when MCYT originally went downhill in 2016-2017 too.

the dream smp is definitely dying. the most i could see is a small group banding together for one specific storyline (quackity, wilbur, tubbo, tommy, dream, etcetera) to wrap up, and maybe turn it into a "ooo maybe we'll do lore every once in a while as an epilogue oooo!" thing after an official "conclusion," but other than that.... yeah, it's dead

i agree with all of the "fandom won't die out takes." most of my friends have moved on from it, but they all still have some semblance of attachment and do still make content. i think after it "ends," theres going to be a few months where it's still sort-of big, and the ao3 tags are still gonna be flooded with 14-year-old's vent fics, then it'll die off and a few prominent artists, accounts, and fic authors will reign (mainly on tumblr, as twitter seems to have a much shorter attention span). i'll probably write another fic or two on c!wilbur and c!tommy myself (i'm actually the author of "i can't stand your taste in my mouth," aka @.midastwt on ao3) before wrapping up unless i get a very good idea

if you want my opinion on where the creators are gonna go after this? most of them are gonna branch off to variety or an offline gig (such as tommy with vlogging, tubbo/ranboo variety streams, wilbur music, etcetera) while doing minecraft from time to time. i don't think any of them will up and abandon it, they seem to enjoy it too much. i think the longer-term and older mcyters (technoblade, skeppy, badboyhalo, hbomb, philza, etcetera) are going to stick what they've always done, and stay with minecraft mainly

the people i see struggling will be dream, sapnap, and george. i think sapnap has the most potential to hold a "variety streamer" position, but his popularity's gonna die out (similar with karl). george is.... george, but i think his fanbase is a lot more loyal and dedicated

while dream has a huge fanbase, he also has, allegedly, nothing planned next. he barely streams, least of all what his brand was made of, he barely uploads videos, his music is mediocre at best and is disliked by the wider music scene and basically just kept up by his fans, he has the most controversy, and the wider minecraft scene seems to be getting more and more pissed off at him by the day

we're most likely to see a lot of mcyt content settle back down into mainly small streamers and smps hosted by professionals and veterans of the community. hermitcraft will keep going, the people associated will make other smps and get others involved, and things will return to normal for the community, just slightly bigger

2022-2023, in my mind, are going to be at 2019-scale or smaller (considerably bigger than 2017-2018, with a few big popular creators, but nothing too much). and there's probably gonna be a new revival soon after that, as the kids who grew up with dream and tommyinnit and technoblade rekindle their love of minecraft, and go back to it, and then the cycle will continue

smart anon I am so sorry for requesting ur wisdom then not answering it for like a month <3

anyway I think most of this is very correct, here are my assorted thoughts on the matter:

big agree on the dsmp. still afraid to officially declare it dead because they have fooled me before, but yeah. I would like to see them at least get a proper ending off though

big Big agree on most old school mcyt staying the same, and with new mcyt finding variety niches. I think tubbo def has a place in the larger twitch community where I don't see ranboo's fame sticking as much long term tbh.

I don't think wilbur is abandoning twitch anytime soon, but you can def see that he is finding that success outside of content creation platforms with Lovejoy. his ability to retain such a solid and large audience even post dsmp hype, along with the more patient and loyal fanbase he's garnered, is going to serve him really well as an indie artist. he's one of the only streamers who's maintained the majority of his growth during the dsmp, and his infrequent but just frequent enough stream schedule and new music hype is only helping to foster that. good job wilbur!

plus, given his track record of finding fame where you least expect it, I doubt he's going anywhere fast

tommy is very interesting to me. already you can see vlogs and the hype around them dying down, although this is definitely partially due to colder weather, but they aren't pulling the blockbuster views they did before as people adjust to it just being a normal thing for creators to vlog together. I'd love to see him sink his teeth into another solid project like the mod videos or his dsmp writing, bc he 100% has the strengths to keep his audience with around, but rn he's bleeding interest

I think most sbi and dteam adjacent streamers are going to settle back down into <10k or probably <5k viewerships, and those smart enough to stick to their brand and provide consistent content will remain on the scene. niki immediately strikes me as someone who has garnered quite a loyal and retainable fanbase by not adhering to trends or collabs with big ccs, where as jack.. not so much (not that I don't love him tho <3)

big agree with the dteam stuff

last thing is that I don't think it's going to shrink quite to 2019 size simply because of just how much larger the audience pool is, but I see the fan climate becoming much more similar

anyway friendly reminder I love all of these ccs and think they are all much cooler and more talented than me. I could not do their jobs half as well, I just like speculating.

#critical #dream critical #not rly but for blacklist #future talk #also send asks abt this if u want smile #this is my fav topic #but be nice pls

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jeriafterdark · 2 years

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On the bird app and how toxic it is vs Tumblr

Just some thoughts I had today (offtopic):

So I curate my social media very specifically. On tumblr, I only follow a few blogs that I trust / art blogs. On instagram, I follow wholesome Animal Crossing / art blogs. On twitter, I only follow ZZH/wholesome art blogs lol. So I never actually know what's going on in the bigger sphere of social media.

Well.

I decided to look at what's trending today, see what people are talking about, and man. WHAT A MISTAKE. It's such an infuriating environment. Someone is being cancelled by a myriad of faceless nameless voices. Who to believe, who not to believe, who is right, who isn't? It's so tiring. I can see why people quit twitter all the time. After what happened with ZZH in 813, I've become a lot more wary of jumping onto a bandwagon and shit-talking people. It's just... not a good look. How does it even help? What if someone really made a mistake, does screaming and yelling at them /memeing them actually teach them or help them? Does it help us? Not that it's anyone's duty to teach someone what they're doing wrong. It uses a lot of emotional labor. But someone's gotta, right?

As someone's who is a bit older part of the fandom, I've had a lot of opportunities to talk to people who say dumb shit, but most of the time, if I give them an opportunity to learn. They'll take it. It's a lot of work, mind, but someday, one of those chances that I took will pay off. It's better than ranting at someone on twitter and making them feel like shit - I don't even do that for people I actually hate. It's just mean and makes me feel bad.

Tumblr on the other hand.

I've been on tumblr for like over a decade lol, and it's never been toxic. Not to say that Anti's don't come here, not to say that tumblr is not a cesspool too, but it's just a different type of void? It's just full of VOID gays, niche fandoms, niche memes and cat videos, niche posts. It's impossible to find anything you tagged, and even more impossible to find things that are untagged. Posts disappear into the void, but somehow it's comforting?? It's easy to get lost in the content, and forget about likes or clout. Tumblr ppl don't care about followers or likes, your post may got lost into oblivion anyway.

Maybe it's bc the text limit is much higher? I think things that are worth saying require longer text limits than a tweet can provide. Unless you're a master of writing, (of which I am most CERTAINLY NOT).

Anyway, back to my ZZH/Word of Honor/ Danmei hole. I'm just gonna keep pumping out fun things, positive things, real discourse that may help someone somewhere someday. Being mean just takes too much energy. What's the point?

Whew, have some cute ZZH by the pool.

#tumblr #twitter #zzh #off topic #long post

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janiedean · 3 years

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I feel bad for all the nice J*nsa shippers who like their ship for whatever reasons (tropes, pretty art, aesthetic appeal, whatever) and know it's not canon but get associated with the misogynistic Dany hating crowd who act like Jon being attracted to Ygritte is J*nsa foreshadowing because red hair (I guess Jon should fuck Edmure Tully too? Omg give me Dark!Jon getting revenge on Catelyn by seducing her brother!) Tell me something. I'm new to the fandom but was J*nsa popular before the show? And I've heard something about the OG J*nsa shippers being alienated by the new shippers who insisted it had to be canon and acted like the series is called, "A song of J*nsa #danysux." I don't find that hard to believe because I know people who are now ashamed of calling themselves J*nsa shippers. Like, at this point, it's not only rival shippers who hate it. Even Gendrya/Braime/Jon stans/etc have started disliking that ship. You know your fandom is a problem when people who have nothing to do with Jnsa have a problem with it.

me: reads this ask

me: iwastheregandalf.gif which I can't find now but

okay anon buckle up because I am sadly well-equipped to answer this ask but before I do lemme tell you dark jon seducing edmure to take revenge on cat is LITERALLY THE BEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD but *clears throat* ALL RIGHT THEN.

disclaimer: as anon says I have no issue with like the shippers mentioned by anon in the beginning and ngl I agree, I have ABSOLUTELY ZERO FUCKING STAKES in the j*nsa vs j*nerys war and the only het jon ship I gaf about is jon/ygritte and we all know where that ended up I just... have been here since 2011/adwd was over and all the fic around was just for the books under secret lj communities and asoiaf qualified for yuletide and I have... seen... things.... and I actually have like uh had... beef... with some people in there and I know things bc ppl who hated those others told me stuff so anyway *sigh* buckle up anon I'mma tell you the story of jon shipwars through the years

in order, the old gods help me here, under the cut bc this is long as fuck

when I got into fandom also given what numbers were on ao3 one ship was popular and it was sansan. no like sansan was lit. the only asoiaf ship on ao3 with more than 200 fics. jb had twenty when i checked first. jc had like around 100-ish because of the show but sansan dwarfed anything. I posted the first jon/ygritte fic on the ao3 tag and the fourth throbb fic and like the others were all reposts from lj kinkmemes. nothing was popular before the show except for sansan when it comes to huge numbers bc grrm doesn't like fic and it was all hush hush until the show made it impossible to control and that ship was the one with a huge enough fanbase it actually had numbers, so like... j*nsa wasn't popular in the way nothing else was popular until it got screentime on the show

now, that stated, j*nsa had a... fair amount of fic for a rareship which was mostly book-based and from og shippers that were there from before the show and liked it for what it was but literally none of them thought it was gonna be canon, like it wasn't huge or anything but it had a small but dedicated fanbase who did their own thing and thought it was fun/liked the idea but that was it

that fandom had their own niche of hcs that they cultivated and shit except that like... at the end of S5/beginning of S6 there was a surge in shipping for... well obvious reasons bc it was obv sansa was getting to the wall and that would have been all nice and good but a) it was the time puritanical shipping was starting to take root and the 'shipping sansa with sandor or tyrion is hella problematic' rhetoric had started to circle coming from sans*ery shippers mostly but I'mma not open that fucking can of worms here, b) while the ending of S5 had more of a theon/sansa spike, the j*nsa stuff started getting big

now here we have to mention my villain origin story ie: j*nsa fandom had this one stan whose name I won't make because honestly it's been years and if she's still around I don't want her to remember I exist who was a bnf, wrote for... the website that created the whole larry/carol thing etc who was really fixed on this thing that j*nsa was actually canon and started writing extremely popular meta about it. now you're gonna ask how do you know, I know because this person once wrote a meta named 'why robb stark is a dick' and I told her that it was really fucking bad meta and she took it so badly she kept on trash talking me on her blog/her podcast (I was apparently the insane robb stark fangirl l m a o good lord) and like that was when some sane ppl who argued with her informed me in pvt that she was basically harping on the CANON thing when they'd have been okay with like... it being crackshipping and that she was basically cultivating a hoarde of followers who were harping on them/the ogs and basically ostracizing them;

I would like to add that this person - before her tumblr got 'accidentally deleted' and remade it therefore deleted most receipts for, er, her so-called meta which included stuff like ned and cat raised sansa as a sexual object and only wanted to sell her like cattle - had at some point started a round robin fic thing where... some of the characters mocked openly said stuff that some of the og fans had said specifically targeting them and people in that side basically went harassing anyone who didn't agree with that specific notion

now never mind that this person basically coined an entire term to describe ppl who liked white guys and excused all their wrongdoings out of my conversation re robb basically lying about everything I said as if I didn't have the receipts and tried to sell shirts with it and it didn't work and like then she got kicked out of her own website because she was telling her commenters disagreeing pretty shitty insults (considering I was called psychotic for disagreeing with her that time I don't doubt it) I think at some point she stepped back from fandom bc idk wtf she's up to these days and I don't want to, but basically at that point the dam was broken and there was a bunch of puritanical shippers harping on anyone who didn't agree with j*nsa is canon endgame stuff

this also includes an incident when those ppl were like... passing themselves as throbb shippers and ended up trying to tell t*hramsay shippers off the theon tag based on moral reasons and I ended up arguing with all of them (and they were all from that crowd) which in turn landed me in contact with other og j*nsa shippers who were like detached from that fandom bc those same people harassed them away as well ssooooo fun

anyway when S6 happened everyone was high on it and whatnot but I wasn't gonna begrudge them that I mean... you shipped it for years, canon is delivering you, good for you, but then j*nerys happened

god j*nerys happened

aaand basically...... I mean personally I was there like are y'all seriously arguing about the best incest jon ship out there but like basically the j*nsa endgame side was like AH JON IS PLAYING DANY SEE IF IT DOESN'T HAPPEN, the j*nerys obv got defensive af and both sides were sort of alternatively shitting on jon/ygritte anyway and depicting any other romantic rship jon could have as abusive™ and during S8 it just got worse and like I tried to stay out of it but basically from what I'm seeing now idk how the j*neryses are doing but on the j*nsa one it's ah jon's gonna play dany anyway and she's going to go insane like in the show so SHOW TRUTHING EVERY OTHER WAY and like again denying that sandor exists or that tyrion exists and like I barely touch my corner (sansan) but I ended up arguing with j*nsa/th*nsa people on twitter who were antis and is2g it was white-hair inducing and I know for sure the sansa/tyrion shippers were harassed to hell and back throughout so FUN

and even if the show didn't go there now since everyone there banked on the jnsa endgame thing and admitting you're wrong is like... not a thing, they still haven't let go of it and attach to that ship any shred of evidence which honestly is grasping at straws half of the time (like... the sansa/alysanne parallels like guys please no) and which is why every other ship is starting to get fed up, attaching canon proof of stuff from other ships onto theirs see that batb argument and jb is platonic but jonsa is not nvm taking all the sansan stuff and throwing it on j*nsa but then denying that sansan has canon evidence (like guys I had to read sansa touching his shoulder when saying gregor wasn't a true knight wasn't meaningful and we were seeing things please) and blah blah blah

this also goes hand in hand with the fixation on like... villanizing dany at all costs and like is2g I have zero investment in dany or her storyline I don't even remember it and I don't particularly care abt her either way and sure af I'm not for j*nerys endgame but like.... some stuff I read is completely excessive esp when fixing on how she's a completely mad tyrant who's gonna have to be put down and like... guys no

(also there's some srs stannis hate in that corner which I honestly don't get why they even care abt stannis but I had to read stuff like ppl don't recognize that dany and stannis are the real villains in this saga and like........ idek)

I think most of the og shippers are gone or don't ship it openly bc they don't want to be attached to the drama but like I also think they're pissing off everyone else bc like... I mean a bunch of them also were down with sansa being paired with other ppl as long as it meant a good ending for her except those ppl were... like everyone but the ppl she has actual contact with in canon which meant that at some point sansa/gendry was a thing and like.... you can imagine why arya/gendry shippers & arya stans were fed up, and there's also this tendency to behave like sansa is the center of the entire saga which like these books is named a song of jon snow basically can we pls make peace with it and personally I've had it with both j*nsa and j*nerys people since they started with that dumbass JON/YGRITTE WAS AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP rhetoric but I'm also fed up with the total ignoring that sandor exists/depicting us as delusional and honestly I also was by proxy fed up from the harassing of the sansa/tyrion shippers soooooooooooo

there were also instances of 'well theon is an acceptable choice other than jon bc he can't threaten her' which... i mean we all know what that meant and I'm not even commenting it bc it's one AM and I have no force to but I don't have to explain why it's not a progressive take now do I

there were also metas about how cousin incest being legal in half of the world means that jondany is a worse incest and j*nsa doesn't count as such and I was basically there like guys please just fucking own up to it but honestly I chose to forgot where I read that and I couldn't find the link if I tried

tldr: no one wants to admit that it's not gonna be endgame which considering the amount of fic they have on ao3 is imvho useless bc they have more content than like.. anything I ship that's not jb or that's actually like canon *cries in joncon/rhaegar but I mean renly/loras is canon and has less fic than them* so idk what's the problem with enjoying that instead of insisting it's gonna be canon when not even the show validated it while show truthing anyway when the only show truthing that can be truthed is the small council made of minorities and possibly jon eventually fucking off with the wildlings but not like that but like most people who thought it wasn't gonna be endgame had left/were made to leave by the time S7 rolled by and at this point since wow isn't out yet everyone is fandom-grasping at straws to find stuff to discourse on and we're here beating dead horses *shrug*

so that's... how it is but I would again like to point out that I don't judge ppl on their shipping, I don't particularly care about this entire feud bc I only ship jon with ppl he's not related to in whichever way and I try to stay out of this mess bc I don't really care to argue with ppl who have already decided to bend canon to whatever they want and will have to realize that it's not what grrm wrote at some point but like I have a very good memory and the above rant is as objective as possible also bc again I don't literally have a stake in that race I just think romantic/endgame j*nsa is not a thing and that ppl should stay in their lane and not harping on other ppl who ship whatever in general but especially when their ship is the most popular thing in fandom in the first place /two cents

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #anonymous #ask post #anti-jonsa #anti jonsa #anti-jonerys #anti jonerys #both of them for equality

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brandyllyn · 3 years

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I got tagged by @reysflyboy in an AO3/fic tag game!

How many works do you have on AO3?

41.

What’s your total AO3 word count?

539,605 words. (400k since January)

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

Uhhh... 14? Not including things that are double categorized?

Bloodsucking Bastards Den of Thieves Ex Machina Hannibal Kingsman Law & Order SVU Narcos Prospect Star Wars Sequels Suburbicon The Equalizer The Letter Room Triple Frontier Trouble in the Heights

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

To Sell Your Love for Peace - Narcos Alabanza - Star Wars Art of Falling - Star Wars Half Empty - Trouble in the Heights Debt Makes Promises - Trouble in the Heights

... I'm very surprised A Good Man Feeling Bad isn't there.

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I respond to most, even if it's just a smiley. But I can't say I do all of them. I do try to answer questions or stoke theories as much as possible.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I don't do angsty endings - just angsty middles. (See my blog description). The Serpent Under it would be my angstiest - but it was a quick drabble to fill a specific soulmate niche for Dave York.

If I write an angsty ending it's gonna be from a request.

Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I mean - Jurassic Park x Triple Frontier probably takes the cake. Many moons ago I started a Harry Potter (Marauder Era) x Buffy fic that I never posted though.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Not in this decade. It used to be a lot more common in the early 2000s. There used to be a forum specifically for bad fanfics and people would tear down bad writing there - one of mine got mentioned on a post once. That was fun.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

That's basically all I write.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don't think so.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I know of.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I'm doing Jurassic Frontier with @blueeyesatnight right now! I wouldn't mind more collaborations. Honestly my beta reader is basically a collab. She really keeps things moving.

What’s your all time favorite ship?

NO ONE SEND ME HATE FOR THIS. Hermione Granger x Fred Weasley

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I try to avoid it. Either by stating that the chapter/fic is set in the other language - like I did for 'To sell your love for peace'. Or in 'Harder to Hold' I used ^^Text^^ To show when another language was being spoken.

If I do use another language it's either not meant to be understood by the character or I do like four hours of research to be sure I'm using the thing correctly.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

I think it's a three-way tie between Star Trek: Next Generation, Newsies, and Three Musketeers.

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

I hate this question. I really love 'Flexibility (noun)'. It still makes me laugh.

No-pressure tags: @writeforfandoms, @writefightandflightclub , @youvebeenlivingfictional, @blueeyesatnight, and anyone else who might like to play.

Please make your own post!

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tamiddyinyourcity · 4 years

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11:32pm. Back from date.

Someone called my date the r-word, as we were walking from the movie theater.

People disgust me.

And maybe so does my date, when i witness him drooling and having chunks of meat sticking from his underbite, wiping snot on his fingers, and letting rice fall out from his lips.

But no one is perfect.

Just glad that it's over. I looked beautiful, got to wear my new heels out, and felt iconic.

....

Niggas are off a bean if they said the women in Birds of Prey weren't sexy. Did you not see all that ASS that Canary was having behind her? The milf status of the cop gone rogue? I swear to god. If you didnt find any of these women sexy, jesus christ.......

It was a good film too. I couldn't stop laughing at the overly gruesome death scenes. (Its not funny to watch people die, its funny to know that someone, somewhere, when writing this shit, was like "yeah lets just have this dude explode with guts and gore everywhere before he falls into the ocean lmfaoooooooo isnt it amazing???" I don't laugh at gore, I laugh at a preventable demise, and, psychopathic edgy screenwriters.)

God, let that be me someday. Making people scream in terror at film theaters someday. :)

It was like the girl version of DeadPool, and super great.

Anyway.

How am I doing?

Time to like.... talk about whatevers on my mind.

I blocked Patrick on twitter, and on instagram. Its better for me and him. My friends thought it was odd for him to still want pictures of me up on his Instagram, so I asked if he could take them down. He was.... decent enough about it. Dude is kinda constant mixed signals. But, he didnt put up a fight, thank god he didnt. Since there isnt a valid reason to go "wow; i cant keep up the breakup posts i tagged you in?", to an ex girlfriend. The most he could say was, "Well; where else am i supposed to put the photos?"...... in your e-mail, your Google Drive, in your wank bank? Even my pictures of him in my phone gallery rarely see the light of day. Unless I scroll for a super specific looking screenshot and hit December...

He can find me and he knows how. But, we all know he will never do anything. It kind of sucks, being the one that initiated everything in our relationship.... It's sexy, but also super tiring, and thus, i relinquished myself of the stress for now.

He also has a tumblr. Shame that I don't know it, but, ignorance is bliss. I'd probably just pull a him, and read all his old posts, or whatever.

I gotta avoid texting him. Even if I get one of those paranoid thoughts, or whatever, I can't. "What the fuck were those texts about?" Who knows, who cares, youre single. Focus on shifting whatever energy you had on something new. Eating fruit, drinking water, stacking money, hustling, living your life. Like I told myself, and him in the letter.... There needs to be a change, and I need to let it happen.

Breakups always feel guilty. Its either "this person is potentially crying over you and wanting to end their life, and you are out here, watching youtube, ignoring them and not reaching out to check in for their safety?", but if i do... then its.... "Oh, theyre fine, theyre just tweeting weirdly niche things that no one else will understand, swiping right on every woman they can find on tinder, and being a dick." So, its either guilt, or low self esteem mixed with an ego.... not amazinggggggg to haaaaaaave.

No more oral sex from him..... Sacrifices were made for my mental health.

I forgot to ask for my book back. Should I just leave it? Wait a month before getting it back? He isnt gonna read it, most likely; and didnt seem to see it as up his alley..... I should wait awhile though. Since tbh, it will just suck me back in to see him again anytime soon.

I am exhausted. :)

Tired from the night out. Tired of needing money in my life. Tired of the "will they, wont they" inner narrator in my head that is enabling the bullshit between me and my ex. (Since damn it, Patrick. I don't need a final kiss, I need somebody I can actually trust would be there for me when the moment calls for it.)

As much as I can stop myself from hating him.... hes barely a likeable person.

Or in the sense of, "He was a perfectly likeable human being, flaws and all, until he proved to care very little for Tamia's emotions, and very often went out of his way to avoid a resolution, for his own selfishness, and pretending he did not purposely start several problems entirely on his own juuuust to hope he could walk away from messes he made.)

Irresponsible as FUCK; man! You had one job!

He chose being a simp over beig a problem solver, then became a Grade A Gaslighter.

Frankly, missing him does me no good.

Patrick is...... too predictable, yet unpredictable. You can look forward to something with him, but still get the feeling that he would cancel plans at the slightest inconvenience to him.

A.k.a., him cancelling on me very abruptly a few days ago, since he found it toooo embarrassing to tell his family that i still exist in his life as a friend.... (I ended up crying and writing a 12 page letter, while listening to "fuck that nigga" music for four hours.... But then went to bed, felt bad about the terrible things i wrote, then waited another two days to see if things could have a positive change between us two.... we did not. Then hey, thats why 24 hours ago he got a letter about why i must end things.)

I'm not overjoyed at the idea of my ex finding some other girl to do things with. But he was already doing that anyway, FWB or not around him, so....

It's simple. I wanted something that would benefit me, and this wasnt..... Not in the way I wanted, sad to say.

Letting him go and do whatever he wants, and finally letting myself go, too, works out more.

Since isnt the phrase "if you love them, let them go, and if they try to come back, then, they arent a ginormous twat any more?"

Something like that, right?

Right. :)

I was his first for a lot of things; and.... Yeah, i appreciate that he trusted me with the things he did when he had those moments before. But admittedly, a factor to me leaving was him barely remembering anything I mentioned to him. Me having nostalgia moments with him that he didnt share..... said volumes.

Plus that time we were talking in the cemetery, and I could tell his feelings changed. He was more prone to say "well if you feel that way, then i guess it was right for us to break up", and no longer seeing things we talked about struggling with as worthy of communication or resolving.

That.... made me break a little bit inside.

Its sad.

I should.... change topics, or i may keep on getting sad over the shit.

......

He's not gonna be the last person I date. And I won't, either. (Except for in the context of, "who was the last person you had dated?")

Sad as it is, nigga is gonna meet some cute girl who will hopefully be able to like him in the same way he does her. They'll live life content.

Or, another option that i do not wanna list, since it hits a little close to home.

But, he'll be fine. He's gonna get an electrician apprenticeship, make tons of money, and live life successfully.

I'll be fine, too. I've still got people on my side, they'll be more visible soon.

If I can't talk to him, then, never hurts to get back into vlogging.

And just doing right by me.

Its what i need.

Maybe its a "right place, wrong time" type scenario. I dunno.

Or its a "right time; wrong person at any other time". Maybe he was just meant to meet me to transition me from the summer to the next spring, with some confidence instilled in me.

Who knows?

I just.... Hope he knows that i liked our relationship. And i guess i wouldnt take it back, since everything happened for a reason, after all.

..........

Why am i crying at the idea of my ex moving on at midnight?

Who knows.

I'm hungry, and a little emotional. I need to go to sleep.

12:27am, I am deserving of love always, and cannot afford to let someone else see me ss not worthy of the absolute bare minimum.

I was good to do that.

Alright, god bless and amen. Peace yalls.

#exes #yep

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