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about last reblog, that's the thing that bothers me when people say likes on this hellsite are useless. it's the idea that the only purpose for interaction is to gain visibility, go viral etc, when in truth gaining any traction on this site is honestly pretty useless unless you majorly break containment and even then it's dubious.
generally speaking, from what I've noticed, you gain numbers for either shitposts, dischorse, or information posts. shitposts are the best, because at most you just get funny tags or comments, but with the latter two you risk real chance of having the stupidest people on earth in your inbox telling you to kill yourself.
(well, I guess that's a risk with shitposts too, depending on the shit you post)
a like is a tool to tell the person making the post that you, well, liked their post. or just a little I noticed your post, buddy, but don't have the energy to comment. likes absolutely serve a function
#not to mention not all posts are meant to be shared#are you failing to gain commissions because enough people aren't sharing your commission info OR because it's the Everyone Is Poor website#i like likes#i just think they're nice#not everything is about reach#sometimes it's just interacting with your internet buddies#is it nice to share things to help people out? absolutely!#but please remember your followers and friends are not just for free adverstisement
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People who aren't familiar with animal behaviour - especially when it comes to wild animals - are surprised and delighted when a wild animal that's usually averse to human contact seems to be completely tame. It's cute! Look at this little buddy, look at how friendly she is! You see pictures like that on the internet sometimes, people snapping photos of themselves and their friends picking up this incredibly sweet and docile beautiful piece of wildlife.
The truth is, that is mortifying. An animal acting unnaturally is always a bad sign. That creature is too sick or delirious to flee from a predator. Depending on what's wrong with that poor thing, their unexpected - well, unanticipated - bite might infect you, too. A creature that can't comprehend, or can't bother to care, that they're in danger is dangerous by default.
I wonder if that would apply to humans interacting with supernatural creatures. Like they emit vibes so bad that humans just fucking bolt at the first hint of it, the aura of Sense Of Impending Doom radiates from them at Demon Core doses, you'd chew your leg off like a trapped animal to escape it.
And then these creatures find a human that is so thorougly depleted of fucks to give that they honestly just don't fucking care anymore. Looking at unfathomable cosmic horrors like "yeah this might as well be happening" and doesn't even flinch at the unfathomable hand reaching to grasp them.
And the entities are like "omg look it's letting me pick it up! it's completely tame!", blisfully unaware that a human being who has reached a point this far beyond fearing death will not hesitate to kill a god.
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Do you think there's a disconnect between older and newer members of the fandom? I'm a newer fan and most of my mutuals are also new fans and sometimes it feels like fans that have been around for a while don't really want to interact with new blogs.
You know what? I love this question. I'm glad you asked. Yeah, there is a disconnect and I can tell you why it exists (at least from my perspective).
So, before Eddie got shot, this fandom was relatively small. I joined this fandom in January 2021 and... okay, so, one of my litmus tests to determine the size of a fandom is seeing how easy it is to secure a canon or "elite" url. If it's a big fandom, say, DC or Marvel, you'd have to practically kill a man to save a steverogers or brucewayne url, or even a variation of that (i.e stcverogers / brvcewayne). But if it's a medium-sized fandom, for example, you might get away with being able to save an "off-brand" canon url (i.e. canonstucky / batfam). So when I joined up, the fact that I was able to save the canonbuddie url the same day I joined was, like, "whoa. Holy shit. Not a lot going on around here!" Especially since, by this time, Buddie had already been a "ship" for a year or so.
And you know what? It was perfect!
Honestly, in those pre-shooting days, this fandom was very chill. Sure, there was the Ryan/Chrysti n-word drama, and sure, I got absolutely slaughtered every time I so much as mentioned his name in a positive way, and sure, there was your casual in-fighting here and there among some people, but it wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Everything was pretty alright.
But then Eddie got shot... and this fandom blew. the fuck. up.
Gay firefighter trended on twitter and suddenly, this fandom wasn't just a medium-sized hang out anymore. People joined in droves. People started paying attention to us, which was weird. And as with most things in these dark, long-forgotten corners of the internet, with the growth of the fandom inevitably came the Supernatural fans.
As you (probably? possibly?) know, Supernatural ended (Nov. 2020) only a couple months before Eddie got shot (May 2021). When Eddie got shot and Buddie shippers were so absolutely very convinced that this was The Moment and Season 5 was going to be their season, jilted ex-Destiel stans came sniffing around to see what we were up to. This would have been fine, but unfortunately, most of them were horribly unkind (calling us stupid and dumb and mocking us "to our faces" for believing Buddie would ever go canon) or just annoying as fuck (calling Buddie "D/estiel 2.0" and stuff like that).
It got... bad. Seriously. Me and some of the other "big" bloggers around here were constantly inundated with hatemail and mean comments attached to our posts to the point where I know a lot of us just started blocking D/estiel shippers on sight.
Most people in the fandom "closed ranks" after that, so to speak. If you weren't a trusted mutual, or a mutual-in-law, you basically had a 0% chance of punching your way through the fold. Which was ultimately to our detriment. In closing the ranks, more cliques formed, which of course, naturally, created a whole new set of problems to contend with, and all of these events eventually led us to where we are now.
It's not perfect, but it is what it is.
It should be noted that I'm not a fandom expert, and I don't claim to speak on everyone's behalf, but I remember this time, and my conversations with people during this time, with crystal-clear clarity and the D/estiel takeover seems to be the inciting event.
So. Yeah. It's not pleasant news, but I hope this helps?
#I really loved that you asked this question#I know I already said it but I can't imagine joining the fandom right now and I've never really thought about what it must be like#so. that's a dose of perspective huh?#Good luck! Have fun! Hope you find your tribe :)#jack answers mail
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Welcome to the blood pit!
Hello friends, this is my blog! My name is Mercy, and I usually just post about games or whatever else that I like :) info about me under the cut! 🫀❤️
🩸 I'm super into video games! They're my special interest (=^ェ^=)
🫀if you couldn't tell, I'm super into ultrakill at the moment.. but I do like other games like Cruelty Squad, Fear & Hunger, DUSK, FAITH, Blasphemous, Fatum Betula, OneShot, Inscryption, Buddy Simulator 1984, picayune dreams, project arrhythmia, and all sorts of other things! Feel free to chat with me about games ^_^
🩸some other media I really like are things like Berserk, I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream, SCP, Junji Ito stuff, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Electric Dreams, Interstellar, and things similar! It would take too long to name everything that I like..
🫀proudly objectum! For those who don't know what that is, that's the romantic or sexual attraction to inanimate objects, usually machinery, computers, and other tech, but it can be anything :) im in love with my gaming pc, Eclipse! I probably won't post photos of her very much, but I do occasionally talk about her on my objectum blog. Feel free to take a look!
🩸Also, I should mention, I will not be posting nsfw of any kind here, aside from jokes here and there! I'm not exactly comfortable posting publicly about such things, and I value my safety, so I would appreciate it if everyone kept it sfw here!
🫀I have an objectum side blog here! Feel free to follow me there :3
🩸I'm comfortable with all ages interacting, but pls keep in mind that I am 15, and if you are uncomfortable with interacting with minors on here for whatever reason, that's totally fine! Of course, I would appreciate it if no nsfw blogs followed me for this reason :) but if you're fine with interacting, so am I! Just don't be weird, obviously
🩸also, feel free to use any prns :) she, he, they, it, I don't mind! Whatever's good (^o^)/ I'm agender, but I do like xenogenders sometimes.. don't be a dick ( ´・_ゝ・) also, I use bot/botself and zap/zapself prns :)) neos r awesome !!
🫀On the topic of identity, I'm also robotkin, dollkin, and angelkin!! I've always felt this way, but I didn't know it had a name until recently! I suggest doing your own research, but please don't cause any arguments about it! Think what you want, but there's no need to spread negativity to people doing harmless things on the internet :)
🩸And that's about it! I'm not uncomfortable with much, but I would appreciate it if you didn't flirt with me, joke or not :) i hope we can get along !!! d=(^o^)=b
Shutting down . . . (-.-)Zzz・・・・
#ultrakill#gaming#mercy talks#v1 ultrakill#gabriel ultrakill#fatum betula#dusk#faith the unholy trinity#cruelty squad#fear and hunger#fear and hunger 2: termina#berserk#i have no mouth and i must scream#ihnmaims#nge#junji ito#blasphemous#oneshot#oneshot game#html coding#objectum#otherkin#robotkin#interstellar#Inscryption#buddy simulator 1984#picayune dreams#bullet hell#project arrhythmia#angelkin
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Bedman (Romeo)
omg havent had an excuse to talk abt bedman in a hot minute thank u anon...
favorite thing about them:
i love the tragedy of his story arc... that feels like a weird thing to say but its the first thing that came to mind! just. look. the road to hell paved with good intentions bit taken to the extreme really works here!!! the idea that he remembered the name of every person he ever killed because he was under the impression he could bring them all back, only to have the rug pulled from under him? hurts me! in the best way!!!
other than that i do enjoy his design, both romeo himself and the bed :] i wanna give my bedman cosplay another try sometime for sure, it didnt work out for various reasons but i have most of the components and would enjoy cosplaying him fr in the future
least favorite thing about them:
i think i dont really dislike anything about the way bedman is written in the source material strongly enough to point it out here? i think my main gripe is the way the fandom treats him to either extreme, like theres "bedman did nothing wrong ever" people and "bedman is horrific" people and i wish both camps would chill out and recognize hes like. a complex character? but i do think most people do this already which i can appreciate
favorite line:
im a little obsessed w his win line against may in xrd
"I do not understand humans who are motivated by love. A person is born, lives for a number of years, and interacts with up to eight billion people. What proof is there of something they can't even define?"
bc like. buddy. you dont even realize it. YOURE driven by love. all this shit wasnt just for yourself but it was for delilah too!!! fuck!!! you dont even see it as love you see it as necessary because shes that important to you!!! and dont even get me STARTED on the bed in strive and how its still running because of his last minute code additions which almost act as the last part of his will to protect delilah. GAHHHH
brOTP:
BEDMAN AND AXL INTERACTIONS. PLEASE. PLEASE. their dynamic is so interesting as characters with such fascinating ways of interacting with the world...gah. GAH. and no one fucking talks about it!!!
OTP:
sinbed. must i wlabo.
ok but i will, im not as into them as i was like a year ago but i still do really enjoy their dynamic. sin being such a beacon of hope and being so willing to see people as good contrasted with a post-xrd living bedman (bc all my sinbed stuff exists within au but im having fun out here so sue me) seeing himself as inherently evil due to his actions despite his intentions and believing no one would ever care for him? it hits for me
nOTP:
i dont know of anything off the top of my head that ive seen for him??? nothing prevalent at least.
actually on second thought i think ive seen like one instance of bedman and ram in a romantic sense, and that im not a fan of but i guess i could see the appeal, just not my thing
random headcanon:
this motherfucker would have gotten heated in some internet forums or wiki talk pages, DEDICATED to accuracy out here and he WILL fight you about it
unpopular opinion:
not entirely certain i have one? i think the "bedman while flawed is not actually a terrible person and was doing his best given his extremely fucked up circumstances" is a pretty cool take by this point for most people
i think the only thing i have is that my interpretation of bedman has always been as like a young adult rather than a kid but like i dont really have a concrete opinion on that and i totally understand people who do see him as a kid like its entirely understandable to do so
song i associate with them:
other than his character themes, its GOTTA be dramaturgy by eve, which just. it gives the vibes. read the english lyrics it will make sense i prommy
favorite image of them:
THE EEPER...
OTHER than this one its more an animation but his 6p in xrd is so silly i love it so bad...and for a more serious option his instant kill is really cool
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ME!
Today, August 30th, is my birthday and (conveniently) also the day I posted my first fic, It Wasn't A Bad Thing (Do not read it, read the rewrite), on Ao3 and entered the Byler community as a writer and eventually artist.
It's strange to think that I've been here for 365 days now. I mean, that's a lot of days, but it's honestly been so fun to get to know some of the people here and I just love you guys. All of you. Seriously.
As a birthday gift, maybe read one of my fics and leave a fun comment (I have them all listed in my pinned past, but I recommend the superspy, pirate, and zombie Will ones)! If not that, give me a silly drawing request I'll take days to finally get around to or even just a fun little ask!!
And I love to talk about myself, but over the year, there have been some very impactful people I've met on this site, and I'd just like to thank all of them for being so wonderful (if you're not on the list, I still love you, I promise. I'd name every one of my followers if I could), so without further ado...
Rainy's Thank You List of Very Awesome People:
@foodiewithdahoodie you, my friend, are the best. One of my first ever followers, even before I was an artist. I've had your support since day 1 and I'm so grateful to call you my mutual!! You're seriously the kindest ever <333
@microwaveonwheels You're just the most fun person, my favorite kitchen appliance. You've got the best (and sometimes the most challenging) drawing requests and you never ever fail to make me laugh with your tags. Keep your energy forever and ever, my biology genius mutual :)))))
@sillylittlerock If I have one fan, it's you. If I have 100 fans, you're one of them. If I have no fans, you have left the building. SILLYLITTLEROCK you are THE ROCK and genuinely the sweetest person ever. Absolutely my favorite and I hope you have the most beautiful of days. Rock gang, rock gang.
@callmetheidiot I hope the ex fight was worth it, you've let me become a wattpad fiend (jkjk I haven't even touched wattpad in over a week). You are the kindest and most wonderful of people, callmetheidiot. And I would never ever call you an idiot bc you are the absolute definition of the opposite.
@th3-third-duffel-bag You're the coolest ever. And it makes me laugh when you leave angry comments on my Ao3. Much, much love <333
@cringengl I don't interact with you much, but every time you like one of my posts, I feel like you're saying it's cringe and it makes me laugh every time. Have the most amazing of days today! I love you!
@runninguplenorahills If I had to have my first pointless internet beef with anyone, I'm glad it was you. I'll admit, I was wrong about the barbie movie thing. I'm just stubborn. I think you're awesome though, even if we're worst enemies now. (jkjk we're not enemies... unless...) (no jk again) Have a wonderful day!!!!
@elsbianism You know what? I just think you're neat. Even before I started following you I was just like gee, they're pretty neat. And then I did follow you! And now we're mutuals! And you're still the neatest person here, El, so congrats on that one.
@miaisagirllover MIA I LOVE YOU! Thank you for helping me to break the barrier between dimensions. I look at your pinterest every day like ahhhh my stuff. And you've just got the best takes, I'm sorry so many people like Billy. I'll try to stop them. Have a lovely day, friend!!
@chaoticbyler Just had to give a quick shoutout to my pinterest spy on the inside. Never would have even known my art was breaking barriers without your help. Thanks, soldier. I owe you one.
@midget-is-a-simp I don't think I have one post you haven't liked. And I've had minimal interaction with you, but if my life was a TV show, you'd be the character who showed up once a season and you're somehow everyone's favorite character.
@yearninginblue you are my superspy buddy for life and I love you so so so much <3
@phaniella your comments make my day and I love you for it <3
@howtobecomeadragon IDK HOW I ALMOST FORGOT YOU OMG YOU'RE THE BEST. BEST FOR LAST, I GUESS. YOU, my friend, are the sweetest ever and I'm so happy to be your mutual. The fact that you like dragons so much is so cool. Never ever lose your passion! Dragons are awesome (and so are you)!!
Alright, sorry it's long, but I had a lot of people to be thankful for (and, trust me, so many more who I couldn't fit to the list). If you see this, just know I love you more than anything and I hope EVERYONE had the best day ever.
Bye-bye for now,
Rainy Pebble
#stranger things#byler#byler fanfic#BIRTHDAY TIME#YAYAYAYAY#one year anniversary!!#that's just so cool#thank you all for making it such a good experience
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Okay okay okay, since you are at the start of season 2. I need to ask something rq.
What do you think about Soulburner and Flame so far? Soulburner is my favorite personally from the entirety from Vrains, but I also love Flame. So I am very curious to hear what you think about them so far!! SORRY I AM JUST EXCITED GO HEAR PEOPLE'S OPINIONS OF STUFF I LIKE-
Excitement is always welcome in this house, bestie.
I'm having a BLAST with Soulburner, in exactly the way you sometimes look at characters that seems almost suspiciously tailor made to your character tastes. What do you MEAN he's a happy love filled shonen boy with fire and explosions???? AND he's an awkward socially blunt weirdo by day???? Who leaked the file of Spk's Favorite Character Types and decided to throw that into a blender????
LOOK AT THIS SCARF.
How much in-game currency do you think he paid for an animated accessory with a custom particle trail? I'm obsessed.
He's got such a good dynamic with Yusaku, both capable of laser focusing on the task at hand, but Theo does it in such a different font. The only bad thing I can say about him is that I am not capable of following the rapid fire flow of information that is Salamangreats, and my word association brain finds it very weird that the archetype has yet to show me a single salamander monster. What do you MEAN this isn't an archetype based on lizards???
(Literally my only complaint. I understand that it's silly but I really like lizards okay. Kagetokage was peak and I miss him every day. But I am coming around to salads.)
Flame is such a delight as well. Instead of the passionate idiot that you'd normally associate with Fire (Soulburner has that base covered), we've got this cool and collected british dude who you think has it put together until he opens his mouth and you realize he's a little bit insane actually. I just met a certain little green fella and am slowly coming to realize that all the ignis are just Like This. And it's GREAT. And totally makes sense for the weird road to personhood these lil guys had, but mostly I just love that they're all unhinged and slightly wrong in the head. Icons, the lot of them.
But most importantly, the thing that absolutely endears Flame and Soulburner to me is their dynamic together. Friend shaped cheerful shonen boy who just wants friends but also lights himself on fire on the reg, and his six inch tall little weirdguy whose snippy and sarcastic but gives friendship speeches to his human buddy because he openly shows that he would burn down the whole world for this guy. Just like Ai and Yusaku, they've got this ever-so-slightly-unhealthy trauma bond going on. (Which is great. Again, praise be to the writing that this show makes such a complicated dynamic come across even while not directly addressing it, just in little day-to-day conversations and incidental remarks.) But unlike the other two, they're also so openly affectionate and casually ride-or-die. They laugh at each others jokes! They gas up each others bits and have honest conversations! They're freaking besties and it's so funny when they're standing next to Mx. Yusaku "I have never learned what a normal healthy social interaction is in my life" Fujiki and Mr. A "I grew up on the internet and have a weird understanding of social norms so I just make jokes and think that constitutes a friendship" i.
I knew I'd love them when Theo sat down and tried to explain human social rituals to Flame through their shared special interest, I knew I ADORED them when Soulburner asked "Why are you acting like we're going to lose?" and Flame replied "For dramaaa~"
#the weird relationships between ignis and their counterpart lost children my freaking BELOVED#they're traumabonded they're kinda deranged they love each other so much they're soulmates they're weirdos#we meet Ai in the first season and we're like 'oh wow he's the black sheep of the family!'#and then we meet the other ignis and it turns out they're all like this#in their own special way#10/10 enterance in the series for Soulburner#it's hard to beat descending from the sky on a tornado of fire#though I do have a question. In flashbacks to like three months ago Theodore doesn't have glasses.#Did he just start needing them in the past few weeks or something#Did he have to get a script while in the middle of moving cities#or is he just nearsighted and doesn't wear them for reading#as a fellow glasses wearer this is deeply important to me#yugioh#vrains#spk watches vrains#yugioh vrains#ygo vrains#asks#answered asks#soulburner#theodore hamilton#flame vrains
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as a post-pandemic arrival to fandom who hadn’t really given much thought to the inner workings of OTW till current events… something I’m genuinely curious about: were you guys friends? (otw board, chairs, people who were setting up/running other fandom platforms like DW, too.) are you still? very aware you can largely only give your own perspective, and I totally understand that you might want to keep things vague!
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I was a fan of shalott from before we all moved to LJ (and she couldn't get shalott and had to change to astolat), but I've never been actual friend friends with her. A lot of the early people were like 10 years older than I and went to cons I didn't, so I saw them around on the internet, but we weren't really buddies. I was also in anime fandoms and/or just not in the particular fandoms a lot of the early staff/volunteers were.
But yes, plenty of people who were there early on were friends prior to founding OTW. Even more were people who knew each other from in-person events but may not have been super close.
I think that became less true as OTW grew. That incestuous little LJ world has opened up a lot as fandom has changed and/or wider fandom has found AO3.
At this point, I barely remember who all I interacted with over my years with OTW. Offhand, I think the only person I'm close friends with now is someone I don't even remember interacting with, though apparently, I was the only one to answer an e-mail she sent asking for help, so she did remembered me. We became friends because we live near each other.
I do hang out with other local fans sometimes, and some of them have been tag wranglers and such. A hell of a lot of people have volunteered in some capacity at some point.
I also don't always know the fandom names of people who were using their real names for OTW, so IDK if I still know them.
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https://www.tumblr.com/causesciencethatswhy/742925680934862848/nothing-more-annoying-than-supposed-neutral-fans
this might be a bit late but it’s just so perplexing and interesting to me how tkers a) have an absurd level of influence on the entire fandom and b) are legitimately much more insane than most delusional shippers even larries
as someone who was a tween when shipping really started to become a thing on the internet its fascinating (and disturbing) to see how it has gone from a casual and harmless “wow they look good together and have chemistry i want to see more of that” to “here is an entire dissertation’s worth of bogus theory about a same-sex pairing despite me being ragingly homophobic and probably mysoginistic.”
how it went from an admiration of chemistry and attraction to actual clinical delusion in a matter of years needs to be studied.
anyhow, i was thinking about all of the discourse surrounding jimin, jk, and the buddy system and am shocked by a couple of things. first, the complete undermining of their friendship despite them being ridiculously close for years. whether you like their dynamic or not it’s literally impossible to deny that jk and jimin have been thick as thieves for (at least) the past 5 or 6 years. I became an army in 2019 so it has always been obvious to me that they are extremely close. sure, you can make the argument that they didn’t “hang out” as much during 2023 but there’s still a considerable amount of interactions between them, much more than most of the other members who no army second guesses how close they are (the biggest example being jimin and taehyung who we literally only saw interact towards the end of the year).
second is how people literally pretend taennie never happened. hell, i think more people believe the blurry jk apartment video than they believe th and jn we’re in a real relationship for almost 2 years. there’s actual pictures of him on her BED with her kitty (a literal one) and you’ll still see majority of armys act like it never happened. yes, their privacy was horribly invaded but everyone knows damn well that is not the reason why most armys choose to ignore that relationship and then go and gush about him and IU.
though these two things might seem unrelated, i think both of these narratives that have always been pushed by tkers and have successfully crossed over to supposedly non-shipper armys and demonstrate just how influential tker theory is on the fandom.
this is exactly why i won’t really sweat over whatever a tkker says. if taehyung was in a long-term relationship for years that is confirmed by DOZENS of personal pictures through different dates, months, and locations but they still want to deny it… there’s simply nothing to reason with there. its just a waste of time and space. there’s a chance jikook have not been or are not more than close friends but there’s no chance th was with anyone other than jennie for the past 2 years in what is looked like the most serious relationship he’s ever had.
i feel bad for him too even if i feel he sometimes stokes the flames of shippers. imagine breaking up w your most serious partner ever, grieving that relationship AND your normal life since you’ll soon be part of the military for 2 years and all the while your “fans” are picking apart and making up insane theories about you and your friend.
I agree with most of what you say anon.
Of course we can't know for sure what the nature of jkks relationship last year was but I'm way more inclined to believe that their bond is still going as strong as it was before not just because of the buddy system news but purely because the ease and doting nature of the interactions we saw last year has remained the same.
And you're right, nothing will ever convince tkkrs to really just see the truth for what it is. There's always an alternative explanation, an alternative enemy to set your eyes on, an alternative ploy by the company to break the tkkr spirit. It's quite ridiculous. I think the worst thing with the taennie situation was that the whole 'It's an edit!! It's an impersonator!! It's a PR move by Jen/nie!!" Was that it wasn't just tkkrs buying into this. It was a majority of armys. The general fandom now looks back on taennie as 'a conspiracy to defame tae (except armys and blinks were the only ones who thought that these two adult humans possibly dating would be defamatory to either of them).
I legit had a very close irl army friend, whose not a shipper but still a pretty dedicated fan get into an argument with me because I told her that ppls reaction to tae dating was ridiculous. She word to word reiterated all the bs tkkr theories I had seen floating around and was unwilling to consider the possibility of them being made up conspiracies. I was genuinely surprised because she is generally very chill about these discourses but I guess the need to believe he wasn't dating a BP member took precedent over what the reality really was ??
Either way, it'll be interesting to see how they behave post 2025. I doubt they're going to calm down anytime soon with the jikook travel show on it's way. It's going to feed their theories as much as it's going to entertain the rest of us I'm afraid.
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Yooooo! Welcome back boss man! (idk ur pronouns, is it ok for me to call you 'man'?)
Ne-ways, my overthinking aside, I love all your Smokey-centric aus! We desperately need more Smokescreen content.
But, I must say, Early Crash is prolly the most fascinating to me. Like, think of all the possibilities! Smokescreen's literally the only (awake, alive and sentient) Cybertronian on Earth rn, he can basically do anything (with the goverment monitoring him obv). I'd liek to think that when social media finally became popular he became a kind of a faceless celebrity yk? Or maybe he and his buddy that may-or-may-not-be Raf chat about technology and exchange tips and fun facts about it in private convos lol.
Thankee :DDDDDD (and dw, I feel comfortable with any pronouns or gendered terms, so feel free to refer to me however :D)
and I love the idea of him being a sort of Faceless Celebrity. What if when the internet does start to exist and pick up traction, Smokescreen starts a sort of dashcam podcast thing? Like, in the beginning it was just him doing verbal logs to fill the silence and make his travels less boring as he looked from Energon/Cybertronian Things, but then Fowler ends up listening to one of them and suggested Smokey start a podcast. This could even get him some potential spending money for little trinkets and the like
It probably wouldn't have a single topic he'd stick to, really just jumping around whatever he feels like talking about on any given day. Sometimes it's about movies or shows he recently discovered, other times it could be about where he is, and maybe every once in a while it could be just..... him venting. Talking about his home. His mentor. He'd of course be careful to not mention anything incriminating or suspicious, but it adds another thing to look forward to doing and to fill the empty, lonely silence.
And of course, the internet has no idea who this mysterious "Smokescreen" guy is or how he manages to travel to all these places that are ridiculously far away from each other, but he does get a decently large following as the years go by, so he considers it a win
and YES. I wanted to play around with Smokey meeting the kids at various points, so them bonding over tech and hacking is gonna be so much fun. Maybe he even teaches Raf the Cybertronian language, but under the guise it's some kind of code he made. So now on top of Raf already being a genius and gifted when it comes to tech, he's also had Smokescreen tutoring him for a couple years
(I'm also a sucker for the potential for holoforms, and maybe Smokescreen initially has one so he wouldn't be a driverless car but it gradually started getting more and more complex until he could use it to interact with people if he has to. Maybe this could be how he meets Jack and June?)
Also, I'll admit I'm currently playing around with the specifics of when he lands on Earth. Initially my idea was that he was only a couple years before canon...... but now I'm starting to think about the possibility of it being even more, say....... a couple decades :)
heck, Fowler might not even be his first minder. Who's to say he didn't have others before (maybe they just got old enough to retire, but if you want to go the angsty route they could be dead)
#this au has so much potential to go in any direction and I LOVE IT#early crash#transformers#transformers prime#tfp#tfp smokescreen#smokescreen#tfp raf#raf esquivel#tfp fowler#william fowler#tfp jack#jack darby#tfp june#june darby#kd answers#domincja
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Are you an asshole or just a jerk to Straitfox? He barely knows you.
buddy.
these words, this sentence, that which i am typing to you, right now, is the first and only time i have ever said words to you. so it's really REALLY weird to me just how personally you're taking all of this.
first off, you ain't slick. at least change how your sentence ends if you're going to pretend to be somebody else.
you know, i had you blocked on social media, but it was such a long while ago that the reason initially escaped me. but when you made the above comment on an FA upload, i thought that was just a super weird thing to do, so i went looking into the matter, and as it turns out, you in particular seem to follow, like, retweet, and interact with a lot of people and content that runs counter to my own morals and ideals. quite aggressively so, even! clearly, your posts and/or content came across my feed at some point, and i simply did not care to see it, so i took action for my own sake and got ahead of things by placing a block.
quite a normal thing to do on social media, by the way, you should try it sometime.
except, you did, apparently, which makes this whole thing even weirder considering you're going out of your way to try to mess with me for some reason??
my personal rule is to curate my experience for my own needs, and that includes blocking people that i don't wanna see or interact with, especially if i already know it wouldn't go anywhere. that's called setting healthy boundaries, pardner.
but lo and behold - you pop up on my FA page, complimenting my art, while drawing attention to the fact that i'd blocked you before. so, after i did my research into the issue, i felt it necessary to take even further action to cement my boundaries in all of my respective spaces (because, somehow, i had a feeling you would try to get around it again. funny!) your pride seemingly couldn't handle that, so now you're reaching out to me via an Anonymous message on my barely-used decrepit art tumblr because you can't get to me any other way. all because of the fact that I, some random dude on the internet, who does not matter in the SLIGHTEST in the grand scheme of things, never said a solitary word to you before blocking you ONCE.
listen. this thing you're doing? weird and creepy. not just once, but twice, even??? frankly, ignoring my boundaries and doing whatever all of this is, is actual asshole behavior, brother. it ain't the guy curating his spaces and trying to just move on with his life, that's for sure.
just be an adult and stay in your corner, man. this ain't worth it. -I- ain't worth it. you're supposed to know better, anyway, you're OLDER than I am. you've had more time to learn these kinds of lessons than I have, so like. use 'em. please.
just leave the issue alone. what's it to you, anyway? you barely know me.
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Bita? Why is fanservice so looked down on in BL. Like okay I understand if the reason is we don't know for sure if actors or actresses are forced to do something they are uncomfortable with...but other than that, why is it looked down on.
Isn't it kind of like a promoting your product? Plenty of people all around the world do it. We have Bollywood stars making appearance on tv shows to promote their films. We have a whole ass opera playing on streets of turkey to promote magnificent century: kosem. This is just more hands on, isn't it? I don't understand.
Now, I'm a ship-and-let-ship typa girl. Just as long as real people aren't hurt or abused or forced to admit things about themselves that they don't want to, ship whoever you want.
The thing is, fan service is like you said, advertisement for a product (current show or future projects of a couple). It's cute. It's harmless. It gives fans MORE CONTENT after the show is finished.
The problem, to me, begins when people start getting bullied on the Internet for dating women, just because they were promoting a bl couple. For example, Mile from Kinnporsche. He's been in so much drama with people claiming that he's "using" Apo for fame. Which is ridiculous because Apo never said he was dating Mile and they're both adults.
Just look at the issue with Nanon from Bad Buddy. People got mad that he had girlfriends. This is prevalent, in part, because fan service exists.
Fans will ship whomever they want. I mean, I'm over here shipping Tem and Tankhun and they met only once. And I'll be honest, the shipping is because I saw a couple of videos of the actors. Fans will ship people who have never interacted. So I can't blame fanservice for that. But when the actors play up a relationship or some form of "specialness" to each other, it's easy for people to believe that it's real. When, half the time, it isn't.
And yeah, we might sometimes know that it's part of the job. Other times, we might not. And this leads to fans misbehaving, in the name of protecting their ship. Mew got called out for abandoning Gulf just because he was cast in another show. As if these men are tied together and are not supposed to breathe without each other.
Fan service has led to some unfortunate things.
HOWEVER,
Like the people who indulge in bullying actors for having real lives, there are also bullies on the other side of the issue who believe it is their place to bully people who believe in or support fan service.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with shipping two actors. Especially when they protray themselves as "interetsed" in each other, outside of the show. The problem begins when this shipping gets these actors stalked and bullied just because strangers that they've never met want to secure a ship.
This is really an issue of people not understanding boundaries, more than anything. Because if we just enjoyed the content that they were giving us without looking for more, all will be fine. And if people just minded their business about who other adults wanted to ship, all will also be fine.
But with this culture of getting in people's business, crazy shippers and crazy anti-shippers find themselves on the same side, as they both bully other people for not living in the same reality that they do.
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You Don’t Actually Answer To Asks Y Lie
[IMAGE ID]: 3 screenshots all showing the tumblr ask inbox. the first has 3 asks on it, the first one sent (read at the bottom of the page) reads: “do you allow translations of your stories” the second one reads: “Do you allow translations of your work?” and the third reads: “y do you not answer asks”. The second screenshot shows one ask that reads: “hello?” with many o’s and question marks. The third screenshot shows a final ask reading: “y u ignore asks”. [IMAGE ID END]
um, good morning !
first and foremost: nobody online owes you shit, anon. like literally nobody, especially not someone who just posts bnha fanfiction at incredibly random increments. it’s just not how the world works.
i get that u asked a question and (im assuming) really really want to translate my writing, but i’m allowed to not answer literally anything in my inbox for whatever reason without getting spammed? like, i would understand maybe a reminder ask to make sure tumblr didn’t delete your ask, but, in general, this was excessive.
the internet is here for your convenience and entertainment , yes, but that doesn’t mean that *i* am here for your convenience and entertainment. i provide a free service (and honestly don’t even provide it regularly) because i want to, not because i’m obligated.
and, that goes for literally any request for fanfiction authors. “you wrote this ooc” or “you need to update this” or sending requests or telling the author how their fics should end — literally anything you could think of, people online who you are Not Paying Or Bartering Services From can just ignore you. that’s how it works.
moving past that (if i were somehow obligated to answer your ask immediately) i haven’t been online and answering asks and just ignoring yours to be mean or something. i haven’t actually been on the app for longer than maybe 2 mins at a time in over a month because … and i know this might be a foreign in concept for you and your view of people online … i have been busy!
i’m also not in the habit of checking my asks, to be completely truthful. it’s been over a year since i’ve gotten one, other than the literal two last month, if i’m remembering correctly, because 99% of my followers are lurkers (i love you all dearly and am exactly the same way) but i’m just. not in the habit of checking!!
to answer your question, though, no. i’m not comfortable with people translating my works because i feel like it opens the floodgates for people copying and pasting my works and posting them as their own without me able to check and regulate it. if i were to have works translated, i def wouldn’t feel comfortable with someone on anon asking to do it because i would want to know where and when they were posting the translations and i would probably talk to whoever wanted to translate extensively before letting them post anything (mainly to make sure they’re not just going to slap my fanfic into google translate tbh).
and, i’m going to be honest with you buddy, what you really should take out of this interaction is that you probably really need to get offline for a few hours. it’s not the end of the world if one blog doesn’t answer your ask within the week that you sent it. i didn’t see it, i wasn’t maliciously ignoring you, and (for anyone wondering or waiting for an ask to be answered) i always intend to get to asks eventually, im just not going to always answer super fast. and sometimes i won’t answer if it’s something i don’t want to answer or a request i don’t want to do or literally any other reason because I Don’t Have To.
(if there are any typos in this, i’m sorry, i just woke up for a little morning fanfic read after not being able to sleep and saw this … mess. now, i have a rlly nice anon to answer and imma do that :) this was in no way to discourage people sending me asks — this was to discourage people from spamming me because i didn’t answer on the timeline they’ve imposed on me)
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buddy, i understand why youre so confused. cause i am too.
i understand the whole things yeah, the 'harassing people is bad', 'mind your business', etc etc. but other than that im lost on whatever the hell this 'pro' and 'anti' stuff is. ive just been not interacting with that, i think those pro anti people call it being 'neutral' im pretty sure. anyway i think the whole concept is pretty dumb, but its the internet. i wouldnt be surprised if someone doxed someone else over ice cream flavors
what ive for the whole thing is this: pro in proship stands for 'pro' as in 'for' for shipping/ship and let ship, anti is the opposite of that. antis believe that fiction can influence people, pros dont. pros believe what you like in fiction does not dictate your morals, antis dont. etc etc
my tip is this: keep far far away and ignore everything about those two things. if you dont wanna do that, well, try not to get too lost in the sauce while listening to both sides and keep your mind open
sorry if you already knew half of this and this is just kinda null, have a nice day
I'm not big on lables. I think theres a pretty reasonable middle ground to be had but I doubt either side is going to actually listen for long enough to figure this out. It would be nice if they did but, this is the internet.
"Pedophilia is bad"
can coexist with
"Fictional characters aren't real and doing reprehensible things to them has no real life victims"
aswell as
"Fiction and the way objectionable content in fiction is framed has historically been used as propaganda to enable or encourage harmful behavior irl."
They're not contradictory unless deliberately misinterpreted and exaggerated via a bad faith rube-goldberg of causality.
Books like Lolita play with framing in a way that a lot of mainstream readers miss the point of, especially readers that expect Lolita to spoon feed them the morals as many other books would have. Whether or not a reader is aroused or horrified by Lolita has nothing to do with their own morals and everything to do with whether or not they picked up on the fact that the narrator is an unreliable monster justifying and lying to himself when it comes to the girl in the novel.
Art is complicated and some audiences, no matter how hard the author tries, are going to interpret that art in a way the author did not intend or even pervert the meaning to support whatever worldview they had before encountering the work.
Sometimes stories show you an oversexualized and glorified depiction of a repugnant act, explicitly because they trust that this framing would make the audience uncomfortable. The titillation is intended only as a gateway to vomiting or a profound sense of horror as it highlights that not all bad things are prevented and that this world will not punish the unjust inherently. It's asking you to wallow in the tragedy.
There are surely stories that have no such deeper meaning and are quite simply porn. The line is thin and blurry. When you censor one you run the risk of censoring them all because someone unprepared to think critically about what the media they consume is trying to say, is going to miss the point.
Censorship is a difficult thing to manage and everyone has a right to distrust the powers enforcing it.
You can believe strongly that there is media that does more harm than good whilst also understanding that very rarely is this the direct or intentional fault of the creator or consumers of the work on an individual level. But rather cogs in a larger system to which individuals can participate much in the same way we don't blame the butterfly for the hurricane. You can fight for censorship without shaming or harassing the people who don't want it.
I'm sure someone else could explain this better than I could and I'm open to being wrong about this. I certainly don't have all the answers, that's a part of being human.
-Luke
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hi I know this is weird to ask but idk who to ask about this and I feel really comfortable asking you.
How do you not be awkward or dry.
Idk why I feel I’m a very awkward person I don’t really know how to hold a convo and I feel I’m a very dry texter. like I see videos abt dry texting on my fyp on tiktok and it’s actually like me. like sometimes I won’t be one but also I feel it’s the people I talk to who are also dry. Like I was texting some people on my spam account and I can see I'm not really dry maybe a bit awkward but I felt comfortable and was having fun idk why I cant be like that all the time and be like that in person. Also idk how to make small talk in class or in general I want to make more friends and be less awkward but I can’t. like I’m a pretty quiet person but this school year I did make more friends I realized that I only talk to them in school and not really online like barely so I feel we aren’t really friends but like close classmates. Also, it’s just awkward texting them sometimes like idk what to say or ask. Like idk does anyone have advice? It’s weird I wish I wasn’t awkward and could talk to people and hold a convo. sorry I feel like i’m ranting but I would really appreciate some advice. thank you so much.
it's not weird to ask at all! I'm glad you felt comfortable messaging me :) and don't worry- you're not ranting :)
I feel like- in the age of the internet, where everyone is consuming such different content- it can be hard to find a common ground you're comfortable enough in to not be awkward or dry. If you do find a common ground, and you're in an online forum - as you mentioned - it can still be awkward cuz you can't rely on reading someone else's body language to see if you should keep going with your approach to the conversation.
Making small talk can be hard as fuck- I have an asd diagnosis, so believe me- I know how hard it can be 💕 i've found that finding people of a similar neurotribe to be very important in gaining social confidence- we live in a world where people can be quick to judge, so learning to stretch your social wings in an environment where you're among friends can help a lot-
maybe your school has a kpop club or a dungeons and dragons club or whatever floats your boat! the thing with socializing, and physics, is that getting the ball rolling is the hardest part- putting yourself out there in unfamiliar/new social situations can be rough, but the more you do it, the more you'll get better at it :)
as is the case with anything - socializing included - it sometimes helps to come with some studying under your belt - you could try to come up with some general questions for small talk as you're getting to know people- I've found that in this day and age, people don't like talking about their jobs too much- but if you ask the question 'have you seen any good movies or shows lately?' people often DEEP dive into what makes them nerd out, and that's always a great starting point :) maybe you have some shows/movies in common? a hatred for the same character? a childhood movie that you two can plan to watch with some buddies? or if you're not a movie kind of person, you can ask what activities someone gets up to- it's a good doorway to going on a hike together or out to play some tennis or join a chill ultimate frisbee team :)
at the end of the day- not everyone is on the market for friends, and when you face social rejection, most of the time it has less to do with you and more to do with the person you're trying to interact with already being overwhelmed/having a full plate :)
just remember, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take, you're lovable and deserve to have friends without making drastic changes to who you are, and not everything works out - but when it does, that's the basis for growth :)
Good luck!!!!!!
#inbox#i hope this sort of helps!#it's giving mister darcy from pride and prejudice#and what does that man do?#he practices :) he learns- he does his best#and you'll find people who think your best is enough :)#as well- whether you are asd or not - you can look up small talk videos on tiktok#there will be lots of different opinions there on approaches to socializing#maybe one of those will fit better than my 'ask what movies they like' question :)#tbh tho- some people are just kind of conversationally more dry-#and if you're not vibing with that then thats fine!#keep an eye out for an extroverted adhd-er in the need of a new quiet introvert bestie ;)#truly tho- i've found that the best base for a friendship is one common deep interest :)
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List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you. learn to know your mutuals and followers ♡
I did this in reverse order lol
anyways!
1. my darling kittycat, she is almost 20 years old but she is still my little sister who is also a kitty cat
2. internet buddies! i love my friends irl too but it’s really nice to have social interaction daily and my friends are truly the funniest people ever.
3. books! i love reading, i can really lose myself in them.
4. i don’t even like frozen very much and i’m a mouse hater but, unfortunately lol listening to let it go on from frozen on loop is a proven mood relaxer/stabilizer
5. sometimes just seeing a pretty shade of blue (and there are so many of them!) can lift my mood
Thank you, Effie! 💙
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