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lucabyte · 2 months

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i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

#[isabeau voice] am i insane or does sometimes loop talk like they might have killed their whole family. is that just me? just checking.#nille design highly inspired by @kiwibrain's since its the one that imprinted in my mind. liberties taken since i didnt look @ reference #anyway i have a lot more thoughts on this? i guess ill hide them in the tags...? scroll down i suppose.#isat #in stars and time #isat spoilers #in stars and time spoilers #isat act 6 spoilers #isat loop #isat siffrin #isat bonnie #isat nille #isat fanart #in stars and time fanart #doodlebyte #----------------------------------------------------------------------#anyway the extra thoughts. are literally just my general thoughts on postcanon. (and thus are the context for all of my postcanon doodles!)#which is i think nille joins the party before loop reappears for a start (either from a period of nonexistence or just wandering around)#and that like. i think the party should be able to integrate loop as a completely new person. because they are! the secrecy isn't great but #They and Siffrin shuffle into different ecological niches in the party (eg. i think sif is more squeamish after it all but loop isnt)#and while it's not *exactly* what Loop wanted they get that beggars can't be choosers. and its pretty good #(i am glossing over how i think loop's reappearence drags both them and siffrin into a massive behavioural backslide and is likely a bit #distressing to watch go down. cycle of argument -> lovebombing -> normalcy -> repeat. etc etc. but since they are no longer literally #stewing in the worst pressure cooker of all time they do resolve it via productive conversation on their own time. its fine)#the party well-meaningly tries to deduce things from loop's vagueries and are able to pin down the DEAD FAMILY vibe pretty quickly.#but eventually the question of their prior identity falls by the wayside because well! they're just their friend loop! (also change belief)#as for how The Truth Come Out... this is what i mean by The Isabeau Torment Nexus(tm). which is that i think... isiloop should almost occur #BEFORE isabeau knows who loop is. he's just genuinely charmed by them eventually and tries to close the open end of the polycule #which FREAKS LOOP THE FUCK OUT because thats just too genuinely sick and wrong. and obviously w emotions high its not a great confrontation #ANYWAY told u i had more thoughts. if i were normal itd be a text post but.

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ribbononline · 4 days

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Sylv/Gard + Shiny fusion

#getting its own post because im proud of htem YIPPEE!#sylveon #gardevoir #pokemon fusion #pokefusion #pokemon infinite fusion #these r redos of very old sprites and im really happy with how much better they look #redoing some of my old sprites has been fun because dang i got a lot better in a year #the thing i struggle most w w my own art isnt that its ugly its often that i feel like im Just Not Getting Better #so this has been exciting :]#now my regular digital art HAS been backsliding and um that is an issue. girl help i cant fucking draw anymore #but uh. one at a time i guess. taking what i can get

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suffersinfandom · 8 months

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I feel for the Izzy fans, I really do. It sucks to have your favorite character killed off, especially when you feel like their death serves no narrative purpose. It genuinely hurts to lose a character that you identify closely with, and it's okay to be sad and grieve. The character might not be real, but the grief is. Let people mourn. Don't be rude to the ones who are just being sad in their little corners of the internet, yeah?

That said.

Some of the stuff I've seen in the OFMD fandom today? Worst shit I've seen in a fandom that I love and care about, and grief is no excuse. I know I'm a no one in this fandom and I'm mostly typing into a void, but I've got to get some things out:

The show doesn't deserve to be canceled. None of the creators, producers, or writers deserve to be canceled. Nothing queerphobic, homophobic, or ableist happened.

Izzy's death was not an insult or a cruelty or a targeted attack.

David Jenkins and the rest of the writers did not gaslight and abuse anyone (yeah, those are take I've seen).

It wasn't "objectively" a cheap or meaningless or badly-written death. You can hate it and that's okay, but that's still subjective!

Izzy was not the main character or the "heart" of the show. The heart of the show -- the show itself -- is Ed and Stede's relationship. We have been told as much.

"Ed hasn't faced any consequences for his actions." He has though? He didn't gaslight girlboss his way back into everyone's hearts. Izzy is not Ed's hapless and helpless victim. He was almost beaten to death and ran around in a penitence onesie with a catbell on; I think those were consequences.

"How do you feel when gay characters are randomly killed off to help a straight couple progress their narrative? Not good, huh? That's how disabled fans feel." It's okay to feel that way, but don't make any sweeping assumptions about disabled fans. I'm disabled and I'm gonna say that's not what happened here.

"How dare you kill off this character who's abused, flawed, suicidal, disabled, and queer!" Ed is still right over there, yeah? Check, check, check, check, and check. (Little note: I've seen a lot of "he's not disabled!" Even if you don't buy the kneebrace ((Ed Teach with bad joints is so important to me, shhh)), what about invisible disabilities? What about mental health issues? I'm not here to diagnose a fictional character, but it's clear to me that Ed has mental health problems that dramatically impact his life.)

"It's sick that Izzy died in the arms of his abuser apologizing to him." I don't even know where to start with this one, but I get the feeling that some parts of the fandom only consider physical abuse valid. Mental, verbal, and emotional abuse are pretty fucking damaging and I think it's sick that some folks think they aren't actually abuse.

People who enjoyed the last episode of season two aren't media illiterate. People who love Gentlebeard aren't abusive narcissists.

I just.

I really, truly feel for Izzy fans for I too have lost a blorbo. I'm giving a huge hug to the Izzy enjoyers who aren't out there making threats and calling everyone abusers and being outright hostile to anyone who had the nerve to enjoy this season. Like, I genuinely hope you guys are doing okay, and if you need an ear, I'm game.

#ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #cw: abuse #tw: abuse #i'm just frustrated and sad #fandom critical #day two: still bad #but i've seen some very cool izzy fans out there talking down their friends #as well as some kind and patient words from neutral parties #this fandom is still mostly good and kind #day three: i think we're doing better!#day four: backsliding :(#me typing things

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suns-blood · 2 months

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"i kinda wish i never did saturday" i'm gonna cry

#made me realise just how awful some fans were/are about saturday #backslide #twenty øne piløts #twenty one pilots #tøp #tøp7 #the skeleton clique #clancy #tøp clique #clancy album

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foldingfittedsheets · 22 days

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Okay so officially the worst thing about the sequel to Ori is that you cannot change difficulty mid game like you could in the first one.

My hyper mobile hands are fucking dying on some of these challenges but unless I want to literally start a new game I’m fucked.

#ramblies #grumpy #shitty backslide on accessibility from the first game #like in the first one they warn you that trophies and stuff will reflect easy mode and like I don’t give a fuck I just want to play #stuck on the final boss and basically every sprint section is physically painful for me #ori and the will of the wisps

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mr-mistyeyed · 1 month

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what's about to happen?

what's about to happen??

[ride | livestream experience | backslide | next semester]

#tw flashing #yes these gifs have not that great quality but i tried ok #i made these with my phone.. so i could only make them into gifs and not edit them because i have no idea about gif making #there are probably way more moments like this i am just v bad at remembering #ride #twenty one pilots #next semester #backslide #tyler joseph #clique edit #top gif #tøp #livestream experience #mistyeyed post

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dangerousbandsymbol · 2 months

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ned's breads & the lemonade (& josh)

ned's breads - pieces of creativity that sustains tyler along his 'journey' (album-writing process). he's got to hold on to that creativity during periods of depression (dark, windy rainy scenes). in the end though, it has been damaged by his struggles and he inevitably runs out, forcing tyler to 'backslide to where he's started from'.

ned is, quite literally, what makes tyler a 'breadwinner', echoing ned being his 'papermaker' in chlorine.

the chlorine references are continued with the lemonade which tyler drinks out of a plastic goblet: lemons, being characteristically sour, suggest that this process of channeling his creativity can be unpleasant or even painful (i'm not telling you anything new). lemonades also represent the cliche of 'when life gives you lemons...', reiterating the fact that tyler's inspiration often comes from his struggles with depression.

& josh? josh is a constant, the one who patiently waits no matter what, the icing on the cake except it's the meat in the burger and that changes everything—you cannot have a burger without the meat. he completes what tyler brings to the table (no pun intended). he is the last stop: home.

#my theories #sisi.txt #backslide #nothing i've said hasn't been said before but thats ok im just here to have fun lol

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grelleswife · 11 months

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*grasping my fellow like-minded Kuro fans by the shoulders* Listen to me, comrades…we are NOT going to tolerate attempts to make The Cursed Ship popular and widely-accepted on this platform again, or misgendering of our lady Grelle Sutcliff, or sliding backwards into the mire of fandom toxicity, in the wake of this new anime announcement. We 🔥 are 🔥 not. 🔥

#kuroshitsuji #kuroshitsuji 2024 #i’ve heard horror stories about what the fandom used to be like when the original adaptation was in its heyday #and i’m legitimately scared that we’re going to backslide and lose all the progress we made (at least in the tumblr kuro fandom)#hopefully we can accentuate the positive #just because we’re getting a new anime doesn’t mean we need to embrace those rancid early 2000’s vibes #those should stay in the past gathering dust #sorry for ranting i just feel very protective over our little corner of hell 🙈

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ennieasys · 5 days

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I'd like to formally apologize for all the twentyonepilots posts y'all are about to see *spams repost button*

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greatcelestialhieroglyphs · 15 days

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Backslide, Vignette, Snap Back, and Oldies Station are so desperately important to me.

For the past few years, I’ve been struggling with a self-destructive habit that I haven’t been able to break. Even though my family has been super loving and understanding, I keep feeling like THIS time is going to be the time that they get fed up and give up on me for good. “Do you think that now’s the time, you should let go?” I feel like I’ve asked that question a thousand times. And the repetition, which sounds (to me) like he’s TELLING the person he’s talking to that they should let go. They SHOULD get tired of me. My self-destructive habits are hurting the people I cared about. I should have fixed it for THEM if not myself, I should have loved them better.

Vignette just sounds like a relapse to me. The way Tyler sings “Man, it’s been a long night” and “Where do I go from here?” are so filled with exhaustion and desperation. The mental image of people he cares about finding him in the woods, covered in bites, as someone finding you after a relapse and seeing what you’ve done to yourself.

Snap Back is. just. Sometimes you can FEEL your resolve getting weaker, you can FEEL yourself buckling under life’s pressures and going to familiar coping mechanisms. You want to be stronger, to have more resolve, but you’re so freaking tired and it feels inevitable. After all, it only takes ONE weak moment. You have all day to relapse. You have all night. You have all week. Can you REALLY stay determined that long? You’ve done this before. You know you can’t.

(And this line of thinking is inherently self-defeating. You’ve relapsed so many times that you’ve lost faith in yourself. You don’t have faith in yourself, so you can’t win. It’s a self fulfilling prophecy.)

And at the end, when you’ve tried everything and said everything to the people you love as they’re sad and angry and worried and afraid and proud and everything else over the years… “I’ve run out of excuses for why I am this way.”

Finally. Oldies Station. Because life is going to keep coming, and you’re probably going to relapse. You’re still learning to deal with fear and pain without hurting yourself in the process. But you’re still here.

“Make an oath, then make mistakes. Start a streak you’re bound to break.” This philosophy is one I’ve been trying to adopt for years. No matter how many times you relapse, you NEED to keep fighting. There is so much freedom in staring again, KNOWING you’ll probably fail, but putting your all into it anyway. Because sometimes, your all isn’t enough. Whether that’s because life is too hard or you’re too weak doesn’t really matter. That’s not what you need to be focusing on. When darkness rolls on you, when you’re filled with grief and shame and whatever emotions plague you in a vicious cycle, you push on through.

You get better. You get stronger. It’s so slow, but it happens. You’re still here.

And when you do relapse again, you may be disappointed, but you can feel yourself on the come up even when you’re at a low point.

You fell into a backslide yet again, but you don’t quite mind. And isn’t that the goal of healing?

Peace?

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twinsunsintatooine · 2 months

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so crazy that they released backslide with the timing that they did

because yeah okay fine let’s release a song with an mv about feeling as though you are disappointing everyone around you and slipping into a cycle of never fully going through with even the simplest of tasks unless you know it’s going to be perfect which it never is going to be and inevitably feeling like you’re letting everyone down again and then slipping back into a cycle of bad habits

they finished the song, stepped back, looked down and said yup let’s released this emotional hydrogen bomb and they did it exactly when i started going back into that exact same cycle of dumpster fire depression and anxiety okay that’s SO FINE

#if my irls see this just pretend you didn’t #twenty one pilots #clancy #backslide #josh dun #tyler joseph #sun speaks

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b4kuch1n · 1 year

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fuck it sk8 sketches from da sketchbook. get sk8ed idiot

#sk8 the infinity #kyan reki #hasegawa langa #renga #sure whatever. tagging ship is probably easier than explaining what the fucks up with these two in my head #hi. I watched sk8 with my friend cosme a while ago. I actually dont care about the allegations that much I just got #blasted with teenage years flashback. and now I need reki to have everything on earth and be well #these have been around for like a week lol Ive just been debating posting them to tumblr. bc like. Im not finishing these lol #hesitant to call sk8 ''therapeutic'' but boy oh boy. does it make me confront some stuff. yes a sport anime leave me alone!!!#its just. I think I was this way about raz too actually. listen I have History with Stuff. I'm allowed ok? I'm totally allowed #u can See it in some of these doodles actually. this fuckign anime got me so unwell #hey. if ur a fellow adhd potentials-havers out there. ur a real one. thanks for still hangin out doin what u love/ur best #if u were an 'if u wanna do art u have to be excellent and high-art at it otherwise it means nothing' kid. I am holding ur hand #I'll be normal now I prommy (lying)#well. what I'll be doing now is taking a nap. maybe. gods my schedule backslid like four hours again #eh whatever. I go to bed anyway. got my portion of the day done and tomorrow I go buy new knife #hope someone come give me a new table top and lower the whole thing a bit soon. so I can stop sitting like Im in a shopping cart #have a good night lads. have fun. its imperative

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frozenfeathers-00 · 1 month

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me when my friends don’t come to our meeting spot on time

#twenty one pilots #josh dun #clancy #This music video really shows procrastination at its finest #He was just standing there flipping burgers 😭#backslide #Also I love the red hair dye

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silverlininghills · 1 month

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for anyone else who thought backslide sounded familiar i uh. i think i found out why

#twenty one pilots #TØP #tøp #backslide #stressed out #the drumbeats are almost _identical_#i can post the track where i laid them over each other #its fucking wild yo #also btw other than syncing up the tracks the _only_ editing i did was remove a tiny bit of silence from a bit of backslide #so the second halves lined up better #they werent even a full beat off it was just like. a quarter beat #i did the reverse too (overlaid backslides vocals on stressed out's instrumental) but it required more editing to make it sound as good #the timing doesnt work out quite as well naturally #still sounds great tho!

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smitherscreens · 2 months

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"i used to be the champion of a world you can't see" / "i am suppose to be king of a kingdom"

#backslide release #s talks #i just . :(

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doctahpants · 4 months

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Been thinking about Thirteen and Missy, thought I'd share my thoughts here too.

So, consider a Missy who, after the events of The Doctor Falls, actually makes it back to the Doctor. They travel together for a while. And maybe to begin with she's actually really trying hard to do things the Doctor's way - overcompensating even for what Simm!Master did, and she really does appear to have changed. The Doctor can't help herself, of course, she has hope and starts to really believe it. Maybe even Missy does too. But she can't keep it up, of course she can't, and she backslides massively and the Doctor is hearts-broken.

Idk man, I just have so many thoughts. Maybe one day I'll do something with it! And go further with exploring that wonderful line of "Your version of good is not absolute. It's vain, arrogant and sentimental" which I wish they'd done more with tbh

#this is copied from my thoughts in a discord server #but i thought there would be tumblr mutuals who would also appreciate this #listen i am a big fan of soft!Missy #but i also know that it wouldn’t last and they would be back at each other's throats eventually and i am here for it #and this way i get both #but also the possibility of later also turning it into 'they make each other worse“ which is also delicious #just... thirteen/missy man there's so many possibilities #and then to take that journey and THEN have Missy regenerate into Dhawan and continue to backslide until he utterly snaps #and then we get the unhinged thirteen/dhawan!master dynamic #best enemies #thirteen/missy #thoschei #thissy #thirteenth doctor #missy #gomez!master

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